tampered | Log; Ongoing

Log; Ongoing

When; Wednesday, June 17th. Early Morning
Characters; James T. Kirk

starfleet_pimp and Shalimar Fox

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Summary; Kirk and Shalimar go rock climbing.
Log;It was a short hike along the beach from where the transporter brought them from the city proper to the beach. The walk with Shalimar was actually rather pleasant. Kirk liked spending time with her despite the fact that they couldn't have sex for another 10 days, which was kind of weird, but not unpleasant. It was interesting how good of a time you could have with a girl like Shalimar when you weren't thinking about the sex you might have.

"Here it is," Kirk said, finally stopping in front of a section of the cliff. It wasn't the most difficult part to climb, but he had scouted a spot that would at least be challenging.

In shorts and a shirt with no sleeves, the only equipment Kirk had brought was a bag of chalk and special shoes that would help him grip the cliff better. He was never one for ropes, picks, and spikes. Knowing that you might fall and get injured or die was half the point.

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The hike was nice, nicer then she'd expected actually. Shalimar hadn't expected to be as happy with his company as she was, especially since it didn't involve what she knew they both wanted. She shrugged that off though, that and the thought of how it was sort of not unpleasant just hiking with him. That thought wasn't worth staying on after all eventually they'd get there and hey she was sure she could convince him for more then one ride on his bike.

"Not a bad choice, should at least be a tiny challenge," Shalimar said looking at the cliff.

All she'd brought was herself wearing just some tight fitting jeans and a tank top shirt. Equipment was the last thing she'd need or want, what fun would making it safe be anyway?

"If you fall though, I'm not catching you," she said it in a way that showed she was just teasing.

Kirk had definitely liked Shalimar's outfit. Maybe the jeans weren't quite as nice as the leather pants but he was fairly sure she could wear a sack cloth and make it look amazing.

He reached into his pouch and chalked his hands before stepping up to the cliff and finding a handhold.

"Well, if one of us falls it will certainly be easier for you to carry my body back for help than vice versa," he said before hoisting himself up.

Shalimar couldn't help herself from looking Kirk over again, he was very attractive. She knew it may be a long 10 days.

She didn't feel like showing off too much, she could have jumped up a few feet and already been ahead of him. But she found herself comfortable with him and lacking the need to overly impress him. Placing a hand on the cliff she started on her way up at a comfortable pace.

"Should I be insulted by that Kirk?" she said laughing.

Kirk also couldn't help but note the easy effort Shalimar made to pull herself up onto the wall and start climbing. He was fairly sure that she could scale the cliff side much faster than he could, but would the view really be all that bad?

"Now see," he said with a grunt as he pulled himself up. "If I had implied I was just as strong and fast as you, you would have laughed at me."

Shalimar pulled herself up and ahead of him looking down at him with a huge smile on her face. She couldn't help but laugh a little at what he said, he was right. She would have laughed at him and hard.

"I didn't know you were wise along with being sexy," she said while continuing to climb up. She thought that Kirk would be pleased to see that she was at least sweating at least a tiny bit.

Kirk liked that smile. He liked it a lot. It was a very good smile, it would have to be in order for him to make him look at that instead of her ass.

"Maybe I'm just getting to know you," he told her, smiling. And he did like seeing her swear a little bit, although he wasn't sure if that was because it meant it was slightly strenuous for her or she just looked good exerting herself.

"Are you trying to figure out the puzzle still?" she said pushing on up. She kept laughing as she moved up, if anything Shalimar knew how to laugh at herself and life. When she got down it'd have to be something really big. Tossing her head back she tried to get the stray hairs from falling into her face but without much success.

She lingered where she was waiting for him to catch up and giving a nod upwards to indicate that he could take the lead and be first. It was a huge concession for her to make.

Kirk might not entirely understand how big of a concession it was but he understood well enough that letting someone else take the lead probably wasn't something that Shalimar did easily.

"I'll probably still be trying to figure out the puzzle for a while," he said as he moved past her, stopping for a moment as he mapped out where he wanted to go. "But every time I figure out a little bit more, I find something else about you I like."

It was probably very visible to Kirk how much she was enjoying herself. Shalimar didn't think he'd be able to notice the fact that she seemed more free out here. Not that she didn't always seem at ease anywhere, but she always kept a grip on control that bordered on an unconscious tension. Outside of the City she was free and enjoyed that. Plus she really enjoyed him.

"You'll never figure it out," she said looking up at him as he moved past her and she grinned because the view wasn't bad at all from below him. "Likewise Kirk. I'm looking forward to trying to figure out you and your puzzle. Because honestly you are one too."

