[ooc: Now I sort of want to see Klingons show up in Lawrence...]
"Yeah, there are times I hate being a good example," he said, grinning at her. "Which is the only reason I'm glad I'm here without my crew. Then I can do stuff and not have to worry about the example I set. Though they would all like you. And they'd probably like this settled down me, too."
He looked down at her as he held her close. "There was a new arrival recently. He calls himself Sherlock Holmes. I guess he was here before, so no one is really blinking an eye at him. But when I look at him I don't see whoever Sherlock Holmes is. I see Khan Noonien Singh, a war criminal from my time. This guy is bad news. Really bad news."
He moved his hands up and down her back slightly. "The reason I watched my movies is because I didn't know how we beat him. All I know is that I died and then two weeks later I was awake and alive and it all had to do with him and his blood. So i decided to watch the movies to find out. I wasn't ready for it. The first one wasn't so bad, because most of the bad stuff happened to Spock. It was hard to watch me fail to save his planet, but some good came out of watching that movie. I got to see my dad be the hero everyone said he was. I mean, it was hard watching my mom lose him, but I was really proud of him."
He paused for a moment, the leaned forward slightly, pressing his forehead against hers. "The second movie only happened about a year and a half ago for me. I thought I could handle it. I thought I'd dealt with Admiral Pike's death, with Admiral Marcus's death. Hell, i thought I'd dealt with my own death well enough. But every time I saw Khan, every time that smug bastard was on screen, and then watching all the deaths..." He sighed. "The stupid part is I drank so much I still don't know how Khan got defeated. But I can't be there with the guy who looks like him right now. I'm nowhere near ready to deal with him, even if it is just a facetwin and I'm having the worst luck with it ever." He pulled away slightly to look at her. "So I guess that's why I'm running away. That, and if I'm right and it is Khan and not Sherlock...I want to make sure you're safe. I mean, I know eventually we have to go back, but if I'm right maybe in two weeks he'll slip up and someone will notice. And if I'm wrong, maybe there will be concrete proof to convince me that he really is Sherlock Holmes."