The End of The Universe

"I think I'm in love." Came the revelation followed by a sigh.

"Oh fuck! The world is ending, isn't it? Worse, the Universe." Selece's gray eyes looked at the far away expression on her Captain's face and she gulped. That wasn't good.

"I'm serious." Jim frowned when he heard the unbelievable tone in his friend's voice.

"Okay..." She said with a long pause while she got up from the chair and went to Jim, putting her hand on his forehead to check the temperature. "No fever... So you're not hallucinating. Should I call Dr. McCoy here? Maybe you're having an allergic reaction to something." She went to the comm in the security panel ready to call Leonard but Jim's hand on her wrist stopped her.

"I'm not having an allergic reaction. To have one of those first you must be in contact with the allergen and I didn't..."

"I don't need a Biology class right now."

"So why don't you believe in me?"

"Captain... Jim, it's you who's talking, telling me that you're in love. Seriously... You, who only had dates during the Academy and before that I don't even wanna know."

"I'm capable of falling in love." He pouted and Selece rolled her eyes. Capable of falling in love her ass. It would be hard with him having the maturity level of a five years old child.

"I don't doubt this... But you're not mature enough to be in love." He pouted again but soon forgot her jab and changed the topic pretty fast. He was good with that thing of turning someone's mind upside down with the change of subject.

"Are you not going to ask me who is the luck girl?" The way he was smiling when he made the question put another doubt in Selece's mind. There was something very odd behind that smile and she had the sensation that later she would regret having this conversation with Kirk.

"All right! Who is the luck girl?" Jim's smile became bigger and Selece took one step back away from him. She was certain that smiling like that Kirk would soon blow up like a balloon, because he surely looked like one growing with happiness.

"It's not a girl." The smile didn't leave his face.

"Now you're scaring me. I remember you telling me once that when you met Nyota..."

"That's not fair! Everybody in this ship can call her Nyota but me. I'm the Captain, I should have some privileges."

"Anyway... You said that Nyota thought that you were a dumb guy whose life purpose was to always get drunk, in bar fights and bang farm animals. So... You're not in love with a space cow, are you?"

"Funny..." His face was everything but amused. "Should I start to laugh now or later?"

"Okay... I'm running out of jokes. Now seriously, who is this poor thing that was so unlucky to catch the Captain's eyes?"

"I thought you were running out of jokes." He crossed his arms over his chest, still with the unamused expression.

"Okay, I'm stopping." Silence came between them for a couple of minutes. "And I'm waiting."

"Spock." Jim said.

"What? What about the Commander?"

"It's Spock." More silence for at least three minutes with Selece blinking in Jim's direction. Finally, when the clock struck the fourth minute she reacted with a long and very amused laugh.

"You're kidding, right? Today is April's Fool and I forgot or something, isn't?" She kept laughing even if the Captain's face was expressionless. "You're not joking."

"Again... Are you seeing me laugh?"

"Oh my..." She stopped, frowned and let her body weight fell down on the first closest and available chair. "Doe... Does McCoy know about this?"

"Well... I plan to tell him next. But after your reaction I'm starting to reconsider this. I mean... You first thought were that I was sick, then you laughed, probably with Bones he'll shot me first with a dozen of hypos and ask me later if I lost my mind."

"Probably. Really Jim, Spock? I mean... It's crazy. You two hate each other..."

"Hate is a very strong word. Dislike is more like it. But in my case..."

"It's love."

"Yeah." Jim made a miserable expression that made Selece's heart hurt for him. It seemed that this "in love" thing was only from Jim's side and that sucked.

"How did this happen? And where was I when this happened?"

"Well... I don't know." Jim sat on the chair next to Selece and let out another sigh. "But I think you're right. Me, being in love, is the end of the Universe."

"Nah... I think it's normal. One day you would have to grow up. Now McCoy stopping being grumpy or to threat us with hyposprays... This is the end of the Universe." That made Jim laugh and Selece smiled. Her job as best friend was done here, but she knew that the worst part was about to come. First it would be to help Jim to get Spock, because she knew him well enough to know that nothing will stop him to catch that Vulcan. The next would be to stop McCoy from killing Jim. Because really, if the doctor didn't hate the pointed eared bastard before, now he would loath him for the rest of his life. Normal, because if he didn't react that way Selece would be afraid, very afraid, because it means that the Apocalypse was about to come. Or the end of the Universe.