From the Alaskan Frontier

Title: I’Chaya
Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Star Trek: The Original Series (pre-series, Vulcan)
Characters / Pairings: light Sarek x Amanda, Spock (age 13)
Rating: K+
Genre: Family, light hurt / comfort
Warnings / Notes: Prompt from locoexclaimer : Rewrite one of the earliest fic concepts you can remember coming up with OR revisit the first fandom you can remember writing for/a fandom you haven't visited in a long time.

Oh God, this prompt. This one made me think. A lot. And then it lead me to a fandom I’ve not really played with in… seven years or so? Thank God for the first two seasons on DVD.

I know, I know, I should have written some proper Kirk x Spock, something off my bunny list or hell even some Garak x Bashir, but GOD, the pull of Sarek x Amanda is powerful. Besides—mother of fuck, it’s Mark Lenard. O Mr. Lenard, you wore the pointed ears well, as a Romulan commander and a Vulcan ambassador. See also DATVOICE

I was going to write this differently. I wanted to write it as the day Sarek gave Spock I’Chaya, a pet sehlat. The sehlat was canon ( described in TOS 02x44, “Journey to Babel”), but upon doing a little more digging, it turned out I’Chaya was Sarek’s pet when he was a boy first. But I did find the information detailed in the fic (which was pulled from the Animated Series 01x03, “Yesteryear”), and my brain lit up with this bunny. I ended up weaving the two episodes together, and am pleased with the end result. Not so much with the execution, but with the sentiment.

My point of view is all the hell over the place. Sorry about that. >>;

Sarek, Amanda, Spock, Star Trek © Gene Roddenberry