Harmony
Prologue: Endings
Spock and Jim had met early in life, due to Winona Kirk's job as an ambassador to the Betazoid. Her job meant that from time to time Jim and his brother would be forced to follow their mother to the formal parties that the federation always threw in honour of this or that ambassador. At one of these parties Jim Kirk ran, literally, head first into the Vulcan ambassadors son Spock, son of Sarek.
Winona had been angry, Spock's mother Lady Amanda had laughed and Ambassador Sarek had lifted an eyebrow in a way that Kirk had interpreted as amusement. Spock had looked slightly scandalised before the physical contact with Jim had broken through his mental walls and caused him to start laughing.
From that day on Spock and Jim were friends and when Lady Amanda was on earth you could always find Spock in Iowa at the farm or Jim in San Francisco at the Vulcan embassy. As the years went Spock and Jim's relationship grew deeper and it came as no surprise to anyone when they told their families that they were dating.
They had been fighting for a while now. Not over big things but small thing, and okay over a few big thing. The biggest problem they had was the fact that Spock wanted to return to the Academy and finish his dissertation, so he could go on an do the required three years as a professor, that was needed to be a science officer on a starship. Jim wanted to stay in Iowa, living a free life, studying at the University and doing what ever he wanted. Spock told him that it would be illogical not to take his future seriously and do something with his intellect.
Jim had heard all of Spock's arguments before, but he wasn't ready to join Starfleet and moving to San Francisco and not joining Starfleet meant giving up the life he had now. After all it was much harder to be a genius level repeat offender in a city where everything you did reflected badly on Starfleet, San Francisco had the lowest crime rate in California.
After a few loud arguments, never believe a Vulcan that says that they don't have emotions, because that is a big fat lie, they had agreed that it was best for them to separate. Neither Spock nor Jim really wanted to do that, but they both knew that sooner or later, Jim thought sooner personally, they would have a fight big enough to rip them apart and that would mean that they would brake up on bad terms.
So at the end of August, Spock and Jim said farewell at the Riverside shuttle dock and neither of them ever expected that they would see each other again, except in passing. After all Vulcan's needed stable bonds later in life. They said their goodbye's as friends with a warmth that spoke of fondness and love, something that everyone at the shuttle dock could see. Some of the more empathically sensitive persons at the dock even cried at the bittersweet picture they made.
But the story of the Vulcan and the Human saying goodbye would somehow never make it to Starfleet Academy, even if several of the waiting people were Starfleet cadets.