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A month later and they had to go down to a planet. Scythe was the only security and she was ecstatic to finally go down with them. Bones finally glared at her to stop her fidgeting and she grinned sheepishly at him as Jim and Spock joined them. Jim had Scotty beam them down and Scythe's eyes widened once there. Jim grinned when he noticed.

"It's nice huh?"

"It's… green." She smiled at all the foliage around them. Jim looked confused and Bones chuckled.

"She hasn't been down to a planet Jim. And Olduvai didn't have much."

"She was on Earth before that!"

"In a bunker for RRTS. Before that I was in a training facility and the plants were mainly fake."

"How about before that?"

"I lived in a desert and signed up for the military at 16." She mumbled at the end as she carefully walked away to explore a bit.

"Okay… Hey Scythe! Where are you going?"

"Checking out the area. I'll be right back."

"… Maybe you should go with her Spock. Just in case."

"Leave her alone Jim. She knows what she's doing. And she has her communicator with her." Jim sighed and turned away.

"Fine. Let's go see what we can find." They set off with a final glance back to where Scythe had disappeared.

Meanwhile, Scythe had found a patch of vibrant flowers densely surrounded by trees. She grinned and checked the perimeter before going over for a closer look. She knew something was wrong as soon as she knelt down and quickly glanced around again before looking down in time to see a vine shoot out and into her side. She ripped it from her, unearthing the entire flower in the process. She threw it away from her and slowly dropped her hand over the closing wound. Feeling the icy skin there and the chill spreading quickly throughout her she grasped at the communicator and flipped it open.

"Bones? I hate flowers." She managed to gasp out before keeling over.

As soon as Bones heard her say that he had turned around and ran back to find her, a confused Jim and Spock closely following him. After a while they finally stumbled onto the flower patch and Bones grabbed her, running a tricorder over her in frustration. Jim went to investigate the flowers only to be yelled at.

"Damn it Jim stay away from those! If it managed to knock her out it's possible it will kill you!" He glared and flipped open his communicator to have Scotty beam them back as Spock grabbed the unearthed plant. Bones didn't even wait for Scotty to ask what had happened before running her to sickbay. Spock headed to the Botany lab to analyze the plant.

Fifteen minutes later and Spock walked back into sickbay to see a frustrated Bones glaring at his computer.

"Doctor, this plant seems to be filled with something similar to liquid nitrogen."

"And it injected her with it. We need to get her somewhere warm now and I can't inject her with anything. Would you mind if I put her in your room?" He paused before nodding once and turning to leave.

"It is logical." Bones grabbed Scythe and carried her down the halls after Spock, waiting for him to input his code. He immediately laid her on the bed and covered her up. He stood and looked around.

"Okay. It's better than anything else…" He glanced at the closet and stiffened. "Spock… Please tell me you're a cross dresser and this is not what it looks like."

"Being a cross dresser is illogical Doctor. What does it look like?" Spock finally turned and saw where he was looking. He froze as Bones turned around with a glare.

"That you're sleeping with Scythe… Care to elaborate before I break your neck?"

"Breaking my neck would be illogical as you are the Doctor and-"

"I don't give a damn!" He shouted at the hybrid and, sadly, managed to wake Scythe.

"Nnn… Bones?" She blinked up at him slowly and shivered. "I'm cold…" She glanced over at Spock and held out a hand. "Spock… Come here?" Spock hesitantly walked over and grabbed her hand, flinching minutely at the low temperature. She didn't let him pull away and grabbed tightly before suddenly yanking him down next to her. She smiled and immediately cuddled up next to him before falling back asleep. Spock blinked in shock and looked back to see Bones' murderous look.

"… I fail to see why you are angry when clearly she initiated any and all contact."

"You didn't have to grab her hand."

"She obviously wanted me to."

"I don't give a damn! Get away from her!" Spock looked down at Scythe and back up.

"I believe that would be extremely difficult. Could you perhaps adjust the temperature up another .6 degrees?" Bones' hands curled into fists.

"No, but I can turn it down."

