/AN: Hey everybody. My body was very mean to me this month along with some phone drama, so I didn't get the writing done I wanted to, let alone a chance to upload my back log here at all. I hope y'all had a better October than I did. Anyways here is the next installment of Kirk Surprises Uhura. This one features Gaila, Uhura cursing in the Dragonborn dialect of Draconic and a pretty sizable chunk of dialogue from the 2009 movie. Also the first hints of Kirk being on the aro spectrum in this series. I hope you enjoy. /AN

It was a bitch of a day and Uhura wanted nothing more than to collapse onto her bunk and pass the fuck out. Then she got in her dorm and Gaila smelled like pheromones. Uhura pretended like she couldn't tell her roommate and one of her crushes probably hadn't just got back from having sex with someone else.

"Hey," Gaila smiled that dazzling smile of hers.

"Hey," Uhura couldn't help smiling back.

"How are you?"

"Good." It wasn't an entire lie. She was exhausted but not strictly bad. "The strangest thing, I was in the long-range sensor lab…"

"Yeah… I thought all night." Something about the way she said that struck Nyota as odd, and she started to shake it off, until she heard the breathing coming from under Gaila's bunk. No wonder she smelled.

"I was tracking solar systems and I picked up an emergency transmission."

"Really?"

"Yeah, from a Klingon prison planet."

"No?"

"Yeah. A Klingon armada was destroyed. 47 ships.

"So, you're not going back to the lab tonight?"

"Gaila, who is he?"

"Who's who?"

"The mouth breather hiding under your bed."

A blond head peaks out, "you could hear me breathing?"

"You!" That karshoji Kirk.

"Big day tomorrow," Kirk smirked, but the cockiness didn't reach his eyes. She looked at him more closely. He had been breathing loudly, but it was shallow and quick, like he couldn't catch his breath.

"You're gonna fail."

Kirk shrugged as he got out from under Gaila's bed, the action seeming to relax him. "Gaila, see you around."

"Get out." Of all people, Gaila brought him here. She hoped neither him nor Gaila could hear the wavering in her voice.

"If I pass, will you tell me your first name?"

"No, goodnight." Uhura practically pushed him out the door.

"I think the fact that you picked up a transmission is very interesting," Kirk said with a wink as he went out the door.

It was silent in the door room for a moment. "I know you don't like him Ny, and that I wasn't supposed to bring him here, but you didn't have to be such a bitch." Gaila's voice sounded sad.

"Me, a bitch?" Uhura winced at the edge she couldn't manage to keep out of her voice.

"I just, I just wanted our first time to be on my terms you know? You weren't supposed to be in so I thought I could manage it, that I wouldn't disturb you."

"Your first time?"

"Do you know how long I've been trying to woo Jim? Ny, it's taken me two and a half years." Nyota had no idea. She thought they had probably been fucking the whole time. "I mean we've gone on a couple of dates, more than a couple, but he had this weird idea that we couldn't date and fuck. Like how weird is that?"

Nyota was baffled. She had no idea what to say to that. And she definitely wouldn't have expected it from Kirk of all people. "Pretty weird."

"And so I finally get him into bed, and we're not even naked, but things are getting hot and heavy you know? And then I fucked up. Big time."

"What happened?" Uhura was about 1000% sure she really didn't want to know. But she was pretty sure Gaila was going to tell her anyways.

"I told him I loved him. I figured it would be better now, like, you can't say that for the first time while you're having sex, or after. Just it isn't real then."

Yeah, Nyota really didn't need to karshoji know that. Her heart might be breaking a little. Or a lot. She couldn't bring herself to speak. So she just nodded.

"He freaked the fuck out. Like he said 'that's so weird' and when I turned the lights on he was hyperventilating and shaking."

"What?"

"I think he might have been having a panic attack or something. And I was freaking out because like, Jim Kirk panicking, because I told him I loved him. And then we heard you and I panicked and shoved him under the bed." Gaila looked as close to heart broken as Ny had ever seen her.

Nyota wanted to take the Orion girl in her arms. She wanted to do more than that. But she couldn't. She couldn't take advantage of her friend like that. She couldn't mess up the probably blossoming relationship with Professor Spock like that. So she did the only thing she could. "I'm sorry," Nyota said as she collapsed onto her bunk.

"Do you think he'll ever forgive me?"

"I don't know Gal. I don't know." Nyota really didn't know what to think about Kirk anymore at all.