thisisamusebox | for ZEX, it's time to par-tay

for ZEX, it's time to par-tay

[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]

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[More of a laugh at that]

You--no. This just isn't true, I'm afraid.

[flopping against you more, you're cooomfortable]

Bull. When you put your mind to it, you're unstoppable.

[Arm around McCoy's back in a purely platonic gesture of support and man that IS comfortable]

That is not charm, that is stubbornness.

[mmm, warm, too]

Same thing. Jim's a persistent asshole when he turns on the charm, too.

...Are you comparing me to the Captain?

[STARTS LAUGHING]

[mystified as to why you're laughing, because it's late and I was nearly taken into slavery and I'm drunk]

[but laughing, too, because you have a nice laugh]

[YOU'RE A FUNNY DRUNK]

[Leannssss] Nooo, I do not think so.

You're still charming.

Don't care what anyone says.

People will not argue. They will be too surprised to argue.

[I'm always up for an argument]

[except when I'm not]

Oh, c'mon. They've seen you do the diplomat thing. You're pretty good.

Thank you, that is most gracious. However, it is my job to be good at this.

This is like how you insist that you are cold-hearted and also old but fall to emotional pieces over small animals, isn't it? Your strange standards for things.