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kat8chaIt took Jim a while to figure it out. Not that he wasn't quick on the uptake, he was, especially when it had to do with the habits and quirks of his crewmembers. He knew that Uhura always did her nails the night before she and Spock were going to get busy. It was stuff like that that interested Jim, boring stuff didn't matter. Like he didn't care that Sulu kept bonsai in his room, but he did find it entertaining that Sulu liked to fence in the nude.
'Semi-nude', the little Bones-ian voice in Jim's head piped up.
And okay, semi-nude, and also Jim didn't need to learn any of Bones' quirks because he had covered that ground backwards and forwards when he was at the academy. He knew just about every one of Bones' quirks, like the fact that Bones' had a soft spot for kids and the tightness in his voice when he was thinking about his wife and daughter, or the fact that Bones would compulsively re-read a chapter if he thought he had forgotten even one thing, or that he liked to watch nature programs drunk.
Stuff like that was interesting!
So because of his love of INTERESTING things one would think that Spock would totally bore him.
And Spock did. Sort of. Except underneath the whole 'calm cool Vulcan' thing there was an under layer of totally quirky humanity. Like the way Spock could say 'fascinating' about a million and one different ways. It was all in the inflection and also in the quirk of his eyebrow. Oh, and don't get Jim started on the eyebrow. Spock could do things with that eyebrow that Orion women couldn't do with their whole body. And there were the fingers, the way Spock would tap them together and the reasons and…
So, see, lots of quirks. Interesting ones. Like the fact that he shined his shoes after he got laid. Not like, RIGHT after, but his shoes were always shinier the next day.
Also the way Spock would say 'live long and prosper'. Consider that LLaP was a standard Vulcan catchphrase (sort of like 'see ya' or 'bon voyage') it shouldn't be weird that Spock used it often. But Spock… sometimes… sometimes the way he said it LLAP sounded like an all mighty 'fuck you'. But Kirk couldn't tell if it was intentional or subconscious or WHAT.
So after they'd said goodbye to one alien race that had sort of pissed them all off but they'd needed to make nice with and Spock had given them the 'fuck you' version of LLap, Kirk cornered him in the hallway off the transporter room and questioned him about it.
"No, seriously, sometimes I expect you to just burst out into Shaft when you say it. Have you ever said that and broken someone's nose?" Because Jim could totally see it happening.
"No." Spock didn't shift, or look nervous, or adjust himself. He didn't even push Jim away despite Kirk's proximity. "May I return to my duties, captain?"
"Yeah," Jim stepped away and let Spock walk off in the direction of the bridge. "Sure."
Damn, there was totally something up about that. Maybe Spock had broken someone's nose after saying it. Or maybe there was a Vulcan band out there performing Live Long and Prosper Motherfucker.
…except Spock didn't like the word 'motherfucker'. In any language. He'd nearly nerve-pinched Chekov for saying it once. Full of quirky humanity, his half-vulcan friend was.
'Semi-nude', the little Bones-ian voice in Jim's head piped up.
And okay, semi-nude, and also Jim didn't need to learn any of Bones' quirks because he had covered that ground backwards and forwards when he was at the academy. He knew just about every one of Bones' quirks, like the fact that Bones' had a soft spot for kids and the tightness in his voice when he was thinking about his wife and daughter, or the fact that Bones would compulsively re-read a chapter if he thought he had forgotten even one thing, or that he liked to watch nature programs drunk.
Stuff like that was interesting!
So because of his love of INTERESTING things one would think that Spock would totally bore him.
And Spock did. Sort of. Except underneath the whole 'calm cool Vulcan' thing there was an under layer of totally quirky humanity. Like the way Spock could say 'fascinating' about a million and one different ways. It was all in the inflection and also in the quirk of his eyebrow. Oh, and don't get Jim started on the eyebrow. Spock could do things with that eyebrow that Orion women couldn't do with their whole body. And there were the fingers, the way Spock would tap them together and the reasons and…
So, see, lots of quirks. Interesting ones. Like the fact that he shined his shoes after he got laid. Not like, RIGHT after, but his shoes were always shinier the next day.
Also the way Spock would say 'live long and prosper'. Consider that LLaP was a standard Vulcan catchphrase (sort of like 'see ya' or 'bon voyage') it shouldn't be weird that Spock used it often. But Spock… sometimes… sometimes the way he said it LLAP sounded like an all mighty 'fuck you'. But Kirk couldn't tell if it was intentional or subconscious or WHAT.
So after they'd said goodbye to one alien race that had sort of pissed them all off but they'd needed to make nice with and Spock had given them the 'fuck you' version of LLap, Kirk cornered him in the hallway off the transporter room and questioned him about it.
"No, seriously, sometimes I expect you to just burst out into Shaft when you say it. Have you ever said that and broken someone's nose?" Because Jim could totally see it happening.
"No." Spock didn't shift, or look nervous, or adjust himself. He didn't even push Jim away despite Kirk's proximity. "May I return to my duties, captain?"
"Yeah," Jim stepped away and let Spock walk off in the direction of the bridge. "Sure."
Damn, there was totally something up about that. Maybe Spock had broken someone's nose after saying it. Or maybe there was a Vulcan band out there performing Live Long and Prosper Motherfucker.
…except Spock didn't like the word 'motherfucker'. In any language. He'd nearly nerve-pinched Chekov for saying it once. Full of quirky humanity, his half-vulcan friend was.
