Chapter 1: The Prince

Author's note: DeForest Kelley wore a ring from his mother at his left pinky in remembrance of his late mother. Gold with a blue stone. Karl Urban had also a ring when he played Leonard McCoy. It's said to be in honor of Kelley. I couldn't find clear pictures of the original ring or the AOS-ring, but it looks more like silver.


Captain Jamie Tiberia Kirk was really annoyed. Prince Devhon of Draka made advances to her. Very obvious ones. He was actually good looking. But Jamie Kirk wasn't anymore the woman he thought she was. Apparently he'd heard about her being open for short flings and sex with no strings attached. But now, ten months into her captaincy, Jamie had changed.

Actually, it had happened gradually over the years. The careless and even slutty woman, who'd entered Starfleet Academy on a dare, had become a serious but still vibrant and sexually self-conscious woman. The Nero incident had forced her to finally grow up. Within days she'd become very responsible and showed what Admiral Christopher Pike always knew she had - leadership skills. She was born to sit in the command chair of a starship.

So, she'd shed her past as a woman with one-night-stands and had made it a rule for herself neither to sleep with someone who ranked lower than her on the ship, nor leaving a trail of short affairs on alien plants. That left people on Earth - which the Enterprise rarely returned to. And... well, since the CMO of a starship could outrank the captain in medical matters - Leonard McCoy. Her best friend. She would never risk to mess up that friendship by sex. Not with her bad track record of relationships - for she wasn't made for relationship. Even though she was secretly in love with Leonard McCoy for years.

And here she was now. On Draka. And a good looking prince was trying to get her into his bed. And she wasn't interested. And she was thinking desperately of a way to politely get rid of him. She didn't want to cause a diplomatic incident.

"Captain", the prince drawled seductively. "You don't have to play coy. I know you are attracted to me as I am to you. You are very beautiful and we could spend a wonderful night together."

Jamie sighed and still tried to stay civil. "That is very flattering, Your Highness. But I am not a woman for one night. Anymore."

Devhon looked at her in disbelief.

Jamie's mind raced. What could she say without angering him and calling off the treaty with the Federation? She would certainly not spread her legs for Starfleet.

He stepped closer and reached out to trail with one hand over her arm up to her neck.

The captain took a step back, covertly looking around where the other members of the away team were. She detected Hikaru Sulu in the corner of her eye. And Leonard McCoy.

Okay, so, the prince didn't believe her that she wasn't interested in him and didn't want to sleep with him. There was only one way to keep him at distance . And that was telling him she was off the market.

"Your Highness, I really am flattered, but I have to ask you again to back off. I am not interested." She took a deep breath and hoped it would work. "I am already taken."

"Taken? Well, I heard you had no relationships. That you only spent single nights with men or even woman." Devhon gave her a devouring look again and his eyes wandered to her breasts.

"That was a long time ago", she answered, avoiding to roll her eyes at the way he was checking her out in her uniform dress. "I am devoted to only one man now. My husband."

The prince froze and looked almost shocked. "Husband?"

"Yes, husband", she confirmed. "I'm very happily married."

"Married?" Devhon echoed.

"Yes", Jamie declared in a firm voice.

"How unfortunate..." he replied, clearly disappointed, but curious in the next moment. "And who is he? I would like to meet the man that has bound such a beautiful woman, the famous Captain Kirk, to himself."

Again the captain barely managed not rolling her eyes. That man didn't know when to stop cheesy compliments or inappropriate offers.

And now her little white lie was about to get pretty big. "You already met him", Jamie said and turned around. "Bones!" she called loudly. "Would you come here for a sec?"