A/N: Hello again! New chapter of WIWYA. Not all updates are going to come as quickly, however with a three day weekend from school I got quite a bit of writing done on this story. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this new chapter.
When the seven finished materializing on the Enterprise, they were met by a shocked ensign at the transporter controls, and a silent medical team with a gurney. After a few seconds when no one had moved, McCoy growled.
"Stop acting like a bunch of first year Cadets and move your asses. Somebody get Kirk from Mister Scott." At McCoy's snappy orders, the medical team jumped into action. They all knew better than to comment on the voice crack, and quickly followed his orders.
Two nurses gently took Spock and Chekov from Uhura while M'Benga gently helped Scotty get Kirk on the gurney. Nurse Chapel took McCoy from Sulu and started helping him get off the transporter pad.
"Do I want to know what happened Doctor?" Chapel asked this as she helped her superior officer limp towards Medbay. He looked over his shoulder where Scotty, Uhura, and Sulu, as well as the two nurses carrying Spock and Chekov were following them, the gurney with Kirk having gone ahead.
"Ask Mister Scott. He's the one who knows technically what happened. All I know is that the machine went off and we woke up like this. And everyone else doesn't remember a thing." McCoy couldn't see it, but he was sure Chapel had rolled her eyes at this.
"It's not my fault the bloody thing decided to explode, and we had no clue what it was going to do." Scotty immediately started to defend himself, although no one was really paying much attention to him.
"So what did you do to your foot? And what happened to Kirk? I didn't think it was possible for someone to get that badly hurt on an away mission." McCoy scoffed at the last part.
"You haven't been here long Christine. Honestly getting de-aged isn't that bad compared to some of the shit we've been through. I sprained my ankle trying to impress a girl at my school." McCoy glared over his shoulder when Scotty snickered at his story.
"Better question is did you manage to impress her?" Uhura asked this amusement clearly in her eyes.
"Unfortunately, yes. It was probably one of the worst decisions in my life. Most days I wish I'd never met her, and then I remember why I'm okay with it. And honestly if I could choose to change things, I wouldn't."
"What makes it worth it? Sounds like you ended up hating that girl."
"Joanna, she's my daughter. I don't get to see her a lot because of work and her mother really hates my guts, and I feel bad about that."
Everyone stayed quiet as they slowly made their way to the medbay. Once there McCoy directed the other de-aged crew members to the bio-beds so Nurse Chapel could start scanning them, while McCoy limped over to the bio-bed where Kirk had been laid.
"Doctor, you don't have to do anything. You need to get off your ankle." M'Benga said this as he tried to stop McCoy from getting any closer.
"I will look after my patient."McCoy fixed one of his famous looks of disapproval on M'Benga. Normally even the mention of said look would be enough to make anyone other than Spock flinch, however the effect was greatly diminished by the doctor's now youthful face.
"I'm not sure if you're fit for duty sir." Everyone else in the medbay stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to the confrontation that was going on.
Normally the idea of getting into an argument with Doctor McCoy would be the last thing on anyone's mind. Now however when M'Benga could look down on McCoy he seemed to think it was a good idea.
"M'Benga, I am perfectly aware of own limitations, especially now. I also have a duty to this ship and her captain, who in case you haven't noticed, is currently lying on that bio-bed in critical condition. He needs the best to help him, and that is me. Do not make me order you out of medbay."
"Yes sir." M'Benga said this as he looked down, not making eye contact with McCoy. He then moved out of the way when McCoy started to move towards Kirk again.
"Doctor, remind me to never piss you off." McCoy smiled sadly when Sulu said this.
"I said the exact same thing to you two years ago when you were acting captain. Never have pissed you off since then." McCoy gave Sulu a brief smile over his shoulder before starting to scan Kirk with a tricorder.
"You called him Captain," Uhura motioned towards Kirk as she said this. "And you referred to yourself as the best, does that mean you're the chief medical officer?" McCoy grunted yes to Uhura's question. "So what are the rest of our positions?"
