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Title: Speech Bubbles
(1/2)
Characters: Kirk, Spock.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After the Enterprise's first officer starts speaking gibberish at a diplomatic event, McCoy diagnoses the otherwise mentally well Spock with chronic anxiety and demands he take some serious R & R.
Author's Note: This was written for st_episodic, inspired by the Boston Legal episode "Word Salad Days," also taking cues from another episode in the series when the same problem returns; you need not have seen the show to read this fic by any means.
Given that the relationship between Kirk and Spock is explored in a way that borrows from the Denny/Alan friendship, this is about as intimate as you can get with two males without it getting slashy. Being true to the Boston Legal tradition of pushing the social boundaries of male companionship, I would not consider it pre-slash, but certainly about as open for interpretation as...well, anything.


( Kirk’s brows lowered; he knew what aphelion meant and it definitely had nothing to do with the subject of Andorian behavior. )