Secrets of the Heart

Fanfiction
Title:	Secrets of the Heart
Author(s):	Cybel Harper
Date(s):	1988
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Secrets of the Heart is a Kirk/Spock story by Cybel Harper.

It was published in the print zine First Time #19.

Summary

"Kirk doesnʼt understand why Spock has been acting so tense around him."

Reactions and Reviews

1989

I especially love the first, humorous, part of this. McCoy's prescription ("Don't let him be alone too much") and its priceless effects on Spock ("It took a conscious effort... to exit the turbolift without pausing to peer up and down the corridor first.") are wonderful. And the bit where Kirk unknowingly starts to obey Spock's mental command is perfect. I'm not crazy about the ending; it seems too sudden a jump from an all-shipboard story to a planet that I don't think was even mentioned before. But the rest is very good indeed.

2002

McCoy is meddling again. I love it when he meddles! Actually this time he's doing it with more subtlety than normal. He sees his two commanding officers are in love, something they haven't recognized yet, and encourages Kirk to simply "stay close to Spock". It's driving Spock crazy having Kirk hover over him when he wants so much to touch him! He can handle Kirk's beauty, his scent, his occasional touch, but those eyes! As the author so deftly puts it, "those inescapable eyes". You know how this one turns out, right?