Author's Note: Immediately follows "Never and Always."
Familiarity
Spock's hair is mussed and his expression loose—indolent and sated. It's surreal, but far from unwelcome.
Nyota wanders his small bedroom, his nightshirt hanging to her thighs.
"Are you searching for something?" he asks.
"I'm just…acclimating myself to this."
"The decor of my bedroom?"
She grins, lets her eyes run across his shoulders and bare chest, down to where the sheet is slung low on his narrow hips.
"I see," Spock says. "In that case, I believe that repeated trials would be most efficacious."
She approaches. He tumbles her into the bed with warm hands at her waist.