Once summer ended, Nyota and Luna went on a little vacation, just the two of them, and Jim was miserable. All he did was pout around the apartment and wait on Luna's video chats. It was all making Bones sick. But on the day she was coming back, Jim was like a little boy on Christmas morning.

Both Jim and Bones walked into the airport, looking around for her. "Do you think she got a tan?" Jim asked.

"I don't know, Jim." Bones sighed out, looking down at his PADD to see if her flight had landed or not. "Probably."

"I just hope she's well relaxed." Bones rolled his eyes again. He was glad both Luna and Jim were happy together, but they were getting very annoying. "We're starting our third year soon, and that's the most stressful year."

"She was in Mexico, I'm pretty sure she's relaxed enough for all of us."

That's when Jim noticed Luna and Uhura both on the escalator to get to baggage claim. Jim let a huge smile pass across his lips at the look of her. She was so tan and she looked so happy. That's how he knew all that agonizing waiting for her to come back was worth it to see that happy look on her face and her beach waved curls with a flower by her side bangs. When she made eye contact with him, a huge smile took her whole face.

She then began to maneuver her way through the people as Jim began to hurry towards her as well. Uhura smiled just a little bit. She didn't care for Jim. She didn't know if she would ever like him or consider him as a friend, but she loved that he was always there for Luna and that he made her genuinely happy. She wouldn't say that to either of them though.

Once Luna got off the escalator, she hurried to her boyfriend, jumping into his arms as grabbed her at the waist and her arms tightened around his neck while her feet went up in the air. Mexico was fun and all, but she missed Jim. She really missed Jim. "I missed you." Jim whispered into her ear as his grip on her tightened.

She began to stroke the back of his hair, making Jim giddy. He loved when she did that. "I missed you too."

"Trust me," Bones spoke as he moved up to the two. "He missed you more."

Luna moved to hug her dad and it was in that moment that the two realized how much they missed each other. Every time she called, she would always talk to Jim, she never thought to call Bones, and now that they were back together she really regretted not calling him.

When Luna pulled away from her father, she looked back and forth from Bones to Jim with a big smile. "My boys."

"Well," Jim spoke while turning around to look at Uhura as well. "You two better rest up because tomorrow I'm going to be taking on the Kobayashi Maru, and I want you both there."

"You're doing this on the first day of third year classes?" Luna asked for clarification.

"Why not?" Jim was so happy and unconcerned about failure, it was worrying Luna. That meant he was confident about it, and if he failed, he was going to be destroyed.

"No." Luna immediately protested as Uhura began to roll her eyes. "Sweetheart, you can't do this to yourself again."

"What honestly makes you think you're going to pass this?" Uhura asked with a hand on her hip.

"Because," Jim spoke, draping his arm around Luna and moving to do the same to Uhura, but she ducked out of it, making Jim give her a frown. "I've got the best crew in the world." Bones rolled his eyes when Jim's gaze went to him. "Luna's gonna be weapons, Bones navigator, Sulu helmsman and Uhura, you're gonna be linguistics."

Luna took a deep sigh. She didn't want Jim to break his own heart again so she just turned to Uhura, wanting to change the subject as fast as possible. "You want to come get lunch with us?"

"Um," Luna turned her head to the side. Uhura never said "um". "I kind of already have plans, but when Jim fails tomorrow, we can always go out."

Jim gave her a fake smile as Luna moved in to hug her friend goodbye, and she could have sworn she saw Professor Spock watching them, and then Uhura went in that direction.


Luna walked into the apartment the next morning balancing cups of coffee and doughnuts as she made her way to the kitchen. Bones was mid scoop into the coffee pot when he saw his daughter. "Oh, thank god." He muttered before taking the cup labeled "Bones" since she knew something like this was going to happen.

"Is Jim up yet?" She asked before placing the doughnut box down.

Bones shook his head through the first long gulp of coffee, and once he brought it back down, he let out a long, "Ah."