"Would that not be counter productive? We are trying to raise her body temperature."

"I don't care! Just get away from her!"

"That is extremely illogical as I am not the one holding her." Bones walked towards him.

"Then I'll just pull you two apart." He grabbed them and began to pull them apart only to get a hand in his face. Scythe opened one eye long enough to glare at him before shoving him away and wrapping herself back around Spock.

"You are not my older brother and we have not had sex."

"Yeah well, I don't want to give it a chance."

"Fine, then next time you get stabbed by the freezing plant. And it's warm in here!" Bones sighed after a minute and headed towards the door.

"Fine. Get some rest and warm up. I'll come see you in the morning." He left and Scythe scooted over to look at Spock.

"Sorry. He's always acted like an older brother to me. By protecting me or teaching me or something."

"I suppose he does have a redeeming quality then." She smiled slowly and began to laugh.

Spock carefully tried to pry himself away from Scythe the next morning. He was almost out of the bed when she grabbed his arm, effectively stopping him.

"It is time to get up. Your core temperature has risen to a tolerable level."

"Since when did I need to be freezing to try and coerce you into staying in bed with me?"

"You have not." Scythe smiled.

"So are you going to stay?"

"No. Doctor McCoy should be here to check on you soon." He pulled out of her grip as she frowned.

"So you're leaving because he'll get mad again?" She sighed. "All right. Sorry for probably making you cold. I'll see you later."

"… You are welcome to return tonight if he has not imprisoned you." He left and Scythe grinned.

"Was that a joke?" She sat up when Bones opened the door. He glanced around quickly before coming in.

"So that hobgoblin isn't here?"

"No. You effectively ran him off. I'm sure you're happy about that."

"Don't get mad at me. You shouldn't be sleeping with him."

"I couldn't sleep in my room! I would wake up thinking I was about to be attacked or something. He was closer and allowed it."

"Then you should have at least told me! Why is it that I had to find out when you're hurt?"

"… I figured you'd get mad. And Spock doesn't seem like the type to normally allow something like that. Not to mention you two don't really get along well."

"Damn it Scythe. You could've told me and you know it."

"Sorry. Guess I still suck with social interactions." Bones sighed and ran the tricorder over her.

"Temperature's almost back to normal. There's probably still some remnant left in you so you're going to have to take a few days off."

"What?! No! I hate days off!"

"Too bad. Come on, I want to run a few tests in sickbay." She groaned and flopped back onto the bed.

"This is so not fair. I want to get back to work." He pulled her off the bed and onto the floor. She glared at him, but got up to follow him to sickbay anyway.

She showed up in sickbay early the next morning and spent an hour sitting on a bed and glaring at Bones as he worked. He only smiled when she finally hopped down with a scowl and left to go find Jim since he had banned her from the gym. She finally found him in his room. He let her in with a grin.

"Something wrong Scythe? Bones mad at you too?"

"No. He's being mean to me."

"How?"

"He made me take days off! And banned me from the gym! It's not fair!"

"… Hold on. You're upset because you aren't working?"

"Yeah, so?" Jim almost face palmed and sighed.

"Somehow I'm not surprised. Scotty does that too though. Well, maybe he's punishing you for sleeping with Spock so much." She glared at him.

"He told you?"

"Spock did actually."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I asked why Bones was mad at him and he explained."

"… Any chance you can override his decision?"

"Nope. Medical matters he has complete control over."

"Talk to him then!" Jim laughed.

"I doubt my opinion matters much based on my history in sickbay."

"Right…" She groaned and turned to leave.

"Hey Scythe." She glanced at his grinning face. "Have fun on your days off!" He closed the door before she could turn and hit him. She glared at the door for a minute before heading back to sickbay. She glared at Bones as soon as he came into view.

"Can I go back to work yet? I am perfectly fine and you know it!"

"Nope, I want to make sure. You were injected with liquid nitrogen after all. Any normal person would have been killed."

"But I wasn't! You know very well that I am able to get back to work or at least go to the gym and are denying me out of pure spite!"

"Yep. Anything else you wanted to complain about?"

