Jim looked down on the picture he had taken as he stood outside the building. With nerves running through his whole body, Jim thought back on last week.

It had been a short flight. Well, short for Luna and Jim, for Bones it dragged on and on. Luna and Jim were laughing and talking, Bones actually being calm enough to interject here and there. Jim was enjoying having a sober conversation with a beautiful woman. Luna was nothing like he expected. He wanted to be with her. Not just with her for one night and then avoid her for the rest of the three years they were at the Academy. He wanted to take her out. Let everyone know that she was his. Of course, he wanted to sleep with her, but not until she was good and ready. Because he knew she would be worth the wait.

As Jim's mind wandered to what it would be like to be with her, the aircraft landed, Bones being the first one to unbuckle his seatbelt and hurry to the door. Luna rolled her eyes at Jim for her father's behavior. "Hey," Jim spoke while Luna leaned down to get her bag. "Do you want to go explore the city or something?"

Luna looked at him as she straightened up, her eyebrows furrowing. "As much as a farm girl like me would love that, I can't. I have to get the apartment unpacked with my dad."

She began to walk to the door, but Jim didn't want this to just be it. He didn't want to maybe bump into her again in class. He wanted to see her all the time. "Well, what about tonight?"

Luna's eyebrows furrowed. This was not the Jim Kirk she met last night. This Jim Kirk was acting…almost desperate. Like the girls he probably ran from. She turned around to look at him, that thinking look on her face at how quick he was acting. "Jim Kirk," she playfully scolded. "If I didn't know any better, I would say you were asking me out."

Jim laughed, trying to play it off, but Luna obviously knew something as she turned back to the forming line of cadets trying to get off the aircraft. "Me? Ask someone out? You know I don't do that." She nodded to him sarcastically as they began to get off the aircraft, Luna taking in a big breath of fresh air. "I just thought it would be nice for us to be friends, considering I don't know many people here."

Luna nodded as she turned to look at him. She liked the idea of Jim being her boyfriend, but she knew that was something he just didn't do. Men like Jim Kirk just didn't have girlfriends. There was nothing wrong that could come out of them being friends, though. Was there? "Here," Luna spoke with a smile, grabbing a pen out of her carry on and grabbing Jim's hand. "This is where my dad and I are staying." She scribbled down the address, Jim not finding himself able to look away from her gorgeous face that was focusing on writing. "Stop by sometime and we can hang out."

Jim got a smile on his face. "Yeah." Luna nodded, not really expecting much from the invitation. She actually didn't expect to see much of Jim Kirk after this. Not with his persona. "I'll come by."

They both looked to each other, big smiles on both of their faces. "Hey, Luna!" Luna looked over at where she had heard her name. It was her father, waiting about twenty feet away, waving both of their luggage. "Come on, darling, we need to go!"

Luna looked back to Jim one last time, leaning in for a hug, making sure to get right by Jim's ear. "Maybe if you're lucky, when you drop by my dad won't be home."

When they broke away, Jim gave her an impressed stare as she began to walk backwards towards her dad, not ready to look away from Jim Kirk just yet. He was giving her that dopey smile that she laughed at before turning all the way around and joining her dad. Jim just kept watching her, though. He was most definitely going to take her up on that offer.

Before the pen marks could wash away, he made sure to take a picture of her address. It had taken about a week to get settled and start classes. He looked for Luna in every single class he had, but they were so big, he wouldn't be surprised if he just missed her. Although, he didn't know how he could miss a pretty face like that.

It was their first weekend since arriving and Jim knew what he was going to do. He was going to find Luna McCoy and take her out on a date even if it killed him. He was dressed in the best clothes he could find, just outside her apartment building and extremely confident. He wasn't going to take "no" for an answer.

He climbed up the steps, saying "hi" to everyone he passed, never being happier since he got to San Francisco. When he finally reached the apartment number, he took a deep sigh before knocking cheerily on the door.

It took almost no time, Luna opened up the door, but this was not the Luna he met. This had to be "farm girl" Luna. Her hair was tied into a very loose braid, a Guns and Roses T-shirt on with holes all over and jean shorts. Sweat was pouring down her face, or at least he thought it was sweat. All of her clothes were kind of wet. "Jim," she sighed out, giving him a kind of apologetic smile. "Now is really not a good time."

"What's going on?" Jim could hear commotion from inside, but Luna closed the door further so he wouldn't be able to see.

"Nothing." She spoke while shaking her head. "It's just not a good time, okay?"

She tried to shut the door, but Jim just caught it with his hands, annoying Luna. She was already stressed out as it is. "What's going on?"

"My horse is sick!" Luna finally forced out. "My dad went back to Iowa to tend to her, and she might not make it, and to make matters even worse, our pipe just busted and I have no idea how to fix it!"

"What kind of break?"

He said it so suddenly, Luna almost didn't know what he was asking. She knew the last thing she said was the water pipe so she assumed it was that. "Um," she thought for a moment, not sure how to answer that question. "It was the connection thingy that popped off."

"Do you still have it?" Jim asked as he began to take his jacket off.

