Bear & I

Abby opened her mouth, taking a moment to gather her thoughts with an almost there smirk from shock from his reaction. She knew that she shouldn't feel that good about shocking him, but it was either that or break down crying in front of  him and everyone. And that was not even an option for her. "I don't be that would be the best at this....


T'Aimnu took in a visible and audible breath, before looking at Abby with obviously concerned eyes and cut her friend off. "That I believe Captain would be for the best. May speak a word in private with you Captain?" T'Aimnu asked.

Abby sat up as about straight as she could with T'Aimnu asking for a word. She sent an even harsher glare than she ever had before toward T'Aimnu. Then looked to Kirk with an audible sigh and a slight pulling bite of the upper lip and looked at T'Aimnu. "Fine." Even then the coolness was still in her voice.

James wasn't quite sure what was going on between the two friends, he watched the exchange, then figured he was getting what he wanted. "Right... So..." He looked once again between the two. "Abby, let's go have a word, alright?"

((You meant he speak with Abby in private, correct?))

"You're a cutie. Where's your boyfriend?" He asked, smirking over at her.

(Oh okay.)

Jim looked between the two again, then went outside the bridge with T'Aimnu. He walked down a slightly less used hall and stopped.

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The man wasn't going to give up that easily. "Maybe something else will then?" He asked before grabbing Kate's wrist.

James hesitated at that, not sure how to answer that. He had, but it had only been once, about a month after no contact with her. After that, he wanted to forget about her, since there was no contact between them. "Once... A long time ago, why?"

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The guy just snorted. "Please, I was the captain of my highschool's wrestling team. You really don't scare me, cutie." He replied, not backing down.

Kirk listened in silence, which was a little unnatural for him to do. Occasionally, he looked like he did want to argue with the Vulcan, but bit his tongue. Throughout the talk, his face went from a state of disagreement, to one that looked surprised, and finally to one that looked a little sad. He never meant to break the woman. Yes, he was mad at her for not going way out of her way to contact him, like other girls had before, but this was surprising. "I... Didn't know..." He eventually said, his voice lower before, filled with mixed emotions. It was almost strained sounding. He knew wha had happened was no good for Abby, at least not emotionally, maybe professionally. He could tell from the Vulcan actually getting agitated. "How... Do I... Win her back...? Or at least, fix all of... This?"

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The man seemed to very vaguely recognize the danger he just may have been in. But, in his intoxicated state, what Kate did really just angered him. "Are you trying to tell me something, missy?" He growled, trying to pull his arm away, thrashing slightly. "Let me go..."

At this point, Logan noticed a bit of a disturbance. He turned around some at the bar to look at the table. If the girl couldn't take care of herself, he decided to get that unintelligent man out of the bar.

Jim just took the advice in and nodded faintly. He wanted to ask more of T'Aimnu, but decided against it, watching her walk off. He returned to his station a few minutes later.

(What should go down next?)

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The man stiffened a little when he saw the sparks, but he was still angry and not thinking straight. "Are you threatening me?" It was obvious she was threatening him, he just wasn't real good at this. "I'll make you sorry."

((Sounds good to me))

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Logan sighed. This could get bad. He got up and walked towards the table. "Is there a problem?"

The man was smirking at Kate, about to reply to her mess up, but when Logan came he lost the smirk and whipped around to face the other man. "Yeah, you. Get lost." He grabbed back onto Kate as he spoke.

((Shoot sorry, the man grabbed her))

Jim, however, did not "forget" about their meeting after the shift. He instead followed her off the bridge a ways, only to lose her. Once this occurred, he spent a little while roaming to find her, but eventually realized she may be in the Cantina. Kirk checked the Cantina and saw her and T'Aimnu sitting together. The male walked over to them and sat down next to Abby in an avaliable seat. "Hey, I thought I'd find you here. I guess you forgot about meeting up?" He asked, smiling, pretending he didn't get that she hadn't really forgotten the meeting.

Spock had no plans, unlike Kirk, for this break. He began to head towards a lab, but saw Kirk head into the Cantina and decided to follow his human friend in. He watched James take a seat next to Abby and immediately understood what was going on. The Vulcan let out a sigh, his only real reaction to what the Captain was doing, then walked over and took a seat as well, across from T'Aimnu and Abby.

Cam was also on this break, and also had the idea of going to the Cantina. Of course, she ended up mildly lost for a while, then finally found her way. Once she walked in, she realized she had no where to sit now. That was before she saw the forming cluster of people at one of the tables. She immediately recognized her old friends and began to walk over, just happy to see Abby and T'Aimnu once again. She took a seat next to T'Aimnu, looking like she may say someone until she heard Kirk say something first.

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The man cried out in surprise and pain when she elbowed him, pulling away, even though by the time he did, she was gone. He looked at her in horror, then ran into the men's restroom.

Logan honestly looked shocked. The girl didn't look like a push over, but he hadn't expected this. She had to be a mutant, or something, to be able to move that fast. "What... Are you...?" He asked, immediately regretting the way he phrased it.

Logan opened his mouth to reply, to explain she had nothing to fear from him, but then she left. At first, he was going to let her go. He was on vacation, after all. Then he realized if he did, and the professor found out, he would never here the end of it. So Logan hurried after her, calling to her when he finally saw her. "Hey! Wait! Miss! I... Think I can explain...! What just happened, I mean!"

((Good idea))

By the time Kate even decided to even consider slowing to a walk, she was half a block away and near an alleyway. She sighed, slowing to a stop, figuring it was better to do this now than later, fixing her mistake that is. Her back was to the guy, her head leaned from one shoulder to the other, stretching out her neck. She briefly had a pained expression on her face. Why in the world did she mess up like that back there? There was no way she would of did that in such a packed place, and no way the drinks she had could affect her brain like that, biologically any more, that is. "Fine, one chance, try to explain it to me." Kate sighed, rubbing her face and then slowly turned around to face the guy.

