Abrams 'verse

Jim is a somewhat powerful empath, but has been heavily surpressing his abilities since Tarsus IV. However, the mind-meld with Spock Prime on Delta Vega shatters his shields, and he finds himself unable to easily rebuild them. Empaths frequently form spontaneous bonds of varying levels of depth, and part of his trouble comes from a spontaneous bond he forms first with Prime and then with the younger Spock.

The reason his empathy is so powerful is that Kodos had experimented on him, trying to see if he could discover what caused the empathy and make it more effective, or even weaponize it (if anyone's ever seen Firefly, think River in the Academy).

Bonus: Jim had formed a deep, semi-spontaneous bond with another boy on Tarsus. The boy's death scarred him and contributed to his withdrawal

Bonus 2: the empathy isn't just an awareness of what others are feeling. It impacts Jim hard, and he has trouble coping with it. He tends to "reflect" the emotions of those around him. He senses emotions through the filters of the other five senses (since human brains aren't really designed to handle empathy or telepathy); I'd prefer it if most emotions cause a physical sensation, like some kind of pressure against his skin, although it'd also be cool if he 'heard,' 'smelled,' or 'tasted' emotions. Please no "seeing auras"

Bonus 3: his empathy starts to cause a small break with reality as it slowly spirals out of control. He starts acting strangely, hallucinating, etc., and has overwhelming flashbacks to various traumatic experiences in his life

Bonus 4: Winona was actually a good mother and an empath as well. Up to you if she's still alive or if she died on Tarsus.

Up to you where Jim's empathy originally came from. Maybe he's only part human, maybe some humans just happen to be empaths.

I think it would be just a long long one-shot or a really short story.

So basically, It can be either Jim or Spock have to attend a family reunion or what not, and asks the other to accompany them as an escort on said trip.

For example if Jim happened to be going back to Iowa, where he was treated so badly by everyone and memories were not great, he asks Spock to accompany him, as Spock is his strength, and also he could inadverdently use Spock to show him off as a potential boyfriend. This could also be vice-versa like Spock having attend some seminar and his old bullies are going to be there, So he asks Jim to come along with him to provide emotional support. At the event they relaize what the other means to them/each other and get together.

I think I would want this in the Abrams Universe, with Spock and Jim having been really close friends for 2 years in the 5 year mission. I really love family and emotional ties, and that the support Jim and Spock get is from each other. So yea feel free to play around with the idea and knock yourself out^^

Bonus: First time together after said event with hot steamy sex!

Have fun and Happy writtings!!!

(It'll probably be best if you've seen the film, but it doesn’t matter too much) (Or if you’ve seen the Doctor Who episode ‘The Beast Below’ with the star whale)

So Kirk wakes up knowing that something’s wrong and it's the morning after' but there’s no one in his bed and he can't remember last night’s events.

So it turns out that him and Spock have being ‘getting together’ but when they first attempted to have a relationship, for some reason they decided it wouldn't work so Spock wipes Jim's and his own memories of the relationship.

Though they keep being drawn to each other and Spock keeps removing their memories every time they do. (When Spock performs a mind meld he could have left the previous memories of their past relationships and a warning to him in Jim’s subconscious or something, it's up to you)

Anyway it's up to you if you want it to have a sad or happy ending. Have fun!