I know I could lie

But I'm telling the truth

Wherever I go there's a shadow of you.

I know I could try

Looking for something new.

But wherever I go, I'll be looking for you.

Joining Starfleet was not my idea. I didn't join because I loved to travel, even though I did, I joined to get away from him. So he couldn't find me. It'd worked out well for the past two years, I'd been on the USS Enterprise when he'd walked into my old workplace and shot two people. I hadn't told anyone about it. None of my friends on the Enterprise or in Starfleet. No one knew. If no one knew, no one could tie me to that maniac of an ex-husband. I was a Science Officer primarily but I had been shadowing Dr McCoy in the MedBay as well. We'd become close in the four months I'd been shadowing him, having been friends since Jim introduced us on our first day at Star Fleet academy, it was easy to get closer without realising. Soon we had started with silly inside jokes that drove Jim crazy, we got worse around Jim because we knew it annoyed him and that was hilarious to us. "WILL YOU STOP IT!" Jim yelled for the eighth time since we sat down to lunch.

"Alright, it's not funny when you start yelling like that." I remarked, taking a bite of my sandwich.

"You know, I thought it would be a good thing you two getting a little bit closer, but all this flirting is driving me crazy." Jim muttered.

I sucked in a breath then, forgetting about the bite in my mouth. This meant I inhaled bread crumbs and began choking. McCoy slapped my back. "Flirting?" I questioned when I could breathe again.

"Please, you two are so obvious it's painful. You could cut the sexual tension between you two with a knife. Can you sleep together already? I'd like my friends back." He was sulking now.

"Okay, first of all Jim Kirk, we are not flirting. Secondly, there's no sexual tension and Thirdly, just because you have no qualms about being a giant slut doesn't mean I'm going to partake in the practise as well." I scolded him.

"You know, I still don't believe you didn't have children with that ex-husband. You are such a mother when you scold us like that." McCoy remarked.

"Please, this body?" I motioned to myself. "I wouldn't put all that hard work through a child." Jim and McCoy were staring at my body now. Sometimes they forgot I was a woman, it only ever dawned on them whenever I made reference to my body. I snapped my fingers. "Guys, face. Up here."

"Sorry." They both looked away, blushing slightly. I chuckled softly.

"I have to get back to work. I'll see you later Bones." I would be shadowing him again later.

"Uh, yeah." I stood up and left the room, not noticing that Bones kept his eyes on me as I left.

Author Notes: Welcome to my very first Bones fan fiction. Since my Spock one gets lots of criticism, I'm not longer continuing it. It's far too difficult to please the Trekkie fandom, so I do have to remind you that this is fan fiction. Nothing is canon, nothing is serious. If anyone says "Well, such a thing didn't happen." I will kindly remind you that in this, it does not matter at all. I welcome constructive criticism, but nit picking will be completely ignored. Thank you.