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1 year later

I walked out of my class and to the medical center where I met with Leonard and Jim everyday. Well more I went there and waited for Leonard, then just as we are leaving Jim shows up and we all leave together. I quickly made my way to Leonard's office. He only let me in there and not Jim because he knew I wouldn't snoop around in his desk, just sit there and wait. I walked into his office and sat in his chair then sat quietly waiting for him when I noticed something on his desk. I leaned over and looked at it closely. It was the picture and card I gave him for his birthday not to long ago. I had no idea that he kept it on his desk. I thought he had just put it into a box and forgot about it. I smiled lightly at the knowledge that he, thought of me as highly as I thought of him. I heard him walking toward his office so I sat back and waited for him to enter the room. When he did I smiled.

"Well, hello to you too." He said. "I thought you had to study."

"I did that last night, Lora never showed up." I said.

"How is she?" He asked.

"Probably looking for solace in her ex." I said nonchalantly.

"Why?" He asked furrowing his brow. "You two have been together for what four months now."

"Four months, one week, three days and ten hours actually but she had been cheating on me the entire time." I said.

"When did you find out?" He asked.

"Two weeks ago."

"And you waited until yesterday to do something."

"I was giving her a chance to confess, but that didn't happen so we broke up. Which is cool because I think I am done with chicks, at least for now, to much drama." I said.

He chuckled lightly at my statement.

"Hey I have a question." I said.

"What?" He said as he started putting his schedule in order for the next week.

"Why do you have the picture and card I gave you on your desk?" I asked. He looked at me a bit stunned. "I mean Jim has given you plenty of things and I know your parents sent you things for your birthday, but why keep what I gave you."

He didn't answer me for a while just stared at me in shock of most things. I chuckled lightly at his expression.

"It's cool because I'm guilty of the same thing." I said to giving him a bit of rope to pull himself out of the hole I had pushed him into.

"And how is that?" He asked.

"I keep the necklace you gave me on all the time. I know it's against uniform regulation but I don't care. It's too nice not to wear." I said pulling the necklace out from under my uniform top to show him. "It means a lot to me. I just wanted you to know that Leonard."

"Good." He said simply then finished up his schedule. "You ready to go."

"I was born ready. Kirk probably just enter the building. We should get to him before he starts hitting on the nurses." I said.

I grabbed Leonards arm and we walked out of his office. Then just like I had thought Kirk turned the corner and saw us. He started walking a little faster then turned around and fell in step with Leonard and I.

"Is there something going on between you two that I don't know about?" He asked after eyeing my hands on Leonards arm.

"No but if there was you would be the last to know." I said then laid my head on Leonards shoulder. "He just likes me more than you."

"Hey he likes me just as much as he likes you." Kirk complained. I felt Leonard look at Kirk for a moment. "Really? Am I that bad?"

"Sometimes, but it isn't really your fault I mean I am practically the same way but I am a woman." I said trying to give him some kind of comfort. "I am who I am because I have never found anyone who can save me from myself. My thoughts, actions, they mold who I've become it has also made it difficult for others to connect with me for long periods of time."

"That's deep." Kirk said piping up from beside me.

"I know." I said then lifted my head off of Leonards shoulder and let go of his arm. I turned to them and gave them a small smile. "You guys should go without me. I don't think I'm in the mood to go out right now."

"Are you sure Ams?" Kirk asked.

"Yeah. Just go I'll see you guys tomorrow." I said.

I turned and walked away. I headed to my room on campus that I had managed to get Starfleet to let me keep until I graduated. I unlocked my door and went inside. Not too soon after getting inside I felt someone grab me from behind and put a knife at my throat. I couldn't tell who it was but I did know that they were probably here for my blood and not my knowledge medicine.

"So Starfleet did you really think they could hide you for long?" The cool voice from behind me asked.

"No but that was the idea." I said not struggling against his hold. He chuckled cooly.

"And how was it the idea?" He asked.

"How did you get passed security? Let alone in my room without being detected." I asked and he remained silent. "I have been waiting for one of you assholes to come along for months."

"How did you know someone was coming for you?" He asked tensing up.

"You are kidding me right I have been running from Adrien's people for years." I said. He relaxed a bit and chuckled.

