Author's Notes:

Yay! Another chapter.

I forgot to clear something, the Spock/Uhura pairing never happened and will never happen in this story.

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Chapter 2: Intrigue

First Year at Starfleet

Late June, 2254

Victoria woke up early. She dressed herself in her normal exercise clothes and went outside to the tracks. The breeze was average; not too cold and not to warm. She ran around the tracks for about twenty five minutes then went back to her room where she cleaned herself and changed into her uniform.

She picked up her PADD and headed outside, in her estimation she would be on time with her first class; Astrotheory 101. Her professor was named Professor Vector. Nothing much happens besides subject introduction, requirements and expectations. She thought that Professor Vector seems knowledgeable on the subject matter, "It would suffice…for now."

Her next class was Creative writing where they were asked to write two essays, a minimum of a thousand each, on their reason on joining Starfleet and introduction about oneself. She love creative writing classes in schools, it challenges her to do write more expressively and creatively.

She was on her way to her Advanced Phonetics class when she turned around the corner and bumped into a brick wall. Although she wasn't knocked out to the ground the impact made her drop one of her PADD. She sighed not looking at the person who bumped her. She was surprised when a hand stopped her from getting the item on the floor.

"Pardon me Cadet."

His voice was just like she remembered last night. Soft and quiet, without any trace of emotion.

"It's fine Commander."

She stood there in front of him and with just one look all the meditation he had the last night after he had arrived at his room and the meditations he had done in the morning was wiped away, with just a single look into those face. He noticed that she had her hair tied into a messy side ponytail. Her lips, unlike last night, was left to its natural rosy colour. "It looks so soft, I wonder how it would feel to…" he almost shook his head. What has gotten into him? How, a woman he had barely met could dissolve his composure with just a single look. It's ridiculous and he will not allow it anymore. "This is highly illogical."

"Well then Commander…" she looked at her pad and smirked, "…I guess I'm on the right track. You'll be my instructor on Advanced Phonology. May I walk with you to the lecture room?"

He nodded not being able to form an appropriate response. Once again they walked together in utter silence just like the night before. He could smell her perfume from where she walk beside him. His body's reaction unsettles him.

(*_*)

There wasn't any student in the Advanced Phonetics lecture room when Spock and Victoria arrived. He went to his place in front of the room and busied himself arranging the materials for the subject. She looked around and walked to the first row of the room and sat down. She began to read some articles that she had downloaded days before while waiting for people to show up.

Moments passed and people are starting to fill in the room. She felt someone tapped on her shoulder and turned her gaze away from her PADD.

"Hey V!" Leila beamed at her friend, McCoy and a pretty boy blond was at her back looking at Victoria curiously.

Victoria narrowed her eyes at Leila. She still hadn't forgotten that she left her at the club last night.

"Oh don't be like that. When we came back you weren't there anymore, so Leonard and I decided to go home." Leila knew that it would upset Victoria that she left her on the club on her own but she and Leonard had a great time together that by the time they came back to find her friend, Victoria was gone; so they just assumed that she went home already.

"Whatever." She waved her hands at Leila and turned her gaze back to her PADD.

Leila, McCoy and the blond pretty boy sat beside her as the room fills in. She could feel somebody staring at her, she tried to ignore it but it became too irritating for her. Putting her PADD down, she snapped her head to the guy sitting beside McCoy.

"Do you have any staring problem?" Her voice was low and soft but the tone in her voice indicated a small level of irritation.

"Nothing. Just admiring the view." He eyed her in a very flirty manner and she almost rolled her eyes in irritation. "James T. Kirk by the way." He then held out his hands to her while grinning from ear to ear.

Victoria looked at his hands, she does not wish to touch him or even have any physical contact with him. So instead of shaking his hand she just simply went back to her reading and dismissed his presence.

When the class started she looked the Vulcan in front of the room intently. He introduced the subject and the grading system to them. Victoria had never seen a complicated grading system in her years of study, each points and decimals would be well computed and it would be pretty tough to achieve a perfect grade for the subject.

