I have been very inspired to write this for the past few days. I figured I would finally try to actually get it down in writing and see what the result was. Hopefully you guys enjoy this.

I would not recommend this fic for anyone who likes a lot of in-depth explanation, because I sort of cover everything briefly instead of describing each and every event.

The only change I am making (other than a Fem!Kirk) is that McCoy is only around 4 years older than Amelia instead of being almost 8 years like it is in the movies. So Amelia is 25 at the time when she first becomes Captain, making Bones 29. Also Lea is 22 at the time of their first meeting so Bones is 26.

I also feel that I should address this really quickly: I know some people have a problem with male characters being changed into females and then being paired with other male characters, but I made this decision because I feel I can write from the perspective of a female a lot better considering I am a girl!

And a little note; the nickname "Lea" is pronounced like how you would say the name "Leah", it's just lacking the "h".

Disclaimer: I own nothing!

NOTE: TO MAKE THIS A SHORTER READ, I AM SPLITTING IT INTO A TWO SHOT. PART ONE CONSISTS OF THE MOVIE STAR TREK. PART TWO WILL BE COMING SOON.


Amelia Timothea Kirk stares up at the grey clothed Starfleet Captain opposite of her in the dingy and very empty Iowa bar. The almost bar fight left her with a stinging left elbow as well as a bad attitude after clashing with that idiotic (in her valued opinion) bunch of cadets. She listens to him talk about herself, really. Her and her admirable (and dead) father George Kirk, who had bravely gone down with his ship after only captaining it for a mere twelve minutes. She's heard the stories before, usually coming from her mother Winona and strangely never from her sloppy and angry step-father who has no doubt hated her since first sight. Part of her wants to tell the man- Pike, is his name -that he's wasting his time and that someone like her who comes from a place like this has no place in his precious Starfleet. They part on generally good terms, the Captain departing with a sense of hope for the young Kirk and the young Kirk leaving with the knowledge that the next shuttles for recruits will be taking off the next morning.

Amelia has to admit that she surprises herself when she is cruising down the streets surrounding the hangar on her old motorcycle and then stepping off to make her way towards one of the many small shuttles. Her keys land in the hat of a passing by worker, who shouts a brief thank you as she enters the open hatch and graces Pike with a brief hello and claims that she'll happily accomplish the feat of becoming an officer within three years, and not four. The previous night's idiotic cadets don't smile as she shoots a quick quip at them paired with a mocking salute. And it really starts to hit her that she's really doing this once she sets herself down in a chair, ignoring her neighboring recruit who watches disdainfully as she struggles with the seatbelt.

She waits patiently in her seat, watching the gruff looking man as he relentlessly argues with the shuttle attendant, who isn't seeming to stand for any of it. Amelia hears the word 'aviophobia' and quirks a brow, curiously glancing at the man as the attendant finally forces him into the seat beside her. He says something about throwing up, which doesn't sit well with her oddly enough. They enter a conversation that includes his rambling of different probable deaths aboard one of the Starfleet shuttles while she adds a few comments here and there, wherever she sees necessary. Then they're shaking hands and making introductions, and Amelia can't help but think of how good of a nickname 'Bones' would be for her new doctor friend.


Three years pass quickly for Amelia Kirk.

It isn't that surprising really, since every day is filled with new classes and new tests and new problems to solve and new languages to master. She's whizzing through it all with flying colors, even toning down (a tiny bit) on the amount of trouble she gets herself into. She isn't quite sure if it's due to Bones and his shooting down of her wild ideas, or her roommate's lack of interest in anything having to do with fun.

Soon enough, Amelia finds herself in her third year at the Starfleet Academy, preparing to take the feared Kobayashi Maru for, again, the third time. Bones doesn't want to hear any more about it, let alone waste more of his precious time away from the medical wing while he watches his dear friend fail the practically unwinnable test yet again. When he mutters something that sounds a lot like 'study, my ass' Amelia can't help but reply with 'gladly' before gallivanting off to meticulously prepare for the next morning's test. Sure, the majority of that preparation might include hooking up with that green skinned Orion guy who's been winking at her for the past few classes, but Amelia doesn't have anything to say about it.


She finds out the hard way that 'cheating' is not tolerated at the Starfleet Academy when the half-Vulcan who Bones calls the pointy-eared bastard stands right up and accuses her of such a thing in front of the rest of the red clothed cadets. Despite her disdain for no-win scenarios, the Admirals still put her on a sort of academic suspension. The penalty really comes back to bite her once Admiral Barnett is ordering all students to the hangar in order to respond to a distress call from Vulcan.

Amelia wants to protest when she doesn't hear her name called, to which she is crushed to hear that academic suspension calls for no participation in anything like saving Vulcan until the board clears her for duty again. Bones makes futile attempts to console the frustrated cadet but eventually knows he has to run along to his own position on the Enterprise, and Amelia can't help but feel a pang of jealousy towards the doctor. Still, she gives him an affectionate shoulder pat and bids good luck, because she doesn't want to be the reason why he doesn't get to have all the fun.

