SOMEONE HAD LEFT ME A REVIEW FOR THE FIRST CHAPTER AND I ACCIDENTALLY GOT RID OF IT. TO WHOEVER THAT WAS, I'M VERY SORRY. ANYWAY I DON'T OWN STAR TREK, HERE IS THE STORY
As they walked down the stairs of the museum Uhura wondered why Khan had decided to follow her. But just as she was about to ask him, her stomach growled in hunger.
"Let's get you food" Khan said
"Yeah" she said as she put her hand over her abdomen. She had been hungry for over an hour but her date had insisted on waiting until they were both hungry, so she was starving by now.
They headed to a local burger place that Uhura liked just a few blocks away. She placed an order and they sat down to wait.
"Are you sure you don't want anything Khan?"
"I'm sure"
"So what have you been up to?... How's your crew?" asked Uhura
"Most of them are currently exploring Earth" Khan responded
"That sound like fun are you going to join them?"
"Actually I was thinking of turning myself into a popsicle again" he said pensively
Uhura was quite taken aback by his response "Why would you wanna do that?"
"I'm not sure that this is the time I want to live in. It's peaceful in the surface but I want to dig deeper than that." he said
"So if this time is as good as it seems you will stay, but if people like Marcus are running everything from behind the scenes then you will freeze yourself?" she asked
"Something like that" he answered
She gave him a questioning look.
"Well... every single time period has bad people controlling part of the world. As a matter of fact the farther back you go the worse it gets."
"So what would make you stay?" she enquired
"I just want to see if the people of this time are kind because of their character or because of their own self interest" Khan answered
"I understand… so how is it going so far?"
"Much better now that I had the fortune of running into you" he said while smirking at her
Uhura smiled wide and rolled her eyes "Haha what can I say I'm the best human there is. You're one lucky devil" she said with playful arrogance
Khan couldn't take his eyes off her radiant smile, it was stunning "Indeed I am"
"So why were you at a history museum? I figured that you would already know everything about everything" she lightly teased
"I do" He said as he imitated her playful cockiness.
He continued while Uhura tried not to laugh out loud at how he gently mocked her and himself. "I was there for a reason not unlike your own"
She looked at him in surprise 'He's was there with a date, and he ditched her when he followed me out of the museum.' Uhura thought
"Well I guess I'm not the only asshole here." she said
Khan was about to respond but then….
"ORDER 857 IS READY!" they heard from the overhead
Uhura started to get up to get it but then Khan got up and said "I will get that for you"
"Uh, sure" she watched as he got up to get her food
'Wow he's….hot' she thought as she stared at his back muscles through his shirt
Within a few seconds he was back with her food, and Uhura snapped out of her inappropriate daydream.
"Thank you. So you ditched your date too?" she asked just before she bit into her burger
"Yes" he answered
"It wasn't because of me was it? I already feel guilty enough for ditching mine" she said.
"Leaving was my choice you should feel no guilt. Although I did make my decision after I saw you"
"That's only slightly comforting" she said as she thought 'Great, now I feel guilty for two people getting ditched'
"The girl who invited me said that museums have a special way of telling history" Khan mentioned
"Yes I suppose that's true" she was halfway onto her meal
"Even so the only reason I accepted her invitation was because I was planning on sleeping with her" He confessed
"That's probably not gonna happen now" and she took another bite of her food
"It will not, but she is of no interest to me now" smirking at Uhura. But she couldn't tell if he was being playfully suggestive or actually hitting on her.
"What do you mean?" a mixture of annoyance and disappointment filled her voice
Khan let out a small laugh. "Don't worry I'm not flirting with you Lt. I was just wondering if you would be kind enough to educate me on the society of this time. So I can see if this time is worth my while."
"Wow...you want me to show you hope, that's a lot of responsibility. But I have nothing else to do and the challenge sounds exciting….Also I think this time would be better if you stayed in it, so I'll try to show you why should"
"Thank you, I'm certain that an individual such as yourself can accomplish that" he said
"What makes you say that?" taking the last bite of her burger
He thought for a moment "I don't want a romantic giving me a tour of this time. I want a realist who will show me how things are and an intellectual who is my equal. Certainly a top Starfleet Officer should meet those requirements"
"Shit your expectations are high!" she blurted out and Khan couldn't help but laugh
"I'm done eating we should go" she said as she got up and Khan followed.
"So how should I give you hope without being a romantic sap about it?" She wondered by the front door of the restaurant
"You wanna go to the park and watch some children laugh?" She asked him sardonically
He smiled at her joke " Now that you mentioned it, I haven't been to a park since my wakening"
"Really?! Well then we have to go. I think the nearest one is this way" and she started walking
"As you wish" he said while following
To get to the park they had to walk by the museum they had left not thirty minutes ago. Just then Uhura heard her name being shouted.
"UHURA! IT'S ME ALAN!" as Uhura and Khan turned to look at who was shouting, she noticed that it was her date, making his way over to them through the thick crowd
"Oh no" she said with dread
"Your date?"
"Yes….I'll apologize to him and then we'll move on" she said as she started to walk to the crowd over to Alan
Suddenly Uhura felt Khan grab her arm and pulled her around the crowd into the museum, away from her former date.
"Why did you do that? I was gonna apologize so we could move on" she said when they entered the museum
"It wouldn't of worked. He would have followed you, which would lead to him confronting me which would lead to a fight" he explained
"And why do you think that?"
"A man who is still chasing a woman after she left him in the middle of a date is the sign of someone who doesn't know when they have been rejected"
"Well maybe if I told him outright, it would've be fine" she couldn't believe she was defending Alan
"No, he would have thought you were playing hard to get and would of kept chasing you. Our best option is to avoid him, and he won't be clever enough to realize that we are back in the museum" he argued
Uhura thought for a moment. She had been hinting all through the date that she had no interest in him, but Alan didn't get it "You're right...thanks"
"It's not a problem, if we exit through the back he will never find us"
"Yeah" she agreed
Just then they heard a woman shout "KHAN IT'S ME JESSICA!"
They both turned towards the voice. It came from a woman that was furiously walking over to them.
"your date?" she asked, already knowing the answer
"yes" he said with dread
I know it's going slow but I want them to really know each other before I introduce the main conflict. Please review