"Just the entire senior staff." McCoy growled this out as he started to actually look at some of Kirk's injuries.
"Please tell me you're joking." McCoy didn't comment, so she looked towards Scotty. "He's joking, right?" Scotty shook his head.
"He's not lying. You're the Enterprise's communications officer, Hikaru is the helmsman, the Russian Wiz kid is Chekov, he's the navigator. Spock is the Vulcan and first officer. I'm the chief engineer, and we already established that Kirk is Captain, and McCoy is the chief medical officer." Uhura looked really unsettled by that.
"So who is in charge of the ship?"
"Umm, I think... I think it would fall to lieutenant... This is embarrassing, I don't think I actually know his real name. Kirk always called him Cupcake…" Scotty trailed off as he scratched the back of his neck.
"His name is Hendorff" McCoy said this without looking up.
"Apparently his name is Hendorff. Anyways, he's the chief of security, and is in command of the beta shift. Although we're not going anywhere until we get this resolved." Scotty answered Nyota's question for her and the turned his attention back towards Kirk and McCoy.
"Doctor, do you know why Spock and Chekov haven't woken up yet?" Nurse Chapel asked this as she looked up from their their sleeping forms.
"Probably the stress on their younger bodies. They should be waking up soon enough." It was then they heard a rather loud thud. Everyone spun around to see that Spock had fallen off the biobed after getting tangled in his oversized, now dresslike shirt. Uhura immediately swept him off the floor, and held him on her hip.
"Are you okay?" Spock stared at her for a few seconds, almost seeming shocked that she was speaking Vulcan, he then nodded ever so slightly. "Can you understand English?"
Once again Spock gave a small nod. Uhura looked away from Spock towards where everyone else was looking at her, and then turned back when Spock tapped her on the shoulder. Spock didn't say anything, and glanced towards her ears before leaning his head against her shoulder.
"Will you tell me your name?" Uhura asked this and got no response from the boy leaning on her shoulder. "My name is Nyota." She was still met by silence. "If you don't tell me your name, I'll have to make one up."
Uhura got no response out of the little Vulcan, however McCoy looked up from Kirk, looking at Uhura like she had another head. He had just opened his mouth to speak when a little voice broke the silence.
"Spock." Everyone looked towards the young Vulcan, who immediately drew closer to Uhura at all of their attention.
"Nice to meet cha Spock, name's Monty." Scotty then gave him a lopsided grin. "How old are ya, laddie?" Spock just stared at him. "Anyways, Mr. Grumpy over there is Leo."
"Hey!" Scotty ignored McCoy's objection, and continued on.
"This laddie here is Hikaru, and this lovely lass is Miss Christine. She's the nurse lookin' after us." Spock followed Scotty with his eyes as he introduced everyone.
"Eight." Everyone looked towards Spock, and then Uhura wanting a translation.
"He said eight. Does that mean you're eight years old?" Uhura got a nod from Spock, who was no longer paying attention to her, and was focused on where Kirk was. Everyone saw his eyebrow go up in a silent question, one which Scotty answered.
"That's JT, he got hurt, so he's restin'." Spock kept staring at Kirk, and squirmed a little in Uhura' arms. She kept a hold of him, and looked towards McCoy, who gave her a nod. As soon as Uhura put Spock down, he was by the side of Kirk's biobed. After a second he very carefully hosted himself up, and laid down next to Kirk's sleeping form. "Is it okay for him to be doin' that?"
"He's being careful, he's fine. I am slightly worried about how shy he's being." McCoy brushed off Scotty's worries, and voiced his own.
"Do you think he remembers him?" Nurse Chapel asked this as she looked at Spock.
"I think subconsciously he does. I also think you two also remember, subconsciously at least. You've both said things that were said to you. Uhura, Kirk tried to pick you up at a bar, and said that he'd make up a name for you unless you told him your name."
