Chapter 4: The Love Hypothesis

This chapter will contain a female OC, and minor cussing. PG-14 comment but nothing graphic.

Jim and Spock were enjoying Thai food, for today was Monday and Monday was Thai food. Aways. The 26.7 years that Spock has lived here he had always, always ate Thai food. And since Jim lived here, he had too.

"Hey, Spock?" Jim asked.

"Yes?" He replied looking over at Jim from his spot on the couch.

"Would you be upset," Spock gave Kirk a look that meant: I am Vulcan, "Is it adequate if Nyota were to come over?" Spock seemed to think about this.

"No," He replied.

"Why not?"

"We only ordered for two," He replied.

"Yes, but you don't eat all of your's and neither do I, she can come over," Jim replied with an eye roll. Spock sighed slightly. Jim get's up and walks to the door. He grabs the handle and twists it opening the door.

He didn't expect what he saw, if anything that was the last thing he would've ever expected. Uhura was dressed up in a dress, kissing Scotty, who was also dressed up. It wasn't a very deep kiss, it was chaste, but Jim turned right back around and shut the door. He walked to the couch and collapsed next to Spock, obviously upset.

"Hm?" Spock murmured questionably.

"Muph," Jim grunted in response and closed his eyes.

The next day at the University's cafeteria was slightly tense, Chekov and Spock knew why Jim was mad at Scotty, but Scotty didn't seem to notice. He took another bite of his food and looked up.

"It's awfully quiet innit?" Scotty asked. He saw the look he was getting from Jim and his face gave a look of confusion.

"What?"

"You know, everyone knows, hell, even Spock knows," Spock looked over at Jim with a straight face, but it was layered with the words of: I'm not blind, Jim I've known since you've met her, but Jim didn't see it "I like Uhura, why would you go and kiss her?" Jim asked.

"Well, in my defense, can I say that she asked me out?" He asked. Jim moved both hands to the side, his eyes widened and he moved forward, in gesture that mean; what the hell.

"Even still, why would you say yes?"

"I liked her too, you know," Scotty replied.

"That's still betrayal," Jim says, clearly upset.

"No, it isn't," Scotty replied in his defense.

"What do you think?" Jim asked looking over at Chekov.

"Hey, don't luk at me," Chekov responds.

"I do not think he's 'betraying' you, as you claim, Jim," Spock replies. Jim turns his head away from Chekov to Spock.

"And why's that, Spock?" Jim asks.

"Well, yes, you may have liked her Jim, but you never in fact, to coin a phrase that I believe I've heard from you, 'put the move on her'," Spock explained. Scotty started smiling when he heard Spock say, 'put the move on her', Chehov laughed.

"Still you don't do that. That's cheating, rude and most of all it's only something that only an ass would do," Jim said very, very angry. He picks up his tray and throws the garbage into the trash and the tray in a basket.

Bones' house was the most neatest thing on the planet. Everything has a place and everything would stay in its place. The couch was exactly seven feet from the couch, not so far that it would be difficult to see small details, but not so close as to damage your vision.

It was also seven feet from the door and from the opening to a hall that led to his restroom on the far end and on the right was his bedroom. It was ten feet from the back wall. The tv was also five feet from the front wall. If you were sitting on the couch facing the tv the door to leave would be on your left. When you leave the door you come out onto a wooden porch. The porch was made up of oak. It had three long steps leading up to the porch. Their was a small roof over the porch.

The living room area faded into the kitchen which had a fridge, a stove and a small island. It was made of granite had and two stools. Right now Sulu and Bones were sitting on the couch talking.

"Did you hear about how Scotty went on a date with Uhura?" Sulu asked.

"Yeah…," Bones says.

"Jim was pretty mad."

"I don't see why, I mean he's head over heals for the green-blooded hobgoblin," Bones replies with a smile.

"Yeah," Sulu says smiling, "Do you think anything's happened between them?"

"Well if it did I would imagine it would've gone something like this:

Spock and Jim were sitting at the table on two stools. Spock had a blue coffee mug with the insignia of Starfleet, but it wasn't because of Starfleet but their favorite sitcom; Star Trek. Jim had a gold one. He was currently stirring a spoon

"Jim what is the emotion that is characterized by a deep affection that causes urges past platonic actions?" Spock asked. Jim looked up.

"Really? That's how you think it happened?" Sulu replied with a scoff.

"Well do you think he would know what love is?" Bones asked.

"No," He replies, "Please continue."

"Okay:

"Love, Spock?" Jim asked, slightly confused.

