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Prologue – Stardate 2258.10
Too late, the information contained in the document had been burned into Spock’s memory, even before he’d had time to acknowledge that he’d read it in error.
The PADD the captain had given him earlier was supposed to contain only work-related files – reports, budget summaries, requisition requests and the like, but evidently, he’d also used that particular device to access private documents and had somehow failed to close one of them down. That his own name was mentioned at the top of that document perhaps compounded the issue, because he knew he’d be unable to expunge what it he had inadvertently read from his long-term memory.
The document in question was a list – a list Kirk had evidently put together at some point in the recent past, of activities he wished to achieve by the date of his thirtieth birthday. Top of that list was Make love to Spock.
Spock wanted to forget because it was a breach of privacy – even though unintended – but he was simply unable to let it go. For the most part, he found himself curious about the list. However, the point that was relevant to him, where his own name had been mentioned, had been accorded the number one position (although he acknowledged there was no specific evidence to suggest they were necessarily ranked, nor ordered in any other particular fashion).
Had Spock been human, the existence of his entry on the list – specifically a number of assumptions implicit in Kirk’s goal – would have likely angered him. However, Spock was Vulcan and therefore not angry; not even peeved. That was not to say he didn’t consider Kirk to be both arrogant and naive, as well as optimistically unrealistic. Given they were only two weeks into their five year mission, Spock could only hope that his captain would, to use a rather apt English phrase, grow up.
While he might not be able to forget what he’d read, he could certainly choose not think about it, and with the self-discipline all Vulcans are taught at an early age, he turned his attention to his work, going through checking, actioning and signing off the remaining documents.
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