Yet another beauty [info]st_xi_kink is responsible for. The prompt is: Kirk turned tricks when he was younger, so when it becomes apparent that some seducing is needed, he volunteers. Spock is uneasy in the beginning and tries to reason with Kirk. And we all know how that goes.

This story can stand alone, but it is also a prequel to Diplomatic Efforts. In which Jim gets a nasty letter from his stepfather right before the Enterprise is due to depart spacedock and it brings the very messy past into the present.

Spock met Jim when he was 7 and Jim was 6. It has since been generally agreed that this was a mistake (or: the one where they grow up together and things are simultaneously better and worse for it).

Just your every day modern street gang of ragamuffins.

Five times Winona Kirk was a badass mom, and one time she realized she’d raised an equally badass son.