Star Trek: Into Darkness
The hooded figure ran from the temple with the army of white aliens running after him. In his hand was a scroll the natives believed to have been sent by their Gods.
As he ran through the thick red grass-like plants, he could hear the oncoming hoard wanting to rip him piece by piece. He was startled though by a giant creature rearing up its hind legs and roaring at the man.
The figure pulled out his phaser and stunned the creature. It fell to the floor to reveal another hooded figure having to move out of the way of being squashed.
The new stranger pulled their hood down to reveal a woman with extremely short, chocolate brown hair.
"Bloody hell Jim!" Eva shouted at him. "That was our ride!"
The first figure pulled down his hood to reveal Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise. His groaned as he realised his mistake but he couldn't for long as the sounds of the natives approaching caught his attention.
"Aw great." He muttered before running past Eva and grabbing her hand to drag her along. "Run."
Eva didn't need to be told twice and allowed Jim to drag her by the hand. After a while though the two realised they could run faster if they weren't joined and the two parted physical contact.
Due to the narrow paths Eva had to run slightly behind Jim. She looked over her shoulder and saw the oncoming mass of angry bodies, screaming in a foreign tongue.
"What the hell did you take?" She shouted to the man after seeing how worked up they were.
"I don't know but they were all bowing to it." He answered. Eva rolled her eyes at him but kept running. She watched as Jim pulled out a communicator. "Kirk to shuttle one. The Nibirans are out of the kill zone. They are clear, repeat they are clear. Spock get in there and neutralise the volcano. Let's get out of here!"
Eva could see the rising smoke out of the corner of her eye. She really didn't want to be anywhere near here when it exploded.
Suddenly a sharp pain erupted at her side. Eva's hand went to grasp her mid section and when she pulled it back up, it was covered in the red liquid which was her blood. She had caught sight of the spear which had sailed past her and was now a few feet ahead. Well she thought it had sailed past her but apparently it had nicked her.
A fiery sensation erupted where she had been caught. She clamped her hand to her side trying to apply pressure to the wound. She kept running and Jim didn't seem to realise there was anything wrong with her.
"Copy that." Jim said in front of her.
"What?" Eva asked. "What's happening?"
The Captain ignored her and kept running. She could see they were reaching a cliff face and soon they would have nowhere to run.
"Jim, the beach is over there" Eva pointed in a direction they weren't running in.
"We're not going to the beach." He told her as he placed the scroll on a branch so it fell down to reveal its contents.
"What?" Eva hissed. "You've got to be kidding me."
"You volunteered for this mission." Kirk shot back at here.
"Because you would have taken Bones otherwise." She argued back. Secretly though she was glad to be out of the Enterprise and doing something more physical than working on a computer. However she was regretting her decision to come now, her side hurting like hell.
The two ran off the cliff face screaming as they did so, hopeless flapping their arms in hope they could soften the eventual impact with the water.
It did no such thing but once submerged in the warm sea, Eva forgot about her wound as much as she could and followed Jim as the two swam to the Enterprise. Both shed the long cloaks they were wearing instead being left in swim suits.
Scotty hadn't been too impressed when Jim made him park it on the ocean bed but Eva had to admit, it was a good hiding place.
Eva followed Jim into the little hold where they held on to the circle bar on the roof as the water was sucked out. Eva made sure to hide her wound from the Captain. As soon as the water was gone the two ripped their goggles off, something they had managed to put on as they fell.
"Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to hide a starship on the bottom of the ocean?" A Scottish accent asked them. Jim and Eva turned to look at the head of engineering. "We've been down here since last night. The salt water's gonna-"
"Scotty." Jim cut him off. "Where's Spock?"
"Still in the volcano sir." Scotty told him.
Jim moved past him and made his way out of the room, no doubt going to the bridge, Scotty following him.
A young Ensign, who was waiting at the side for Scotty, noticed that there was someone missing. He walked a little forward and found the ship's weapons officer hunched over and clutching her side.
"Is everything okay ma'am?" The young man asked her.
"Actually I don't think it is." She winced, her breathing heavy. The adrenaline from escaping the angry natives was running out.
"You've gone a little pale ma'am." He commented as he stepped into the room.
