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Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek it's much older than I am.

Chapter 2

5 years later

"Nyota calm down you've graduated school with top honours. Besides they wouldn't send you a big, squishy envelope if you weren't accepted into the Academy. Wanna know what's in the envelope? It's your very first Cadet uniform to wear on the ride up there and to the orientation. I got one to but it probably looks better on you."

Anna packed a duffle for her new home up in space. She was excited to make a fresh start as was her young friend. They had planned on entering together even though there was an age gap.

"Ok I'm opening it" Nyota said before Anna heard a rip of paper and a squeal of delight

"I got in! The shuttle leaves tomorrow from some wreck yard. We have to go to the bar tonight wearing our uniforms. We can meet everyone that we're going up with." Anna chuckled at the younger girl

"Sure as long as you're buying the drinks. All my money has gone to paying off my school debts. Talking about work, today was my last day. It was sad to say goodbye but I've wanted to go to Starfleet since I was a kid. Alright I will meet you at the bar tonight but I need to change and you need to pack. See ya soon"

Anna slid off her jeans and shirt to put on the uniform given to her by the Academy. The uniform consisted of a red, soft turtleneck and a matching, red skirt. She looked in the mirror and analyzed her figure. Anna chuckled as she answered the phone

"Are you really that excited?" she said thinking it was Nyota

"Well seeing my sister is always cool but how did you know?" Anna laughed at the cheesy smile she knew he wore

"What's up Jimmy?"

"I need a favour." Anna sighed

"What is it Jimmy?"

"I need you to come get me from the jail."

"What!" James T. Kirk flinched at his sister's reaction, he looked around to see if anyone had heard her shriek form the other end on the phone

"It wasn't my fault. Please I'll pay you back" Anna scoffed

"Really I will" Anna grabbed her purse roughly

"You bet your ass you will. I'm on my way"

Anna hung up the phone and walked out of the apartment she was renting. She slammed the door as she left and climbed in the car hurriedly. When she arrived at the jail the guard waited for her with a smile

"How are you today Miss Kirk?" the guard tipped his hat to her as he held the door

"I'm perfect Nate how are you?" she asked the aged guard

"Good. Your brother was just keeping me company as usual." Anna sighed and shook her head

"Can I see him before taking him away? I need to get something into his head"

"Of course Miss Kirk. Come this way"

Anna followed the guard to a section of cells where they kept their prisoners. James Kirk shot up at seeing his sister arrive. His hands grasped the bars

"Annie! Thank god I thought you wouldn't show"

"James Tiberius Kirk. What have you done now?" Jim cringed at his full name and the tone she said it in

"There was a misunderstanding this guy thought I was having sex with his wife when in all actuality she was teaching me yoga…..naked" Anna just shook her head

"I think I'm going to leave you in here to rot Jimmy. You deserve it for acting so stupid that past couple years. Scratch that the past decade."

Jim's eyes widened as she said those evil words. He began to panic

"Please no! Annie I'll be good I promise" Again Anna shook her head and motioned for the guard to open the cell door. As soon as the door was open enough Jim hugged his sister fiercely and kissed her cheek

"I love you, I really do"

"Ya huh get your ass in the car and do not say another word unless I ask you a question that isn't rhetorical"

He nodded enthusiastically and signed that he was going to 'zip' his lips shut. Anna drove her car to the bar and cut the engine off

"I have friends in there so do not embarrass me or yourself for the matter. I'm leaving tomorrow so please let's make this a pleasant experience. Don't get to drunk and hope the girl you go home with tonight is STD free."

Jim looked at her with sad eyes

"Annie I'm sorry" he was practically whispering what showed Anna that he was being serious. Whenever he was sad or sorry he would whisper

"I'm not trying to make you mad-"

"Jimmy I'm not made I'm disappointed" Jim looked at her with panic in his eyes again

"No be mad not disappointed! Not the disappointment. It hurts!" Anna laughed and pushed her brothers shoulder and his face grew serous again

"Really I'm sorry" Anna pushed his hair from his face

"I know Jimmy. Come on let's go inside"

When they entered Jim went right for a group of women that he knew from school and Anna walked over to where Nyota was sitting with a group of people that wore the same uniform as they did.

