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[kirktastic]

(OOC: Note! This is an open post for anyone who needs Kirk in any way, shape, or form right now, so just drop on by even though its starting off with Kirk and Spock!!)

After the night with Bones, to say James T. Kirk felt like shit was an understatement. He felt hurt, and angry, and confused, and all over the place all at once. It made for... well, not the greatest beginning for an alpha shift on the bridge.

He was slumped in his office. Sleep hadn't come easy, and he hadn't stayed that way much at all. This morning had even required coffee. Shit, he hadn't been forced to drink coffee to stay awake in months.

And now he had a meeting with Spock. Great. He was pretty sure there was something else ... someone else... he had a meeting about today too but couldn't force himself to remember yet.

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[cso-spock.livejournal.com]

Unlike Jim, Spock's day-to-day occurrences post-birthday had been altogether satisfactory. The flow of paperwork and crew matters settled into a comfortable pace, even with the quarterly flood of information that Command had been sending him continuously for the past week and a half. Confident about the rest of the day, he came to the captain's office for the morning meeting Jim had asked for rather suddenly.

The door hissed open and Spock stepped in. "Captain." He noted the cup of coffee on the desk, Jim's (lack of) posture, but said nothing more as he took his usual seat before the desk.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Spock." Kirk shifted to sit up more, leaning his elbows on the desk between them. "Bones and I ended up talking," fighting, "last night. He thinks its time I could get these removed." Kirk smudged his fingertips across his cheeks, where the tattoos sat. "You'd have to take the bridge more often... looks like it could take a long time and I'll need entire days to heal up from it, if we can even do it at all."

[cso-spock.livejournal.com]

He nodded once. "Understood." The procedure wouldn't be easy, no matter which method they took for it. He would ask Leonard which route they preferred for this.

But there was something missing from Jim's statements. "You mention his opinion about removal--do you also desire to remove them?"

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Kirk licked his lips, nodding slightly, "Most of them." The fingers unconsciously flexed on his left hand. "We're going to start with the ones on my back, probably go for my face last."

Starfleet message to Capt. Kirk

[anon-crewperson.livejournal.com]

[cso-spock.livejournal.com]

A logical approach. It would be best to deal with the most easily hidden ones first, in case any side-effect occur during the removal. However, Jim had said 'most.' "Which of them do you want to keep?"

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Spock had seen them all, so he didn't have to show them. He just clamped an hand briefly around his left arm, giving a look. "These."

Re: Starfleet message to Capt. Kirk

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Kirk stared at the message, and whispered several curses in several languages. "Come on! We've already got a slew of people here working on this... fuck!" He didn't need anyone else. All the way from an Admiral... lovely. He felt like writing back something nasty, but decided to say nothing back for now.

It was that last part that bothered him. A lot.

Like hell he's getting full access to my medical records. Bones' eyes only.

Kirk pulled up a screen on his console, and started typing.


Bones, see the attached message. Full medical records, that's your area. Gonna see what information I can find out about this guy.

Private message to Jim

[dctr-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Bones had read the message, and knew exactly what was on Jim's mind.


No one sees your records, Captain. They're locked down tight, your clearance and mine. Besides, I think I can limit him to the new folks, no need for the others. That's my stand, anyway.

I heard of him, he's a suit, doesn't practice much medicine but write a lot of books. I think Tina worked with him once.

Private message to Bones

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

If Tina's worked with him, I'll ask her to come up to the office so I can find out some first hand information. This is bullshit, how many more people are they going to send to study us like rats in a cage? Limit him. He doesn't need to see everyone's.

...and... thanks.

Private Message to Tina Chapel

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Tina, when you get some time I need to see you in my office. Captain JTK.

[rn-chapel.livejournal.com]

Another odd summons from the Captain. This one didn't have the same sort of urgency to it, but Tina grabbed a medkit on her way out the door anyhow. If she didn't need it, fine, but if she did, it would be better to have it with her from the start.

She went to his office and buzzed for entry.

