A Star to Steer Her By

by KCS

Drabbles, ficlets, and miscellaneous meme fills, both missing scenes and original fic, that aren't long or polished enough to be stand-alones. Gen. Various characters, mainly Kirk-Spock-McCoy. New: Even sick as a dog, Jim Kirk is a very lucky man.

12. 1 of 20, Confident

Title: Confident
Characters: Kirk, Spock
Rating: K+
Word Count: 100
Summary/Warnings: Drabble written for the LiveJournal community 20paperplanes, in which one takes a pairing and twenty prompt words and writes either a sentence or a drabble for each word. Drabbles are exactly 100 words, including title word and number.

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#11 – Confident

He'd vaguely heard through the grapevine last he'd been on Earth that he and his ship were becoming something of a legend, but he didn't really believe it until one evening aboard ship.

He was in Rec Room Two, engaged in a mutual destruction of ego over the usual chessboard, when the nearby poker game erupted into minor chaos. Upon breaking up the good-natured out-shout-fest, he and his First were amused to be blithely informed by a clueless Ensign that she'd just cleaned out the game with a bluff that 'Fleet cadets were commonly calling a Corbomite Maneuver.