"You had better make my drink a double" Anna said as she sat down next to Nyota. The young woman turned to see Anna looking exhausted and looked at her outfit

"Well at least you look good. Come on I'm planning on ordering us loads of drinks but we dance first." Anna laughed as her friend pushed two shots at her then pulled her onto the dance floor.

Together they had dance for a couple songs. Anna looked up at the bar to see Jimmy drinking by himself then looked down at a table to her right which only held one man. He drank from a large glass but stood alone and looked as if had the world's worries on his shoulders. Nyota saw her friend's attention else where and smiled

"You always do go for the broken ones" Anna took her eyes from the man and looked back at her friend

"Excuse you?" Nyota laughed

"That guy looks miserable and you've been staring at him since you hit the dance floor. Go say hi while I go get our drinks. I have to go get the other orders so take your time." Nyota pushed her towards the table

Anna took a couple minutes before she walked over and saw the rough shape in which the man looked. She winced as he downed the rest of his glass of what she thought was bourbon.

"Rough night?" she asked as she got closer. The man looked up and scoffed

"Try rough decade lady" Anna sat down next to him

"That bad huh? Maybe you should have another double shot of bourbon" the man looked at her surprised

"How'd you know" Anna chuckled

"Because that's what I go for when life is really shitty."

"Maybe we should get to know each other" she smiled at he sad man

"Maybe we-" she was interrupted as four Starfleet cadets started fighting with her brother

"Shit! I have to go" she said to the man before jumping in to her brother's defense.

She grabbed one man's hand before it could connect with her brother's head. Anna kicked the Cadet in the chest sending him back into a table. Then she turned to pull one guy off of Jimmy, she punched this one in the face and then again in the stomach. Now it was one very, large man repeatedly punching her brother in the face. She grabbed his wrist and turned it behind his back before a loud whistle broke the fight apart.

"Everyone out now." A man dressed in faculty clothing form Starfleet said staring at the group of Cadets. As soon as he said out all of those dressed in red left among the rest of the crowd. Anna helped her brother up and looked at him in disgust as the blood poured down his face

"Oh Jimmy what am I going to do with you?" she said holding his head in between her hands. The man walked over to her

"Cadet why have you not left yet?" She looked over at him then back at her brother

"I can't just leave my brother sir." the man nodded his head

"Name Cadet"

"I'm Cadet Kirk sir, this is my brother James. T. Kirk" the man nodded again

"I'm Admiral Pike. Cadet go get something to clean him up a bit" Anna nodded and sat Jim down in a chair before going up to the bar

"Can I have some ice and a lot of napkins please?" the barman nodded and gave her a stack of tissue while filling a cup with ice. She took the ice and returned to her brother. Carefully she put the ice around his nose and jaw trying to numb the pain. She tisked as she rolled tissue up and slid it up his nose

"What did you say this time?" she asked trying to wipe all of the blood off but only making a small spot clear

" He made the first move"

"That's not what I asked Jimmy. Damnit every time. Did you not just promise me you would start acting like an adult?"

"Cadet?" Anna stood up and looked at her superior. The man looked at her with sympathy in his eyes

"Go home I'll make sure he gets home safely." Anna nodded her head

"Thank you sir."

Anna left the club and found Nyota sitting on her car with her arms crossed looking pissed off

"Trust a country hick to break the party up. Why did you fight for him?" Anna pressed the button for the doors to unlock. The car beeped in welcome

"Because that country hick is my little brother" Nyota gaped in surprise but didn't say anything instead she smiled mischievously

"So what about the depressed guy? Give him a pity date?" Anna shook her head

"One I'm leaving literally on a jet plane tomorrow and two we just talked. I didn't even get his name."

Nyota laughed as she watched her friend drive.

"You like him and you guys had what? A two minute conversation maybe before you jumped in to save your brother?" Anna smiled

"I don't like him………….but there was something about his eyes. They were filled with sorrow and pain." she sighed and pulled into her drive way.

