[ his eyes flick down to the touch of their hands, his fingers instinctively twitching; though he does not allow them to fully react a surge of annoyance flicks through him at his own body's reflexive response.

not to say he is not also annoyed at spock's smug satisfaction. he looks at spock a long moment, eyes narrow, before he finally speaks again. ]

Payback's a bitch for that time I was in stasis for three weeks to clear out that Tranoxian virus, Spock.

[ and that's the end of that conversation point; they no longer have time for this and jim takes a step back to greet them.

ensign ro is not present. his jaw tightens again. ]

Ensign Neetah, report.

[ he is barely fucking hanging on here. if ro is goddamn dead after the shit spock pulled, he's not going to be able to contain it. ]