Prompt: Scotty - Mechaphilia
Protecting His Girl
Scotty finished reading the list of upgrades and refits that the Starfleet Engineers had planned for his girl with gritted teeth and furrowed brow. They were due to arrive in Earth spacedock in thirty hours and the work on the ship was to start in forty-eight. The Captain had hand-delivered a PADD containing this list of atrocities those idiots wanted to inflict upon his ship with orders to review and adjust as necessary.
For some reason these clumsy-fingered upstarts had gotten it into their feeble minds to mess around with his girl without clearing every piece of code and tech with him first, trying to bypass the need for his authorizations by going straight to the admiralty. Fortunately, the Captain had an excellent contact amongst those ranks and was given the heads up before the morons had the chance to really bollocks up his hard work. Trying to work around him, indeed.
Scotty was going to make sure they knew how very stupid that decision was.
The only people who could possibly ever even come close to his love for his girl, the Enterprise, were Captain Kirk and Admiral Pike, and they all had her figurative back.
Scotty set the PADD down on his desk with a bang and walked out onto the main engineering deck and stroked his hand along his girl's hull. ″Don't worry, Lassie, I'll take good care o' ye.″