#vampire spock

These weeks have been kicking my ass, but I really wanted to sketch vampire Spock and start off with the ask prompts so here we are 🦇✨

I hope that you guys like it even if it's kinda messy and rushed xDU

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(Today is more of a fic outline rather than a fully written out fic, but damn did this turn out to be much longer than I expected it to be)

On an away mission gone wrong, Jim, Spock and a couple of redshirts find an abandoned castle and go in to investigate despite Spock’s warnings about some strange vitals readings inside. This place is supposed to be abondoned so any sort of life signs are odd, but these ones are unnaturally slow.

The party does investigate, because of course they do, and end up finding a half open tomb in the basement. Inside of it, is a humanoid being.

Spock reaches down towards them to check if they are alive while Jim calls for McCoy, but before he can even get through to the doctor, Spock yelps out and shudders back- the back of his hand has two distinct bite marks on it and is bleeding. The creature in the tomb sits up and commands, in a booming voice, for the party to leave at once if they value their lives.

Jim would go arguing with the creature but at that point Spock faints and they all transport back onto the Enterprise.

-

When Spock comes back to, he is in sickbay, his hand has been healed but still, there are people standing over him, looking more than concerned.

“What are you saying, Bones?” Spock hears Jim. In response McCoy sighed heavily, Spock can see him shaking his head, but before he replies Jim notices Spock is awake.

Spock asks why he is in sickbay and both Jim and McCoy are reluctant to talk. Really, Spock can practically smell fear on them. They do eventually explain that there is some strange… something… happening to his blood. McCoy isn’t even sure if he should call it a virus or an infection or something else. It’s almost as if it’s slowly mutating Spock from the inside.

They will find a cure though! McCoy promises immediately, and Spock has no reason to doubt him. Of course they will, strange illnesses have come and gone in the past across the ship and there’s no reason for this one to be any different.

McCoy insists on running more tests and while Spock is feeling particularly tired, he indulges the doctor for a few minutes before walking out of the sickbay. He is needed elsewhere.

But the exhaustion doesn’t stop, in fact, it is making him dizzy and Spock assumes that he should perhaps get some rest before his body fails him again. He goes to his room and dims all the lights but as he is about to go to sleep he finds he is no longer tired, as if it was the artificial daylight draining his energy rather than the infection inside of him.

-

McCoy continues to work on finding out what’s wrong but can’t find a thing. Meanwhile Spock who has tried to meditate finds himself growing hungry, which is odd concidering he is nowhere near his usual meal time. Still, he makes his way to the cafeteria but none of the food seems particularly appealing, in fact the idea of eating any of it is making him feel sick. The artificial light continues to drain him further and Spock retreats to his quarters unsuccessful.

Eventually McCoy goes in to visit, he needs more samples and some new tests and Spock isn’t responding to the communicator (it was too loud, even more than Spock’s usual, so he turned it off for the moment).

Spock is still hungry and tired and McCoy is speaking too loudly and frankly, hr can hear the doctor's heartbeat, so he refuses to follow McCoy anywhere. Leonard gets angry, Spock can tell it is his frustration at being unable to help, but still, when Leonard gets close to Spock, spock grabs him by the hand, tries to bite into it, to finally satiate the hunger, to finally retrieve some control of the situation, to finally- McCoy’s startled cry stops Spock just in time and he yells at the doctor to leave him at once! He is completely out of control of himself and practically shaking with rage. This is wrong, everything is wrong, Spock should be in control, he should have control…

McCoy does leave, concerned and afraid, and when he talks to Jim about this, Jim connects Spock’s words to the words of the humanoid down on the planet. But when he tries to visit Spock and ask him about this, Spock refuses to open the door, terrified that he will hurt his captain.

-

It has been a day and still McCoy has made little progress. He does see the mutation starting to develop in the blood samples he got from Spock earlier and he has noticed it attacking Spock’s green blood cells, but all attempts at stopping or reversing the effect have been for nothing.

Spock has locked himself in his quarters, declaring himself too dangerous to be around, despite Jim’s protests. McCoy has to, unhappily, agree with Spock however, because this disease, whatever it is, is clearly transmitted through saliva and Spock did try to bite him earlier.

McCoy is exhausted, he hasn’t slept since the day before, and he is becoming snappy. When nurse Chappel comes in with another batch of negative results, he yells at her for not trying enough. He apologises, and she understands. He’s fighting for his friend’s life here.

Compared to Spock however, McCoy looks almost reasonable. The loneliness is getting to him, it’s not been more than 48 hours, but Spock hasn’t eaten, even though he tried, has’t been able to sleep despite the exhaustion which has returned (Spock presumes it is from the computer screen which he is using to try and find something that could help him, but he is too determined to turn the screen off). There is a growing need inside of him to unlock the door and… he doesn’t quite know what it is that his body wants to do, only that he should resist it at all costs.

-

“Doctor, I am turning into a vampire.” Spock speaks into the communicator in his hand (he has ripped out the one in his all when the captain tried to call him constantly).

