Title: AFTER THE CREDITS The Omega Glory/The Wrath of Khan/Unification

Author: Ster Julie

Series: TOS

Rating: PG-13

Codes: S/f

Part 4/4

Part 4

Spock had finished speaking with Admiral Kirk as he tried to stand in Engineering. He began to feel the burning from the radiation change to extreme cold.

/It won't be long now/ he told himself as he slumped against the door of the chamber. /Sleep now./

Delighted laughter filled his ears. Spock felt pleasantly warm, parts of him more so than others. He opened his eyes and was greeted by the sight of two most beautiful breasts.

"Leila!" he breathed. More laughter.

"My face is up here!" she teased. Spock looked up with a start.

There was Leila, beautiful as the sun after a long rain. Her luminous blonde hair fanned prettily on the pillow beneath her. He lips and cheeks were rosy, and her eyes were clear and full of love.

"Leila!" Spock shouted, launching himself at her passionately. "Leila, my heart!"

"I believe we were in the middle of something when we were so rudely interrupted by my death," Leila said with mock seriousness, giving Spock a squeeze.

"Is this heaven?" he asked.

"Making love to you for all eternity?" Leila countered. "I should say so!" Spock began moving against her with abandon, relishing the feel of her restored body, young and beautiful and whole once more.

"Leila, Leila," he cried as he moved.

Suddenly, Spock felt himself pulled from Leila's arms.

"Leila!" he screamed.

"I'll be right here waiting for you, Spock." She called as she was pulled back into the light.

"NOOOO!"

"NOOOO!"

Spock found himself back in his body on Mount Seleya, T'Lar and Sarek bending over him.

"I want to go back! I want to go BACK!" he insists to Sarek.

"You have been given to us once again, Spock, my son," Sarek soothed.

"Leila," Spock whimpered.

"Leila will be waiting for you," Sarek replied. "You will see her again, soon enough."

Spock is worn and tired. He is curled on his side, hidden away in yet another cave. /It seems that Romulus is little more than a grouping of caves/ he thought.

No one could ever tell Spock with any degree of certainty how long his life span would be, or how many years were added to of subtracted from his life while on Genesis, but he had lived a respectable 200 years. Spock ran through his memories as his body continued to fail him. He acknowledged how much he had accomplished, but he recognized that he had had to make so many sacrifices.

The one sacrifice that caused him the most grief was Leila Kalomi. If he had not been promised to that evil woman T'Pring, he would have been free to marry Leila. They would have had twenty years of bliss together, instead of those five months of torment during her final illness. They could have had beautiful, blonde elfin children with amazing blue eyes and pointed ears.

Saavik had been good to him. She had seen him through the Fires on many occasions, but it was Leila who had captured his heart. Saavik was not an avid supporter of his Unification movement, not that he could fault her after what she had experienced at the hands of the Romulans. When Spock had begun his service to the Sundered, Saavik had opted to stay behind with their two grown children.

This was the end of a long, lonely, yet eventful life. Spock remembered the last time he died, how Leila, young healthy and beautiful, greeted him so lovingly. Spock smiled and closed his eyes once more.

The Romulans watching by his side were puzzled by the smile Spock wore in death.

Delighted laughter filled his ears. Spock felt pleasantly warm, parts of him more so than others. He opened his eyes and was greeted by the sight of two most beautiful breasts.

"Leila!" he breathed. More laughter.

"My face is up here!" she teased. Spock looked up with a start.

There was Leila, beautiful as the sun after a long rain. Her luminous blonde hair fanned prettily on the pillow beneath her. He lips and cheeks were rosy, and her eyes were clear and full of love.

"I am too old now, Leila."

"No, you're not," she countered, "not any more!" She turned his face toward a mirror.

Spock looked at himself and saw the dashing young cadet that once fell in love with a beautiful scientist. With a smile as brilliant as the sun, he launched himself into Leila's arms.

An eternity loving Leila? He could definitely live with that!

FIN