This Deadly Innocence - LeslieFish - Star Trek: The Original Series [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, classic slash, Slash
Summary:

“…Or The End Of The Hurt-Comfort Syndrome.” McCoy spells it out for Kirk, tricks Spock into understanding the problem and then sets Our Heroes down in a safe place where they can work out their issues.

“Half-meta, half sappy first time romance, this fic takes traditional h/c fics to task by having Bones, fed up with Kirk and Spock constantly risking their lives for each other as a substitute for what they really want, send them on medical shore leave. The planet is delightful, with its adorable miniature dinosaurs, and the slow pace and introspection makes the slash very organic.” (x)

Also notable for being, “one of the first Kirk/Spock stories ever published to make the leap from Gen to Slash (and thus helping to coin the term).” (x)

Originally published by Leslie Fish in Naked Times #3 in 1979.

References: Fanlore articles on This Deadly Innocence, Leslie Fish, Naked Times.

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