"I hate you."

"Anything new?"

"When I can I go back?!" He smirked.

"How about I make a deal with you?" She eyed him warily.

"What?"

"I'll let you go back to the gym tomorrow if, and only if, you eat at least as much as Jim does today. Number of trays and calorie count." She gaped at him.

"Are you serious?! He's almost always eating!"

"And you never eat enough. If you don't want to that's fine, but you won't be allowed back to the gym or to work for a few more days." She floundered a bit in her horror before slumping onto the floor in defeat.

"Okay… I'll do it." He grinned and pulled her up.

"Might want to go ask him how many trays he's probably going to have today." She slinked out the door and headed for Jim's room. He opened it as soon as she got there.

"Scythe? Back again?"

"I need to know how many trays of food you are planning on eating today."

"Um… Five? Why?" She stared up at him in despair before sighing and heading to the cafeteria. She grabbed a tray and stood there for a minute before finally filling it with food and sitting down. Ten minutes of staring at it in disgust and she reached out to start eating, calling Sulu over to talk with her at the same time. Chekov was used for the second tray and Scotty for the third as they complained about having to take off work on occasion. She groaned as she grabbed another tray and Jim walked in.

"No! How much have you had today?!" He held up his hands in defense.

"Whoa… Um… Like two trays. It's lunchtime now." She frowned and sat down, letting him get a tray. He grinned at her a moment later as he sat next to her. "Wow, hungry today?"

"No! I'm eating way too much and will probably get fat from it! But I made a deal with Bones so if you eat more than five trays today I'll have to seriously consider how to dispose of your body." He scooted away from her a bit before beginning to eat.

"Care to tell me what this deal was?"

"I have to eat at least as much as you do today in order to be allowed in the gym tomorrow." She glared at the tray in front of her as if it would make it disappear. Jim glanced at his tray and back at her significantly more healthy one.

"So it's just for the amount of trays?"

"Calorie count too." He glanced back at his.

"Um… I don't eat nearly as healthy as you do so mine has more calories." She shot him a glare.

"I know and you should. I'm going to end up eating more than you just to get to your stupid calorie count, but if I eat things like you do I'd want to puke." He just laughed as she picked at her tray. She managed to finish it three hours later when Spock walked over to her with his dinner. She glanced at it and tilted her head.

"What is that?"

"It is Vulcan food."

"… How many calories compared to normal food?"

"I assume you are asking this because of your deal with the Doctor. Vulcan food has a higher calorie count and is often considered healthier than Earth food." She stared at him before running to get a tray of it.

"Why did no one tell me this before?!" She dug in happily.

"Humans do not normally find it palatable. There is some that I do not even enjoy."

"It's good." She smiled and continued eating. "And I don't have to eat as much now!" A few minutes later and she put the fork down. "Oh, can I practice Vulcan now?"

"Of course." She grinned and started to speak with him in Vulcan, effectively cutting everyone else out of their conversation. She only looked up when Spock stopped talking to her and looked over at the door to see Bones walk in and head towards them. It suddenly made sense why Spock had moved a bit away from her. She grinned at Bones and pointed to the empty trays.

"I did it!" He smiled and sat next to her.

"Good job. Maybe I will be able to get you to a healthy weight after all." She stuck her tongue out at him and smiled over at Spock.

"He introduced me to Vulcan food. It's pretty good and healthy. No salt even."

"And you like it?"

"Of course. There's nothing wrong with it. There's no grease or excess fat or sugar or salt or-"

"Okay, okay. I get it. I don't really care. Since you like it you should just eat that every day for your meals."

"I can do that."

"And still have at least two meals a day, preferably three." She frowned.

"I'll try and remember." Bones glanced at Spock and back at her.

"If I promise to stop being mad at Spock will you eat three a day? At least for a week?" She looked back at Spock before smiling.

"It's a deal. I'll do my best to remember to eat." Bones rolled his eyes and got back up.

"Come on Scythe. I need to run a few tests and check your weight again." She sighed and got up.

"I hate checking my weight."

