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I've had to merge chapters to make room for new chapters… so please be patient.

This chapter is a merge of chapters 10-12

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Chap. 10.

Hand to hand combat with commander Spock. Nyota was looking forward to his class. She liked the way he taught, he had in the previous classes she had attended been clear in explaining what the cadets were to expect from his class. Nyota and the other students had changed and were waiting for commander Spock to arrive. And then Nyota heard a familiar voice. "Hey Uhura, are you gonna tell me your name today?" Nyota turned her head and saw that Kirk was maneuvering himself closer to her and she started to move away. "Uhura are you gonna ignore me?" He said as he moved closer. Nyota did not want to talk to him she just wanted to get away from him, he was such a pest. The bell rang and Nyota knew that she should stop moving but she didn't want to end up standing next to Kirk.

Spock entered the gymnasium that for this class had been equiped with 2 inch thick mats on the floor. He went to stand in front of the class. Spock was expecting the class to stand still but someone was moving, he saw that there was two people moving he immediately recognized the cadets moving as cadet Uhura and Kirk. "Will everyone please refrain from any further movement." Spock said. He was pleased to see that cadet Uhura stopped moving. Kirk however did not stop moving he went to stand directly beside Uhura. At this moment Spock would not address it, it was not his place at the present time to tell cadet Kirk where to stand.

Nyota cursed to herself as Kirk went to stand beside her. He was standing so close to her that he was touching her. He turned so his chest was touching her shoulder and Nyota felt Kirk leaning closer. "So Uhura." He murmured in her ear. "When we are done rolling around on the mats covered in eachothers sweat will you then tell me your name?" Before Nyota could stop herself she had turned and slapped Kirk across his face, a red hand immediately showed on his cheek. Nyota heard several cadets saying things like 'oh my god' and 'what the hell' Nyota felt herself blush, she was ashamed of her reaction. What would commander Spock not be thinking.

If Nyota had heard or rather felt what Spock was thinking she would probably have been surprised. Spock had seen that Kirk had moved close to cadet Uhura. With his excellent hearing he had heard what cadet had said to cadet Uhura. An anger had awoken in Spock. And then a strong sense of pride as he saw cadet Uhura slap cadet Kirk. Spock found her reaction to be appropriate. But as a professor he would have to take some sort of action. With his hands behind his back he went to the spot where Uhura and Kirk were standing. "May I acquire as to why you slapped cadet Kirk across the face cadet Uhura?" Spock asked even though he already knew the answer. Nyota turned and faced Spock, he could see that her face was red. Spock also observed that her heartbeat had increased and her temperature had risen. "Cadet Kirk made an inappropriate comment Sir." "Inappropriate my ass." Kirk said. Spock turned to Kirk. "Inappropriate language will not be accepted in my class cadet Kirk." "Hey. I was the one who got slapped here." "I do not condone of violence." Spock said and Kirk smiled. "However I find cadet Uhura's action to you appropriate." "What the hell." "Language cadet Kirk. As you may or may not be aware of Vulcans have exceptional hearing and it just so happens that I heard the comment you made to cadet Uhura and I too find the comment inappropriate too." Kirk was shaking his head in disbelief. "Why don't you turn your pointed ears at someone else?" "Insulting me will not further you case cadet Kirk. Please leave the gymnasium you are dismissed." Spock observed Kirk lower lip twisting. Then Kirk turned and walked out of the gymnasium. Spock turned and looked at Nyota. "Cadet Uhura, I wish to see you in my office, will 17.30 be suitable for you?" Spock could see cadet Uhura thinking. "That would be fine Sir."

The rest of the class was bit of daze for Nyota. She tried to focus on what commander Spock was saying but it was difficult. Why did he want to see her in his office? She had to be disciplined of course she had hit another cadet. Why had she done it? Why? Why? Why? How could she have been so stupid? Why had she let Kirk get under her skin in that way? For sure it would result in a comment on her file, and she would end up God knows where never going to space. Damn Kirk. That stupid hick would cause her a chance to have a good career in the Starfleet. Damn him. What was it about her that made him behave the way he did? Was this his variety of the kindergarten hair pulling? Whatever it was she wanted it to stop before it completely ruined her chances in the Starfleet.

After class as Nyota was showering she found herself thinking about Malmros. Now she would have to go tell him that she had no romantic interest in him and that she hoped they could be friends. She hoped that he would take it nicely, she really wanted him as a friend.

Spock took a shower in his apartment and changed back into Starfleet uniform. He then sat down at his desk and looked up the file on cadet Kirk and removed him from his hand to hand combat class into professor Yika's hand to hand combat class. Spock did not want Kirk in his class to cause problems for cadet Uhura. He would not have cadet Kirk compromise cadet Uhura's chances within the Starfleet. It was unacceptable.

