She never got the chance to ask Spock what the hell his intentions were with Nyota.

To say that Gaila is shocked when she finds out Nyota is boinking (which is seriously an awesome word for sex) her Vulcan professor is something of an understatement. It's not that he's not hot. For a Vulcan he's practically gorgeous and in human terms he's not too shabby either. There's a rumor floating around that his parents had to engineer him and if it's true, she really wants to commend them on a fine job. She can admire him even if he won't sleep with her. She asked, he politely declined. She wasn't fool enough to try and hit on a Vulcan twice.

But she just assumes that Spock isn't into sex. Not because he doesn't take her up on her offer, but because she watches countless girls – and guys – hit on the Vulcan hottie and absolutely nothing happens.

Plus Nyota hasn't exactly shown an avid interest in sex either. Gaila counted six months without sex and it was so painful she offered her own services up, as well as the services of many other talented individuals. Nyota had calmly informed her she was capable of finding her own partners, she just wasn't interested in sex right now and if she ever offered up Kirk again it wouldn't be pretty.

So when Gaila walks in on Spock and Ny going at it on her bed she can't help but drop her PADD in utter shock. Nyota looks up and flushes red, while Spock does the Vulcan equivalent.

"Gaila!" Nyota screams, pulling Spock closer to her to cover the fact she was completely topless. Gaila slaps a hand over her eyes and turns around, feeling her way back out of the door. She gives them thirty seconds, unable to contain herself any longer and bursts back in. Thankfully Spock has his clothes back on and Nyota's wrapped a sheet around her.

"Spock?!" she blurts out, still processing the image of Spock doing that to her room mate. It's one hell of an image and Gaila is putting that in what humans call a spank bank. But still. Spock. And Nyota. The two most appropriate people in the Academy in a very inappropriate situation is frying her brain a little.

"I do not believe stating my name will change the situation Cadet." Spock comments, raising a brow as Nyota pushes him towards the door, murmuring something in a language she doesn't understand before pressing her fingers against his. Well that settles it. Gaila may not be up on Vulcan culture, but she knows a lot about a lot of cultures mating rituals and somewhere in the back of her mind it clicks that's a very personal thing. This is clearly not the first time this has happened, and it's clearly not just sex either.

Spock returns the gesture, nodding his head and muttering a quick "Cadet Gaila" before he's out the door so she can't interrogate him further.

"Spock." she repeats.

Nyota nods, sitting down on her bed and tightening her grip on the sheet. "Yes. Spock."

"You're sleeping with Spock."

"Yes Gaila! I'm sleeping with Spock alright!"

"Spock."

The surprise is too much. She can't actually form any other words than Spock, Nyota, fucking. It just doesn't compute in her mind. Clearly Nyota is getting tired of the repetition because she groans loudly and flops back on the bed.

There is silence for a long time as Gaila sits there trying to think about how the hell this came about. Nyota breaks it with a sigh, turning her head to the side to gaze at her room mate.

"It's not just sex." The way she says it, it's like she's trying to justify it more to herself than Gaila. Gods know she wouldn't judge her. In fact she's about three seconds away from announcing a party because Nyota finally got laid. It's been a while. She's been counting.

"Didn't look it. That thing," Gaila wiggles her fingers. "That's kind of special, right?" Nyota nods and bites her lip nervously. It all clicks then. She's been hiding this a while and although it's kind of embarrassing to be found out this way, she's glad that she is. Because now she can talk about it.

Which they do, for about six hours. They both skip their classes for the rest of the day and Nyota gets dressed so they can do the old fashioned thing and talk about boys over ice cream. So they spend the rest of the day in an ice cream parlour five blocks over, discussing the Vulcan hottie.

By the end of the evening Gaila is absolutely, one hundred percent sure that Nyota is in love with Spock. Apparently it all started one evening as they were marking papers. Gaila had interrupted the story there to make Ny promise it got better because seriously, how boring? Surprisingly it had been Spock who made the first move, muttering something about how she was distracting him and so it was only logical. Gaila squealed in the right places, looked thoughtful when she should and comforted her when she confessed her worries about whether or not this was the right thing to do.

"It's only logical." Gaila says with a firm nod.

Three months later and Gaila still doesn't get the chance to corner Spock and warn him against hurting Nyota. There's something insanely fierce inside her that comes out whenever she thinks someone is going to upset her. It's not an Orion thing, because they didn't really give a damn about family. No, it's just a Gaila thing, and she wants to make sure that Spock has nothing but good intentions. Outside the bedroom of course. Maybe give him a little lesson on what Nyota likes, based on the porn collection she really didn't hide well enough.

But then everything goes to hell in a handbasket (another amazing earth saying) and the chance is lost.

She thinks that it would have gone something like:

"Spock, I hope you're going to take good care of her."

"I assure you my intentions are sound. I have no desire to hurt Nyota. Blah blah blah I'm really logical about shit but I love her so don't worry."

"Good. Also, you better be pleasing her in bed. I know where her porn stash is if you want to do some research. For pointers."

And then she imagines that he'd turn green, and she'd ask if it was true that his dick was green too.

But she never gets the chance to find out if Vulcans have glow in the dark erections.

All things considered, Gaila thinks that Spock is deeply, insanely in love with Nyota too. She saw it before she saw it, the way his eyes would linger on her just a little longer than they should. The way he walked her home every night, even though their office was just a building over from their dorm. The time that Nyota got really, really sick and he turned up in the med bay with a bowl of chicken soup looking all kinds of awkward.

Out of every man in the universe, Gaila couldn't pick better for her friend, her sister.

It's a damn shame she'll never get to tell him that.