Christmas on the Enterpise Chapter 3
Chapter 3
It was amazing how fast Jim - a human with no super abilities - could move.
In practically the blink of an eye, he had sprinted across the hall, pounced on the trying-to-flee Brainy and was hugging him too tightly for him to escape; the Coluan’s back to his chest as he rested his cheek on top of the much shorter boy’s head and grinned.
And, for some odd reason, Superman held an instant dislike towards the captain, whether he was a hero of the Narada Incident or not.
“How’s my favorite Coluan?” Jim asked, nearly talking in baby talk.
“Thinking of places to hide your body,” Brainy replied darkly.
Superman almost laughed until he saw how deadpan his friend’s expression was. Which made him gulp warily instead.
Taking the captured opportunity, Jim patted Brainy’s hair as he grinned and said suggestively, “I’d be more than willing to hide in your bed.”
As Brainy frowned, with darkened cheeks, Superman was considering taking down a nearby steel beam and using it to force the Captain to keep his hands to himself.
“Damn it Jim; you’re a captain, not a pedophile!” shouted a very irate man, a few years older than Jim with short brown hair and burning brown eyes, wearing a blue Starfleet shirt.
He had, apparently, followed Jim out of the meeting room, along with another man who was taller than anyone else present, with short black hair styled in a way that looked similar to a bowl cut.
This second man also had brown eyes and wore a similar blue shirt to the man who had just yelled, but his face was expressionless, and his stand stoic but natural. His eyebrows were also angled more upwards in a line rather than a downwards curve like human eyebrows, and his ears were pointed.
This man was a Vulcan, Superman realized with a start. There weren’t that many left and there was only one Vulcan in the entirety of Starfleet at this time. This man had to be Spock; one of the other heroes of the Narada Incident.
Almost as if in retaliation to the order, Jim cuddled Brainy closer to him, pressing the Coluan’s side to his chest now, and pouted at the man who was yelling at him.
“But Bones, he’s technically an adult.”
“And you’re technically still a pervert,” Bones pulled out something that looked like a shot without a needle and headed straight for him.
With a small shout, Jim released Brainy and dived backwards to hide behind him, holding onto the exasperated Coluan’s shoulders.
“Don’t you go hypo happy on me!”
“Then don’t go around treating Brainiac Five like a damn teddy bear,” Bones growled, putting the hypo away. For now.
After taking in a deep breath, Brainy turned to Bones, “Still tolerating Mr. Kirk I see, Dr. McCoy.”
With another withering look at Jim, Bones nodded, “Someone has to.”
Both of them ignored the Captain’s protest of how awesome he truly was to be around.
Pike turned to Saturn Girl and spoke softly with a wink, “Leonard McCoy’s one of the reasons why you don’t want a Starfleet doctor, and he’s one of our best.”
Now turning his head to look behind Bones, the Coluan spoke to the Vulcan, “Mr. Spock, it is good to see you well.”
With a step forwards, Spock kept his arms behind him, but remained in his formal stance.
“It is satisfying to see you in a similar condition; if not troubled by a sudden growth on your back.”
Again, Jim pouted, “That’s no way for a First Officer to speak of his Captain.”
“Perhaps, Captain, if you released Brainiac Five from your hold, seeing as your attentions are clearly unwanted, I would refrain from speaking of you in such a manner?” Spock suggested.
Mulling the words around in his mind for a moment, Jim shook his head and hugged Brainy around the shoulders.
“Being so close to such cuteness is worth a few mean words.”
“Is it worth a few hypos to the ass?” Bones’s eyes nearly glinted maliciously.
Though Jim quickly returned his hands to Brainy’s shoulders with a hint of panic to his expression, Superman couldn’t take it anymore. He was about to forcibly, and possibly violently, remove Kirk from Brainy and keep him away but he was beat to it.
Striding forward, Spock effectively pinched the top of Jim’s hand, using only enough pressure to irritate rather than cause pain, until he let go of Brainy’s shoulder. He then directed Brainy, with a hand between his shoulder blades, away from Jim and to the safety of a close proximity to his person but slightly behind him.
“Why do you have to ruin all my fun?” Jim asked, rubbing the top of his hand.
“I merely thought it was safer to remove the threat of Doctor McCoy giving you an unnecessary hypo, Querl causing you serious injury when his tolerance for you ran out - or one of his fellow Legion members decided to come to his ‘rescue’ - and therefore negating the opportunity to strengthen ties between the Legion and Starfleet,” Spock replied.
