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Can a person from Spock's past help captain and first officer become more than friends?

When the Enterprise's first officer recruits childhood acquaintance, Tralnor, as a partner in completing a dangerous covert task assigned by T'Pau, nothing is easy. Vulcan's shadowy past still has teeth, and the onus is on Spock to stop a piece of history from taking a bite out of the present.

Jim Kirk, convinced he's still got time to ask Spock to be his lover, starts to fray at the edges, nearly sinking their relationship, after he catches wind of a very special woman in Spock's life. What Kirk does not know is just how much Spock wants to stay at the captain's side as a friend plus a lot more.

Will Kirk and Spock overcome their inability to express their true feelings toward one another?  Is it going to take meddling friends and crewmates to push them together? What is T'Pau so desperate to find the answers to? And, who or what exactly is Mollie?

In the aftermath of events on Ixmahx, Spock prepares to leave Kirk and Starfleet, but galactic events soon draw the crew of the Enterprise into a volatile political situation that will profoundly affect them all.

This is a sequel to the story "The Price."

Novel with Prologue, twenty-five chapters, an Epilogue, and an Addendum. Approximately 264,000 words.

In the Shade follows the lives of James Kirk and Spock of Vulcan after the end of the Enterprise’s five year mission. Spock has still not recovered the psychic powers he lost in Promises to Keep, although he and Kirk visit a Vulcan healer who might hold the key to his recovery. Kirk is promoted to commodore. In the wider world, political power is about to shift in a way unacceptable to some humans, and inevitable turmoil will result.

In the Shade is a very personal novel, an intense, intimate look into the lives of two extraordinary men and the events that threaten to tear them apart.

His sterling reputation as a distinguished and intrepid starship commander was legendary, yet away from the limelight and constant acclaim the personal life of Admiral James T. Kirk seems marked by a powerful and ultimately epic struggle as he becomes inextricably trapped between loyalty and desire. 

Disclaimer: written for fun not profit; no evil intentions toward Paramount Pictures, NBC or any and all interested trademark parties

Zine published in 2011 and available at: http://requiem.ravenshadow.net/

For Ivy Cross more utter gratitude than you may ever know as well as Big Love!

Artwork by Arminaa, Karracaz, Jazzbat, Nicci_Mac, and myself as Elfqueen

Immense and enduring gratitude to Mary Kay, Starshadow, Bluevelvetspock and Arminaa for their brilliant beta reading for this project as well as the exemplary staff at Requiem, awesome work by all!  

Warnings: marital infidelity, recreational drugs, non-consensual sex, rape, graphic violence

After reading a few prompts about Spock leaving Kirk after a 'misunderstanding,' I decided to try my hand in it.

After being wrongly accused, Jim's life is thrown off course. He returns to Iowa to drink away not only his guilt but also the memory of a situation that he had no control over. When the painful truth is revealed, can the Enterprise get her Captain back before it's too late? Or is he lost to them forever?

8/24/2013 Updating all Chapters