A/n: Hello dearies. I know It's been a while. So sorry. I've lost a ton of intrest in this story but I'm still trying to keep going. Believe it or not my boyfriend is really helping me out with this one lol.

Anyway you may have gotten an update saying that there were two updates to this story. This is true I realized a vital flaw in the last chapter and deleted it and reposted it.

Disclaimer: I only own Aliah. The Song that this chappie is named after is by Finger Eleven.

So without further delay, I present chapter ten.

Change the World

Pavel was happier than he could ever remember being. He was laying next to the most important person in his life. She made him who he was and no matter what she was engraved into his heart. She was a permanent fingerprint, even if she didn't know it.

It was early the morning after she appeared at his door, completely drugged and not sure what was going on. Six o'clock was normally his most precious thinking time where he was hardly awake, but constant thoughts plagued his conscience. This current morning he was wide awake and smiling, thinking about the girl next to him. He looked over at Aliah and sighed. She had always been a peaceful sleeper and as much as he wanted to keep them there together forever, he knew if she didn't wake up soon he would have to wake her. He really didn't want to be part of the latest Starfleet scandal and if his roommate woke up and saw her in their room there would be rumors flying like wildfire. He shuddered at the thought.

He looked down at Aliah and watched her sleep. For now he would enjoy the most blissful moment in his life.

The first thing Aliah noticed when she awoke was the fact that she was extremely warm. Perfectly content Aliah sighed and smiled, keeping her eyes closed. She felt someone watching her but ignored them, thinking nothing of it, until she heard familiar laughter. When she opened her eyes, it only took half a second to realize she was not in her room. She jumped up then immediately collapsed back into the bed from a splitting headache. She closed her eyes hooping that would help the pain go away. The bed moved next to her and she slowly opened an eye to look at the person leaning over her with a warming smile.

"Morning," he whispered softly and she opened her second eye. She mustered a smile, not really feeling it due to her pain.

"Morning," she mumbled and noticed how he left out the 'good.' He stared at her and she raised an eyebrow then lowered it feeling the pain brought with it. "How did, I get here?"

That was it? He expected a glare, a slap, a scream, anything but that.

"Um, you came to my door last night after ze party," he said slowly, "when I answered you vere about to leave, but you could hardly walk so I had you stay here." He moved over as she sat up straight processing what he said. Did she even remember? "How do you feel?"

"Like a starship landed on my head," she said and stood slowly making sure she had her balance fully before moving. She looked down at her nasty clothes and scrunched her nose in agony. She had slept in them; she might just burn them, maybe, if she felt like being extreme. The night was slowly coming back to her but she shoved it off looking at the clock.

"If we get going," she started, "we can probably make it to my room so I can change and head down to breakfast before anyone even is really up and moving." Pavel nodded and stood up. It wasn't until he moved across the room to his dresser that Aliah realized he was wearing just a pair of boxers and a white tank top. Then she noticed they were the C3PO boxers that she had bought him a few years ago. With a slight blush she smiled. He – not even noticing her watching him – walked out of the room down to the bathroom to change into his clothes. When he came back she was sitting on his bed looking out the window. The sun was coming in at just the right angle and she looked so perfect. There was a halo encasing her body. He was stunned for a moment. Had he always known she was that beautiful? She looked at him with a smile and stood.

"Ready?" she asked and he nodded watching her move closer to him. He threw his clothes in his hamper and they left the room with Pavel's roommate not even flinching. For a moment, Pavel wondered if he should check for a pulse then with a smile he continued on.

When they had arrived at her room Aliah offered for him to come in if he wanted but told him she needed to at least take a shower and changed her clothes. To give her privacy he left her room and walked around the dorm then walked down the stairs and sat on a bench outside her dorm. Not too long after he sat down she walked outside with her casual clothes on (neither of them had a class till at least 11 so there was no need to dress in their uniform yet) and her PADD in hand. She was planning on some studying apparently. Her short black hair was still damp and done up in a small half ponytail. Her silver-blue eyes were bright and refreshed and popped now due to the touch of non-smudged eyeliner. She was wearing a black tank top, dark denim jeans and flip flops.

"Ready?" he asked and she nodded, a smile spread across her features.

At breakfast she ate cereal and an apple, not feeling terribly hungry. Pavel however had sausage, bacon, pancakes, eggs, fruit and half of a waffle. They talked some, but mostly Aliah studied. While Aliah knew pretty much every weapon made and the frequency most of them ran on, she had decided to challenge herself and double major with xenolinguistics, but that was before the crash and before she knew that she would be out of school for a while. Xenolinguistics was hard to study by oneself, just as any other language was.

They sat there for nearly an hour with no one hardly entering or leaving the cafeteria. There were a few times that Aliah didn't understand what she was looking at and would ask Pavel. He would take a look and a couple times he had no idea. Then she would call over another Xenolinguistics major to help her. The girl was nice and was always at breakfast as early as they had been that day for extra study time. She was more than willing to help Aliah, which Aliah was thankful for. So she joined their table and whenever Aliah had questions she would ask the other girl.

"I've just realized," said Aliah suddenly setting down her PADD. "I don't even know your name!" She looked to the girl who she had in just the last half hour met and learned about (such things as she was from Swahili decent) and scanned her over. She had cocoa skin and dark chocolate eyes; her long straight black hair was up in a ponytail and reached halfway down her back.

"It's Nyota Uhura," she said with a confident smile.

"Ah, what a beautiful name! Mine – to make this companionship normal- is Aliah O'Hara. I'm glad to have met you Nyota!"Aliah said with a smile spread across her features. Pavel smiled watching her. Making friends was so casual for her. He then realized before her he really didn't have any friends himself. Boy how she had changed that; currently he had lots of friends although most of them were back in Russia. He had simply not tried to make friends at Starfleet; he was far too busy with school work for that.

It was with that thought that Pavel realized he was in love with his best friend. He wanted nothing but to hold her at every moment he could. Her lips – which were often a rosy red from her constant licking –seemed to beg for his kisses. Her eyes were the most perfect eyes he had ever seen. Her skin although currently paler than usual was normally full and appeared to glow. Every time she flashed him that pearly white smile, butterflies found their way to Pavel's stomach and he couldn't ever help but to smile back.

She was talking to the girl, Uhura, back on the subject of school work and Pavel let out a long content sigh as he watched her wheels turn. He was definitely in love with her, he was sure of that now. He was just scared beyond all belief that once her grades returned to normal she would disappear from his life again. He couldn't handle that, although she had never been like that in the past. Then again she was still with Jim Kirk. A scowl crawled onto Pavel's face momentarily, but was replaced with a smile as Aliah looked back at him with excitement.

"Pavel! I finally figured this stuff out!" she nearly squealed with excitement and gave him a large hug. He hugged back not ever wanting to let go. Yes, he was in love.

So did you like it? Personally this was my favorite one for quite some time. R & R please. :)