Logan slowed down and eventually stopped a few feet away from her, not wanting her to think he was trouble as well. She would honestly be a problem if he threatened her, even if she didn't seem well trained. He looked around, almost nervously, scanning the road for witnesses. "I... Think this will explain everything." He replied, lowly, blades slowly slid out of one of his hands.

{Gosh what have we did to these poor people? It's like they never even left... But worse. What if everyone ended up in Abby's quarter? Like Abby leaves first, then Cam and T'Aimnu follow, then Kirk, and then McCoy and Spock follow for support?

More drama and it would actually kind of be funny and that would allow each duo to try and talk through a few things?}

"Uh thank you Spock." Abby nodded, somewhat stiffly.

T'Aimnu was as fidgety as a Vulcan could get, her nervousness was getting the better of her. Even though she knew it was tougher for Abby. "Nothing of consequence, really, just trying to keep Abigail going and keep in contact. Mainly."

Though Abby's small smile return at Cam's greeting. "It was getting better, my career has had it's rocky points, as with everyone. But thanks, it was hard getting it." But once she saw Cam's respond to McCoy sitting she nodded and awkwardly returned to her seat and began to eat again though she found out that it was beginning to be increasingly hard to swallow due to the tension in the air. Abby had managed to see Kirk's full range of expressions. And god did it hurt her, and that hurt that she thought she had gotten over, came flooding back to her. Slowly it started to become harder for her to breath and frankly keep her cool and her promise to herself. Though to the guys it wasn't quite noticeable yet, but obviously T'Aimnu noted it. And perhaps even Cam could see the demeanor change. Going from military cool to down-right nervous to just trying to keep it cool till she could make it to her rooms. Even though she had a very tough and a very thick cold shell around her and her heart, she still was perhaps soft at heart. Still could be swayed by the matters of the heart.

"Yea right Cam, Jim. I know that you never really even tried Cam. Nor were you going to tell me that you were going tell me you were stationed here for a while." Bones stated, poking at his food. Pain was visible in his eyes when he finally looked up at Jim and then Cam with a painful almost sour look. In the time that the girls were away, he had almost fully reverted back to his grumpy old self and it had gotten worse in some areas and in others it was still better than before. "I never heard much from her." It was quite obvious that McCoy hadn't been taking care of himself and running himself ragged to work through the pain.

Though to be fair, Abby was the same way. Though she was able to better hide with more makeup and she was better off to be able to keep up with the missions she was given. T'Aimnu didn't have it quite as hard as McCoy and Abby, but it did take a significantly smaller toll on her.

LMAO true. And that sounds good, it'll probably have way more drama and less tension.)

Cam honestly looked more guilty when she heard T'Aimu had even attempted to keep in contact with Abby. "Oh... Yeah... Sometimes it's hard to keep in contact over long distances..." She muttered. She gave a small nod of agreement to what Abby said about careers. After that she stayed silent for a while.

Even Spock, a Vulcan, even if Jim had been training him to handle situations like this, could physically feel the tension. He would occasionally glance up and look at the others. Well, everyone except T'Aimnu, not sure if that would cause more tension or not if they held eye contact for any length of time. The others only seemed to be adding to the tense situation with their every action.

James hesitated, then nodded a little at what McCoy said. He could see the pain in his friends eyes, and he immediately felt guilty. Both for what he had done, and for bringing up the twos contact with each other. Though Bones rarely ever said anything about Cam after she left, it was quite obvious something had happened between the two, especially with how his friends old, grumpy ways had come back. He also felt guilty because he had done the same as Cam. Well, not the same, but it was still just as bad and it was pretty obvious that it had changed Abby. Still, in an attempt to save himself, he shrugged a little and spoke. "That's... A little rude... But I guess sometimes your career just makes you miss the times where you can contact the people you used to know..." He tried yet again to make an excuse, trying to hide his guilt, trying to make it sound like he was defending Cam and not himself. Anyone that knew his situation with Abby, which was just about everyone there, would know he was really trying to defend himself

Cam looked down at her food as McCoy spoke, but eventually looked up to protest. "I was going to tell you! I just... Didn't know how... Yet... I... Didn't want... This... To happen..." What she meant is she didn't want herself to feel as guilty as she did, and she didn't want to hurt him as much as she had. "I... I'm sorry..." She muttered, then looked at her food again. When James spoke, she winced yet again. What he was saying wasn't going to make the situation any better for anyone, and just his presence seemed to be affect Abby, so his words were probably going to do much worse. It was probably just going to make McCoy worse off, and that was all she needed. If he looked at her like that again, she didn't think she would be able to take all the guilt.

Jim had not been really taking care of himself either. He never really did as much as he should have, but hen Abby left, he got a little worse off. It wasn't as noticeable as McCoy, or even Abby, but it still was going on. He would forget to eat some days, or not sleep a night or two in a row. He rarely let himself on breaks anymore, but when he did, it was out having a good time like he had done before. The disconnection with Abby had affected him, just not in a noticeable way to anyone who didn't know him well enough.

Even Spock had been somewhat affected by the girls leaving. Of course, it rarely even showed compared to his two friends, but he had grown a little less emotional since the event, as though all the teaching and work his human friends had put into making him an emotionally understanding being suddenly reverted once T'Aimnu left. He was not aware of his own change though, but he was aware of the change in his two friends. He could tell that they were using their work as an excuse to forget about the girls, and that it was not doing well for them.