"I think I may need to see Dr McCoy." She said and that's when the Ensign noticed the blood on her suit, seeping around where her hand was placed.
Before he could say anything else he had to dash forward and catch the collapsing Eva in his arms.
"Spock, you alright?" Kirk asked his first officer as he ran into the transporter room, Bones hot on his heels.
"Captain, you let them see the ship." The Vulcan stated.
"He's alright." Bones muttered.
"Dr McCoy to medical." A voice on the intercom said. "Urgent, Dr McCoy to medical."
Jim shot Bones a confused look, who could need help that badly? But Bones couldn't answer his question as he was already sprinting out of the room to see what all the fuss was about.
Quickly he found himself in the medical bay. A nurse came up to him as she directed him over to the bed.
"She just collapsed apparently when she came back on board. We've tried cleaning the wound but we think there is some kind of poison in her system." The nurse explained.
"Where are the files for the patient?" The chief medical officer asked. A curtain was drawn around the bed hiding the patient from him. "How am I supposed to treat the patient if I don't have any medical files?"
"We don't have any on her sir." The nurse told him. "They're classified. That's why we called you."
Before opening the curtain, he already knew who the patient was.
Eva lay on the bed with shallow breaths and soaking wet hair. Her wet suit had been rolled down to her waist so Bones could see the wound on her side. Her toned body from years on extensive exercise and fighting was clearly defined. The wound itself was only a minor cut, something he had never seen on Eva before which was what worried him.
In all the time he had known Eva she would hardly have any bruises or cuts of any kind. The girl sometimes had them when she had a serious accident but when that happened, those doctors from England would intervene and Kirk and Jim wouldn't see her for a couple of days until she was better again. They would never let them visit her when it happened.
Over the years Jim and Bones had tried to get information out of Eva about who they were but she would always avoid the question, shut them out. All the two knew was that she had a pretty nasty shuttle accident when she was 19 and it claimed both her parents' lives.
He looked at his friend lying there with sickly white skin. The veins on her eye lids and neck being highlighted as a nasty blue colour against her pale skin.
"Doctor McCoy?" The nurse asked waiting for instructions.
"You're right, there's something in her system." Bones nodded. There must have been some poison on that spear head or arrow, whatever had caught her. "Do we have any idea what?"
Jim had been to get changed and was now walking back onto the bridge.
"Keptain on the bridge." Chekov announced.
Jim couldn't help but smirk, he loved being announced onto the bridge. The room carried on working as Jim took a seat in his Captain's chair. He did a little scan of the room to see who was on duty. Uhura had changed and was at her station, Spock was missing though. He seemed to still be adjusting to his near death experience.
Jim would have appreciated a thank you for saving his life but that was Vulcans for you.
Sulu had changed as well and was already piloting the starship back to Earth. Jim turned to see how Eva was fairing but when he looked at the weapons desk she wasn't behind it.
His eye brows came together in confusion about where the Englishwoman could be. Now he thought about it though, he hadn't seen her since they had got back on the ship.
"Mister Sulu have you seen Lieutenant Smith?" Jim asked his pilot.
"No sir." Sulu answered.
Jim became a little worried now.
"Kirk to engineering." Jim opened a channel to his favourite Scotsman. "Scotty do you know with Lieutenant Smith is?"
"No Captain." Scotty replied. "Last time I saw her was when you got back on the ship."
Kirk cut the line and opened up another one to medical.
"Kirk to medical." He said. Then he remembered his friend had been called away. "Bones everything okay in medical?"
"Now it is." Bones replied.
"Have you seen Eva?" Jim asked hoping his growing fear was wrong.
"Why do you think I got called away?" The Doctor asked sarcastically, annoyed that Jim hadn't spotted sooner that Eva wasn't around.
They had only just managed to rid Eva of the poison and the girl was finally beginning to come around.
"1 minute and 3 seconds." Bones said when he heard the hiss of the doors behind him. He turned to see the Captain walking in. "That's the quickest you've ever managed to make it to medical. Your slowest being three days when you avoided that physical."
"Where is she?" Was all Jim asked, not even smiling at the Doctor's remark.
Bones nodded his head over to a bed which was surrounded by a curtain. Jim walked straight over and into the secluded area.
