Chapter Two

Off We Go

We pulled up to the star fleet's on planet base and watched as the first of the shuttles pulled away taking them away from this dry planet. We looked at each other and continued on our way. Ten minutes later we found ourselves pulling up into a car park filled with various different vehicles, we were asked to dismount and hurry to the last shuttle that was scheduled to leave in 10 minutes, we rushed through security which was quick as neither of us had brought any belongings with us apart from what we were wearing, and then led directly to the shuttle, Jim stepped on first and i followed he looked around for a seat and i was glad as he headed towards three vacant seats, he was looking around and not paying attention and walked straight into a low metal bar, i grinned and followed after him as he resumed his walk we both took a seat and strapped ourselves in. "You" i looked to Jim who was staring at someone and looked in the direction he was looking, and saw he was staring at the pretty cadet from last night. I rolled my eyes and said to her, "sorry about my last night, my brother has no sense of personal space" i lent over and offer her my hand and she shook it, staring curiously at me "It's alright, I'm Uhura" "Kirk" i offered she smiled and we both sat back in our seats. We all heard loud voices and turned to the comotion, we watched as a man in his very late twenties maybe early thirties was being led to a seat. "Sir you need to take a seat" said a security officer. "Damn it woman i had a seat in the bathroom with no windows" "Sir take a seat" i could hear that the security officer was begging to lose her patience now. The man finally sat and strapped himself into his seat, Jim lent over a little and said "if it helps i heard these things are pretty safe" "yeah try telling me that when we're all sat hear and the window cracks and we all boil in are seats in 13 seconds" I lent forward and looked at him saying "well isn't someone cheery today, you do realise that star fleet operates in space right?" "yeah, well what am i supposed to do, my wife took half of the planet in the divorce". I sat back in my seat as the shuttle jolted and i felt us begin to move, soon enough we were exiting the shuttle onto the star fleet base, i bumped into someone as we were going out the door. "Oh I'm so-" i stopped mid sentence as i saw who i bumped into. It was one of the men from the previous night "On the other hand maybe not" he glared at me and grabbed my upper arm, the look in his eyes was venomous he looked like he was about to punch me and i was ready to defend my self if necessary when a security officer asked him "what's going on here?" He released my arm from his grip and l looked at my arm a hand mark was already disappearing, i had always been a really quick healer so i wasn't surprised. We both carried on our way and occasionally sent glares at one another. I found my brother looking slightly concerned as he scanned over the crowd with his eyes. I walked up to him and tapped him on the arm, "you alright?" i asked, "yeah where did you get to?" "saw one of the guys from last night, he grabbed my arm, a security guy interviened" i shrugged. "Faith can you stay by me for now please?" i nodded notting the worry in his voice. I kept my promise and stayed by his side as we were led into a big auditorium hall thing. We all took seats and an officer started to explain what was going on. "You are all now about to enter as cadets into star fleet, we expect only the highest manor of behaviour and loyalty from you all. You not only represent yourself you represent us. When we call your name you will come to the front where you will be led to your respective classes, as cadets you are now each others family and we ask you respect one another." He then began to call out names, then what i was dreading happened "James. T. Kirk" He got to his feet and walked away nothing a goodbye and see you later, i nodded and tried to ignore the panic that was rising in my stomach. I may be good in a fight however my social skills left a lot to be desired at times and that often made me nervous because i always felt judged. Soon everyone was gone and i was left sat alone in the huge Auditorium. "Miss Kirk, could you come down here please" i made my way from my seat to stand in front of the group of senior members of star fleet. They looked at me for a moment before the the man who had called me said "I believe you have met Captain Pike, He will show you to where you need to go" I nodded and walked to Captain pike who smiled slightly before walking off, I followed silently behind.

I was led through several different halls and we passed two of the groups of the Cadets, before we arrived in a hall and we stopped he led me into an office and I sat down in the seat in front of the desk and Captain Pike took the seat behind it. "Glad to see you came Kirk" I nodded my head. "As a cadet at Star Fleet you have a choice of what career you wish to train for, i have however been talking to various star fleet members and i think you will be best suited to weapons training, it will mean you will have to be trained in 6 different hand to hand combat types, you will need to be able to master the ability to control star fleet weapons, it will mean that you would most likely end up on the bridge, it will also mean you will often be on away missions off of the ship" i thought for a moment before saying "Ok, i like the sound of that" and for the first time in a long time i genuinely smiled at someone that wasn't my brother. "Ok" Captain Pike stood and said, follow me, i stood and followed him fro the office. We walked down several corridors before stopping outside a classroom door, Captain Pike knocked gently on the door with his knuckles and waited, the door opened and a old man stuck his head out and said "can i help you?" "Yes i am going to need Mr Chekov if you would be so kind" The man nodded and dissapeared and i heard him say something, a moment later the door opened and a boy who must have been a year older than me at most appeared. I didn't really have time to take him in though as soon as he came through the door all his books somehow managed to fall from his bag. Captain Pike shut the door so as not to disturb the class, and the boy knelt and began to pick up his books, crouched down and started to help him i gathered about 5 books before they were all off of the ground i then waited until the had put all the books he had picked up into his shoulder bag before passing him the pile i had retrieved, he took them gently from my hands and said "Thank you." He had a strong accent that i recognised to be Russian. I gave him a small smile before standing to my full height again, Captain Pike and i waited while he closed his bag again and then he stood up. Captain Pike was the first to speak up "Chekov this is Kirk, she is our newest and youngest Cadet ever your not likely to be in the same classes however i would like it if you could show her the ropes and maybe be a friend you get the idea, right I'll be off then" and with that he turned and walk doff in the direction we had previously come from. He turned before he reached the end of the long hall and called "By the way Chekov you have the day off" then he disappeared from sight.

