Author: Laura Jacquez Valentine

Title: Was It Worth It?

Series: TOS

Codes: K/S

Rating: PG

Parts: 1/1

Summary: A music video for the Pet Shop Boys' "defiantly optimistic"

_Was It Worth It?_. An antidote to _It's A Sin_.

Archive: ASC/EM, R'rain's.  All others ask me, please.

Post to: ASC, ASCEM, BLTS

Disclaimer: Paramount/Viacom owns Star Trek.  The Pet Shop Boys own _Was

It Worth It?_.  I love everyone and would never steal the toys, or break

them either, but y'all know I own this "vid".



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*fade in*

Spock, dressed in a shimmery mesh t-shirt and a pair of slim-legged

black pants, is standing in the Enterprise rec room.  His body is still

desert-hard from his time at Gol, but his eyes are bright. The floor has been

cleared, and various crewmembers are standing around the sides of the

room.  Spock has his arms folded and a very faint smile on his lips.  He

is shaking his hips a little to the fast-paced music.



The door swishes open, and Jim walks in.  He stops dead when he sees

Spock, who turns and walks towards him, extending an arm. Spock begins

to sing:



// Well I don't know why I was dreaming about you

   But I do know that I was dancing without you//



Spock suddenly pulls Jim into his arms, then shrugs and lets him go.



// Then you smiled, and I was lost

   You fall in love, why count the cost?//



Scene from Mudd's Women: Spock leans against the doorframe of Jim's

quarters, smiles, shrugs, turns and walks away.



Spock is standing on a cliff near Gol, the desert winds tearing at his

black robe.



// All I gave to you

   All you made me do

   I react when I hear people ask//



T'Sai walks up behind him.  He turns around and raises his voice in

challenge.



// Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth living for

   Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth giving more//



Spock walks around Jim, running his hands over the captain's shoulders.

The lights are slowly dimming.



// If I'd had my way this would have happened much sooner

   But until that day it was only a rumour//



Spock presses a finger to his lips and raises an eyebrow, then leans in

so that his lips brush Jim's ear.



// All at once you changed my life

   And led me in to paradise//



The desert winds blow around Spock.  Amanda stands next to him, her hand

on his arm.  He turns and looks into her face and tries to explain...



// Where I had to do

   What I wanted to

   I react when I hear people ask



   Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth living for

   Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth giving more//



A faceless Vulcan crowd watches Spock, standing by himself in his

shimmery clubbing outfit, in the center of a white room.  A faceless

crowd of Starfleet brass watches from the other side.  He spins around,

looks at the all, and sings out his defiance:



// I reserve the right to live

   My life this way, and I don't give

   A damn when I hear people say

   I'll pay the price that others pay//



Sarek steps forward from the crowd, and Spock walks towards him, eyes

flashing.  Sarek falters and falls back before his son's advance.



// 'Cause it's worth it

   Yes it's worth living for

   'Cause it's worth it

   Yes it's worth living for//



Jim and Spock are dancing in the rec room of the Enterprise.  The lights

are so dim that the faces of the gathered crew are invisible.



// All I gave to you

   All you made me do

   I react when I hear people ask



   Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth living for

   Was it worth it?

   Yes it's worth giving more//



The faces of the crew in the rec room are lighted in the dark room.

Spock stands in the middle, arms raised, spotlighted.  The crew calls

responses to his words.



// And I reserve (what?)

   The right to live (where?)

   My life this way (how?)

   I couldn't give

   A damn when I (what?)

   Hear people say (who?)

   I'll pay the price

   That others pay//



Spock takes Jim in his arms and they begin dancing again.  Other couples

join them, swirling through patterned lights.



// 'Cause it's worth it

   Yes it's worth living for

   'Cause it's worth it

   Yes it's worth giving more

   And it's worth it



   I don't know why

   I never thought I'd fall in love...//



Spock tilts Jim's face up, and bends to kiss him.  The other dancers

continue swirling about them.  One of the couples moves past, and it is

Sarek and Amanda, watching their son and his lover.  She is smiling.

*fade out*



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