A/N: So, I'm going off internet sources for this entire...thing, so if I end up getting something wrong, would someone please tell me? Cause otherwise that'd be really awkward...Anywho, enjoy the chapter!
Spock was the first one up after their late night of card playing. Luckily for the rest of them, nothing dangerous had happened overnight nor did it look like anything dangerous would happen.
However, they did have to report to their shifts on time.
Jane was the only one who could've slept in if she'd really wanted to. But, sometimes having a roommate who had to get up at unreasonably early hours wasn't the best thing in the world. She was woken up at a thud! Rolling over on the bed, she looked down to see Jim laying there, groaning. "You tripped, didn't you?"
Jim glared at her. "What do you think?" He began to get up. "Doesn't Bones have some tests to run or something on you?"
She shook her head, stretching. "Nope. He got all of them over with yesterday. It's the only reason he let me leave Sickbay. The only thing I can do today is bother people. And read. Maybe play solitaire or something."
"Am I seriously that annoying?" Jane shrugged. "I really hope I'm not." His female self began to relax on the bed again. "Oh no, if I have to get up, then so do you."
Jane pouted, not bothering to sit up. "Why? I'm on vacation. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"
Jim began pulling clothes out for the day, for himself and Jane. "This is the best way to make sure that you won't do anything stupid." He tossed a shirt and pants over to her, chuckling when they landed on her face. "Besides, you'd probably end up on the bridge anyway."
The intercom chirped. "Bridge to the Captain. Are you there, Captain?"
Said captain rolled his eyes, turning around as Jane was insisting with her hands, before acknowledging the call. "Captain Kirk here, Mister Sulu. What's going on?"
"Sir, we've been invited to a party."
Jane immediately looked at Jim once the word 'party' was out of Hikaru's mouth. "What kind of party, Mister Sulu?"
"They want to celebrate the Federation by throwing a costume party...sir."
By this point Jane was nearly jumping up and down with energy. Jim rolled his eyes. "Where is this party being held?"
"Betazed."
"Please, please, please, Jim!"
"Why should we?"
"How often do you guys get thrown parties on Betazed by the Betazoids?"
"Never."
"Exactly! They aren't an official part of the Federation - though it's only a matter of time - and they're such a fun race! I mean, yeah, they're telepaths - totally cool by the way - but they're still Betazoids! And if I'm right, the one who's throwing this party is a great person."
That was how Jim and Jane entered the bridge: arguing about whether or not to go to the Betazoid's costume party. Finally, Jim turned to his female self. "Why should we go? I mean, I know you. I know what you would do, and trust me, that would not be good for the Federation."
Jane rolled her eyes. "Calm down. I've got my own Spock back in my reality and he would be pissed if he found out I got funky with some guy on vacation." She looked around, suddenly realizing that the bridge was now silent. Bringing a hand to her face, the blonde muttered, "Dammit. I did not need that to be heard by everyone."
"Captain," Spock said, subconsciously coming to the rescue of both Jim and Jane, both of whom were extremely uncomfortable by this point. "Miss Kirk advocating our attendance of this party may be for the best for the Federation's relationship with the Betazoids." Jim looked at Jane, who shrugged in an 'I-told-you-so' way.
"Plus, you know I won't go doing something stupid permanently damaging the Federation's talks with the Betazoids." Jane looked at Spock then back to Jim. "Whoever attends will have to be in costume," she reminded her male self. Quickly she turned to look at Hikaru. "Mister Sulu, did they request any crew members in particular or...?" She let the question fade, silently praying that she was right about this.
Hikaru checked the message again. "They requested the presence of Hikaru Sulu," - "Of course he put himself first," Jane muttered under her breath - "Pavel Chekov, Nyota Uhura, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Spock, James Tiberius Kirk, and...Jane Tabitha Kirk?"
Everyone turned to look at Jane, who looked more stunned then surprised. "Let me see," Jim said, quickly going over to Hikaru's console to read the message for himself. "They also asked for Miss Spock." He looked at his Spock, who raised an eyebrow in return. "Well, I guess we have to go. Though I don't know how they're going to get Miss Spock there," he added thoughtfully. "The party is in five hours, so everyone going, you have five hours to figure out a costume."
