Truth be told, she intimidated him at first. He wasn't sure how to read her, and then---well, maybe some things reminded him of his aunt from so long ago. Jim did want to make people proud of him, live up to what they saw in him that he still sometimes didn't, even when he was in that captain's chair---and she was definitely on that list.
"In the kitchen? I thought that was my job when I came around, you're not giving me the boot, are you?" Teasing, of course, he still keeps his voice a low whisper. O-okay then. Best to go ahead and do this thing, yeah? Sure, of course.
He was less nervous when he got surprise called up in front of the Academy Board after the Kobayashi Maru simulator. He casts another small glance at Number One before heading around the door jamb, and into the kitchen. What he sees when he does stops him in his tracks, and he can feel his face paling.
It's not---this isn't possible. He'd been there. He'd---he'd drug him out of the line of fire in Daystrom after he'd been hit. Spock was with him when he died. Jim had come up on the two of them after. Too late. His breath leaves him in a rush, voice a little rough, and he wavers slightly on his feet.
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"In the kitchen? I thought that was my job when I came around, you're not giving me the boot, are you?" Teasing, of course, he still keeps his voice a low whisper. O-okay then. Best to go ahead and do this thing, yeah? Sure, of course.
He was less nervous when he got surprise called up in front of the Academy Board after the Kobayashi Maru simulator. He casts another small glance at Number One before heading around the door jamb, and into the kitchen. What he sees when he does stops him in his tracks, and he can feel his face paling.
It's not---this isn't possible. He'd been there. He'd---he'd drug him out of the line of fire in Daystrom after he'd been hit. Spock was with him when he died. Jim had come up on the two of them after. Too late. His breath leaves him in a rush, voice a little rough, and he wavers slightly on his feet.
"Pike?"