Vulcan is slowly emerging from its barbaric ways. The reformed Vulcans of Surak and the Vulcans of the old ways have had an uneasy truce for decades, but war has finally broken out. James Kirk and his family were captured and sold to a Vulcan when he was a child, and has grown up on Vulcan. He will fight along side of the reformed Vulcans to keep his freedom and to prevent becoming the slave of a sadistic Vulcan.

                                      ****Now Complete****

Now added chapter 4 some amazing artwork by Elfqueen.

Sometimes you can only tell a person how you really feel in a letter that they will never ever read. However, some things never work out as planned. How was Jim supposed to know that he accidentally activated the auto forward feature on his e-mail account? Stupid voice recognition software.

This is a collection of e-mails that Jim writes to Spock that his first officer is never supposed to actually read but somehow ends up reading anyway.

This was suggested by a reader, De Gnome. The premise is simple but brilliant--what if T'Pring wasn't the one to challenge?

Done, done, done!

This is a personal request from a fan, Katrinna Le Fay (yes, I do requests; sometimes it takes awhile, though).

Jim and Spock meet as children. Jim's mother is absent; his caretakers are abusive. Sarek and Amanda rescue their son's friend and raise the boys together. They discover they are t'hy'la and are bonded. Spock goes to Earth to join Starfleet; Jim goes with him.

This will be sort-of Abrams, with a dash of AU mixed in. for example, I'm not killing off Amanda. Enjoy.

NOW COMPLETE!

This is in response to Tydomin's The King's Speech challenge:

I'd love to read an AU based (loosely!) on The King's Speech (what a wonderful film...)!

It should be set in a universe where non-reform Vulcan is the ruling planet in an empire, and the Emperor is Sarek.  Sybok is part of the family, and has just taken the throne of Vulcan (replacing an aunt or uncle, I guess). However, he is an Edward VIII type figure and will give up the throne to Spock, who is the only other heir.

But, problem - Spock is a reject from the family (due to his human heritage and his speech impediment, which is unheard of among full-blood vulcans) and has lived a lonely and anonymous life on Earth for many years. During that time, Kirk has fallen in love with him from a distance, and they are tentatively beginning a relationship.  Kirk, of course, does not know who Spock really is.

Eventually, Sybok abdicates and Spock receives the summons. How will the couple cope with the revelation? Will Spock overcome the obstacles in his path? Will a common human be acceptable as consort to the King? Spock has already been going to speech therapy just so he can say 'I love you' to Kirk, but of course it turns out that he will need the skills for a much farther reaching cause.

I want a story with a happy ending, and preferably using the TOS characters.  I don't mind what career Kirk has  - you decide.  Whether or not Amanda is in it is up to you, but if she is, I would think she would be a servant or something rather than the Empress. Extra points if you can make Doctor McCoy a convincing speech therapist!

And away we go.

AU. James T. Kirk is abducted by slavers on his way to a family visit. Elsewhere, Spock begins to enter Pon Farr with no time to return home to find a mate. Guess what happens next?

AU. In a world where Vulcans want nothing to do with humans, Jim Kirk has to trick one of them into a marriage if he wants to establish diplomatic relations. It's all for the good of the Federation, really.

Nero changed a lot more than anyone could have anticipated. When he destroys Vulcan, he starts a major conflict between Earth and New Vulcan. Could the peace-loving inhabitants of the destroyed desert planet really be capable of such violence?

Written in response to Ladyblue17's challenge 'Captured':

So like a few other fics I've seen: Vulcan is at war with Earth/Terran’s (so maybe make Vulcan’s more warrior like?)

Kirk and his crew on a mission (you choose what), get captured by the Vulcan’s and are interrogated and tortured physically and/or mentally (especially Kirk) because he has info on something (you choose, security codes or something) 

Spock is still half human, so even though he's the son of Sarek (the leader?) he's not trusted and is the interrogator/torturer of Kirk and isn’t as high in rank as he should be.

Then can something happen in which the Vulcan’s decide Spock’s too dangerous and so sentence him to death (and beat him up etc?)  Then have him escape with Kirk and crew and all are beamed aboard a Terran ship, welcoming Kirk and crew but Spock is thrown in the brig (despite protests from Kirk?)

You can find some way that they all work together and end the war or something and Kirk and Spock get together

Bonus points: if Jim angers Spock and Spock rapes (or nearly rapes) him when he’s being interrogated.
if someone’s injured when they escape but Spock helps them
And if they play chess while Spock’s in the brig

I changed a few things, but I tried to put everything in.