Sure Pavel's greatest role model was Mr Spock. But Mr Spock going ahead and stealing a starship? Not so much. Rumors were swirling on why they were going to hellgaurd. Some theorized that Spock was going there to retrieve a long lost sister or long lost brother that was kept there by a Romulan colonist who happened to be a scientist who had been close friends with Sarek. It was extra ridiculous asides to the idea that Jim was back and was in danger. That was absurd. Jim was dead, dead, dead as they came. He remembered the funeral service the Enterprise crew had. Spock notably absent while their replacements were on the bridge. McCoy's face was emotional. Staring out the observation deck. A party that was held and organized by Mr Scott with some help from Hikaru. The loss had been felt then but it didn't stop them from serving star fleet and finding new worlds. Saving other peoples lives. Hikaru was in the arboretum when Captain Spock entered. Spock's hands were locked behind his back. Hikaru looked over noticing the stiffness in the ma's posture while he sat on the edge of a barrier to the plants. Zonnia was among the plant life.

"Mr Spock," Hikaru greeted the captain.

Spock looked up toward the man gently touching the petals to the plant.

"Mr Sulu," Spock said.

"Would you like to take one of these flowers?" Hikaru asked.

"Negative," Spock said. "I came here for the nostalgia." His hand slowly came to the leaf.

"Ahhh," Hikaru said. "Suppose you are not going to turn the Enterprise over to me, again."

Hikaru had a nervous laugh as the Vulcan tilted his head and he relaxed at the familiar withering glare.

"You are highly illogical as always, Commander Sulu," Spock said.

"You like humanity's logic, Captain," Hikaru said. "Why else come back to the Enterprise if you still resent that?" why was the human so happy to see the Vulcan? It is quite irrational when the Vulcan had done nothing of great importance to earn that liking. "That is illogical in Vulcan standards if I say so myself."

"The needs of the many outweigh the need of the one," Spock said.

"So you got interested into the colonists," Hikaru said, clipping a Zonnia off with a pair of scissors. He held it out for the Vulcan.

"I do not need the flower," Spock said.

"Take it," Hikaru said. "I meant to have a batch at the funeral service... Jim loved it, and he loved you more than the world, frankly he planned ahead to have a huge batch of them grown when the five year mission ended to represent you. So he said." Hikaru elaborated as Spock reluctantly took the Zonnia. The little flower was laid on his green hands. He smelled the sweet, soothing aroma from the flower. It reminded him of Jim. He felt pain from his chest, gentle, small pain. Emotional pain, logically. "Too bad there was a glitch in the water systems a week before it happened."

"Commander," Spock said. "I must apologize for stealing your ship."

"No need to," Hikaru said. "I am actually glad that we are going on a space trip again." Spock raised his eyebrow.

"Space trip?" Spock inquired.

"Sorry that came out wrong," Hikaru said. "I meant away mission. Saving the day again as a family."

"I was not aware you viewed the crew as a family," Spock said.

"You and Jim were like parents," Hikaru said. "McCoy was like the uncle who meant well. Pavel was the little brother. Christine and Nyota were the loving aunts who made sure everyone was okay. And Scotty is like a grandpa to all the kids. " The man smiled fondly at the memory that was crossing his mind. "Has your time off made you better?"

"We shall see," Spock said.

"I heard you met up with the doctor," Hikaru said.

"That we did," Spock said.

"How is he?" Hikaru asked.

"He was adequate," Spock said.

"I haven't seen him since we went our ways," Hikaru acknowledged.

"He did not tell you of what he was planning to go through," Spock said. "Interesting to keep back information like this. . ."

Hikaru grew a long concerned face at the tone that Spock was speaking under.

"What information?" Hikaru said.

"Commander--" Spock said.

"He is there?" Hikaru said, sitting down onto the barrier as his eyes widened in horror. "Oh my god. Sir. . I. . ." the man had gone pale. "I understand perfectly."

"Quite logical," Spock said. "It has been too long since I visited this area of the ship. . . is there any new additions?"

The Asian man nodded his head, his mood changing visibly.

"We have a new type of flower made, recently, well, we kind of brought aboard the Vulcan sky flower," Hikaru got off the flat bench like barrier.

Spock's eyebrow raised further nearly disappearing into his bangs.

"What do you mean by 'kind of' commander?" Spock inquired.

"It is sort of Vulcan and sort of not," Hikaru said. "it was genetically modified to be capable of being in arctic regions for Vulcans such as Helter II." The two men came over to a bush that had white themed leaves with sharp spikes. The petals were a shade of yellow. Spock saw the stem of the arctic skyflower was not surrounded by the thorns. The thorns were developed to protect its water from insects. "This version of the Vulcan Sky Flower has a warm inside. It is a lot like a heater, actually, engineered by a friend of yours, T'Pring."

He looked over toward the Vulcan who gently touched the warm, soft petals. They made a light, delicate but beautiful sound.

"Fascinating," Spock said.

We finally notice the simmering figure by Spock's side, right in between the two men, but mostly in the center, as our camera panned closer. The two men were ignoring the middle figure as though they could not see him. Jim's ghostly figure knelt forward smelling the flower. A pleasant aroma drifted from the inside. Jim smiled, leaning up toward the man's side.

"It is," Hikaru said. "it is a good thing this plant cannot melt due to not being in the right environment."

"T'Pring has a excellent taste in Vulcanian plant genetics," Spock said.

Hikaru nodded.

"I bet you she is going to be a captain someday, captain of the USS Botany," Spock raised an eyebrow. "I heard rumors that Star Fleet is making a ship devoted to plants."

"The saplings or the seeds?" Spock inquired.

"Quite possibly a replacement for the seed storage," Hikaru shrugged. "the design plans are said to be reflecting over the protection of the seed producing plants, the vegetable plants, and the flowers. Redundancies to protect the hallucinogenic seeds and the crewmembers."

"That is logical," Spock said.

"I won't be surprised if T'Pring is part of it," Hikaru said. "one of the leading experts in Vulcanian plant genetics."

Jim reached his hand out toward Spock with two fingers out and passionately touched the man's two first fingers set near the thumb. Spock experienced a jolt of powerful, passionate sensitive feelings wash over him. His penis started to get hard. Jim's nearly visible figure vanished in-between the men. Jim was randomly touching his hand in the least appropriate times. It was hilarious. Spock laughed at himself, mentally, rather than expressing his emotions externally. He needed to be somewhere and deal with the little gift that Jim had left him. It was annoying that Jim was dead. Teasing him from the afterlife with ozh'esta for the rest of his life. He was going to make Jim Kirk pay when he died by going up and doing it to him and then carrying on his day in the afterlife, randomly, when Jim wasn't aware. It was a favor that Spock was ever too excited to return, internally.

"Mr Sulu, where is the men's room?" Spock asked.

"Over there, down the hall, take a turn left, go down that hall, turn right, and then you will see the gender inclusive sign," Hikaru said. "they installed a private stall and you might find some plants growing in there," the commander rolled his eyes. "we already got some botanists using the lighting there to help some plants grow," he shook his hand. "I don't do that--" Spock didn't hear the rest as he made his way toward the men's room. Hikaru sighed, then looked down to see the zonnia on the barrier flat surface. "Oh boy, I don't know what is on his mind but he is not leaving this with me."