NAME: Я люблю тебя (Ya Lyublu Tebya)
RATING: PG
FANDOM: Star Trek Reboot
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, James T. Kirk, Spock, Hikaru Sulu, Nyota Uhura, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Christine Chapel, Cupcake | pre-slash Scotty/Chekov, slight Bones/Uhura and Kirk/Spock, Hikaru/Chekov friendship, Uhura/Chekov friendship.
GENRES: Romance/Sci Fi
SUMMARY: Chekov challenges Scotty by telling him a secret in Russian.
PROMPT: 27: Foreign
WARNINGS: Chekov's accent, Scotty's accent, slash, swearing, and fluff.
AU: Spock/Uhura never happened

It had been a pretty mellow day for the crew of the USS Enterprise. No weird alien diseases, no desperate calls from planets in need of company. The Bridge Crew was in tiptop health. Suffice to say, Kirk was bored as hell. So Spock had decided that he and the captain were going to play chess (though Hikaru turned to his fellow helmsman and mouthed 'chess' with air quotes, causing the seventeen-year-old Russian whizkid to chuckle slightly).

Bones had shyly called Uhura down to the Med Bay, as Chapel and he were working on something and Chapel swore she needed another pair of female eyes down there anyway.

So Sulu and Chekov decided to go down to the hull and look for something to do. Rather, Sulu dragged Chekov down to the hull to bother Scotty. Sulu's other plan was getting the two transwarp theory geeks together, but he wasn't about to tell his younger friend that. He had seen the flirtatious looks, the blushes, and all the awkward conversations that had been held between the two of them. Ever since Chekov had saved the day that first mission about five or six months ago, Scotty had been seeing Chekov with new eyes. Puppy love at its best.

So that was why Scotty was accosted by a hyper-active pilot and Helmsman Chekov.

"What cannae I 'elp you lads with?" he had asked.

Hikaru had been formulating a plan for a while now, but he just hoped Pavel would go through with his end. He had asked the Russian to speak his native language, issuing a challenge to the other male in a fun attempt to get his feelings out.

"Mr. Chekov wishes to issue a challenge to you, Mr. Scott," Hikaru replied, grinning at his little friend.

Chekov blushed, but looked up at the older male and said, "Da. I vill tell you a secret, but as part of ze challenge, I must say it in my native toungue, and you must translate. You may use anybody on zis ship, but you may not use a translator. It's more fun if you ask ozers instead of cheating vith a translator," Chekov said, warming up as he spoke.

"Oh?" Scotty asked, raising one eyebrow, "And what is this message, lad?"

"Ya lyublu tebya," Chekov said, nodding his head as if it was a fact (which it was).

Scotty's face fell, "Lad… the only words I know in Russian are 'yes,' 'no,' and 'where's the restroom?'"

"Hawe fun, and come find me vhen you hawe it!" Chekov called, and grabbed Hikaru's arm to escape the hull back to the Bridge. Both were laughing like schoolboys at recess as they ran up the stairs, nearly crashing into an officer Captain Kirk still called Cupcake and his Asian friend.

Scotty was struck dumb, and had that look on his face even as the two redshirted men talked to him about this and that.

"Sir?" Cupcake asked, "Is something wrong?"

"Do ya know what the heck 'Ya lyublu tebya' mean?" Scotty asked, looking at him after a few minutes of silence, in which all three men were suffering.

Cupcake turned to his friend, "Should we go get Dr. McCoy, Mr. Scott? You're speaking tongues…"

"The only tongue I'm speaking is English and Russian, lads. Get back to work…" Scotty was now totally out of it as he spoke to his subordinates, pushing passed them as he was reminded of McCoy's existence. Would anyone in the Med Bay know Russian? Uhura, perhaps, but Scotty had no clue where she was at the moment….

He found Uhura in the Med Bay, but he was still too frazzled to speak to her directly. McCoy checked him out to see of anything was the matter, and Nurse Chapel and Uhura stayed with his as he got over his nerves.

"Len… do ya know what "Ya lyublu tebya' means?" he asked when it was just him and the good doctor.

McCoy looked at him with a raised eyebrow and called Spock and Kirk down to discuss the matter.

"Ya lyublu tebya? Is that some weird alien tongue?" Kirk asked.

"It's Russian, Jim," Spock replied.

"It sounds so… different," Kirk replied, shrugging. "Can we use the translator up on the Bridge?"

"That's cheatin'. In all cases, actually. But especially this one," Scotty replied briskly.

"What is the case here, Scotty?" McCoy asked, crossing his arms in his usual pissy way.

"Mr. Chekov and Mr. Sulu issued this challenge to me, earlier. I thought it would be easier, but I realized I don't know a lick of Russian, so I decided to ask someone who might…"

"I don't think… I don't think any of us know what it means," Spock said hesitantly.

Uhura walked in, exasperated, "I do, boys. I didn't just study xenolinguistics. Before I went into Starfleet, I was a Foreign Language major! Scotty, Pasha told you he loved you. 'Ya lyublu tebya' means I love you!"

Scotty stood there for a moment before he sunk down into McCoy's desk chair. McCoy was about to uproot him, but he saw the blush on the other man's cheeks and let Uhura's words sink in. "He… he loves me?" he asked.

Uhura nodded, "And you only use those words if you really, really, really mean it," she told him.

"Oh… oh my God," Scotty said, getting up and pushing past everybody.

He found the quickest route up to the Bridge (being senior engineer had its perks when it came to exploring and finding knew routes to the places one is needed most) and found Chekov playing a game of chess with Hikaru ("due to boredom," as Hikaru put it).

"I think I got it," Scotty said, putting a hand on Chekov's shoulder.

Hikaru gave his friend a grin as he got up to "go to the bathroom," and Chekov spun in his chair to face the older man. "Vell?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and grinning an adorable grin.

Scotty couldn't help himself as he leaned over, putting an hand on the armrest of the chair Chekov was in and locking lips with the young navigator. When he pulled away, he simply smiled, "That was quite a love confession, Pasha…"

"Of course it vas. Love confessions were inwented in Russia, after all…" Chekov replied, almost serious.

Scotty chuckled, shaking his head before the younger male pulled him down into another kiss.