This one's kinda short... Sorry, I felt like I had to add this paragraph otherwise Ch. 2 would start off weird. Anyway, let me give an epic intro...
PREVIOUSLY, ON STAR TREK: (Dun dun DUUUN!)
The rest of the crew watched with amused expressions. They had never seen the captain so happy before. Bones let out a light chuckle, Spock just stared as Kirk laughed, giving the every single kid a ride.
Uhura felt a tug on her shirt. She looked down. A little girl stared up at her, smiling.
"You hair is really pretty, can I touch it?"
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Uhura grinned understandingly. "Sure!" She replied. The girl grabbed Uhura's hand and pulled her across the dirt street.
"Sit here!" The girl said, pointing at a wooden stool. Uhura obliged, feeling a bit confused. She looked ahead as she felt her hair being tugged and twisted.
"Can I take out your scrunchie?" The girl asked, giving Uhura's hair tie a twitch.
"Uh, yeah, that's fine." Uhura mumbled, starting to worry about the outcome. I've never heard it called a 'Scrunchie' before...
Uhura really started to get concerned by the time she had about five little girls playing with her hair. They all hovered around her; she flinched as her hair was being continuously pulled and twisted. Eventually, one by one, the girls disappeared, except for the girl that tugged her shirt earlier.
"What's your name?" The girl asked.
"Uhura. What about you?"
"Chelsea! Thank you for being our princess, Oohura!"
"Any time..." Uhura replied, trying not to panic about the state of her hair.
The girl, Chelsea, skipped off with her friends. Uhura sat for a minute longer, wondering what the hell she was going to do without a mirror. She stood up, brushing off her front. Suddenly, Kirk dashed around a corner, a blonde boy clinging to his back. He skidded to a stop in front of Uhura.
"Uh..." Kirk stuttered, staring at Uhura's head.
"Who's that?" Uhura asked, trying to change the subject. The boy on Kirk's back gave a shy wave.
"Uh, oh, that's Shane..." Kirk replied, not breaking his gaze from her head.
"You're really pretty." The boy said in a small voice.
Uhura was a bit surprised by the comment. "Oh, thank you Shane... wait what?"
Shane grinned and hid his face behind Kirk who nodded. "Here." Kirk said, pulling something out of his pocket. Uhura took it, giggling.
"You carry a mirror in you pocket?" She snickered.
"Yeah, yeah. Shut up and look." He spat, gesturing at the miniature mirror in her hands.
"Just when I thought your ego couldn't get any bigg..." She stopped short when she saw herself. Her hair was intricately twisted and wrapped around her head, strands hanging elegantly in front of her face. It looked way too formal compared to her red uniform. She chucked.
She wasn't kidding when she said 'princess' Uhura thought to herself, amazed.
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KK, so Spock is gunna be next! Let me just say, that a LOT of these are based off of personal experience. The piggy back and hair thing? That totally happened to me. The kid that Kirk was carrying, Shane, was this little kindergarden stalker I had when I was tutoring this summer. He STALKED me. He followed me to the teachers lounge, he waited outside the bathroom for me... it was CREEPY.