Dislike at the First Sign

"I really don't understand." Selece's instructor, Lieutenant Commander Warren, tsked under his breath while his eyes passed over his PADD. "You're a good student, but it seems that you can't grasp the concept of what I teach in this class."

"Sir, it's just..." He raised a hand, stopping any explanation she could gave to him.

"Your father is a scientist, a very brilliant one too, so I thought it would be easy..." And it was a that point that she stopped listen to his speech. Technically her father was her creator, what was very common in her race. The Chizetan Warriors Class were a bunch of genetic created babies made to be the perfect soldiers. They've a stronger and lighter bone structure than humans, their heart was bigger and faster to pump more blood in their system and was in the right side of their ribcage. Lungs were bigger too for more oxygen so they didn't lose breath easily and the stomach was smaller so they won't get hungry too fast and are able to spend days without food.

The metabolism was faster too and synthesized the proteins, vitamins and others to avoid the gain of weight or to eliminate any drug injected into their system in a blink of an eye. There were extra cells to help the system by fabricating enzymes that sustain all the organs in their body, giving an extra source of energy, and their brain was genetically advanced to learn fast and think faster under pressure. But even with all her great attributes she still couldn't understand Sub-Spacial Calculus. Give her any security system to program and she could do that with her eyes closed, but Physics was not her thing.

"And because of that I'm assigning you a tutor."

"I beg your pardon?"

"A tutor, cadet. You have to pass this class if you plan to graduate this Academy, so a tutor would be the best option for you." He scribed something in his PADD with the stylus and a minute later handed her a memory car. "Here it is. This cadet is the best student in my class, even if his behavior is a little out of the norms." She caught the card and suppressed a sigh. Selece didn't think that a tutor would be of much help, but she needed to pass, even if her final test come back with only a 'passable'. "Good luck."

Good luck indeed, was what Selece thought when on Friday afternoon she entered the Library, rounding some tables searching for the one supposed to teach her Calculus and almost groaned when she saw a pretty blond guy at the table talking with a group of females who started to giggle because of something he said.

She approached the table and cleared her throat, getting the group attention. Pretty baby blue eyes looked at her and a big smile blossomed on James T. Kirk's face.

"Well ladies, now it's time to work. If you all excuse me." He smiled to the girls, making some of them blush and the others let out another giggle. Selece had to stop herself to snort.

"Bye Jim." They chorused, leaving the table and the two of them alone.

"You must be Selece." His clear eyes looked her up and down and he gave her a flirt smile.

"And you must be the guy who is supposed to teach me." She raised her PADD. "James Kirk." She read.

"That's me." His smile became bigger and bigger with every minute that passed between them.

"Of course it is." She rolled her eyes and pulled a chair from the table, sitting on it. "Well, I think it's better if we start, I have a speech in about one and a half hour."

"Speech? Interesting. Are you giving it?"

"I'm watching it."

"It's about what?" She raised her eyebrows. Was he flirting with her?

"Xenobiology." It was possibly for someone to smile so much without hurting oneself? Because if it was, Kirk was one of these people.

"Xenobiology." And repeat everything that she said was making Selece believe that this guy wasn't so smart like her instructor told. "I have a friend that is studying this."

"Good for him."

"Does that means that you're good in anatomy, human or alien?"

"No... This means that I'll learn in what stunt level I'll have to put a phaser to knock out a Robbaw without causing permanent damage."

"Sound dangerous." And he was still smiling for Pete's sake.

"Do you know what is dangerous? Me. If I don't pass in Calculus I'll be a dangerous person who will take an enormous pleasure in break every bone in your body and I can do that with only one hand." Now she was the one smiling, a very sweetly, perverse smile.

"Hard to get. I like it in a woman."

"I think you didn't understand. I'm here to study, not to date, and if you're not gonna do that I'm leaving." She grabbed her things and got up from the chair.

"Wait!" His hand on her wrist stopped her to stormed out of the Library. "Maybe we started this with the wrong foot."

"Wrong foot, wrong leg, arms and everything in the middle." He let her go and sighed.

"Okay. Please, sit." Selece looked to him with suspicious in her eyes and after a minute or two she finally sat. "I'm James Kirk and you are?"

"Selece."

"Selece... Don't they have last names in the place where you come from?" Jim joked, remembering that it was because of a question like that that everything changed in his life.

"Actually, no. I mean, not in the warrior class. The firsts protoforms were baptized with numbers but the scientists thought that it was too formal and cold to call a living rational person by PT 001..."

"Wait, stop! What?" Jim's confused face made Selece smile a little.

"I'm a Chizetan from the warrior class."

"Man... You weren't kidding when you said that you could break me with one hand."

"I usually don't do jokes."

"And our conversation in these last minutes was what?"

"Myself?"

"I like you." And again Kirk was smiling. Humans were a weird species for getting happy with the smallest things.

"Like me enough to teach me this awful subject?"

"It's not that hard and I don't believe that you're so bad with it..." He said, getting his PADD to look for the notes that Commander Warren left to him about Selece's progress. "Holy shit! You suck." Her grades were very low, no wonder she needed a tutor. And he was the best.

"Thank you mister obvious. And it seems that you rock, so can you teach me or not?"

"And what will be my prize when you pass?"

"Have the pleasure to not feel my fist in your face?"

"Oh... You like things rough. Tell you what, if you pass you're going to a dinner date with me." Selece was pretty sure that she learned very well the Standard language for Kirk comprehend her well enough to see that she didn't want anything with him.

"You have no right to make this kind of deal."

"Actually, I have. You see, I'm not the one failing in Calculus."

"And you're also is not the only one good at it."

"No, I'm not. But I'm the best at it. So..."

"And if I don't pass?"

"Impossible. You'll pass, trust me."

"That will be very hard."

"So we have a deal?" He extended his hand in her direction and she looked at it for some seconds, weighing her options and coming to the conclusion that yes, she was that desperate.

"Deal." They shook hands and after that Kirk started with what was a very long lesson about Sub-Spacial Calculus.

In the end, Selece passed with a 'satisfactory' in her test and had to go out on a dinner date with Jim. And it wasn't so bad as she thought, because she had fun arguing with the blond and laughing at the stories about his best friend Bones. And after that when she saw that her schedule and life was being occupied by Kirk suddenly appearances it made her notice that now they were best friends too.