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Best Spirk 5+1 Things Fanfics

The best 5+1 things Spirk (James T. Kirk/Spock) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The shape itself creates anticipation; by the fourth near-miss readers are vibrating, and a well-built plus-one lands with the force of five chapters of buildup.

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Something Smart to Do

5+1 Things

by kianspo

In which Jim finds himself fake-married to his first officer every other month. It's not his fault. Mostly. Dowries and Klingons are involved. Starfleet is decidedly not amused.

22,067 kudos 21,322 words 1/1 chapters Mature
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a sequence that you never learned

by annataylor

"'Spock,' Jim breathes out, completely overwhelmed by the gesture—not quite believing that Spock knows him so well, that's he's already started researching, that he trusts Jim with a member of his own endangered species." When Jim gets it in his head to adopt an eight year old Vulcan, Spock present

25,929 kudos 64,624 words 14/14 chapters Explicit
3

Treasures

by yeaka

Sometimes the other Vulcans wonder how Spock managed to obtain such an exotic bondmate, and sometimes Spock wonders himself.

19,680 kudos 17,748 words 4/4 chapters Explicit
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The Genetic Soap Opera (or, One of the Less Dignified Royal Weddings)

by waketosleep

Turns out Jim Kirk's more than meets the eye, genetically speaking. There are a lot of consequences, mostly for Spock and his sanity.

17,839 kudos 6,181 words 1/1 chapters Mature
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Please don't touch the Vulcans

by museaway

The "yes" is out of Jim's mouth before he can think about it.

16,002 kudos 17,690 words 1/1 chapters Mature
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K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk

by branwyn

Jim wrote a romance novel just to prove he could. Then someone leaked it on the public Starfleet server, and suddenly his embarrassingly smutty and sentimental Human/Vulcan love story is all over campus. Luckily for Jim, no one knows that he’s the author. Unluckily for Jim, someone forwarded the nov

15,868 kudos 103,984 words 22/22 chapters Not Rated
7

Helloooo, Nurse!

by lalazee

Jim Kirk is the only male nurse on the Enterprise. He’s also the only one with any experience with Vulcan biology. You can guess who he’s been assigned to.

15,805 kudos 9,291 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Objective Data

by walkandtalk

A young Vulcan decides to find a mate for his guardian, Spock. After careful calculations, Cadet Kirk is obviously the superior choice.French translation by Emily Bright中文-普通话 國語 translation by ronnie_vfsРусский translation by sKarEdEspañol translation by Prinkipissa_AndreazObjective Data [Podfic]

15,755 kudos 22,369 words 8/8 chapters Not Rated
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Atlas

by distractedKat

Between what was and what will be stands James Tiberius Kirk, in all his fractured patchwork glory. Because saving the Federation was only the beginning. A novel-length continuation of the 2009 movie told in four parts. Cross-posted from FFN.

13,472 kudos 135,529 words 25/25 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
10

The Bond

by WhatIfImaMermaid

He slips in love with Spock inconspicuously, during an uneventful afternoon, on an unnamed planet destined to become little more than a Greek letter and a Roman numeral on Starfleet’s chart of the Beta Cygni system.  In which: -Spock gets amnesia.-Spock is convinced that he and Jim are a thing.-Jim

13,393 kudos 21,679 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

by kianspo

In which Spock contemplates the laws of attraction and realizes what a slippery slope that is only after he has already fallen. There's no help for him now.

13,351 kudos 10,927 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
12

Ni'Var

by WerewolvesAreReal

Humans have daemons. Vulcans have katras. Spock, born of both, has neither. Which he's fine with. Really. Meanwhile, James Kirk is a little curious about this whole daemon business, because how the hell can he have two souls - ?

12,663 kudos 11,318 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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Translating Ennoia

by WerewolvesAreReal

Spock intends to resign his commission with Starfleet six months into the Enterprise's mission. Then he meets Captain Kirk – his t'hy'la – and everything becomes infinitely more complex.

12,207 kudos 7,671 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Once Upon a Time (A Fairy-Tale Love Story)

by littlebirdtold

In a universe with no Federation, where First Contact never happened, Jim Kirk is your average popular guy. On Christmas Eve, thanks to a series of strange events, Jim finds himself in a parallel universe where the Milky Way is under the control of an alien race and ends up as a servant in the resid

11,902 kudos 47,461 words 6/6 chapters Explicit
15

cast out fear

by s0mmerspr0ssen

Kirk saves Vulcan from Nero at high cost to himself. It falls to Spock to pick up the pieces.

11,896 kudos 42,268 words 7/7 chapters Mature
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And Then I Let It Go

by kianspo

Post-Star Trek Beyond. The crew of the Enterprise gets a breather while they are waiting for their new ship. Jim uses the time to do something he had sworn he would never do.

11,881 kudos 10,632 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Entering Orbit

by museaway

Jim escapes to Iowa to avoid the media frenzy following the Narada incident, but a late-night miscommunication results in Spock turning up on his front porch.

11,756 kudos 30,957 words 7/7 chapters Mature
18

Vulcans are Fangirls Too

by jouissant

Kirk is a secret astrophysics genius who publishes under a pseudonym; Spock sends him fanmail. Shenanigans ensue.Less fluffy than the title might imply, but a feel-good story nonetheless.

11,507 kudos 10,838 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
19

The Handmaid of Genius

by ladyblahblah

For the trek_hc fic exchange.  When the replicators go offline, Jim reacts unexpectedly.

11,368 kudos 3,033 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
20

Cause and Effect

by Ragdoll (Keshka)

In the midst of Vulcan's destruction, Jim Kirk saves the life of a Human woman he only later learns the name of: Amanda Grayson. It isn’t long before Spock finds gratitude transforming into a crippling and terribly inconvenient attraction.

11,007 kudos 14,163 words 1/1 chapters Mature

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Why 5+1 Things Spirk Fanfiction Works So Well

James T. Kirk/Spock — The captain and his first officer are the original slash ship — 'slash' literally comes from the Kirk/Spock zines of the 1970s. Gene Roddenberry himself coined 't'hy'la' for their bond, and every Trek era since has added fuel, from the Motion Picture to the Kelvin films.

5+1 Things — A beloved fandom structure: five times something almost happens, didn't happen, or happened unnoticed — and one time it finally, fully does. The format turns repetition into rhythm, each vignette raising the stakes for the payoff.

Fifty years of fandom history behind a logic-and-heart pairing whose canon devotion needs almost no embellishment. The shape itself creates anticipation; by the fourth near-miss readers are vibrating, and a well-built plus-one lands with the force of five chapters of buildup. That's why 5+1 things Spirk fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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