TWTB: :3 Star Trek… tis teh awesome…

Summary: After the U.S.S. Kelvin collides with the Romulan Ship, the enemy is only stunned, and after a brief pause, goes after the Shuttles that escaped. The mother of James T. Kirk has no choice but to send the newborn baby away in an escape pod to ensure his survival. He ends up on Vulcan where he is adopted and raised by a couple who had lost their child to birthing complications. He grows up as an outcast, dreaming of something more, and when he runs away to go to earth, his friend, Spock, holds a grudge. When Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru and faces his old friend, can he mend more bridges than he's burnt?

Basically my own parody on the movie, where Kirk and Spock grow up together.

Disclaimer: If I owned Star Trek, homophobia be damned, 60s or not, Slash would not just be subtext!

Ch 1

On the U.S.S Kelvin, a husband gave his life for his wife. On the medical shuttle, a mother gave her life for her son.

By the time the Romulan ship had caught up with the shuttles, they were not far from the red planet known as Vulcan. The mother, tears in her eyes, gently placed her sleeping son in an escape pod. He gingerly ran her fingers over his patch of soft blonde hair, praying that when the pod hit the planet, her only child would be found, and given a good home.

"Good luck James… Jim…" She whispered, kissing his forehead lightly. The child had just begun to stir as his mother closed the pod door. He blinked his bright blue eyes up at his mother, and after a moment of hesitation, she pressed the release button. Tears rolled down her face as she watched her child fly away towards the desert planet.

*A*

It was rare that Vulcans lost children during birth, but it wasn't completely unheard of. It didn't make it any easier on the mother, who was holding the still child in her hands. T'Pan was a Vulcan particularly known for her patience and ability to detach from illogical feelings, but despite that, she could barely repress her feelings of grief at her lost child.

Sol could see the pain shimmering in his wife's dark eyes as she gently stroked his lifeless son's patch of black hair. After a moment of thought, because Vulcans did not hesitate, he walked over and put a strong hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him, sadness still in her eyes.

"I know it is Illogical, but I must request that you humor me this once…" She whispered, and any other race would not be able to distinguish the sad plea in her voice, but Sol's trained ears heard it loud and clear. "If our Son had survived, what would we have called him?"

Sol opened his mouth to answer, but was interrupted by the sound of something heavy hitting the ground. The pair of Vulcans looked out the window, into the desert, and saw a large plum of red dust. The two sat quietly and watched for a moment, before suddenly, T'Pan began to stand.

"T'Pan, you must rest. Birthing has made you weak." Sol said, a hint of sternness in his flat voice.

"No…" His wife answered. She looked down at the child in her arms, and after a moment, she handed the child to her husband. "As illogical as it is, I feel as though what has landed, whatever it is, is calling for me."

Sol opened his mouth to protest, but T'Pan was already out of the room.

Just as she reached what had turned out to be a federation Starfleet escape pod, Sol caught up with her. After thoughtful observation, she construed how to opened it. With a light hiss, the red dust covered glass door opened. If the woman had not been Vulcan, she surely would have gasped.

T'Pan gently lifted a small blonde terrain child out of the pod. His blue eyes stared up at her in wonder, and he gently reached out of his blanket, his pudgy hand gripping at her robe as he let out incoherent baby babble. "James Tiberius Kirk" She read from the terrain's medical bracelet. The Vulcan woman looked at her husband, a glimmer of hope shining in her eyes.

Sol knew, 'come hell or high water' as terrains said, T'Pan would raise this child.

To Be Continued

TWTB: Well, I though it came out quite well. :3 Anywhoo… I was listening to the song 'you'll be in my heart' when I got this idea. I think it's cute!