Pentecost

Fanfiction
Title:	Pentecost
Author(s):	Nancy Kippax and Beverly Volker
Date(s):	1985
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Pentecost is a Kirk/Spock story by Nancy Kippax and Beverly Volker.

It was originally published in Progressions.

art for this story by Suzan Lovett, photocopy

art for this story by Suzan Lovett, photocopy

Summary

"Pre K/S: Spock must keep Kirk alive until the Enterprise returns after his captain is severely burned while on a planet survey."

Reactions and Reviews

Maybe it was the day—rainy, quiet. Maybe it was my mood. More than likely it was the love poured into this story by the two authors that brought my obsession with Kirk and Spock fully into focus. It's never far from the surface, but when I see their love explored in the way it was here, I am warmed through and through.

The time is just after V'ger has been banished, and the shakedown cruise has turned into a planetary exporation opportunity. An opportunity quickly seized by Admiral Kirk as a chance to spend some much needed quiet time with Spock. They comprise the entire landing party, so the possibility of time to reconcile is promising. Until Kirk, fighting off a predatory animal that has invaded their campsite, falls into the fire and is seriously burned. The rosy glow, the dancing flames that warmed them moments before, now threatens Kirk's life and their future together. The Enterprise is out of range, once more encountering crippling malfunctions in the warp drive. Kippax and Volker were masterful creators of hurt/comfort. But that terminology is far from your mind as you read this engrossing tale of reconciliation and learning. Through hesitant words and even more hesitant touches, both men realize they cannot live without each other, they may exist, but their lives are dull and without purpose. We see Kirk's steely determination to overcome pain and to live. We see Spock's slow and certain discovery that this man is not only the most important thing in the universe to him, but the even more glorious knowledge that he is equally as vital to James T. Kirk, equally as loved. There isn't a lot of plot here to comment upon, and I would not have wanted it compromised with plot. What this story contains is an unbelieveable amount of love and compassion, forgiveness and understanding, selflessness and devotion. Rescued, their hesitancy in reaching out to each other lasts but a fraction of a second before their hands are clasped in recognition—acknowledgement that theirs is a lifetime commitment, a future bright with love and companionship.

An old story whose meaning and sense of wonder will never dim.