"I know, I know," Sulu said, closing his eyes and smiling because, well. There was something ridiculously great about how normal this conversation was. It was the kind of thing he'd heard his friends do in high school with their dates - hesitate to hang up, try to think of reasons to keep talking even if they were walking into a class or an arcade...

"Both of us need to get up tomorrow morning," Sulu sighed, running a hand through his hair and keeping it there, staring at his ceiling. This part was always awkward, no matter what, and it didn't help that they'd already called attention to it. "I'll probably have to get into a dogfight with Klingon warbirds, you probably are going to have to save the world from some alien force... It's going to be a really busy day." Theoretically speaking, of course. For all either of them knew, tomorrow was going to be boring as hell.