Disclaimer: I sadly do not own Star Trek or ANY part of the Star Trek universe. Trust me if I did I would have Chris Pine and Karl Urban in my basement... None of the characters are mine except for the ones that you do not recognize mainly the friends and family(excluding already established ST characters) of my OC Arwin "Winnie" Pike!
A/N: This is my very first story on here and yes it does start off a bit slow, but I promise that it will pick up in pace as the story progresses! This is a Kirk/OC story that I do intend to finish in under a year-year and a half depending on how busy I am with school and everything! I will try to update every day if I can, it really just depeneds on the reviews it gets. So here it is Chapter 1 of The Lucky Ones! Hope you enjoy! Review, follow, and favorite for faster updates!
Much Love,
Anna
"I can't believe that you managed to be stationed on the Enterprise, Winnie!" My best friend Allyson Abbot whisper yelled in my right ear as we made our way to the loading dock to begin our lives as Starfleet officers.
"I mean, I understand that your Gramps is Admiral Pike and all, but damn! How the hell did you get onto the fucking USS Enterprise?!" She exclaimed once more, adding a bit more of a dramatic flare to her performance than usual. Allyson is a very dramatic person.
"Ally Gramps had nothing to do with me getting on the Enterprise. He actually told me he begged Admiral Barnett to NOT put me onboard. I do have a brain you know," I said tapping my skull. "Maybe that is why they want me on board." I said in a 'duh' tone.
"Conceded much Win?" She said rolling her sky blue eyes. I was smart, there was no denying that. I graduated from Berkley at 16 with a Masters in Astrophysics. It only took me 3 years to complete that course. After I left Berkley I headed straight to Starfleet Academy, despite my parent's disapproval. My Grandpa, Admiral Christopher Pike wasn't to happy about that either. He had never wanted any of his family to go into Starfleet it was "Too damn dangerous" He had always said. So when I joined the Academy at 16 nobody in my family was very pleased. That was 2 years ago and since then I have survived an attack on the planet by Romulans, become one of the youngest cadets to ever graduate the academy, and I was stationed on the flagship for the fleet. So yeah, I feel that I have the right to be conceded.
"Just a bit Ally. I can't believe we aren't going to be together." I said hugging her once we arrived at the shuttle loading dock. Ally was 4 years older than me, but she and I had been best friends since our first day at the Academy. I was going to be lost without her. She was an Engineer and was being stationed on the USS Drake, but they needed a good engineer and she was the best in the business besided Montgomery Scott.
"I know Winnie Pooh... I'm gonna miss you so much! Promise me that you will comm me every night." She said wrapping me in a huge hug, holding onto me like it was the last time that she would ever see me. I hugged back with equal force. You never know what could happen in space, so I honestly didn't know if I WOULD ever see her again.
By the time we pulled away from each other there were tears in our eyes and almost everyone had taken their seats aboard their designated shuttles. We said our final goodbyes and went our seperate ways to our shuttles.
Once I found my shuttle I noticed a man in a wheel-chair sitting at the entrance to the door. I sighed internally. My Gramps. Admiral Christopher Pike. He didn't want me on the Flagship of the fleet and I knew that he would do anything to keep me off of it, I knew he would. He didn't want me to join Starfleet in the beginning, so after the whole Nero incident he definitely didn't want me anywhere near space. Too bad Starfleet operates in space.
"Hey Gramps! How are you? Lovely weather we are having isn't it? How have you been? You look a lot.." My rambling was soon cut off by my Grandpa calling my name.
"Arwin, stop." He said in his high authority voice. "I didn't come here to tell you not to go on board the Enterprise." Wow shocker there.
"Well why are you here?" I retorted in a confused voice.
"Can't I visit with my favorite granddaughter before she is whisked away into space?" He said grinning, I knew that look... I gave that look to people... Multiple times a day.. and it wasn't when I was being truthful.
