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[kobayashiwhatnow]

Kirk's quarters--the Captain's quarters--aren't hard to find. They're very near the bridge, in case of emergencies, in case he needs to be contacted or found off-duty. That being said he's rarely in them, and waiting for Khan there feels strange.

He watches the time.

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[kobayashiwhatnow]

"Yeah, I know. But drink some, rest a little."

Could be that Kirk likes having him right there on his knee.

"You remember how to use the replicator in your room?"

[full_of_wrath]

"Yes. Though I haven't had the occasion."

Eyes blissfully shut. He's just hoping against hope Kirk touches his cheek or hair again, angling subtly up to him.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

He can't help himself, just reaches down and gives Khan what he's reaching for.

"Well, make sure you eat. I don't know about you but that took a lot out of me. From what I can tell that's normal, right?"

[full_of_wrath]

He melts, purely and utterly, eyes closing lightly and hand coming to rest on his knee.

"I'll eat tonight, then do my research, sleep and be ready for my shift."

He promises him,seriously.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"Thank you."

Kirk says, still stroking his cheek.

[full_of_wrath]

"What time is it?"

It means he can't linger as long as he'd like, probably. Especially not since he wants to fall asleep right at his knee.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

The computer relays the time to them. Khan's barely going to have time for everything he needs to do and sleep.

Kirk sighs reluctantly.

"Well. The sooner I know what else we can do, the sooner we can do it."

[full_of_wrath]

"I have to go."

He says, dragging himself upright. Failing an order would be unthinkable, especially with that sort of delivery.

"I'll see you tomorrow. You know where to find me if you so wish."

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"All right. If you have any trouble...contact me."

Which is not what the original set-up had been. But he's likely to get in trouble and Kirk is the one who can most easily stop it.

[full_of_wrath]

It's a change he doesn't miss, and his appreciation shows in the way he lingers in the door. He wants to curl back up to him.

He slips out, breathing deeply, heading back to his quarters to work quickly.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

Kirk stays on the floor a few minutes after Khan is gone, and then he sheds his shirt and boots and just collapses into bed.

[full_of_wrath]

Khan replicates coffee, rather than doing the same, and starts to work. He manages to get most of a meal down, too, in the few hours he spends pouring over the report he's writing him. What he actually ends up producing is a grounder that would measure up to Starfleet standards for any new culture, as well as two pages each on ten kinky acts he finds fascinating, complete with brief summaries of the extent of his experience and a list of further resources of where to go to learn to perform them safely or specifications for the tools needed.

He crawls into bed for three hours sleep before his shift.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

Kirk has time to read the first bit before his own shift. The day is about as easy as it gets in Starfleet, because they're heading to a planetary mission and it's two days' flight.

He gets back to his cabin late, though, due to having to check up with security and the med teams for the upcoming mission. He gets there, changes into off-duty clothes, and then decides to go to Khan.

[full_of_wrath]

Khan, he'll find sleeping, still stained with boot polish. Predictably, right after his shift (mind numbing, utterly) he'd curled up and passed out, but at Kirk's arrival he calls a lazy permission for him to enter, sitting up to crawl out of his nest of blankets, rubbing at the mess on his skin.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"Hey. Sorry, I just wanted you to do something for me."

He has a data pad in hand.

[full_of_wrath]

"Of course."

He says, pushing himself the rest of the way upright, still in uniform (socked feet, though) and now at a halfway sort of attention, awaiting instruction.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

He hands him the data pad. It's one of Kirk's personal ones, and it has the list of kinky activities.

"Pick two."

[full_of_wrath]

"Now? And at once, or together?"

Rubbing a hand over his eye, before starting to read through the list.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"No, you're going back to sleep. Just pick three, I'll figure out how to do them. And in what order."

Kirk watches, arms crossed.

[full_of_wrath]

He smiles, soft and pliant for the mercy, like yesterday, and strokes fingertips along the list.

"Flogging." First of all. "I don't know what else."

[kobayashiwhatnow]

Frankly that's going to be a hard enough hurdle for Kirk to get over, without adding other things on top.

"Why flogging?"

[full_of_wrath]

"Because it's impact that doesn't really hurt. I think you'll love it."

He admits, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"I'll love it? I'll love doing it to you, you mean?"

Because he can't imagine letting Khan hit him. Well. Not outside a fight.

[full_of_wrath]

"Yes. You'll love administering it."

He promises, happily.

[kobayashiwhatnow]

"You don't think it's a little too far in the realm of punishment."

He asks, flatly, uncertainly. It sounds like torture, but the way Khan sounds it's exciting.