A stunned silence filled the bridge. Uhura opened her mouth to object but Jane grabbed her by the hand. "I'm going to help Lieutenant Uhura figure out a costume, Captain." The blonde pulled Uhura away before she could say a word.
Jim pressed a button on his chair. "Hey, Bones," he said, grabbing his friend's attention.
"Tell me you aren't going planetside any time soon. I've got three ensigns with burns from engineering and they're having some bad reactions."
"Actually," Jim began, glancing at Spock. "We're going to a party."
"A party? Wait a minute - we?"
Jim rolled his eyes. "Yes, 'we', Bones."
"...Is this a joke?"
"No! The Betazoids invited us to a costume party. Me, you, Spock, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Scotty...the female Spock, and Jane."
The attendees of the party (excluding the women for the time being) sat around a table, trying to figure out what costumes they were going to wear. "We could go as gangsters," Jim offered, fingering the drink in his hand. "I mean, suits, fedoras - what's not to love?"
Bones rolled his eyes. "You and the hobgoblin can go ask gangsters then, Jim, 'cause I'm not going as one."
Pavel piped up at that point. "I could be important Russian figure!" Everyone agreed to that (because seriously, Pavel was very proud of his country).
"Sulu could go as a samurai," Jim added after trying to figure out what his helmsman could go ask. Hikaru shrugged out an "Okay". The captain then looked at Bones, who groaned. "Bones could be the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland." The CMO snorted to that suggestion, but everyone else thought he could pull it off.
"I COULD BE BATMAN!" Scotty suddenly yelled, jumping out of his chair and running off before everyone else had a chance to say something.
"I believe that concludes our meeting," Spock said, breaking the silence.
With fifteen minutes to spare, the attendees of the party gathered in the transporter room. Unsurprisingly, Scotty was the first one there, in complete Batman getup. The ensigns on duty in the transporter room at the time still hadn't stopped staring at him by the time Bones arrived. Bones was messing with the hat that Jim had replicated for him, complaining that it was too big. Pavel and Hikaru were next to arrive, each in complete costume, Pavel looking like a male Russian ballerina and Hikaru looking like a very happy samurai. Jim and Spock arrived at the same time, the blonde practically pushing his First Officer into the room. "Now we're just waiting for the women," Jim muttered.
Jane and Uhura popped up moments after he said that, both looking slightly out of breath. "Sorry," the blonde began. "I got worried about being late...and practically dragged Uhura here..." She pause long enough to check Uhura's costume. "Aaand, in the process messed up her hair."
Everyone was staring at them as Jane fussed with the Lieutenant's hair, which had been put into a very stylized messy bun. She colored slightly when she noticed that she was being stared at. "Jane chose the outfits. I wasn't left with much choice."
Jim, somehow, managed to find his voice first. "No, it's not that. You look good, Uhura."
Uhura rolled her eyes. "And you look like a 20th century gangster, Captain." She looked back to Jane, who was looking through her replicated purse. "What're you looking for?"
"My mirror. I know I replicated one but I can't find it."
"You look fine." Jane frowned, but stopped looking through her purse. Uhura turned to her crew mates. "Shall we go?" She nearly bounced up onto one of the transporter pads.
Scotty looked somewhat upset as he stepped onto a pad. "Y'know, we're lucky that we have this many transporter pads. Other ships don' have this many."
Jim double checked that everyone was on a pad before stepping on himself. "Eight to beam down."
A/N: PARTY ON BETAZED WITH THE BETAZOIDS! That's also party of next chapter's title. So, what'd you think? Good, bad, indifferent? Ready to meet the Betazoids? By the way, for next chapter, I'm thinking Lwaxana Troi should throw the party...I mean, for the time period I'm thinking of, Deanna wouldn't be there because she'd be off at Starfleet Academy. SO, did I do anything wrong? And get ready for a costume party on Betazed! (I will never get tired of that.)
Okay, so I know that FanFiction doesn't allow links so I'm just gonna tell you what to do if you want to know what I'm basing Uhura and Jane's looks off of. I have a deviantART account, under the name freakgirl98. I'm going to post the pictures I made (using a doll dress up site. It's weird) under the names Jane's Party Style and Uhura's Party Style. So, if you want to see what their outfits look like, look it up. (Also, I figured I'll post Miss Spock's too.)
