Hope it's been good so far, promise now is when it will get more Star Treky and make more sense and yay other members of the crew. Oh and comminess is really Commies, you know communists.

Jim went back home in shock. Every thought he had was about the photo and the people in it. They all seemed so happy, except for the pointy eared one who just looked indifferent. Yet everything about the photo seemed so natural. Getting back into his apartment he studied the photo and everyone in it. All all seemed familiar, like he knew them somehow.

He made sure to memorize each face, to try and remember when the hell the picture was taken and more importantly with whom. As he looked at one of the faces, a slightly grumpy looking man standing to Jim's left, he began to remember. "Bones?"

Nodding Jim went to his phone and called a man he had not seen in years. "Hey, McCoy. It's James T. Kirk."

"Yes it has been a long time since the academy."

"No, No, I'm good yourself?"

"Yeah, well that happens, actually I was calling because...do you live in San Fran?"

"You do? Good! Do you want to meet up?"

"Yeah, my address is 1966 East Gene street. Yeah just have the landlady send you up."

"See you then."

Kirk hung up feeling weird. Talking to his old college buddy went smooth. Nothing felt off about it as though they stayed friends and in touch even after college. Kirk couldn't explain it, but it felt as though they were still friends who saw each other every day.

About an hour later Bones showed up, "dammit Jim you live in the middle of nowhere!" was the first thing he said when Jim answered the door. Kirk laughed but wasn't sure why. "It's been years Jim, how have you been?"

"Good and yourself? You were at school to be a...doctor right?"

Bones took a drink of the beer Kirk gave him, "yeah. Now look at me, I'm a doctor sure, but I work a small clinic in town. The place is crummy Jim, I mean we have nothing. The place is barely making rent and conditions are poor. Back in college I'd never I would work in a place like that Jim. I always dreamed of being an important man, a chief medical man." Bones drank more of his beer. "What about you are you a...what did you want to be an astronaut?"

Kirk laughed, "a pilot. I went to college to be a pilot, didn't work out. I'm a gym teacher now. Not ideal, but I'm happy."

"You don't seem too happy to me."

"Yeah, well even as a kid I dreamed of being a pilot Bones. I dreamed of flying, being a captain of a plane and with my co-captain and crew we would travel. We would go anywhere and see it all."

"So, why aren't you doing that now?" Bones asked.

"Because they were just dreams."

The two sat in a knowing silence. "Okay Jim, you call me to make small talk so what on your mind?" Kirk handed him the photo. "What's this?"

"Do you recognize anyone in the picture, or where we are?"

Bones rubbed his head, "no one besides you. And for where we are, it kinda looks like the Australian outback. What is this Jim? I don't remember taking this picture." Kirk cursed under his breath. He took the photo back from his old friend and shook his head. The damn photo was creating even more questions that McCoy was suppose to answer. "Jim are you alright? Don't tell me you're going made man. Everyone seems to be after that communist treat."

"What?"

"All of America has lost their damn minds. Media says we found a bomb from the soviets that can blow up New New York the size of my arm and the media says it's a treat. Says we can study it and copy it better. The fools, if you ask me someone at the news station misspelled threat. The whole county is panicked, damn is second Cold War."

Kirk shook his head, "no Bones, this isn't about the commies. I found this picture and I can't get it out of my mind. I don't remember taking the picture or where I am in it, or who I'm with and it's driving me insane Bones. I feel like...I know I have to find out. I know it's my job to find out who these people are. I can't explain it Bones, I can't, but I need to find these people. It's important and I need to know why. I need to remember."

"Remember what Jim?"

Kirk sighed, "I don't know, but whatever I seem to have forgotten, it involves this picture."

"Then I'll help you."

"What?"

Bones finished his beer, "you said you're going to find the others in the photo, I'll help you out. Hell, I'm in the picture too Jim. Whatever is going on here, I want to know too."

"Thanks Bones."

Bones gave him a smile. "We should start with that guy," Bones pointed to a young man hunched over near the center of the photo. He was Asian with dark hair and a yellow shirt on. "I think I might know where to find him."

Wow, that was a lot of dialogue sorry. Anyways, R and R. Hope everyone is enoying it and what not.