
The turbolift suddenly lurched and stopped abruptly.
Jim frowned and looked at the controls. “What the hell?”
“Perhaps if you let me look—”
“Yeah, because you know so much more about it,” Jim snapped. His headache had just gotten way worse. He stepped aside and gestured. “Go ahead, Mr. Spock. You’re the expert on everything.”
Spock gave him a look but wisely said nothing as he moved in place to the controls.
It was just the two of them in the lift. And they’d been bickering all day prior to this.
Jim smirked as Spock stepped back. “Can’t fix it?”
“No,” Spock replied, clearly reluctant to admit defeat.
Jim went to the comm. “Kirk to Engineering.”
There was no response. In fact, it was as though the comm didn’t work at all. He hit again.
“Captain, I am certain that pounding on it to oblivion will not make it work.”
He shot Spock a look.
“This sucks.”
“We are in obvious agreement on that.”
Jim mumbled, “Well, at least you agree with me on something.”
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“I believe you referenced something about agreeing with you.”
“If you heard me, then why say what? Geez.”
“Explain.”
Jim folded his arms across his chest. “Listen, mister, don’t take that superior, commanding, snooty-ass tone with me.”
“Snooty-ass is nonsensical.”
“Oh, yeah? Well so are your ears.”
Spock’s mouth opened and closed.
“Aha! Finally got you to shut up,” Jim said, triumphantly. Okay maybe he was being a bit childish. And definitely surly but…
“That begs the question.”
“Begs what question?”
Spock arched a brow. “How do I get you to finally shut up?”
“Are you…you know what…that’s it.”
Jim launched himself at Spock, pushing the Vulcan against the bulkhead. Spock’s eyes widened just before Jim’s mouth slammed down on his. Spock made a little bit of a squeal noise and then began to return Jim’s kiss.
The turbolift began to operate again, but Jim and Spock paid it no heed, continuing the frantic slide of mouth against mouth.
The doors slid open on their floor.
There was resounding applause.
“About damn time!” Uhura exclaimed.
Jim reluctantly tore his mouth from Spock’s and they both turned to look out at the crowd gathered on the deck. They were still clinging to each other.
“Uh.”
Uhura smirked at them. “Congratulations.”
“Nyota, did you stop the turbolift?” Spock asked.
“No, well, technically it was Scotty.” She laughed. “We were all sick of you two.”
“I feel…manipulated.”
Jim cleared his throat. “What do you say we discuss this in my quarters, Mr. Spock?”
Spock inclined his head. “Yes, Captain. We are, once more, in agreement.”
May 22, 2020 at 4:05 am
Heh heh heh. Gotta love meddling friends sometimes. Either there’d be death or kissing! And we definitely prefer the latter. Perfect fix!
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May 22, 2020 at 6:54 am
thank you ❤
In case you don’t get the notice the last chapter of The Long Containment is up
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May 22, 2020 at 4:17 am
LOL
love that the bickering babes needed crew intervention 🙂
this was great!
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May 22, 2020 at 6:55 am
thank you ❤
And in case you also didn't get notification yesterday, I updated The Long Containment. Apparently they are having issues again and admitted not all emails would go out from them. And now the last chapter is up too. So it’s done. Last two chapters in case you didn’t see.
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May 22, 2020 at 8:44 am
Lol! I needed this today. Shades of Discovery Short Treks. Lol! I was waiting for Jim to start singing or something. I must say, I like the kissing better. Not to mention the interference of their friends. Kudos to them. Wonder what the argument was about?! I guess they hadn’t been a romantic couple before this.
I didn’t see the email notifications from ao3. I guess they are doing maintenance on ao3. Gonna check it out.
Enjoy your weekend! ❤
❤️💚😘🖖
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May 22, 2020 at 8:48 am
Correct they were not together. This was based on a prompt from J I believe where the crew had finally had enough from these two and interfered
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May 22, 2020 at 10:37 am
Finally something you could use? haha
That was glorious. I love your treatment.
And somehow, we’ve always known the only way to shut Jim up is to stuff that mouth with something else. Chicken sandwiches, etc. 😊😊😊
“Snooty-ass is nonsensical.”
Really Spock, is THAT the part of that line you came away with????
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May 22, 2020 at 10:38 am
Oh, and I think I got all the notifications.
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May 22, 2020 at 10:44 am
Me too. And yes, I sign up for my own notifications so I can see when they come through! And I have gotten them every time.
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May 22, 2020 at 10:46 am
Yep and I have another one of yours coming up next Friday I think and one of Eveningstar’s on Wednesday.
Thank you, I would always shut Jim up by filling his mouth with something….were I Spock, but uh…you know
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May 22, 2020 at 1:17 pm
Lol! Spock should know now how to shut Spock up.
Looking forward to reading more flashes. And I’ve had a Ao3 notification free day. And all my old tabs closed. I think I wrote that to you on my comment on the Long Containment?? I know I wrote it to you somewhere.
I have to look at my history of tabs to see ongoing stories that I left opened up on safari. I Googled how to do that on my iPhone. Hold the + down on the bottom of safari.
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May 22, 2020 at 2:08 pm
I also think you meant to say Spock should know how to shut Jim up not Spock. 😀 oh well.
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May 22, 2020 at 1:31 pm
Now there’s a duplicate comment from me above. It’s just not my week!!! Please feel free to delete one.
😘❤️💚🖖 Have a great weekend! I’m working tonight and Saturday nights. 🤞 Crossing my fingers. Then off Sunday night since it’s my holiday to be off, work Monday night and off Tuesday night, which is my regular night off after I work my weekend. I work every other weekend. Let me tell you just a thought that I have a couple of days off even if it’s scattered is what is carrying me through right now. The last 36 hours has been horrific on me. Too much stress at work and home, where my twins are bickering with each other (although that usually blows over quickly) and us.
I never communicated back to my job after they tried to pressure me into covering the Friday evening shift that a unit nurse had called out for. If they ask, I never got it since they included the calling out nurse’s phone number in a group text. I’ll say it showed up as possible spam. Idk that’s my plan. I still can’t believe that they were trying to force me to work, because I took the sick call, which is part of my job as the supervisor. Sounds like an illegal act on their part!!!
Anyway have a Happy Memorial Day weekend. 😘❤️
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May 22, 2020 at 2:09 pm
Yeah I agree that’s scheevy at best. Assholes
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