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]

No. Why?

[bornsnarky]

[another sip don't mind if I do]

Because shit always, ALWAYS goes wrong.

[zexyandiknowit]

Does it? No, it doesn't.

[bornsnarky]

You're an optimist?

[zexyandiknowit]

No, just--facts.

[bornsnarky]

Uh huh.

[amused but HIGHLY SKEPTICAL]

[zexyandiknowit]

[Shrugs again]

I am lucky. It is nice. That's all.

[bornsnarky]

[yawns] I'm afraid I'll have to live and let live on that one.

[zexyandiknowit]

I will attempt to convince you when you are not so tired and warm.

[bornsnarky]

[amiable] Hey, you're the warm one. And others've tried in the past to turn me into some kind of... [shudder]... optimistic person. With no success.

[zexyandiknowit]

Hee! Well, as long as you are happy as you are...

[bornsnarky]

[solemn] Yup, perfectly happy in my rut.

[zexyandiknowit]

...

You confuse me.

[bornsnarky]

Ah, I don't mean to.

[comfortable, semi dozing, but of all people I'll try to explain to *you* if you want me to]

[zexyandiknowit]

Mm, I do not mind, so much.

[Which is confusing in its own way]

[bornsnarky]

You don't mind a lot.

'snice.

[zexyandiknowit]

[Small huff of a laugh]

I mind some things, but nothing that has happened recently.

[bornsnarky]

Even fighting for me?

[zexyandiknowit]

[To say or not to say... well]

[Honesty is the best policy and I'm drunk, so]

I would do that every night, if necessary.

[bornsnarky]

[I don't know why your answer to that was so important to me, but it really was, and you said exactly the right things]

Mighty kind of you.

[zexyandiknowit]

I doubt it will be necessary, of course. I would call you a damsel, if that happened, and then you would hit me.

[bornsnarky]

[laughs]

And I hit hard.

[zexyandiknowit]

I am glad you do not like the idea. I am rubbish at poetry.

[bornsnarky]

[brightens, sitting up]

You write poetry?

[zexyandiknowit]

...

I am drunk.