He immediately turned away and covered his eyes. Hoping he wasn't red in the face.
"There is a thing called knocking Kirk." Eva told him. She stood by her bedside still in her wet suit but it was also still pulled down to her waist revealing her black bra. On her side was a white pad used to cover the tender area. Eva felt slightly self conscious because it was Jim who had walked into the room but she decided by his reaction she was going to make him sweat a little. "You act like you've never seen a girl in a bra before."
"Well I've never seen you." Jim defended himself.
Of course he had seen girls in bras before but none who he liked as much as Eva. She was his friend...who was he kidding? She was more than that no matter how much he tried to deny it. He had fantasised about Eva, who wouldn't? Even before they had kissed Jim could appreciate the English beauty, with her stunning legs that seemed to go forever and not to mention those dark blue eyes which were always framed by the dark eye liner she wore.
Stop it Jim, he scolded himself. No other girl had made him act like this and he wasn't going to lose his cool now.
He turned back around to face Eva who stood with her hands on her hips. His eyes raked over her body accompanied by his usual smirk.
"Well there's a first time for everything." Eva smirked back at him, both were refusing to be the first to shy away.
"I have to say, you are one of the better ones I've seen." Jim commented as he stepped towards her.
"I'll take that as a compliment seeing the amount of girls you've seen is extremely high." Eva teased.
"You should." Jim nodded, stepping even closer to Eva. "Definitely the best English woman as well."
"Well I do try." Eva smirked. She sent out a little laugh but instead it turned to a hiss of pain and her hand flew to where the pad was.
"Are you okay?" Jim asked her.
Eva felt his breath across her face and when she looked up the two were inches apart. All teasing from a moment ago was gone and instead worry was in his voice.
"I'm fine." Eva told him. She felt something on her hand and looked down to see Jim had placed his own hand over hers.
He gently moved it from her side before his fingers skimmed across the surface of the pad applying slightly pressure every now and then.
Eva just watched his hand work across her skin, trying to keep her breathing under control. She winced every now and again which Jim saw. When he stopped he left his hand on her side.
She looked up to see his face even closer than before.
"A little less than fine then." Eva conceded and the two shared a small smile. Eva's eyes kept flicking to Jim's lips.
Both subconsciously moved towards the other, their lips millimetres apart when Bones came storming in.
"Eva." He looked up from his PADD to see Jim and Eva awkwardly stood as far apart as possible. Jim's hand came up and rubbed the back of his neck while Eva nervously got her wet suit all the way back on. Bones raised an eyebrow, looking at the Captain with a disapproving look before turning his attention back to his patient. "Tests came back, it's all out of your system."
"Oh good." Eva sighed. "I better get going then."
"Wait just a minute." Bones grabbed her arm as he walked past her. "You are not going anywhere."
"I have weapons checks to do. God knows what the saltwater did to our phasers." Eva argued.
"God knows how you survived Eva." Bones said exasperated. "You were lucky to make it back to the ship, let alone be standing her right now and breathing."
"What do you mean?" Eva asked.
"Eva the poison should have killed you in a matter of minutes." Bones told her.
Eva went quiet for a moment, letting the information sink in. She sighed and lowered her head.
"Can I go back to my quarters and have a shower? Maybe even rest there." Eva suggested. "Please, you know how I don't sleep very well in hospital beds."
Bones grunted and Eva took it as her permission. She smiled at the doctor and made her way out of the room.
"You're to come check in with me as soon as you wake up." Bones shouted after her. Eva sent him another smile as well as one to Jim before leaving the room.
Bones turned back to the Captain.
"Jim I don't know what you're playing at but if you hurt Eva I swear I'll-"
"I'm doing nothing Bones, I promise." Jim held his hands up in defence.
"Sure didn't look like nothing." Bones muttered under his breath. "Listen you'll be needed on the bridge and you're already giving me a headache."
"Ah you know you'll get to spend all the time you want with me when we have shore leave." Jim patted him on the back as he left.
"Oh joy." Bones said sarcastically.
As he travelled in the lift Jim thought about Spock Prime's words to him almost a year ago now, while Bones stored Eva's blood he had taken while she was unconscious, to study when he had time.
But both men were thinking the same thing.
Who are you Eva Smith?