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R e n e w a l

A Star Trek novel by Cheree Cargill

Art by Dani Lane

Spock brought his gaze up again. "Christine, I understand how you feel--"

"No! No, you don't understand how I feel!" She felt tears threatening and she refused to let him see that. She got up and walked to the other side of her office and stood with her back to him, peering out of the viewport at Earth spread beneath them like a wide blue blanket. "You've spent your whole life not feeling. I tried to feel ... to feel enough for both of us ... and it only got me blocked out while you lived your own life."

She heard him get up and felt his presence behind her but refused to turn. If she turned, she'd have to look into his eyes again, have to acknowledge what his nearness still did to her.

"I can only say again how much I regret my actions toward you." His voice was soft and full of contrition. "I never told you what ... your actions meant to me. I have thought about you quite a lot since then. I have thought about the times we have shared, good and bad, and what they would have been like had you not been there. And, I spent last night thinking about a future without you. Christine, I have served aboard the Enterprise for over twenty years and have experienced many worlds and situations. But, in all that time, I never met anyone who affected me as you do."

She squeezed her eyes shut. "Spock ..."

"I want our lives to be together again."

"Spock ... Spock, I can't take the chance of being hurt again. I couldn't bear it."

"Christine..." He took her shoulders and turned her toward him. "Christine, would you allow me to touch your mind? I can prove to you that you wouldn't have to be afraid of that ever happening."

* * * * * * * *

Spock had searched for an elusive something in his life for years and had tried to find it in Vulcan studies and finally the Kohlinar discipline. It wasn't there. After the V'ger mission, he re-evaluated his life and realized that the human part of him, which he'd always denied, was essential after all. And he realized something else -- the woman who'd been waiting for him all those years, Christine Chapel, was slipping out of his life unless he made a decision that would affect them both. Covering twelve years, this is a story of life and death, duty and love, and how two people from vastly different worlds join their lives and their hearts in a lasting union.

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