Friends With Benefits For Idiots

Jim slung his duffle bag over his shoulder before heading towards the shuttle bay.  The Enterprise was stationed just above New Vulcan and Jim was heading down for the second time.  The first was in captain mode, speaking to the High Council with Spock and overseeing the unloading of the supplies from the starbase. 

Now Jim was heading down to spend the night with Spock Prime, Selik.  He had invited Jim for the night and Jim had jumped at the chance to get to open up and fuss about illogical younger Spock was to older Spock.  Jim also had the presents for Amanda and Sarek who had invited him to dinner.

When Jim entered the shuttle that was heading back down to the New Vulcan, he found Spock already sitting in one of the seats with a box in his lap.

“Captain,” Spock greeted before eyeing Jim’s bag with an arched brow.

“Commander,” Jim replied before noticing the only other available seat was next to Spock.  Jim internally sighed then sat down, placing his bag on the floor in front of him.

“Why do you have luggage?” Spock asked.

Jim looked to him and nodded to Spock’s own bag and the box. “Why do you?”

“The box is the soup tureen.”

“That’s right.  I have the frames and books in my duffle bag.”

Spock nodded his head slightly. “My mother requested that I spend the night.  Did she…are you staying with us as well?”

Jim chuckled and shook his head. “Why would your mom ask me to stay the night?”

“I do not know. Where are you staying?”

“With Selik.”

Jim looked away then to buckle himself in, not noticing how Spock’s hands clenched into tight fists.

“I see. Are you still amenable to speaking after the conclusion of this trip?”

Jim straightened up in his seat and nodded. “Yeah, sure.”

“Are you cross with me?”

Yes. No. I don’t know. Why don’t you love me back? “Of course not, Spock.”

Spock nodded. “My mother has been looking forward to this dinner.”

Jim smiled. “Me too. Your parents are really nice.”

“Indeed.” They will approve of you as my mate, Spock thought.

When they arrived at Spock’s parents’ new home, Spock watched as his mother greeted Jim.  She wrapped him in a big hug then ushered him inside before turning towards her son.

“Mother,” Spock greet as his mother smiled at him.  Spock sat his bag down then opened his arms slightly to signal his mother may hug him.

Her smile got bigger as she took the hint and gave her son a hug.

When she pulled away, Spock handed his mother the box then picked up his bag and looked up to see Jim standing not too far away inside the house looking at him with a soft smile.  Spock arched a brow but Jim looked away.

“Come in,” Amanda said. “Dinner will be ready shortly.”

Spock nodded and headed inside, his mother shut the door behind him then pointed down a hallway and told Spock to place his bag in the third room on the left. 

“Jim, are you staying as well?” Amanda asked Jim, noticing the blonde's bag.

“No, Ma’am, Selik invited me to stay with him,” Jim replied as Spock turned to head down the hallway. 

“Indeed I did,” Selik’s voice said as the Vulcan entered the room from the kitchen.

“Really? What about…” Amanda started but Selik shook his head.

“It is no matter.”

Spock gripped the handle to his bag and looked over his shoulder to see Jim smile and hug Selik.  Spock didn’t realize he was growling until his mother gave him a look.

“Kan-bu, are you well?” she asked.

Spock immediately stopped, nodded, then turned and walked away. Jim is mine, not his. Mine. My t’hy’la.

After giving Amanda and Sarek their gifts, which Amanda loved, they all moved into the dining room.  Jim chatted with Amanda as he helped her bring the food into the room and place them on the table.  He noticed two seats open, one next to Spock and the other next to Selik.  Jim sighed before choosing to sit next to Selik and across from Spock.

This feels right, Jim thought, looking around at the family. 

“How has Spock been since his illness?” Amanda asked Jim as they started digging into the food.

Jim smiled. “Oh, just a terror.”

“Jim…” Spock tried but his mother interrupted him by lightly laughing.

“I’m sure that’s not true,” she said as Spock nodded in agreement.

“It’s not,” Jim chuckled. “He was only grumpy for that day but he immediately went back to being the dutiful first officer that he is the next day.”

“I hope he is keeping you out of trouble,” Selik spoke up.

Jim grinned and looked to Spock Prime. “Well there was one time that he let me wander off and get hit by an arrow.”

“I did not let you,” Spock told him, with the barest hint of a smile. “I followed to make sure you did not get into trouble.”

“And then trouble found both of us,” Jim looked to Spock and smiled.

