Prologue:
6th August 2245.
The medical staff are astounded by the raging squalls from the tiny, blood and placenta covered new born infant they have been currently carefully pulling out of a C-section incision. They quickly cut the umbilical cord and set to work repairing the mother's skin while a midwife on standby takes the baby in a cloth and wipes carefully at it's head to take off any excess fluids.
However they do not take the child to the mother. Instead they walk over to a much older man who was standing in the corner of the room doing his best to stay out of the way of the working surgeons and nurses.
He is wearing a black uniform with a blue torso, his brown and grey hair combed neatly back and his dark eyes sharp with a quiet but dark uneasiness as he looks up at the approaching woman.
"How is he?" He asks a slightly sharp edge to his voice as he stands up to look down on the infant she carries
"I think you mean 'how is she?'…sir…" The midwife corrects him carefully, avoiding his eye.
She is a middle aged woman with smooth dark skin and black hair flecked with grey and has seen and delivered many babies in her lifetime; however it is still not wise to one up an admiral an Admiral, especially one like Alexander Marcus
Marcus looks down into the still squalling infant's face. Her skin is still rather red but he can discern a small tuft of dark black fuzz atop of her round fragile head. She's barely seven pounds in weight and small as well in length. He frowns at this.
"Kind of on the small side isn't she? Considering her heritage"
"With all due respect sir, I hardly find this surprising. Every baby grows differently during the gestation period, no matter what heritage they come from." The Midwife gulps realising her sass a little too late, but Marcus doesn't seem offended at all. In fact he seems genuinely intrigued. She inwardly sighs in relief and proceeds to explain herself "they may have been more superior to us in means of intelligence and strength but in many ways they too were still very much as human as you or I. All I can theorise from my experience in my profession is that her current physical state is probably similar to that her biological genetic providers' was at this point in their lifetime, like so many other normal children. And even then who knows what she will become later"
"Who knows indeed, now may I?" he holds out both his hands forwards but she hesitates. Marcus smiles, though his eyes are cold and she still doesn't hand over the child.
"Oh come now Nurse Jefferson, I'm a happily married man with a daughter of my own. I can assure you I know how to hold a baby" he chuckles in a light-hearted manner though she can see in the rest of his body language his patience with her is wearing thin.
Jefferson sighs in defeat as she hands over the now mewling child into her superiors arms.
"Only for a moment while I go fetch the formula then I have to give her, her first feed"
"Of course Jefferson, of course" Marcus waves her off looking down at the little babe in his arms.
"All that hard work, hours researching your kind…your potential…ten months getting you prepped and ready" He mutters softly. Nurse Jefferson, who is now just only a few feet away pauses, feeling her gut drop badly as she hears the man's next words float into her ears.
"Now let's see what you can do"
Nurse Jefferson turns her attention back to filling the baby bottle with formula but not before she catches the bright gleam greedy ambition in Marcus's gaze. She'd seen that gaze too many times, and it has never boded well for anyone.
Oh god…
She gulps down the large lump of shame bubbling in her throat.
What have I done?!
Ok so...hi...I'm pretty new to the Star Trek fandom. I usually do more writing for the cartoons/animated movies/anime based fandoms like YJ, ROTG and Bleach and stuff so yeah...this is pretty new territory for me. (please be kind)
So as a newbie I humbly ask for your patience and help in making my fic as accurate as possible in terms of info and stuff relating to the universe. I probably won't be referring to star-dates unless someone can link me to a really goddamn good and SIMPLE star-date/normal calendar online converter because that would be very much appreciated.
Hope you enjoy and R&R for more :)
