"Aaaaand, I'm done!" Madeline Jones exclaimed as she finally got the last boxes in her new dorm. She looked around and smiled. She had spent all afternoon moving the belongings she was given by Starfleet up to the room. It was pretty nice for a dorm; good size, nice view of the water and was close to her classes. The only downfall was that she had to assemble her desk and it seemed to be in a hundred pieces. But they gave her some basic things for the room, which was nice, unfortunately it gave her more boxes than she wanted. As she stacked the boxes into a neat corner, she decided to go explore the campus and grabbed her rain jacket. She checked her reflection in the mirror to make sure she didn't look like a nightmare. The girl staring back just blinked her large green eyes.

After a quick brushing of her dark brown hair, Madeline was locking her front door when she heard yelling and thumps from the room next to hers. She tried to listen, but all she could decipher was a, 'Dammit Jim!' and whining. Madeline just stared and moved on.

I knew the dorms would be a bad idea. She sighed. At 25 years old, Madeline had been looking for a fresh start to escape her past and was recruited while she had been going through Washington State. She left the next day and since it was late notice, she was stuck in the dorms. Luckily, she had no roommates but the room next to hers seemed loud enough. It seemed she had been so late they stuck her in a co-ed dorm hall without any thought. It's just 3 years. Then I'll be on a Starship as the Intelligence Officer.

Madeline smiled at that. I can't wait. This future actually seems good.

She focused on her surroundings and realized that she was by the Golden Gate Bridge now and decided to sit by the water. She had gotten to San Francisco yesterday but she hadn't got to see the water because she had to go through registration and the seemingly endless amounts of testing. Now she could finally relax before her classes started next week. She sighed contently and enjoyed the cool air. Just as she thought she might have heard thunder, the communicator beeping interrupted her thoughts.

"Cadet Jones here." She stated.

"Cadet this is Doctor Puri. I'd like to go over your medical examinations if you have a moment. Just protocol." A male voice said.

"Yes, I'll be right over; I'm close to the medical building anyway."

"Sounds good, cadet. Puri out."

After clipping the communicator back to her belt, she made her way to the medical building.

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"Miss Jones if you'll please take a seat, we can begin." Dr. Puri said as she entered his office after taking yet another series of tests. He had a PADD sitting on his desk that he was scrolling through and making notes on. "Now, your physical condition is in top shape. Nothing to be worried about, you're very healthy, keep up the good work."

"Thank you doctor." Madeline mumbled.

"Now I was going through your medical records and couldn't help but to notice your history. Seeing as you have passed your psychological exams, I see you've recovered quite well. Still there are some matters that Starfleet would like to take care of. We encourage you to see a therapist here to simply help counsel you through what you may see out in space. You of all people know that not everything can be pleasant and some colonies that Starships visit will be in the same place of destruction due to the different situations. There's a note from a previous doctor of yours stating that you've been triggered before and we want to prevent any more psychological damage due to another one. Meeting the psychologist would only be once a week unless you wanted more, and we already have one for you. Her name is Doctor Elizabeth Dehner, she's quite nice. Just call the number and set up an appointment." He handed Madeline a card. "Any questions?"

"You're forcing me to see a counselor?" Madeline asked. "I've already seen multiple!"

"I know, you've done all that, I'm sorry that you need to go through it again but this will be different. Dr. Dehner will be trying to psychologically prepare you for anything that may pop up in space. Who knows what's out there? It will help, trust me."

"Fine." Madeline sighed. "Is that all?"

"Yes. Just keep your fitness the same and the academy should be no trouble for you at all. I hear you're quite smart, so it should be easy for you to be near the top of your classes. I look forward to our next meeting!" Dr. Puri smiled as the rose to salute.

"As to you, sir."

"Dismissed."

When the door to his office closed, Madeline sighed again and glared at the card in her hand. "You need to go see Dr. Dehner. She's quite nice! I look forward to our next meeting!" Madeline mumbled in a mocking tone irritably. As she approached the exit to the building she saw it was pouring and it had indeed been thunder she had heard earlier and pulled the hood to her rain coat up and proceeded out.

Crossing the campus, she smirked at some of the female cadets shrieking about getting wet. Suddenly a gust of wind knocked her hood off, and she was soaked quickly.

"Oh come on!" She whined at the sky. Suddenly she heard laughing and she whipped around. She found the source of laughter in the shape of an equally soaked man with blonde hair and electric blue eyes. He looks so familiar. And his eyes! They look just like—

"Sorry! It was just a great source of irony! I mean, come on, it's funny!" The man chuckled. "I promise I'm not a jerk, I just can't help but laugh. If it helps, I fell earlier?" The man turned and showed that his backside was covered it mud. Madeline laughed as the stranger turned back around and gave a lopsided grin.

"Maybe you shouldn't be so clumsy." Madeline teased.

"Hey now! You're not allowed to pick on strangers!" He acted like he was hurt. "My name is Jim Kirk, by the way."

"Oh is it? Madeline Jones." She smiled then laughed remembering someone else named Jim being yelled at in the room next to hers.

"Well look at that, we're not strangers anymore! But I do have to bring the food back to my roommate. He's from the south and 'it's too cold, dammit'. He'll have fun come winter." Jim laughed.

"I don't have a roommate, but I do have a room to organize, so I'll see you around Jim." They smiled and turned to walk away only to find them walking in the same direction.

"Well, that's funny." Jim laughed.

"It seems everything about us is funny." Madeline chuckled.

"Well you'd know what'd be funnier? If you lived in Monroe Hall."

Madeline stopped walking and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I do. I live in 406."

Jim stopped too and his smile turned wicked. 407, baby. We're dorm neighbors!"

Madeline made an undignified face, "It was you!"

"Huh?"

"When I was leaving my dorm, I heard someone yelling 'dammit Jim' and someone else was whining! That was you and your roommate?" She exclaimed as they started walking again.

"Yeah, that was Bones. He was grumpy and I had been trying to be the nice roommate and make dinner, but I burnt it. He wasn't happy and tried to hypo me."

"Why does he have hyposprays?" Madeline wheezed out after laughing.

"He's a doctor. Supposedly he's a brilliant surgeon. He's really cool once you get past the gruffness."

"He seems….interesting." She tried, imagining some big scary man.

"He's nice, I promise. I doubt he'll try to hypo you." Jim laughed then paused, "Why don't you join us for dinner? Unless you have other plans but it'll be fun! I didn't know what Bones would want so I just ordered a lot of food. We could all be friends and do friend things!"

"Sure, and 'friend things?'" Madeline raised her eyebrow.

"You and Bones are going to get along great from what I can tell." Jim cackled as they entered the dormitory housing.

"What do you mean by that?"

"He does that eyebrow thing too."

"Oh. Hey, is it ok if I take a shower really quick before I go over? I don't want to get sick from all the rain." Madeline asked.

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Getting sick sucks, I'll just get things set up before you come over!"

"That sounds good," She said then paused, "you guys aren't killers are you?" Her eyes narrowed.

"You caught us! Darn it!" Jim snapped his fingers, "No of course not. And we won't rape you or anything either."

Madeline made a choked noise and laughed uncomfortably. "No, of course not.."

Jim gave her a questioning look as the reached their dorms.

"So see you in a bit?" Madeline asked, the weird moment gone.

"Yeah, I'll let Bones know that you'll be over!" Jim said, "See you."

End Chapter One.

Author's note: ok so what do you guys think happened in her past? And why do you think she finds Jim looking so familiar!

And next chapter will be in Bones' perspective! So be prepared for loveable grumpy doctor-ness! :D

please review and let me know how I did! I'll love you forever!