Kirk did notice she was really enjoying herself, but she seemed like the type of person to enjoy herself often, so he just figured he was doing par for the course. It was just nice to be around someone that he could be so at ease with. The flirting and compliments and conversations came easy with her.

"The fun is in the trying," he told her. He glanced up at the cliff face and frowned. He'd made a bad decision in his course, Kirk needed to grab on to a handhold that was a few inches out of reach to his left.

"And I know know what you mean about me being a puzzled," he said, just before he let go with his left hand, swung to the right, and let go with both hands once he moved back to the right. For a moment he wasn't gripping anything until his hand snagged the new hold and he secured himself to the rock with a grunt.

"I'm just an Iowa farm boy."

Shalimar watched him carefully as he swung himself she knew that if he fell she could easily catch him before he got hurt, though she really wasn't worried about that. Somehow she believed he could handle it just fine.

"You'll have to do some really good trying then," she smirked at him.

"I'm not sure I knew that about you, did you milk cows?" Shalimar couldn't help but laugh at that, she tried really hard to prevent it though.

"No, no milking cows," he said as he started to pull himself up again. "I have milked a cow but it wasn't exactly a morning farm chore. I think what you think of as a farm and what I think of a farm are a bit different."

Shalimar found herself oddly interested in what his farm was like, which was strange since usually personal life of people she found attractive wasn't exactly top on her list of important things.

"So what was your farm like?" she asked continuing behind him.

"There aren't a lot of pesticides or things like that used in crops, for one," he said as he continued to climb. He didn't even really notice how odd it was that he was talking about farming with her.

"And a lot of it is automated and requires a lot less effort," he added. "A lot of the disease and things more common to turn of the 21st century farms aren't a problem anymore."

"So they're more natural and less chemical filled then?" she asked with genuine curiosity. Not so much about the farming really but more about him, she quickly shrugged that thought off though.

"Sounds like it must be a lot easier," Shalimar continued to climb only slightly behind him. They seemed to be getting to the top now or at least close. "No plagues of locusts then?" she asked with a little laugh.

"You'd think it would be easier, but it's not," Kirk said as he paused to wipe the sweat from his eyes. They were almost there, a few more meters and they'd be at the top.

"Just because famine, disease, and war is wiped out on Earth and things are more automated, people always find trouble," he said. "Some humans don't like Vulcans, Vulcans don't really care for humans a lot of the time, no one likes the Romulans, and space is full of messy things."

Shalimar wasn't really surprised to hear that,"You know it's not really shocking to hear that people always find a way to make things harder."

She was sweating more then before herself and her hair had become slightly damp because of that, yet her look didn't even have a hint of tiredness in it. "Why does no one like the Romulans?"

"Because, the Romulans want to kill or enslave everyone else," he said, which was essentially the truth. He would have even been willing to guess that they didn't like a lot of their own kind.

"That usually puts the rest of us in a bad mood."

"Really? Because you know when people want to kill me I'm usually thrilled," she said with a very thick coat of sarcasm.

"No matter what time or what world I guess you can't escape people like that," Shalimar shrugged and continued on up.

"I bet you are," Kirk said with a bit of a smirk as he reached the top and started to pull himself up.

"You seem like the kind of girl that enjoys bashing the heads in of people stupid enough to want to kill her."

Shalimar let him get up first, another huge concession for her to make even though he probably wouldn't even realize it. Then she pulled herself up in a quick and fluid movement.

"I do. Especially since most of the time their goal isn't just to kill me," she said with a scoff.

Kirk didn't miss the ease at which she pulled herself up with, nor did her apparently agility escape him. He couldn't help but let his mind wander as he wondered what sorts of interesting positions she could get herself into.

Kirk sat himself down on the edge of the cliff and let his arms hang loosely from his sides. The climb had been at least a bit strenuous for him.

"And just what is there goal most of the time?"

Shalimar used the back of her hand to wipe the sweat off her forehead, she had known some girls that were really bothered by sweating in front of anyone especially guys. She'd always thought that was ridiculous and plus she was used to it with her work. She'd worked with 2 guys alone before another girl joined the team.

She sat down and sighed a little, "Boring story about my life I'm sure you're not interested in."

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"Now that's not true," Kirk said. "I'm very interested in it."

Kirk knew that it was maybe an iffy thing to ask her. Guessing from her hints about a bad childhood and her refusal to go in a hospital, he could guess at some of what she might have had to deal with.

"You listened to me talk about farms," he added. "It can't be anymore boring than that."

Shalimar paused, she really didn't believe that he'd be interested in the crap her and the others went through.

"I don't know, I think the only reason the last person here I told didn't die of boredom was because he's pretty much immortal," she made a bit of a forced laugh.

"Farms are much more interesting then what I do," she said.

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