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SPOCK. ([personal profile] logistical) wrote in [community profile] tampered2013-09-03 01:50 pm

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When: September 2-3rd, daytime.
Rating: G.
Characters: Spock ([personal profile] logistical) & OPEN.
Summary: Someone has acquired a lute and is playing.
Notes: Wrote in [action] but prose is also welcome.
Log:

[ Spock hasn't yet installed a door to cover that "magnificent hole in the wall" (as Jim has dubbed it. McCoy was far more less forgiving), and claims it is due to lack of sufficient currency. That is true - he prefers to save rather than spend right away - but he is getting quite comfortable simply being a busybody and listening to the goings-on of the other apartment. The transition was inevitable and he shouldn't be putting it off, but the displacement to the City, even with the crew, had not been easy. He found living in a metropolitan area constricting considering he had spent the majority of the past few years on board a spaceship, where they could leave at a moment's notice. He'd have taken the expanse of Vulcan's deserts over this in a heartbeat, and not for purely sentimental reasons. ]

[ However, there's no longer a home except the Enterprise, no family save for her crew, and while he has made an attempt to make his residence presentable he has no intention of getting to know the City. Walks are limited to exercise - though he needed little - and his routine is strict, but offers little comfort or intellectual stimulation. ]

[ Even work is progressing frustratingly slowly. Unlike Jim, who finds other outlets for the restless energy, Spock diverts his into more projects. He would read, but since Khan was at the library, Spock avoids it as much as he can, and he occasionally skims the books Nyota has finished and placed on the shelf to be returned as soon as possible. ]

[ So one day, he quite spontaneously decides to find himself a lute. The exact object wouldn't be present in the City, but there was wood, and strings, he could make do. When he's satisfied, he sits in the middle of the living room, and begins to play. ]

[ Maybe you are visiting. Maybe you are walking by, or coming home and wondering what the music is. Or maybe you are an angry neighbour who wants to know when that racket can stop. In any case, the sound carries. ]

phonetical: (⊱ sᴡᴇᴇᴛ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢs)

[personal profile] phonetical 2013-09-16 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She loves it when he smiles. It's so rare, even when he is happy and she can feel it through their connection. A smile from Spock means something, just like her treating any belonging of his with the utmost care. He doesn't get sentimental over many things, but he was missing his lute enough to make one. How could she not respect that?]

How about the first song I ever sang for you?

[The little ditty about an alien with devil's ears and devil's eyes.]
phonetical: (⊱ sᴀʏ ɪᴛ ɪɴ ᴀɴʏ ʟᴀɴɢᴜᴀɢᴇ)

[personal profile] phonetical 2013-09-29 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[The nod of her head, matching the beat of the song, is automatic, almost as instinctive as her sitting down next to him and going from a hum of the melody to the actual lyrics.]

Oh, on the Starship Enterprise,
There's someone who's in Satan's guise,
Whose devil's ears and devil's eyes
Could rip your heart from you!