Modern Day Kirk.

“Alicia.”

“Hello, Sir.  Do you have a new assignment for me?”

“I’ve been thinking about what you said.”

“What, about Tarzan?”

“Cute, but no.  I’m not at all worried about your little survivalist friend.  I did a little investigating and it seems I’m more his type than you’d ever be.”

“You leave Charlie out of this.”

“Gladly, although I’d like to point out that you were the one who brought him in.”

“What do you want, Rowan?”

“Rowan?  What happened to Sir?”

“Are you going to get to the point any time soon, or are you just getting your jollies out of taking the piss with me?”

“I can’t do both?”

“Are you fu-“

“I want to talk.”

“Did you ever think that maybe I don’t want to talk to you?”

“Perhaps I’d believe that more if you didn’t answer your phone every time I call.”

“You know what?  You’re absolutely right.”

*click*

“I can’t believe she did that again.”

“Alicia!”

“What the hell are you doing here?”

“My office you’re napping in.  Not the other way around.  You hung up on me.”  Again.

“How observant of you.  They teach you those skills at superhero uni?”

“You’re going to stop acting like a petulant brat for a minute and listen.”

“Oh I am, am I?’

“Alicia.”

“OK.  … I’m listening.”

“I get why you’re upset-“

“Do you?”

“I thought the brat was going to shut up.  … Thank you.  Now, you weren’t the only one in need of rescuing that night.  If I had told you that I needed to find my cousin, would you have tried to come along with me?”

“Of course.”

“As I assumed.  I didn’t take you out of one dangerous situation only to thrust you into another one.”

“I’m not a fucking damsel in distress, Sir.  You don’t have to rescue me all the time.”

“You’re MINE.  Don’t you get that?  And trouble follows you like a bad habit.  I have an obligation to protect you at the risk of your anger not just for your sake, but for my own.  I don’t know what I’d…”

“So you’re just allowed to go and throw yourself into dangerous situations and I’m just supposed to… to what, Rowan?  Be happy with that??  You want me to play the simple secretary- or since we’ve hooked up… were you hoping I’d play the happy homemaker while you go off and save the world?”

“This is who I am.  You know that.  You know me better than anyone else.”

“I thought you knew me, too.  I thought that’s what…  But obviously I thought wrong.”

“You don’t mean that.  You have to know how I feel about you.”

“I can’t sit back and wait for you to get yourself killed.  I’m an all or nothing package.  You can’t pick what you like about me and fashion me to your pleasing.  If you want me, Sir, then you have to want the woman who’s going to stand by your side when you battle those demons.  If you don’t, then you’re just wasting our time here.”