Not Mine, Never Mine, Usual Disclaimers.
He had taken the captain back to his quarters and deposited him on the bathroom floor, noticing the yawn that the pup let out.
'You should wash him, he smells like piss,' Nyota commented from behind him.
'How to you propose we do so?'
'We? Oh no Spock, this was your theory, you deal with it,' and with that she was out the door, leaving Vulcan and puppy alone together.
Spock ran the water in the sink, until it was warm, then carefully picked the captain off the floor and dunked him in it. The pup was small enough to fit without any hassle, his chest barely reaching higher than Spock's ankle. It took some doing, but Spock was able to fashion himself a pair of gloves using a spare handtowel, and scrubbing the captain clean. The captain himself seemed to understand what Spock wanted, raising his required leg as Spock grabbed it, holding still under the water and avoiding Spock's exposed flesh. As soon as the captain was clean, he turned the water off, scooped the pup up and grabbed a dry towel to dry him off with. He finished drying off the wriggling captain just as his comm. beeped. Answering it, he took a quick look about the state of the bathroom, noting the water on the floor and the dampness of his clothes.
'Commander, we need your help in one of the labs. One of the experiments has gone wrong but we're not sure which one or what went wrong, all we know is that there is a strange smell in the air and some of the crew are acting strange. We shut off the ventilation but we need help finding the source.'
'Noted I will be there shortly.'
Spock glanced at the captain, who was rolling about on the towel. He seriously doubted that this would take long, there wasn't much in the labs at the moment to have caused a reaction like the one described to him. He surely wouldn't be gone longer than ten minutes, half-hour tops, the captain was presently occupied and Spock didn't think that he would be missed. Slipping out of the bathroom, Spock changed into some dry clothes and headed out the door.
The lab turned out to be a disaster, and by thy time the source of the leak was discovered, a broken gas pipe of all things, Spock only had just enough time to grab a quick breakfast before heading towards the bridge for his shift. He had the nagging suspicion that he had forgotten something, but dismissed the notion; Vulcans had impeccable memories, even if he was only half Vulcan. About a quarter of the way through his shift an ensign approached him and informed him that there had been reports of strange noises from his quarters, almost like a dog howling.
Spock thanked her and said that he would investigate. As soon as he was out of sight, he broke into a run, of all the stupid things to do; he had gone and forgotten the captain.
A/N: I logged into my email and discovered that Puppy Love caused my inbox to exploded so i decided to update, plus Uni work was boring and I needed a break.