A/N: No real context here, just one of the scenes that did't make the cut. Enjoy!
Spock was rather confused as to how this had happened. And he was sure if he understood exactly what led up to this moment, then the outcome would have been much different. But as it was, he was sitting on a chair, in the middle of the bathroom floor with his chin curled into his chest while Nyota stood behind him with a set of clippers and trimmed the hair at the back of his neck. He wasn't sure if she had any experience at all with cutting hair. What he did know was that he didn't even trust the ship's barber and that he'd been doing it himself since he was thirteen earth years old—before that, it had been his grandfather Skon.
He could only hope that her hand was steady and that he wouldn't have to go to great lengths to correct any damage she might do.
"Are you breathing, Sugar?" She asked, pausing to look at his reflection in the mirror in front of them. "Or are you that nervous?"
"Of course I am breathing. Anything else would be illogical."
"You think I'm going to botch this, don't you?"
"If I believed that I would not be sitting here."
"Well, I'm done with the back anyway." She sat the clippers on the counter and reached for the comb and scissors. He listened to the sound of his hair being severed and the metal scissor blades scraping against each other as she opened and closed them.
Eventually, she circled around him and tilted his head up. Then she kneeled so that they were at eye level with each other. But he wasn't about to let her cut his bangs like that. All it would take was one slip and he'd be trying to explain his new hair style until it grew out.
He reached out and caught her wrist before wrapping an arm around her waist, standing, and depositing her onto the counter. Now she was stable and at eye height. She smiled and combed his hair to make sure it was falling in the right place. But just before she put the scissors to it again, she was paged to the comm lab and Spock finally understood what it meant to be saved by the bell.