I turned and looked at Chekov and was not surprised to find him doing the same thing, after a moment he held out his hand and with a bright smile on his face he spoke. "Im Chekov, Pavel Chekov" I couldn't help but smile, his smile was contagious, i shook his hand and said "Kirk, Faith Kirk." "Nece to meet you" his accent was very thick but i found it very easy to understand. "I hope you don't mind me asking but are you from Russia?" "Yes, you recognise ze accent? I nodded. "I learnt a little at school" He smiled at me and gestured with his hand for us to begin walking. "Do you vant ze tour" i nodded, and followed about a step behind him as he showed me where everything is. For the next hour he showed me around and by the end i couldn't remember my way at all but i suspected that it would come in time. Eventually we ended up in a cafeteria area, a loud bell rang and Chekov led the way to a table at the back of the cafeteria and sat down and then suddenly people swarmed in like a a swarm of bees and everything got very loud very fast. I must of looked uncomfortable because Chekov lent close to me and asked just loud enough to be heard above the noise "are you alright?" I nodded but i could feel my stomach churning. Someone took the seat next to me and i looked round and saw my brother. "Alright?" he asked, i nodded. "who's your friend?" I sighed slightly and turned to Chekov who was looking at my brother. "Chekov this is my idiot brother James Kirk, Jim this is Chekov" the two shook hands. Jim then spoke to Chekov "you know you want to be carful spending time with my sister she's a bad influence" Chekov grinned at me and i felt my cheeks heat up. I punched Jim in the arm and he winced. Someone took the seat opposite me and i looked over to find the panicking man from earlier. "Faith meet bones, Bones Faith" i smirked at him and he did the same. "How have you put up with him?" i asked the man gesturing to my brother. "Oi" Jim said placing a hand over his heart. "By the way just something to keep in mind" i looked at Chekov and then Bones "if your ever with him he can have these attacks where he with suddenly just start going on and on and on and there has been only one thing to successfully pull him out of that state." "What's that?" bones asked. "A punch to the face" Chekov coughed unsuccessfully to hide his laughter and bones grinned. "your ok Faith" bones spoke whilst trying to keep a smile from his lips. Jim ignored my comment and instead asked "so what are you going to be training as?" "weapons expert, apparently it'll suit me, u?" "well you'll be seeing me in the captains chair one day" "fine so long as I'm not under your command I'm happy" he glared at me before a rather playfully evil expression crossed his face. "Hey Chekov, did you know this girl used to cry when ever i left her alone for more than ten minutes up till the age of nine?" I felt my face turn red and my face heat up. Chekov smiled but didn't laugh for which i was grateful, i glared at my brother before standing up and leaving the cafeteria hitting his head hard as i went past.I heard my brother call after me but i ignored him.I walked outside into the fresh air and sat down on some steps in front of a set of double doors. I sat down and put my head in my hands, i took a few deep breaths i heard someone sit down beside me and i thought it was my brother. "Go away, James i don't wanna hear it right now ok" "Ze doctor vouldn't let him follow you but i thought you might like de company" I looked up at him and smiled slightly "Thanks" "any time" " you want to talk about it?" I didn't answer. Chekov suddenly stood up and walked in front of me and offered me his hand "come on, there is some zing i will show you" i took his hand and he dragged me up and started running i kept up easily behind him desire his fast sped. he led us through the grounds and then out of some gates we ran through a garden like area and then down a gravel pathway and then we came out of the edge of a cliff like area but there was a small area to sit on. I looked out and all i could see was the sea, Chekov gently released my hand as i stared out at the sight before me and walked towards the edge of the cliff, i could hear waves crashing and looked down and saw the waves hitting the jagged rocks hundreds of meters bellow me. "It's beautiful" i said turning to look at Chekov who grinned, he came and stood by my side. "I come out her a lot" he stated, i couldn't help but love his accent there was something almost melody like about it. I looked at him and watched as the sea breeze pushed his curls away from his face. He closed his eyes and smelt the air, i could smell the salt of the sea in the air and i breathed in more deeply. More and more of my hair was falling out of its braid so i released my hair from the plait and let it blow freely in the wind. Chekov opened his eyes and looked at me and i looked away quickly but i felt hie eyes on me for a moment before he said "You like?" "i love it" i turned and looked at him again and i felt a smile cover my face despite my long red hair blowing in my face. We ended up staying there for a few hours before returning to the academy. Chekov showed me to my dorm room, it turned out like him i had a room to myself due to my age, it also meant that although at opposite ends we were in the same hall. Which for some reason i found very comforting, we said our goodbyes at my door. "It was nice to meet you " i said rather awkwardly. He nodded and then said "yes, i will see you tomorrow if you like that? show you to class" i nodded gratefully. "If you can put up with me" he chuckled "i am sure i can manage that, see you tomorrow" "yeah"he turned and headed to his room i called after him. "Hey Chekov, thanks for you know today" "Pavel you call me if you like, and you are velcome" i smiled and watched him turn and leave for his room. I shut the door and then turned and looked around my new home for the next two to three years.