“Indeed.”

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“So,” Amanda interrupted the staring between Jim and Spock. “What other missions have you been on? I hope no more where either of you have been hurt.”

“One point two months ago we were on a planet with bioluminescent plants,” Spock stated.

“That is fascinating,” Sarek responded.

“Indeed,” Selik agreed. “I hope that none of the plants tried attacking Jim.”

Jim chuckled and shook his head. “Nope.  I did wander from the group to lay on the ground and look up at the stairs.”

“I bet they were just beautiful,” Amanda commented.

“They were.  Spock laid with me and told me about Vulcan…old Vulcan and his childhood.”

“Did you?” Sarek and Amanda asked at the same time.

The tips of Spock’s ears tinted green as he ducked his head slightly, staring at his plate of food. “Jim requested that I talk so I did.”

“Which reminds me,” Jim said. “You need to apologize to your mother.”

“About what?” Amanda questioned, eyeing her son. “What did you do?”

Spock look to her and arched a brow. “I did nothing. Jim is being illogical.”

“He’s supposed to be apologizing for being such a big baby when he was born. What was your weight again…10 pounds?”

“He was nine pounds ten ounces,” Amanda told Jim. “He was a chunky little thing.”

Jim laughed. “I need to see pictures now.”

Spock shook his head but internally was beaming about how well Jim was getting along with his parents.

“What about you Selik?” Jim then asked, turning to the older Spock. “Big ass baby as well?”

“I believe I was,” Selik replied. “So, Amanda, I do apologize on behalf of all Spocks for causing you any extra pain during child birth due to our excessive weight.”

Jim and Amanda burst out laughing as Sarek shook his head and went back to eating while Spock narrowed his eyes at Selik.

Selik looked to Spock and raised a brow slightly, giving the young on a small smile as well.

Spock saw a twinkle of something in the old Vulcan’s eyes that he did not care for.

After dinner, Jim went outside with Amanda and Spock to look at the small garden she had started while Sarek and Selik stayed inside and put away the dishes.

“James smells of Spock,” Sarek commented to Selik.

“Indeed he does. I believe they may be involved.”

“If so, then why not inform us of their relationship.”

“Perhaps they have not fully entered a romantic relationship and are involved in merely a…” Selik trailed off when Sarek raised both brows at him.

“Illogical,” Sarek stated.

“Yes, but James Kirk is illogical.”

“I am aware.”

“Then you are also aware that Spock will go along with almost any illogical thing that Jim does.”

Sarek nodded.  “Are you the same with your James?”

“Yes,” Selik replied. “As I am sure you are with Amanda.”

Sarek’s eyes twinkled slightly. “At times, yes.”  Sarek then handed Selik a plate to put away before asking, “Jim is staying with you for the night?”

“He is.”

“What about…”

“It is alright,” Selik interrupted. 

“If you say so.”

“I have an idea…if Jim and Spock are indeed merely involved sexually, I believe they may need to be pushed together romantically.”

“I agree.  They complement each other well and I know Amanda adores James.  What is your idea?”

“Jim and I will leave soon.  Give me…roughly thirty minutes before telling Spock….”

“Are you sure you wish to stay with him,” Spock asked, trying to keep down his possessive side. He is not yours yet. You must be patient. They are merely friends…and Selik is old.

“Yes, Spock,” Jim said a little tersely, picking up his duffle bag. “Don’t you want to hang out with Uhura?”

Spock arched a brow. “No.  She and Mr. Scott are spending the evening together as they do most nights.”

Jim nodded. Except that night you lied to me. “Right, well.  Spend time with your parents.  I’m sure they’ve missed you bunches.”

“We have,” Amanda said, coming into the foyer to see Jim and Selik off.  “Do come back tomorrow.”

“I will,” Jim replied before giving her a hug as Selik came over to them.

“Are you ready to depart, Jim?” he asked.

Jim and Amanda separated and he nodded. “Yep, can’t wait to meet little Buster.”

Jim took note of the small house that Selik resided in. It was cute and not too far from Amanda and Sarek’s house, just a short hovercar ride away. 

Buster had immediately greeted them at the door and spent some time sniffing Jim before trying to jump on him. The cub came up to right above Jim’s knee and Selik informed him that Buster still had a lot more growing to do. 

Jim knelt down and petted the cub as Selik put Jim’s bag in the spare room.  When he came back into the room, Jim had Buster on his back and was giving him belly rubs.

