Hey-O! Welcome everyone to Book Two!
AN: Jonny2b here again. It's been a delight to co-write with Villains' Bad Girl again. We hope you enjoy this next fun filled story. Points to the screen WARP 6 ENGAGE!
The mess hall had people scattered as they sat down, eating lunch. T'Lora picked up a tray of food and a cup of coffee, turning to find a place to sit. She smiled when she saw Spock sitting alone at a table.
"Is this seat taken?" she asked walking over to him. "I mean, may I join you?"
"I see no harm in it", Spock answered as he raised an eyebrow.
T'Lora nodded and sat across from him. Things had changed so much in the past six months since she had joined the Enterprise. The crew had for the most part accepted T'Lora, especially McCoy. Once he saw she was practically Spock's opposite, he warmed up to her. Kirk still tried charming her, but T'Lora's Vulcan heritage made her immune to his advances. Scotty was almost a genius when it came to engineering. He always impressed her with his knowledge of equations and whatever inventions he had come up with on their missions.
Spock was the only person she hadn't had the chance to get to know. He was always either preoccupied in the bridge or in his quarters.
"So, Mr. Spock", T'Lora said. "Tell me a little bit about yourself."
"Myself?" Spock asked.
"Yes", she nodded. "I find it unfair that you and I are still strangers. I want to be friends."
"I suppose I see the logic in that", he nodded. "Very well. What is it you would like to know about me?"
"Well…tell me about your childhood. What's your family like, for starters?"
Spock looked at her and sighed. He hated talking about his past, even if it was just thinking about it. Where was the logic in dwelling in the past?
"I grew up on Vulcan. Not a particularly happy childhood, being discriminated against by the other Vulcan children", Spock explained.
"Because you're half human?" T'Lora asked.
Spock nodded. The children thought it was illogical and laughable that Spock was only a half Vulcan. In that planet's society, you had to be a full-blooded Vulcan or you were cast aside as a mistake, an unwanted member of society. T'Lora knew his pain all too well.
"My father is Sarek, the ambassador of Vulcan", Spock continued. "I am not particularly close to my father."
"Is there a reason?" T'Lora asked understanding his relationship with his father all too well.
"My father is opposed to my position in the Starfleet. You see, I am the first Vulcan to be a part of the Starfleet and my father thought it was illogical for me to do that. He wanted me to join the Vulcan Space Academy. My mother, on the other hand supported me. Amanda, a human."
"Your parents sound almost similar to mine", she said. "My mother was T'Pira, a trader from Vulcan. She met my father, Isaac on Earth, during one of her trips. The two of them fell in love and before long, I was born. Mother was forbidden by her family to keep me seeing as how she was unmarried and I was a half Vulcan. She had no choice but to hand me over to my father who raised me alone. Mother was forbidden to see my father again. I never had a chance to meet her."
Spock looked at her, feeling a strong emotion he never thought he would feel. Sympathy.
"The children on Earth would laugh at me, pulling my ears, calling me a monster, a half-blood who didn't belong", T'Lora said. "That's why I joined the Starfleet. To prove that I did belong. Just because I'm a half Vulcan, doesn't mean I am no less of a working human."
Spock nodded slowly seeing the logic in her decision. The doors opened as Kirk came inside for lunch. He looked at the two half Vulcans noticing something was happening between them.
"What did I miss?" he asked.