Silence

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Silence
Author(s):	cim
Date(s):	2004
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
External Links:	Silence (long-gone link), now here
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Silence is a Kirk/Spock story by cim. It was written in the second person.

It was the first K/S online-only story to be reviewed in the letterzine The K/S Press.

Reactions and Reviews

I’m really glad that Jenna and Shelley have recently allowed locs of net stories to be printed in the KSP. I’ve wanted to review this story for some time.

Silence is quite an unusual story, and I find after so many years of reading K/S that I am drawn to stories that are slightly outside the box. Even so, that alone wouldn’t have made Silence memorable for me. First of all, the story is written in second person, undoubtedly the least used POV to write in, and from Kirk’s perspective. One would think it would get tiresome to have “you” be the subject of so many sentences, but that is certainly not the case. Instead there is a sense of freshness and immediacy that I found very intimate, as if I were very much a witness to what was happening between Kirk and Spock. This was done with great skill and not forced in any way. Secondly, while the author relates a linear series of incidents between Kirk and Spock where they reveal their true feelings for each other, this is presented in both stark simplicity and such vivid detail that the mind pictures created just blew me away. Try this excerpt on for size: “You kissed him, that time, but he lost no time in kissing you back. The lab’s quiet was broken only by the hissing of your breath and a few soft scuffs of your boots on the floor, and then later by the soft thud as you backed him into the bulkhead next to the door. It’s possible neither one of you would have stopped if not for the communicator call. Certainly you had no intention of stopping, although you weren’t going to fuck him right there in the lab, either. A few more minutes of the rasp of his tongue in your mouth, on your neck, though, and you might’ve been crazy enough to take him to your quarters, still without a word. In retrospect, you know he would have gone.” Only two paragraphs to create a mental picture that is hot enough to set the page on fire. I also admired the way the author laid the background for these events with such subtleness. With a word or two she lets us know that this relationship is standing on a firm foundation of trust and friendship that has lasted for years. We are very much aware of the deep rapport and affection the two men share. They know each other down to their innermost depths. Finally I was impressed that all of this was accomplished in fewer than five pages. Quite a feat in itself. The writing was very tight with not an extraneous word to be found.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story the first time around and find it has not lost its appeal when I dig it out of the pile to reread. I think you’ll enjoy it, too.