Title: Conspiracy
Characters: Kirk, Spock, McCoy off-screen
Rating: K
Word Count: 150
Warnings/Summary: No particular missing scene in mind when I wrote this, but could with slight tweaking fit just prior to Shore Leave.
It wasn't that he'd fallen asleep while on duty that bothered him as much as it was the inference (judging from suppressed smiles and the three-hour gap in the ship's chronometer) that the bridge crew had purposely refrained from awaking him; under Vulcan orders no doubt, though he would never be able to prove it. The fact that those three hours had been his first sleep in the last forty-eight due to chaos aboard and planetside notwithstanding, it was unacceptable behavior in both himself and his crew.
Spock's helpfully pointing out that Captain James T. Kirk of the Federation starship Enterprise seemed to have formed a tradition of sorts in disregarding regulation was not helpful.
Nor was the fact that, as the turbolift doors opened near his quarters, the communications system squawked out a self-satisfied "Spock to sickbay. Doctor McCoy, I believe the appropriate human expression is 'You owe me one'?"