for ZEX, it's time to par-tay

[bornsnarky]

[standing at the bar, yanking on the collar of this damn dress uniform]

[reeeeeeally hoping these Thraddash people don't approach me, surely there're enough interesting people around here that I can just get convivially drunk with Scotty and ZEX and Uhura]

[I can see Jim in the corner being all charming and shit, and there're a couple more being entertained by Chekov and Gaila, excellent, maybe I can get out of this formal reception with my sanity relatively intact]

[then a gravelly voice behind me says he'll buy me a drink]

[...turning]

Ah. Um. Thanks, I guess. I'm Leonard McCoy.


[he says he knows]

Comments

[zexyandiknowit]

[Appreciative noise, swirling between the other couples]

[bornsnarky]

[is smacked on the butt]

[outraged look over my shoulder, Uhura's laughing at us]

[zexyandiknowit]

[LOL and waves]

[bornsnarky]

[muttering] Sometimes I think you're the only vaguely sane person on board.

[zexyandiknowit]

You are so sweet.

I think I will dip you.

[bornsnarky]

Aw, c'mon, Jim's bad enough, but Nyota?!

[zexyandiknowit]

[Nuzzle that he would deny later if pressed]

And if she is behind a pillar?

[bornsnarky]

[too disconcerted to notice]

...do it fast, damn you.

[zexyandiknowit]

If you insist. ♥

[A SWEEPING DIP FOR THE AGES, and neither Kirk nor Nyota saw, but Chekov will have some questions later]

[bornsnarky]

[a fraction of a second of a squawk escapes from between my lips, then I go with it grimly]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Laaaaughs]

You look so long-suffering, friend doctor! ♥ [And rights McCoy again]

[bornsnarky]

[harrumphs]

I'm fine, I'm fine.

[zexyandiknowit]

Thank goodness you are a good dancer; elsewise we would have ended up on the floor together, I think.

[bornsnarky]

[grumbly affection] Don't try to butter me up now. I'm not exactly used to being the dippee.

[zexyandiknowit]

You handled it with grace, if I may say so.

[The song is comin' to an end, tho]

[bornsnarky]

[inarticulate grumble, but I'm blushing just a little]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Heeeee]

[One final twirl, and then bows to]

[bornsnarky]

[bows back gravely]

[zexyandiknowit]

[How can you look like you're at a funeral and still be so cute]

Thank you, friend doctor. Shall I leave you to other partners?

[bornsnarky]

[how can you look like Uhura and still be so manly]

[A LOOK OF UTTER PANIC] I -- I, uh, don't do much dancing these days.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Blink] No? Then I am doubly honored.

[bornsnarky]

Yeah, not much since -- since things.

[scooting off the dance floor with an arm around you to try to usher you with me]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Is more than happy to be ushered]

Understood. Time for a drink and a tactful escape, perhaps?

[bornsnarky]

A drink, a tactful escape, then several more drinks.

[zexyandiknowit]

Lovely.

[TO THE BAR]