Anteaters and Giant Potatoes

[lah_mrh]

Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Rating: PG
Summary: Kirk and Spock spend some time stargazing during their Final Frontier camping trip.
Words: Exactly 200
Notes: Written for dunderklumpen for fandom_stocking.

"There's the Big Dipper, that's the Anteater, that one's the Giant Potato…."

"You are making these up," Spock tells him, with a hint of amusement.

"Some of them," Kirk admits cheerfully. McCoy is asleep, citing too much excitement, so the two of them have been forced to make their own entertainment. Admittedly stargazing wasn't his first choice, but Spock vetoed that one, so here they are. "Ah," he says, pointing upwards again, "there's one I always liked. Orion. The hunter."

"Does he hunt anteaters?" Spock asks innocently, and Kirk laughs.

"I don't think so," he says. "But that would've made my lessons a lot more interesting."

He gives up on stargazing for the moment and curls closer to Spock. "I love you," he says. "No one else puts up with my nonsense."

"That is their loss," Spock replies, fingers stroking across Kirk's. Kirk smiles, clasping Spock's hand in his before bringing it to his temple. It wouldn't be right to have sex with McCoy sleeping so close – his earlier suggestion aside, he does agree with Spock on that one – but there are other kinds of intimacy.

Spock's mind touches his and then they are flying, out among the stars. Together.

Comments

[nic]

Beautiful. :)

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kitbaker123.livejournal.com]

This is... a multi-chapter love story, condensed beautifully, into a single conversation. The bigger story wrote itself in my imagination... thank you so much for sharing!

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

[ivycross.livejournal.com]

two hundred words of perfection. Amazing job.

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fingerpaintash.livejournal.com]

I actually just died. Hands down, the cutest old married spirk fluff I have read ever. I am a puddle. A puddle of mush. I have been absorbed into the smears of paints on my carpet. I am gone. You have killed me, killed me dead. Very dead.

I've made it my personal mission to find all and help populate the honestly weak supply of old married spirk that exists. This is perfect, I love it so much. Sosososososoososos much. Best fic ever. I am not exaggerating. I am that sappy of a person. This made my soul happy.

Also their dialogue was perfect and amusing and so in character, and I love your descriptions (think I've read some of your other stuff) and honestly, I just want to read this over and over and and have it tattooed on my ass. Ok maybe not the last part, but still.

Wow.

Thank you for writing this.

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Your comment really made me smile. I agree that there really isn't enough old married couple K/S fic out there, and it's a shame because their relationship is so adorable. I shall have to write some more to make up for it.

Also their dialogue was perfect and amusing and so in character

I'm glad you think so. :) I was worried it might be a bit too fluffy, but they're pretty fluffy in canon, so. (Which is one of the reasons I love them.) I'm glad you liked it!

[spomarani.livejournal.com]

So beautiful and very adorable. It really shows so much about their intimacy in such few words :)

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm glad you think so! It's difficult to condense things down so much and still have it make sense, so it's nice to know I succeeded.

[antesqueluz.livejournal.com]

So much said in so few words. Silly and sweet and perfect. :-)

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

[nancylea57.livejournal.com]

they all said it so much better than me.

ENCORE!!!!!!

[lah-mrh.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it!

ENCORE!!!!!!

What else would you like to see? I'm always on the lookout for new ideas. :)

encore

[nancylea57.livejournal.com]

sometimes the world just needs to slow down and cuddle.