Disclaimers and warnings in Part One.

~Part Two of Fifteen: Five Things I Shouldn't Have Done~

First, obviously, I shouldn't have bought the book; but that wasn't really my fault. My fingers had bought the book. They had acted on their own and it was too late before the rest of me realized what they had done.

Second, I most definitely shouldn't have let Gaila grab the PADD from me the day my fingers bought the book. I should have ignored her when she smiled at me and started turning the damn PADD over and over in her fingers.

Third, I shouldn't have listened to her when she reminded me that, after the Invitational, he wasn't going to be my tutor anymore. I should have ignored her instead of letting her remind me that, after I got back from Oxford, he and I weren't going to see each other anymore. I definitely should've left the room instead of accepting her offer to help me with what she insultingly called Project Pointy Ears.

Fourth, I shouldn't have read the book: it was old-fashioned and kind of sexist and I wasn't sure it was going to work at all.

But what if it did?

Finally, and most importantly, I shouldn't have fallen in love with Spock in the first place.

But that also wasn't my fault. I hadn't seen it coming, I couldn't avoid it, and I couldn't stop it.

And I don't know that I would have stopped it even if I could have.