Private message to Jim

[dctr-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Consider it done. I'll see you tonight.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Already she was learning one of the top five facts about James T. Kirk - always good to have a medkit when dealing with him and ample lube.

"Enter." Kirk looked up, stylus just above the padd he was writing on.

[rn-chapel.livejournal.com]

Tina stepped into the office. "You asked to see me?"

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Have a seat," He gestured to the chair on the other side of his desk, "I was wondering... Bones mentioned you worked with this guy in the past and I'd like to get some first hand information about him." Kirk pulled up the memo again, making sure he had the right name. "Doctor Roger Korby," He looked up, "Do you remember working with him?"

[rn-chapel.livejournal.com]

Tina sat down rather quickly.

"Yes," she said. "I was one of his students for a while. And... We were engaged to be married."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

...Oh. Wasn't what he was expecting. That just made everything a little more... complicated. "Tell me about him. What kind of man is he like? Does he keep his word? Can he keep secrets? Will he snoop into every corner until he gets what he wants?"

[first-noel.livejournal.com]

Although she'd been on the Enterprise for some days now, Helen still hadn't actually met its commanding officer. While Dr. McCoy had been perfectly cordial and very helpful in getting her settled in, she still wanted to meet the captain herself. It was, after all, only polite and professional to introduce herself. And apart from that - she knew James T. Kirk's story as well as anyone else in Starfleet. Who wouldn't be curious?

She'd sent a message a few days earlier, setting up a meeting - she only hoped he remembered, and that nothing more urgent had come up in the meantime. Helen approached the door to Kirk's office and pressed the buzzer.

[rn-chapel.livejournal.com]

Tina leaned back, composing her thoughts. "He's brilliant, for one thing," she said. "He's not just the top of his field - he essentially created his field. He's persistent and focused. Dedicated. So, yes, you can expect some snooping into corners."

She paused. "As for keeping his word... I would have said yes, at one time, that he was completely trustworthy, with impeccable ethics. But I know things now that I didn't when I was his starry-eyed student. I wouldn't trust him with much, to be honest."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Kirk looked up from the assignment he was reading, brows up. He thought back through his calender but couldn't think of anything, but wasn't real surprised if he had missed something. Usually someone sent him a comm... He waved his own thoughts away, "Enter." He called out, sitting back in his chair.

When the woman entered, it shocked him that he had no idea who this was. He knew all the faces of people on his ship (even if he had trouble with names, sometimes...) and to see someone he didn't know was a surprise. "Hello Ms...?"

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Great news to be hearing about someone coming on board his ship, "What is his field exactly?" He leaned forward, curious as hell now. "And why wouldn't you trust him? Is this on a personal or professional level?"

[cso-spock.livejournal.com]

His gaze fell to Jim's left arm, looking at the way the calligraphy curled over the skin. Vulcan seemed bolder and angrier than any of the other names, or perhaps that was only his interpretation of it. Spock leaned back in his seat, hands folding together. "You still maintain some guilt for their destruction." A half-question.

Though he didn't fault Jim for wanting to keep them. If it had been himself, he likely would have kept them as well. At the very least, Vulcan.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"...No more or less than you do." Kirk said back quietly, looking to Spock's eyes. "Reminds me why I'm out here, doing this. What happens when I'm not fast enough."

[rn-chapel.livejournal.com]

"Archaeological medicine," Tina said. "It's a little difficult to explain it concisely, but the discipline is basically about studying the artifacts of ancient cultures and using the data gleaned in medical applications. A lot of what you get is interesting but not very useful theory, but there are also important breakthroughs, like the methods Roger pioneered for combining the principles of old Orion medicine with modern Terran immunization protocols. The adjuvants we're using on this ship right now were developed from Roger's research."

She smiled a little sheepishly. "Sorry, that was probably still more than you wanted to know. I guess you can tell that I still have a lot of interest in that field."

"As far as trust," she added, looking more somber, "it's personal. But it cast a lot of what I thought was true about him professionally into doubt. Made me see certain incidents in new light."