8dreamcatcher8.livejournal.comNot 100% sure of all the details but here is what I remember:
- T'Pring got her betrothed bond with Spock officially broken while he's on Earth and (not long after?) Spock Spock's link with T'Pring has failed and he's on Earth when he starts going into Pon Farr. He's resigned to dying alone in his apartment (and almost glad there's nobody to witness this indignity?).
- But he starts feeling attracted to a compatible mind in the city, without knowing who it is (I think he kinda lets his telepathy wander because he's desperate and finds Jim's mind by accident).
- Jim is in a bar, gearing up to prostitute himself for the first time because he's (young and left home and has no more money?).
- Spock follows his tentative link to Jim's mind to locate him in the bar and brings him back to his apartment.
- Pon Farr happens.
- Later, I think we hear about Gary Mitchell, who is Spock's ex-boyfriend and broke his heart (and stole his money / emotionally blackmailed him?).
- Amanda is alive and visits later too.
- I think that, at some point, someone (a xenophobe?) attacks their apartment and burns it at least partially.
I hope someone recognizes it. Thanks!
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