Archive of Our Own ^beta

Summary:

They're sending him a communications expert. He’d honestly never expected them to agree.

Now that they have, he’s no longer quite so sure he wanted them to. Someone from Starfleet will be joining him on Khana station, at least for a time. When they arrive, there will suddenly be three people with access to his lab, and one of them will be an unknown. He’ll have to get to know them, figure out how they work. He’ll need to find their tells and quirks, what conversation topics to avoid and how to speak to them to ensure smooth relations.

It sounds exhausting. He distantly wonders if it’s too late to tell Command that he’s changed his mind. He would never be able to live it down, and his reputation is already about as bad as it can get without him being thrown out of Starfleet entirely. The thought is nonetheless tempting.