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

[bornsnarky]

...there are times I can really see how you do all right as a diplomat.

[and how I never, ever would]

[zexyandiknowit]

Oh, how flattering. ♥

[bornsnarky]

Hush, you.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Laughs into McCoy's hair, breath warm]

[bornsnarky]

[...reacting to that, don't know why]

[following your lead much more deftly now]

[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.