"Yes," He replied almost disappointedly.

"Why do you ask?"

"Because I am having the feeling towards you," Spock replied.

"Spock," Jim replied, "I didn't know you felt that way." They looked into each other's eyes and suddenly they started leaning in and-

"Okay, Stop I get the picture, and I really don't want to see the rest of it," Sulu replies jokingly.

"How do you think it happens?" Bones asked Sulu.

"Something like this:

Jim stumbles into the apartment, drunk. He shuts the door behind him, and drunkenly walks to the couch. He hits his shin and moves away from the coffee table, falling face first onto the couch. Spock walks in,

"Another unsuccessful date?" Spock asked.

"Mph," He replies. Spock walks around the couch and up to Jim. He kneels down to level with Jim.

"You need sleep, Jim," Jim starts pushing up with Spock helping him. Once Jim was sitting up Jim pulled the collar of Spock's shirt into a-

Bones starts laughing.

"That's funny, you should write that."

"Speaking of love, is there anyone special for you?" Sulu asked, the smile disappearing.

"Well there is this one nurse at my work, her name is Claire," Bones says.

"Oooo," Sulu says, "Do you guys talk? Or is it more of a one way little glances, sort of thing?"

"We talk, actually we sit together for our lunch break," Sulu replies.

"Spicy," Sulu says, with a grin. Bones lightly slapped his shoulder.

"Well are you going to ask her out?"

"I don't know," Bones asked raising his shoulders.

"You should."

"Yeah, but where should I take her?" Bones asked.

"To a restaurant," Sulu replies.

"Which one?"

"Here's an idea; go to the Cheesecake Factory, you've been there before so you won't feel as nervous plus it has a romantic mood," Sulu suggests.

"Good idea," Bones replies with a grin, his eyes flashed with excitement.

"Well, when it comes to love I'm the genius," Sulu says throwing his hands to the side casually.

The Next Day:

Bones looked nervously around. It was lunch time and he's getting ready to ask her out. He took a bite out of his hamburger.

A girl with blonde hair, pulled back in an immaculate ponytail, blue steel rimmed glasses. She had a beautiful bright blue eyes and a small nose. Freckles dotted her face. Right she was dressed in a blue shirt and pants with a lab coat over it. The lab coats had four pockets, two were breast pockets and the other two were leveled with the hip on the front. In her hands was a tray with a hamburger and fries on it.

Her face lit up when she saw Bones and perkily navigated her way through the tables to him. She pulled out a seat and sat down.

"Hey," She greeted with a smile.

"How is it going?" He asked her. Butterflies swarmed his gut, he was nervous about asking her out.

"Good, you?" She asked.

"Just had another successful dangerous surgery, so things have been going good," He says with a nod.

"That's good."

"Well, anyway Claire, I was ...um curious if you would like to go on a date to the Cheesecake Factory?" He asked. She seemed a little surprise by the invitation, but surprise quickly turned into a heartwarming smile.

"Yeah I would love to," She replies. Bones couldn't remember a time when he was happier.

Jim was resting at his apartment, in silence. It was the one time of the week where Spock was out for more than an hour and he can secretly go behind the roommate agreement that he signed to even to have been able to have moved in.

He sat and thought over what he had seen. A kiss between his crush and his friend. His mind wondered to what Spock had said. A logical, well thought-out, annoying but still true comment. He thought about what he had called Scotty and thought he should apologize. He got up, put on his coat and shoes and dashed out the door. He goes to Scotty's house, well the house he lives in along with his mother.

Jim rings the doorbell of the house.

"Montie! There's someone at the door," Shrieked a woman. It was obviously Scotty's mother.

"I know, I can 'ear 'em!" Scotty yells in response, "An' stop calling me Montie, it's embarrassing."

"Okay," Came another shrill shriek. The door opened quickly and Scotty looked out,

"Oh, it's you," He says and starts to shut the door.

"No, Scotty, wait. I'm sorry," Jim says trying to stop Scotty from shutting the door. He stops and looks back at Jim.

"I shouldn't of implied," Scotty gave him unimpressed look, "Said that you were an ass, I'm sorry. I was mad, and I have no right to Nyota, I don't mind if you date her."

"Thank you," He says.

"Do you want to come over?"

"I can't, I'm about to go on a date with Nyota," Scotty replies. Jim nods.

"Okay, bye," Jim says, walking back to his car.

"Bye," Scotty replies and he shuts the door.

Jim and Spock are in the car to go to dinner. Jim was driving because Spock didn't know how. The mood was tense, Spock didn't know that he had apologized yet.

