Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 3EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.3Captain’s Log, Stardate 5263.7My first officer, Commander Spock - my friend, Spock - is blind... Blind and seriously ill from his injuries. He has been ordered transferred to Earth for treatment there. I can’t say anyone is happy about that decision. My crew believes, as I do, that once Mr Spock leaves the ship he will not be allowed to return... The Enterprise will continue on the vaccine mission to Rigel, as scheduled. I am satisfied the mission should be trouble free. That is why I have applied for leave on
Star Trek:Eclipse Chapter4 pt1EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.4It had been a week since Spock had been beamed down to Earth, and every day Kirk had seen the burns healing over, the signs of pain slowly subsiding. The Vulcan’s healing trance had managed to accelerate the healing of his broken bones and burns, but it took a toll on his strength, leaving him exhausted. The Vulcan was simply weak now, and in the dark.It was Spock’s mental condition that worried Jim - he was silent and introverted, lacking all of the incessant curiosity usually peculiar to his character. He ba
Star Trek:Eclipse Chapter4 pt2EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.4 pt2Spock sat in a soft chair on the balcony of his hospital room, letting his body soak in the heat of sunshine magnified by adapted force fields. Even after three weeks of convalescence it seemed odd that the heat could penetrate to ease out the stubborn aches in his bones but the brilliant light couldn’t pierce his eyes. Even more strange, he had spent these three weeks doing almost nothing. He could remember no other time in his life when he had been forced into so much inactivity, and had felt so powerless to al
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 5EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.5As soon as the door of Kirk’s hotel room opened Spock could feel the undeniable presence of McCoy and Lieutenant Uhura, and their slight nervousness at his appearance in the doorway. Warmth was billowing out of the room, with a smell of human bodies, spicy air-freshener, and fresh coffee. There was a pause as he stood just inside the door, waiting for someone to speak. McCoy broke the silence. ‘Well, look who’s here,’ he drawled in his warmest Southern accent, which made Spock acutely aware of the ch
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 6EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.6The terror burst through Spock’s mind with the violence of a wave, and he snapped his eyes open to a sea of blackness that only intensified the fear. He was lying in cold sweat, shreds of the nightmare still hanging in his mind. He was screaming for Jim. There had been vivid, abnormally bright images of Jim dying in the phaser room, held down by a strange writhing tangle of green snakes, red blood washing over the walls, the floor - the whole room was red with blood and fire. He could see, but everything was darkness
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 7EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.7‘All right, Commander?’Spock stepped out of the shuttle-cab and breathed in the scent around him. He could recognise seven distinctive types of trees that he knew grew around the main building of Starfleet Headquarters. For a quarter of a second he allowed himself to savour the feeling of being outside and without a friend ‘taking care’ of him. Then he straightened out his Starfleet top, dropped the end of the cane to the ground, and turned to the cab pilot.‘Would you help me to the door?’
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 8EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.8Although it was pleasant to be back in the familiar surroundings of the ship he had served on for over a decade, Spock still felt slightly lost. He had never realised before how many things there were that he only recognised by sight, how many people he identified only by face, how many places he used to stride across that now he had to cross tentatively, searching out the ground. And every person treated him with that same awkward cautiousness that Scott had greeted him with on beam up, as if he was about to break at the
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 9EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.9As Spock carried on speaking, explaining slowly and gently, he could hear his mother crying and trying to stifle the sound. There were noises in the background, and then another voice came through the speaker - the voice of his father.‘Amanda? ... To whom are you speaking? Have you received unwelcome news, my wife?’To anyone else Sarek’s voice would have sounded level and calm, but Spock could hear the note of curiosity and then worry in his father’s voice. Then Sarek said, ‘Spock, good evenin
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 10EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.10Spock sat down in the command chair with mixed feelings of confidence and apprehension. While he had complete faith in his ability as a commander, he was also aware that he had spent only one full shift at his own station since being released from sick leave, that he didn’t seek command at the best of times, and that if confronted with anything abnormal or unusual this would be his first test of how capable he really was, perhaps even put his place as first officer in jeopardy. But hopefully nothing abnormal or unus
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 11EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.11Uhura left Sulu in the command chair to go and meet Scott, stopping by security on the way to check that the remaining Pernicians had been rounded up. She found the five of them each in separate cells, all of them irate and screaming. One had even hurled himself continually at the forcefield until he had collapsed and was now lying exhausted on the bed in the cell, muttering unintelligible Pernician curses.She quickly left the holding area and went down to the recreation room, where Scott was waiting at the door with t
Star Trek: Eclipse Chapter 12EclipseDisclaimer - Paramount own everything, I don't. But they don't own people's souls, and I just play with them.12Kirk tossed and turned in his bunk, trying to convince himself he was near sleep. It wasn’t working. The moment he slept he woke from vivid nightmares. When he lay awake all he could see in the darkness was the image of Spock’s body lying there in sick bay, the skin pooled with leaking blood.‘Dammit!’He sat up and threw the blankets aside impatiently. It was no use trying to sleep. He had known that when he finally went to bed that night, or he would have changed out of his uniform rather than jus
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