The BLTS Archive- Tears in The Rain
Three: A Moment in Time III
by Laura Jacquez Valentine (jacquez@dementia.org)

---

Paramount owns Star Trek. I own a computer, a couch, and a couple of
kittycats.  Also three rats and a Persian rug.

----

Spock was coming home!  It had been years since I had seen him, but
last week I had sent him a picture of me at our Bonding, as is our
custom.  I did not wish to be his consort, but--it was a done thing. 
We would be married, and friends, and I would simply take a lover.  I
hoped Stonn would understand why I could not challenge my oldest
friend, why I could not disgrace him so.  Spock would understand, I
was sure.  I would explain it after the pon farr was resolved, and he
would tweak my nose and tell me it was quite logical, as he used to do
when we were children together.

He was meditating upon my picture.  I could feel him.  I closed my
eyes and concentrated, touching him in my mind--

Someone was with him.  Someone he cared about a great deal.  Perhaps
someone he could take as a lover when this was over?  That thought was
comforting.  I do not like to think of Spock alone in the universe.

That someone touched him--I could feel the coolness of human skin
against me as if it were my hand being touched--

No...oh no, Spock--No!

I pulled back from his mind as though I had been burned.

No.  Spock wouldn't.  We had been friends for years--

I waited hours for him to call me and tell me what had happened.  He
did not.

So I called Stonn.  What choice did I have, after that?

--

The End