There Is No Pain
   Jazz Man


        He was gone. The realization hit Spock suddenly.  The man who
lay on the bed in front of him had died.  Finally slipped away after
these last few painful months.
        He had always known Leonard would die before him.  Still he had
hoped the rules would be different for this man.  For his t'hy'la.
        "They should have been different," murmered Spock, "They always
were."  
        This was unfair to him.  To deprive him of the only person other
that his mother who had loved him unconditionaly.  Even his mother was
gone.
        It was so like Len to do something no one else would.  To love
without question.  He was always so caring and compasionate.  A truly
great man and now he was lost.


        It was only later when Spock was at last left alone with his
thougts that he remembered.  Leonard's last words had told him not to do
as he was - grieving.
        "Spock, my time here is almost over.  Yours is not, don't spend
your time grieving for me.  I'm still with you and will be always.  And
were my body goes, Spock, there is no pain."  It was then that he
slipped away.
        "There is pain here, t'hy'la, without you.  There always will
be.  But I will remember that you are with me and it will keep me strong
until I reach you."
        A single tear rolled down his cheek.  Spock was begining the
long process of letting the pain go.
        

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