Saavik:

I stirred quietly in the night and realized I'd gained back all the much needed sleep I'd lost over the past nights. I felt unusually comfortable and satisfied, but I wouldn't complain. For a while, I couldn't be sure how long, I lay in David's bed. I could feel him behind me, his arms resting over me and his breath warm on the back of neck as he slept.

Now fully awake and restless, I carefully unraveled myself away from him and stood up, turning to watch him as I leaned on the wall. David looked as peaceful as that night I first entered his thoughts. So many things have changed between us. I thought. Then I realized I was grateful for the way I'd violated his mind, because if I hadn't I wouldn't be where I was.

Standing up straight I quietly crept into his bathroom and washed my face. My mind a great deal was clearer than it had been these past days. I could think fully, and was thankful for my confused thoughts had been hell in mind recently. Despite how illogical love is, it can have its logical traits.

As I walked back into the bedroom I debated whether or not I should back to me quarters to fetch some things of my own. I wasn't sure if we were going to keep this relationship secretive, I loved him, but I didn't want to have to walk out in the morning with the watchful and questioning eyes of the crew on me. With that thought I dressed quickly and left him, returning ten minutes later with my uniform and work, deciding that I'd stay here until early morning and until he woke, then I'd ask him what we were going to do and report to the bridge as normal. I didn't feel like I'd need food this morning, I was completely satisfied in every way of life.

I walked around the room and curiously and quietly studied the place. He's so human. But I didn't find that a problem anymore, maybe I never had, I just hadn't realized it. His quarters were plain, understandable as mine were too on such a short voyage. It came to my attention that he had little to distract himself from work, strange for a human. I put this down to the fact that he'd been living at Regular One most of his life, as he'd once told me. He'd said he had a house with his mother back on earth, but he hadn't been there for a long time. Having lived in his workplace for so long I understood that it must be hard to get away from work. He'd become lonely I was sure, but I understood that, I'd been lonely too. Just one of the many reasons why we understood and needed each other.

The main thing that really brought about David's personality was his music. I studied the tapes in a corner of the room. All artists from late 20th century earth, the likes of The Pet shop boys and Belinda Carlisle, artists I hadn't heard of and I wondered curiously if she'd been something of a crush to him, but I dismissed this thought almost as soon as it crossed my mind, it did not matter for I'd seen his thoughts and I knew how he felt about me. Jealously was utterly illogical and unneeded now.

Because I'd enjoyed the music last night I decided to put on a mix tape and I climbed back into bed with him. Listening to the soft tunes and working back the recent restless and struggling nights.

The hours past and I'd made good progress when David finally woke up in the early hours.

He stirred slightly and looked up at me sitting in the bed and working. I'd undressed again and my hair was unusually lose around my shoulders, but being so human I doubt very much that he minded. "Gees, do Vulcans ever sleep?" He asked, a smile spreading across his face.

I set down my work but continued my emotionless attitude as always. "Of course, but for many years we've needed less sleep than humans. We have evolved to be able to learn for all situations." I replied softly while brushing my fingers through his hair as he rested against me.

"Minds made for knowledge, I guess." He smiled and sat up close to me.

"Indeed." I whispered to him before giving him a kiss, starting off light then deepening as pulled me down and underneath him on the bed.

"David?" I asked quietly, staring up at him.

"What?"

"How…how is this going to work? It will work between us, but are we going to let people know?"

He sighed and rolled off me, coming to rest beside me and kissing my forehead lightly. "I don't know." He started as I watched him intently. "Work is always first priority, we can't just screw all that off, and I don't want to anyway. So I'd prefer this not to get out, a least not for a while, until we've arrived at Genesis, that's still important to me."

He looked down at me and I nodded. I understood his hesitance, for we still had our work to consider and although I knew I'd made the right decision I wasn't comfortable with people coming to the conclusion that we'd rushed in.

"And one more thing" He explained. "If my parents are gonna here about this, I'd rather it's from me."

That made me laugh inside, it was such a human thing, but I loved him for it. Unusually for me I couldn't find words to tell him how I was feeling, so I simply leaned over him and said. "Very well, we'll keep quiet about it." Before I kissed him again and told him I loved him. That at least that was the truth and I hoped I wouldn't have to lie to anyone about us.

From then on everything changed, but only to David and I. To the crew we appeared as we always had, we'd been close, and so to them nothing changed in the slightest.

To them everyday we'd meet each other on the bridge and work at our stations. When actually we'd never left each other. I ignored the glares of Ensign O'Hara, maybe she suspected something, but she'd already got enough of the male crew members casing after her to satisfy her taste. Most of the other girls still flirted with David, I think he minded it, but I couldn't have cared less, and when we'd leave we'd have about five seconds to kiss each other passionately in the lift, and he'd say how he's sorry, but I didn't mind. We'd have dinner together and then work together, and the crew assumed that one of us leaves the other as they'd seen us do frequently, but they didn't know how we dance together, and sleep together, and spend every moment we can with each other in secret. And waking up with him beside me each morning was the most pleasurable, if not slightly illogical, experience in the universe.

Best of all my work had improved, not just making up for my distractions over days past, but overall I could accomplish more and of better standard and in better time than I'd rarely been able to do before. I'd never realized it, but my life had been missing relaxation or something to take my mind of work at night. I found those things and many more in David.