Those in the room then settled into a silence that was broken when Chekov woke up, and immediately called attention to himself, by calling out. Christine was the one to pick him up, and tried to calm him down.
"Shhh, It's okay. You're fine." The boy's response was to push away from her, and say something in Russian.
"Come here little one." Uhura reached for Chekov when she said this, and he immediately perked up and reached out for her.
"Lassie, how many languages do ya speak?" Scotty looked at her, and she frowned as she thought about it.
"Fluently I can speak Swahili, English, and Vulcan. I know pieces of Klingon, all three Romulan dialects, and Russian, as well as several other languages from Earth. I am a communications officer." Uhura answered Scotty's question and then turned her attention back to Chekov. "What's your name?"
"Pasha!" Chekov pointed to himself as he said this and bounced in Uhura's arms. "You?" Chekov pointed towards her as he asked her.
"Nyota." After several tries Chekov still couldn't begin to say her name right, and started pouting. "That's okay, my sisters couldn't say my name when they were little. Try this; Nea."
"Nea!" Chekov could easily say the nickname for Nyota. He then turned his attention to the others in the room. "Who they?" Uhura smiled at this, and gladly started to introduce them.
"This is Monty, that's Leo, Spock and JT are on the bed, Christie was holding you earlier. And that's…" Uhura paused as she looked at Hikaru, knowing that Pasha wouldn't be able to say it.
"Karu." Sulu provided the nickname as he waved at Chekov.
"Kawu?" Chekov cocked his head to the side as he repeated the nickname.
"Close enough bud." Sulu ruffled Chekov's curly hair as he said this, which drew a laugh from the little boy.
"Pasha, how old are you?" McCoy asked this as he studied, the boy. Uhura opened her mouth to repeat the question when Chekov surprised everyone and answered the question.
"Five!" This answer made McCoy frown.
"Pasha, you speak english?" Uhura asked this, and Chekov shrugged his shoulders.
"Some." Chekov them, turned his attention to Scotty, holding his hands out towards him, obviously wanting to be in his arms. Scotty immediately shook his head when Uhura started to hand him over, Pasha frowned. "Monty?" Scotty took one look at him, and caved.
"Alright laddie." Chekov giggled at the teenager's accent."What, ya think my accent is funny?" To Scotty's playful question, Pasha just giggled harder. "Well, I'll give ya something to laugh at."
Scotty then set Chekov on the nearest biobed, and started tickling him, causing peels of laughter to come from the youngest member of the crew, as well as chuckles and giggles to come from those watching. However it was all cut short when the biobed Kirk was lying on started to go off with a quiet beeping noice.
"He's fine, he's just going to wake up soon." McCoy immediately let everyone know that nothing serious was happening. "Nurse Chapel, will you call Lieutenant Riley down here." Nurse Chapel nodded, and then left to contact him. Kirk groaned as he started to wake up. "Hey, JT, how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." McCoy scoffed at this and muttered under his breath.
"That's what you always say." McCoy then addressed Kirk. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, now where are the others?" JT then tried to sit up, looking around, and frowned when he didn't recognize where he was or anyone else there. McCoy just let out a sigh.
"Scotty, bring Pasha over here, I want to talk to all of them at the same time."
Scotty did as was asked and sat Chekov down at the foot of the bed. The five year old immediately scrambled up and sat down between where Kirk and Spock were. Kirk instinctively wrapped his arm around Chekov's waist, and Chekov leaned against him.
"I have something to tell all three of you."
A/N: First I want to say that I'm not sure if Uhura knows how to speak Russian, or if she has any younger sisters. I just kinda imagine her as someone with younger sisters. Also I would love any and all help with writing Chekov and Scotty's accents, I'm horrible at it. I also respond to all of my reviews. This time I'm going to try and respond to those that I can through PM, however if you have PMing disabled or are a guest, I'll respond to your reviews at the bottom of every chapter.
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