captain_jtkirk | .007 - he's expecting to punched in his near future

"Hey, talk to them all you like. Just not about me. And if they bring me up first then fine, but you'd better keep that conversation short."

"Deal," Jim nodded slightly. "Rule number three, be honest with me. You have a right to your privacy and I'll respect that, but if it's something I need to know about, especially anything important, or even if it's just a really bad day and you want to rant til you turn blue, then I want to hear about it."

Well. She didn't intend on keeping to that rule for a second, but since he'd worded it kind of vaguely she could be generous with the working definition of her right to privacy and what exactly he would 'need' to know about.

"Deal. Rule number four, I want one night a week of above-deck access. I don't care if you wanna make me earn it somehow, but there it is."

Edited 2010-10-02 16:45 (UTC)

"Above deck is kind of broad. So is "one night". Do you want the whole night or just the evening? Where do you want to go? Do you want to bring anyone with you?"

She sipped her coffee. "Evening, subject to change, ditto. This isn't some huge deal I'm asking for, y'know."

"Actually, it is. This isn't a pleasure cruise and the above deck areas are a privilege for the Wardens. So yeah, you are going to have to earn it and given what you've told me today, you aren't going to earn it for a while. But I'll keep it in mind and if you do earn it, then you'll get it."

She knew she'd been pushing it with that one - and what had she done recently that was so terrible? - but never mind. She'd need Kirk to get into the pub as far as she knew, but otherwise....well, dating a Warden had its perks.

"Whatever. So. Is that all?"

"Just one. You will not go behind my back. If I tell you no, then that's final. No going to another Warden."

She made a mental note to simply not ask him.

"Yeah, yeah. You do realize that's implied, right? I'm a grown-up, I can work out the finer details for myself."

"I realize I need to state everything clearly with you and I'm betting that even now, you're thinking of ways to find a way around it," Kirk answered levelly. She reminded him a lot of himself most of the time and that was how he thought, so he was just going to assume the worst. Because then, he was never disappointed.

"But that's fine. I can out play this game to see who can out stubborn the other one first. Or we can be actual growns up and work together."

Edited 2010-10-03 06:43 (UTC)

Her eyes narrowed. "Look, honestly? I realized these rules were going to be an exercise in pointlessness when you decided to open the conversation with 'don't kill anybody'. I mean, come on. When was that ever an issue with me? You come out with ridiculous non-statements like that and I wonder if you've even got your memory back."

Edited 2010-10-03 10:51 (UTC)

"And therefore, it'll probably end up the only rule that doesn't get broken," Kirk retorted. "And I like some tiny measure of success in really tough problems."

Did she dislike anybody on the Barge enough to kill them, just to make a point? No, not really. Hm.

"'Really tough problems'. Uh huh. What exactly have I been doing lately that is encouraging you to be such a total pain in the ass? Oh, I remember - you don't know because you haven't been here."

"You just said that you're in exactly the same place as when I left. So I really didn't miss anything now did I? And you've been here for over a year now, so you're pretty clearly in it for the long haul."

"Way to not actually answer the question. You've said it yourself, I've got my heels dug in pretty hard here, so what's the point of you being a jerk?"

Kirk tipped his head to the side slightly. "And what exactly am I being a jerk about?"

"Well, gee. Last time you were here, you weren't such a tightass about everything. It was kind of assumed that I wouldn't go around murdering people for kicks. If I wanted to use the above-decks areas, I just had to ask nicely - heck, more often than not you dragged me up to the Enclosure yourself - and if I went with somebody else? Not a big deal. Now you're talking about me having to earn this stuff, without actually explaining how, like over a year of near-perfect conduct earns me nothing."

"Over a year of complacency earns you nothing, you're absolutely right about that," Jim answered calmly. A year ago, he didn't have a lot of experience commanding people. Now he was a lot better at refusing people things that they wanted just because they wanted it.

"I'm not coddling you anymore. You're in prison. Yes, you aren't here for more obvious reasons like some of the others, but you are here for a reason and from what I can tell, you've done very little to address that reason. So until you're prepared to work with me and actually make progress, no more privileges."

"Fine." God, she missed Banner already. Sure, he'd been mumbly and impotent and annoying but he didn't actually do a whole lot, either, and to say he had his own issues to deal with was an understatement. All the traits that had irritated her at the time were the ones she was feeling bereft of now. Why had she thought this would be a good idea, again?

She leaned back, tucking her hands behind her head.

"So. You want to work with me? Let's make a start. Right now. I've got nothing better to do."

Edited 2010-10-03 18:11 (UTC)

Probably because she was used to the old Kirk and the new Kirk has been introduced to something called responsibility.

Jim studied her for a long moment.

"You have to trust me, Shego," he said finally. "You don't have to like me. You don't have to do it today. But you do have to trust me eventually or else it won't matter what I say to you."

She gave him a completely blank look because if she did anything else she was concerned that she was going to start yelling or maybe beat him to death with a chair.

"Okay. What else?"

"That's it. That's where I want to start for right now." Jim was concerned by that blank look. Because she was never unemotional about something unless something else was going on.

"I don't expect it to be easy. Or to be a quick thing."

"Good, because it won't be. We're looking at a 'maybe months, maybe years, maybe not possible' project right there, so give me something else that I might be able to manage before Christmas. I'm a woman, I can do more than one thing at a time."

"Figure out why you can't, don't, and/or won't trust me then, and we can work on it," Kirk answered, leaning back in his chair.

"I'm serious, Shego. I can't fully trust someone who doesn't trust me."

"Duh, Captain I-promise-I'm-going-to-stick-around-no-wait-actually-I'm-gonna-leave-and-if-I'd-remembered-I-wouldn't-have-come-back? You seriously need this explaining to you?"

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