[Discovery] -- [Kirk's Office] -- [Open for Official Business]

[kirktastic]

It was so heavily backlogged. Messages, paperwork, reports, news - all of it was backlogged. Kirk had holed himself up in his office, trying to get through it all. Okay, the paperwork was at least not seriously backlogged and he saw Spock's hand in that. Spock was good at that sort of thing, even if Kirk wasn't entirely surprised to see some things

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[original_fine]

In a strange blast of synergy, Jim had been on the point of sending a message to Jim. He went immediately, dressed in a gold command uniform and no pants. Crazy, what girls got away with calling a dress.

He buzzed for entry.

[kirktastic]

Kirk held up a finger, "You mean 'more conventional wardrobe choices," complete with a huge bullshit grin. He had gone around in a female uniform for a week in protest that men should be able to wear all the styles of uniform just like the ladies could.

...He had been fairly drunk when he had come up with the idea.

[original_fine]

Jim blinked.

"Okay," he said. "I just don't look nearly this good in a dress, usually. As to the rest... well, there's plenty to tell, but probably not officially." He smirked.

[kirktastic]

"You have to shave," Kirk piped up with. "As for the rest..." He grinned wide, "You'll have to tell me sometime... later." He totally didn't wink.

"I'm really thinking that all of this... er, female stuff should probably not go on the official report. Maybe we should, but... do we really want Starfleet questioning everyone about it?"

[original_fine]

"What I'd really need is new shoulders," Jim lamented. "But I'll leave that to you; my Command is pretty used to taking what I say at face value, even if they gripe about how I handle it. So we don't get a lot of investigation. But if there's still some wariness about us being here to begin with, I can understand not wanting to raise any more flags."

[kirktastic]

"Your command and my command are pretty similar... it's credibility. I'm young, I'm still new to this. They're willing to believe you because you have experience... and I'm still earning it." His lips quirked.

"I have no doubt... that Starfleet is going to want to talk to everyone on the ship. Anyone from another universe, back from the dead... hell, my father is a huge hero. My birthday, the day the Kelvin was destroyed, is a holiday because of it."

[original_fine]

"Oh, I remember," he said. "I had to ram a few things past them, in the early days. And I'm never entirely off the hook." His brow furrowed. "Sounds like a morbid holiday," he said. "That coming up, then?"

[kirktastic]

Kirk looked confused for a second, "Coming up? Already went by. I was born on just after the new year."

[original_fine]

Jim frowned. "Really?" He'd just assumed, of course, that they were the same. "Mine's in March. The end of March. Either you were really early, or there's a hell of a lot more Nero didn't have a hand in changing."

[kirktastic]

Kirk shook his head, "Not something I ever asked my Mom about. Not a good subject to bring up with her, and Dad... well, he was dead." He shrugged.

"We're going to have to prepare the crew for this. Starfleet might end up taking away the other Pike and his Spock if my first officer decides to press charges... and what about James?" Damn, he barely met the guy and he just didn't like him, plus he hadn't heard anything good about him.

[original_fine]

Jim's lips formed a tight line. Press charges?

"James," he said. "James is... not who he pretends to be. He's still done nothing anyone can argue with, but he's from a universe we have experience with. More or less our equivalent of where Pike came from."

[kirktastic]

"Somehow that doesn't surprise me," Kirk was blunt, "I don't like him in the least. I don't want him to stay on this ship when we meet up with Starfleet."

[original_fine]

Jim held up his hands.

"You'll get no argument from me. Unless, of course, you decide we need to keep the displaced people together somewhere." He tilted his head. "That's a possibility, isn't it? Setting us down."

[kirktastic]

Kirk looked at Jim sharply, brows furrowing, "...setting you down? You don't want to stay?" It hadn't even crossed his mind.

[original_fine]

"You misunderstand," Jim said. "If I have a home anymore, it's the Enterprise. Even if she isn't mine. Of course I want to stay. I'm trying to make sure I'm forewarned about the possibility being thrown at me at a later date. Do you think it's likely?"

Jim had, in his mind, more or less adopted all the displaced persons as his responsibility. The decision of what happened to any of them concerned him deeply.

[kirktastic]

Which was exactly what Kirk had done. Kirk pulled up a document and spun it in place so Jim could read it. It was the request for some of his original crew to be transferred to other ships. "...I want you guys to stay. I really don't think that Starfleet would ask you to leave the Enterprise unless it was to give you a ship of your own." Which... in Kirk's mind seemed far more likely.