Pavlusha had a plan. She'd need help from Kirk though without revealing her plan to him and she knew how to do it.
"Pavlusha to Kirk," She announced tapping her comm badge.
"Kirk here."
"Jim, do you have a list of all the couples on board?"
"Yes why?"
"Could I have a copy. It's for a scientific experiment."
"I think that'll be fine." He sent a copy from his PADD to hers. "Sent it," He said.
"received. Pavlusha out." She cut the connection.
There were seven couples on the list and she had fifteen different ribbons. Add to the list her and Spock, Kirk and Pavel, and Uhura and Sulu. Then she had a thought Ensign Lawrence, a tall Arian, human female and Ensign Richards, a half-human half-changling female, with the ability to change her hair colour and length, eye colour and skin colour, would make a wonderful couple. She added them too. Four ribbons left. She wished she could help Scott, McCoy and Richards. Well maybe. Everyone knew Scott was in love with the Enterprise, but she couldn't ribbon the Enterprise, could she? McCoy loves Chapel. Roberts. That was the only problem.
"Pavlusha to Pavel."
"Pavel here."
"Pav, кто Ensign Roberts как?" (Who does Ensign Roberts like?)
"Я думаю, что она любит мистера Scott." (I think she likes Mr. Scott.)
"блестящий! Это все, что мне было нужно. Pavlusha out."
She listed a ribbon colour next to each couples name:
Warby and Adin ~ Light blue
Allen and Fox ~ Dark green
Dunford and Perry ~ Yellow
Lloyd and Perkins ~ Dark purple
Morewood and Hatton ~ Orange
Lynch and Harvey ~ Red
Spyra and Parkes ~ Dark blue
Kirk and Pavel ~ Pink
Pavlusha and Spock ~ Silver
Sulu and Uhura ~ Light green
McCoy and Chapel ~ White
Richards and Lawrence ~ Light Purple/Lilac
Roberts and Scotty ~ Black
With that sorted she set on typing a note on her PADD.
Valentine's day is coming up!
Star date 1402.2337
If you wake up with a ribbon on your wrist it means your soul-mate is on the ship.
Find the person with the matching ribbon to find them.
DO NOT REMOVE THE RIBBON UNTIL YOU FIND THEM!
She ran a few copies off and put one up in each recreation room and left one on the Captain's chair with a note saying PLEASE MAKE SURE EVERYONE READS THIS! THERE'S ONE IN EVERY RECREATION ROOM. THANKS
Kirk found the note at the start of his next shift. Pavlusha was in the navigation chair.
"Ensign Pavlusha please make a ship wide announcement. There is a poster that is up in every recreation room. Every crew member is required to read it," He informed her.
"Ensign Authorisation code: eight-six-echo-echo-four," She told the computer.
"Access granted," The computer announced.
"I hawe an message from Captain Kirk. Zere is notice in every recreation room. You are all ordered to read it. Zank you," Pavlusha stated.
It was the evening of Stardate 1302.2337. Pavlusha had a mission she had to get out all these ribbons. Twenty five of them. She had managed to do each one so far without waking the person and she only had one left. Spock. She knocked quietly on the door. No answer. She keyed in the code and entered. He was asleep, luckily. She'd just finished tying the ribbon when he turned and grabbed her wrist.
"черт побери," She muttered. (Dammit.)
She now had the problem of getting Spock to let go without waking him or explaining why she was there when he woke up. Unfortunately the latter came true.
"Miss. Chekov, may I ask why you are in my room whilst I was sleeping?" Spock enquired.
"I… Erm… I vas looking for one of my cds. I hawe misplaced it and thought it may be here. I did knock," Pavlusha explained.
"I see. Well if I recall correctly, and I often do, I gave all your cds back the day we played chess," Spock stated.
"I'll go see if Pavel has it. Night," She rushed and then left. The whole thing had gone better than expected. She went back to her bunk and wrapped and tied the last length of ribbon around her wrist. Then she slept. She was on shift at seven am.
Half way through the shift Kirk called to Pavlusha, "Ensign Pavlusha, is your hand okay?" He asked. She had her sleeve pulled down covering most of it.
"Da. Yes. It is fine," She answered.
The conversation went no further as at that moment Sulu and Uhura went to speak to him. They each went to pass him a PADD with their right hands when they noticed. Their ribbons matched.
Maybe, Kirk thought, just maybe this ribbon thing worked. Every one knew Uhura and Sulu were made for each other, well everyone but those two. He'd have to do some more looking.
Kirk took the two PADDs, gave Spock the conn and went to see Bones.
"Bones," Kirk called upon entry to sick bay.
"Doctor McCoy's not in at the moment," the sweet voice of Christene Chapel replied, "Can I help you instead?"
Kirk looked at her right hand, a white ribbon was tied neatly around her wrist. "You've already helped. Thanks," He replied before leaving. He headed to McCoy's quarters.
"Heyy Bones," He shouted, "Let me in."
"God dammit Jim, I'm tryin' a sleep," McCoy grumpily replied before opening the door and letting Kirk in.
"Well it's not like a lack of sleep'll make you any grumpier," Kirk laughed, "And this is important. Hold your arms out in front of you."
McCoy did as asked, "Why on-" He stopped his comment there.
"I was right. This ribbon thing really works!" Kirk exclaimed, as he noticed then white ribbon around McCoy's wrist.
"You know who has the other white one?" McCoy asked.
"Yep. I went to see them before I came here," Kirk smirked before leaving. He headed back to the bridge. Taking note of ribbon colours when he saw them.
McCoy and Chapel both had white.
Uhura and Sulu matching light green.
He had a pink ribbon.
Morewood's was Orange, it stood out against his blue uniform.
Spyra and Parkes both had dark blue, they were stood talking so he assumed they'd noticed.
Lloyd had a dark purple ribbon, it looked lovely with her pale blue skin.
Richards on the bridge had a pale purple ribbon. It took him a while to notice it as she'd chosen her skin to be that exact shade today. Although that maybe on purpose to make Ensign Lawrence, who had the other pale purple ribbon, notice that they were the same colour, ribbon wise.
He kicked Spock out of the chair and sat down. He'd only been there a minute when Pavlusha span around and asked if he was sitting with her and Pavel at lunch. He confirmed that he would be. The rest of the shift went smoothly.