Hey hey people! Well I've talked to Zeynel and I've decided that this fic is not going to be just about Marla and Khan because, you know, Marla. It's got Kirk in it too!

Also, yes, the storyline doesn't expressly follow the storylines for the movies, but hey! That's fanfiction plus I thought it'd work better.

Kirk POV

John Harrison. He searched through the records; there was practically nothing on him before a couple of months ago. There was the standard birth place, height, age, weight, but nothing about how John had managed to become a high ranking member in Star Fleet. Jim sighed and put the records back. Admiral Pike was never short with Jim, ever. But when Jim had walked into his office earlier with the strange man standing, not sitting in front of Pike's desk… it was odd. Pike looked nervous, like the man had been threatening him perhaps?

Jim turned around and walked out of the records hall. John Harrison, Pike had introduced them, John was British, obviously, the badges on his shirt and shoulders were neat and polished to perfection. His eyes seemed cold, almost calculating but he seemed wise as well. When they shook hands Jim noticed that John gripped his hand not simply holding it like it was a dead weight like most people did. John was a secure person, confident in himself. He articulated his words perfectly not just because of his accent but his overall personality from what Jim had seen.

But that was it. Jim had never heard of John or seen him before Pike's office. They had been introduced and Pike had shooed Jim out of his office, telling him to come back in a few hours. Something was niggling Jim that something bad was going to happen.

Jim came back to his dorm, Bones sitting at one of the desks, his head down, reading.

"Hey Bones," Jim said, Bones looked at him, raising an eyebrow as if to say "I'm busy". "Do you know any of the British star fleet? Any transfers going on?"

"No." Bones said, looking bored. "Why? Don't tell me there's some star fleet officer from England has taken your fancy."

"No, no, not at all."

"Don't lie to me Jim."

Jim crossed the room, dropping onto his bed, "No Bones. There isn't. I promise you."

The Kobayashi Maru. The unbeatable test that no one had ever won. People usually only took it once and that was bad enough. Jim had taken it twice already, soon to be three times. The first time that Jim had taken it he believed that it was just his own incompetence and nerves, but now he was sure that it was the test itself, every cadet said the same thing, there was no way of winning against the Klingon war birds. Jim needed a plan, he was determined to win this, he had to. Just to prove the Star Fleet wrong, that sometimes you needed to take rules and regulations and stick them where the sun doesn't shine, because you can be sure as hell that the Klingons don't obey rules. The Klingons have one motivation: honour. And leaving a fellow ship to certain death would mean less honour, cowardice even, than rescuing the ship and the crew and potentially endangering yourself.

He just needed a plan, something to change the programme. But he didn't know, most of the people who worked with the computers were men and the computers were practically unhackable. Jim sat there, his head down on his desk in the library. He sighed loudly, sat back up and rubbed his eyes. Jim closed one of the telescreens he was using, "hints and tips for the Kobayashi Maru" his ass. The strategies they talked about was absolutely shit, none of them worked. There was no information on Klingon warbirds, how to get the Kobayashi without completely destroying your ship, no protocol, nothing.

"James Kirk?" A voice said. Jim jumped and turned around. It was John Harrison standing there in his formal Star Fleet uniform, his hands behind his back.

"Keeping up apperances?" Jim said, looking the other man up and down.

"I am…asked to join Admiral Marcus in a meeting." John replied.

Jim raised an eyebrow. "May I ask what you are doing here?"

"I have heard you are attempting the Kobayashi Maru again."

"You heard right."

"This will be the third time you've attempted the test." Jim glared at him. "I admire your determinism." John continued.

"I don't believe in no win scenarios."

"Admirable but not completely true. However like I said before I admire your integrity. Here." John passed him a PADD. "It's a cheat patch," he whispered, "go to the computer lab, there's an Orion girl who has been eyeing you for several days now." John said quickly, Jim half turned around to look at the computer labs behind him, there was an Orion in there lazily typing something up on her computer. "Don't look at her!" John hissed; Jim turned his attention back to him. "Go in to the lab, talk to her, gain her trust. Link this to the computer and send her an email with this code embedded into it. She's been working on the Kobayashi Maru simulation. Send it to her and the code will be in her computer allowing you access to the programme to change it."

Jim looked up at him, confused. "Wait, why would you help me?"

"Because I like your determination."

"What should I send the Orion-"

"Gaila." John interrupted. "Her name is Gaila. She's known around the computer lab for bringing men back to her room, I doubt it would be hard for you to gain access to her…computer."

"Oh."

John still had the PADD in his hands. Jim reached out tentatively but drew his hand back. "Why should I trust you? Is this a test?"

