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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:00:25 -0500
Subject: [ASCEM-S] NEW TOS: Mother's Day Greetings 1/1 S/Mc
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Title: Mother's Day Greetings
Author: Qzeebrella
Fandom: Star Trek the Original Series
Rating: G
Pairing: Spock/McCoy
Disclaimer: the show and its characters are Paramounts, the story 
below is mine and no profit is being made from it.
Archive: to Spockmccoyhaven, ASCEML
Feedback: an author's proper nutrition is dependent on regular 
feedback, without it the author shall become irritable, voraciously 
hungry, and listless. Please send feedback to qzeebrella@yahoo.com .
Author's note: this was written long hand just before Mother's day 
May 9, 2004 and posted on May 22 of the same year due to technical 
difficulties, i.e. Temporarily dead computer.


Hey there Amanda, Len here. Spock's fine just being his usual thick 
skulled, I'm a Vulcan and that isn't logical self. I swear Vulcan's 
use logic as an excuse to justify whatever their fool mind's desire.

Don't you raise that eyebrow at me Spock! You know the things you 
want are always logical and those that are inconvenient illogical. 
Okay, fine! Leave, you know I'm right.

Sorry about that Amanda, your son inherited you husband's 
stubborness. Anyway, to get to the point of this transmission, by the 
time it gets to you it should be mother's day, unless the post man is 
slow again.

Thank you for bringing Spock into the universe. I know I grumble a 
lot about him, but I just can't imagine a universe without him in it. 
He's just the right person for me.

Thank you for all the sleepless nights you spent when he was a baby. 
Thank you for all the wounds you bandaged and tried to heal, both 
physical and emotional, even though we both know he'd deny being able 
to be emotionally wounded. Thank you for guiding him and helping to 
shape him into a man who loves learning and exploring. He'd say that 
Vulcan's don't have emotions and can't love *snort*, but we both know 
different.

Thank you for all you did to shape Spock into the man he is today. He 
can irritate, exasperate, frustrate, and delight me all in the same 
moment. I love our verbal sparring, our debates, and out quiet times 
together. I love him dearly and completely even, maybe especially, in 
the moments I want to kill him. And because I love him, I have come 
to know you and love you as a mother.

So thank you mom, for giving me Spock. May your mother's day be full 
of beauty and joy knowing your son and his husband are loved. 

Leonard.

XX the transmission ends briefly then starts again XX

Mother,

When Leonard told me that he was going to send you his greetings and 
love to you for Mother's Day, to do what little he could to thank you 
for your part in making me who I am today, I first found it highly 
illogical. I did so as I have sensed from my earliest days that you 
received great joy, pride and satisfaction from being a mother. That 
you felt wonder whenever you saw me as if I was an unexpected 
present. My having been the child you nurtured in your body and at 
your breast and now so full of possibility, filled you then with a 
strange awe that I sensed.

>From birth onwards you nurtured that possibility, guided me, and 
encouraged me. Encouraged me even though sadness sometimes over took 
you as I grew older and seemingly apart from you, further away. A 
sadness coupled with the thought I did not need you any more, which 
could not be further from the truth. Yet you let me walk my path in 
life independently, even as I walked towards Vulcan tradition, the 
suppression of emotion and logic, rather than a more human way of 
living. It must have seemed to be as if I was denying you existed at 
times, turning my back on you and your influence, and possibly even 
rejecting you.

I hope you know I would never deny you or reject you. I am and always 
have been thankful that you are my mother.

>From you I learned to value learning, exploring, and knowledge for my 
own personal growth and to share with others. I also learned from you 
that one must hold fast to one's determination hard in order to 
achieve one's goals. Of course Leonard would term my 
determination "cussed stubborness." You also taught me that 
compassion is and always should be both a Vulcan and a human trait, 
that what is logical is not necessarily the best choice, and that I 
must find an internal balance between my human and Vulcan impulses.

I have done so and have found my own unique balance. I did so mostly 
due to your guidance, support, and example.

When you and father were on ship, he said he married you as "it 
seemed the logical thing to do at the time." I shall always be 
grateful that he saw the logic in marrying you. I am...glad you are 
my mother.

I hope you have a pleasant Mother's Day, knowing I shall take some 
time during the day to remember all you did to help me become the 
person I am today. Remembering how you guided me, taught me and loved 
me as I....love you.

Spock.



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