CHAPTER 1

Leonard grumbled to himself as he stepped into the sealed room provided to him by the Delvian delegation. It was just his luck that one of the few times he decides to beam down with the away team just happens to coincide with them landing on a planet that requires the captain and his 'significant other' to be deaged to back before they lost their individual virginity's so they can complete a 'purity ritual'. What is with alien races and virginity? Why the hell would anyone want to go back to the awkwardest fucking stage of their life and relive it for a bunch of strangers.

He shucked off his blue outer shirt so that he could get rid of the tighter black undershirt, he was already going to have to strip to complete this damn ritual so he might as well start now while he was waiting for this 'purity fruit' to be brought to him by the Chancellor's aides. The only good thing about this was the fact that they were dead set on it being a couple who preformed the ritual instead of just throwing two random unfortunate away team members together, if he had to do this in front of a crowd he'd much rather do it with Jim than with any other person on the Enterprise.

Glancing up as the door to the room opened, his eyebrow raised as he took in most of the away crew striding in. Uhura, Sulu and two science officers as well as the three security officers they brought down with them walked in and stood awkwardly by the door, and all but Uhura and Sulu were making valiant attempts to avoid looking at him.

"What are all of you doing here?"

Uhura gave him a smirk, "The Chancellor said both you and Jim needed 'aide's' to over see your transformation and help you get ready, usually that would be one of the Delvian's but I managed to convince him that you and Jim would be more willing to have your fellow crew members around you."

Leonard brows furrowed in confusion, "The hell? They think we'd want more people to witness this shit show? You know what- I don't wanna know what goes on in their minds, is Spock with Jim then? At least they let someone who'll know if he's having an allergic reaction in with him."

"Speakin' of that why the hell couldn't we be in the same room? Wouldn't that speed up this stupid ritual?"

"The Delvian's believe that neither party should see each other until they are fully transformed back to their 'purest state'." Uhura stated with a smile.

"What a load of fuckin' bull. When are they gonna come give me this stupid fruit so I can get this over with and get back to the Enterprise and treating injuries?"

Either the Delvian's had impeccable timing or the aide had been standing outside the door listening in waiting for someone to ask that question because as soon as the words left Leonard's mouth a light purple skinned Delvian came scrambling in with a basket grasped in his hands. He stumbled over to the bed and placed it down gently next to Leonard's leg before moving back and bowing till his head nearly touched his knees.

"The Chancellor has blessed me with the honor of assisting you and your delegation in preparing you for the wonders of the purity ritual! You may call me Cal'Halla should you need to address me, next to you is a basket of our planets ripest purity fruit. You must consume at least two whole fruits for the fruit to be able to bring you back to your purest state." Cal'Halla stuttered out as he gestured towards the basket of fruit.

This 'purity fruit' looked a lot like a peach, if a peach was the color of a strawberry with striking lavender swirls decorating the sides. There was a total of ten of them sitting in the basket and Leonard sighed irritably before reaching over and grabbing the two smallest looking ones, he sure as hell didn't want to eat more than he absolutely had to. Usually he would be cursing up a storm about eating strange alien fruits that have never been consumed by Terrans before but he had scanned and ran several tests on the DNA of the Delvian's and they had a startlingly similar makeup to Terrans with the exception of the chromosomes that define the pigment of their skin.

Besides Jim had seemed awfully irritated when the Delvian's mentioned that the only way they would complete negotiations and join the federation was if he, as the captain, and his significant other were willing to undergo their ritual. The sooner they could get the negotiations over with and be back on the Enterprise the better because Leonard was getting real sick of this planet and its flashy inhabitants.

Once he was done eating the two fruits, which turned out to taste like the peaches it resembled despite the strange colors, he resigned himself to laying back on the bed and waiting for the changes to start happening.

Turns out he didn't have to wait long because not even ten minutes later his nerve endings start to buzz, the sensations weren't pleasant but they thankfully weren't painful either. Twenty minutes in, the pain started flaring up, quickly building to the point where it was painful enough that he had to pull out one of the pain killers that he had stashed in his medkit. Then he made sure that the delegate took one to the other room for Jim to have, since he didn't trust whatever the Delvian's had offered him for pain to be something that Jim could take without having an allergic reaction.

Thirty minutes and his body was two and a half inches shorter and his shoulders were less broad, his muscles got slightly more defined and his skin developed the darker tan that he used to have back when he was constantly out in the hot Georgia sun. Sulu and Uhura were doing a pretty good job distracting him from thinking about this stupid ass ritual he was about to go through, and at forty minutes the transformation was finally finished.

As Leonard looked down at his freshly deaged body he thought to himself that there was literally no way the universe could make being 19 and a virgin about to fuck his best friend and lover for the pleasure of a bunch of shitty alien dignitaries any worse.