Luna, Jim and Bones almost immediately became a trio. They were practically inseparable. In their second year, they made their schedule around each other and had almost every class together expect the flight, medical and command classes. Jim had even moved into the guest room of their apartment.

While at lunch, the three were ceaselessly talking to each other about everything in the cafeteria when Luna saw her new friend across the way. "Hey!" She called, standing up slightly to wave at him. "Sulu!"

Jim's dominance kicked in, sitting straight up to look like the alpha male. "Who is that?" Bones asked, looking him over, not sure about a new person entering the group either.

"He's in my flight class." Luna explained quickly before looking to Jim who was sitting next to her in mid bite. "Jim, scoot over."

If a new guy joining them didn't set him off, that one did. "Why the hell should I scoot over?" He asked through a full mouth.

"Because I'm the only one he knows." Luna spoke obviously.

Jim finished his bite before looking to his friend. "He can sit on the other side of you."

"Hey." They both turned at the man behind them.

"Sulu," Luna spoke out through a smile. "Jim was just moving over so you could sit down." She shot him a glare as Jim angrily picked up his tray and moved it over before standing up and going to the seat over.

Luna rolled her eyes while pulling Sulu down to sit in-between her and Jim. "Don't mind him, he's grumpy because he didn't pass the Kobayashi Maru."

"Yeah," Jim spoke while turning to Sulu and giving him a fake smile. "And my best friend is also the rudest human being around so I wouldn't blame you if you left now."

"I don't know why you thought you could pass it." Luna spoke before picking up her apple and taking a quick bite.

"I've gotta go with Luna on this one." Luna looked up to her father with a cheeky smile. He usually always sided with Jim just to make her mad. "It's impossible to pass and you're barely a second year."

"Of course you sided with her!" Jim almost shouted. "That's your daughter!"

The two continued to argue about it when Sulu leaned towards Luna, whispering in her ear. "Is it always like this with the three of you?"

Luna shrugged before giving him a little smile. "More or less."

"I'm just saying," Jim spoke finally as if that would just end the argument between them all. As if something that easy ever worked. "That test is physically impossible to pass."

"Or you're just too stupid to pass it." Luna taunted while taking a big mouthful of soup.

Jim turned to look at her, a playful look on his face. "Don't make me come down there."

Luna smiled at him before looking back down to her soup, a bit of a blush creeping on her face. "How long have you two been together?" Sulu asked, pointing back and forth at Jim and Luna.

Luna and Jim both shook their heads at the same time. "We're not together." They also spoke at the same time, Luna giving Jim a sharp glare for it. As if talking at the same time wasn't going to assure that answer.

"Just friends." Luna assured. Jim looked back and forth at the two, not liking the way she said it so quickly to him. It was like…holy shit she liked Sulu.

Jim suddenly became panicked, realizing why she wanted him to scoot over, why she wanted them to meet him so bad. He swallowed a big lump in his throat, catching the attention of Bones as Luna and Sulu continued to talk. "You okay, Jim?"

"Peachy." He spoke in a hoarse voice, finding himself tired from swallowing that huge lump.

Luna looked past Sulu for a moment to look at Jim, but he began talking again so she looked back even if she was now concerned for Jim. "So, you'll go?"

Everyone was brought back to the conversation the two were having, Jim and Bones anxious for her answer. She noticed the two's eyes instantly, making her give them major side eye before turning back to Sulu. "Of course, I would love to go, Sulu."

"Luna," he almost laughed out. "Call me Hikaru."

Luna began to smile that cheesy smile and it made Jim stab his macaroni a little harder. "Of course."

When Sulu got up, he gave her a little kiss on the cheek, and that was it for Jim. His face contorted into emotions of rage he didn't know he had, and now his macaroni was really suffering.

Luna looked back to the table like nothing had just happened and continued with her lunch. Bones and Jim both looked to each other in utter confusion before looking back to Luna. When she looked up from her scoop of soup, she noticed their eyes. "What?" she spoke through another mouthful.

"What the hell was that all about?" Bones almost yelled, grabbing the attention of other people at their tables. "That kid knows I'm your father, right?"

Luna ducked down a little bit, not wanting to attract any attention. "And you are officially the most embarrassing father."

"Are you going on a date with him?" Jim questioned as he moved back to the seat right next to her, dragging his tray of wounded macaroni.

Luna looked to Jim with a shrug. "It's just a casual hang out." Her eyes then drifted down to his tray. "What the hell happened to your mac and cheese?"

"'Just casual' my ass." Bones muttered through his drink.

