Holy crap, I stayed up 'til six in the morning writing. Well, writing and watching Law and Order: SVU. But I got some good stuff written down that I'm pretty excited about. :)

So, woo, here's chapter 2. It's short, but we meet Spock's parents and the plot thing whatever slowly progresses. And next chapter we'll meet little James T. Kirk!

"I do not see the logic in what you are proposing."

"Logic? Not everything has to be about logic, you know."

Spock was sitting in his room in the apartment his family was occupying during their stay on Earth. He was supposed to be practicing concentrating techniques by blocking out surrounding distractions and focusing internally on the mind. He was failing. His sensitive Vulcan ears picked up on the conversation his parents were having in the other room and Spock found his attention being pulled to it.

"But what is the purpose of performing a task if there is no logic involved?"

"But there is logic in it! You're just refusing to see it!"

"There is nothing that Spock would gain from attending a human school while he is here. He has been educated through the standard Vulcan disciplines. He will be well ahead of the other children. There will be nothing he can benefit from. Therefore, it is logical that Spock forgoes formal education on Earth to resume his studies when we travel back to Vulcan."

There was a pause in the conversation. For a moment, Spock considered working on his concentrating techniques again, but then he heard his mother's quiet voice.

"Sarek, I think sometimes you forget what your son is. You see him as a Vulcan. But only as a Vulcan."

"I-"

"Wait, let me finish. He's only nine years old. And he's never had the opportunity to interact with other kids the way human children do. Spock would learn something from a human school, even if it wasn't science or math. He would learn to embrace the other half of himself. Because he's human, too. Like me."

Spock listened for a long time after that, but he never heard his father respond.

A week later he found himself enrolled in a public school- Riverside Elementary.