"If you're curious, I've apologized to Scotty," Jim says as he took a left turn. Spock nods.

"Good," He replies.

"Anyway did you hear that Bones is going on a date tonight?" Jim asked changing the subject, "So is Scotty and Nyota and Chekov and Sulu."

"I have heard, and by all technicalities so are we," Spock replies.

"Well, yes, but it's not a romantic one in anyway, it just to guy friends going out to eat," Jim replies.

Claire and Bones walked into the Cheesecake factory. Bones was wearing a white suit shirt and black. Claire was wearing a beautiful, long blue dress, a necklace and diamond earrings. Bones led the way to a two person table. He pulled out a chair for Claire and she sat down and he went to the other side and pulled out the chair and sat down.

Bones hadn't been on a date before, so he was struggling for the proper thing to say.

"You look nice," He finally says. But once he said it he wondered if he should've said beautiful, but when she smiled he relaxed.

"So do you," She says, and once again they are in a silence.

"Can I tell you something?" Bones asked.

"Sure," She says, slightly leaning forward.

"I've never really been on a date before," Bones states nervously.

"Well you're doing just fine," Claire replies with a comforting voice.

Scotty and Uhura went to a nightclub, on Uhura's request. She was dressed in a short red dress. The dress' fabric wrapped around her neck and back down where both ends were kept together by a piece of leather. From the side that the fabric came out it turned into a dress. Scotty was in black jeans a white tee-shirt and a leather jacket over it. He had never been to a nightclub before so he was unsure of what to wear. They walked over to unused table and set their things down that they didn't want to have as they danced.

The go back out onto the dance floor and Uhura starts dancing while Scotty tries to.

"Nyota, I don't know how to dance," He yells to her over the music.

"Just do what feels normal," She tries to help. He nods and starts moving side to side and moving his arms back and forth. The song they were dancing to was Holiday from Greenday. Red and Green lights flashed through the fog and it was crazy.

Since Chekov and Sulu had been dating for a while they didn't dress up as nice as everyone else. They still look nice, but they don't look fancy. They were sitting in an Applebee's.

"This is a first," Sulu starts, "Everyone has a date tonight."

"Yeah, ewen Spock and Jim are going on a date," Chekov replies with a laugh.

"Yeah, me and Bones were joking about how they would confess there love to each other," Sulu says excitedly.

"Do you think they'll ewer actually get together?"

"It's possible, if he ever realizes how, weirdly, close they are is far more affectionate than normal friends," Sulu says.

"Speaking of affection, Hikaru, I love you," Chekov replied with a smile.

Spock and Kirk sat at the table inside Steak 'n Shake. Spock didn't want anything to eat, so he just got a milkshake, and Jim got Chicken Tenders and Cheese and Herb fries. Jim dipped another crispy tender into ranch and took a bite. He was looking into the distance at something outside of the window.

"Why does Dr. McCoy constantly joke about you and myself being romantically involved?" Spock asked. Jim trailed his eyes back to Spock.

"He thinks that how close I am with you and how I act means I love you," Jim says dipping his half eaten tender back in the ranch.

"Do you?" Spock asked. The question was put so simple and so easily, but the meaning behind the question and the answer was much more complex.

"Yes, and no," Jim replies taking another bite. The answer was vague but true.

"'Yes, and no'? I am unclear of your feelings," Spock replies, taking a sip of his milkshake.

"Yes I love you but not in the way that McCoy kids about it. I basically love you like I brother," Jim tries to explain, but he didn't know how much he believed himself, and how he truly felt towards Spock. Spock nods in response signalling the end of the conversation, but that didn't stop Spock from pondering over the answer for the rest of the night.

McCoy smiled, he had never been on a date before but for his first one he believed it was going well. She seemed fully interested in everything he had to say, and he listened to everything she had to say. The date went perfect. After dinner he drove her back to her house and said goodbye on the porch.

She went back inside the house and he went to his car. Happily he sat down in driver's seat, and he drove home.

"Okay, a little farther," Uhura says helping Scotty to the car.

"I'm thinking I should stretch before dancing next time," Scotty replies, limping, He had twisted his ankle.

"Well most people don't try break dancing their first time at a club," She says.

"This isn't my first time at a club," He says defensively, by now they had reached the car and Uhura opened the door and helped him in. He buckles up as she shuts the door and goes around to her door and gets in.

"Were you there with a girl, were you there dancing?" She asks skeptically.

"No, and no," He replies. She fastens her seatbelt and starts driving. They get to his house and she helps him to the front door.