The Captain crossed his arms, “You just like ruining my fun.”
An eyebrow rose on Spock’s face, “Clearly, Captain, you are unaware that Vulcans do not indulge themselves in such hobbies.”
“Sure they don’t,” Jim rolled his eyes.
Though Superman thought he had seen Spock glance at him when he spoke of a Legion member rescuing Brainy, he couldn’t pay it much attention. Instead he just blinked at Brainy, silently thinking, “Querl?”
Spotting Superman’s expression Brainy explained, “Querl is my name. Querl Dox, to be more specific.”
“Which I’ve been threatened from ever using under threat of arm cannons,” Jim stated a little too proudly.
After examining Jim, ears twitching in a way to show that he thought the captain was crazy, Timber Wolf turned to Brainy.
“How do you know these guys anyway?”
“Two months, one week and three days before the Legion retrieved Superman from the past I spent a week lecturing at Starfleet Academy on several subjects relating to space travel. James Kirk and Leonard McCoy were students and Mr. Spock a fellow lecturer,” Brainy explained.
“He looked so good in the black Starfleet teacher’s uniform,” Jim expanded, grinning in such a way that Superman almost thought hearts would appear around him and could almost swore he heard Bones mutter, “You and your green fetish.”
Point blank ignoring him, Brainy continued. “At the very first lecture Kirk would interrupt class, pretending to have a serious question to only use the excuse to flirt and, more often than not, give crude suggestions.”
“He’s so cute when he blushes,” Jim grinned.
“He would then stalk me after class, usually attempting some form physical form of attack to accommodate his flirting.”
“Wouldn’t you hug him if given the opportunity?”
“He never offered you any hugs.”
“I said opportunity; not permission. Really Bones, you should know better.”
“If not for the intervention of Mr. Spock I may have had to relinquish my lecturing obligation and return to the Legion sooner than planned.”
“It was no fair using a Vulcan shield.”
“That didn’t stop you from giving him your continued unwanted attentions.”
“Hey, I flirt, it’s what I do. You’re lucky you were never my teacher, Mr. Spock, or I may have continued my usual treatment at the Kobayashi Maru trail and flustered you too badly to try to kick me out of Starfleet.”
“Vulcans do not get flus -”
“Boys,” Pike rolled himself into the conversation. “We should really get to that meeting before the board thinks we slaughtered each other.”
“Unfortunately, that might be the least of our worries,” Bones glanced between Jim and Brainy before grabbing Jim by the collar of his shirt and dragging him into the meeting room, ignoring his protests and telling him to quit whining.
Slowly, the Legion and the remaining Starfleet members followed.
“This is going to be a long trip,” Triplicate Girl sighed.
“I know, isn’t it great?” Phantom Girl grinned in return.
Though he had been excited to be able to help the survivors of Vulcan and get to know members of Starfleet, Superman couldn’t help but think the whole thing was a bad idea now. He already had the urge to throw Kirk through a wall; he couldn’t imagine having to spend a month in his company.
Quietly questioning how Brainy had been since they spoke last, Spock briefly had his hand on the small of Brainy’s back when he directed him to a chair, then took the only free one located beside it.
Really, Superman wasn’t all that thrilled to have the Vulcan around either.
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The meeting lasted about three hours, with the two groups discussing details of the upcoming trip and their duties once they reached the Vulcan colony. For the voyage there and back, unless either group was called away for another mission, the Legion Cruiser would be traveling within the Enterprise and the Legion would be given rooms in the guest sleeping quarters close to the higher ranking officers. Both parties would be welcomed in the restricted area of the other’s ships to better understand the other’s technology. If someone was interested in learning more about the other’s ship, then someone was encouraged to volunteer to teach them.
These and other ideas were pored over at length, only breaking briefly at lunch. On their way to said meal, Jim tried to talk Brainy into joining him for a private meal in his quarters - but was immediately turned down and nearly got his foot stomped on by Saturn Girl, who shielded Brainy from the captain, along with Superman, during the group meal in the cafeteria. Away from the board, the two groups, minus Spock and Brainy, joked together and shared tales of their missions.
By the end of the meal, Superman thought Jim might be a decent person. Until he snuck a pinch on Brainy’s butt. He was, however, glad to see Bones chase Jim down with a hypo, causing Jim to have a red, irritated mark on his neck for the rest of the meeting.
“And you call yourself my BFF,” Jim groaned.
“No Jim, only you and little schoolgirls would refer to our relationship as that,” Bones frowned, though he did - Superman noticed - offer Jim a soothing cotton swab for his neck.