Luna gave him a pointed look before looking back to Jim, noticing how angry he looked. "Don't worry, legacy," Luna laughed out. "You're still at the top of my list."

Jim smiled before looking back down at his tray, but Bones looked back and forth at the two in worry. "What's that in reference to?" Both Luna and Jim looked up at him with shit eating grins on their faces as they continued with their lunch. "Luna?" Bones asked. She looked back to Jim, the two sharing a laugh before looking back down at their trays. "Jim?" They both didn't say anything, they just continued their lunch. Bones took a deep sigh before shaking his head. "You're both the reason I'm going to die of a heart attack at forty."


Jim and Bones were both lounged out on the couch with beers, relaxing after classes on a Friday. "Guys," Luna called, hurrying out of the bathroom and into the living room. "Have either of you seen my gold necklace with the lavender agate pendant?"

"Yeah," Jim spoke while shaking his head, Luna immediately perking up from where she was crouched down in search for it. "I don't know what any of that means."

Luna gave a deep eye roll before standing up with a hearty sigh that could have been mistaken for a subtle scream. Her heels clacked as she moved to stand in front of the TV because she knew that was the only way she was going to get either of their attention. "I have to leave in three minutes and you guys are not helping."

Jim's eyes lurched out of his head as he sat up at the look of Luna. She was stunning in a lavender dress with a low cut and matching heels. Her face was made up and her hair was done in a sophisticated up do. "Whoa," Jim laughed out, trying to stop his nervousness. "That is not something you wear to 'a casual hangout'."

Luna rolled her eyes at the bringing up of that topic again. "We're going to the theater, what the hell else am I supposed to wear?"

"Something with a higher neckline." Bones intervened.

"I swear," Luna laughed out her frustrations while putting a hand up to the two, fighting very hard not to roll her eyes in that moment. "My eyes are going to get stuck to the back of my head by living with you two."

She stormed out of the room while Jim casually looked over to his friend. "Did we ever established what 'agate' means?" Bones shrugged, not recognizing the term either.

"Agate," Luna started as she walked back into the room with the necklace in her hand and a smile on her face. "Is a cryptocrystalline variety of silica." The two looked to her blankly, not knowing any of those words. She took a deep sigh, knowing she would have to dumb it down to an extreme. "A pretty rock with swirls in it."

The two nodded in understanding as she put the necklace around her neck and straightened it out. "I still think you're way overdressed." Jim told her with a shrug as Luna rolled her eyes for the umpteenth time. "Who's really gonna see you at this thing?"

Luna made a fake face of thought. "Besides all of my intellectual friends who can actually pronounce Macbeth right?"

"Hey." Both Jim and Bones spoke at the same time with the same level of annoyance.

"You two dug yourself into this hole." Luna spoke as she moved back to her room to grab her clutch, her voice getting slightly louder at how far away she was. "I asked you both to go to this thing with me for weeks, but no," once she was sure she was situated, she joined the two back in the living room. "You two would rather drink beer and listen to Beastie Boys while lounging on the couch."

"Hey," Bones spoke while pointing at her. "Don't insult them, you were raised on it."

"Whatever." She spoke as she moved to the door. "I'm leaving." Once she was out the door, she poked her head back in, giving the two a cheesy smile. "Don't wait up. Love you."

"Love you." Jim and Bones spoke at the same time before the door closed.

That's when Jim turned to Bones with a wildness in his eyes. "We have to go to that play and sabotage her date."

Bones let out a deep sigh, not really wanting to move from his comfortable spot in the couch. "Don't you have anything better to do?"

"I do not." Jim spoke with the shake of his head.

"What are you gonna do, Jim?" Bones asked while throwing his hand in the air. "You're gonna show up and pull them away from each other?"

"Oh, like it doesn't bother you too."

Bones let out a little sigh. In the back of his mind, it did. It bothered him to see her with anyone because she was still his little girl. "My daughter is a grown woman who can do what she wants."

Jim sat back, trying to think of anything else that would get Bones' attention to the subject. "What if they have sex?"

Bones sat there for a moment, letting that thought sit with him before standing up. "Okay, we're sabotaging that date." Jim cheered for a moment before standing up with him. This was going to be the best night ever.


Luna sat next to Sulu with Ben on his left and Uhura right next to Ben. The four talked amongst themselves before the play started, Jim and Bones obtaining a seat behind the group, but not too closely behind. "How are we gonna sabotage the date?" Jim asked while beginning to rub his chin in thought.