"Uh," Luna was confused about this. It was like a bad porno. "Yeah?"

"Well because I have an idea on how to fix it."

Luna scoffed, a small smile growing on her face before giving him a little smile. "I can just call the maintenance man."

Jim got a sly smile on his face. "What? Too scared it's going to play out like a bad porno?" Luna blinked for a moment as he moved past her. Wasn't that exactly what she was thinking? "Damn."

Luna snapped out of it, deciding to follow Jim into her own apartment. The entire kitchen had become covered and she was becoming scared it was going to start dripping into the ceiling under her. "It's bad."

"I can see that." Jim sang obviously as he turned to look at her.

Luna rolled her eyes before crossing her arms. "Are you gonna fix it or not?"

"I'm gonna need your help." Jim got down on his knees and moved under the sink. His muscles almost bulged out of his shirt and Luna bit her lip at that. Maybe this would turn out like a bad porno. "Can you get down here and hold it?"

Oh, she could hold a lot of things. But she had to listen to him. They had to get this pipe fixed, it was getting ridiculous. She got down, holding it as best as she could as Jim grabbed the piece from the pipe on the counter. He began to screw it into place, but his arm jerked and the water went right into Luna's face. She screamed and Jim couldn't help his laugh. "Did you do that on purpose?!" She screamed.

"No." Jim laughed out. He just couldn't help himself.

"Asshole!" She yelled while moving the pipe in his direction.

"Hey!" Jim yelled at her while trying to put his hand in front of the water coming out. "Luna, would you – " He was cut off by a mouthful of water as Luna gave a cocky smile, finding herself very proud in that moment. "Seriously?!" He began to complain while pushing it away from him. "I'm here to help you."

"And you also got me a face full of water so we'll see who's here to help who."

Jim simply rolled his eyes before getting back on topic. "Okay, I'm going to hold it together with the…" he got a smug smile on his face, "what did you call it?"

Luna matched his smile, knowing he was a complete smart ass. "Connection thingy."

He let out a low chuckle. "I'll hold it together with the 'connection thingy' and you'll use electrical tape to hold it together."

Luna looked up to the counter with all the tools on it before looking back to Jim. "Which one is the electrical tape again?"

"Oh my god." Jim was actually surprised. "How could your father leave you to yourself for days when you don't know what electrical tape is?"

"I grew up on a farm not a power plant!"

Jim looked at her bewildered. "That shouldn't matter!" She continued to look at him expectantly, waiting to know what electrical tape was. Jim rolled his eyes. "The thick, small, black tape."

"Thank you." She spoke while taking in what was on the counter before pulling out the electrical tape. "This one?"

"Good job." He spoke sarcastically to her as she simply gave him a tight smirk. "Okay, you gotta do it fast because it's gonna be hard to hold onto." Luna nodded, pulling out the first bit of tape. "Ready?" She nodded. "Go!"

Jim leaned forward, closing the pipe as best as he could with the "connection thingy" as Luna wrapped the tape around it, holding the pipe together until the maintenance man could fix it further. The two let out deep breaths as they looked to each other with smiles and giggles. They didn't even notice the front door opening and closing. They just kept laughing about the "connection thingy", putting the pipe in each other's faces and how the floor was completely covered with water.

That was until Bones stood in the dining room leading into the kitchen to look at the two. "What the hell happened here?"

Luna looked up to her father, her laughter slowly dying down before she looked back to Jim. "We fixed the broken pipe."

"The pipe broke?" Bones asked before moving past the two gigglers to look at the busted pipe. "It's a temporary fix, but it'll do."

He then looked back to the two, making sure to look at Jim mostly in the best threatening way he could. He knew just like his daughter that Jim was a player and he was going to kill both him and his daughter if anything happened. "You two are going to clean this up and then I'm going to make dinner."

"Yes sir." Jim spoke, the smile immediately wiping the smile off of his face.

Bones began to walk off, but Luna remembered the one question she had. "Is Genie okay?"

Bones turned around to look at her when he was almost in his room. "Yeah, just some indigestion." Luna let out a relaxed breath. "You'd think someone who inherited a farm would know what that was." He rolled his eyes as Luna let out a little laugh. "Get to cleaning." He spoke obviously.

Luna rolled her eyes as he went into his room before looking to Jim. "He doesn't like me very much."

Luna shook her head to him while giving him a little smile. "No, he's just insanely overprotective." She stood up and began to move to the closet where they kept all of the cleaning supplies. "Now, you gonna help me mop up this floor?"


The three ate and now Jim and Luna were sitting side by side on the couch drinking beers as they watched TV. They were a little too close together for Bones' liking so he moved to sit down in between the two. Luna simply rolled her eyes, but Jim was trying to get on his good side so he smiled to Bones and struck up a conversation with him. This went on for hours. Every time he tried to talk to Luna, Bones but in. It was really starting to annoy her.

When it was getting later, Jim decided he better go since his roommate would be upset he came in late. He really hated that guy. Luna walked him out and for the first time all night, Bones didn't try to interfere. She closed the door after them, the two standing outside of her apartment, being quiet for a few moments before Jim decided to speak up. "This was nice."