It was amazing how fast Jim - a human with no super abilities - could move.
In practically the blink of an eye, he had sprinted across the hall, pounced on the trying-to-flee Brainy and was hugging him too tightly for him to escape; the Coluan’s back to his chest as he rested his cheek on top of the much shorter boy’s head and grinned.
And, for some odd reason, Superman held an instant dislike towards the captain, whether he was a hero of the Narada Incident or not.
“How’s my favorite Coluan?” Jim asked, nearly talking in baby talk.
“Thinking of places to hide your body,” Brainy replied darkly.
Superman almost laughed until he saw how deadpan his friend’s expression was. Which made him gulp warily instead.
Taking the captured opportunity, Jim patted Brainy’s hair as he grinned and said suggestively, “I’d be more than willing to hide in your bed.”
As Brainy frowned, with darkened cheeks, Superman was considering taking down a nearby steel beam and using it to force the Captain to keep his hands to himself.
“Damn it Jim; you’re a captain, not a pedophile!” shouted a very irate man, a few years older than Jim with short brown hair and burning brown eyes, wearing a blue Starfleet shirt.
He had, apparently, followed Jim out of the meeting room, along with another man who was taller than anyone else present, with short black hair styled in a way that looked similar to a bowl cut.
This second man also had brown eyes and wore a similar blue shirt to the man who had just yelled, but his face was expressionless, and his stand stoic but natural. His eyebrows were also angled more upwards in a line rather than a downwards curve like human eyebrows, and his ears were pointed.
This man was a Vulcan, Superman realized with a start. There weren’t that many left and there was only one Vulcan in the entirety of Starfleet at this time. This man had to be Spock; one of the other heroes of the Narada Incident.
Almost as if in retaliation to the order, Jim cuddled Brainy closer to him, pressing the Coluan’s side to his chest now, and pouted at the man who was yelling at him.
“But Bones, he’s technically an adult.”
“And you’re technically still a pervert,” Bones pulled out something that looked like a shot without a needle and headed straight for him.
With a small shout, Jim released Brainy and dived backwards to hide behind him, holding onto the exasperated Coluan’s shoulders.
“Don’t you go hypo happy on me!”
“Then don’t go around treating Brainiac Five like a damn teddy bear,” Bones growled, putting the hypo away. For now.
After taking in a deep breath, Brainy turned to Bones, “Still tolerating Mr. Kirk I see, Dr. McCoy.”
With another withering look at Jim, Bones nodded, “Someone has to.”
Both of them ignored the Captain’s protest of how awesome he truly was to be around.
Pike turned to Saturn Girl and spoke softly with a wink, “Leonard McCoy’s one of the reasons why you don’t want a Starfleet doctor, and he’s one of our best.”
Now turning his head to look behind Bones, the Coluan spoke to the Vulcan, “Mr. Spock, it is good to see you well.”
With a step forwards, Spock kept his arms behind him, but remained in his formal stance.
“It is satisfying to see you in a similar condition; if not troubled by a sudden growth on your back.”
Again, Jim pouted, “That’s no way for a First Officer to speak of his Captain.”
“Perhaps, Captain, if you released Brainiac Five from your hold, seeing as your attentions are clearly unwanted, I would refrain from speaking of you in such a manner?” Spock suggested.
Mulling the words around in his mind for a moment, Jim shook his head and hugged Brainy around the shoulders.
“Being so close to such cuteness is worth a few mean words.”
“Is it worth a few hypos to the ass?” Bones’s eyes nearly glinted maliciously.
Though Jim quickly returned his hands to Brainy’s shoulders with a hint of panic to his expression, Superman couldn’t take it anymore. He was about to forcibly, and possibly violently, remove Kirk from Brainy and keep him away but he was beat to it.
Striding forward, Spock effectively pinched the top of Jim’s hand, using only enough pressure to irritate rather than cause pain, until he let go of Brainy’s shoulder. He then directed Brainy, with a hand between his shoulder blades, away from Jim and to the safety of a close proximity to his person but slightly behind him.
“Why do you have to ruin all my fun?” Jim asked, rubbing the top of his hand.
“I merely thought it was safer to remove the threat of Doctor McCoy giving you an unnecessary hypo, Querl causing you serious injury when his tolerance for you ran out - or one of his fellow Legion members decided to come to his ‘rescue’ - and therefore negating the opportunity to strengthen ties between the Legion and Starfleet,” Spock replied.
The Captain crossed his arms, “You just like ruining my fun.”
