Re: action; [ No, it's all right, he doesn't mind the hug at all. He gets wanting to hug. Honestly he is not a huge hugger himself, but sometimes you just need one, and coming awake here after going through all of that was the time for a hug. ]
Well, don't worry about apologizing for the memory thing. That wasn't your fault.
What's the confusing part? Being back here so suddenly and no time seeming to have passed when you know you were gone for three years?
[ What? That would be confusing, and he had done the mental math. Chekov hadn't been "gone" to his knowledge, but Chekov now had memories of an event Kirk shared with him when he hadn't before. That had to be jarring. ]