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So far as Spock is aware, Jim alone has yet to be over this late into the night.

In combination with Leonard McCoy, on a few occasions, for a variety of reasons, but Spock cannot recall Jim Kirk alone having spent so many hours in Spock's company, at such a late hour - and he certainly never had spent so many of them curled on Spock's sofa. Which is, perhaps unexpectedly, large, deep, and soft enough to encourage restful sleep but not so much as to be difficult to stand from once you've sat on the cushions.

It's a bad habit, but Spock does not always find his way back to the bed once he's started working on something at the sofa.

Jim has been in the small apartment for long enough that Spock eventually puts aside his stubbornness to retreat to the bathroom to change into a pair of dark, flannel pyjamas and brush his teeth.

When he returns, whatever space he had managed to find for himself on the sofa before standing has disappeared somewhere beneath Jim's legs. He nudges one of Jim's knees with the back of his hand.

"At this hour, I would be more comfortable if you would stay until the morning. Or was this simply the plan all along, and I had not yet been duly informed?"

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[to_boldly]

To its credit, the movie about plants had actually been pretty interesting. Jim's never thought about it before, what it might take to live in hostile conditions, in sun and in snow, on mountains or far beneath the sea. Plants are tenacious little bastards, and Jim can get behind them.

If he'd begun nodding off around hour three, it's only due to the late hour. He doesn't even realize he's dozing until Spock is suddenly before him, freshly scrubbed and in the most adorable set of pajamas Jim has ever seen. His eyes widen, then narrow around a large, innocent smile.

"Have you ever known me to be so nefarious?" he asks, and naturally is well aware that in two versions of the universe, Spock absolutely has. The one standing before him has yet to learn quite so directly, but Jim's willing to believe Spock's made some logical leaps by now. "How late is it, anyway?"