"You're getting mushy on me," he warned him, but he did not pull away from the sweet little bite, moving in to meet it with a softer kiss, letting him relish the motion and the feel of it.

He wasn't entirely sure of all this just yet, but... but maybe he owed it to Spock to try. Maybe he owed it to himself. Take it slow, not like the other relationships he'd had, if you wanted to even call them that. Spock wasn't like a human, and maybe that was what he needed in the first place. But that was delving to deep, to fast. No, keep it at the surface for now, just roll with it.

"So... want to get back to the real world?" he asked him. "Not that I don't miss the Enterprise, but..."