I own nothing; I just borrowed them for a while. I've never written this pair before or in this world before so be nice if things are not perfect. I have dyslexia; I've done my best with spelling and grammar. It's gone through two checkers. I have no beta; I seem to constantly lose them. Warnings of angst, drama and man on man love here at the start. If you don't like that then don't read this.
Bride of the soul.
Chapter one:
Spock who was the master at suppressing all emotions, found it hard to stop the unmannered snort which escaped him when he heard from Uhura that captain Kirk was getting married. "The captain is the last person who would ever get married, as far as I was aware he was not even in a relationship that was of that nature."
Uhura's stared at the taller male with complete surprise, before she spoke to him once more. "Then he hasn't told you yet?"
"Told me what?"
"Ah, I think you best ask the captain about his marriage, I only mentioned it because I thought you would have been informed."
With that the lady in question walked away, the Vulcan followed her to the bridge, were he found all to be normal the captain was in place and if his forth coming nuptials weighed on his mind the blonde man showed it not at all. The dark haired man contemplated the fact that Uhura might have been in error about her previous statement, however he felt that the likely hood of an error on her part was in the Vulcan's estimation was minimal.
Spock decided to wait until both himself and the Captain were off duty before talking to him about what he had been told by Uhura. It was not until three days later however that Spock and the blond man were both off duty at the same time. The dark haired Vulcan made his way to the door of the other man's room, he made his presence outside known and the Captain answered. "Come in."
The dark haired man entered the rooms, it took a few moment for the other man to finish reading the sheet of paper before him, the blond then signed it and looked up to see who had entered. At the sight of Spock standing in his quarters Jim raised both brows at him, before addressing his first officer. "Yes Commander, what is it?"
"I am sorry to trouble you Captain but Lieutenant Uhura seems to be under the impression that you will be getting married soon."
A light blush spread over Jim's face but he answered the question. "Yes this is so."
Spock merely raised one eyebrow at his Captain, before speaking once more. "I did not know that you were in a relationship that would lead to your union with someone."
"Ah, yes well I have been in love with the same person for some while now. They however do not feel the same love for me and it is not them I am going to wed. Yes I know that's illogical, but so too is loving someone who does not love you back, we are currently on root to Verdius it will take a week to get there. I am sure you have heard of the race there, the Jethones are new to the federation but have proven to be worthy as traders thus far. The federation is sending me there because their prince has expressed an interest in having me as his life partner. I have neither accepted nor denied this suite I cannot even do so until I set foot on the planet and am asked by their priestess. Before you ask no I don't know what the questions are I tried looking it up but Jethones are about as forth coming with such practises as your own race is. The federation has given me a month as apparently the crematory of marriage there is lengthy."
"So you do not wish this union, you wish to be with this other person. You are correct captain I find your situation highly illogical. Have you decided what you will do?"
Jim sighed and flopped back in his chair. "I will probably accept, mainly because I will never know the love of the one I love and Starfleet have said I can continue to serve if I wish to."
"This lady you care for..."
"Spock, the prince of the planet is interested in me surely you must know what that means?"
"The one you love is male and he has no feelings for you at all."
"Correct on all counts Spock."
The Vulcan let his dark eyes fall back onto the Captain. "You are sure that he does not care for you."
"Yes, very. Besides that is the fact he has a girlfriend."
"Ah. That does make matters more complicated for you."
"Indeed, we will be on Verdius for about a month, if that is all commanders?"
"Yes Captain that is all." Jim watched the Vulcan leave; he was pleased with how well he had managed to contain what he felt for the other male. Falling in love with Spock had certainly not been on the cards for him, but it had happened. Jim had expected this feeling for the other man to pass as his previous fancies had but it had not, instead the love he felt for the Vulcan had grown instead. The blonde was more than aware that his first officer was as straight as they came; the countless times he seemed to find him and Uhura kissing proved that much.
The blonde had become very adept at hiding what he felt and making sure not to touch the Vulcan, knowing that he like all others of his kind were touch telepaths meant he was very careful when the Captain did have to touch him to make sure that his thoughts were very neutral.
Jim had read as much as he could about the Jethones, and their culture which was quiet complicated. During this study he did discover one thing about his forth coming wedding if the blond captain were to accept, he would be the bride. It was stated in the information he could find that between same sex couples this was the roll reserved for the one who has been the one to receive the proposal. However the little information on the weddings of the culture left the blond man wondering what he would be dressed in for the ceremony, and what married life might be like.
Spock meanwhile had returned to his room, he sat on the edge of the bed; his mind was filled with the information which the captain had imparted to him. The Vulcan found himself puzzling over who it was the Captain, who appeared to be such a flirt and lady's man could really be in love with under his deceptive mask. No one readily presented them as the one that the Captain clearly loved so deeply, the Vulcan decided to pay closer attention to the other man from now on, in order to try to ascertain from his behaviour whom this mystery person might be.
