Whoops! I completely forgot that I hadn't posted the last chapter. What is wrong with me?... Well, it might have something to do with my sister being in the hospital :( and the fact that I might be in love :). And tomorrow I will officially have been alive for two whole decades! AH! But, still, I'm sorry for forgetting about this!

It was Friday. Friday evening.

Spock arrived at O'Malley's cornfield at 1845 and stood at the location he had specified in his message.

He'd waited for 15.8 minutes when he heard rustling behind him. He turned to see a blonde boy emerge from between two tall stalks of corn.

Spock immediately recognized him. It was James Tiberius Kirk.

Kirk froze when he saw Spock. They both stared at each other a moment.

"Oh," Kirk finally said. "It's you."

"Indeed," replied Spock. It was silent for another couple seconds.

Kirk moved over beside Spock and sat down in the dirt between the rows of corn. Unsure of what to do, Spock decided to follow suit.

After a minute or two of sitting, Spock said to Kirk, "I did not know that you had an affinity for physics or for computer programming." His voice lowered a bit. "Or that you had an interest in the stars."

"Yeah," Kirk let out a little snort. "Well, you never asked, did you?"

Spock did not answer.

"I should have known it was you," said Kirk, leaning back on his elbows, "right when I read 'I do not think one can function with only half of a brain'." He sent a small smile to Spock. "Only a Vulcan would have written something like that."

"Indeed," Spock agreed.

Kirk took one finger and drew a symbol in the dirt on the ground. Spock recognized it.

"That is the Starfleet insignia," he said.

Kirk nodded."It's also Cochrane's standard asymmetric energy-curve comparison diagram."

Spock was impressed. He had known that, but he hadn't expected Kirk to know it.

Kirk looked back up at him. "Do you really like thinking about the stars?"

Spock turned his gaze to the dimming sky above him, where stars were already starting to appear. "Yes,' he said quietly. "I come here to look often to look at the sky. And back on Vulcan I would find myself inexplicably drawn to the stars."

"Yeah," Kirk returned just as quietly also gazing at the stars.

"I am returning to Vulcan next week," Spock announced suddenly.

Kirk's gaze snapped back to Spock's and Spock thought he saw disappointment in his eyes.

"Right," said Kirk.

Spock pointed up at the sky. "That," he said pointing in the direction of a small reddish dot just barely visible in Earth's evening sky, "is where Vulcan is."

Kirk hummed in acknowledgement. "One day, I'm gonna go up there. With the stars. I'm gonna have a spaceship." He grinned at Spock. "You can come with me."

Spock almost smiled back. "That sounds most agreeable."

"Cool."

They sat for awhile after that, just saying nothing and staring at the stars.

Yes, reflected Spock gazing at the dark blue sky above, Earth was different from Vulcan in many ways, but they weren't all necessarily bad.

So, yeah. This is the end of a random little story that wanted to be written. I have a couple one shots and a couple pretty long stories that I'm working on, but I don't know when I'll get to post them 'cause I've got a lot of stuff going on for at least the next week and a half.

And finally- THANK YOU READERS! You guys are the sweetest and the reviews/alerts/favorites mean a lot to me. :)