An eyebrow rose on Spock’s face, “Clearly, Captain, you are unaware that Vulcans do not indulge themselves in such hobbies.”
“Sure they don’t,” Jim rolled his eyes.
Though Superman thought he had seen Spock glance at him when he spoke of a Legion member rescuing Brainy, he couldn’t pay it much attention. Instead he just blinked at Brainy, silently thinking, “Querl?”
Spotting Superman’s expression Brainy explained, “Querl is my name. Querl Dox, to be more specific.”
“Which I’ve been threatened from ever using under threat of arm cannons,” Jim stated a little too proudly.
After examining Jim, ears twitching in a way to show that he thought the captain was crazy, Timber Wolf turned to Brainy.
“How do you know these guys anyway?”
“Two months, one week and three days before the Legion retrieved Superman from the past I spent a week lecturing at Starfleet Academy on several subjects relating to space travel. James Kirk and Leonard McCoy were students and Mr. Spock a fellow lecturer,” Brainy explained.
“He looked so good in the black Starfleet teacher’s uniform,” Jim expanded, grinning in such a way that Superman almost thought hearts would appear around him and could almost swore he heard Bones mutter, “You and your green fetish.”
Point blank ignoring him, Brainy continued. “At the very first lecture Kirk would interrupt class, pretending to have a serious question to only use the excuse to flirt and, more often than not, give crude suggestions.”
“He’s so cute when he blushes,” Jim grinned.
“He would then stalk me after class, usually attempting some form physical form of attack to accommodate his flirting.”
“Wouldn’t you hug him if given the opportunity?”
“He never offered you any hugs.”
“I said opportunity; not permission. Really Bones, you should know better.”
“If not for the intervention of Mr. Spock I may have had to relinquish my lecturing obligation and return to the Legion sooner than planned.”
“It was no fair using a Vulcan shield.”
“That didn’t stop you from giving him your continued unwanted attentions.”
“Hey, I flirt, it’s what I do. You’re lucky you were never my teacher, Mr. Spock, or I may have continued my usual treatment at the Kobayashi Maru trail and flustered you too badly to try to kick me out of Starfleet.”
“Vulcans do not get flus -”
“Boys,” Pike rolled himself into the conversation. “We should really get to that meeting before the board thinks we slaughtered each other.”
“Unfortunately, that might be the least of our worries,” Bones glanced between Jim and Brainy before grabbing Jim by the collar of his shirt and dragging him into the meeting room, ignoring his protests and telling him to quit whining.
Slowly, the Legion and the remaining Starfleet members followed.
“This is going to be a long trip,” Triplicate Girl sighed.
“I know, isn’t it great?” Phantom Girl grinned in return.
Though he had been excited to be able to help the survivors of Vulcan and get to know members of Starfleet, Superman couldn’t help but think the whole thing was a bad idea now. He already had the urge to throw Kirk through a wall; he couldn’t imagine having to spend a month in his company.
Quietly questioning how Brainy had been since they spoke last, Spock briefly had his hand on the small of Brainy’s back when he directed him to a chair, then took the only free one located beside it.
Really, Superman wasn’t all that thrilled to have the Vulcan around either.
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The meeting lasted about three hours, with the two groups discussing details of the upcoming trip and their duties once they reached the Vulcan colony. For the voyage there and back, unless either group was called away for another mission, the Legion Cruiser would be traveling within the Enterprise and the Legion would be given rooms in the guest sleeping quarters close to the higher ranking officers. Both parties would be welcomed in the restricted area of the other’s ships to better understand the other’s technology. If someone was interested in learning more about the other’s ship, then someone was encouraged to volunteer to teach them.
These and other ideas were pored over at length, only breaking briefly at lunch. On their way to said meal, Jim tried to talk Brainy into joining him for a private meal in his quarters - but was immediately turned down and nearly got his foot stomped on by Saturn Girl, who shielded Brainy from the captain, along with Superman, during the group meal in the cafeteria. Away from the board, the two groups, minus Spock and Brainy, joked together and shared tales of their missions.
By the end of the meal, Superman thought Jim might be a decent person. Until he snuck a pinch on Brainy’s butt. He was, however, glad to see Bones chase Jim down with a hypo, causing Jim to have a red, irritated mark on his neck for the rest of the meeting.
“And you call yourself my BFF,” Jim groaned.
“No Jim, only you and little schoolgirls would refer to our relationship as that,” Bones frowned, though he did - Superman noticed - offer Jim a soothing cotton swab for his neck.