Luna rolled her eyes at her father before getting on her tip toes to kiss his cheek. She moved to the cabinets, pulling out a plate and placing two doughnuts on it before grabbing Jim's coffee and moving to their shared room. The two were serious from almost the moment they got together. At first, Bones had his protests about the two sharing a room, but he finally came around.

When she got into the room, she closed the door behind her in case things got heated. Every now and then when Jim woke up, he wanted to get physical, and most of the time, she let him, but not today. Once she shut the door and turned back to look at him, she smiled at the look of his sleeping face, his mouth open, letting out little snores. She put the doughnuts down on his nightstand before climbing into her side of the bed and positioning the coffee right in front of Jim's nose.

He let a sleepy smile cross his lips at the smell. "I got you coffee." Luna sang to him. "And doughnuts."

"My dream girl." Jim whispered to her as he began to move around to wake himself up.

"Yeah, well," she spoke through a shrug when Jim finally opened his eyes. "What can I say?"

Jim gave her a little chuckle before grabbing her cheek in his hand and kissing her. Luna smiled into the kiss, remembering what their first kiss was like all over again. It felt just like that, and neither of them wanted to leave it.

Luna knew she had to, though. Jim had to start getting ready for the test. "Jim." Luna spoke while breaking away, but Jim just pulled her right back. Here he went, but she wasn't going to let it happen today. "Jim." She laughed out. "You've gotta start getting ready."

"We're third years now we can basically do whatever we want."

Luna laughed again, trying to pull away, but Jim's lips just went down to her neck. "You've also got the Kobayashi Maru this afternoon that you need to be ready for."

Jim sighed before pulling away and just looking into her clashing brown eyes. "Why do you have to be so right all the time?"

Luna rolled her eyes while moving over to get the plate of doughnuts and putting them in front of him. "Eat."

Jim took a deep breath before taking the plate out of her hands. "I love you."

Luna chuckled as she began to push his hair back while he began to dig in. In a few weeks, they would have been going strong for a year, and every chance she got, she thanked Sulu for making him so jealous in the first place. "I love you."


They all slowly walked out of the examination room one by one. Not only did Jim fail again, but the test evaluators said it was one of the worst attempts ever. Uhura didn't even want to tease him because she knew how much he wanted this to work out. Everyone had left. The test administrators, Sulu, Uhura, Bones. It was just Jim and Luna left.

Jim continued to sit in the captain's chair after getting his results and he didn't dare move. Luna sat in her chair just looking at Jim. She didn't know whether to comfort him or let him continue to mull it over, but whatever he wanted, she wasn't going to let him do it alone.

"'The worst attempt ever.'" Jim quoted. Luna snapped her head to him. Those were the first words he spoke since the evaluation. "Wow, why did I think I could do this?"

"Hey," Luna spoke as she finally got up from her seat and moved to him. "Forget them, you're a great leader."

"I failed." He spoke as he looked up to her. His eyes were so hurt in that moment. This meant a lot to him and Luna blew it to the side. She felt horrible and so sorry for Jim. Jim looked away from her to finish his next thought in a whisper. "Maybe I'm not meant to follow in my father's footsteps after all."

Luna moved to sit in his lap, his hands going to her thighs and back like an automatic response as he looked up at her. He couldn't help a small smile. All he wanted to do when he looked at her was smile. "Jim, when I first met you, no biases at that point whatsoever, I knew you were destined for great things." Jim's smile got a little bigger as she put her forehead to his. Jim didn't know what he would do without her. She was so helpful and so supportive, he didn't deserve her. "And you're going to be captain one day, Legacy."

Jim pushed his forehead into hers a little more with a chuckle while he began to stroke her hair with such tenderness. "You're everything I need, you know?"

"Yeah, well," she shrugged in thought. "Someone has to be there to make sure you and Bones eat three healthy meals a day and don't drink yourselves to death."

