The Law of Averages
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Law of Averages |
| Author(s): | UKJess |
| Date(s): | 2008? |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
| External Links: | online here |
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The Law of Averages is a K/S story by UKJess.
Reactions and Reviews
While tidying my zine closet the other day, I came across this story. (This is the main reason I never get very far in my organizational efforts. I constantly stop to reread a stray group of pages or gaze at a particularly delicious illo. My, time does fly when you‘re a K/S fan!) Written by the same author who penned Beside the Wells —that controversial slave story of a few years ago -- 'Averages' packs the same kind of wallop.This is not a story for everyone. Perhaps not even the majority of readers. (Terri, move right along. There‘s nothing here for you.) It is gritty, realistic and heartbreaking. There, have I given fair warning? It is also anything but ordinary and has enough emotion in its less than three pages to stir the hardest heart. Can this woman write! The story was written as a response to a newsgroup challenge; write a story where the first line was 'Don‘t give me any of that bonding crap!' Usually I don‘t care for stories that must begin with a given piece of dialog. It always seems forced and artificial. Not here. Put that line into an angry McCoy‘s mouth and it feels perfectly natural. It is after the five-year mission. Spock is once again in pon farr and seeks out Kirk to see if there is a possibility that Kirk would be willing to bond with him— Spock‘s greatest desire. All this happens off stage. We don‘t get to see it. The story starts after Spock has left for Vulcan. McCoy tracks the captain down in a small bar in Lisbon where he‘s taken refuge. Amid the empty shot glasses that line the table in front of him, Kirk tells him what happened.
I think I‘ll stop here. You really must read this for yourself to get the full impact. Only one more thing to say: one of our sharpest criticisms of a K/S story is that Kirk and Spock are not ordinary men and should not be portrayed as such. This story falls under the heading of 'Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.' [1]