Pavlusha walked and walked. She did not know where she was going. She surprised herself when she stopped outside Commander Spock's quarters. She looked at the keypad and five keys were severely worn. O, P, S, K, and C. Four others were slightly worn as if the code had been changed recently. E, U, L and B.
"Maybe my music did influence him," She smiled tapping in BUBLE on the keypad. Surprisingly the door opened, she wasn't sure it would.
The room was mostly the same as hers although a bit bigger and a bit tidier. She decided there was only one place to head. She removed her socks and shoes and climbed, in the same way she did in her own room, onto the top of Spock's cupboard. Unideally, she fell asleep there, fully clothed and curled into a ball.

When Spock stopped being in shock, a few minutes after Pavlusha left, Kirk was first to speak.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Yes. I just have not heard that name for a while and I have only heard one other person say it," Spock answered.
"I see," Kirk responded, "Well I'm going to head back to my quarters for some sleep, those biobeds are really uncomfortable."
Pavel also decided to head back to his quarters and caught up with Kirk outside. "Are you coming to check on Lush?" He asked Kirk.
"Where do you think I was heading?" Kirk smiled.
When they got to her door they knocked. No answer. They called her name. No answer. Pavel keyed in her keycode, KCOPS. She wasn't in.
"Computer, locate Ensign Pavlusha Andreeva Chekov," Kirk shouted.
"In Ensign Pavlusha Andreeva Chekov's quarters, sir," The computer promptly replied.
They looked on top of the cupboards, inside the cupboards, even under the bed, since they knew of her love of small spaces. They couldn't find Pavlusha.
"Jim," Pavel shouted and span around something glinting in his hand, "She's not here."
In his hand Pavel held Pavlusha communicator. That was what the ship had located in her room.
"Right, well. She'll return at some point. Let's… erm… leave her a note saying that Spock's not angry and that with her he just hadn't heard the name for a while," Kirk decided, grabbing a pen and paper off of the desk and scribbling it down.
"Should ve leave it under her communicator so she finds it?" Pavel suggested.
Kirk agreed, they left the note with her communicator on the cupboard and left the room.
"Where to now?" Kirk asked.
"I don't know. You vanted to sleep, da? Vell my rooms closer zan yours and I have spare bunk if you vant to sleep ower," Pavel suggested, he wasn't sure why he'd suggested it but when Kirk agreed he decided it had been worth the risk.

Kirk decided that it was lucky he slept in his underwear when Pavel invited him for a sleepover. He didn't like describing it like that but didn't really have a better word for it.
Pavel slept in shorts and a t-shirt, not quite pyjamas but closer than Kirk.
They say that if someone appears in your dreams then they're thinking of you. That may be true in the case of Kirk and Pavel who dreamt of each other that night.

When Spock returned to his quarters he wasn't shocked to find a pair of boots at the side of his bed. No, he usually left his spare pair there. His spare pair were being re-healed but maybe they'd finished early and returned them. What had surprised him were the socks inside. One was blue with green swirls and the other was purple with blue swirls. He recognised them instantly. They were the pair Pavlusha had been wearing this morning, so he assumed that these boots and socks must be hers. But how did she get in. She must have worked out the code. The only thing Spock couldn't work out was where she was. He looked inside the bathroom. Not there. In the spare bunk, in the cupboard, under the bed. No, not in any of those places either. Then he looked up, on top of the cupboard. That was where he found her. Curled into a little ball fast asleep. He didn't want to wake her as she looked so peaceful. He stretched up and put a blanket over her and headed to Kirk's room.
Kirk wasn't in. But Spock didn't know that as he knocked several times before entering the code and going in. When he couldn't find Kirk he asked the computer. "Computer, locate Captain James T. Kirk."
"In Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov's quarters," The computer promptly replied.
He headed there. Upon arrival he knocked on the door. No answer. He called to Kirk and to Pavel. No reply from either. He knew Pavel's code from the day Kirk had written it on his arm. He entered it and walked in. This was important so he didn't really care what they were doing. They were sleeping. He left them.

Doctor McCoy was quite surprised when Spock walked into the sickbay. Especially since Kirk wasn't with him.
"What can I do for ya Commander?" He asked.
"I need some help," Spock replied.
"What with?"
"What to do when there happens to be someone else sleeping in your room."
"Well it depends on who it is. If it's Jim I'd just kick him 'til he wakes up and then send him out the door. It works. I've done it many times."
"It is not Captain Kirk in my room. It is Ensign Chekov."
"Oh okay. Erm… if they're in your bed, maybe wake them gently and send them to their room. If they're not in your bed I'd say leave them, unless it's Pavel. If it's Pavel and he's in a place where he can fall go straight back now and wake him. He rolls in his sleep and I really don't want him back in here."
"It is not Ensign Pavel. It's Pavlusha, she happens to have fallen asleep on top of my cupboard. She will be fine there? I put a cover on her."
"What does she like so much about cupboards? It was her cupboard you were all on yesterday wasn't it? And I'm sure she'll be fine."
"She said she liked small spaces. And yes it was her cupboard. Thank you for your help," Spock headed out.