“He is quite fond of those,” Selik told him.

As is Spock, Jim suddenly thought before shaking his head.  He looked up to Selik. “I have some books for you.”

“Thank you, Jim.  I would like to see them later. Would you care to see my garden now?”

“Of course,” Jim said, standing up which made Buster whine at him slightly.

“I just purchased a few new plants that I need to decide where to put in the garden if you wouldn’t mind helping.”

Jim smiled. “Yeah, that sounds like fun.  I like spending time with you.”  Jim then notice a pair of shoes near the back door that didn’t look like Selik would wear them.  Jim shook his head then followed Selik out into the backyard. 

“Hey, can I ask you something?”

“You may ask me anything, Jim.”

“You and your Jim were together, right?”

Selik nodded. “We were.  It took a long time for us to admit our feelings, though. We let too much time pass before it happened. You should tell him how you feel.”

“I don’t think he feels the same though.”

“But you are engaging in coitus,” Selik stated.

Jim’s cheeks went red and not from the heat of being outside.  “What? No! Why…why do you…why…how’d you know?”

Selik lightly chuckled. “I just know.  Tell him.”

“He does…”

Selik reached a hand out and lightly touched Jim’s cheek. “Trust me, my young t’hy’la, he does love you.”

“Why would he…” Jim shut up when Selik leaned towards him and kissed his forehead.

“He does.  Now, enough of this for the night. You can tell him tomorrow.”

Jim nodded as Selik pulled away.  “Alright.  So first, tell me what twila means and second, let’s get to gardening.”

“First, no and second, yes.”

Jim laughed at Spock Prime before walking over to the small garden and surveying what needed to be done to add the new plants.

Spock sat and watched his mother go through the pictures on her PADD to see which one to print out and put in the new frame Jim had given her.

“This one would be cute,” Amanda said, showing her son a picture of him as a grumpy faced toddler.

“Indeed,” Spock replied.  “Did you enjoy Jim’s company at dinner?”

Amanda sat her PADD down and looked to her son. “I did.  Jim is wonderful.”

“He is,” Spock agreed as his father came into the room and sat next to Amanda.

“James is a fine mate for Selik,” Sarek said.

What are you doing? Amanda asked.

Play along. Our son and James need to be pushed together.

Oh right. Of course they do.

“Excuse me?” Spock questioned his father, moving to sit on the edge of his seat.

“James and Selik are mated, correct?”

“No,” Spock growled.

“I believe they are,” Amanda said.  “They are such a cute couple.”

“No,” Spock growled again.

“They are probably consumat…” Sarek tried saying but stopped when Spock stood up quickly and bolted from the room and out the front door.

Amanda laughed. “Now if that doesn’t get them together, I don’t know what will.”

“Indeed,” Sarek agreed.

Selik thought of the time then smiled before grabbing up the water-hose and pointing at the dirt in front of where Jim was on his knees tending to the garden. 

He turned it on and watched as the water shot out and landed in front of Jim, causing the dirt and water to splash up onto Jim, getting him a little dirty.

“Oh my,” Selik said, turning off the water. “I apologize. I did not mean to do that.”

Jim looked at the mess on him. “Its fine. Just a little dirt on my shirt.”

“Indeed,” Selik mumbled, his plan not working too much.  He watched Jim go back to gardening before seeing Buster not to far away.  He walked over to the sehlat cub and motioned for him to jump onto Jim.  Buster gave a rumble in response before darting towards Jim and jumping on his back, causing the human to fall forward and land face fist in the dirt. 

Buster jumped off of him and Jim sat up, completely dirty this time. 

“Oh dear,” Selik said.  “How about a shower then I make you some cocoa?”

“I’d like that,” Jim said, standing up and wiping some of the dirt off his face.

Selik then led Jim into the house and into his bedroom. “I am afraid the guest bath is not working properly at the moment so my bathroom will have to do.  There are towels inside and I will go retrieve your bag for when you get out.”

“Thank you,” Jim said before heading into the bathroom and shutting the door. 

Selik left the bedroom, shutting the door, then went into living room to wait.

Spock burst into Selik’s house a few moments later and found the older Vulcan sitting in a chair staring at him.  Spock marched up to him and stared him down.

“Where is Jim?” he asked. 

Selik was going to respond when the bedroom door opened.

