They were about to go their different ways to their quarters.
"Jim," Pavel said, "Are you going to collect your uniform from my room?"
"Oh yeah, I'll come now," Kirk smiled, and they headed down the corridor.
"I am going to retire to my room," Spock stated. Then he turned on his heel and headed to his room.
Pavlusha went to her room.
When Spock arrived he realised he still had Pavlusha's cds. He collected them off his table and headed to her quarters. As he walked he could hear a voice singing. When he got closer to Pavlusha's room he realised it was her singing. He waited until she had finished before knocking.
It's illogical love,
Because he doesn't feel it.
They do not know,
I always have to hide it.
It's illogical love,
Because he doesn't feel it.
They do not know,
I always have to hide it.
He knocked.
She answered quite shocked. She wasn't expecting anyone, "Oh urm I vas not too loud vas I? I'm sorry. I'll stop."
"Your singing was not too loud. I came to return your cds," Spock announced.
"Zank you," Pavlusha smiled, "Vould you like to come in? I'll explain crab thing from earlier."
They went inside and sat one each side of her small table. A 3D chess game was set up, all pieces in the starting positions. Pavlusha moved a white piece as she started to speak, "I assume you know how to play. Crab zing vas to get blood to Pavel's head. It is only vay I know to calm him."
They'd carried on moving pieces as she spoke.
"I do not know if they informed you the other day but I was not annoyed or angry when you said that name. Check. I just have only heard it said by me Mother and I have not heard it for a while."
Pavlusha had manouvered out of check as he finished speaking.
"Checkmate," She smiled as she moved her piece.
"He was my favourite character in show. At academy I had poster of team, but it got lost on transport here. I didn't go to Pavel eizer. I checked," Pavlusha confessed.
"Mother never showed me an image of him," Spock stated, "Perhaps when we next get shore leave on Earth we could replace your poster and I could look at him."
"Oh da," Pavlusha exclaimed, "Zat sounds amazing. I'm almost too excited to vait."
They spent the rest of the afternoon together playing chess with Pavlusha telling Spock stories about Timothy McGee and with him telling her stories about Vulcan and his mother.
When they got into Pavel's room they were quite confused. Kirk's uniform was not where Pavel had left it. Pavel had made sure it was folded and left on the spare bunk so he wouldn't accidently wear it or pack it into his cupboard.
There were only two people who knew the code to his room. Kirk, who wouldn't be here if he'd already collected his clothes, and Pavlusha. Oh Pavlusha! Pavel looked up to the top of the cupboard, there was a trail of blue ribbon leading off and he could see a yellow shirt cuff.
"Found it," He remarked as he climbed up to the top of the cupboard.
On top of the clothes attatched to the ribbon was a note.
It read:
Ask Kirk what he thinks of me. Not professionally but as a person.
He passed the uniform to Kirk before jumping off, safely.
"Jim, what do you think of Pavlusha?" He asked.
"Well she's a suberb navigator and an awesome scientist," Kirk started.
"Not as a collegue but as a friend," Pavel smiled. He knew exactly what Pavlusha was getting at.
"Oh erm well. She's intelligent, she has nice eyes," Kirk restarted, "Her nose is kinda cute too."
Pavel smiled, "So you zink zat of me too. Since vere almost identical."
Kirk hadn't been expecting that.
"Well... I... Erm..." He stuttered, change the topic he thought, "How'd my uniform get up there?" He asked.
"Pavlusha put it there."
"Why?"
"She probably zought it'd be funny. You newer ansvered my question."
"No. I didn't answer. Yes I do thing that of you aswell," Kirk babbled, "Well now I've got my stuff I've got to go. Bye Pav."
Kirk left. Pavel was shocked. Kirk had just said that he liked Pavel's eyes and his nose and that he was intelligent. To be told you're intelligent by genius. That's amazing.
"You win again," Pavlusha sighed, "So that's three wins for me and five wins for you."
"Remember Pavlusha that in life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate," Spock stated, "Do not be downhearted by your loss."
"Isaac Asimov, good choice," Pavlusha smiled, "How about if you alvays do vat you'we alvays done, you'll alvays get vat you'we alvays got?"
"I am unfamiliar with that quote," Spock responded.
"It's spoken by Tony DiNozzo in NCIS. Zere's anozer good one by Aaron Hotchner in Criminal Minds aswell," Pavlusha replied, "Fairy tales don't tell children dragons exist... children know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children dragons can be killed."
"You seem to know many quotes," Spock noted, "That is a good quality. Shows intelligence."
"You zink I'm intelligent," Pavlusha blushed.
"Yes," Spock answered although Pavlusha hadn't intended it as a question, "Is that a problem?" He asked due to her blush.
"No, it's vonderful. Zank you for saying it," She beamed.
Spock looked at the time, it was 2350. Pavlusha insisted that it would look worse if he left now than if he stayed in the spare bunk and left tomorrow with her.
So Spock ended up staying the night at Pavlusha's again.