"See that's where you are wrong. I'm not one of Adrien's men whoever the hell he is." He whispered in my ear. "I do my own dirty work."

"Who the hell are you?" I asked.

"The name is Henry. Henry Stone. And you owe me quite a bit of money." He said.

"Ohh. Right sorry I was planning on visiting but classes and exams go in the way. Loosen your grip a bit and I can give you your money plus the interest." I said to him remembering when I took a 'loan' to get out of state.

"You have the money?" He asked clearly shocked.

"Yeah." I said.

He loosen his hold and I walked over to my closet and opened up the door. Then I pulled out the duffle bag I had put in there a year ago. I set it on the floor by my bed hiding it from Henry's view but just where I needed it in order to show him that cash was actually there. I pulled out the twenty thousand dollars I owed him and stood up. Then pressed the hidden button on my floor and made sure the duffle bag with the rest of the money dropped in before I headed over to hand Henry the money.

"There you go twenty thousand dollars, in cash." I said.

"Well I wasn't expecting that." He admitted as he kneeled down in front of the money.

"I tend to get that reaction a lot. Do you need a bag for it?" I asked.

"No I've got it." He said pulling out a bag from his pocket and put the money into it.

It took him a minute but after he was finished he stood up and started to leave. Then right before he walked out of the door he turned and held up and old style pistol. Two shots rang out and I looked down at my abdomen before falling to me knees. I put my hands over the two entrance wounds then pulled them back away and looked at them covered in my blood.

"That was unexpected and unnecessary." I said.

"I didn't intend for you to come out of this little meeting without learning anything." He said then left.

"That asshole just shot me." I said to myself.

McCoy's P.O.V

I walked with Kirk to the closest restaurant to our place. Even though the Academy said we would only be roomed together for the first year they forgot to mention that we had to find a place a month before the year ended so I am stuck with him, again for another year. Once we sat down we ordered and Kirk started talking.

"Do you think something is wrong with Ams?" He asked. I had to admit I was surprised he even saw that she seemed a little less like herself than usual.

"Her and Lora split up yesterday." I said.

"No it's not that there's something else. Like someone pulled something out of her. I know her and Lora were together and all but they weren't all the close, it wouldn't have affected her so much." He said.

"What else would it be, Jim?" I asked genuinely interested in what he would say next. Seeing as he never notice something until he wanted to.

"It was like she was planets away. When she was talking about not connecting with someone she was fiddling with that necklace she wears all the time like it would give her comfort if she held it in her fingers long enough." He said.

"I noticed the fiddling she was leaning on me you know."

"And that she only does that when somethings wrong. She also only leans on you. Even though I am around just as much as you are." He said.

"What are you blabbering about?" I asked then it hit me.

She leans on me and I let her , fiddles with the necklace that I gave her, tells me more than she tells Jim. Then when she was talking about not having a connection with no one something gnawed at my brain. I sat there thinking when my com went off.

"McCoy." I said then listened.

"You are needed at the hospital." Chapel said from the other end.

"I'm off duty, there are doctors there." I said.

"She won't let anyone else work with her. She has kicked and punched any other doctor that came near her, which is amazing given her condition."

"Who is it?" He asked. He had lots of female patients but few of them could do much when injured.

"It's Amelia." She said.

I froze and stared at the com. Once my body restarted I quickly got out of my seat and walked out of the restaurant, Jim following closely behind me. Then after I was a good five meters from the restaurant, I starting running to the hospital. I took me a couple of minutes to reach it and get to the emergency ward. I slowed down to a quick walk and made my way to the room with all the activity. I walked into the room and turned to the first nurse near me.

"What's wrong with her?" I asked.

"She was shot." He said.

"Excuse me?" I asked not knowing if I had heard him correctly.

"She was shot twice in the abdomen, with bullets."

"Shit." I said.

I walked over to the gurney with Amelia on it.

Amelia's P.O.V

I saw Leonard walk over to the bed and smiled. They had finally got him here. I was going to have to thank whoever called him later once he fixed me up. He looked at where my hands were and lifted them up slowly.

"Get me a sedative we need to get these out before we can do anything else." He said to the nurses then looked at me again. "When you wake up will be perfectly fine."

