The Ones from the Mountains

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	The Ones from the Mountains
Author(s):	Gena Moretti
Date(s):	1993
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The story was inspired by this zine cover, Way of the Warrior #1, artist is Chris Soto

The Ones from the Mountains is a Kirk/Spock story by Gena Moretti.

It was published in the print zine Way of the Warrior #6.

Summary

"A/U: In pre-reform Vulcan, Spock, traveling to the mountains to find the legendary animals and people there, meets a sandy haired round-eared youth."

Reactions and Reviews

The editorial for this 1993 zine explains how this particular story came to be. The cover drawing for the first Way of the Warrior was drawn by the incredible Chris Soto and features two long-haired men wearing little other than arm bands. The darker one holds his hand on the fair one‘s face and a strong-fingered hand caresses the taller man‘s chest. The drawing inspired a poem by Michele Zachayus, lines from which are scattered throughout the story. Then along came Gena Moretti, obviously inspired by both earlier creations, because her account of these warriors can only be called inspired.

I keep thinking I don‘t like AU, then I read something like this in which the characters are just incredible and the love that flows between them is as smooth and perfect as anyone could imagine. This is a grand example of how a talented author can cause us to love Kirk and Spock in any form, in any timeline, anyplace in the universe. Spock is from the desert and knows of the mountains and their round-eared light-skinned people only by legend. Kirk is a child of the lush, cool world of the mountains with their abundant water supply and glorious climate. Young Spock, determined to escape an unwanted bonding, flees to the sanctuary of those mountains only to encounter a being unlike any he has ever seen before. Fiercely spirited, joyous, sensitive and loving, Kirk quickly captures the Vulcan‘s soul. Kirk, unsurprisingly, falls head over heels in love with this dark apparition from the arid lands he has only imagined. Their time together in the hills is touching and sensual and happy. They revel in learning each other both inside and out, through talking and touching and basking in each other‘s presence. Curiously, I hadn‘t realized until just now that the intimate scenes between them are more hinted at than described. There is no great detail, but the reader‘s mind is so stimulated by the relationship the author has described, there is no need for it.

Happy story, happy ending! A K/S fairy tale.