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[captain_jtkirk]

Well, Flynn's gone. And there's a flood on that makes you people act crazy like usual.

Any of you want a drink? Or a game of chess? Or both?

[Private to McCoy]

Bones, lie to me and say that you're making progress with the brat.

Comments

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

[Sorry there's a long pause where Kirk contemplates just drinking himself into a coma.]

... we have met, haven't we?

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

I threw up on you in a shuttle while we were on our way to San Francisco, once. [And that was sort of. It.] Sorry about that. Didn't realize at the time that I'd be puking on the guy who'd save Earth.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

[Another horrible long pause. At least you know who he is and they've had a conversation.]

Funny how that happens.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

Do you know what's going on?

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

The Barge? It's an interdimensional prison ship for the criminally damned.

You're a Warden here.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

Uh, no, I'm not.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Do I look like I'm kidding?

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

How the hell is that even possible? I was just at our base, I've never seen this place before. Or these quarters.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

[This is maybe a bad idea but:] Those are your quarters on Enterprise.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

... What? [Since when did you hire him. :|]

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Kinda self explanatory.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

Captain, no offense, but I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a doctor stationed out on M-113, I've been there for three years, I'd never take up a job on a space ship full time. I suffer from aviophobia, remember? Bad enough I had to spend some time one a ship to get out there in the first place.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Not in all realities, Doctor. Though you do bitch about going back to Mississippi all the time.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

I'm from Georgia. [Dipshit. :\]

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Close enough, same planet.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

Right. And why would you bother learning where your own doctor's from.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

You're not just my CMO.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

You're my best friend. I've met your kid. You've met Sam and I didn't even know where Sam was until recently.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

I threw up on you in a shuttle.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

I somehow was able to overlook that.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

I guess so. [It's not argumentative, really, he's just... confused. And really bittr and angry.]

How the hell did that happen? I never saw you again beyond seeing you around campus before the Narada thing.

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Alternate reality I'm assuming. They're going around.

[Private]

[imaythrowuponyou]

How can you say that this casually?

[Private]

[captain_jtkirk]

Because that's how we got Nero.