Alex grinned again, and nodded. "Maybe not if I had help. Wanna climb an ice cream mountain with me, Padme?" It wasn't meant as flirtatious, just a friend having fun with a friend. He was enjoying the way they could just hang out and be, well, friends. He'd never had much of that, not before here, and Chekov, who had vanished, and John, who hadn't, yet, but had his own things to do. And Kate. Kate was a harder subject.