Short chapter up today - one coming later tonight! Enjoy :)
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Four hours later, Kirk and Bones are heading towards the transporter room. "You good with this?" Kirk asks out of the corner of his mouth.
"If I say no, will I be able to get out of it?"
"This was your idea."
"Damn it, Jim, I know, stop reminding me." Bones brushes down his suit and tries not to think about how this isn't his body. "Just – get that treaty signed and we'll be back here in no time."
Kirk smirks. "You're actually going to leave all the talking to me?"
"If I wasn't masquerading as a Vulcan right now, I would punch you."
"Ah-ah, no, if you're going to play Spock, you're going to need to start practicing better than that." Kirk nods to a couple of crewmembers as they walk by. "Especially if you want the entire crew to be unaware that you're currently not – you."
He thinks he can almost hear Spock's teeth grinding against one another as Bones attempts to contain his temper, and resists the urge to begin laughing again. "Here, I'll help. Spock always refers to me as Captain."
"You know something?" Bones stops just as Ensign Liu hurries by, his head buried in a book. "Captain?" he forces out, and Kirk's grin only widens.
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" Kirk and Bones stop outside the room, where Kirk abruptly grabs his friend's elbow. "Okay, in all seriousness Bones-"
"Spock."
"Right." Kirk frowns. "In all seriousness, this is going to be difficult for both of us. The Argelians have never really liked us, so this treaty is going to be murder. Not literally," he hastily adds when the Vulcan's face takes on an unfamiliar expression of horror. "But just to be safe-" He hands Bones a gun. "Put that in your boot. And don't pull it out until the signal."
"What's the signal?" Bones asks as he follows Kirk into the room.
"Oh, you know, when they start shooting."
"What?"
"You'll be fine," Kirk drawls, his cocky demeanor back in place. He nods at Chekov, who's already mapping out coordinates on the screen. "Usually they never end in those."
"Usually?"
"Mr. Chekov, what are the statistics for our treaty negotiations?"
"About seventy percent successful, keptin."
"That's thirty percent unsuccessful, Jim! Captain! Ugh!" Bones grimaces before realizing how strange Spock probably looks. "I sincerely hope the Argelians are an unobservant lot."
"They are perhaps one of the most observant species in this galaxy, Mr. Spock." Chekov doesn't look up from his screen, so he misses the devastating glare Bones throws his way. "All ready, keptin!"
Kirk barks a laugh before slapping Bones on the back. "Cheer up, Spock. I'm the one who beat the Kobayashi Maru test, remember? I don't believe in no-win situations."
"Yeah, but I do!"
Kirk only winks at him before Chekov hits a button and then everything shimmers out of sight.
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