[NVC Day 14, Early Morning] -- [And So the Sun Rises] -- [Open to All]

[kirktastic]

After a long night at the theater, meeting Spock and his brother, and everything afterwards, it had been difficult to sleep. Along with the tickets, Jim had received a message about the trial's start the next morning. He had refused to let it bother him all night, just wanting to enjoy some time with Bones despite everything they had been forced to go through recently.

That didn't make for good sleep, though. Sometime before dawn, Jim found himself wide awake, laying in bed, Bones curled up against his side dead asleep. It took some work to get himself out of Bones' arms, not wanting to disturbing the sleeping man, before he grabbed his discarded robe over the back of a chair and pulling it on. He brushed a kiss over Bones' hair, affectionate while no one could see it, and stepped outside.

The deck was level with the ground, so it was no trouble to walk out onto the deck and past it, out towards the beautiful area that surrounded their guest quarters. Jim had a working theory that because the Vulcans had been on a desert planet before, without the ability to use plant life because of the strain of water consumption, that now that they could they decided to use planets as much as possible. He wondered how logical it was, but decided that knowing Vulcans to a degree, they would find a way to make it logical and convince everyone else in the process. The thought made him smile, just slightly, as he found himself a low wall that faced the ocean and sat down.

It was both easier and harder to think while he watched the sun rise, watching the ripples of orange, red, and pink climb higher in the sky. So much hinged on this trial, one he would be going to each day of. He had choices to make about it, as such a major player in what had happened. He would have to explain his actions to the court and by addition, Starfleet.

Let me have done the right thing.

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[nawigator]

"I am fine. Unless you know how to nicely tell someone that no, you do not care to go see more flowers?" Pasha lightened somewhat, her tone turning teasing and a small smile returning to her face. "Hikaru has been dragging me to anything ewen remotely flower related for the past few days, sometimes I svear if I see another flower I vill set it on fire."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Jim scratched his neck, thinking about it. "It sounds like he likes you, you know? Why not just tell him you want to do something else?"

[nawigator]

"Somehow I do not think me drinking him under the table is his idea of a good time." She grinned. Most people found it difficult to keep up with her when it came to drinking. Thank goodness for good old Russian livers.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"... well, it'd sure as hell stop him from showing you another flower, now wouldn't it?"

[nawigator]

She laughed at that "Wery true. But sadly he is a lightveight, it isn't exactly hard to get him drunk. And vhen he is drunk he can recite the latin names for flowers and the crossbreeds. It is quite impressiwe really."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Well, two things come to mind." Pasha was very pretty when she laughed, Jim noted. "One is that Sulu needs to get laid, very badly. The second is that it sounds like he just wants to be close to you."

[nawigator]

At Jim's words the navigator turned a resounding shade of red, her blush even ruminating at the tips of her ears. "Yes, vell...that is an interesting thought." Oh crap. Pasha stared out at the ocean trying to calm down her blush, because the thought of Hikaru and the words 'get laid' were doing very bad things in her imagination.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Jim studied that reaction, and after a moment, said bluntly, "can I ask you a personal question, Pasha? ...Just Jim, not your captain." He smiled.

[nawigator]

She nodded "Yes, sure, ask avay." That probably wasn't the brightest idea she had ever had.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Have you actually had sex yet?" It was blunt, but it would change his suggestion for the blonde.

[nawigator]

At that point her blush increased by threefold. "I-I-I uh...vell...it is not that...not really that important and I hawe been busy and suff and..." She cleared her throat and looked quite pointedly out at the ocean once more. "If you must know, no."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Kiiiind of what he expected, but he hid it from his face. "I can respect that. Not a lot of people wait." It made him smile, a little. "Are you waiting for the right sort of person to come along?" He paused, thinking about it. Was it Pasha that had been with the two other girls? While he could keep up with all the faces, all the relationships tended to blur together. If Pasha didn't count anything she had done as sex, then she hadn't.

[nawigator]

"No. It is not so much as me vaiting as other people being, I guess the vord is intimidated? People just tend not to see me that vay." It had been something she had noticed. Hell, that was why it had been so entertaining to flirt with James the other night even though most of what she was saying had been a complete bluff.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" His brows went up at her statement. "You're beautiful, smart, funny, and a smart ass." He grinned at the last bit. "And what about Sulu?"

[nawigator]

"Vith all due respect, Jim, it takes one to know one." She replied. Pasha gnawed on the inside of her cheek, quietly mulling over his question. "Hikaru is my best friend, anything else other then vhat has already happened betveen us might be more awkward."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

He hesitated a little, but finally offered, "Bones was, and still is, my best friend. ...Doing things... doesn't always make it awkward. Besides, you could always take it slow." ...We did. "One step at a time. If it does get really awkward, you stop and know you tried it out so it isn't a question anymore."

[nawigator]

Pasha nodded but offered something in return "A few days ago I vas in a cafe and this Wulcan man started to hit on me-- at least the Wulcan equiwilent of hitting on someone. Hikaru appeared out of novhere and suddenly started acting veird, putting his arm around my shoulder, trying to hold my hand in front of eweryone. Anyvay to cut a long story shorter, later on ve ended up hawing an argument about it and I might hawe sort of punched him and then kissed hima dn he kissed me back and- vell, yes, that is about the sum of it." That hadn't been so much of a short story.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

...OH.

Jim laughed, just a little, unable to help it. He turned to face Pasha more fully, gesturing for her to come a little closer. "Pasha. He was jealous." How could someone be such a genius and miss that-- okay he missed plenty of things. Moving on.

"He was jealous seeing that Vulcan hitting on you. He was trying to make the Vulcan back off by thinking Sulu was with you. He likes you, and sounds like he's a little protective too."

[nawigator]

"Did not mean he had to be such an ass about it." That poor Vulcan, she could have died of shame the way his eyebrows shot up when Hikaru had tried to hold her hand in front of him. "I told him that I do not need to be protected, I can handle myself. Vhen Sevan--that vas the Wulcan's name assumed that he vas my 'mate' he did not ewen try to correct him." Pasha sighed.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"...You were one at one point, how do you not know?" Jim boggled at the concept. "That's just how men are. Hell, I know I've done it before."

[nawigator]

"I newer did that to Irina, I knew better then to, she vould hawe killed me. Literally." Pasha shuddered at the memory of her violent best friend when she was a child. "Hikaru vas lucky to get avay vith just a bruised arm." The last time she had seen his arm it had been a lovely shade of purple.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

"Do you like him?" Jim said bluntly, leaning forward.

[nawigator]

"Vhat is not to like?" She replied simply, even though all this talk of 'liking' people seemed awfully childish.

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Well, so much for being subtle. Tactic number 2. "Do you love him?"

[nawigator]

Fine, two could play at that game "Do you love Doctor McCoy?" She turned the question back on him.