Disclaimer: Short and simple: Star Trek doesn't belongs to me.

AN: English really isn't my first language. And it might have some slash in the future.

The Kobayashi Maru

"I'm gonna beat the Kobayashi Maru." It was the first thing that Selece heard in that fine morning minutes after she entered the Library and a shadow fell over her, blocking the lights and obscuring the view of her PADD. She lifted her gray eyes and locked it into Kirk's beautiful baby blue eyes.

"Some people use this place to study beside flirt with newbies." Was her usual response every time that James T. Kirk came within her personal space, followed by a snort.

"Did you hear me?" Jim sat on the chair next to her and Selece rolled her eyes. Yes, she had heard him, very well actually, and she didn't know why she still heard him in the last three years they knew each other. It wasn't a very pleasant first encounter, that's for sure. Selece was failing in Advanced Sub-Spacial Calculus and her instructor suggested that she took a tutor. Unfortunately the best student in that class was also the most famous in all the Academy.

It was animosity at the first glance from Selece's part and flirt mixed with good humor from Kirk's part that made their strange friendship grow. And the fact that the girl with short black hair was a Chizetan from the warrior class with the strength of ten men, fast as a feline and with a mean right punch which always helped to save Jim's ass from his bar fights was a little plus too.

"Yeah, I heard you. I heard that you want to have your ass give it back to you for the third time. Really Kirk... Are you some kind of masochist? I didn't know that side of you before."

"You're just like Bones, incapable to believe in my skills."

"What skills?"

"Funny my beautiful Warrior Goodness, very funny." He said with a hint of sarcasm and Selece rolled her eyes again when she heard the infamous nickname. Jim started to call her that after one of his thousand bar fights where, unfortunately, she was put in the middle and had to kick some drunks behind out of the bar before they could beat Kirk into a bloody pulp.

"I'm seeing you laugh. But really, you came here just to say that?"

"No... I came because I want you with me in the test."

"Forget it."

"Why?"

"If you want to shame yourself be my guess, but don't drag me to the bottom with you. I did that damn test once in my life and for me is enough. Don't wanna to repeat the trauma."

"Ah... come on. It will be fun."

"For whom?"

"For me... Because I'll be the one who will get the last laugh at the face of the damn bastard who made that test."

"Or you'll be the one who everybody will be laughing at when you fail that test... Again. And I'll be the first in line to laugh."

"You like to see me suffer, don't you?"

"It's the most pleasure thing in my life."

"You're the worse female friend that I ever had."

"I didn't know you had so many. Aside from your fuck buddies, I thought that I was your only female friend which you didn't take to your bed."

"That is because I respect you too much..." Selece snorted again. "and because you know your kung fu too well for my taste."

"Coward."

"Why my dear... I'm starting to think that you want a piece of me." He smirked at her and once more Selece rolled her eyes, a normal reaction every time she was too close to James Kirk hearing his babbling. "So... About the test..."

"I thought that I said no. Didn't my 'forget it' implied that?"

"Again... You're doubting my skills and that hurt, a lot." Kirk smirked to her and Selece frowned. Something was not right. The blond was too confidant that he could beat the test that was the bane of existence between ten and ten cadets. And if she knew him, what she did very well in all this time, she could say with absolute sure that he was planning something. Something big and possibly illegal.

"Okay... Spill. What are you planning to do? I can see in your eyes a very suspicious glint and that usually mean that you have some evil scheme in mind."

"What? Lil' old me? How can you doubt of me that way? Now I'm really hurt." Kirk put his hand on his heart and his face had the most innocent expression that Selece ever saw in her life, and that coming from Jim only meant one thing: trouble.

"You're going to cheat it." It was a accusation and the lack of response from Kirk just gave the answer the girl was looking for.

"Okay... The test is a cheat itself. It's a no-win scenario and I can't accept that. And if you're not going to help me being in my team, at least help me beat that test."

"You lost me. Come again?"

"You're a trainee in Security Engineering, have the access key for half of the rooms in the Academy, so I thought..."

"No... You didn't think, because if you had you would know that this is a very bad idea and I won't help you to screw your future in Star Fleet. Or screw my future along with yours."

"Please, Selece, please?" Leonard always said that Kirk's puppy eyes could be anybody doom because it could melt even the most glacial heart. And glacial heart means McCoy's ice heart. But the Chizetan was immune to the man antics, so the only thing that she did was to put away her PADD, get up from her chair, turning from Kirk and going to the Library next exit. And for a minute or two she thought that her actions was a enough answer for him, but then she heard his voice and that made her groan.

"Wait!" Jim ran to catch up with the girl and put a arm over her shoulders. Some females cadets that were passing by giggled when they saw the couple and Kirk smiled beatifically to them. Selece only shook her shoulders to dislodge the arm and glared to the blond who was now smiling in her direction. "At least you'll cheer for me?"

"I'll pray for you to give up of this stupid idea and come to your senses."

"It's not gonna happen."

"So I'll pray for you to not get caught."

"I won't get caught. Trust me." He blinked a eye to her and Selece sighed. She really wanted to believe in Kirk's words... But those, usually, were very empty when the main subject were women or studies.

And like she foresaw, two days later after Jim took the test a announcement was made through the Academy, calling all the third year cadets to the Auditorium. And when Admiral Barnett called Jim's name the only thing that crossed Selece's mind was that she had to pray more, even if her race didn't have Gods.