Luna stood up as Jim continued to laugh. She offered him her hand, making Jim smile even more as she guided him out of the examination room. "But today," Luna began as they walked into the bright sunlight hand in hand. "I don't care if we drink ourselves to death because we are going to get roaring drunk tonight."

Jim turned to her, letting go of her hand to place his arm around her shoulders. "I knew I liked you for a reason."

"Loved." She corrected while giving him an annoyed look.

"Love." He corrected. "Not past tense. Present tense." Luna got the deepest blush of her life on her cheeks.


Jim and Luna quickly tapped their shot glasses in a cheers before throwing their heads back to let the liquor pour down their throats. When they brought their heads back up, they let out a sound of distaste from the burning. Luna began to fan her face before moving to her soda on the bar, and once she was done, Jim took it from her.

"You two seem cheery for just failing."

They both turned to see Bones approaching them. They were both already very tipsy, it being obvious when Jim swung his arm around Luna and almost falling. Okay, they were pretty drunk. "We're drinking our sorrows."

"I can see that." Bones spoke as Jim almost splashed the soda on him.

"What are you doing here, anyway?" Luna asked, confused at her father's presence.

"To make sure you two don't kill yourselves."

"Okay, Dad." Jim scoffed before taking another sip of soda as Luna buried her head in his chest with a laugh.

Bones rolled his eyes with a scoff before moving to the bar. "Children." He muttered under his breath.

"You know," Jim spoke while helping Luna into her seat. "Even if I did fail today, we're still gonna be a badass couple on the Enterprise."

Bones turned to the two, waiting to hear their drunken explanation of this. "Jim is going to be captain and I'm going to be the helmsman."

"What about the fact that the captain can't be romantically involved with a member of his crew?"

Both Jim and Luna's faces straightened out when faced with his logic. Shit, they forgot about that. "Details." Luna finally blew off with a shrug.

"And we even have a tragic backstory ready."

"Oh, I can't wait to hear this." Bones spoke as he took a large drink before looking back to the two.

"So," Jim spoke, looking over to Luna. "During our endeavors, I'm going to create enemies."

"Obviously." Bones spoke with a shrug, wanting to just humor the two.

"Okay, so," Luna jumped in. "What better way to get back at him by killing me?"

Bones grew stiff. They had really planned all this when they were drunk. He didn't want to hear the rest of this. Even if they were just pretending, he didn't want any form or reality where his daughter died. "So," Jim jumped back in excitedly.

"I'm good. I can infer the rest." Bones told him with a nod.

That didn't stop Jim, though. "I'll be traveling space looking for her killer just to avenge her death."

Bones rolled his eyes again. "I hate you both." He muttered before grabbing his drink and moving to the other end of the bar.

They both watched him walk off, but Jim and Luna turned back to each other. "I thought it was good." Luna spoke with a shrug. Jim joined her in a high five in agreement before they went back to the bartender to get more shots.

In the middle of their third shot since getting back to the bartender, Uhura ran up to Luna, giving her a huge hug, Bones appearing behind Nyota. "Congratulations!" She yelled into her ear, Luna swaying back and forth with the hug.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me that instead of rambling on about your death fantasy?" Bones asked, moving to the right of his daughter.

Jim looked to her confused, but Luna was just as confused about it. "Okay, this isn't the shots talking, I honestly have no idea what you're talking about." She laughed out.

Uhura pulled away from her with a confused glance. How could she not know? This was amazing! "The meeting you had scheduled." Luna's eyes went wide in realization. She hadn't told Jim yet. She hadn't told anyone. How the hell did those two find out? Jim was still looking confused. "How could you keep a requested meeting with Captain Pike a secret?"

Luna's face twisted into one of anger and panic while motioning to her neck for Uhura to stop talking. Uhura's eyes went wide, realizing why she hadn't told anyone since Uhura would probably be one of the first ones she told. She turned around to look at Jim's confused face before looking back to Luna. "I mean…" she was struggling to come up with something to throw Jim off, but it was useless. He already heard it, drunk or not.

