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WHO: Jim Kirk and Uhura
WHAT: Alien booze doesn't sit with the Captain well apparently.
WHERE: Her cabin. He's trying to get her back to bed.

Five years ago, this wouldn't really have been a problem for him, he was pretty sure. But he'd also be tipsy bordering on drunk with the girl, so the consent line would not have been even really an issue. But as it was, he'd been on the ship for this mission, working on paperwork and stocking in Sickbay since it was slow and a medic should do just fine on the planet.

Of course, he'd been summoned to the transport room anyway, when the away party came back because they were all acting a little... off according to his medic, who in all honesty, sounded off himself. To which Kirk figured out they were all varying degrees of drunk and that the alien liquor was taking longer to process in their systems than human liquor did.

So Kirk sent the rest of the team to their rooms, a couple of them with another person to help guide them while he tackled the problem of their Captain. It wasn't even because they were dating, since the crew didn't know about that still, it was simply because as her CMO, her health was his problem. Jim managed to get her back to her quarters with minimal groping and if more happened in the elevator, then it wasn't like someone else was in there with them.

Inside her quarters was another story. Since he didn't have the 'people could see' excuse and it was literally only because he was stone cold sober that he was even resisting.

"What if, you go to bed instead?"

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"I already wrote a report on it," Jim replied, reaching behind him to grab the PADD that he'd stolen from her. "It's preliminary. I have to check over the rest of the away team."

"Excellent," she replied, trying not to read too much into the fact that he'd stayed up to do work but hadn't left her room. She could feel her cheeks going slightly red as she remembered that she'd made him promise not to go. "Any concerning effects besides intoxication?"

"You thought you were floating for a while? You usually don't do that when you're drunk."

"Oh, God," she said, groaning softly and burying her face in her hands for a minute. "I am so sorry, Jim. Thanks for putting up with me."

"It's fine. Strictly professionally speaking, I would have stayed the night to make sure you didn't have any adverse reactions."

"Right, thanks." She felt utterly ridiculous, embarrassed, and more than a little uncertain about his feelings towards her at the moment. Perhaps he really had only stayed because of his duties as CMO.

...But damnit, she was a Captain. She shouldn't behave like an embarrassed school girl. "Listen, Jim, I hope the things I said last night didn't make you too uncomfortable. I'm not saying they weren't true, but I was very drunk. It wasn't my intention to... to say all that."

Jim sucked in a sharp breath when she said that, not sure if he should just pretend like he didn't hear or... actually talk about this, and now he really wanted to be drunk.

"It's fine," he answered, looking at her knee more than her face. "You were being honest."

"A little too honest, I think." Her eyes stayed on him, even though he wasn't looking at her. "Jim... I hope the way I feel doesn't come as too much of a surprise, but if you're not ready to hear any of this, then just say so. We don't have to talk about it... but I meant everything I said."

"I just..." Jim stopped and shook his head a little. His instincts were telling him to run and avoid her which would just... not work at all since he was her CMO and the ship wasn't really that big when you thought about it. And he couldn't just ignore her messages either until she left him alone.

"I need time to think."

She tried her damnedest not to be hurt by those words, even though it didn't really work. "I understand," she said softly. "Take as much time as you need. But... if you realize you don't want to see me like this anymore, I expect you to have the decency to let me know." It terrified her a little to put the idea out there, but she had to be an adult about this.