Sharing the Risk

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Sharing the Risk
Author(s):	Killa
Date(s):	1998
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
External Links:	Sharing the Risk on the K/S Archive
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Sharing the Risk is a Kirk/Spock story by Killa.

It was originally published online in 1998.

Summary

While on leave, Spock has taken his courage in his hands and has made the first move...but Kirk's initial response isn't quite what he'd hoped for.

Reactions and Reviews

Spock has used the opportunity of shore leave spent camping on Galecia Prime to tell his captain that he loves him. They have shared their first kiss. We don’t see it, but we do feel the upheaval of its effects on the two men. They’ve both tried to sleep, but restless dreams disturb their uneasy slumber.

Kirk wakes and goes off by himself to ponder the consequences of Spock’s action. Something had shut off inside after so many devastating losses: Edith, Captain Garrovick, his brother, Gary—particularly Gary. He begins to find his spirit awakening again as he responds to Spock. And that terrifies him. To care that much for someone again, for deep inside Kirk blames himself for Gary’s death.

Killa’s greatest skill as a writer resides in characterization. These are characters I know. These are characters I recognize. I hear them in my head. They have stepped from a television and movie screen onto a printed page. Strangely enough, I prefer a more vulnerable Spock, a more forceful Kirk, but such is the power of Killa’s writing that I believe her characterizations. The captain who second-guesses himself and the Vulcan willing to take risks to get what he wants show facets of their personalities as well. And isn’t that one of the reasons that Kirk and Spock have held such power over us for more than forty years? No one set of traits determines our actions. No one is always brave, always wise. We respond differently in different situations and at different stages of our lives, and we’re continually learning. When Kirk and Spock are written as well as they are here, I get another peek into their very complicated psyches.

Boy, do I wish this author would return to the K/S fold!