Sharing the Shiny

His person does not factor into Jim’s decision-making because he’d do anything, everything, for the crew.

Is Jim aware that they do the same for him?

If Spock moves quicker and tolerates less, it is biological, not insubordination, not murder. It is one less demon for Jim to fight, one less thing to keep him awake at night, with Spock listening to the other man breathing in the next room. When he meets the man’s eyes over someone’s body, he is not ashamed that, deep down, there is relief.

After all, death doesn’t trouble Spock’s rest.

When he’s sonicing his skin of bodily fluids, he knows the crew is grateful it is not Jim’s.

Source: one grave too many, by leafings – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Mature, dark-ish canon AU. Such a fascinating look at an Enterprise crew that’s more than a shade too codependent, too ruthlessly violent when it comes to protecting each other – and most of all, their Captain. Because they all know he’d do the same for them, and Spock knows it most of all.

“Well I do. Like what I see, I mean. You’re…” Jim tries to find the right word and suddenly understands what his xenolinguistics professor meant when she complained about how limiting it is to speak in Standard. The Vulcan has an air of familiarity about him, like walking into the kitchen back at the farm house in Iowa after a long tour in the Aldeberan system, but the house in Iowa never felt much like home. This is— “Magnetic.”

“Vulcan blood is hemocyanic. I am merely exhibiting paramagnetism in the presence of your own flux,” The Vulcan says, no affect. Jim feels the corner of his lips quirking up despite himself. He’s never met a Vulcan who knew how to flirt before.

Source: Homomorphisms – Chapter 1, by RookSacrifice – Star Trek [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, BDSM, ace!Spock. Set early in Strange New Worlds, Kirk and Spock run into each other in a BDSM club during shore leave, not knowing they’ll be working the next mission together… Pain play isn’t normally my thing, but this fic is really something special. Their scene is done while melded and feels incredibly sensual and intimate – but I love the aftermath even more, when they have to deal with their surprisingly deep connection. Love, love, love their undeniable attraction as well as their discussions about chess and philosophy!

Spock’s hand shook as he pressed his fingers to Kirk’s psi points. He had no particular plan. Just putting together a thought as coherent as “I should try a mind meld” had taken some doing. “My…mind to…your mind…” He grit his teeth. It was a bit like pushing a shuttle up a hill by himself while working quantum equations in his head. The real trick to it was putting himself in Kirk’s mind while retaining his own defenses against the psionic field. “My thoughts…to your thoughts…”

He didn’t enter Kirk’s mind, so much as fall into it. But it was chaos. He could make no sense of it; cacophonous sounds, images, memories, text, emotions, thoughts, all a tempest endlessly whirling in a void.

Source: With Your Feet on the Air and Your Head on the Ground – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, SNW, post-Subspace Rhapsody. Due to an accident Kirk ends up in Spock’s mind, intimacy ensues. This is simply lovely, full of emotions, sexual tension and bonding.

Kirk opened his mouth to ask Spock what the matter was, the Vulcan’s eyes were wide and stared fixedly at Jim, who found himself unable to move and now noticed an uncomfortable heat coming from the stone, fitted between their palms and interlocking fingers.

He wanted to yank his hand back and couldn’t move. He couldn’t understand what the professor was saying, and neither could he speak.

Commander, he heard Spock say in his mind , I do not think this stone is inactive.

Not for us, apparently , Kirk thought back.

Source: All Our Tomorrows Come Today – Chapter 1, by flippyspoon – Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Adult, canon-divergence. I must say, I simply adore SNW fics about these two, especially when they integrate so beautifully into TOS.