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"Can you believe it?" Sulu declared as he walked back to the labs with Chekov.

"I know! Out of all de people, Dr. McCoy. "

"And all this time every man in the ship has been vying for her"

"True, true." Chekov sighed.

"I don't think Maewyn would be very happy with us if we told everyone."

"Yes, I vouldnt vant her to be angry with us. She is such a vunderful person after all." Chekov sighed again pointedly.

Sulu stopped and looked at him quizzically.

"Vat?" Pavel grimaced, but it was too late.

"You are very good friends with her, aren't you?"

"Vel, of course. Aren't you?" Pavel glared at him.

"Hm…yes, of course."

He turned and began walking again in silence. Chekov followed behind, his ears burning.

Why did Hikaru always know exactly what he was thinking? Of course he loved Maewyn, more than any other woman he had met in his life. Perhaps it was just the way she moved, or that sprinkling of dark blue freckles across the bridge of her nose. Maybe it was the fact that every time he saw her it sent shivers up his spine, or the way her voice was like drops of crystal rain. Everything about her was beautiful, from her looks to her mind. Pavel remembered how on his birthday Maewyn had given him one of her treasures she had accumulated, a real paper book. It was a collection of short stories written by a Russian author in the late 19th century, Anton Chekov. She had said she thought he would enjoy the fact that Anton Chekov was the recognized creator of the short story. "There's at least on thing the Russians invented!" she had teased him. Faking insult Pavel had begun on a long list of what exactly (in his opinion) the Russians had invented. This made Maewyn absolutely giddy with laughter, until they both ended up in hysterics. They had spent the rest of the evening watching Dr. Zhivago with Hikaru until they all had ended up asleep in a pile on the floor. Pavel remembered waking up the next morning to Maewyn's smiling face less than 5 inches from his, his head resting on her hair. "I didn't want to wake either of you up" She had whispered, and at this point he had noticed that Sulu was lying across both their legs. "You just looked so darling asleep, I couldn't make myself wake you up". This comment had completely disarmed him and he had sat bolt upright knocking Hikaru awake. "WHAT? What? What?" Sulu had yelled after being so suddenly awoken. Maewyn had simply laughed.

Chekov tore himself away from his thoughts as he realized he had somehow wandered away from Sulu and was standing right outside the medical bay. He stared at the door for a few seconds before grunting angrily and stomping off to the labs.