Lines and Spiral Which Mark the Way

by Godling of Yin

James T. Kirk was not born with a Name on his wrist, but lines and spirals that lead him through life. That dragged him to space and to love. Those spirals and lines that will be his guiding light until his dreams and soul mate are his.

1. Prologue

Across every human wrists was written the name of their soulmates, it used to be only names in a human language. But after the First Contact names in AIien languages started to pop up, but they still weren't very common. Aliens did't have the names across the wrist but if a human hybrid cropped up they did have the writing. No one ever found out why only humans had the Names, but no one really looked into it anymore.

Now in the small town of Riverside, Iowa there was a boy born named James Tiberius Kirk. Upon his wrist was no human language, or a language any one in the room recognized. It was just lines, circles, and spirals. Winona Kirk was devastated upon seeing it though, she never wanted her boys to go to space. Space had taken away her husband already and she knew many others who were lost there.

Winona forbid James from looking into the name, she hoped if he didn't look into it that Jim wouldn't go to space. Hoping that he would find someone nice to settle down with. There were still plently of those who never stuck with just their Name. But the more she fought against the idea of James T. Kirk in space, the more it because plausible. James became fascinated with the possibilites, and the love of the unknown grew.

When Frank came into the picture, and Winona started to leave planet again for Starfleet, it only grew worst. James wanted to escape from the abuse and the misery, especially after Sam found his soulmate and left. James would study extra to learn about what his wrist said, where he would find his soulmate. But as he couldn't find anything or learn the more he would act out and pick fights. Jim ran into a dead end, that's when he gave up.

James T. Kirk decide then and there, this was the only no-win situation he couldn't defeat. This is the moment he decided that relationships weren't for him, that the straight and honest path is not for him. He would dream of the unknown soulmate, and the adventures they could've had but they were just dreams. That was until he met Captain Christopher Pike, who believed and encouraged him to join Starfleet and follow those dreams. Then Jim finally started believing that he may be able to finally follow those dreams, he may still have doubts and insecurities about the future, but he had to take the dive.

Little did he know this was the exact path he needed to be on.