Written in response to Arcadii's challenge

Warning: het. I know, it's pushing the bounds of decency.

Also, as a note-- take Jim's advice to Spock. You don't have to keep up with all the characters.

Categories: Works in Progress
Characters: McCoy, Sarek, Uhura
Crossover Fandom: None
Genres: Kirk/Spock Slash
Other Languages: None
Specific movie: None
Story Type: Fluff, Humor, Romance
Trope (OPTIONAL): None
Universe: Abrams Universe
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 47472 Read Count: 1768

Follow-up to Dear Spock and Dear James. The five year mission is a go. Jim is trying to figure out how to be Spock’s first officer and husband while dealing with the lasting consequences of nearly dying. Spock tries to figure out how to give Jim what he needs while balancing his responsibilities as captain. Sulu is trying to figure out how to be a good dad to Demora and partner to Ben light years from both. Leonard and Nyota are trying to figure out how to raise a preteen in space with enough baggage to fill the ship. No one knows quite what they're doing. However, they are the best crew in Starfleet, which essentially means they’ll just make it up as they go. A collection of letters, emails and other written correspondence from the first year of Enterprise’s five-year mission.

Three times Jim doesn't hear Spock purr and one time he does.

It’s July of 1969 and the entirety of the USA seemed to have space fever. That is, however, aside from James T Kirk, a very recent military school dropout who’s come back to his hometown to try and sort himself back out. When he encounters a wounded alien who’s crash-landed in the middle of a neighbouring farm, it’s a race against the clock, the US government, and the alien’s rapidly deteriorating health, to try and bring him back home.

Oh, and also their growing feelings for each other, but that's quite low on their shared priority list among the chaos of everything else.

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A story told in part by two people who really should be doing something better with their time than hosting a conspiracy-based podcast episode on Kirk’s mysterious, possibly alien-related, disappearance.

Earth and Vulcan are on the brink of war, tensions between the two planets have never been higher and the entire quadrant is terrified. Everyone that is aside from pirates.

But then, one day the famed pirate captain Jim Kirk meets a Vulcan on the run with a mysterious past, who throws a spanner in all of his pirate plans.

"Elas is a harsh and lonely place. A planet of ice and snow. Not at all like the ponderous heat of Vulcan."

She raises her weapon, makes to stab Spock in the back. Without any sign of upset, Spock swiftly catches Ilaam by the wrist and holds fast.

Her smile turns into a grimace. She wrenches her arm away and stashes the weapon.

"I did not think you would understand. But take heart. You are not so easily influenced as your Captain."
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The Enterprise crew is tasked with ferrying a high-ranking noble from her remote dominion to her betrothed's home planet. Tempestuous and bitter, Ilaam will do anything to squash her upcoming marriage and return home.