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• Repercussions (It's not your fault) by Elytra404

  Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Star Trek: The Original Series  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  28 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • James T. Kirk/Spock
  • James T. Kirk & Spock
  • James T. Kirk
  • Spock (Star Trek)
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Dialogue Heavy
  • Chess
  • accept i dont know shit about chess
  • so i found a record of a chess game online and used that
  • so technically its an accurate chess game i think!
  • Tarsus IV References (Star Trek)
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Trauma
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Starvation
  • Shooting
  • idk the tag for spocks traumas tw
  • undermining trauma
  • in the past
  • spock doesn't know hes allowed to be sad
  • he thinks its normal
  • Episode: s03e07 What Is Starfleet? (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
  • well references to it
  • also references to episode 6 but that's significantly less important
  • Pining
  • implied mutual pining
  • Pre-Relationship
  • the way i intended to make this gen
  • but these fucks are impossibly gay
  • read the tags
  • THIS FIC IS TRIGGERING
  • Not Beta Read

  Summary

  Spock doesn't know he's allowed to need healing.
  Jim's working on it.
  Chess helps (at least the conversation during it does).

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,557

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  9

  Kudos:

  67

  Bookmarks:

  9

  Hits:

  518