A bit silly…

Spock reached down and pulled the soaking wet Starfleet Cadet from the icy water of the San Francisco bay.

“T-thanks.” The cadet shook his hair like a canine and water splattered everywhere. “S-sorry.”

“Were you trying to end your life?” Spock demanded.

“What? N-no. G-God I’m f-freezing.”

Spock grabbed the man’s hands. “Your hands are like ice. Come with me.”

“I d-don’t r-really w-want to g-go to the h-hospital.”

“I am not taking you there. Come.”

Fortunately, Spock’s apartment was not far and he herded the soggy man directly there.

After retrieving a plus robe, he handed it to the cadet and told him to change into it in the bathroom.

“Uh. C-Cadet K-Kirk.”

“I know who you are. Do as I say.”

Several moments later, Kirk came out, dressed in Spock’s robe and holding his wet uniform. Somehow in the roble and with his fair colored hair wet and plastered to his head, he looked very young and vulnerable.

“”There is a clothes dryer there, throw you uniform in there, and then come out. I have made you hot tea and heated some soup.”

Kirk came out biting his lip a moment later. “Why are you being so nice to me, Professor?”

Spock was not surprised Kirk knew him.

“You were in distress. Why were you in that water?”

“Well. It’s leap day.”

“So?”

Kirk shrugged and smiled sheepishly. “My friend Bones suggested I take a leap, you know of faith or whatever, given the day, so I did.”

“Into the bay.”

“Well, yeah.” Kirk laughed. “Not my finest moment, true, but something did come of it. So my leap of faith worked.”

Spock shook his head and handed him the mug of hot tea. “In the future if you wish for a date, simply ask. It will be safer and more successful for you.”

Kirk laughed. “Yeah, you’re right. I’m still freezing.”

“Let’s warm you up.”