Chapter 1: The End
What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made now left beside the road?
Behind us in the road.
Uhura
He was pulling away...
It had been like this since the death of Vulcan. She thought things were getting better, but he was withdrawing into himself, deeper and deeper each day. The man she loved seemed to be hidden underneath the cold exterior that had now taken his place.
They barely spoke when they were together and no matter how much she wanted to fight for him, no words came to her lips when he left and she let his fingers slip away when he pulled them from her grip.
Soon the fleeting moments they really spent together faded away and the only times she saw him were when they were both on deck. She occasionally looked up to see him watching her from his place by Kirk's side, but their was nothing soft about his gaze. It was penetrating, as if he saw right through her.
The end was coming and all she wanted to do was run away.