So, this idea popped into my head. And won't leave me alone. And I totally blame my friends who suggested I watch The Original Series of Star Trek for my current craving of the associated FanFic. This story is set after they relaunch The Enterprise at the end of Beyond. I now get so many of the mentions from the movies and the many stories I have read. I hope you like this story. I know, super short, but I have mostly written this one, so the next chapter will be longer.
To those who are reading my other stories, I will get back to them, when the muse associated with them returns.
Spock looked up from talking to Captain James 'Jim' Tiberius Kirk as they discussed what they were looking at on the PADD as a voice sing-songed in front of them.
"Mooontgooomery. Looky what Iiii found!" Lieutenant Sam Winchester, Enterprise's new navigator called out to Scott. In her arms, she held a brown and tan dog.
Spock raised an eyebrow in controlled shock as Jim's jaw dropped at the Enterprise's CEO's next words.
"Is that Porthos?!"
"Admiral Archer's prized beagle? Yes." She said, handing the old boy off to the man responsible for his accidentally-on-purpose transportation to the planet upon which they were just finishing their shore leave.
The next few minutes were mixed with the giddy sounds of laughter from Scott and Winchester. As Dr McCoy passed, she called out "Oy, McCoy, I've got a bone to pick with you!" Spock saw the doctor cringe and wondered what had caused it.
"I wish she'd choose." Kirk said as he signed the PADD and handed it back to Spock.
"Captain?" Commander Spock said, tilting his head in confusion.
Jim waved his hand in the direction of the Lieutenant. "Between Bones and Scotty. She's been hanging out with them ever since we left Yorktown and the betting pool is currently 50/50." Spock followed his captain as the other man walked past the pair as they petted and looked over the long missing canine. Spock had heard of the story and was glad that one of the protesters of LtC Scott being assigned to the Enterprise would now be silenced.
"Are you insinuating that the crew are wagering on who Lieutenant Winchester will sleep with?" Spock asked as they walked. As they passed, Winchester tucked her loose brown hair behind her left ear, before fingering it loose again, covering it. An unconscious gesture he had observed she did when in the presence of either of the two men. But it was exposed long enough for Spock to see it. And it took all the control he had not to turn and confront her then and there. He managed to refocus on what Jim was saying about how the two men had gotten close to her pretty fast, and that she seemed to keep herself apart from everyone else. Spock now knew the reason, as well as to why the two men were as close to her as they were. They knew. He had seen her pointed ear.
She was Vulcan.
A/N: Ok, so a few abbreviations explained. Lt = Lieutenant, LtC = Lieutenant Commander. I'll be using these shorts throughout the story. If I pop others in, I'll explain them.