Comforts of Home

by TrueAwesomeSauce

On a starship so far out on the edge of deep space, what are the things you find you miss most? What are the little things that make this work? Where do you find the comforts of home? Short pieces, some interconnected - with all core members of the crew.

6. Uniforms, sometimes

Uniforms (Sometimes)

He wears his uniform like a second skin.

She'll never tell - but, sometimes, as he gets dressed, or when he moves toward her, it takes her breath away.

Off-duty - on shoreleave - when he's the only soul aboard - he still wears it: These are the clothes that are his home.

It is just one of the many things, she thinks, that are, uniquely, Spock.

And if she watches, waits, breathlessly as he strips it off… Well, she'll never tell.

When the day is done, and the door has closed behind her, Nyota hangs up her uniform, and slips into something more comfortable. Mostly it's for her benefit, but sometimes for his.

And sometimes, she wears his old, torn uniform.

Keeping those - and wearing them (not always, but sometimes, with nothing else at all) - is her compensation, she says, for the risks he takes.

So that, too, is for her benefit – but sometimes? It's for his.