"This was your plan." Bones spoke, annoyed with him. "How are you not even going to come with a plan to further your initial plan?"

Jim waved his hand at him, his eyes glued to the back of Luna's head. "I'll figure something out."

The lights then dimmed and everyone got instantly quiet. Jim then looked around, realizing he had trapped himself into watching this play. With a heavy sigh, he looked to the back of Luna's head again. "Well, I'm seeing this play with or without you." That's when an older woman next to him shushed him. Something Jim would never admit to Luna was that he actually liked the play.

When it was finally over, both Jim and Bones had to duck so Luna wouldn't spot either of them, and then the two followed the group to the restaurant they went to. The pair continued with a far enough away distance to be able to observe, but not be observed. "I don't think she was lying when she said it was a casual hang out." Bones spoke with a shrug after a while.

"Oh, please," Jim spoke as he looked back to his friend. When he looked back to Luna, she was laughing loudly with a glass of wine in her hand. "She's drinking wine for goodness sake! That is a beer girl drinking wine!"

"Will you keep your voice down?" Bones hushed him. "She's gonna hear us and we're gonna get spotted. Then she's going to kill us."

Jim let out a deep sigh as she leaned into Sulu with a hearty laugh. "That's it." Jim spoke as he stood up. "I can't just sit here anymore."

"I thought you didn't have a plan?" Bones asked him quickly, becoming panicked.

"I'll make one up as I go." Jim then took off, but when he did, he made Bones completely visible to Luna.

Bones began to panic and tried to hide, but it was too late, she had spotted him. Her face twisted into anger and annoyance. She turned to Uhura with a polite smile to mask her true emotions. "Can you excuse me for a moment?"

She removed the napkin from her lap and hurried to her father's table. "What the hell are you doing here?" She questioned with a hand on her hip.

Bones looked up at her casually through his sip of wine. "What I do in my personal time is my business."

"What personal time? You have two friends and I'm one of them." That's when Luna straightened up, realizing one of the possibilities of why he was here. "Dad, did you and Jim follow me?"

Bones scoffed while he leaned further into his seat. "Please, I have better things to do than to spy on you and your little date."

Luna gave him a long eyeroll before shaking her head at him. "Fine, I'll buy it, but Dad, I swear to god if Jim is here, I am going to make you both do my homework for a year."

"Well, looks like you're going to be doing your own homework for a year." He ended it with a smile, making Luna's glare even deeper.

Luna shook her head at him before turning around quickly and hurrying back to the group's table. When she sat down, Uhura looked over to her with a confused face at her sudden walk away. "Are you okay?"

"Peachy." Luna muttered through a drink of her wine. Her southern accent seemed to be even more prominent when she was angry.

That's when Jim approached the table with a new bottle of wine. Luna looked over at him as he was standing right next to her. "Oh, what the hell?"

"Oh," Jim laughed out, trying to act surprised. "I had no idea this was your table from the kitchen."

Luna's glare deepened as she looked at Jim. "What the hell are you doing, here?"

"I got a job." He spoke with a shrug.

"As a waiter? Yeah, right." The entire group continued to look back and forth at the two as they argued.

"I decided to see what it's really like in the food service industry."

"I think you're full of it."

"And I think you need a refill." He spoke as he leaned down to begin to pour the wine in her glass, but as he did, he began to pour some on her. "Oh my goodness," Jim spoke as Luna lurched up, the wine already staining the dress. "I am so sorry," Luna gave him a death glare as he put his hand on her back to guide her out. "Let's get you cleaned up."

"Hell no," She claimed, ripping her body away from his. "I'm not going anywhere with you."

"Dude," Sulu spoke as he stood up. "Why don't you just leave her alone?"

"Oh mind your business, fancy pants."

"So, I was right!" Luna shouted, grabbing the whole restaurant's attention if they didn't already have it. "You are spying on me and you came down here to mess up my evening! How typical!"

"Ma'am," their waiter spoke as he began to walk up to them. "Is this man bothering you."

"Very much so." Luna spoke, not being able to take her eyes of off Jim. She was mad, but all in all, she was disappointed he didn't trust her.

"Sir," the waiter began. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

"I work here." Jim spoke in an offended tone.

"No you don't." The whole group spoke along with the waiter.

Jim then looked to Luna again, and he saw something else on her face. Embarrassment. She looked around at everyone watching and she looked so small as she retreated into herself. He knew all about her. He knew how embarrassed she was to be a farm girl growing up, how the constant teasing was the worst feeling in the world to her. How it took her so long to be comfortable in her own skin. And as he looked at her, he knew he was bringing that awful feeling back, and Jim felt so guilty. "Yeah." He almost whispered. "I'll leave." Luna looked back to him as she gulped down her feelings when he lipped: I'm sorry.