The next day Anna and Nyota brought their bags into the storage compartment of the shuttles and went to greet everyone else. When standing with some of the girls they had been with last night Anna looked behind them quickly. She shook her head to try to clear her head. For a second Anna had thought she had seen the guy from the bar getting on the shuttle she was assigned to. She turned to Nyota

"I'm going to go sit down why don't you guys get your seats now."

"Alright meet you on there"

Anna got onto the shuttle and walked up and down the aisles looking for the miserable man from last night. She reached the last row and laughed at her foolishness. Anna walked to the first row to see Nyota surrounded by guys so she sat diagonal from her with two seats next to her.

"This seat taken?" Anna looked up in surprise as her brother smiled down at her

"Jimmy? What are you doing here?" he shrugged and sat down in the seat next to her. He fiddled with the seat buckle then figured to put it around his shoulder

"Pike offered me a challenge I couldn't refuse." Anna looked impressed

"And that was?"

"To beat Dad's record. He saved over 800 lives in the 12 minutes as captain. That and to work on a ship in 3 years instead of the 4 everyone else does." she chuckled happily and looked at a the commotion going on to her right

"Sir. Sit down" the pilot demanded of a man. Anna was again surprised to see the man from the bar last night.

"I had a seat in the bathroom where there was no windows."

"Sir you need to get in your seat now"

"I suffer from aviaphobia that means fear of dying in something that can fly"

"Sir for your own safety sit down or I'll make you sit down" the woman may have been little but she did look mean so that man sat down next to Jim.

Jim nudged her

"You know him?"

"Yeah I was talking him up at the bar last night before I had to save your sorry ass from being beaten to death." Jim faked laughed then made a face at her before turning to the man

"I may throw up on you" the man said causing Anna to laugh at Jim

"I think its safe to say these things are safe"

"Doesn't matter to me kid. One little crack in the hull and our blood boils in 13 seconds, solar flare goes up and we cook in our seats. Or you have the case of Andoreen shingles see if your still so relaxed if your eyeballs are bleeding"

"Well isn't he just a bright ray of sunshine" Anna whispered to Jim as the man went on

"I hate to break it to ya but Starfleet operates I space" Jim said looking at the man weirdly

"Yeah well I have no where else to go. Ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I have left are my bones" Anna and Jim looked at each other smiling and nodded

"Bones" the said in unison already dubbing him with a nickname. The man took out a flask and took a sip and offered it to Jim and Anna. Jim took it and raised it

"Jim Kirk this is my sister Anna" the man nodded

"McCoy, Leonard McCoy"

McCoy pointed at Anna "You're that girl form the bar last night?"

Anna smiled at him and nodded "Yeah I am. What are you going to the Academy for?"

"Yeah no offence but you're kinda old. Hay so are you why'd you wait so long to enlist" Jim said looking at his sister. Anna smack him upside the head

"Have I not taught you manners? And I'm not old. I had to go to med school unlike your sorry ass. Anyway continue Leonard" she said pushing her brothers face out of the way

"I'm a doctor going to learn about all of the planets' medical procedures than work on a ship. You?" he watched amused as the siblings fought subtly

"I'm a doctor as well but I'm going to become a traumatic surgeon. They don't have many talented surgeons up there"

"You any good?" Anna looked at him

"Give me a knife and I'll show you just how good I am."

"OOOOOOOOOOH I feel some doctorly competition coming up here" Jim said while pushing his sister back into her seat

Anna looked over to see Nyota smiling in her seat and pointing to McCoy. Anna rolled her eyes at her younger friend antics and turned back to the men she was sitting with

After they landed and got their room assignments Anna unpacked her stuff and waited for her roommate to show but was disappointed when they never did. Anna shook her head and looked down at the room number that was scribbled on her hand. Leonard and Jim had been roomed together after Jim flirted with the woman that was assigning rooms. Skipping down the hall Anna stopped at the room that supposedly was Jim and Leonard's. Cautiously she knocked on the door and waited. When Leonard answered the door Anna sighed from relief and walked past him

"Expecting someone else to answer the door?" he asked as she sat on the bed that was obviously her brothers, it was already messed up and had his jacket laying across it.