Chap. 11.

Nyota exited the changing room and walked back to the dorm. She found Malmros waiting for her outside the dorm, he was sitting on a bench. Nyota walked up to him and sat down next to him. "Hi Malmros." "Hi Nyota. Gaila said you wanted to talk to me." "Yeah I do." He looked at her expectantly, why was this so difficult? "This is not easy." What isn't easy?" "I don't know if I read too much into this, but I get the feeling that you want more than a friendship." He still looked at her. "I think that you are a great guy and I really like being around you. But I only think of you as a friend." His eyes grew dark, he had expected more. "I'm really sorry Malmros, truly I am. But I can't force myself to feel something I don't." "I understand." "Can we just be friends?" "I don't know." "I really hope we can." Nyota reached out and took his hand and gave it a squeeze. Malmros looked at her hand. "I was moving too fast, wasn't I?" "I know this sounds as a cliché but it's not you it's me." He gave her a small smile. "You didn't do anything wrong Malmros, I did I should have… I don't know what I should have done." "You are doing the right thing now, that's what matters right?" "Yeah." Nyota let go of Malmros's hand and got up from the bench. "I'll see you later?" She asked. "Sure." Nyota left Malmros sitting on the bench and walked into the dorm to her room. As she left him she knew that she had hurt him, she had seen the pain and disappointment in his face. In a way she knew how he felt, she too had tried being interested in someone only to be turned down. Gaila was waiting for her. "Well how did it go? Tell me all about it." "I told him, it hurt him I could tell." "Better sooner than later right." "I know." Nyota went to her closet and took out a clean uniform and started to change. "Why are you putting on a clean uniform now?" "I have to go to commader Spock's office." "Why?" "I slapped Jim Kirk in the face in commander Spock's class." "Why?" "He made a low remark to me and I just snapped and slapped him." "Cool." "No not cool, it could go on my personal file it could ruin my future in the Starfleet." "Then go seduce commander Spock so he won't put the incident on you file." "Gaila!" "Fine, go apologize then." "That's what I'm planning on doing." Nyota looked in the mirror to make sure her uniform was in perfect order. "Could you do me a favor?" "Sure." "Can you ask commander Spock if the rumor about vulcan ears are true?" "Gaila!" "Better to know than listening to rumors." Nyota didn't know how to respond so she headed for the door. "Tell me everything when you get back." Gaila said.

Nyota walked towards commander Spock's office repeating a mantra to herself. 'I will not think dirty thoughts about commander Spock, I will not think dirty thoughts about commander Spock.' When she reached the door to commander Spock's office she took a deep breath and pushed the button to alert commander Spock that someone was at the door.

Spock was in his office looking over some files awaiting cadet Uhura's arrival when the door buzzer alerted him that someone was at the door. "Enter" The door opened and he saw cadet Uhura, she appeared to be nervous. "Please come in cadet Uhura." She walked into his office. "Please take a seat." Spock said and made a hand gesture towards the chair facing his desk. She sat down and folded her hands in her lap. "May I speak commander?" Spock looked at her. "Of course cadet Uhura." "I wish to apologize for my actions in you class commander. I should not have slapped cadet Kirk tomorrow. I will go apologize to him tomorrow." Spock looked at her with interest he wanted to know why she wanted to apologize to cadet Kirk. "Why would you apologize to cadet Kirk?" "Well….. no matter how I feel about cadet Kirk I should not have slapped him." "And how do you feel about cadet Kirk?" Spock hoped that she would not say that she liked him. "How do I feel? I don't like him if that's want you want to know." "And that it why you slapped him." "It's a part of the reason." "Please elaborate." "It's kind of a long story." "I have time, please continue." "I first met cadet Kirk the night before I came to the Starfleet Academy. I met him in a bar." Spock watched her remember the incident. "He made a pass at me and when I turned him down he just didn't get it." Nyota took a breath. "Then he just wouldn't leave me alone, he kept asking me for my first name." "And you don't want him to know your first name?" "I don't want to know him. Anyway I was in uniform and some other cadets had seen that cadet Kirk would not leave me alone and they tried to help me." Spock watched as she took an other deep breath he saw how her breasts rose and fell under her uniform. "So Kirk verbally insulted the cadets and then he ended up fighting them. And during the fight he grasped my breasts." Spock felt a twinge of anger towards cadet Kirk. "And then captain Pike entered the bar and stopped the fight." Nyota raised her eyes and looked directly into Spock's eyes. "Since that night, whenever I meet cadet Kirk he asks me for my first name and makes annoying comments. Like the one he made today." "I understand." "He just gets under my skin." Spock had heard the comment before but he wanted to know what it meant to cadet Uhura. "I fail to understand the phrase 'gets under my skin'" Nyota looked at commander Spock with questioning eyes. "Uhmmm well, it means that he annoys me, that I don't like him. That I don't want to be around him. That he brings out the worst in me." Spock was amazed that it pleased him that cadet Uhura didn't like cadet Kirk. "Brings out the worst in you?" "I normally don't go around slapping people. I just got fed up with him." Spock realized that they were still looking into eachothers eyes and found that he liked it. "I did not assume that you did cadet Uhura." Spock leaned slightly back in his chair. "To avoid any further confrontation between yourself and cadet Kirk I have transferred him to Professor Yika's class." Nyota blinked her eyes a couple of times, she had not seen this coming. She was quiet for a few seconds and then said; "I know you did not transfer him to please me, but… thank you for doing it Sir." She had no way of knowing that Spock had indeed transferred cadet Kirk to please her and Spock had no intention of ever telling her. "No need to thank me." Spock said, "I did it to further the teaching environment."

