Five times Jim beat Spock - Trek reboot ficlet - PG

[tigriswolf]

Title: Five times Jim beat Spock, and one time Spock let him

Fandom: Star Trek reboot

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: spoilers for film

Parings: light Jim/Spock

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 520

Point of view: third

Dedication: fordreamlittleyo, to her prompt 5 times Kirk lost at chess and one time Spock let him win (not necessarily on purpose). I decided that chess just meant winning/losing in general.

 

 

 

 

Kobayashi Maru

So, yeah, he got called up for cheating, but nothing ever came of that. What matters is that he hacked Spock’s program.

 

 

The bridge

Not many people, Jim knows, would believe him if he told them that when Spock choked him on the bridge, Jim won.

 

But he did. He got the Enterprise, and he got Spock to feel emotion and own up to it, and then together they saved the Earth from Vulcan’s fate.

 

That’s winning, according to Jim’s scorecard.

 

 

On the bridge, again

Spock waits till the very last possible second, but he shows up and asks Jim for his old position back.

 

Jim barely holds in his crow of triumph, because now he’s got his cake and he can devour it at will, too.

 

 

Chess

It isn’t until the fifteenth game that Jim finally figures out Spock’s strategy and then he almost wins the game in twenty moves.

 

Sixteen more games pass before he gets within a move of checkmate.

 

And it’s still ten more before he actually wins.

 

Vitun VII

Spock announces that he will be a member of the away team, even though he’s still healing from their last tangle with Klingons.

 

Jim says, “Fuck that,” and puts on his captain voice to hold-up Spock long enough for Bones to arrive and start his I’m Chief Medical Officer, not you dance.

 

Crossing his arms, Jim tries to look forbidding. The only way for Spock to go down to the surface is over Jim’s dead body, and he’s reasonably sure it won’t come to that.

 

It only takes five minutes of logical arguments, Bones laying the hammer down, and Jim finally ordering Spock back to the sickbay for him to go, still muttering nonsense about duty.

 

“He’ll be fine, Jim,” Bones says as he follows. “I’ll get that fever down soon.”

 

Jim nods, beams to the surface with the away team, and only makes it back to the ship three days later, carrying a delirious officer over his shoulder and towing another behind him.

 

Yeah, that’s a win because he saw the carnivorous unicorns, not Spock.

 

And the one time Spock let him

They haven’t fought hand-to-hand since that choking incident, but Jim badgers Spock until finally, he agrees to spar.

 

From what Jim remembers of their fight, Spock is much faster and stronger. So when three minutes into the spar, Jim flips Spock and straddles him, he knows the fight’s been thrown.

 

When Spock gently caresses his fingers, he knows why.

 

 

 

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

That's adorable! :D

[tigriswolf]

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