Title: Growing Pains…
Fandom: Star Trek, the original series
Author: kira
Words: 300
Rating: G
Summary: Spock learns to deal with teasing…
Warnings: none
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Earther! Terran brat! Human! Those words and more rang in Spock's head as the six year old ran home. The ragged breaths he drew in barely concealed the emotional response he had had to being teased by a group of so-called friends only made him feel worse.
He burst into his home, running past his startled mother, and headed straight to his room. His pet sehlat, I-Chaya, lumbered over to him. Spock buried his face in his shaggy hide and cried his heart out. He could not understand what wrong with his mother or why her marriage to his father was so taboo. All he knew was those awful children made him feel like he should be hidden away and shunned… or worse, that he never should have been born.
Amanda stood just outside her son's room, sharing his anguish. She wanted to go inside and hold him, while making little comforting noises the way her mother would whenever she was hurting, but Amanda knew better than that. Even though her husband Sarek had never actually said it, she knew he wanted his youngest to be raised to be just as Vulcan as his eldest child. So all she could do was sigh and against her better judgment walk away.
Twenty minutes later, Spock had regained enough control over his emotions to venture out of his room He stoically, with every ounce of his six year old being, pretended nothing was wrong when he saw his mother. He may have only been six, but Spock's soul seemed so old and world-weary to her and it tore at Amanda's heart.
"Mother?"
"Yes, Spock?"
"Is it okay if I don't play with Syrill any more?"
Amanda resisted the urge to hug him. "Yes…"
"Good," he said in perfect imitation of his father.