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.

13. 2 of 20, Stress

Title: Stress
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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#13 – Stress

Twenty-three crewmen contracting the messiest stomach-virus this side of Antares was bad enough; but he'd been yanked from his three-minute catnap to find his two superiors had just attempted double homicide in the gymnasium.

Kirk admitted to distraction by a shapely yeoman's aerobics. Resultantly, his First Officer had accidentally hurled him thirty feet, straight at a bench-press. Said First Officer, in his rush to prevent Kirk from serious injury, had tripped over a set of barbells.

The fact that both were barely holding each other up was the only reason he didn't smack them upside their groggy heads.