Miss Nightshadow reporting with chapter 2 of 'The Lure'.
Usual disclaimer applies. Thank you for reading.
Chapter 2
Jim Kirk could not shake the feeling he was being watched by some unknown force. Of course being the Captain of the starship Enterprise meant being watched is nearly every second of every day part of the job and having Spock hovering was not helping.
"Spock is something wrong?" He asked knowing exactly what answer he would get in three, two, one.
"No Captain nothing is wrong."
"Good."
Nothing. Spock did not move, nothing was coming in off the sensors and they were officially in the dullest area of the known galaxy.
Bones seemed to notice the Captain's mood and laid a hazardous intercept course arriving between the loitering Spock and the seated blond. "Captain would you mind visiting med-bay I have an emergency for you to deal with."
"Spock you have the bridge." Kirk jumped out of the chair leaving the bridge before the first officer could respond. Uhura saw everything and wished the Captain the best.
Inside the turbo lift Kirk fell against the wall. Bones folded his arms fixing the Captain with his hardest 'doctor' stare.
"You need to get rid of him."
"I can't get rid of Spock."
"Yes you can you can ask him to run an on site inventory of the air locks and I will push him out of the one I like the best."
"Bones I know you don't like him. You don't have to I-"
"Need his voice of reason." Bones finished for him. "Scotty and I can be that for you. It was Scotty who told you not to have those missles on board."
"He handed me his resignation."
"You made a phone call and hey presto who was there to save all our asses aboard the Admiral's pet monster ship?"
Kirk cracked a smile. "I work with the best."
"Spock is driving you insane. Do you know how many severe headaches I've had to treat since you and Spock have been weird."
"Not as many as I've had. I don't know what to do Bones. There's something wrong and I'm looking everywhere, hell I even mediated."
"How'd that turn out?"
"Remember that strange cramp in my back last week? It was because I fell asleep in an awkward position."
"Considering what you do on shore leave that surprises me." Bones sniffed as the turbo lift door open wide enough for a brown ball of fur squeeze through and latch onto it's most favourite person in the universe.
"Hey buddy." Kirk could not keep the smile off his face. The little one always made him feel happy for a man who had previously hated these cute little bundles of fluff this one had really grown on him.
"That tribble will not stop screaming when you're not around." A nurse grinned with a flip of her skirt.
"It's almost as if it knows what you're thinking." Bone's commented returning to his work bench. "When it gets really loud I know something's up on the bridge so I buzz Uhura and hear all about it and run rescue missions as required."
"So you're saying this little guy works like a mood ring for me?"
"Of sorts." Bones sighed. "Now you need to do something about Spock."
"I can't. Maybe you could talk to Uhura and she can talk sense into him."
Bones laughed "You have no idea do you?"
Kirk looked up from his ball of fluff. "What do you mean?"
"Jim, Uhura and Spock split up before we got the Enterprise back."
Bones forced himself not to laugh the shock of both man and tiny beast was just priceless.
"Say what? Oh my God what exactly happened?"
"Uhura agreed with Spock that it was the logical thing to do. Maybe you should speak to her."
"I... I'm ... how did this? Where the hell was I when this happened?"
Alarms rang out putting the ship on orange alert. Spock's monotone soon fell out of the speakers.
"Captain to the bridge. A situation is developing."
Kirk clicked his communicator. "I'm on my way."
The tribble was reluctant to let him go but did eventually allow one of the hotter nurses to take care of it so Kirk could go do his job and hopefully ignore the fact his first officer kept staring at him like he was some kind of strange creature that defies all logic.
An involuntary shiver raced down Kirk's spine. That stare was only a baby step down from the predatory looks Khan gave him from inside the brig. Brushing all that aside Kirk wished the turbo lift would hurry, for a person fluent in Spock a situation developing meant something very serious was starting up and not even the half-Vulcan's logic could safely predict where it will go.
to be continued...