Never Alone-Epilogue
It had been a year since the transplant; Jim had finished high school and was able to register for university in time for the Spring semester. He and Spock had settled into their small apartment and started building their new life together. It wasn't easy, they each had a full course load on top of their part time jobs leaving little time for leisure. Still they were together and they were getting by. Mrs. Grayson's bi-weekly care packages made getting by a bit easier.
Jim picked up a part time job as a bartender once his eighteenth birthday passed. He made minimum wage plus tips. It wasn't glamorous, but it covered the heating bill, which was important because Spock was always cold if the apartment wasn't kept at a toasty seventy degrees or higher. Bartending also had the added benefit of free drinks when he turned twenty-one, not that he didn't try to take advantage of the bar's hospitality now.
The hours where good to, he took classes during the day and worked in the evenings, and each morning he and Spock went for a jog (to slowly work Jim back into peak physical condition). Originally Jim had chosen a field of study involving space as Spock had, but Jim was finding that aeronautics was not as exciting as he believed it would be. His interest where drifting towards planetary astronomy. How man got to the stars wasn't important to Jim, it was what was in the stars that really mattered.
Jim was happy, in Spock he had found someone who not hurt him as Frank had and would not leave him as his mother and brother had. He knew that his new heart might not last for thirty years, it most likely wouldn't last more than fifteen years, and there was also a chance Spock's cancer could return, but they had both beat the odds once and they could do it again.
They had each other and that was enough for Jim who was ready to leave his dysfunctional family behind, but not for Spock. The sting of his father's rejection was still smarting. It probably always would, but as Jim had once told him 'life was short' and 'you don't know what tomorrow could bring'. Spock held onto a hope that he would earn his father's approval.
Life wasn't perfect, but they would never be alone.
Author's Note: I can't believe it's over! This was my first multi-chapter fanfic and I had a great time writing it. I hope everyone enjoyed reading it. In the future I may come back to this story and do some tweaking and polishing, but not for a while. So once again thank you for following 'Never Alone'