[Too Cool Verse - Because It's Been Too Long]

[nyota_uhura24]

Nyota wasn't supposed to be sitting alone in her quarters drinking yet another glass of red wine. In fact, she wasn't supposed to be alone at all, but Leo was spending the night in sickbay again, which meant that their plans to have dinner and actually spend some time together were postponed. She'd told him that she would wait in his quarters,

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[bones_mccoy63]

McCoy was so tired he could barely see straight. He'd worked 7 shifts in the past four days and that was just the beginning. He honestly couldn't even remember the last time he had more than half an hour to talk to Nyota and it killed him, but he had to do his job. M'Benga was sick. There was nothing he could do but cover for him. He ran a hand softly through his hair as he walked into his quarters last night and called out for her, looking forward to talking to her for a little bit before crashing. M'Benga was covering a double the next day so that he could have his first day off in a month and that meant he could sleep as long as he wanted that night (and actually see Uhura, to bit).

"Nyota? Darlin', I'm home," he called out. No answer.

Where in God's name is she? It's almost 23:00 and she said she'd be here...The fact that Nyota wasn't in his quarters as usual worried him. He slipped back into his shoes and headed towards her quarters, just in case, hoping she would be there and he wouldn't have to go on an adventure to find her

[nyota_uhura24]

When the door to her quarters slid open a little after 23:00, she glanced up a little morosely. Seeing him always made her heart feel lighter and happier, but at the moment the feeling was tinged with bitterness and just a little bit of guilt because she did tell him that she'd wait in his quarters. She knew it wasn't his fault that he'd been so busy, but that did nothing to improve her mood. “You're actually off before midnight,” she greeted him, voice tired and rather toneless. “I'm sorry, I assumed it would be later.” Because it almost always was. She glanced down at the wine and tried to remind herself that she really should just be happy he was there and not upset about something that wasn't his fault to begin with. "How was shift?"

[bones_mccoy63]

McCoy's bright smile at seeing her diminished a bit as she snapped an answer a little, her tone disinterested already. "I know, darlin', but I tried my best to get home to ya as soon as I could. You know that." He took a familiar seat on the couch beside her and relaxed into the couch, running a hand across his face with a sigh. "Shift was shift. Nothing too interesting, but never a slow enough minute for me to take a break," he said, the exhaustion clear in his voice. "How was yours?" he asked, turning his head to look at her, searching for eye contact. It was unlike his girlfriend to be so stand offish, and he wondered if she'd had a bad day at work or something.

[nyota_uhura24]

"I know," she replied shortly, feeling even more frustrated that she wasn't being more understanding. Her anger wasn't really directed at him, but she couldn't seem to shut it off when it felt it could be days before they'd even have this much time together again. "It was all right," she answered when he asked about work, swirling the wine in her glass and then finally glancing over at him. "Though if you want to know about shift yesterday, it was uneventful. The two days before that were wonderful - we perfected a new way to track subspace anomalies. If you want to know about my week outside of work, it was pretty awful."