“What?”

”I am turning into a vampire. That is the nature of my illness and thus it has no cure. I will send you a- I believe it to be a popular culture book from the Earth’s twenty first century- however the symptoms seem to match unfortunately well.”

-

Yeah, vampirism is in fact the thing that’s happening here alright . If you ignore the fact that vampirism wasn’t considered real about three hours ago, it does unfortunately describe exactly what’s happening to the poor vegetarian Spock. Which, of course, is an issue for multiple reasons.

-

“Spock? I need you to let me in.”

”I can not captain and you know that.”

”Dammit, Spock I will break this door down if I need to and I know you don’t want that.”

”Captain, I am a danger to you!”

”And I need to speak to you!” Jim has begun knocking on the door.

Spock’s resolve is gone, he is barely holding it together so it is no wonder he does let Jim in. When he does, he scutters to the other side of the room, blinking at Jim by the door with terrified eyes. The room is dark, Spock turned the lights off completely, but his eyes glow slightly from the corner. It would be terrifying, if it wasn’t Spock.

“Sulu had a really dumb idea,” Jim starts, “but it might just work, I ran it by Bones.”

“Why does the lieutenant know of this?” Spock’s words are short and fast, as if he is keeping himself back even when speaking.

Jim doesn’t respond for a while.

”Why does he know?” Spock demands. Jim doesn’t flinch at the highetened tone of voice, but Spock himself does. “Captain, you should leave! I am a danger to you!”

“Because I was desperate!" Jim cries out. And then, before Spock can process that, continues: “And I don’t believe that you’re dangerous, Spock! I refuse to believe that!”, then he adds, almost in a whisper “I can’t believe that…”

”Captain please, I had already lived with the belief of having killed you once, do not make me relive the worst moment of my life again.”

“You need to eat. Sulu believes that coconut water can work instead of blood.” Jim explains, refusing to acknowledge Spock’s plea.

”Pardon?” For just this one moment it is Spock, actually, truly, Spock who speaks. His scientific curiosity, his love for understanding comes through the layers of fear and exhaustion.

Jim wants to hug him, but stops himself. “The way Bones explained it to me is that in some extreme cases in the past coconut water has been used as temporary blood transfusion because it has some similar properties to blood.”

Spock practically sprints towards the replicator, he hasn’t eaten in days. And to his utter surprise, it works. The idea of drinking it doesn’t turn his stomach upside down.

“This is a temporary solution.” Spock argues anyways, he has sulked back into his corner.

”You think I don’t know that?” Jim asks, desperately. Spock can see the large bags under his eyes, it seems the captain has gotten as little sleep as Spock these past few days (which means none). ”It’s something Spock! It’s a chance! We can’t keep you locked up here forever and this may be some way to help.”

Jim is desperate, and Spock wouldn’t love anything more than to soothe his worries. He can. not. This is not the solution. He is still dangerous. This is a temporary fix on a long term issue. Besides, it doesn’t fix the light sensitivity, or the extra heightened senses.

“I do not swish for you to try it fix me to your detriment, captain.”

“Spock you gotta work with me all right! I’m tired! I’m exhausted, but I refuse to stop trying to help you! Please stop refusing my help!” Spock can smell Jim’s despair. It is an odd thing to be able to smell.

“I do not wish to hurt you!”

”I don’t mind!”

… to this, Spock doesn’t have a reply.

“I wish to be alone.” He says instead and, heartbroken, Jim leaves.

”Don’t starve in here before we find a way to cure this.” He begs before the door closes on him.

-

Coconut water, it turns out, is actually much closer to the solution than one would assume. Or, well, it helps get McCoy on the right track, at least. Oh it is an insane plan, and a particularly extreme one, but it’s the only thing McCoy has been able to come up with the entire week.

… If Spock’s blood is the issue…. Why not just replace it….. A full transfusion…

The ship carries enough supply of both human and Vulcan blood for emergency procedures. And there is, technically, enough to just fully reset Spock’s entire blood supply. Which, again, is a dumb idea. But the lack of better alternatives is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

So they sedate Spock, who, at this point, has not seen light or other people in a week and is ready to accept just about anything… and they, very carefully, and very methodically, and even more carefully, filter out all of his blood and replace it with new one.

Which works. It really, truly, shouldn’t have. But it does.

It does…

Spock is safe.

(Backlog of doodles)

One of the au’s I constantly come back to in my head is the Vampire Vulcans AU. Basically, The Federation formed without the Vulcans, because they were seen as ‘dangerous vampires from space’, and the Vulcans kind of perpetuated this (imagine a pre-reform type of Vulcan but vampires).

Anyway, Jim still becomes Captain of the Enterprise, and now the Vulcan’s have offered a peace treaty/want to join the Federation. The Enterprise is in charge of retrieving the Vulcan ambassadors for the peace conference.

Made a thing for the fic Howl (rated E) by @indeedcaptain