The BLTS Archive - Life And Death
by Nautika (nautikasolari@yahoo.com)

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Date: June 2003

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Notes: Part of the Spock McCoy Haven Fifth Wave. Not beta'd.  Two
drabbles, one of McCoy's thoughts on finding out out Spock loves him,
the other McCoy's thoughts on Spock's death in ST:II.

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"Life"
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I didn't think it would feel like this.

I didn't think it *could* feel like this.

Love.  Life.  I have *never* felt so alive...I feel as if I could walk
down the corridor, hands in my pockets, whistling a silly tune, with a
big, goofy grin on my face and ignore all the stares; all the
whispers.  He loves me.  That's all I need to know.  That's all I need
to live.  His love.

Who'd have thought it could be this good?  Not this cranky old doc,
that's for damn sure.  I didn't believe...but he loves me.

It's that simple.

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"Death"
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I didn't think it would feel like this.

At first, I seethed with rage at the universe for this turn of events.
I burned with I know not what.  He was gone.  That's all I knew.  But
now I feel nothing.  I feel empty.

Awake or asleep I cannot escape his final minutes.  Standing
up...straightening his jacket...damn Vulcan...always proper.  Facing
his commanding officer, his friend, for the last time.

Always with it I hear Scotty's "Amazing Grace" and the lyrics twist in
my mind.  I once was lost.  Then I was found.  Now...I'm lost.

Spock is dead.

It's that simple.

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The End