Later that night she tried inputting Spock's code three times before throwing her hands in the air and calling him. He opened the door a moment later.

"My apologies. I changed the code approximately 2.7 hours ago."

"Did you not want me here? You could just tell me to leave. It's not like I'll take offense to it or something."

"That is not it. I change the code every other month. I merely forgot to mention this to you." She shrugged and made her way over to the bed.

"Okay, I believe you." Spock followed her.

"You mentioned earlier that you hate checking your weight. Why is that?" She groaned and laid down.

"Because Bones gets mad at me every time. I'm always underweight and it bothers him."

"How much do you currently weigh?"

"About 92 pounds."

"The healthy weight for humans of your height is approximately 120 pounds."

"So I've heard. It's just so hard to get to that weight and stay there! Bones says I need to eat more and exercise less but it sounds like such a bother and I've never been good at that."

"Perhaps it would be wise to try." She sighed and smiled at him.

"Maybe I should just have you choose my meals for me since I have to eat three a day now anyway. Would you be willing to do that Spock?"

"If you need me to." She laughed.

"I probably do. You going to sleep now?"

"No."

"Damn. Can you just stay in the bed with me then? You can work on a padd or something."

"Of course." He got in next to her and she smiled.

Bones finally let her go back to work almost a week later under orders to take it easy. He threatened to take her off again if she dropped in weight and keep her off until she got to 140. She winced and hightailed it out of sickbay. She stood outside the gym for a minute before sighing and heading towards the cafeteria. She sat next to Spock with a sigh and he slid a tray in front of her. She glanced at the food and turned to smile at him.

"Thanks." He only nodded as she began to eat.

Scythe was in the gym an hour later, running everything off before the rest of security showed up. She flipped backwards to end up in front of John with a smile. He grinned back at her and set everyone else on laps as he handed her a phaser.

"Welcome back. You don't really need anymore training, so let's try and get you a perfect score for target practice."

"I don't need training?"

"Of course not. You're the best here. Perfection."

"I can't be perfect."

"Well, I think you are." She smiled at him and headed to the target area.

"I'm not though." He chuckled and followed her.

"All right. I'm still going to see you as perfect anyway."

"I am not perfect! I can't even win with the phaser!" John smiled and leaned around her to help.

"Here. Try aiming a bit farther down. Basically in a straight line. You can just keep firing without having to do anything else other than pull the trigger. Do you want me to show you?"

"Ok… Sure, thanks." He spent the rest of the day helping her get a perfect score. By the time practice was over she had finally managed to get a perfect score and jumped up happily. "I did it! Finally! Thank you!" She hugged him and he grinned.

A few days later and John once again sat next to Scythe for lunch. Scythe smiled at him and they began to talk.. An hour later and he got up to leave. Scythe waved as he left and turned back to Spock.

"He's nice." Spock nodded and glanced at her.

"I believe he is interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with you." She gaped at him.

"Really? I didn't even notice."

"Yes. It is quite obvious." Scythe stared at her tray for a while before looking back up at him.

"But I'm not interested in one with him."

"It would be relevant to inform him then."

"Yeah, but how do I do that?" Spock shrugged and she sighed before leaving for the gym. She watched them for a minute before going up to John. He grinned at her.

"Hey Scythe. Isn't it your day off?"

"Yeah, I just need to talk to you."

"Okay, what do you need?" They walked away from the others and Scythe looked at him.

"I was just told that you've been… flirting with me."

"Uh, yeah?"

"You might as well stop. I'm not interested in a romantic relationship with you." He flushed and rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh… Um, well… Sorry then." Scythe smiled.

"No worries. Sorry I didn't notice sooner."

"Oh! No, it's fine! See you later Scythe." He jogged back to the others and Scythe went to sickbay.

"Bones! I need some help!" He ignored her in order to finish sorting some supplies. She bounced slightly on the balls of her feet until he turned around and motioned for her to sit.

"All right. What's wrong this time?"

"I just talked to John and when he left I think he was upset but I can't be sure and I don't know why. If he is it could be because of what I said but I don't think I said anything wrong. Help!" Bones sat next to her and sighed.