Luna's eyebrows furrowed at him. "You're acting like this was a date." Jim began to look everywhere, but at Luna's eyes, making her jaw drop. "Oh my gosh, you came here to ask me out on a date, didn't you?"

Jim scoffed as he began to shake his head, trying to play it off as best as he could. "No."

Luna began to laugh at him. Jim couldn't resist that laugh. "Oh, you so did."

Jim shrugged while leaning against the door, trying to pull his charm out. "And what if I did come here to ask you out?"

Luna bit her lip as she tried to fight a smile. "Well, I think you would have made up your mind on how you wanted our relationship to continue by dinner with my dad."

"Bones?" He laughed out. "He's cool."

"He needs help." Luna corrected while looking back to the door, thinking about how annoying he was with Jim all over again.

"Did you like spending time with me?"

Luna rolled her eyes. She always hated this awkward part. She never knew how to move forward. "I do, but I don't think a relationship is the best thing."

Jim didn't know what to do with that information. No one ever really refused him. "Why's that?"

Luna scoffed again. "Jim, you're great, but you are such a player. I don't think I would ever be able to trust you." Jim felt like he was just shot. He had his mind set on this girl, and she didn't want to be with him. "But I really want us to be friends."

Jim let that all process. He was really just turned down. This had never happened before. "Aw." Luna spoke while leaning forward to rub his arm, picking up on his disappointing. "Are you gonna be okay, princess?"

"Shut up." He laughed while throwing her hand off of his arm. If she wanted the two to be friends, he was going to let the two be friends, but he wasn't going to stop the flirting.

Luna moved in for a hug, alerting Jim. He didn't want to be teased, but that's what was going to happen to him if they kept up their friendship. This was going to be hard for Luna too, though. Jim and Luna were obviously attracted to each other, but she wanted Jim to prove to her that she could trust him. And then if he could, she would see where they would go. "I'll see you at school tomorrow?"

When they pulled away, Jim nodded before nodding to the elevator down the hall. "I'll see you later."

She gave him a slight smile before giving him a little wave. "Bye, Jim."

He was still looking at her as he backed into the elevator door before remembering he had to push the button. Luna laughed a little before walking into her apartment and Jim thought over where he went wrong during the ride.

When Luna got back into the apartment, Bones gave her a confused face from the couch. She was hoping it would pass, but he kept it as she moved to the fridge. As she twisted the cap off of her soda, she shrugged, finding his look annoying. "What?"

"Nothing." Bones scoffed while turning to look back at the TV.

"Well, obviously, it means something." She spoke with an eye roll before sitting down next to him.

"I don't know," Bones spoke while shrugging, refusing to look at his daughter while she couldn't stop looking at him. "I just thought you were into him and you just totally blew him off."

Luna rolled her eyes, a slight smile coming on her lips. "Jim Kirk is a complete player, if I were to start something with him, I would never be able to keep up with it."

Bones nodded at what she said. "But you like him."

Luna shrugged while turning to look at her father. "Okay?"

Bones shrugged before looking back to the TV. "I just thought you were more fearless than that."

She began to give him a sarcastic chuckle before shaking her head. "Yeah, watching you break your own heart time after time weren't lessons enough." He was taken aback by that, trying to open his mouth to say something when Luna got off the couch and began to walk towards her room. "You know what, I'm gonna go work on some school stuff."

Bones stood up, becoming stressed out with his daughter, trying to follow her. "Luna – "

"I'm fine." She spoke to him slowly before completely going into her room and shutting the door after her. She looked around at the boxes she had yet to unpack with a stressed sigh. She did have a lot to do. Professor Spock expected ten pages on all the different galaxies in space that she hadn't even started, and she still had a lot to unpack. As she looked around her room, though, she couldn't find the strength to do any of it. Why did she always do this with people she liked? She could blame her father's relationships all she wanted, but if she was going to be completely honest, she was scared she was going to get hurt. And that's what stopped her from starting up a relationship with Jim Kirk.


Nyota and Luna sat in their first class of the day gabbing about the latest news and how their first week was. That's when Jim and her father walked in side by side. Her eyebrows furrowed. Really? They were friends now? And she had a class with Jim? "Hey, legacy!" She called out, grabbing Jim's attention in a millisecond.

Nyota rolled her eyes at her friend. Was she really going to pursue this? Jim immediately moved over students to get to her, nearly tripping multiple times as Bones simply rolled his eyes before following. "Hey, hot stuff." Jim spoke with a wink before sitting down in the empty seat in front of her.

She rolled her eyes at his back before looking to Nyota who was giving her a disapproving glance. "What?" She scoffed at her friend's look. "I'm branching out." Nyota turned away while throwing up her hands to show her she wasn't giving her any judgement, but there was obvious judgement.

As their professor walked in, they all took out their PADDs to begin taking notes. As Luna did this, she couldn't stop staring at the back of Jim's head. Maybe they could work something out and she didn't have to be afraid. Maybe.

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