"What's she talking about?" Jim asked.

"Our Luna here," Luna began to roll her eyes as he put his arm around her shoulders. Her father could never take a hint, could he? "Got called to have a meeting with Christopher Pike, captain of the Enterprise about a position when she graduates."

Jim's eyes got wide as he turned to his girlfriend. "What?" Jim began to smile. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You had the Kobayashi Maru to worry about." Luna spoke with a shrug. "I didn't want to distract you."

"I would take this distraction!" Jim yelled before hurrying to her and scooping her up in a twirl.

When he put her back down, she looked up at him with hopeful eyes, gripping onto his arm. "So, you're not mad?"

"Of course not!" It troubled him that Luna thought he would be mad at her. "I am so proud of you!" He grabbed both sides of her face in his hands and pulled her in for a large, sloppy kiss she had to smile into. It reminded her of how lucky she was to have Jim. He was so supportive and perfect. Why did she put this off for so long? He was a wonderful boyfriend. When he pulled away, he still didn't let go of her cheeks as he looked at her beautiful, milky face and big brown eyes. "Hell, Luna may be Enterprise captain here."

Luna rolled her eyes. He killed the moment for her as she pulled away from him. "Very funny."

"Okay," Uhura began, looking to her best friend while Jim and Luna wrapped their arms around each other, highlighting how cute the height difference was between the two. "But you're definitely getting offered a spot on the Enterprise."

Luna rolled her eyes. She didn't want to talk about it, mostly because she was afraid that how Jim performed today on his examination wasn't going to guarantee him a spot on the Enterprise. Sure, this was Luna's dream, but it was Jim's dream too. She couldn't see herself living it without him. "How do you all know it's going to be something good?"

"Uh," Jim spoke obviously. "When does anyone get asked to a private meeting with Captain Pike?"

"Exactly," Luna spoke with a shrug. "Maybe it's about how much I suck as a pilot."

They all rolled their eyes. "You're one of the best pilots in your classes." Bones told her.

"What if I did something wrong, though?"

Jim rolled his eyes before grabbing two new shots from the bartender. "Shut up," Jim began as Luna turned to look over at him. "And celebrate the fact of how awesome you are."


Jim and Luna began to stumble out of the bar at three, a giddy mess of loose limbs and stuttered words. Jim began to walk forward, pointing at the almost empty street. "We need a cab." Jim stuttered while tripping. Luna began to laugh as she caught him at the waist, her head falling into his back with laughter.

Her purse was draped over her shoulder, but not very secure. That's when a man came up to the two, snatching Luna's purse. She felt the lightness of her arm, bringing the fact to her attention. The robber didn't know she was a Starfleet student with a heavy PADD in her purse. He fell back, turning the two drunks around. Luna's eyes grew wide and her eyebrows arched. "You're serious, dude?" She threatened.

Jim continued to stand there, watching it all unfold with his brow up in confusion. She snatched the purse from the guy's hands before kicking him in the groin and swinging her purse into his face, the PADD knocking him out instantly.

Luna turned back to her boyfriend, Jim looking her up and down, never finding himself more attracted to her. When she walked back up to him, Jim practically swooned. "You know what would be a perfect end to a perfect night?"

"Screwing each other's brains out?" Luna inferred.

"This," Jim spoke as he picked her up by the waist again. Luna's feet kicked in the air as she squealed with delight. She loved that he loved to pick her up like that. "This is why I fell in love with you."

ImsebastianstanButter: Yes, that was probably my favorite thing to write in the last chapter. That and a jealous Jim. Hope you liked it, love!

rebootfan: You get a little bit of Bones reaction in this chapter. And Luna is studying to be helmsmen and navigator. It's something I'll talk about a lot more in the next chapter. Thank you so much for the read and the review!

Ugh, Jim and Luna are so cute. I hope you all liked this chapter. I'm picking up the next chapter with their one year anniversary party which is going to be fun to write! Thank you all so much for continuing to read, and remember to review!