Evil Ex's

"Is this seat taken?" Selece looked to her right only to see a smiling Captain Kirk pointing to the chair booth beside her.

"Is that how you pick up your dates? Because I have to tell that you're horrible in this department." She said, taking a sip from her champagne flute.

"I'll take that as a no." Kirk pulled the chair and sat on it, putting his own flute on the bar table. "You are beautiful this night." His blue eyes traveled over her body, praising the slim curves that were being embraced by a long strapless red dress.

"You're not bad yourself." She smiled, looking to the young blond in his official formal dress and gave a nod of approval to him. "Where is your significant half?" Her eyes went over around the ballroom searching for the familiar form that was Commander Spock and found him in one corner speaking with some Starfleet Admirals.

"Probably telling my superiors how he is amazed by my brilliant captaincy."

"Or how you are crazy and must be fired immediately."

"He wouldn't say that."

"Why? What make you so sure?"

"Because he loves me." Jim smiled a very large smile and Selece arched both her eyebrows in surprise.

"He said that he loves you already? You're together for how long? Three months? I know that it had a lot of unresolved sexual tension before that, but isn't too soon for the L word?"

"You have a marvelous way to boost somebody self-esteem."

"I try my best."

"He didn't say anything... yet."

"Probably he will never say it. Really, I can't imagine Spock saying these words without having a syncope."

"You're spending too much of your free time with Bones. You're starting to sound like him."

"God forbid this." She took another sip from her glass and Kirk did the same, both falling in silence for a couple of minutes while Jim looked around the ballroom to the people in it. There were a lot of Starfleet officers, as well civilians as their dates for that night. Spock was now talking with some Academy's instructors, probably from the science department, and Kirk saw that one of them had as date a pretty blond woman who seemed very familiar to the Captain.

"Oh shit!" Kirk said after a few minutes looking at the blond on the instructor's arm and finally put a name to her face.

"What? What is it? Did you see Spock kissing another guy?" Selece provoked and Jim glared at her.

"Not funny. And Spock would never do that."

"Yeah, because he is in looove." Selece singsonged, rolling her eyes, and Jim scowled.

"Could you please stop this shit?"

"Is this the kind of language of a Starfleet Captain?"

"Don't try to scold me. Your swearing vocabulary is worse than mine, and you have it in five different languages."

"Well... When a girl has to drag her best friend pretty behind out of a weekly bar intercalation, she learns some thing or another."

"You think that my ass is pretty?"

"You're a narcissist."

"Because I can."

"Whatever. So, what was the reason for the curse earlier?"

"Yeah, right! The blond one, with blue dress beside instructor Carmine." Selece turned on the booth and started searching for the one that Kirk mentioned, until she found said person inside the circle where was Spock with some others Academy's officers and instructors.

"What about her? Please, don't tell me. You had an affair with her and now is scare shitless that she will tell your beloved Vulcan about it."

"Why you always think the worst of me?"

"Just because. So?"

"Well, this time you are wrong. She's not my ex." And with that Jim pointed to the blond again that now had stepped out of the circle and was walking in McCoy's direction. And when the doctor saw the woman going to him his eyes almost felt out from his sockets and he gulped his drink in one go.

"What is with that face? It's like he saw the devil himself."

"Well, it might be. From what I heard from Bones, Jocelyn can be tougher than Uhura." Selece laughed hard when she heard this. Really, the grumpy and annoying doctor has a weak spot? What a wonderful blackmail material.

"She doesn't look so bad from here. McCoy, on the other hand, seems like he wants to run screaming for his life."

"It looks like. I'm not an expertise in body language, but Bones doesn't seem too happy to see his ex in a Starfleet's gala. For him the Starfleet is the only place where he can be himself, where he is respected and look upon for." Jim took a sip from his drink while watching from afar the interaction between his best friend and ex-wife. Leonard always said to him that his marriage was shook up from the start. They met young, exchanged the vows young and were parents in early years too. And with Bones putting all his focus in his career Jocelyn felt left out and started to look for affection elsewhere, in other people.

"I see..." And Selece really saw. She saw the frowning lines on McCoy forehead growing with every word coming from Jocelyn's mouth. Saw how he tighten his grip on his drink cup. He back was straighter than a board, his shoulders stiff with tension and his eyes seemed darker than usual. "Why won't you save him?" The Chizetan turned to the Captain who shrugged.

"I don't think he would like me getting into his affairs. Besides, it would hurt his man's pride."

"Man's pride. Please, and you still say that women are the emotional ones."

"But, I don't think you saving him would hurt his pride." Selece almost spitted her drink when she heard that.

"W-what?"

"Bones has a problem with relationships." Really? You can't tell, Selece thought with sarcasm. It was clear as a bright sunny day that McCoy had problems with commitment if you count that his only friend in all his years in the Starfleet was Kirk. Sure he had some acquaintances, but nobody was so close do the doctor as Jim. And if what the Captain implied that Leonard marriage went downhill because his wife couldn't stand an absent husband and looked for another without informing McCoy first of her choice, it was no surprise that the man had some insecurities. And obviously seeing her in here with another man wasn't helping either.

