There's Heaven Ahead in Number 11

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M/M | for burning_spirit | 100 words | 2022-09-09 | the lamb | AO3

James Tiberius Kirk/Spock (Star Trek)

James Tiberius Kirk, Spock (Star Trek)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"Admiral, your emotional state..."

"Something bothering you, Spock?"

Even when concerned, Kirk apparently couldn't keep back the broad crinkling at the corners of his mouth and eyes.

Bothering connoted disapproval and other negative responses. So, perhaps not quite.

"I'm afraid my re-education did not adequately prepare me to communicate cohesively with beings exhibiting the incredible amount of contentment that you currently do."

More beguiling smile. "Contentment? Oh, because I'm in love. They didn't tell you about that?"

The admiral did not specify who with. Cataloguing his own persistent emotional responses, however, Spock began to think that he had an inkling.