Blind Date

"Please tell me that this is a joke." It was the first thing that Selece said when her companion sat at the table.

"I wish." Leonard McCoy gruff voice answered her.

"Let me guess... Jim said that he would meet you here for a dinner. Something between friends because he felt guilt for not having enough time for us after he became the Enterprise's new Captain."

"Yeah... I thought that it was suspicious, especially after he told me what was the restaurant's name." Leonard looked around them. The place only had couples as guests, far away to be a place for a friendly reunion and more like a romantic reunion. Or a damn blind date.

"Seriously McCoy, after all these years you still believe in that man?" Selece made a negative gesture with her head and let out a sigh, taking the menu on the table and starting to read it.

"Sometimes I ask myself the same thing."

"Let me guess again... In the Captain's next physical there will be a lot of hypos waiting for him."

"You're good in that guess thing." Leonard did the same thing as Selece, taking the menu and starting to read it too. "So can you guess what I'm thinking now?"

"Besides what kind of hypo you'll use on Jim? Maybe something close to revenge?"

"Kind of. The first thing is what the hell Jim was thinking."

"He doesn't think, he reacts."

"True. The second thing is what kind of revenge would be enough for him to see that we don't like each other in that way." Selece sighed again. Leonard did make a fine some point. For some reason or another Jim got in his crazy mind that his two best friends would be perfect for each other. Something about a girl like Selece, strong minded and stubborn like a mule, be the exactly match for McCoy and his bad humor and scary hypos.

"Maybe we could write a romantic letter to Commander Spock and sign Jim's name on it." The Chizetan suggested and silence came over the table for a couple of seconds before Selece started to laugh at the disgusted face that Leonard made.

"First: that green blooded hob-goblin wouldn't understand half of it. Second: seriously, a letter? I believe that Jim doesn't even know how to write."

"Now you're being cruel."

"I was fooled by a kid into a blind date and I'm trapped for the next five years in a damn spaceship because of this same kid, what's your excuse?"

"Jim Kirk is my best friend and to be friend with him it's enough excuse."

"True again."

"Or maybe we could order the most expensive bottle of wine in this fine restaurant, along with the most expensive food and send the check to the Captain." Selece said in a very relaxed voice while her eyes passed over the menu searching for the perfect thing to order. Leonard only looked at her with a surprised expression before the same expression morphs into a smirk.

"Now you're being cruel."

"Well... He set the date, made the reservations and plotted against us. It's only fair that he'll be the one to pay for all this trouble."

"I'm starting to think that this night won't be a waste of my time... finally."

"Glad that we agreed Dr. McCoy. So if you don't mind..." She raised an arm and called out loud. "Waiter!"

And it was because of that that two days later, before the Enterprise leaves the space port, that Captain Jim Kirk received a message from a place called The Blue Bourbon asking for him to drop there to solve an unfinished business. A business that left him with less four thousand credits in his pockets and a furious Jim rushing through Enterprise ready to kill her CMO.

"BONES!" He entered the sickbay like a tornado. "Four thousand credits?" The blond fumed when he found his friend. "What the hell had in that damn food? Gold?" Leonard only smirked while he twirled a hypo in his fingers. Revenge really was a plate that you eat cold. In this case... You eat and make your Captain pay the expenses. Now life was good.