"Well this sure has been an interesting night," He says to Nyota, before going in.

"Yeah," She says. They look into eachothers eyes for a second, and lean in and kiss. The kiss was short, a small peck.

"Can you make it inside?" She asks.

"Yeah. How are getting home?" He asks, the car that she took here was his.

"I'll take the bus home," She says.

She leaves and starts walking to the bus station as Scotty opens the door to his house. He turns the knob and opens the door, and limps in shutting the door behind him.

"Who's there? A criminal?" Scotty's mom screams.

"A criminal wouldn't answer honestly ma!" He yells back.

"Oh it's you Montie, how'd the date go? Why are you back so early? Do you want anything to eat?" She asks from the kitchen.

"I told ya, Ma, stop calling me Montie it's embarrassing!" He yells toward the kitchen.

Chekov and Sulu were standing on the doorstep of Chekov's house. Kissing.

Chekov's lips moved against Sulu's. Sulu's hands were around Chekov's waist and Chekov's hands were around Sulu's neck. The kiss wasn't sloppy but smooth and soft. When Chekov needed air he pulled away from Sulu.

They both opened their eyes and looked at each other.

"You want to spend the night?" Chekov asked.

"Are we just sleeping, or…"

"Just sleeping," Chekov said. Sulu smiled.

"Sure," He said and they went inside Chekov's house.

Spock and Kirk got home from their 'date' at least that's what their friends would call it, and sat down on the couch.

"I'm going to go and meditate," Spock says after hanging up his coat, and kicking his shoes off.

"Okay," Jim says, hanging up his coat, kicks his shoes off and drops his keys in the bowl. He walks over to the couch and sits down pressing play to the tv.

Spock walks to his room. He walks to his closet and get's his meditation robe. He takes off his outer shirt (he wears two shirts because planet Earth is colder than Vulcan so he wears two shirts to keep his body temperature normal), and his jeans. He was left now only in his black undershirt and his boxers. He folded the tee-shirt and jeans and placed them neatly in the dirty hamper. He pulled on his meditation robe. He turned off the lights and lit the meditation lamp, and sat on the floor.

While he meditated he thought about dinner and Jim's feelings for him. He thought about how Jim's acted around him and how it resembles how Chekov and Sulu act around eachother. He thought about the look in Jim's face as he answered Spock's question. He thought about how he would need a partner for Pon Farr after he had given up his mate back on Vulcan after he had killed the competitor in the mating rituals.

He meditated over everything important to the situation, his love life, his feelings towards Jim. There closeness. He also thought over how he found Jim to be illogical at times when he would argue with Spock. Spock thought about all of this and decided he would wait. He would wait to make his official hypothesis of Jim's feelings for him.

While Jim sat watching tv, he, to, had thought about his feelings for Spock. Whether the affection he felt for him was pure friendship or more. Spock could be increasingly annoying at times, and Jim didn't know if he could handle living with everything Spock does for the rest of his life, like Spock's need for organization, his need for labeling everything. Jim could still remember the fight about the need to have labeled the food items, but Jim could also remember all the good times like when he had got him the rare Doctor Who tickets for Christmas or when he had gotten a private viewing to the new Star Trek movie with Jim Parsons, the actor who played S'eok. That was also the day when Spock would stop pointing out the little mistakes he had made playing a Vulcan, causing a well loved celebrity to hate the entire group. He didn't know how he felt.

He pushed pause to the tv and stood up. He walked into the kitchen and got a glass out and wine, he poured the wine into the glass the glass. He put the wine up and took his glass to the couch, sat down and pushed play. He still had the glass in hand when Spock came out from his bedroom dressed in his Tuesday night clothes; a Star Wars tee-shirt with Han Solo and Chewbacca on it and fuzzy Millennium Falcon patterned pajama pants.

"Why do you have wine on the couch, at this time at night? It's against the roommate agreement, and it's illogical," Spock says. Jim sighs, remembering the roommate agreement, and he decided how he felt towards Spock; annoyed. He couldn't fall in love with someone who would put a contract on the relationship. He couldn't.

"It's just one glass, Spock," Jim replies, turning his head towards Spock.

"I have a human cousin who used to say that. He now has a drinking problem and is living in my aunts basement," Spock says.

"I'm not getting a drinking problem Spock."

Hope you liked the chapter. I worked hard on it. Also I realized I've never really shown a chapter where everyone was sitting down together and talking. So the next chapter will be more about everyone together doing something. Please leave a review, tell me what you like, what you dislike if you guys are silent I don't know what I need to change and keep the same.