"Come on Gramps why are you really here?" I said grinning right back before noticeing that the one of the Lieutenant's standing behind my Gramps was looking a little impatient. I realized how long we had been standing here taking when I looked around and saw that all of the other shuttles where gone.
"Uhhh Gramps, we may need to pick up the pace if I am going to have a good word in with Captain Kirk. I don't want him thinking that I constantly hold everything up."
"That is what I was wanting to talk to you about. Captain Kirk." He said in his serious voice once more.
"What about him?"
"Just be careful around him Arwin. I just don't want to see you become one of his play things. Don't get me wrong, I love the kid, but I love you more." He said touching my arm. Before my Gramps was put in the wheel chair he stood a good 2 inches over my 5'10 inch frame; but now he barely reached my waist. I bent down to look him in the eyes.
"Don't worry Gramps, You don't have anything to worry about. I won't pay him the slightest bit of extra attention, I promise." I said smiling and giving him a bone crushing hug, my second one that day.
"Bye Gramps I love you so much." I said squeezing him.
He squeezed back a bit harder and replied with " I know little Pooh Bear, I love you too. Stay safe up there and always have your phaser set to stun." He said grinning.
I turned on my heel and entered the shuttle. I took my seat by a pretty raven haired girl with kind brown eyes much like my own and a book in her hands.
"Hi, I'm Arwin Pike, but most of my friends just call me Winnie." I said smiling and extending my hand. She just looked at it. That was when I noticed her ears. Vulcan, should have known.
"Oh sorry, I didn't know that you were a Vulcan. You don't have to shake my hand, I know that you guys don't really like contact." I rambled on.
"That is perfectly alright Lt. Pike. My name is Thalia, it is very nice to make your aquaintance." She replied before turning back to her book. This was going to be a long ride.
Once we arrived aboard the Enterprise they called us out bt name and told us where we would be stationed on board. Sick Bay, Lower Decks, Gardens, etc etc. I had heard almost 20 names called going to different stations. Then it was finally my turn.
"Pike, Arwin. Bridge." The officer said.
A few people gasped and a few scoffed. I knew that everyone thought that I got everything that I got at the Academy because of my Gramps, so I didn't really care what they thought about me being stationed on the bridge. I found it quite ammusing really.
"Alright kids, go find your guides and go to your stations. Welcome to the Enterprise." The Lt. said.
I looked around for a while trying to locate anyone from the bridge, of course I wouldn't be able to tell who was from the bridge if I wanted to anyway. When I was almost ready to give up I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around to see a beautiful dark skinned woman in a red uniform and a high ponytail standing behind me.
"Hello Lt. Pike, my name is Lt. Uhura, but you can call me Nyota if you would like. You have no idea how great it will be to have another woman on the bridge." Nyota said laughing a bit.
"Nice to meet you Nyota, please call me Arwin or Winnie, whichever you prefer." I said as politely as I could.
Nyota and I talked the entire way to the bridge. She was a very interesting and funny person to be around. Right before we got to the Bridge she turned to me and said,
"Beware of Captain Kirk, he will most definitely hit on you, but just ignore him. You seem like you have your head screwed on pretty straight so you should be just fine!"
Not 2 seconds later we where in the bridge. It was so incedible. Gramps had not done it justice when he told me about it. I noticed officers with various colored uniforms on, so I looked down at my blue science uniform and looked back up to see if anyone else wore the same color. I looked over towards the captains chair and I saw a tall Vulcan man walking over towards Nyota and I. He had on a blue shirt. Score!
"Hello Lt. Uhura. You must be Lt. Arwin Pike. Welcome aboard the USS Enterprise. I am Commander Spock." He said as formal as I was expecting.
"Hello Commander Spock, it is an honor to meet you. My Gramps has told me so much about you." I said smiling.
"And what has he said about me sweetheart?" I heard a voice behind me say. I turned around and came face to face with none other than the Captain himself.
"Darling is your phaser set to the same setting as you, because we may need to be careful around a phaser set to stunning."
Yeah I was in trouble.