Hello, I don't know if you read this or not. I just want you to know that I started reading when this story was only 3 or 4 chapters and, to this day, it's still one of my favourite fics ever.

Thank you very much for writing it :)

Hello!
Not sure if you still read these but I just wanted to let you know how much your story still means to me. I re-read it often, especially since watching new Star Trek universe shows often make me miss the world you created with the characters. Hope you are doing well, thank you for creating such a wonderful story. I do hope one day to get a notification about it being updated but for now I will content myself with simply rereading it.

I dunno if these messages even go to an active email address anymore, but whatever. I had a shit day, and I needed some cheering up. Thirteen years later and this fic is still one of my go-tos when I need something to keep my brain busy. And then I thought, hey, if someone was still holding onto one of my fics well over a decade later, I would want to know.
So, just, thanks, I guess? I was in high school when this was first published, and I graduated college seven years ago now, and this has lived rent-free in a corner of my brain that whole time.

Yeah, I remembered Jim being very thoughtful while interacting with Spock's space and dislike of contact (except for the cases he forgets because of emotion) and the way he tries to make him comfortable with ordering him salad and so on. That stuck out to me so I remembered it for years.
And I like the tension between Jim and his mom. I think it's very much in character for their versions in this universe!

Hey! I've read this story back in 2013 I think... It was one of the first Spirk fics I read or at least the most impressive one. And when I returned to the fandom in 2018 (and when I created an account to comment properly on fics) I couldn't find it! (I looked in the "Archive of our Own" instead of on " ")
So now I looked into very old documents where I copied addresses to interesting fics and surprise! It's the very first one! I'm really happy!
I remember I liked this story due to its pace and Jim's very kind personality. I liked his struggle to adjust to Vulcan traditions and to curt Spock. I remember the scene where he gets beaten up in secret due to defending Spock and many others.

This fic impressed me a lot, so almost ten years later, I'm really excited to read it again!
Thank you for posting this and for keeping it online all these years!

what a delight!

Hey Ho!
Goooood, I love this! I love it so much it aches me that you apparently gave it upThe two of them are so incredibly sweet, I’m melting. Seriously, I’m a little puddle over here. Plus, reading Scottys lines is like the funniest stuff ever!
While I’m struggling at times to understand two Spocks (As I said TOS!), This Story is just so much fun!
Well, even though I would love to read more chapters of this story (how could you abandon it?! _) I thank you so much for writing it!
Ok, bye-bye then 3

Hey Ho!
You know, I’m a sucker for TOS, so I usually am disturbed by old-Spock-new
-Spock-Action pretty easily.
However, I just couldn’t bring myself to break off this story. Trust me, I really tried, but it is so much fun! Especially this chapter was just incredible!
Although, there are so many chapters left, I’m actually quite scared of what might happen within the next chapters.
Well, only one way to find out, I guess.
Ok, bye-bye then 3

stoped reading this it was too loohg

I loved this story, apologies there appears to be two reviews but I had download the app to sign in for some reason, but I just wished to convey how much I loved this story- the relationship between Kirk and Spock seemed just as I would envisage it to be. I am guessing since it was published in 2009 there will be no further elaboration on chapter 33, but I am so here for it if there is.

Love love love this story- did anything beyond chapter 33 ever get published? Sorry just found it in 2021. Just encapsulates so much of K/S as I would envisage.

Really enjoyed this as a binge read over a rainy couple of days. Looks like you aren’t updating, but I think the story ends at a good place. Thanks for sharing!

I hope that Lanaea is alive and well and thriving despite covid-19 and one day comes back to finish this amazingly good work. Cos in my head I want confirmation that:
Spock tells Jim the story of how he got that bruise and it is emotionally satisfying. Jim is successful in convincing Starfleet command to **** on off and trust his judgement even if he is young. Sulu and Chekov come back from the Nelson in one piece. T'Pau performs the marriage ceremony. Nyoto is finally convinced that Jim is good for Spock. There is at least one really detailed sex scene with the bond active. The prewarp aliens the klingons messed with get a new planet to live on instead of their nuclear radiated one. Old Spock and Sarek look after each other.

Here I am, 2020 and coming back to read this 11 year old unfinished fanfiction for the 3rd time. Still a good story despite being incomplete. Doubting it’ll ever be finished but I still love it.

See, I don't know what you mean about this story chapter not being up to standard, because I was totally captivated and involved in it. I like how you keep the reader informed with the between scenes, I'm sure you have Noticed sometimes that writers forget to tell us how characters get from one location to another scene and headspace. I enjoyed how Jim ends up in sick bay after processing that maybe his better outlet for frustration is to go box with the bag; his reticence and fidgeting while Bones works, until he dozes off...totally recognizable and realistic. The detail is correct, deft and all helps to move the story along organically. I totally believe the world in which I'm living with the characters and action. I like the part where you have Jim, noting in an aside, all the masterful employment of Starfleet terminology, regulations, and sub parts thereof cited in support of the Nelson's mission report. It reminded me of my husband observing out loud to me, in his private medical practice, how it takes years to learn and apply all the language and terminology. (What is one of so many interesting things about practicing clinical medicine, is that using that terminology allows a very precise description of a problem, for example an infected appendix, using clinical diagnosis techniques. He could describe where and how the patient's appendix was lying, what it might be touching and also affecting; everything a surgeon needs to know, without needing to take X-rays. A good clinician saves time, money, and adds years of good life to their patients. But anyway,you make the reader very comfortable and firmly rooted in the characters' reality; it's absolutely delightful.