Author's Note:

Hello all and sundry. So another chapter and an amusing revelation about Jim is brought to light. Thank you for your reviews for this story and I hope you enjoy the chapter.

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Cute Fear

The day had been going well when the call came.

Jim was in his quarters working on some paperwork and Spock was in command on the bridge; they had beamed Scotty and Pavel up from the starbase on the planet below about half an hour earlier. They had been on shore leave and had managed to keep out of trouble while on the planet (amazingly enough), things were quiet and running smoothly when there was a comm. from Jim, "Spock, do you think you could please come down to my quarters for a minute?"

"I will be there shortly Captain."

Spock left the bridge in Nyota's capable hands and made his way to Jim's quarters. As he walked he tried to work out why Jim would wish to see him, he had requested to not be disturbed unless necessary so Spock wondered why he had been asked down. Furthermore Jim had sounded almost worried through the comm. and realising this Spock quickened his pace. He arrived quickly at Jim's door and knocked and a fearful sounding voice called out, "Come in Spock, hurry!"

Picking up on Jim's tone, the first officer hurried in and instantly looked for the cause of Jim's distress but what he saw was definitely not what he was expecting.

Jim was crouched on his bed staring fearfully at something on the floor and making his way quickly to where he could see what is was Spock could not believe what he was seeing.

It was a kitten.

It was a small black kitten with a white front and a large pair of green eyes. It took a few stumbling steps towards the bed Jim was crouched on and he quickly scooted to the furthest away point of the bed from it. Spock raised an eyebrow at his strange behaviour since Jim was usually more than happy to pet animals that were deemed by most as cute, "Captain, what are you doing?"

"I'm staying well away from that furred demon."

"Captain, I am certain that the creature before you is a kitten not a supernatural entity."

"It's evil Spock; I'm not getting any closer to it."

Spock's eyebrow rose further as at that moment the kitten let out a tiny meow and made its eyes even bigger and Jim backed even further away from it, "Captain, why are you so sure that the kitten is evil?"

"It's a cat Spock." Jim said like it was obvious, "They fool you with their cute looks and innocent meows, then they get you when you least expect it. They're all evil."

Spock was taken aback by the certainty in the captain's voice and took a moment to try and decide where Jim had come to that conclusion; he was pulled out of his thoughts by the captain's panicked voice, "Spock it's getting closer!"

Spock looked and saw that the kitten had clambered up onto the bed and that Jim was now pressed against the headboard to keep away from it. Moving swiftly Spock picked the kitten up and held it in his arms in one smooth movement, much to the visible relief of Jim, "Captain, what do you want me to do with the kitten?"

"I don't care Spock; just get it off my ship."

"Of course sir."

It took awhile but they eventually found out that the kitten had been beamed up with Scotty and Pavel by accident and they soon managed to return it to its proper owners. Afterwards Spock thought about Jim's reaction to the kitten and after a discussion with McCoy found out the reason.

It seemed that Jim had an inexplicable phobia of cats.

Fascinating.

PS-Yes I have just given Jim a phobia of cats. Don't ask me why because not even I understand some of the things my mind comes up with. I hope you liked the chapter and any ideas for other chapters will be welcome.