“What are you doing here? Come to say goodbye?”
“No, I do believe I have a ticket on this very ship.”
“Are you kidding, I thought you were set on Vulcan Academy?”
“This is not a joke. I feel that my talents would be better served elsewhere. Earth seemed as good a place as any.”
“Yeah, I would have missed you too.”An AU where Vulcan Academy takes in troubled and disobedient children, in an attempt to rehabilitate them and teach them discipline. James Tiberius Kirk is sent there after driving his stepfather’s car off a cliff, nearly killing himself in the process. He hates the strange planet and it’s inhabitants. He hates that he is an outsider and wants nothing more than to go back to Earth.
Spock is the child of two worlds, humanity entwined deep in his Vulcan flesh. He is constantly mocked for the heritage he received from is mother, and ridiculed for his father’s choice of wife. Day after day, the more cruel of the children gang up on him in an attempt to break him. That is until the day Jim hears them.
Before he knows it, he’s backing up the enraged half-vulcan, beating one kid’s face an interesting shade of purple before he is dragged off and sent to the office with the seething boy. Sitting next to each other awkwardly, Jim won’t leave Spock alone until he gives in and talks to him. Spock is led away by his father, leaving Jim to the headmaster’s cane.
The next day, Jim gingerly seats himself next to Spock during lunch, and once more refuses to stop yammering on about anything and everything. This keeps up for nearly two months before Spock begins to appreciate the other’s company, and finally he allows the blonde to befriend him.
The years fly by, and by the time Jim is old enough to leave the school and make his own future for himself, the two are nearly inseparable. Conflicted, Spock wants to follow Jim but doesn’t want to let his father down either. All it takes is the negative comment about his mother for Spock to make up his mind.
(via themirrortribble)
