Chapter Two: Vulcans Right?

Sadie reached Chris's office just in time to see Jim leaving, he looked very upset, Sadie raised an eyebrow, "Jim what's wrong?"

"They took the ship away from me," Jim said eyes downwards.

"Fuck," Sadie said, "Okay I'm going to talk to Pike to see what's going on. I'll come and get you in a while."

Jim nodded going off. Sadie couldn't believe it; Jim would be going back to the academy if they took the ship away from him, meaning their family would be torn apart. Who would be taking command of the ship then she wondered?

She knocked on Chris door and was told to come in, she walked in to see Chris leaning against his desk, "I guess you ran into your brother did he tell you?"

"Yeah," Sadie nodded, "he did. Who's getting the ship?"

"I am," Chris replied, "he's supposed to go back to the academy, if he does your becoming my First Officer."

"Wait what?" Sadie said shocked, "No Chris I'm not First Officer material."

He chuckled, "Yes you are, you can't tell anyone but Spock is being sent over to the U.S.S. Bradbury, however I'm going to try and keep your brother on the ship."

"Get them to let him be your First Officer," Sadie begged, "Jim needs this ship he can't go back to the academy."

Chris nodded, "I know, honestly I want you both on my ship, I'd kill to have you both as First Officers, but it's not allowed. If you really don't want the position I'll try and get your brother as my First Officer, if they don't allow it you're stuck with it."

"I'm okay with that," Sadie said and she was, she liked being the ship psychologist and whatever else was needed, that was what she had trained for.

Chris smiled, "Alright well I have a meeting here in a few that I need to get to you. Oh and Admiral Marcus was looking for you earlier."

Sadie froze, no that wasn't good, Chris frowned, "Is everything okay?"

Sadie forced a smile on her face, "Yeah everything is fine, I'll find him and see what he needed, better get to your office."

She then turned and walked out of the room before anymore could be said, she headed down to the lobby of the headquarters building. Where on the TV was a live viewing of London, she froze seeing that an explosion had happened. No, this couldn't be happening, someone had bombed the archive building, at least to the public eye, but to her and few others it was the top secrete base.

Sadie knew who had done it, than she heard her PADD go off with a message. With dread filling her stomach she opened the message and it read:

I'm on my way. I will get my crew back Maria; try to not be around Admiral Marcus when I come as I will make him pay. Come with me and you will be safe I promise you.

~Khan

Sadie sat down shaking in a chair, her breathing becoming unsteady. All around her Starfleet was moving, a session would be called to order soon, within the day. All the Captain's and First Officers of ships along with Admiral Marcus would be in the meeting room.

Suddenly her eyes went wide, Khan would attack the meeting room, she had to find Marcus now!

She ran from the lobby trying to locate the Admiral, there he was standing in his office door giving orders; Sadie called out to him, "Admiral Marcus!"

He looked up and nodded, "Kirk my office now."

She hurried into his office as he finished his orders by sending the Lieutenants away, he came in shutting his door behind him, "Did you know?!"

Sadie shook her head holding out her PADD, "Not until it happened, he sent me that right after everything had gone on the TVs."

Marcus looked at the PADD, "Damnit!"

"That's the first time he's contacted me since I left sir," Sadie said taking back her PADD, "we always knew he wanted his crew back. And me since I look like his dead wife."

Marcus nodded, "I don't think he'll attack the meeting, not if you're in there, he won't risk harming you."

"Sir please you can't have the meet-" Sadie started but was cut off.

"Enough Kirk, you'll get the information needed for the meeting, stay in the building though," Marcus said.

Sadie nodded leaving sick to her stomach, Marcus was going to use her as a shield against Khan, she wondered what lies he would tell at the meeting about the man since very few people knew the truth. Most had been killed by Marcus to protect his secrete, the only reason Sadie was alive was because of Khan, she was grateful for that fact but it also terrified her.

She headed to the café deciding to get food in her, while waiting on her order she sat down and messaged Leo on her PADD, she was on orders from Marcus to stay locked down in the building. Leo was upset but glad she was safe, he told her to keep messaging him as if one Starfleet building would be attacked who knew if other buildings would be attacked.

Sadie felt terrible, she wished she could tell Leo everything, if Marcus found out Leo would be killed, probably Sadie as well, Khan be damned.

Sadie knew it would be awhile but she decided it was time to message Marcus, maybe butter him up for Chris to get Jim as his First Officer. After the message sent she spent most of the day messaging Leo and Lissath, Leo was just spending the day at their apartment glad to be at home and not living with Jim.

~A Few Hours Later~

Finally Sadie got the message to report to the meeting in 20 minutes. She sighed getting up and leaving the café, she made it to the meeting room 10 minutes early as she took her time as she didn't want to go in the first place.

She sighed finding her seat as others started trickling in, she nodded at Spock who seemed surprised to see her there and so close to the Admiral's chair.

Finally everyone was there and Marcus came in, they all stood for him as he was announced, "AdmiraI Marcus, sir."