"Yeah I thought Jim might have given me the wrong room number. He's known for doing shit like that." Leonard nodded his head and sat down at his desk.

"Am I going to regret being friends let alone roommates with him?" Anna laughed and sat up

"Probably but you'll get used to him and he'll probably never be here at night so bonus."

"And why's that?" Leonard asked pulling out a bottle of whiskey from his bag

"Because he's usually in some random girl's room."

Anna watched Leonard open the bottle and take a rather large gulp. She saw the hurt in his face as he drank trying to numb the memories away. Anna got up and put her hand over the opening before he could take another sip. He looked up at her curiously and a bit annoyed

"I have another way you can get the pain to dull and with my way it might go away. Annnnd you'll work out all that aggression and anger you have built up. Wanna give it a try? You and I will work on getting out all that anger and hurt. It will be easy and we'll work up a sweat while doing it."

Leonard McCoy had never been taken care of in his life. He had always looked after himself and never depended on anyone. Even his wife didn't take care of him. He was his own man but something in her eyes and smile made him consider her alternative, that and the promise of sweating with her was something he had thought about ever since she walked over to his table last night. He slowly put the bottle down, never breaking eye contact with her

"Go get changed" Anna walked over to his bed and turned his bag inside out letting his clothes fall on his bed. She looked through them and grabbed a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt, Anna through them at Leonard and waited

"Well? Go on into the washroom and change. Unless you'd rather changed right here but I'm not moving" she smiled at him.

Anna laughed as he grumbled and walked towards the bathroom. He was saying something about "Women, bossy, devil, and deranged"

When he came out Anna stood up and pulled him out and towards her room. He pulled back causing her to stop and look at him

"Where are we going?" he asked raising his eyebrow

"We are going to my room" his other eyebrow rose "Then to the gym" she finished he pulled back

"Whoa where? The gym?" she turned and put her hands onto her hips

"Yes. We can work out all of that frustration you're feeling. Why what did you think I meant?" she narrow her eyes at him then let out another laugh

"You thought I meant sex didn't you?" he blushed . Anna pulled him closer

"Maybe if you're a good boy" she said then took advantage of his shook and pulled him into her room.

Anna went to her dresser then the washroom as an annoyed Leonard McCoy sat on her bed muttering about being jerked around. In a gap in his grumbling Leonard looked back at the frosted glass door to see her silhouette as she changed. He licked his suddenly dry lips and cleared his throat as she opened the door he snapped his head back to looking at the wall.

"Come on it will be fun I promise. If it's not it will at least be productive."

She continued to drag him into the gym which was currently empty. Anna led him over to the matted area that was usually used for wrestling and combat training. Anna let go of his hand and stood in front of him and took her fighting stance

"Ok hit me" Leonard's eyes almost popped out of his head.

"Are you mad woman? I'm not going to hit you" Anna let her hands fall to her sides

"Bones your not going to hit me I'm too well trained. Military school sort of trains you for this sort of thing. I'm going to teach you how to fight."

"Bones? And how do you know I don't know how to fight already?" she laughed

"Jim and I made that nickname up on the shuttle and because I know a trained fighter when I see one" he scoffed

"I hardly believe that" Anna took her stance again

"Then hit me or at least punch beside me" he shook his head and got ready to throw a punch.

He took a breath then threw a punch to the right side of her. Surprising him Anna caught his fist, turned it painfully then brought him down to the ground

"Damnit woman I'm a doctor not a fighter" he said rubbing his wrist as she let him up

"I had to show you I can take it" he nodded and stood up

"Well I believe you now."

The afternoon was spent with Anna teaching Leonard different manoeuvres and counters. The pair fell onto the mats covered in sweat and breathing hard Leonard looked over at the woman with appreciation in this eyes

"Thank you" he puffed out. Anna smiled

"No problem, now I have a new partner to work out with" she patted his chest

"Your going to be the death of me" he said putting an arm over his eyes to block out the light as he heard Anna laugh once again.