Started with a response to a challenge. T`Pau wants Jim and Spock to redo their fight from Amok Time without hypos.
T'Pau knows how Spock feels about his captain. She's determined to make him act on it. Prequel to '2 Lives, 1 Bond'.
T'Pau demands that Jim and Spock return to Vulcan to fight, no tricks this time. Jim wants to sacrifice himself, Spock wants to sacrifice himself. Neither one wants to give in. Can they find a solution that works for both?
Written in response to the challenge Amok Time Revisited:
Not a Pon Farr challenge, believe it or not. They fooled T'Pau the first time around, but it's pretty clear before long that Kirk didn't die on the sands of Vulcan like he was supposed to. What if she demands, by the power of Vulcan law, that they return for a rematch- a fight to the death, no tricks this time.
Bonus if they realize they can only get out of it if they bond. (Something about t'hy'la not having to kill each other, yadayada.) Yay for first-time stories!
You can set this during TOS, or find a way to fit it into the Abrams universe- I'm not picky.
