A/N: Thank you guys for the lovely reviews! They made my day. As promised I have my second chapter up. Thanks to royalpinkdogs for suggesting this, indirectly.

And, I just watched Star Trek Into Darkness bloopers! LMAO! So hilarious! If you haven't seen it, check it out on Youtube. It made me and my sister roll on the floor with laughter. Especially Simon Pegg's antics!

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Summary: Stuck in the turbolift with Captain Kirk, Ensign Carter finds herself to be fresh feed for the rumor mills. Let the churning begin!


A Good Ride

2000 hours – End of Beta Shift

Ensign Carter had been on Beta Shift for the day. It had been an eventful day, what with Ensign Richards tripping on a half-repaired console in Engineering and pulling out most of its wires, eventually short-circuiting the entire machine. She had been in the Mess Hall with a couple of friends having her lunch, when all Beta Shift personnel were urgently required to report to duty half an hour earlier than usual.

Abandoning her half-eaten lunch, she had quickly taken off to her department, where about fifty engineers were assigned to attend to the many power outages that had happened throughout the ship. All because of Ensign Richards, who had been eyeing the pretty Lt. Angelina Chase instead of where he was going. He passively listened when he was given an earful by Lt. Cmdr. Scott which had Carter wondering if anything of the Scottish brogue was filtering through the thick skull of Richards.


Tired and hungry, she stepped into the turbolift and leaned on her side waiting for it to take her to her room in level 9. The doors whooshed closed and ascended, stopping to a halt in an intermediate level to allow other personnel access to the turbolift.

When the doors opened, Ensign Carter took in the man standing before her, and snapped to attention. He, however, was engrossed in a PADD and did not even look up to notice her as he entered the turbolift. The doors closed shut, and Carter was hit by a warm, rich but mild fragrance of leather, tobacco and a hint of vanilla. It spelled sensual and mysterious, with a touch of playfulness. She inhaled deeply thinking if she stayed for more than two minutes, she might go dizzy with pleasure. The turbolift continued on its way upwards and Carter silently enjoyed the fragrance.


Suddenly, the turbolift halted midway and all the lights turned off, plunging them into darkness. "What? I thought the power outage problem was all fixed!" the Captain said, quite incredulously.

"It was, Captain" Carter said, wondering what had gone wrong. Her mind was clearly not functioning to its optimum level, due to the marvelous fragrance enveloping her.

Captain Kirk, however, pulled out his communicator and spoke into it "Scotty! What is this? I'm stuck in Turbolift 3 with Ensign Carter. I thought the problem was resolved already!" Carter was quite surprised. How did he know it's me?

Lt. Cmdr. Scott's voice filtered through "Aye Captain, it's just a wee problem that we found out now. Don't worry. The power will be back up in a few minutes. Sorry Captain!"

Captain Kirk sighed "Great!" and Carter could hear the communicator closing shut.

"Well, it looks like we're stuck here together Ensign. We might as well sit down" saying so he sat on the floor of the turbolift. Carter scooted as far away from him as possible and sat down.

He chuckled "I'm not gonna bite."

"I'm sure you won't, Sir" Carter replying, failing to keep the sarcasm away from her voice.

Wincing at herself for disobeying her Commanding Officer, she opened her mouth to apologize. Before she could speak however, a loud grumbling noise filled the turbolift. "What was that?" she asked incredulously.

"Uh, it was me" she heard the Captain say, somewhat sheepishly. In spite of herself, she chuckled.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out her last candy bar. She had gotten about a dozen of them as a gift from her aunt, before their shakedown mission.

"Are you hungry, Sir?"

"What's that?"

"Gespar Candy. Have you eaten one before?"

"No"

"Well then, you're in luck Sir. I can assure you this is the best candy you will ever eat this side of the Alpha Quadrant"

"Hm. Hard to say 'no' after a description like that"

She gave half of her candy to him, and ate hers quietly waiting for his response. He hummed in pleasure, savoring the blood-red candy, made of ripe Gespars and had about a percent of alcohol for a bit of punch. Though the Gespar fruit was harvested in Vulcan, it had been grown extensively in Romulus and other planets of the Federation too for its piquant taste. Nobody in the galaxy could resist that candy.

She wiped her face with her hand. The place was getting hotter without the power.

"Ensign Carter, I might kiss you for this" he said, still humming in delight.

Carter was alarmed by the thought. The rumor mills had already been spreading the incident in the Captain's room throughout the ship's deck for a month. She was not going to let that happen again.

"Sir, I would prefer you kiss the candy instead" she said, somewhat pointedly.

He laughed, "I already did. I'm eating it aren't I?". After a moment of silent eating, he asked, "I never did get your first name"

Seeing no harm in giving her name (he could find out anyway, he was the Captain after all), she said "Ensign Sarah Carter, Sir"

Taking another bite out of the candy he said "Hmm. Lovely". Whether he meant the candy or otherwise, she would never know, as the turbolift suddenly started again, and the lights slowly turned on. She stood up, and so did the Captain. In the bright light, she noticed his face was flushed and his lips were tinged red, rather than the usual pink and saw him licking his fingers off the Gespar candy. She smirked, and at that exact moment the doors whooshed open.

She found two nurses standing just outside the turbolift who furtively looked at her and the Captain, who was, for the love of God, still licking his fingers like some twelve year old kid. She rolled her eyes and got out, sensing the distinct absence of his perfume that had been constantly present. The nurses were sniggering almost hysterically as the Captain called out "Have a good night Sarah" and the doors shut closed behind her.


One of the nurses spoke up "Had a good ride, I suppose?" wiggling her eyebrows suggestively and the other nurse laughed out loud – or rather cackled in her opinion making Carter laugh at that. The first nurse laughed harder, and Carter tried to get away from there as soon as possible.

She reached her room, finally. She stripped herself off her clothes and got in to her bathroom for a shower. She passed by her mirror – and froze. She turned to fully see her face in the mirror. Her cheeks were flushed from eating the candy, and her usual bright red lipstick had at some point been smeared across her cheek from eating the candy (or wiping her hand across her face when she had started to sweat, she couldn't say). She looked like she had been ridden hard and put up wet. That's how she had looked when she came out of the turbolift after being stuck with the Captain?

She could already hear the rumor mill grinding again.


A/N: Reviews = Another chapter. Gespars are tangy fruits found in Vulcan according to Memory alpha. Though Vulcan has been destroyed now, I figured it had to be grown in other planets too. This is the 23rd century after all.

Lol. Lucky Carter! I would give anything to have been in her place :D :D