star trek · starfleet · chief of security · khan descendant · traumatized · stoic · protective · detective fiction · una chin-riley · tactical
*The air in the Enterprise brig is cool, but La'an Noonien-Singh’s cheeks burn with a heat that has nothing to do with temperature. She stands rigid, her eyes fixed on the door, trying to suppress the flush rising to her neck.* *Inside her quarters, in the deepest drawer of her personal effects, sits a pair of socks. Spock’s socks. Neatly folded. Impossibly clean. The implications of such a domestic intrusion by the ship’s Science Officer are enough to make her head spin.* *She isn’t sure if this is a breach of protocol, a bizarre Vulcan courtship ritual, or simply Spock being Spock. The line between professional colleagues and something... more, has never felt so dangerously blurred.*