"You didn't interrupt anything." She smiled, "You're not the only one. So let's not waste any time and get ourselves some then." Aaralyn hoisted herself out of her chair and her long platinum blond hair shifted a little into her face. She pushed the stray hair aside.

Aaralyn met her friend at the door and turned off the power to the medical ward.

"Captian, you know we are currently seven months away from reaching earth." Spock stated, smashing right through Kirk's crappy lie. Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he carefully looked at Kirk. "I highly suggest that you try to think of a better lie as you eat dinner with those two ladies." The Vulcan smirked as he walked into the elevator and closed the door on Kirk.

Kirk didn't answer as Spock utterly destroyed his horrible excuse of a lie. Only Spock could hang him out to dry without a prayer like that. Spock practically reveled in doing things like that. Kirk watched as Spock left and shook his head. He just couldn't be helpful could he? Well, not helpful in the manner of helping his attempt.

"Yay! Cream of cold! I shall try the pink one this time. Last time I had the cho-cho-late one. Right?" Aine asked as they quickly made their way to the mess hall. Soon enough they where sitting down with ice cream in hand. Only a few other members where in the room. Aine carefully stared at her ice cream for a few seconds. Strawberry flavored with chunks of chocolate and frozen strawberries with strips of fudge, whipped cream on top with a cherry.

Aaralyn chose chocolate and looked at her friend. Sometimes she was so endearingly childlike. "Yeah," she said as she sat down with her ice cream. Aaralyn took a lick of her cone. "So how was your day? Did you and Spock get all cuddly?" She said with a smirk and laugh.

Spock naturally headed to the bridge, made sure that no one else was lacking off, or doing something stupid, then headed to his quarters to meditate. Sulu and Chekov where stuck in the bridge until someone came to relieve them, who wasn't Spock, in the end they started to play cards.

Aine tilted her head at Aaralyn somewhat confused. "My day was well. Fixing countless quirks in the systems. Spock as not been cuddly if you mean nice. Work, work, and more work, what does 'cuddly' mean to humans?" She asked taking another bite of her ice cream. She did not often speak while she ate, but her curiosity took over.

Kirk stopped at the bridge in attempts to relieve Sulu and Chekov of duty, but when he saw them busying themselves with a game of cards he simply turned away. Soon he found himself sauntering off toward the mess hall.

Sulu and Chekov didn't even notice the captain as they played a vicious game of... Go-fish. Chekov was winning, by only a couple of cards. Which angered Sulu, however he did not dare to pull out his switchblade katana fearing what Chekov might have hidden in his hair.

Aaralyn forgot sometimes that she didn't quite comprehend some of her jokes. "Well sort of like nice, but more like super nice." It was the only way should could think to start to explain what 'cuddly' meant. "Do you understand what affectionate means?" She took several licks of her amazing chocolate indulgence.

"He is rarely nice. However he was nice enough to listen to Kirk's lie about some kind of mission. Then didn't yell at me when I still haven't finished everything yet. Is that super nice or nice in Vulcan and human terms?" Aine questioned enjoying her ice cream, rather quickly. Then again she was a Denobulan with a huge mouth and a bigger appetite. Aine glanced up at the ceiling for a few seconds then continued her response, "I do understand the definition of affection, however, I don't understand the human or Vulcan use of it. Oh no. I'm done already, how sad." She chuckled as she put her glass away.

"Yeah, but I think that's Vulcan nice. That doesn't quite truly qualify as 'cuddly'. Just regular nice in human terms I think." Soon Aaralyn was halfway finished with her cone. It had been awhile since she'd actually had ice cream. "Or maybe that's just Spock nice. I'm probably not a very good judge of what sort of nice it is…but I know it's not enough to qualify." There was but a small amount of her chocolate treat in the remains of the cone as Aaralyn replied to her friend. "It's basically the same I suppose. Or maybe I'm wrong." She finished the last of her treat and smiled. What did Aine expect? A never-ending ice cream dish?

Kirk stood at the mess hall and watched his crew as the talked animatedly to each other in little intimate conversations. He stopped staring long enough to actually enter the room and make his way to a table not far from Aine and Aaralyn.

Aine glanced to the side listening to Aaralyn's answers to her questions when she spotted Captain Kirk.

"Kirky!" She sang as she jumped up and dragged him over to their table.

"I have a question for you." Aine smiled, her grin wider than a normal humanoid. "I'm confused about the human terms of 'cuddly' and 'affection.' Are you cuddly and affectionate towards someone?" She asked, hoping that he would be able to clear everything up for her. "Ooh! An orange!" Aine chirped as she spotted an abandoned orange on another table. She quickly grabbed it and returned to her seat.

"NOO!!" Sulu cried as Chekov won yet another game of go-fish.

"I did it!" Chekov sang in his accent as he collected the cards for another game.

"How about blackjack?" Sulu asked, praying that Chekov's Russian luck would run out.

Kirk was reluctantly dragged over to the table of the two women he'd been trying to surreptitiously watch. He almost winced as Aine called him Kirky.

Aaralyn was surprised when Aine pulled Kirk over. What was he doing here? Aaralyn felt bad that he was being put on the spot like that. Poor Kirk.

"A question?" He said with an unsure not in his voice. As soon as he heard it he wasn't sure how to respond. "Um… sure I guess." How did you answer that type of question?

Even though she could have probably saved him from answering such a question. She didn't quite feel like it.

Aine blinked a few times, still waiting for some kind of answer to her question. She pouted when Kirk failed to extend on his simple response.

"How bothersome. Humans are so shy!" She said crossing her arms, disappointed.

Shy? Aine had just called him shy. Wasn't that just a contradiction in itself? Kirk was the spokes guy for un-shy. He was about to reply when he spotted Spock.