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"Spock, what can I do for you?" I asked, a little nervous to see him after the talk I was having with the other him.

"I was going to ask if you would accompany me to visit my alternate self, but I can see that it will no longer be needed. May I join you?" he asked, although it didn't really sound like a question.

"Yeah sure." I said stepping aside to let him in, getting extremely nervous.

"Hello." My Spock said to the other him with a curt nod.

"Greetings," The other replied. "Jim and I were just discussing the effects the mind meld may have had on him and what would needed to be done to solve and lingering problems." He said. So much for being subtle.

"I see," Spock replied. "What have you determined that needs to be done to fix this mistake?" Spock stated with the slightest amount of menace in his voice. He still seemed a bit sour about this whole situation.

"We have come to the conclusion that another meld will be required to free his mind from the dreams he has been troubled with. We also decided that I should not be the one to perform the meld as I am to old and I do not know if I could handle the amount of stress it will cause upon me. We decided you should perform the meld." He stated simply.

Spock regarded him silently for a few moments before nodding his head in reluctant agreement.

"Jim, you did not inform me of any dreams you were suffering from, why is that?" My Spock asked, genuinely curious.

"Oh, well they weren't that bad, I didn't want to trouble you any more than I had to. You were really angry about the meld, I thought it would make it worse." I replied honestly.

"I can understand why you would come to that conclusion, but I must ask that, if in the future another situation similar to this may arise that you do not keep any information from me. If I am able to help solve the problem I will need all of the information that you know."

I don't know why this affected me so much but it did. It showed that Spock genuinely cared for me and wanted to keep me safe. I couldn't help but smile at this statement. So I just nodded to let him know that I would do as he asked next time.

Spock then looked at me and said "We shall perform the meld tomorrow, I find it logical to do so as quickly as possible so that we may eradicate this problem."

"Okay, that's fine with me. You can come over in the morning."

"Agreed." He replied

Soon after this we noticed that dinner would be soon so we parted ways, all of us needed to get ready.

I had just gotten out of the shower and dressed when there was a knocking on my door. I went to answer it to only be slightly surprised to see my Spock standing there with his hands firmly behind his back.

"Hi Spock. What's up?" I asked.

"I am here to accompany you to dinner, it seemed logical that we should go together seeing as our rooms are adjacent and you do not know where the dinner is being held" He stated.

I could easily see his little lie, if you could call it that. He was telling the truth but not the whole truth, he wanted to walk with me to dinner. This made me grin.

"Sure, that sounds great. Just let me finish up and we can go." I quickly finished getting ready which took all of about a minute and we were soon on our way.

At first he seemed really tense but he started to loosen up. For a couple of minutes it seemed like he was trying to get the courage to talk to me about something. I started to get a little nervous as well as a little amused at the same time. It was kind of fun to see him struggle to say something, it was very out of character and somehow flattering that it was because of me.

He finally summed up the courage and started to speak, "Jim, I would like to talk about what happened last night." He seemed nervous.

"Oh ok, what's on your mind?"

"Jim, there is nothing on my mind, that is physically impossible." He stated.

"It's a phrase Spock, what did you want to talk about?"

"I feel we left matters unsettled, and I do not want them to interfere with our work."

"Well, did you want to kiss me Spock, because to be honest—" I was then cut off because we arrived at the dinner and Sarek was heading towards us to greet us.

"Welcome Jim, Spock." He said with a slight nod.

"Thank you Ambassador." I said.

We made our way to the room where we found Bones mumbling in the corner, how did he find this place anyway? I completely forgot about him. Maybe that will explain the mumbling. The other Spock was there as well as the still nameless other Vulcan. It seemed like this was going to be a casual affair, well as casual as a Vulcan dinner party, keep in mind the word party is being used very loosely, can get.

Dinner passed in somewhat of a blur, the food was good. There was no meat, which annoyed Bones to no end but I was okay with. We talked about the usual types of things, like how the colony was doing and what was new with the Enterprise. All in all I would say the dinner was nice accept the whole time I was thinking about the conversation with Spock. It seemed like he was too, if the look in his eyes was any indicator.

I really wanted to know what his answer was going to be. I was getting slightly anxious towards the end of dinner because I knew the conversation would start right back up again the second we were alone.

When we finally finished and started to head to our rooms we somewhat lost Bones, it seemed like he had a little bit to drink and he decided to wander off and do a little sight seeing, I felt kind of bad for losing him, but that worry quickly left as I realized the conversation was about to start back up again.

"Jim, before you were cut off from our conversation earlier you were about to say something, what was it you were going to say?" Spock asked.

"Well," all right the moment of truth. "I wanted to know if you wanted to kiss me, because honestly I wanted to kiss you." I said.

We both stopped walking and he looked at me while I looked back directly in his eyes. It took him a moment to speak, but he finally did.

"Jim," he said slowly, "I also found myself desiring to kiss you. I find it illogical, yet it doesn't matter for some reason when I am with you. Most things about you are illogical."

I found myself smiling at that, I don't know if it was out of relief that he also wanted to kiss me or the fact that it went beyond him just wanting to kiss me, his feelings ran deeper than just physical, and that made me really happy because mine did too.