“Hey, where’s my bag?” Jim asked.

Spock and Selik turned to see a slightly wet Jim standing in the doorway with just a towel around his waist.

Jim blinked. “Spock?”

Spock growled out before quickly moving to Jim and grabbing him up, hoisting him over his shoulder.  He turned to Selik growled, “Mine!” before stomping out of the house.

“Spock? What the hell are you doing?” Jim asked as Spock carried him away from Selik’s and into the desert towards his parent’s house.

“You are not his,” Spock said.

“No shit, but what are you doing.”

“I cannot stand the thought of you with others.  I cannot. It hurts.”

“With others? Spock, I haven’t been with anyone but you and you don’t even like me except to have sex so why does it hurt you, huh?”

“I do like you.”

“No, you don’t or else you wouldn’t’ve lied to me.”

“When have I lied to you?”

Jim sighed and looked down the desert ground as Spock kept walking with him over his shoulder. “The starbase. You said you were going to meditate but I saw you…with Uhura.”

“I needed to talk to my friend.”

“Why?”

“Because I am an idiot.”

“I’m an idiot too, but what’s that have to do with you hurting? With you needing to lie about meditating?” Jim questioned, his voice raised slightly.

“Because I love you,” Spock snapped, his own voice raised.

Jim was momentarily stunned before asking, “You love me?”

“Yes.”

“I…I love you too.”

Spock finally stopped walking when he heard that.  He kept Jim over his shoulder, though. “You love me?”

“Yeah.”

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“Can you put me down now?”

Spock nodded then carefully placed Jim on his feet in front of him.

“You love me,” Jim said, looking into Spock’s brown eyes. “I love you.  How…how long have you loved me?”

“I believe since Khan, but after our five year mission started I knew for sure.”

Jim nodded. “I started falling for you about then and for sure knew I loved you when the mission started.”

Spock nodded back.

“Why…why did you want a friends with benefits relationship?”

“I thought that was the only way to be with you.”

“So we love each other.”

“Yes.”

“And we’ve loved each other for over a year now.”

“Yes.”

“And we could’ve told each other our feelings numerous times but we didn’t.”

“Yes.”

“We’re fucking idiots.”

“Indeed,” Spock agreed before Jim wrapped his arms around his neck and pressed his lips against his.

Spock groaned and pulled Jim closer until they were completely touching.  He deepened the kiss as he ran his hands up and down Jim’s bare back.

“I love you,” Jim said when he broke the kiss a moment later. 

Spock groaned in response and pepper kisses along Jim’s jaw and cheek.

“I’m so glad I can say that out loud to you.”

“Taluhk nash-veh k'dular,” Spock responded before nipping and sucking at Jim’s neck. 

Jim bit his bottom lip before rutting his hips against Spock’s.

Spock growled then ripped the towel from Jim’s waist.  Jim gasped then pulled back from Spock and shook his head.

“We’re not having sex in the desert, Spock.”

“Of course,” Spock said before reaching out and pull Jim back to him.

Jim chuckled and took a step back. “No, Commander.”

“My parent’s house is not too far away.”

Jim’s eyes went wide. “We’re not having sex there, either!”

Spock turned his head and looked back towards Selik’s house before looking back to Jim and giving him a small grin.

“No,” Jim said, taking another step back. “Lets go back to the Enterprise…” Jim groaned when Spock ignored him and he once again found himself hoisted over Spock’s shoulder.  “Spock.”

“You are mine,” Spock replied, walking quickly back to Selik’s house where he entered the front door and found Selik standing in the kitchen with a tea cup.

“Yes I am, but Spock…”

“Jim is mine and we will be in there,” Spock said to Selik, interrupted Jim, nodding towards his bedroom.

Before Selik or Jim could protest Spock had already made it to the room and shut the door behind him.  He plopped Jim down onto the bed and quickly took off his own clothes.

“We are not having sex in Selik’s bed.”

“You are aroused,” Spock stated before crawling on top of his mate.

“That’s not,” Jim looked down at his erection. “Well I can’t help that I like being manhandled a bit, but we really shouldn’t…” Jim trailed off as Spock started kissing down his chest. You want to, you know you do, Jim told himself. “Selik’s bed…” Jim tried again but gasped when Spock licked the head of his cock.

“Ah,” Jim moaned. “Okay…just…just a little sex and then we’ll go to the other room.”

“Of course, t’hy’la,” Spock agreed.