At that moment Nyota's stomach growled loudly, she had not realized or thought about just how hungry she was. She blushed in embarrassment and broke her eye contact with commander Spock. He looked at her and just for a second Nyota thought that she saw a smile on his lips. "I have kept you here too long cadet Uhura." "I should have eaten before coming here Sir. But I had an erhm…. Appointment with another cadet before coming here so there was no time to go eat." After having checked his internal clock Spock said; "The mess hall is now closed for the day." "Oh." "Since I am responsible for you missing your opportunity to dine at the mess hall it would be only logical that I take you out to dinner." Nyota blinked her eyes rapidly. Had commander Spock just asked her out to dinner? "Would that be agreeable to you cadet Uhura?" "Uhm… Yes Sir that would be…. Agreeable to me." "Is there anyone who you will need to inform of you leaving campus?" "No Sir." "Then I suggest that we leave now. Our immediate departure will ensure your return to campus before darkness." "Okay."

Chap. 12.

Spock and Nyota left his office and he led her of campus. Spock was as always walking with his hands behind his back and Nyota found herself wondering if he ever walked any other way. "Sir may I ask you a question?" "I believe that you just did cadet Uhura." Nyota smiled. "Another?" "You may." "I was just wondering Sir. Why do you always walk with your hands behind you back?" Spock looked at her. "There are several reason cadet Uhura. " Spock paused and Nyota wondered if he was going to tell her. "Firstly when having ones hand behind ones back one has an authorative demenour. Secondly one does not consume unnecessary energy when one has ones hands behind ones back. And thirdly as you may or may not be aware of Vulcans have telepathic abilities touching the skin of others may create a telepathic link, this link is to a Vulcan regarded as a very personal connection and is reserved for ones bond mate." Nyota looked at Spock with surprise in her eyes. "If you wish I can elaborate my answer to your question." "That should not be necessary sir." They walked quietly besides each other for moment then Nyota said. "That day at the shuttle bay when you saved me from falling over, you touched my skin. Did you have a telepathic connection with me?" Spock realized that he should have foreseen her asking this question. "Yes cadet Uhura I had a brief telepathic connection with you." "What was it like?" "I experienced several emotions from you cadet, a pride of having been accepted to the Starfleet Academy and an anger towards cadet Kirk that I did not understand until our conversation in my office." Nyota got the distinct feeling that there was something that he did not tell her, but she instinctively felt that any further questions into his telepathic connection with her would not be answered. Spock was relieved that she did not ask any more questions, he did not know how to explain to her that the connection he had had with her was unusual. He did not want to have to explain something to her that he himself did not know the answer to.

