Next to Godliness

Fanfiction
Title:	Next to Godliness
Author(s):	ME Carter
Date(s):	2013
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
External Links:	at AO3
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Next to Godliness is a Kirk/Spock story by ME Carter.

It was published in the print zine Bondmates #2.

About

"If an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, what happens? That is the question when Captain Kirk and Commander Spock meets with the Kessubite and Wl'lre'ln delegations for a summit on resource allocation. It should have gone without a hitch until a strange quirk that the delegates are afraid of puts a kink in their romantic interlude. Find out who wins." -- "Did you see it?" Carina Enfor demands when Kirk halts a polite distance from the two grous. "Isn't it simply dreadful?" Her tone sends Kirk's respect theory out the window and sets his teeth on edge. "Forgive me," he replies as calmly as possible, "but we saw nothing. In fact, we found nothing at all wrong. I'm afraid you're going to have to-" "Nothing wrong? How can you say nothing is wrong?" Livid with indignation, the Kessubinte leader rounds on her Wl'lre'ln counterpart. "Tell him, Mister el-Zoren. You saw it, too. Tell him!"

Reactions and Reviews

A warm welcome back to ME! Her past K/S stories have meant a lot to me, and I still hope that she will revisit her World of Albion IV one day... This new story is more light weight in tone and written in the present tense, possibly a new departure? It isn't giving too much away to say that Kirk and Spock are together as the story opens, and the Enterprise has been tasked with overseeing negotiations between two rather rigid thinking races. There's a good role for Uhura planning stuff, and the beginnings of a nice sex scene, but Captain and First Officer are interrupted and end up having to become far more involved with the setting for the talks than they thought possible: just remember what IS next to godliness! There is perhaps an element of the contrived here, but the story flows well and our heroes eventually do get their well earned time together! And, hey, if we need cleaners, we know who to call!