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[mouth_breather]

'You've reached the voice mail of Jim Kirk. If this is an emergency, hit the pound key to deliver your message via the speaker. As long as I've got my comm with me, I'll hear it. If this is about a class assignment, press one. If this is regarding the location of any of my crew, press two.

If this is Spock questioning my orders to relax every once in a while, wait for exactly 43 seconds, press your thumb to the screen, and speak the secret passwords: 'It's okay to relax every now and then because I trust my captain, as a friend, to know what's good for me.'

...

Did you do it? Now just press 2, it would have got you the same results.'

BEEP!

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[vulcanyounot]

[Spock frowns, but he isn't going to push the issue if Kirk doesn't want to talk about it.

He nods his head and pulls himself to his feet.]

Yeah, I'm going to head to bed. Thanks for talking.

[mouth_breather]

Yeah, sure. Any time...

[Which is the weirdest part, come to think of it. They don't really sit down and talk like this. Ever. The closest they got to opening up to each other was Kirk forcing Spock to deal with the death of his mother and destruction of the planet Vulcan. This conversation has far fewer punches to the face, which Jim appreciates.]

[After a moment of thought, he jerks his chin.]

Spock. ...This was fun. We should do it more often.

['When you're back to normal' is the unspoken fragment.]

[vulcanyounot]

[Come to think of it, it's been awhile since they'd had a heart to heart like this. Sure, they talked and joked around, but they never really talked.

Spock looks down at him and actually genuinely smiles.]

I'd like that. I'd like that a lot.