She doesn't notice him mutter 'dammit' or turn around, but definitely pays attention once she finds herself being dragged throughout the hangar and into a dim closet filled with vials of liquids that all look exactly the same to her. Amelia jokes about wishing she had never met him once she gets jabbed in the neck with a particularly painful hypo, but still feels incredibly thankful for all that Bones is making the effort to do in order to help her onto a ship. The fuzzy vision and sore throat and overall horrible feeling throughout her body are bad side effects, but hopefully worth it in the end.


Her time on the Enterprise can be described as nothing other than remarkable. Amelia knows she has never experienced anything like being onboard a Starfleet vessel and soon realizes that she never wants to be anywhere else. Sure, Spock is disapproving of her being onboard and Pike isn't too happy either, but they both seem to lighten up a bit once she helps them realize that a 'lightning storm' actually means a gigantic ship filled with vengeful Romulans waiting to obliterate them as soon as they drop out of warp. So Pike makes an exception and even sends the young Kirk spiraling down onto a huge Romulan drill beside Sulu in order to try and save Vulcan from its impending doom. She argues at Pike's boarding of the Narada because she is positive that nothing good can come from this Nero fellow, even when he appoints her to First Officer under the new acting Captain Spock. But when their efforts fail and the planet and nearly all of its inhabitants are sucked into a bottomless black hole, Amelia finds the first setback of the starship life, especially when she sees the first crack in Mr. Spock's usually cool emotional exterior upon the death of his mother.

It's a bit of a setback when her intensive arguing with the Captain and his decisions get her ejected onto an incredibly frosty Class M planet and chased by not one, but two creepy creatures. Amelia knows she must've hit her head during the crash landing because there's no way that the old Vulcan she meets in the cave is actually an alternate future version of Spock. She's further convinced of a severe head injury once future-Spock starts talking about them and their friendship and their travels and how the in the hell could they be friends? There's a mind-meld thing that helps to clear things up followed by a long trek through some seriously freezing weather until they reach a Starfleet outpost and an interesting Scottish engineer who Amelia takes to calling Scotty.

Amelia finds it easy to accept future-Spock's mission for her to help 'emotionally compromise' his present self, because she's been waiting to get under his skin for a while now. Even if it results in a painful shove into one of the many control panels on the bridge, Amelia has to hope she's done some good once she finally finds herself seated in the coveted Captain's chair. Bones sends her a disapproving look and remark because that's just how he is, even though he knows deep down inside that Amelia is meant to be in charge of a ship like the Enterprise.

The rest of her experience is filled with odd alliances with Spock, risky trips onto the Narada, painful punches from angry Romulans, attempted negotiations with those same angry Romulans, along with narrow escapes from black holes due to that pesky red matter. Amelia and her crew deal with all of this, all while managing to save the Earth in the process, remarkably. She can barely believe that they've succeeded and even saved Captain Pike in the end and she's sure that all of her fellow Starfleet peers will have a difficult time coming to terms with her successes as well.

The Enterprise is back in order and heading home when Amelia finally finds the time to visit the sickbay and receive some attention to the innumerable bruises and cuts she received from being tossed around by Nero. When she sees Doctor McCoy waiting for her, scanner in hand, she can't help but sigh and smile at her best friend because they're both still alive and the ship isn't in shambles after her brief run of Captaincy. Bones patches her up like he always does and Amelia sits still like she never does because she can't even find the energy to do anything but half-heartedly answer the doctor's multiple questions and occasionally nod. The far too eventful day comes to a close as she's sitting on the examination table with McCoy by her side and she's resting her head on his shoulder because even Amelia Kirk needs someone to lean on every once in a while.


Amelia marvels at the fact that Bones' decision to come back for her is the reason that he's alive and Pike's alive and everyone's alive and the Enterprise isn't a fiery pile of ruins floating along aimlessly through the vast expanse of space. She knows that the painful hypos and dangerous falls onto equally as dangerous drills and practically blind transports onto the Narada and brief banishments to Class M planets were all worth it in they end, especially when they led to her becoming Captain and saving everyone on board Pike's ship.

My ship, she proudly realizes as she's being commended by the Starfleet Admirals and stepping before Pike to relieve him of his status as Captain of the Enterprise. She's smiling and gazing up into the crowd of red cadets who had previously seen her as an immature cheater and not as anyone nearly capable of accomplishing all of the feats which the Admiral had listed. Lea sees Bones smiling and flashing a thumbs up, and her heart swells for reasons unknown even to her. It isn't until she catches Spock, her new sort-of-friend also clapping along with the crowd that she knows she's really made it.

Perhaps, she thinks, Starfleet is the familial place she has long been searching for.


Part two will be posted in the next few days.

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