To be fair, back in the day (AKA, Jim's present) they were kind of running and gunning it. Honestly, Jim's convinced most of the admiralty thinks they're making up half the shit they report, but space really is that bizarre when it's all new and interesting. Anyway, he digresses - Tendi is kind, exuberant, and a total science geek (affectionate). She's a capable officer, but she also fits right in with the Spock-Jim-Bones typical brand of nonsense off duty - and frankly, despite the gap in rank the gap in age is only a few years. Is Jim really more mature than most of the junior officers she's accustomed to?
The answer is very definitively no.
Clearly he's a bad influence on Spock, or maybe they're both just enablers. Either way, the history books were kinder to the pair of them than they deserved.
That's not what you said ten minutes ago.
Jim starts to sit up, Spock helping him to gain leverage, but between the shock on Tendi's face (that she's attempting to hide behind the tablet, bless her, but too late, Jim spotted it) and the cut-off reaction from Spock that Jim is getting in play-by-play - he collapses in a fit of laughter, turning his head to bury it in a pillow for a beat. Spock's deadpan dryness while he redirects his biological reactions beneath the surface is too fucking funny.
This is hardly the worst thing Jim's ever been caught doing, so he's just going to go for shameless with both hands. He does manage to sit up under his own power, releasing Spock's wrist and setting himself upright - they're still definitely too close for polite company, but Jim doesn't have the ability to re-route his vascular system, so he's just gonna chill for a second. He's aware that there's this image Tendi seems to have in her head of the three of them as (potentially infallible?) leadership, though speculation as to why that was, exactly, hadn't been confirmed. It's not like Jim's the brass, he's Captain of a tin can. The fastest, coolest tin can in the galaxy, but still a tin can. ]
Cat's out of the bag, Spock. [ Not that they were really hiding it, but weren't they?? Jim didn't know how to tell Bones. He sure as hell didn't want to tell Peter and prove the little shit right. He's also not even sure what he would say. We're lowkey Vulcan engaged/married/mythic-level soulmates/other infinitely nuanced option?? ] Tendi, yes you did, and I'm not going to ask you to pretend otherwise. We just, ah...didn't expect anyone home yet.
It's - you know - [ Jim makes a helpless gesture between the two of them, unable to help the slight snicker, residual amusement leaking through. ] - kinda...new.
and they were roommates...
To be fair, back in the day (AKA, Jim's present) they were kind of running and gunning it. Honestly, Jim's convinced most of the admiralty thinks they're making up half the shit they report, but space really is that bizarre when it's all new and interesting. Anyway, he digresses - Tendi is kind, exuberant, and a total science geek (affectionate). She's a capable officer, but she also fits right in with the Spock-Jim-Bones typical brand of nonsense off duty - and frankly, despite the gap in rank the gap in age is only a few years. Is Jim really more mature than most of the junior officers she's accustomed to?
The answer is very definitively no.
Clearly he's a bad influence on Spock, or maybe they're both just enablers. Either way, the history books were kinder to the pair of them than they deserved.
That's not what you said ten minutes ago.
Jim starts to sit up, Spock helping him to gain leverage, but between the shock on Tendi's face (that she's attempting to hide behind the tablet, bless her, but too late, Jim spotted it) and the cut-off reaction from Spock that Jim is getting in play-by-play - he collapses in a fit of laughter, turning his head to bury it in a pillow for a beat. Spock's deadpan dryness while he redirects his biological reactions beneath the surface is too fucking funny.
This is hardly the worst thing Jim's ever been caught doing, so he's just going to go for shameless with both hands. He does manage to sit up under his own power, releasing Spock's wrist and setting himself upright - they're still definitely too close for polite company, but Jim doesn't have the ability to re-route his vascular system, so he's just gonna chill for a second. He's aware that there's this image Tendi seems to have in her head of the three of them as (potentially infallible?) leadership, though speculation as to why that was, exactly, hadn't been confirmed. It's not like Jim's the brass, he's Captain of a tin can. The fastest, coolest tin can in the galaxy, but still a tin can. ]
Cat's out of the bag, Spock. [ Not that they were really hiding it, but weren't they?? Jim didn't know how to tell Bones. He sure as hell didn't want to tell Peter and prove the little shit right. He's also not even sure what he would say. We're lowkey Vulcan engaged/married/
mythic-level soulmates/other infinitely nuanced option?? ] Tendi, yes you did, and I'm not going to ask you to pretend otherwise. We just, ah...didn't expect anyone home yet.It's - you know - [ Jim makes a helpless gesture between the two of them, unable to help the slight snicker, residual amusement leaking through. ] - kinda...new.