NAME: Moments
RATING: T
FANDOM: Star Trek Reboot
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Nyota Uhura | Scotty/Chekov pre-slash, very slight Kirk/Spock
GENRES: Romance/Sci Fi/Drabble (ish)
SUMMARY: Loosely based on the sequence "Forbidden Friendship" in How To Train Your Dragon. New friendships are akin to a dance. Feelings grow between a Scottish engineer and a Russian navigator.
PROMPT: 1: Introduction
WARNINGS: Chekov's accent, Scotty's accent, pre-slash, swearing, and fluff.
AU: Spock/Uhura never happened.
It happened very quickly. Almost too quickly for the Scottish engineer. At one moment he was just telling the younger boy he "did good" on the grounds of the whole hiding behind the magnitude of one of Saturn's moons to dancing around the Russian whizkid as he tried getting a box of spare parts to another red-shirt in another quadrant of the Enterprise.
"Och, sorry, lad. You go right, and I'll go left…" he had told the young boy when the classic ducking and weaving had only gotten them almost bumping into each other as they tried to get past each other.
"Nyet. Zat's vrong. You go right and I'll go right," the boy in question replied, smiling.
They tried it, and it worked. Scotty threw a tiny smile over his shoulder and continued walking toward his chosen destination. Pavel Chekov, on the other hand, watched the older man go, and then went back the way he had come. Little moments can turn into larger things, a friend of Chekov's had once told him back at the Academy.
Pavel had no clue what he was doing, creating little moments between him and the older engineer. Some would call it a tiny crush on the other transwarp enthusiast, but Pavel was too naïve to even know his own feelings for the other man. It was everything Pavel could do to spend time with the other, as he was a helmsman and Scotty was an engineer, forever banished to the hull of the ship, only coming up for fixing problems with buttons and other such extremities.
He just wanted to see more of Scotty. And if dancing around the older male 'on his way down to get something' was how he would see the other man, then so be it.
"Hey, Pavel, get what you need?" Sulu asked as his friend and fellow helmsman returned and relieved the other gold-shirt at the con.
"Seems I didn't need it after all," was Chekov's cryptic retort.
"Something wrong?" Sulu asked, a worried look for his friend on his face.
Chekov turned his head and smiled, "Just some experiments gone vrong for me down in ze hull," he replied.
"Do you need any help?" Sulu asked.
"Perhaps vhen zey actually start vorking, Sulu," Chekov replied, just as his Captain came on the bridge.
Soon they were at warp, and Chekov was feeling less uneasy about the whole thing. There would be a new moment that might or might not work for the Russian whizkid, but he had hope that one day these moments would pay off and he would have what he wanted.