It's haunting me how fast you had that in the chamber.
[ Jim has no idea what, if any, kind of relationship the Jim and Spock in Pike's universe might have. It's been made clear to him that Jim and Pike had a professional relationship that hasn't had a chance to extend much beyond the bounds of that (well, until now; but a shared living space tends to move mountains on that front pretty quickly) - and of course, Pike and Spock served together. Jim had never spoken much with his Spock on the subject - maybe generally, prior to Pike's passing. Afterwards, he was another subject that ended up off the table for the both of them. The list of things Jim doesn't talk about grew larger by the day, and it wasn't until Aldrip that he's been forced to take stock of it. ]
God, that sounds hilarious. I wish; we didn't get a choice, they took them right off the shuttle. Walked around with a split lip in mine for three years.
They're more comfortable than they look.
[ And yes, often required assistance to remove. But the number of nights Jim had to peel them off on his own isn't a large enough statistic to quote (what? the pants were good at their job.) ]
Wait, how old are you?
[ The joke does not come across via text, and Jim's ability to gauge people's ages has been horribly skewed by circumstance. Practically everyone he knows in the fleet is in their twenties (because everyone else, you know) or they're grizzled Admirals being assholes over subspace calls. Then you've got Spock, an actual 37 year old, and a decade seems like both so much time and none at all, really. He's just as ridiculous as Jim, yet when he first got here, he was still under the impression age brought wisdom.
Besides, Pike's always been grey, including now, as a young(er) man who still does his hair in the morning. Maybe he's been grey since he was 16. Jim would believe it. ]
Abraxas was always my favorite, if you have that one. Don't tell the others. Me either. Fleet brats are a relic of the past and I can't blame people for it. A starship is no place for a kid.
[ Well, not in his universe. Not with how often them end up scattered in pieces. ]
no subject
[ Jim has no idea what, if any, kind of relationship the Jim and Spock in Pike's universe might have. It's been made clear to him that Jim and Pike had a professional relationship that hasn't had a chance to extend much beyond the bounds of that (well, until now; but a shared living space tends to move mountains on that front pretty quickly) - and of course, Pike and Spock served together. Jim had never spoken much with his Spock on the subject - maybe generally, prior to Pike's passing. Afterwards, he was another subject that ended up off the table for the both of them. The list of things Jim doesn't talk about grew larger by the day, and it wasn't until Aldrip that he's been forced to take stock of it. ]
God, that sounds hilarious. I wish; we didn't get a choice, they took them right off the shuttle. Walked around with a split lip in mine for three years.
They're more comfortable than they look.
[ And yes, often required assistance to remove. But the number of nights Jim had to peel them off on his own isn't a large enough statistic to quote (what? the pants were good at their job.) ]
Wait, how old are you?
[ The joke does not come across via text, and Jim's ability to gauge people's ages has been horribly skewed by circumstance. Practically everyone he knows in the fleet is in their twenties (because everyone else, you know) or they're grizzled Admirals being assholes over subspace calls. Then you've got Spock, an actual 37 year old, and a decade seems like both so much time and none at all, really. He's just as ridiculous as Jim, yet when he first got here, he was still under the impression age brought wisdom.
Besides, Pike's always been grey, including now, as a young(er) man who still does his hair in the morning. Maybe he's been grey since he was 16. Jim would believe it. ]
Abraxas was always my favorite, if you have that one. Don't tell the others.
Me either. Fleet brats are a relic of the past and I can't blame people for it. A starship is no place for a kid.
[ Well, not in his universe. Not with how often them end up scattered in pieces. ]