What Forgiveness

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	What Forgiveness
Author(s):	Cybel Harper
Date(s):	1988
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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What Forgiveness is a K/S story by Cybel Harper.

It was published in Charisma #3.

Summary

"Kirk is unable to forgive himself after he and Spock return from the 1930's, and Spock and McCoy mistakenly believe it's grief over Edith."

Reactions and Reviews

This is an interesting view of Edith Keeler's death. There are nice little touches, like the "curiously supplicatory gesture" of Kirk's hand, lying at his side. And Kirk's mental processes seem altogether possible. I was a bit surprised at the end, though. To me, it reads as if Kirk is using "sex as a means to reaffirm life." That doesn't necessarily mean, as Spock fears, that he's "merely a convenient partner." But I wish the issue wasn't raised and then dropped so quickly.