/AN: Hey y'all. Wish I had something new to give y'all, but all my new chapters are either in progress or waiting for my beta's attention. Luckily for those of you over here on FFN, I still got backlog to catch up on. I hope you enjoy this little scene. /AN

Uhura stood at the door to her and Gaila's dorm at a loss. She couldn't bare to go inside and see all of Gal's stuff. What would she even do with it? It's not like Gaila had any family to return the effects to. She hadn't even had very many friends besides Uhura. And Kirk.

Kirk. The man Gaila had loved. The man who didn't love Gaila back. The man who saved Earth. The man she had spent the last three years fighting with and being annoyed by. The man who managed to emotionally compromise Spock. Her boyfriend. She had a boyfriend now. And Gaila, Gaila was gone.

Maybe she would pack Gal's stuff up, put it in storage. Maybe she would give Gal's stuff to Kirk. She would like that. Not sure if Kirk would. And if he would just through Gaila's stuff out? No, Nyota couldn't deal with that. She couldn't bare it if her best friend, her roommate, her major crush's stuff were to be thrown away.

She couldn't face what was inside that room, but she had nowhere else to go.

"Hey," the voice was soft.

"Kirk." There was none of the usual bite to her word. She just didn't have the energy for it.

"I can't believe she's really gone." There was something to Kirk's voice Nyota couldn't identify, couldn't place.

She turned to face Kirk instead of the door. "Me neither."

"She was just so vibrant. So full of life. I can't believe I lost another person. And to that bastard." Oh yeah, Nero had killed his father as well.

"I keep expecting her to walk around a corner," Nyota admits.

Kirk smiles and it's something sad and heartbreaking. "She told me she loved me."

"I know."

"No one ever told me that before. Like anyone."

Nyota was surprised. "Surely your parents-"

Kirk laughed bitterly. "What parents? My dad died three minutes after I was born. My mom hardly even looked at me. I grew up in foster care until my mom married a drunk bastard who beat me. My brother blamed me for everything going wrong in his life. Gaila was the first person to say she loved me. And now, now…" he trailed off, tears in his voice.

"She really did love you. She was so terrified she had fucked everything up with you. After you freaked out and she panicked and everything."

"I don't even kn-know what l-l-love is." Kirk sounded, looked so utterly broken. Like his soul was crumbling. Nyota didn't know what to do. This Kirk was so unlike the brash, cocky man she had started to get to know.

"You cared for her right?"

Kirk nodded, wiping tears from his eyes.

"Then that's enough Kirk. That's enough."

"C-call me Jim."

Uhura smiled emptily and held out her hand. "Nice to meet you Jim, I'm Nyota."

Kirk chuckled half-heartedly, but shook her hand.