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]

I'm okay. But I wouldn't mind sitting, or something.


[and snuggling, but hell if I'm about to ask for that]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Offers a seat!]

[bornsnarky]

[pulls you down too]

[zexyandiknowit]

[jhlakjshflkdj what]

[bornsnarky]

[arranging myself comfortably against you]

'snice.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Inner voice too busy freaking out since ZEX almost invited McCoy to stay the night]

It. Yes. It is.

[bornsnarky]

If we'd just sat here all night it would've been a much better night.

[convivially tipsy, at least when it comes to you]

[scooting along a little so I can rest my head on your shoulder]

[zexyandiknowit]

...Flattering.

[Allows this?? SUDDENLY EXAMINING EVERYTHING]

[bornsnarky]

[wry grin up at your ceiling] Not in the slightest meant that way. Just telling the truth.

[zexyandiknowit]

Mm.

Why do you dislike these things? I wonder.

[bornsnarky]

People.

Having to be polite to people I detest.

Having to plaster a pleasant smile on my face when I'm not the biggest fan of lying.

People.

[zexyandiknowit]

"People." Mmmm...

[Thinkin' about this]

[bornsnarky]

[an amiably suspicious glare up at you]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Little shrug of the shoulder McCoy isn't on]

I like people. Not everyone, but... people.

[bornsnarky]

[snorts]

And there's your flaw. See, if you were completely perfect, I'd know there was something wrong and you were bullshitting me. But with a flaw like that, you're believable.


[rerunning what I just said in my head]

[zexyandiknowit]

[...Same... but also:]

Which is the flaw? Not liking everyone, or liking anyone at all?

[bornsnarky]

Liking everyone. Well, by default.

See, I hate everyone by default. I only like the exceptions.

[surely that makes perfect sense]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Thinks about this]

...That sounds very exhausting.

[bornsnarky]

[shrugs comfortably]

Works for me. And it means I treasure the non-assholes.

[zexyandiknowit]

Drinking makes you startlingly open, friend doctor.

[bornsnarky]

[thinking about that, I suspect that's right but there's more to it]

[zexyandiknowit]

...

[Yeah petting your hair again, I'M WEAK]

[bornsnarky]

[maybe because it's you-]

[nah, surely not for that reason]

Mm.

Probably shouldn't drink around you. You'll find out all my deepest secrets.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Jokingly]

Which are?

[bornsnarky]

[laughs]

Um. I used to be a nun?