One of the nurses handed McCoy the hypospray and he placed it on my neck. My eyelids started to get have and I fell asleep. I started to come to as I heard voices around me buzzing like annoying bugs. I groaned when I started to feel residual pain in my abdomen. I opened my eyes and looked around the room. Leonard was to my left looking at the screen closest to me bed and Jim was in a chair at the foot of my bed.

"You two look like someone died while you were on duty." I said.

"No but you did get shot while we were having dinner." Jim said.

"Sorry." I said.

"Why are you apologizing? Did you shot yourself?" Leonard asked turning to me.

"No. I'm not an idiot Leonard."

"Then don't blame yourself for being in here." He said turning back to the screen.

I stayed silent for sometime after that. Just thinking about what happened and remembering the first thing I thought of right after I got shot. I admit it made me feel like a lovesick teenager but I only thought about how all of the progress I had made with Leonard would just go out of the window. He would retract back into the same exact person he was before we came to the Academy. Yes, you couldn't really see the change when he was in public or when Jim was around. But when it was only me and him I felt like he was being who he was before he even met his now ex-wife. I always felt and hoped that some of that change was due to his being around me. From talking and sharing our experiences in life with one another, opening him up to be able to take new things in. I smiled at the memory of the first time I waited in his office for him, it had been quite entertaining to see his reaction at that point in time.

"She's doing it again." Jim said pulling me out of my thoughts.

"Doing what?" I asked looking at him confused. Leonard looked at me and his eyes moved to look at something else.

"Your fiddling with your necklace." He said.

I looked down and saw that I was holding the pendant of my necklace in my fingers.

"What where you thinking about?" Leonard asked sitting on the bed near my legs.

"When I got shot." I said still looking at my fingers that delicately stroked to pendant.

"That's very cheery." He said.

"I was thinking mostly about what I had thought after I got shot, about what would happen to everything if I had taken a turn for the even worse." I said.

"Well you didn't so lets not talk about it." Leonard said then left the room

I looked after him confused more than I have ever been in my life. I looked at Jim with my eyebrows pulled together.

"What did I do?" I asked.

"You got shot, and refused to let other doctors work on you. Which put you at more risk." He said.

"But I am fine now." I said.

"I know that and so does he but he doesn't want to even hear about you not getting through even if it theoretical." He said.

"But you don't seem to mind all that much."

"Yeah well thats because I'm not Bones." He answered then walked out of the room as well.

I sat there thinking about how Leonard reacted. He dislike the idea of the possibility of my dieing more than myself. I thought about it hard before I finally realized that in the last 28 years that other than Jim, Leonard was the only one that I stayed around for more than a couple of months. Hell I had known him for a year and he knew more about me than anyone I had ever been with in my life. I was in love with Leonard. I sat up straight and quickly started unhooking myself from the monitors without raising alarm. Then I quickly walked out of my room and headed toward Leonard's office. The once place he went no matter how angry he got. I quietly opened the door and saw Leonard's back to me.

"Go away, Jim, I am not in the mood to listen to you prattle like a five years old." He said.

"But I'm good at prattling." I said with a sad voice and he quickly turned around looking at me.

"What the hell are you doing out of bed?" He asked taking two quick strides toward me.

"I forgot to tell you what I had been thinking about after I got shot." I said. He stopped in his tracks.

"What?" He asked.

"I wasn't thinking about my own life really when it happened. I was worried about what would happen to you." I said and he just stood there. "I only thought about how what could have happened would affect you."

"Really?" He asked.

"Yes really. I don't know why I didn't realize it before but I do now. I like you Leonard, and not like I like Jim. No I like you in the way that pulls me to want to be near you, a way that makes me feel like I could get away from the things that have happened. You have made me believe there is something, well someone out there even for someone even like me."

He just stood there not saying anything but I could tell that he was trying to for a small speech of his own. It just wasn't working out in his mind the way he really wanted it to. Like he was trying to come up with just the right words to make me fall for him. I just smiled at him, hopping such an action would encourage him to speak. However it had no such luck so, I put my hands on his face and pulled him toward me gently placing my lips on his. His arms snaked around my waist, then pulled me toward him, and kissed me like he was going to lose me at any moment. When we pulled away I smiled up at him and for the first time I saw a genuinely happy smile on Leonards face.