"Okay, what were you talking about?"

"Apparently he's been flirting with me."

"And?"

"Well… I told him that it was pointed out to me and he said 'yeah' and I told him he might as well stop and that I'm not interested in a romantic relationship with him. Which is the truth but he looked upset so I don't understand!" Bones winced.

"Ouch, poor guy. I don't even have the heart to get mad that he was flirting with you." Scythe blinked up at him in confusion and Bones sighed. "Telling him to stop flirting like that, so abruptly, isn't the nicest way to put it. And then so bluntly stating that you didn't want to be involved with him is like kicking him while he's down."

"Why? It was the truth."

"Remember how I told you about how being blunt can be considered rude or unfriendly?"

"Yeah?"

"Same concept. It came across like you didn't like him at all." She groaned and flopped backwards.

"I don't get it, but I believe you. So how do I fix it?"

"You could try explaining."

"… Can you? I'm not good at that. I always make things worse." He shoved her off the bed.

"No. You're a big girl, you can do it yourself." She glowered at him before leaving. A few minutes later and she spotted John in the hall.

"Hey! John! Wait up!" He glanced at her for a second before turning away. She grabbed his shoulder with frown and turned him around. "Hey, I need to talk to you." He sighed.

"… Okay."

"About earlier; I didn't mean it the way it apparently sounded. I just don't really want to date you. Sorry, but I would much rather just be friends." He nodded and turned to leave.

"Right. Okay. I have to go now." Scythe groaned as he walked away and forlornly headed back to sickbay. She slithered through the door and flopped onto a bed.

"Your turn." Bones smiled.

"What happened this time?"

"Found him in the hall, said I didn't mean it the way it apparently sounded. That I just don't really want to date him. I'd much rather be friends. I even said sorry! But… He still acted upset." Bones patted her head.

"Well… For you, that's good. Personal growth even. I'll go talk to him for you now." She nodded and he left. Scythe got up a moment later and went to Spock's room. She sighed when he wasn't there and sat on the bed to wait.

Spock opened his door over an hour later to find her curled up on his bed asleep. He put his padd away and went to sit next to her before laying a hand on her shoulder to wake her. She jolted up and looked at him for a minute before smiling.

"Hey Spock. Didn't mean to fall asleep…"

"It is not a problem. Doctor McCoy asked for me to inform you that he spoke with John. There is no longer a problem for you to worry about."

"That's good. I'm really horrible at things like that. Bones says I'm way too blunt." She looked up at him curiously. "What about you? Do you think I'm too blunt? Does it bother you?"

"No. It is logical and I can see no fault in how you speak or act." She beamed and hugged him.

"I knew it. It'd be easier if other people could understand that." He carefully wrapped an arm around her with a nod.

"It would be logical. However, humans are not always logical." She laughed and closed her eyes.

"Hey Spock? Since I apparently suck at noticing, will you tell me when someone seems interested in a romantic relationship with me?"

"Of course." She nodded.

"Even if you don't like them or don't want me to date them?"

"Why would I-?"

"Bones would do something like that."

"I will inform you as soon as I notice."

"Thanks Spock…" She trailed off and when he looked down at her she was asleep again. He watched her for a moment before picking her up to lay her down properly on the bed.

"Unfortunately I will now have to inform you of my interest soon."

Scythe left before Spock was up the next morning and headed to sickbay. She hugged Bones instantly and he grinned at her.

"You're welcome." She smiled and sat on a bed.

"Thanks. Are we going to a planet soon?"

"Not for a few days. And it's a diplomatic mission." Scythe groaned and leaned back.

"Those are boring. Are these people really stiff?"

"Yeah. Jim's almost dreading it. You might not want to go down." She shook her head.

"No, I'll behave myself. I love going to new places." Bones patted her head.

"Okay, I'll make sure Jim knows that this time." She jumped off the bed

"Thanks. I'm off today so I'm going to go bother Spock again."

"Just leave him alone!" She laughed and ducked out of the room.

Awwww... How cute! ^^ You like?