Fundamental Differences Between Land and Sea (Star Trek AOS, 1/1)
Title: Fundamental Differences Between Land and Sea
Canon: Star Trek AOS
Disclaimer: I do not own, nor am I in any way associated with, Star Trek. I do not gain from the production of this work.
Rating: K+
Summary: Five times Christine Chapel made friends with a future crewmate and one time she made an enemy out of a current one.
AN: I never thought I'd do one of these five whatchamawhozits, but this came to me today and I had to write it. Y'all know how that goes....
Fundamental Differences Between Land and Sea
(or, Making Friends is Easier on Solid Ground Than in Space)
Scotty
He had the benefit of being the only man in the bar who hadn't once looked at her cleavage. She let him unload, telling how his experiment should have, could have worked. If only…
She knew about if onlys, but didn't share hers, just let him pour his heart out over more alcohol than she'd thought the human body could take. In the morning he left for a cold little moon with only one bag and a hangover that blocked out most of the trip.
She was surprised years later that he remembered her, but not that she remembered him.
McCoy
He was the only person ever to recognize her as the author of "Respiratory Complications in Neonatal Gestates" and not as that pretty little thing who used to sit on Roger Korby's arm. They became fast friends, commiserating over lost loves. She laughed at his stories about Jim Kirk and she told him about being approached by Klingons looking for her expertise in eradicating the tribble epidemic.
When she found out he'd won her place on his staff in a poker game she hated him for a week, until she found out she'd been the only nurse on the table.
Kirk
They met on the anniversary of Roger's induction into the Asshole Hall of Fame. He said she had to be new to the academy because he'd remember legs like those. She -- already so drunk she had to be making Scotty proud (wherever he was, poor guy) -- let Leonard explain. For a player the guy seemed honestly enraged and spent the night making up stories about where Roger Korby was now. Her favorite by far was "trapped in a sealed room with one tribble."
That one night of laughter was more than worth being his sounding board for pick-up lines later.
Uhura
Kirk insisted that since they were friends any friend of hers would be a friend of his and promptly shoved her towards the linguistic student. She dug her feet in and pointed out that friendship was clearly getting him so much closer to her bed. Jim Kirk was never one to let other people's logic cause him problems and kept pushing.
When she finally lost the will to argue she walked over and kindly told the linguist that Jim Kirk was a jerk and would she please just smile at him anyway?
The linguist laughed and invited her to lunch.
Chekov
He limped into the academy med center telling some story about too many data padds, a flight of stairs, and a possible shift in the earth's gravitational field. The last was said with a weak smile. She returned a genuine one.
By the time she finished patching his foot she knew his full name and its origins going all the way back to Pavel, a poor farmhand who, in the pursuit of true love, became a pirate, befriended a giant and a sword master, and defeated a prince. She laughed and he asked if she'd tutor him in first aid.
Spock
The ten seconds when they first crossed paths were some of the tensest of her life, not a little bit because he was in the way! Really, she loved Nyota, but they were in the middle of a crisis and the touching moment was standing between Pike and his doctors. She wasn't at all ashamed to say afterward (okay, maybe she said it only to Leonard and Kirk) that she bumped into him on purpose.
The look he gave her two weeks later was proof one of the boys had told and that he wasn't the forgive and forgetting kind.
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Canon: Star Trek AOS
Disclaimer: I do not own, nor am I in any way associated with, Star Trek. I do not gain from the production of this work.
Rating: K+
Summary: Five times Christine Chapel made friends with a future crewmate and one time she made an enemy out of a current one.
AN: I never thought I'd do one of these five whatchamawhozits, but this came to me today and I had to write it. Y'all know how that goes....
Fundamental Differences Between Land and Sea
(or, Making Friends is Easier on Solid Ground Than in Space)
Scotty
He had the benefit of being the only man in the bar who hadn't once looked at her cleavage. She let him unload, telling how his experiment should have, could have worked. If only…
She knew about if onlys, but didn't share hers, just let him pour his heart out over more alcohol than she'd thought the human body could take. In the morning he left for a cold little moon with only one bag and a hangover that blocked out most of the trip.
She was surprised years later that he remembered her, but not that she remembered him.
McCoy
He was the only person ever to recognize her as the author of "Respiratory Complications in Neonatal Gestates" and not as that pretty little thing who used to sit on Roger Korby's arm. They became fast friends, commiserating over lost loves. She laughed at his stories about Jim Kirk and she told him about being approached by Klingons looking for her expertise in eradicating the tribble epidemic.
When she found out he'd won her place on his staff in a poker game she hated him for a week, until she found out she'd been the only nurse on the table.
Kirk
They met on the anniversary of Roger's induction into the Asshole Hall of Fame. He said she had to be new to the academy because he'd remember legs like those. She -- already so drunk she had to be making Scotty proud (wherever he was, poor guy) -- let Leonard explain. For a player the guy seemed honestly enraged and spent the night making up stories about where Roger Korby was now. Her favorite by far was "trapped in a sealed room with one tribble."
That one night of laughter was more than worth being his sounding board for pick-up lines later.
Uhura
Kirk insisted that since they were friends any friend of hers would be a friend of his and promptly shoved her towards the linguistic student. She dug her feet in and pointed out that friendship was clearly getting him so much closer to her bed. Jim Kirk was never one to let other people's logic cause him problems and kept pushing.
When she finally lost the will to argue she walked over and kindly told the linguist that Jim Kirk was a jerk and would she please just smile at him anyway?
The linguist laughed and invited her to lunch.
Chekov
He limped into the academy med center telling some story about too many data padds, a flight of stairs, and a possible shift in the earth's gravitational field. The last was said with a weak smile. She returned a genuine one.
By the time she finished patching his foot she knew his full name and its origins going all the way back to Pavel, a poor farmhand who, in the pursuit of true love, became a pirate, befriended a giant and a sword master, and defeated a prince. She laughed and he asked if she'd tutor him in first aid.
Spock
The ten seconds when they first crossed paths were some of the tensest of her life, not a little bit because he was in the way! Really, she loved Nyota, but they were in the middle of a crisis and the touching moment was standing between Pike and his doctors. She wasn't at all ashamed to say afterward (okay, maybe she said it only to Leonard and Kirk) that she bumped into him on purpose.
The look he gave her two weeks later was proof one of the boys had told and that he wasn't the forgive and forgetting kind.
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