Spock led Nyota to a small restaurant close to campus, he had been there a few times with captain Pike and knew that the restaurant had a vegetarian side to the menu. He held the door for Nyota and let her enter first as he knew it to be the expected behavior of a gentleman. A host greeted them and showed them to a table in the back of the restaurant. The host pulled out the chair to Nyota as they sat down and then he gave them the menus. They sat silently and studied the menus. A waiter arrived shortly after. "May I take you order?" He looked at Nyota. "I'll have the oven fried Squash with vegetarian filling." Spock looked at Nyota, he had not known her to be a vegetarian. The waiter looked at Spock. "I'll have the same. Would you please bring us water and a bottle of the house red wine." "Yes Sir. Your drinks will come shortly and I expect your food to be ready in about 25 minutes." Nyota had not expected Spock to order wine, not that she didn't like wine. The waiter arrived with the water and wine and poured a glass to Spock who took a sip and nodded at the waiter who then also served Nyota. Nyota was thinking hard on what to talk to commander Spock about. He was a professor, a commander and a Vulcan there should be plenty of topics she could choose from but somehow she didn't know what to say. "How are you finding life on campus so far cadet Uhura?" She looked at him with a small smile, glad that he had chosen to speak. "Loud, fast and crowded Sir." "Please elaborate." "Well Sir, I come from Africa and my family has a house outside of town. I went to a relatively small high school." She took a sip of her wine. "I used to ride my horse on the savannah, I love the peace out on the savannah. Here there are so many people all the time. And everybody seems to be in a hurry to go somewhere." "Are you feeling homesick?" "No Sir, not at all. I think I just need to get used to how different things are here." "I understand." "How about you Sir, do you ever miss your home? Your family? Being around other Vulcans?" "I do not miss my home cadet Uhura. I communicate with my family on a regular basis. I frequently visit the Vulcan embassy here on earth so therefore I do not miss being around Vulcans." "Have you always wanted to be a professor?" "The job was offered to me after I graduated from the Starfleet Academy and it was logical for me to accept." "Do you have any other keen senses other than good hearing?" "Yes, I have an excellent night vision and my sense of smell is superior to your sense of smell. I am also approximately 3,7 times stronger than the average human male." "Is it true that a Vulcans ears are very sensitive to the touch?" 'where did that come from' Nyota thought to herself. Spock looked at her with great surprise. "My roommate told me that, and I was just curious to know if it's true." 'there a variation of the truth' Nyota thought as she felt herself blushing hoping that commander Spock would not notice. Spock did notice her blushing, he also noticed a slight increase of her temperature. "It is true that Vulcans have very sensitive ears, we also have very sensitive fingertips, yet an other reason to keep our hands behind our backs." "Does it hurt when you touch someone?" "There is no pain associated with touching someone." Spock found that their conversation was getting very personal. And just then their food arrived. As they started eating their conversation stopped. Nyota found herself hoping that she had not asked to personal questions. She liked talking to commander Spock and hoped that he liked talking to her as well. Nyota would have been surprised had she known that Spock was hoping that she would ask him more questions. Midway through their dinner Spock asked; "Is you dinner to your liking?" "Absolutely Sir. I like it very much." She took a sip of wine, she did not want to drink too much. "Are all Vulcans vegetarian?" "Not all Vulcans are vegetarian but it is only very few who are not." "Have you ever eaten meat?" "I have tasted it, but I did not find the taste or texture to my liking." "I find that it is what is being served with the meat that I like the best so therefor I like vegetarian food." "Your statement is most logical."

At the end of their dinner the waiter came with the bill, and Spock withdrew his credit card from his pocket. Nyota withdrew her card aswell. "I would like to pay for my half of the meal." Spock looked at her with interest. "Since I was the one who deprived you of the opportunity to dine in the mess hall and therefor asked you out to dinner it is only logical that I should pay for our dinner." Spock stated. Nyota put her credit card back in her pocket. "Okay, you can pay this time, but next time I'll pay." 'Oh my God did I just say that?' Spock looked at her, he liked what she had just said, he was pleased that she appeared to want to have dinner with him again. "That would be agreeable cadet Uhura." Nyota smiled to herself, he wanted to have dinner with her again she liked that thought. Spock paid for their dinner and they left the restaurant. Outside it was starting to get dark. Spock wondered if he should offer to walk her to her dorm but decided against it. "I shall accompany you to your dorm." "That won't be necessary Sir, I can find my own way back." "I must insist upon it cadet Uhura, I believe that there are persons who would attempt to take advantage of women walking alone in the dark." 'Being protective' Nyota thought. 'I like it.' "Okay then let's go, even though that the only person I don't want to meet is cadet Kirk." They were silent while they were walking back to her dorm. As it grew darker Nyota moved closer to Spock, she liked his presence, she felt safe walking next to him. Spock noticed that Nyota had moved closer to him, a part of him wanted to take her hand but he did not do it, he knew it would be inappropriate. But he still wanted to do it. When they reached the dorm Spock stopped and so did Nyota. "Thank you for walking me back to my dorm commander Spock." "I'm pleased, that you have now arrived safely at you dorm." "Thanks for dinner, I had a good time Sir." Spock was a bit unsure of how to answer. "I am happy that you had a good time cadet Uhura. Good night." "Good night Sir." Nyota said and walked into the dorm. Spock stood and watched as she disappeared into the building then he turned and walked to his own apartment.

In a window in the dorm a figure was standing watching Nyota and Spock arriving at the dorm. Cadet Malmros was angry, so this was why she had turned him down, she was aiming up, she wanted an officer. Not him it was her. What a load of crap. He had heard of these girls, they only came to the Starfleet Academy to find an officer so they could get married and go to space without having to lift a finger. He was gonna make sure she didn't get what she wanted. She was gonna get what was coming to her, he was gonna make sure of that. And to think that he had liked her, had wanted to date her. She had just been using him. Bitch!