Tossing aside her PADD, Uhura lay back on her bed and groaned. Her seventeenth read-through hadn't lit a new spark of understanding. She hadn't suddenly gained insight into the vagaries of human behavior.

She stopped her hand from flinging the PADD displaying the offending evidence across the room, but it was a near thing. Realizing that her level of annoyance was disproportionate to the transgression didn't diminish her ire.

Damn them! she silently seethed. Involuntarily, the hand curled into a fist. Forcing her fingers open, she reached for the PADD again.

"An eighteenth reading the of entries will not alter what you already know to have happened, beloved," Spock said from where he worked quietly at the desk across the small room. "As we are on leave, perhaps it would be wise for you to choose an activity that actually relaxes you."

His tone was meant to be soothing, and to some extent, he was achieved it. But even his quiet calm and propensity for reason was no match for the sense of injustice roiling inside her.

Under other circumstances, she might have quipped back, "Since we're on leave, there's one particular activity which I find extremely relaxing — but it requires your participation and you're working."

And because by now he knew the drill, he would have turned from the computer or PADD or whatever had occupied time better spent taking advantage of their all-too-infrequent license to enjoy each other freely, so that they could commence relaxing each other.

Not this time.

She wasn't in the mood.

"I need your help," she said, instead. Sitting up, she turned fiercely determined eyes on her lover. "Help me write a response that won't get me banned from the community."

Spock's eyebrow did a slow slide up and she couldn't stop a tiny smile, the edge of her anger dulled just a bit.

"You are the communicator in the family," he pointed out, but he rose from his seat and approached the bed, nonetheless. "I doubt my intervention is truly needed."

"That's where you'd be wrong," she said, grabbing his hand as soon as he was in reach. "Feel that, k'diwa? That's Pissed-Off-Beyond-All-Recognition. It wouldn't be a good idea for me to compose a comeback in this mood. You can help me put together a logical response."

No one besides McCoy had ever called Spock an idiot, and the half-Vulcan knew when distracting tactics were in order.

He let Uhura pull him onto the bed and immediately curled up next to her, sliding one arm beneath her slender body and reaching over her for the data device with the other.

"How shall we proceed," he asked as he shifted his woman so that she was sprawled halfway across his chest and they both had a clear view of the PADD's screen.

She plucked the stylus from the holder embedded in the side of the device and pointed at line of characters on the screen.

"Well first, we need to post a placeholder right away," she said. "Jaqui's entry came right after this one, and I want ours in the same spot. I want everyone to know what this is about. But the dummy-post has to be on topic, or it might get wiped."

She felt a rumble in his chest and glanced up in time to see his lips twitch up at the corner.

"Given recent evidence," he began by way of explanation, "perhaps the chances of the site monitors 'wiping' our post will be deleted if we were to write something even further off-topic than that which Yeoman Hottar posted."

Shaking her head, Uhura stifled the laugh Spock's attempt at humor almost won.

"Focus, baby!" she ordered, stabbing her stylus at the PADD screen. "Just get something up quickly so that we don't lose our place in the queue."

Spock brushed his lips across her forehead.

"Aye, Lieutenant," he mock-obeyed. "I will do so on one condition."

This time Uhura didn't even bother trying to keep the smile off her face.

"Yes, k'diwa," she promised, "before we write a real rebuttal, I promise we'll help each other relax."

A/N: Just having a little fun with protest fic 'cause community moderators are human, too, and sometimes they make grave errors.

Disclaimer: I don't own Uhura or Spock or anything Trek related and I'm not really trying to start wank.