John shook his head. "Consider it a favour."

"A favour would imply that I would be in your debt."

"Well, perhaps." John smiled wickedly.

Jim scoffed, "So you do want a favour from me? What do you want?"

"Nothing. Yet. However I would one day like a favour from you." He dropped the PADD onto Jim's desk. "So do keep that in mind." He walked away, leaving Jim standing there.

John was there at Jim's hearing. Why was he? Sure he was far up in Star Fleet, but only the admirals needed to be there. Jim hadn't seen Harrison since that day in Pike's office but sure enough he was there, Admiral Marcus kept looking at him from the corner of his eye. Why was Marcus keeping an eye on Harrison? But Jim couldn't concentrate on that, they were discussing his future at Star Fleet. He was being grilled by some Vulcan with the nerve to bring his father into this.

Jim turned his head towards the commander, "I don't believe in no win scenarios." He said blatantly, he could see just the smallest hint of a smile from Harrison.

The hearing carried on like that, the admirals bickering between themselves and Jim trying to maintain his composure. He was panicking under the surface, had Harrison known that doing this would get him caught? John must have known. Jim glanced over at John; John stared at him, his face giving away nothing. Maybe it was a test. Oh shit. Jim had taken a cheat patch from a high ranking member of star fleet because they thought that he was a cocky bastard and he was going to be kicked out and shit.

One of the doors opened, a man came through walking up to Admiral Barnett and handed him a PADD. Barnett stared at it for a few seconds before handing it back to the man and standing up. "There is a distress call from Vulcan," He addressed them, "All cadets report to hanger one immediately." He exited through one of the doors behind the Admirals podium, the other admirals following suit.

Jim turned around, most of the cadets had already left, Bones was making his way down to where Jim was standing and a blonde girl had ran after Admiral Marcus, whatever that was for. Jim turned around, glaring hard at Harrison who was talking to one of the other cadets. She left quickly, glancing over her shoulder at him before following the other cadets. Jim stormed up to Harrison.

"Did you know that I would get caught?" He asked him angrily.

"I assumed you would but that is the price you have to pay if you want to win an unbeatable test."

"Why did you give it to me in the first place if you knew I'd get in trouble?"

John blinked his face completely blank. "Star Fleet needs to recognize that they are not as invincible as they would like to believe they are. Some things are unbeatable however they need to recognize that not everything can be protocolled and packaged away neatly. There are some things in the universe that are reckless, an indestructible force that can and will take power when leaders are weak. I did what I did because it is necessary." John said, turning away and leaving Jim and Bones standing together in the room.

"Well, he's an asshole." Bones said.

"I know."

It came as a surprise for Jim when little over a year later from the Enterprise's maiden voyage that John Harrison was linked to an explosion in London. Several people had been killed but at the most he had blown up a library. Something didn't sit right with Jim. Why of all places that you could chose as a terrorist site would you pick a library. Jim messed about with his PADD. Zooming in on the CCTV image of John Harrison leaving the bomb site, carrying something with him, Jim turned the angle of the image, looking at what Harrison had bundled into a car.

Without warning, Harrison had opened fire on some of the most important Star Fleet members, killing several, including Pike. Jim had managed to destroy Harrison's ship, but he had gotten away before Jim could get to him. Harrison smiled at Jim slightly; it irked Jim not to be able to make Harrison pay for his actions against Star Fleet. Only after Harrison had gone did Jim find out that Pike was dying. Harrison would get a favour from his alright, he would kill him, make him feel the pain that he had felt when Pike had died in his arms. Jim's ship had been taken from him; the only person remotely like a father to him was gone too. Everything was being taken from him. He would find Harrison and bring him back to Star Fleet but not before causing him extreme pain, this would be his favour to Harrison.

Harrison beamed down onto the planet Kronos, a harsh part of the planet where there weren't any Klingons to bother him. Not that he would be there long; he knew that Kirk would come after him. Jim was playing right into Admiral Marcus' trap. He would be stranded on the edge of Klingon space, his warp drive would be shot, the torpedoes with his family in them. He could get his family to safety, beam aboard Marcus' ship and take it over, then beam his family aboard. All he wanted was for his family to be safe and Marcus' was using his family against him. The man had to die. He was no better a man than his 20th century counterparts. And they said that the human race had evolved since then.

I said I was going to write Marla getting assigned to the enterprise but I'm lazy and decided that that would be explored in the next chapter instead. So yep, she'll be part of the crew that examines khan and then she'll be all infatuated with him and Krik will also be infatuated but at first he thinks its anger but then it turns into lust!

I hope you guys like this chapter, I liked writing it better than the first one! Also please review!