"I see. So I presume that the guy with her was the one that put an end to Mr. and Mrs. McCoy happily ever after."

"What make you think this?"

"Because the man is watching McCoy and Jocelyn like a hawk." And Selece was right. When Jim diverged his eyes to instructor Carmine, the same was looking to the couple in the other side of the room with a unpleasant face.

"Maybe he's thinking that now that Bones is CMO in the Starfleet flagship that Jocelyn might think about come back to her ex."

"I think you're right." Selece zeroed her attention on McCoy to see his ex giving him a brilliant smile and touching with her fingertips an uniformed shoulder. "She's really evil." Jim laughed out loud.

"Not evil, only with problems. Maybe she regrets her mistakes."

"Little late to do this, isn't it?"

"So? Are you going to help or not?"

"Okay, but only because McCoy seems about to faint." She took her drink in one gulp and got out of the bar stool, smoothing her red dress and taking calm strides in McCoy's direction. With a big smile on her face, Selece stopped beside the couple and immediately crossed her arm with Leonard's. "Honey!" She said sweetly. "I was looking for you all over the ballroom." She looked into McCoy eyes, pointedly ignoring Jocelyn's presence.

"What?" McCoy sputtered and would say something else if the pressure on his arm caused by Selece's strong fingers hadn't stopped him.

"You promised me a dance, did you forget it?" Leonard's eyes bulged from it's sockets for the second time that night and the Chizetan would keep going with this conversation if Jocelyn hadn't harrumph to catch their attention. "Oh!" Selece's smile was the most innocent that McCoy ever saw on the warrior's face. A smile that he knew didn't mean good things. "Who is this lovely girl?"

"I'm Jocelyn McCoy." The blond introduced herself and Selece's smile became bigger.

"Oh. You had a sister, Lenny. How come I never knew this?" McCoy winced with the nickname, but didn't say a thing. His eyes surrounded the room and found Kirk's eyes that were looking at them with a amusement glint in it.

"She's not my sister." Leonard finally seemed to have found his voice again. "She's my ex-wife." If Jocelyn was expecting a surprised expression from Selece, she was disappointed.

"Oh... I heard of her." The Chizetan gray eyes looked over the blond with disinterest. "From what you said I was expecting something more..." She paused and put a finger under her chin in a thoughtful gesture. "I don't know, just something more." Any smugness from Jocelyn went away with what Selece said and McCoy had to swallow a laugh.

"And who you might be?" The blond crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Selece who only smiled more in her direction. McCoy opened his mouth to answer but was beaten by the brunette.

"I'm his date." The doctor almost had a heart attack when he heard these words and his eyes went again to where Jim was, only to found the Captain almost doubling over himself because of his laugh. Damn it, that kid would kill him sooner than he expect and Selece was helping him.

"His... date?" Now was Jocelyn's turn to sputter. "Aren't you a little... young for him?"

"Young? What do you mean?"

"Well, Leonard is an experienced man..."

"Oh, I'm sure he is." Selece's tone was so full of innuendos that Bones wanted a hole to open up right now and swallow him. "But that is the good thing about him. Now, if you don't mind, the night is still young and Mr. McCoy owns me a dance. Let's go darling." And before Jocelyn could say anything else, she was already dragging a stupefied Leonard to the dance floor.

"What the hell was that?" McCoy said while on of his arms circled Selece's waist and the other caught her hand, starting to turn her around the floor along with the music.

"Don't be ungrateful. I was saving your sorry little ass. You looked like you would faint because of your ex presence. And besides, Jim ordered me to rescue you."

"I was not about to faint. Maybe I was a little chocked, but that was it. And now your stunt will worse the rumors."

"What rumors?"

"I can't believe you never heard of it."

"What? The gossip about you, Jim and I being in a threesome? Yes, I heard before. But now Jim has Spock..."

"And that would make us a couple."

"It would be so bad?" McCoy keep dancing and when with one turn he saw his ex-wife's face over Selece's shoulder, he had to smile a little. Jocelyn didn't look happy. Maybe she thought that after the end of their marriage he would be more grumpy than usual and antisocial. Obviously that seeing him in a Starfleet ball having as a date a pretty girl like the Chizetan in his arms ended any assumption of her.

"No. I think not. And thanks for the rescue. My relationship with Jocelyn didn't end well and I guess I'm still affected by it. Never thought that I would meet her here, and never thought I wouldn't be prepared for this meet."

"The pleasure is all mine. But rest assured that now you own me and when the time comes..."

"I knew that this wasn't only an act of kindness from you."

"Of course not!"

"You little blackmailer. You're spending too much time with Jim, because you're starting to sound like him." Selece blinked and had a sense of dejà vu, what make her laugh out loud.

"God forbid this."