"For the love of all that is holy! Jim!" Dr Leonard McCoy exclaimed as he was dragged down one of the hallways of the Enterprise. "I don't have time for your games. I have three new doctors to put the fear of God into waiting for me in sick bay, I'll eat later damn it."

James Kirk, Capitan of the USS Enterprise, just laughed and smirked over his shoulder at his best friend. "But Bones, we've been assigned a new chef in the officer's mess. And I've heard she's hot, like unbelievably hot. And her foods supposed to be pretty damn good as well. So I need my wing man, and if not you might get lucky yourself."

Dr McCoy could only roll his eyes at the Capitan. He knew it would be pointless to argue with Jim on the subject, anyway he was too far away from sickbay no to even contemplate trying to make a run for it now. "Fine! But you know what Jim? If you come into sickbay and one of the newbies fucks you over, medically, because I couldn't scare them enough not to make mistakes, it'll be your own fault."

"That's the spirit Bones." Jim commented back with a knowing grin on his face as they came up to the officer's mess. "After you."

Upon walking into the mess, Leonard McCoy, was hit by a scent that sent him straight back to his home. It was like he had been transported back to his grandparent's farm. When he was a child almost all of the cooking had been done over a wood burning stove, with his grandmother and mother preparing the evening meal for the whole family. He often thought about his childhood, not that he would admit to it, he and his sister would play before dinner, more often than not they would come to the table filthy, and would be sent away to wash up before they were allowed to eat.

"Oh my god, that smells amazing." Jim gasped as he came up alongside his friend.

McCoy found himself grinning. "You know what Jim? This reminds me of home, from when I was a kid. Our house always smelt like this, my ma was an exceptional cook."

"I'm not going to argue with you there Bones. Anything that smells this good can't taste bad." Jim murmured as he glanced around the room at his officers, he could tell that they were also enjoying the meal; it was a welcome change to what they had been getting before from their pervious chef. Whoever this new woman was, she certainly already had a fan in Bones.

The sound of the doors opening behind them caused both the Capitan and the CMO to turn around, only to be greeted with the appearance of Spock, the third member to the trio.

"Good evening Capitan, Dr McCoy." Spock greeted the two men, nodding at each in turn. "Dr McCoy, I was hoping to ask your opinion on some peculiar data the ship's sensors picked up during a diagnostic." Spock produced a PADD from behind his back, "they appear to be organic in origin."

Jim couldn't help but smile at the peculiar relationship his CMO and First Officer had developed over the three years since the Nero incident. It was somewhat strained at times, but it was generally civil. But ever since Spock had learned that Bones had an interest in molecular biomechanics any anomaly that the ships sensors picked up was duly mentioned to the good Doctor. If Jim didn't know any better, he would have thought that Spock was attempting to get Bones to like him.

"Captain Kirk?" a voice called out to him from across the room.

Jim turned and looked up and was met by a stunning pair of green eyes. A pair of eyes that were now making their way over to him. As the eyes came closer, Jim managed to tear his own away to assess the person that they belonged to. She was just as stunning as her eyes were, she wasn't very tall, but she possessed the grace of a dancer, with her curled brown hair bouncing as she walked over to them, with a beautiful smile gracing her face.

"My goodness Sir, please take a seat. I will not have it said that I don't look after the officers in my care. I'm your new chef for the officer's mess by the way." She reached out her hand to the Capitan, "my name is..."

"Elizabeth?"

Jim glanced to his left, as his best friend, he was confused. How did Bones know this stunning creature? Better yet, if Bones knew her, why didn't he?

"Hey Leonard," the apparently named Elizabeth smiled softly, "long time no see big brother."