"Jim!"

Spock's smiling muscles were rarely used, but they hopped to the occasion without delay. Jim was alive, and with Spock's ties to T'Pring blissfully severed--

Christine and the doctor watched them leave Sickbay together. "Was that just Spock *smiling* that I saw, or was it just another symptom of hormonal imbalance? What *was* that?" she asked.

McCoy rocked back and forth on his feet.

"That, Miss Chapel, was the happy ending to an old-fashioned fairy tale--except this time, the knight in shining armor rescued the dragon from the princess."