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And I love you for giving me your eyes
For staying back and watching me shine

aos!kirk taking the all-grown-up quarter vulcan out to lunch to celebrate finishing her last exam because I have been totally slain by daddy!kirk feels

james t. kirk. as old as pike was when—

as old as pike was. 

with that ring around his finger, a simple band for a simple feeling. his regulation uniform a little tighter than it should be. those sunglasses starfleet brass doesn’t quite approve of but hasn’t quite said no to. he doesn’t start as many fights as he used to. he finishes them. 

one time he gave this interview and said, ‘you know, saving the world—galaxy, sorry, galaxies, multiple…you get the picture—point is, doing that, you think, this is the greatest thing i’ll probably ever do in my lifetime. you can’t stop living once that happens, obviously, but you figure, all right, i’ve peaked. and then you have a kid, and you realize, you didn’t know anything. you thought you saved lives? well, a daughter saves yours.’ 

he’s never been so proud as he is walking next to her. ‘you used to be this big,’ he says. ‘dad,’ she replies, but she’s laughing.

she never goes through the teenage years of being embarrassed by her father. 

which, thank god, ‘cause it would’ve killed him. 

'never thought i could be a father at all,' jim admits to spock, in the middle of a monthly ritual—looking at all the photos of their little girl they've collected over the years. 

'naturally, your theory was unfounded and soon proven false,' spock replies. because, he explains, two fingers to jim's, he can do anything. it simply took spock and a daughter to show him that.