"Thank you for convening on such short notice. Be seated," Marcus said and everyone sat, he continued, "By now, some of you have heard what happened in London. The target was a Starfleet data archive. Now it's a damned hole in the ground, 42 men and women are dead. 1 hour ago, I received a message from a Starfleet officer, who confessed to carrying out this attack, that he was being forced to do it by this man, Commander John Harrison. He's one of our own. And he is the man responsible for this act of savagery. For reasons unknown, John Harrison has just declared a one-man war against Starfleet. And under no circumstances are we to allow this man to escape Federation space. You here tonight represent the senior command of all the vessels in the region, along with someone who worked with Commander Harrison. And in the name of those we lost, you will run this bastard down. This is a manhunt, pure and simple, so let's get to work."

Sadie bit the inside of her cheek, this bastard was telling lies, and then he went and threw her under the bus! She saw Jim and Spock's eyes trained to her after Marcus said what he did. She could feel the stares of many others in the room, and she knew what they were thinking, what if she helped him? What if she's a traitor as well?

Sadie then spoke up with the information she had been working on, "Earth's perimeter sensors have not detected any warp signatures leaving the system, so we know he can't be far."

Marcus nodded, "You will park your ships in a blockade formation then deploy search vehicles and landing parties to run down every lead. This man has shown willingness to kill innocent people, so the rules of engagement are simple. If you come across this man and fear for your life or the lives of those nearby, you are authorized to use deadly force on sight."

Sadie looked up from the PADD as Marcus said, "Chris? Everything okay there?"

"Yes, sir. Mr. Kirk is just acclimating to his new position as First Officer," Chris replied, and Sadie hoped that Jim had figured something out, she still didn't like this. Even before coming up here she had put security on standby, she knew Khan far better than Marcus did. The man was on a mission and would not stop until it was complete.

"You got something to say, Kirk, say it," Marcus said, "Tomorrow's too late."

"I'm fine," Jim said, "sir. My apologies."

"Spit it out, son. Don't be shy." Marcus replied.

"Why the archive?" Jim asked, "All that information is public record. If he really wanted to damage Starfleet, this could just be the beginning."

That fucker would listen to Jim but not her! Jim was saying what she had to Marcus earlier, "The beginning of what, Mr. Kirk?"

"Sir, in the event of an attack, protocol mandates that senior command gather captains and first officers at Starfleet H.Q., right here in this room."

Spock nodded speaking up, "It is curious Harrison would commandeer a jumpship without warp capabilities..."

That's when they all heard it, a ship rising up to the room, Sadie couldn't breathe she was frozen in fear and shock. Khan was there, his message had been true. She saw his face and saw the frown when he spotted her.

"Clear the room!" Jim shouted as Khan began shooting, Sadie was knocked down and shaken out of her terror by looking up into Spock's face.

He nodded pulling her behind a table, "Get out of this room the moment you can."

Sadie gave a slight smile pulling Spock into a quick peck, "Be careful with whatever you do."

Spock gave a curt nod and Sadie peeked around the table, she knew if Khan would see her, with her long blonde hair there was no one else in the room like that, if he really wanted her he would avoid her. She took a deep breath and stood up, sure enough he began firing everywhere but around her, she shook her head and ran out of the room her braid flying behind her.

She looked to her side and saw Jim shooting at him from a side, she was going to piss Khan off with this next decision, but Sadie ran after her brother pointing to the ship, "Look if we can get that to go out we can take his ship down."

Jim nodded and looked behind him where a fire hose was, Jim went to it and Sadie ran back to the room needing to help now that she was out of her shock.

She watched from the doorway to see Chris be shot, "CHRIS!" She yelled out running to him with Spock, together they pulled their former Captain out of the room onto a couch in the hallway, Sadie watched crying, she saw where he had been hit, with a phaser he wouldn't heal from that.

Sadie heard Khan's ship start to die; she stood up going into the room as he stopped shooting. She smiled seeing Jim had killed the jumpship, she watched eyes widening as Khan used something to beam out of the ship eyes locked onto her as much as he could as his ship spun down to the ground crashing.

She heard Jim say her name, she turned and rushed into his arms hugging him, "Are you okay? There's blood on you!"

Sadie looked down to her side where there was blood on her, she nodded, "I must have gotten nicked in the chaos I'm okay." Her eyes went wide, "Chris!"

Then turning and running back out to the hallway where Chris laid, Spock performing a mind meld with him, Sadie dropped to her knees next to the men. Shaking her head, "Chris please stay with us."

She watched crying as the light went out of his eyes; she laid her head on his chest as the man who had been a father to her died. She had to figure out where Khan went, she was going to make him pay for all of this.

Who knew what else he would do, he wanted his crew, he would do anything to get them, and her as well. He had to be stopped and Sadie would do anything to do it, she had to protect her family.

A/N:
Alright there's chapter two! I hope it was good. Between the time the Enterprise was taken away from Jim to the meeting because of the attack from Khan I sped that up a bit. Was just a lot of time there and I feel like it fits.

Thank you to TitanXyz and Crystal-Wolf-Guardian-967 for reviewing, please feel free to review and leave any tips or suggestions of things you'd like to see.

Next chapter things will be getting rocky between Sadie and everyone so be ready!

Oh and I realize I never really said what Sadie looked like, but as I was writing it hit me I kept picturing her to have long blonde hair, she'd be taller. Then it really hit me, I was picturing Margot Robbie. So that's what our lovely Kirk looks like!

Savannah