Kirk sighed as he headed into the turbolift and sent it hurtling toward Sickbay. He had avoided the mandatory medical examination for as long as he could now, but as soon as he had gotten on board the Enterprise, McCoy had contacted him with the message "Get your lazy butt down to Sickbay right now or I'll kick it the whole way across the bridge!"

Kirk hated medical exams. The doctors always stuck you with pokey things that had who-knows-what in them. The biggest thing that Kirk hated, though, was that the medical officers were the only people on this ship that could tell him what to do. Kirk had never been one for taking orders; he was more into giving them.

Kirk walked through the automatic doors of Sickbay and sat on one of the benches, waiting for McCoy to come give him his examination. "About time you got down here," McCoy grunted as he walked over.

"Just make it quick." Kirk looked around the room as McCoy scanned him for any obvious health issues. As his eyes turned to the left he saw a medical officer he had never seen before, a pretty female officer.

"Hey, Bones, who's that?" Kirk asked.

McCoy sighed, "A newly appointed medical officer. I didn't tell you because I didn't think you'd mind..." his voice trailed off as he saw that he had already lost Kirk. "And apparently I was right."

Meanwhile, Kirk was busy checking out the latest addition to his crew. She had a pleasantly curvaceous figure, though she could stand to lose a few pounds. Her soft features were pretty, though she would have been prettier if she was smiling, and from the look on her face he could tell that probably didn't happen very often. She had a smattering of freckles across her nose and cheeks, and her brown hair was done up in a very professional bun at the nape of her neck, though Kirk figured it would look much better down. All in all, Kirk considered, a nice catch.

"Excuse me, Bones, I think I've just decided to change my doctor," Kirk said slyly, getting up from the bench.

"Oh no you don't, you cannot go flirting with my medical staff!"

Kirk either didn't hear McCoy or chose to ignore him (the latter being more likely), because he continued toward the new officer's bench. Her last patient had just left, so Kirk casually slid into the vacated seat.

"Hello," he said with a raise of his eyebrows. Across the room, McCoy rolled his eyes.

"Hello. Captain Kirk, I presume," she said tersely. She almost sounded like a Vulcan, except a little more...pissed off. He checked for pointy ears, but the medical officer was definitely human.

"Yes. And your name is?"

"Ensign Norrans. Recently transferred from the USS Monroe. Take your shirt off."

"If that's what you want," Kirk said flirtatiously, removing his shirt.

"Please, this is a medical examination." Ensign Norrans said, rolling her eyes. "I'm just checking your heart rate." She held a stethoscope device to his chest.

"I apologize if the reading's off. Seeing a pretty girl like you always makes my heart beat faster," Kirk said, laying it on thick. He was Starfleet's resident playboy after all.

"You can quit your flirting. It's not going to happen."

Kirk just kind of looked at her, stunned. He had never faced such instant rejection before. In fact, he'd never faced any rejection before. Ladies just couldn't resist him, except this one apparently.

"What kind of guy do you think I am?" Kirk asked indignantly.

She pulled a few hyposprays out of a drawer in the bench. "You know...," she started saying, as she jabbed a shot into his arm.

"Ow!"

"...That you have...," Another jab. "...A reputation...," This time it was a hypospray to the leg. "...For being..," In the other leg. "...A womanizer." She said forcefully, delivering a final, ridiculously painful shot to the back of Kirk's neck.

As Kirk sat there rubbing his neck, Ensign Norrans performed her final scan. "All good. You can leave now." It was more of a command than a statement. Kirk shuffled towards the exit, his legs still somewhat sore.

As he passed McCoy on his way out, the doctor started to laugh. "Feisty one, isn't she?"

"Oh, shut up. Were all of those hypos even necessary?" Kirk asked with a wince, still rubbing the back of his neck.

"The first three were. I think the other two were just for the heck of it," McCoy replied, then started laughing again.

Kirk grumbled as he made his way out of Sickbay and into the turbolift, sending it up to the bridge.

"Captain, are you feeling well? You seem to be experiencing some pain. Did your medical examination go poorly?" Spock asked as Kirk half-walked, half-stumbled his way over to the captain's chair. The hypos he had gotten in his legs were really starting to feel sore. Weren't they supposed to be less painful than shots? Kirk had never remembered one hurting so badly before.

"I'm fine," Kirk said tersely, not meaning to be rude to his first officer, but, all things considered, he was already having a rather bad day, and it was only 9:30 in the morning.

"Vhat happened? You can barely valk," Chekov said, sounding peculiarly nervous.

"Nothing, just go back to manning your post," Kirk grumbled, knowing he didn't really have much to do. The course was already set and they wouldn't get to their destination for another few days. Unless something unexpected happened (which was actually a frequent occurrence aboard the USS Enterprise), the navigation officer wouldn't have much to do for a little while.

Chekov obediently turned back his console and started anxiously tapping his fingers along its side.

"'Nothing' seems to have you fairly upset, Captain," Sulu pointed out. Apparently the helmsman didn't have much to do either.

"Doesn't anyone on this ship have anything better to do than pester me about my medical examination?"

"Nothing's been happening for days, sir. We're running out of things to talk about."

"Why don't you ask our communications expert?" Kirk said, jabbing his finger in the direction of Lieutenant Uhura.

"I'm an expert in alien languages, not interesting topics of conversation," Uhura replied.

Sulu casually, nonchalantly offered up the comment, "I don't think your mood really has much to do with the hyposprays." As he said it, the turbolift door swished open.

"They pestering you about your medical exam?" McCoy's voice came from behind the bridge crew. "I'll tell you what happened." Then he laughed. "Jim here started putting the moves on the new medical officer and she served him up the quickest rejection I've seen in years."

"Did you just come here to rub it in?" Kirk asked, "Or do you actually need something."

"While that's fun and all, that's not really the reason I'm here," McCoy replied. "A certain Russian prodigy has been evading his medical examination."

Chekov looked sheepish, his head tilted down between raised shoulders. "I…forgot, Doctor."

"Well, I don't much care if you evaded your exam, forgot about it, or ran into a herd of stampeding elephants on your way to Sickbay so long as you're headed there now."

Chekov got up and followed McCoy over to the turbolift. As the young ensign reached him McCoy said, "And don't go moony-eyeing Miss Norrans; she's had about enough of that already. Besides, she's a few years too old for you."

"I vasn't- " Chekov started to protest as the turbolift door shut.

"So your troubles are of the female variety," Spock commented. "I have advised you not to . . . flirt with other officers. It is not good behavior for a Starfleet captain."

"It's not my fault that I'm popular with women," Kirk defended himself. "I just don't understand. I mean, ladies love me. Even Uhura at least tolerates me. But only two minutes after meeting me, she hates my guts!"

"I'm not sure about that. Right now he's being pretty intolerable," Uhura whispered to Spock.

Kirk heard that comment, but decided to ignore it. "She'll come around. It won't take long for her to realize that I'm the most charming captain in Starfleet. You'll see, in a week she'll change her mind about me," Kirk stated, clearly accepting his self-assigned mission to win over the new medical officer.

"Oh great," Uhura sighed, "Here we go."

Author's Note: Thanks for reading! I would really appreciate it if you would leave a review, though do keep in mind that this is my first Star Trek fanfiction. Next chapter is where the story really starts, so I hope you'll stay tuned! Once again, thanks for reading!