Hello! Bluecat4800 here. This is my first Star Trek Fanfiction, I hope you all enjoy. This story is a fem!Kirk story, because I love the idea of James T. Kirk and Bones as a couple. This is meant to be a somewhat serious story, I'm not a fan of fluff or whatever. Please let me know what you think. This story is un-betaed so if you see any mistakes please let me know.

I am starting this in the academy, just because that makes the most sense. Depending on reader feedback I will continue past the academy.

Let's get started!

He was trying, of that she was sure. His red uniform would have been helpful if she were even remotely interested. Throwing an exasperated glance at the bar tender, Jamie Tiberia Kirk turned to her would be suitor. "Look cupcake, I'm just not interested." She gave him a pat on the shoulder before turning on her heels, her long sandy blond pony tail skimming the cadets nose. Since she had returned to Riverside a few years ago at the insistence of one Captain Pike to help him with his new star ship Kirk had seen many new cadets at this very bar. Of course, there was always one who insisted on hitting on her.

"Calling it a night already?"

The voice called out to her from the other side of the door as it swung shut behind her. Rolling her eyes and gave an exaggerated sigh before turning to see the man she would sooner call her father. "Captain Pike, to what do I owe this pleasure?"

Captain Christopher Pike gave his adopted daughter a single raised eyebrow, "I thought I asked you to call me Chris?" He smiled, glad to see that she wasn't overly inebriated, "You are your fathers daughter you know." They had had this conversation before. He was the one to recruit her to help build the Enterprise, her engineering genius was one the best, and the Enterprise deserved the best. "Your aptitude tests are off the charts, although I already knew that considering the work you've been doing for the Fleet in the last few years. So, what is it? You like being the only genius repeat offender in the Midwest- "

"Maybe I do! You don't know me Pike!" Kirk was quick to interject, her ocean blue eyes a blaze with a fire. "I know what's happened to you Kirk… Jamie. You haven't always had it easy. But don't you feel like you were meant for something better." He was quick to follow her outburst, "Don't you feel like you were meant for something special? Enlist Jamie, enlist in Starfleet."

She laughed, laughed out loud, thinking of a quick comeback, but Pike was quicker. "If you are half to person your father was Starfleet could use an officer like you. You can be an officer in 4 years, you can have your own ship in 8. You know how important Starfleet is, I know you do." He waited to see what this young prodigy might say.

"Are we done here? These heels are killing me." Jamie looked at her feet, unable to look the man she respected in the eye. The older man nodded his head, "Yea Jamie, I'm done. You know the shuttle for new recruits leaves tomorrow at 08:00." He took a step to head back into the bar to finish the drink he had left to intercept the young woman. Jamie hesitated before she too started to walk away. "You know…" Pike called out to her before she was out of ear shot, "Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes, he saved 800 lives. Including your mothers, and yours." He let it sit in the air growing ominous, before he threw his last straw over his shoulder. "I dare you to do better."

Jamie stood waiting for more, turning quickly she made to give Pike a piece of her mind, only to find that the man had already disappeared back into the bar. With an angry sigh she turned and walked to her bike, her thought flying at a thousand miles a minute. Her body on autopilot she allowed her bike to carry her wherever it might go.

Half and hour later she found herself at the dockyard, the beautiful Enterprise on the horizon, staring at her. Waiting for her. The stars twinkled down at her, they too were waiting. With a deep breath her decision was made. Alright Dad, you win.

The next morning was bright and welcoming, the enjoyed her bike before tossing the keys to a maintenance worker she had seen before. "She's all yours." Jamie said as the keys sailed, before turning her attention to pike. "You know 4 years is a long time, I think I'll do it in 3." Her characteristic smirk confirmed her statement, while Pike just shook his head.

She settled herself in her seat, throwing a wink at the red uniformed man she had met at the bar last night. Startled out of her observations of the other cadets, she was surprised to see Pike's flight commander wrestling a man out of the bathroom. After a small tussle he was seated in the spot beside her, they only available space for the man. "I may throw up on you." Were the first words out of his mouth. She gave him an elegant raised eyebrow, and some reassuring words, "You know I think these things are pretty safe."

"Don't pander to me kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in 13 seconds, a Solare flare might crop up 'nd cook us in our seats. 'nd wait till your sitting pretty with a case of Andorian Shingles, see if your still relaxed while your eyeballs are bleeding." Jamie just shook her head a let the man get it our of his system, "Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." She only nodded her head, listening to his rant, "Well I hate to break it to you, but Starfleet operated in space." She watched him carefully.

"Yea well got nowhere else to go the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce, all I got left is m' bones." Jamie could only smile slightly and watch the man take a swig before offering her one. With a shrug she accepted, tipping it in a toast, "Jamie Kirk." And took a swig. "McCoy. Leonard McCoy." He watched her suspiciously as she finished her drink and handed it back to him.