Their waiter began to escort him out and everyone went back to their meal slowly. When Luna sat back in her chair, there was a heaviness weighing her down. Once Jim was outside, the waiter came back to their table, saying something about comping a dessert for their interruption, but Luna continued to look forward, thinking of everything that just happened. She took a long drink of wine before her gaze went back down to her dress where the wine stain was now embedded.

She slowly put down her glass before looking around the table. Everyone else was awkwardly and quickly trying to come up with other topics to change the subject, but Luna couldn't stop thinking about it. She then stood up abruptly, knowing what she had to do. Everyone looked to her, with sympathy in their eyes. "If you could all excuse me." She stuttered before grabbing her clutch and hurrying towards to back door of the restaurant.

When she made it outside, she noticed both Jim and Bones sitting on the steps of the restaurant, her walking now slowed to hear what they were saying. "You didn't see her face." Jim spoke, his voice sounding haunted as he looked straight forward. "I doubt she'll ever speak to me again."

"I thought about it." Luna finally spoke up, making them both turn around as she continued down the rest of the steps. Her gaze then went to her father. "Dad, can I talk to Jim alone for a minute?"

Bones nodded before standing up, making sure to clap Jim's shoulder before leaving. "Good luck." Jim scoffed as he began to walk off before throwing his hands in the air in defeat. He wasn't much help.

With a heavy sigh, Luna moved down a couple of steps so she could sit on the same step as him, a small smile sitting on her face. "You know Sulu is married, right?"

Jim blinked before turning to look at her. "What?"

"Yeah, that guy in there is his husband." Jim blinked a few times again, looking away from her. "And they have a baby girl." Jim opened his mouth, about to speak, but Luna cut him off. "Yeah, I know you don't think."

"I am so sorry." Jim whispered to her.

"What I don't understand is why you were so uptight about the whole thing?" Jim looked to her, not sure how to tell her this. "I'm not your girlfriend, so why do you insist to keep treating me like yours?"

"Because I want you to be." Jim spoke out in frustration before turning his body to look at her. There was silence between the two, the sound of the crickets creeping into it, only the moon's light beating on them. Jim finally met her eyes and even though the scenery of them being near the woods on a clear night in San Francisco was beautiful, he was sure he would never find a more beautiful sight than her round brown eyes. "I've never wanted more than anything, and when I thought you were going on a date…I was…I had never felt more hurt before."

Luna felt tears poking at her eyes as she shook her head. "Don't do that." She told him with a point of the finger. "Don't make me feel something I cannot feel right now."

"What's so wrong about ending up with me?" Jim was offended that time. "I know you want it too, so don't act like I'm some infectious disease you need to steer clear from."

Luna just sat there before shaking her head and looking away from him. "I'm scared, okay?" She wrapped her arms around her body in stress while taking deep breaths. All Jim could do was look at her. "Do you understand how many times I had to watch my father throw himself in and out of constant relationships that ended up in his heartbreak?" She looked to Jim again, the first tear falling down her cheek. "As much as I want it, as much feelings as I have for you, I'm scared, and your history doesn't make it any better." She let out a little gasp as she looked down. "I don't want to get hurt."

Luna looked down again as she continued to cry, the crickets putting their two cents in again. That's when Jim leaned forward, grabbing one cheek in his hand to make her look up at him. "I would never hurt you."

She gulped as she looked into his eyes. They were just so blue. She couldn't help getting lost in them. "That's what they all say."

"Yeah," Jim chuckled. "But none of them lived with your father who would kill me if I ever did hurt you."

Luna began to laugh as Jim stroked her cheek with his thumb. "That authentic laugh."

And in that moment, she wasn't so scared anymore. All of her guards and walls fell in an instant, and she knew she needed Jim. And she could be with him. He leaned forward and the two shared a first kiss. A kiss she couldn't help but lean into, and soon they were grabbing each other, hoping for a deeper kiss, in complete bliss with the other.

ImsebastianstanButter: Yeah, I kind of thought about it, but I love the relationship between Jim and Bones and I didn't want anything to kind of taint that. I'm so happy you liked it and I hope you liked this one too!

I didn't plan for Jim and Luna to get together so soon, but I really liked how this chapter came out. I hope you guys liked it and I hope you all had a relaxing weekend. Remember to review!