Okay this story completely ran away on me. It started out as just a simple Kirk Prime in the nu!universe and just kept going. So, it has everything: a fluffy Kirk Prime/Spock Prime relationship, action/adventure, angst, some minor character death, and male pregnancy in later chapters. Consider yourselves warned.

Also, as everyone can no doubt tell from the summary, Generations, except for the opening sequence, is being completely ignored. All other movies and shows still apply.

Disclaimer: I own no part of this ever expanding franchise.

Everything's Relative

When he had been given orders to seek out new life and new civilizations, a giant pink lightening bolt in space was really not what James Tiberius Kirk had in mind.

"Spock, what the hell is that thing?"

"Unknown, captain. The best I can summarize is it is an energy ribbon in temporal flux that is causing extreme gravimetric distortions; and we are currently trapped by them."

"Wonderful! Any suggestions on getting out of here before it rips the ship in half?"

"Hull integrity at eighty percent and dropping, captain!" Chekov announced.

"An anti-matter discharge directly ahead should disrupt the field long enough for us to escape."

"You heard him! Sulu, fire photon torpedoes point-blank range!"

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As he sat in the cabin resigned to the hell he had been sent to he suddenly felt a change come over…wherever he is that he had never felt before. The cabin shook violently, and he ran to the window to see that the wind was blowing fiercely, and that the leaves on the trees had changed colour at long last. He let out a shout of joy and ran outside, letting the chaos swirl around him. He could feel it, it was breaking apart. He was finally going…

Home?

Jim blinked and looked around, confused, because the last time he checked home did not look like a cargo bay. He pinched himself and knew he was indeed free of that prison because it hurt. One never felt physical pain in that place.

He began rummaging through the bins trying to determine just what was going on. He found several spare uniforms, indicating that he was on a Starfleet ship of some sort, but they were the older style. The solid blue, red, and yellow shirts from his days as a young captain, how could that be?

He found a shirt that fit and, changing into it, he went out to investigate further. Even with the proper uniform on Jim knew immediately that he stuck out like a sore thumb. Nearly every crew-member he passed by was under thirty, why was this ship being run by children? As he continued his explorations though he became aware of another, deeper, problem; it was familiar, too familiar, and he knew before long that it was she. He didn't need to see the registration number or hear her name, he knew, this was the Enterprise. The colours were different and the layout wasn't quite the same, but there was no doubt in his mind that this was her.

He turned a corner and stopped dead in shock at the sight before him, that gave him his last bit of confirmation. It had never been difficult to recognize those pointed ears, even at a distance. Jim let himself smile for the first time in eons and felt compelled to run over and take him into his arms, damn the universe breaking consequences that would no doubt result from such an action. Jim didn't get a chance to act on those impulsive feelings though because a boy stepped out of the turbolift behind Spock and engaged him in conversation. Time travel, he had known that because Spock was so much younger than he had ever been when Jim had known him. Still this was different from anything Jim had ever experienced before. He could exist with a younger version of himself in the same space, and not only that, but at this age Spock was supposed to be under the command of Captain Pike; and he was supposed to be on the Farragut, why was he already a captain? As Jim continued to watch and saw his younger self with the uniform practically hanging off him he suddenly had a strong urge to visit the gym. The two boys walked past him, probably off to play chess, he thought and he looked wistfully at the two. They were not bonded yet, but Jim could see the potential already. He promised himself he would find a way to get back home to his Spock and show him how much he loved him; and had missed him.

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After two days of gathering information any way he could he discovered that he was not in the past, but in a different universe entirely, the computer records showed events he knew had never happened in his timeline. This fact was further confirmed when he looked into those eyes of his younger self, as he made a video announcement, to see that they were bright blue.

He remembered what Scotty said the last time this had happened. The field density between the two universes had been crucial, hours were all that they had then and Jim had been trapped for days. The window had past and he can never go home. Not even if he had a hundred years to do so.

Jim spent the next several hours in the cargo bay, on his make-shift bed, hiding from the world. He was trapped he would never be able to get home. He would never see any of them again. There was nothing for him here. No future, no friends, no family. As he continued sitting there an icy feeling filled him with the thought that there was nothing for him there anymore anyway. How much time had really past while he had been trapped? It was impossible to know. What if they were all long dead?

Eventually the tears dried and that old fire of determination flared up in him again. He clenched his fists and steeled himself. It wasn't all bad he told himself. At least he was around real people again. Instead of being stuck in a place that seemed to be paradise until you knew it wasn't real. Heck he was aboard the Enterprise again, back when she was new, and it wasn't being run by a version of him bent on killing everything he came into contact with. He could fit in. He was going to make this work. He would need to take up that workout routine, he would need to make a new identity somehow, but he was going to live again he promised himself that.

(End Chapter 1)