Unfinished Business
Chapter 46 : Scrapes and Bruises
September 2276
Of course, something went wrong. After all, they were on a totally unexplored planet, and Jim Kirk was in charge of the away team. The fact that all six of them survived did not mean that they were untouched. There were scrapes, and bruises, and a few broken bones. Nyota took him back to their quarters and cleaned him up and fed him and took him to bed and sang a lullaby until he fell asleep with his head resting on her soft breasts.
The next week was no better. And all the scrapes and bruises from the last landing had not yet healed. Unfortunately, this time they almost lost one of the security guards. He remained in a coma with an unknown outcome for several days, and then began drifting back towards consciousness. But it soon became apparent that his recuperation would be long and slow. That blow to the head had lasting consequences. Spock meditated for hours at a time, trying to relieve the guilt he felt over not being able to stop the attack on their party. Nyota treated his own minor wounds, and fixed him herbal teas, and curled herself around him as he tried to relax and sleep.
Again, their party came to no good. They left both security guards lying on the ground, broken and bleeding, when they beamed out. Scotty had to readjust the transporter scanners to accept the dead bodies before he could beam them up. Bones was highly irate, and Spock could not blame him. There was no excuse for this loss of life except failure to plan ahead. It did not seem to matter what anyone else said, Jim Kirk did what he wanted to. Nyota took him by the ear and led him back to sick bay and stood there with her arms crossed under her breasts until McCoy said he was sufficiently repaired that he was released. She took him back to her quarters then and stood him in the shower and washed the remainder of the blood and dirt off of him, but got out of the shower before doing anything else. He wasn't that injured. She fixed him plomeek soup and spicy tea, and let him sit and read his technical journal until she was ready to go to bed. And then she lay down next to him in the position she called 'spoons' and went to sleep while he laid there and wondered if he was ever going to get another chance to enjoy her lovely body. He was beginning to be very unhappy with Jim Kirk.
The fourth and last week of the month, when they were preparing to beam down, Jim was practically dancing, he was so excited. But Spock walked up to him, and clenched the front of his captain's shirt in his hand and lifted him up off the floor. "If you do anything illogical or unthinking which results in injury to any member of our team, no matter how insignificant, I will inflict the same injury on you. I am tired of coming home injured and being treated like a little child until I heal, and do not wish this treatment to continue any longer. Be advised that you are warned." And with that he opened his hand and allowed his captain to drop to the floor.
Kirk looked at him in astonishment. Spock had never, ever acted like this. He couldn't imagine what had caused it. He was on his best behavior for the entire four hours that they were on the planet. No one got so much as a hangnail. They came back to the Enterprise, clapped each other on the back and took off for the mess hall. All except Spock. He went straight to Nyota's quarters and proceeded to demonstrate for the next four hours exactly how uninjured he was. To her very great enjoyment.