Remembering

Fanfiction
Title:	IRemembering
Author(s):	Marie Surah
Date(s):	1992
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Remembering is a K/S story by Marie Surah.

It was published in the print zine As I Do Thee #18.

Summary

"Seeing the rare sight of an Eritykon brings back memories of Kirk's childhood, memories which start him thinking in strange and unexpected directions about his first officer."

Reactions and Reviews

1992

Beautiful, special friendship, tender scenes.

Mysterious and interesting, the Eritykon, effectively coloring Kirk's past. Also the hint of Spock's sexual history. Pleasing characterizations of Kirk and Spock. I loved the mood at the beach place. Spock's jealousy was interesting, as was his slightly intoxicated state. Spock is charming in this story, as was their banter. A really exquisite tension when they finally got around to talking about Kirk's attraction to Vulcanoid males, about each other... I didn't care for the Sardyk and Jon sex (but young Kirk did!); Kirk and Spock sex was quite satisfying.

1998

Their conversations are a delight. Perfect in every way. No matter the emotional content, she gets it right. I always derive the greatest pleasure in reading a conversation which catches their way of being together to perfection.

2003

A fun story where Kirk and Spock go on shore leave together, but only after Spock has noticed Kirk lusting after an Eritykon male. Eritykon are really just long- haired Vulcan rebels who admit to emotion and live elsewhere. While on leave Kirk ends up telling Spock about meeting an Eritykon starfleet cadet and his “friend” when he was still a young adolescent in Iowa, and witnessing the two young men in sexual activity. Which is why he’s always been fascinated by them.

This story is filled with vivid scenes that have stuck with me for years. The two of them on the roof of their rented college trying to fix the solar heater that’s gotten stuck on its tracks because of debris blown in by the ocean breezes; I can still recall their bare feet and how hot it felt to stand there. Then there’s another one where they share a bottle of wine one evening and Spock ends up sick and in the bathroom most of the night; turns out an ingredient was a diuretic for Vulcans. Not that I enjoy such scenes in all my stories, but this one is quite light- hearted and I thought poor Spock’s predicament was really funny. And, if I may say, very life-like, and everybody knows how I really, really like to see the fellows in familiar situations.

And finally, the scene where Spock basically propositions his commanding officer, the night after the wine incident, and Kirk does not take him up on it right away, but sort of deflects it. Later in the conversation Spock gets up to encourage the flames in the fireplace with a poker, and Kirk realizes two things: that he’s just had an insight into Spock’s vigorous fucking style, and that Spock is more or less angry with him for not jumping at the opportunity to, er, jump in the sack with him.

Kirk has second thoughts (I always knew that man was smart, and the smartest person in the world, in my opinion, is the one who knows when he or she is wrong and can back-track) and of course the two of them end up under the covers together. Most satisfactory. One of this author’s best.