"Any questions?" Several students raised their hand; she of course was one of them.

Spock looked around the room and answered each of the questions posed to him, most of them were confirmations and redundancies of what he had early stated. He had seen Cadet Deveraux raise her hand for a question, he felt another surge of emotion come through him. He brushed it off and asked the cadet.

"Cadet Deveraux. What's your question?"

"I was just wondering if the documents would be uploaded to our PADD's in bulk or it will be uploaded every lesson? And also, could you recommend any reference materials to us?"

"Excellent query." Spock thought. None of her classmates had thought to ask about the documents for the subject.

"The documents would be uploaded in bulk so that you may study in advance. And the reference materials provided by the academy would be uploaded no less than this week."

"Thank you sir."

(*_*)

Right after they were dismissed Leila linked her arm with Victoria's and headed to the mess hall, McCoy and Kirk trailing behind them.

"Why is that pretty boy trailing with us?" She looked at her friend questioningly.

"He's Leonard's roommate and it would be rude to invite one without inviting the other." Leila replied looking at her sheepishly. I was true, but the main reason was that she wanted to match her friend with Kirk.

"You're a bad liar Leila, we both know that." She unlinked their arms and went to the replicator.

"Is she really that snarky?" Kirk asked looking at Victoria's figure at the replicator.

"She's not snarky, she just doesn't like you." McCoy said looking at Kirk with disapproval. Knowing Victoria he knew that Leila's plan wouldn't work. Kirk wasn't the type of guy for her.

"Bones, nobody doesn't like James T. Kirk."

"I do. I do not like you." Victoria was smirking as she sat down with her replicated meal consisting of mint tea and mixed green salad.

"Yuck, you're vegetarian?" Kirk asked looking at the salad with disgust.

"No I'm not Mister Kirk, I just feel like eating green today. It's good for the brain you know? You should try it." She gave him a sardonic smile and proceeded to eat her meal in silence.

(*_*)

Afterwards she had separated from Leila since they don't have the same subject together. Her next and last subject for the day was Xenobiology/Exobiology, it had proven to be quite interesting for her. The professor was an Andorian-Aenar hybrid named Thallia.

Victoria was curious if the professor was reading anybody's thoughts while she stood in front of them lecturing. Her mind however was trained enough to block other people from it.

The whole class passed without any disturbance except for some remarks he heard from some male cadets' after class. Nevertheless, everything went fine and she just hope that it would continue that way.

She didn't see Leila or McCoy after class. It was still early so she decided to go to the academy board to look for extracurricular clubs. She saw several club advertisements on the academy interface. There was several clubs listed for different affiliations. She brought out her PADD and stylus and jolted down the information for each club that picked

Starfleet's Linguistics Club

-Cadet Hannah Monde

Starfleet's Swordsmanship & Combat Club

-Professor Shikar Ulred

"For now that would suffice." She doesn't want to clog her schedule in case something comes up. She then proceeded to the Gymnasium to find Professor Ulred to inquire about the Swordsmanship Club.

(*_*)

Her first couple of months on Starfleet passed without any issues besides the piling of workload, which was of course pretty much expected. She had successfully entered the Linguistics Club and the Swordsmanship Club and was active during the early meetings. Her list of acquaintance had also expanded due to the clubs that she joined.

There had been several encounters with a certain Vulcan Commander that confused her. He seems to look at her intently whenever she speaks to him or whenever their gazes meet. It made her feel slightly uncomfortable but at the same time she could feel a little bit of pleasure knowing that he was watching her.

Meanwhile, Spock's intrigue of the young woman was growing each time they meet. Although she only converse him during classes and on professional environment he had taken the chance to observe her. He learnt that she was fluent on a lot of Terran and Non-terran language. What surprised him more is when he learnt that she was fluent on Vulcan and its corresponding dialects. As time pass his interest and intrigue on the young woman began to grow and a tiny bit of fondness - unknown to him - starts to grow inside of him.

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