You've been working as an engineer on the enterprise for a couple years now, and have made several friendships within the crew, but your closest friends were Kirk, McCoy, uhura, sulu, and Scotty, and you admit you had a little crush on a certain chiefengineer. Ok, that was an understatement. You had a mad crush on Scotty, and it was starting to get slightly annoying, as he was interrupting you're thoughts and messing with you're work; but today, little did you know, it all was going to change.

The day started out normally,as usual, working on the engines down in the lower levels of the ship, when you hear the familiar voice of Mr . Spock say : ms. y/l/n, Mr sulu,and Mr Chekov please report to the transporter room. As you are entering the turbo lift, Scotty comes in, and you are hit with a strong memory, strong enough to make you fall to your knees. You can kind of hear Scotty calling your name, but are enveloped by the memory.

You were in a large, crowded room; with loud music, and flashing lights. It was the Christmas party Kirk insisted on having every year, and although you normally love parties, you had other things on your mind. Kirk walks up to you, with a strange look in his eye. " hey y/n. How's the party?" " fine"... You reply absentmindedly.

" Kirk try's to talk to you again, but you push past him and walk over to the table Scotty and keenser are sitting, apparently drunk as hell. He sees you, and calls out: " hey lassie! Care to join us for a couple drinks?" Yup, you decide; Definitelydrunk, but he's still inviting me over, so hell yea! "Love to Scotty"! You reply, plopping down next to keenser. Reaching for a drink, you look up and see Scotty smiling at you, and you wondered if it was just the alcohol talking. All of a sudden, a slow, beautiful song starts playing, any you look back to Scotty, and it hits you like a flying brick… Up until now, you had only thought of Scotty as cute, and a great friend, but it had never occurred to you that he was so much more than that… Yes, at that moment, you realized you were madly in love with Montgomery Scott.

You were jerked back into reality as Scotty grabs your arm to keep you from hitting the floor. " are you alright lieutenant? What happened? Should I take you to sick bay?" The flow of worried questions wouldn't stop, so you stood up, brushed off your jacket, and managed to cut off the blabbering from Scotty with a quick " I'm fine, just didn't sleep well last night." " if you're sure"... Scotty finally said, still looking worried. At that moment, the turbo lift stops, and with a smile to Scotty, you walk out into the transporter room, looking not at all like you had just collapsed. " good, you are here", you hear the happy voice of chekov saying. "We're Beaming down to the planet we are orbiting to check out some confusing life form readings we saw earlier", he continued. "Shall we go then"? You spin around in surprise and see that sulu was the speaker of that."why not, there's nothing that bad waiting for us down there according to the readings we get", you reply smiling. You follow chekov, sulu, and Spock onto the transporter pad, and hear the familiar "energize", and you are transported into the barren rocky planet.

As soon as you feel solid, you pull out the knife you always keep strapped to your thigh ( you prefer traditional weapons to the modern phasers) and start doing a routine check of the place. Out of the corner of your eye, you can see the others doing the same. " lieutenanty/l/n, what's the situation down there"? Kirk calls through your communicator. "All fine here captain, I have no idea what you were seeing earlier, evidencesuggests that nothing but the rare plant of insect could survive on a planet this dry. " you reply, putting your knife back. "Will keep you posted, y/n out". You say before clipping your communicator back to your belt. " well, since Kirk wants us to stay for a bit, we'd better set up some sort of shelter". Sulu says, staring at a large, ominous cloud bank heading towards us."sounds fine to me", reply'schekov, pulling out tent poles. 10 minutes later, the small group of people had managed to set up a large, warm shelter that protected them well from the howling wind. Sitting down , you put in some earbuds, pressed play on your favoritesong, and allow your thoughts to drift. As usual, they went to Scotty. His work, his looks, anything Scotty, really, and finally, you drift off to sleep, dreams of your chiefengineer floating through the your head.

About an hour later, you awake to a mess of tattered fabric, which you realize is the remains of the tent, and terrified screaming. You see chekov, sulu and Spock battlingtwo Huge creatures, each at least the size of a large elephant. Grabbing your knife and communicator, you scream for Kirk to beam you guys up, and run towards the largest of the creatures, which had unfortunately decided to pick on chekov. Slashing at the thing, dodging, hitting, you did anything you could to keep it away from the others. You can hear Some engineer yelling through the communicator "get away from the things! I can't beam you up with them there!"

All of a sudden, you got an idea. It was dangerous, suicidal, and completely insane, but it might just work to get the others back safely. "HEY"! You scream at the things, drawing there attention. "Bet u can't get me u big fat dumb-asses"" What the hell are you doing y/n!!" Yelled sulu. " they'll kill you!" Go to that big rock, Jim can get you back from there", you cry back, shrieking as one of the things swipes at your face and leaves a deep cut. Spockand sulu look reluctantly at you, but do as their told. Chekov, however, runs toward you, and unfortunately, gets the things to come running to him " NO"! You scream and run towards him as the thing with long claws starts to take a swipe at him, you jump in between them, saving chekov, but as your crash to the ground, the thing stomps on your ankle and slices at your left hand, cutting it clean off.You scream in agony, and somehow through the pain, you roll onto your back and stab the creatures through the heart. The second they are stabbed, they vanish into thin air, leaving no traces of any kind that they had ever been there. Then, you remember that you had just been stepped on by a 200,000 pound animal, and scream again, the pain from the wound on your cheek beginning to burn.

You begin to lose consciousness, and in your half awake state, you feel the strong arms of Spock pick you (and your severed hand)up as you are all transported back up to the enterprise. As you materialize, you can hear panicked shouting, a crowd of people, all of it a blur. Then, just before you pass out, you hear one voice stand out apart from any others. "LET ME THROUGH! SHES MY BEST FRIEND, LADDIE, I NEED IT SEE HER, I-" and before you could hear the rest, everything went dark.

Slipping in and out of consciousness, you could see DrMcCoy yelling something at a nurse, Kirk pushing people away from you, and Scotty, holding on to you, crying… Finally, bones gives you a hypo-spray, and you pass out again.

When you wake up, you are on a bed in sick bay, with both your hand and leg heavilybandaged. Hearing something, you carefully turn to your right, and see Scotty sitting next to you, head in his hands,sobbing. Reaching out with your good hand, you lightly grab one of his arms, causing him to look up slowly. At first, he looks like his heart has been broken 3 times over, but upon seeing you awake, his tear stained face breaks into a huge grin, and he leaps out of his chair and pulls you into a bone-crushing hug, and starts crying again. "I thought i was going to lose you y/n! Spock and McCoy said you had only a 9.7 percent chance of living!" He told you through tears. "Don't ever leave me again, y/n, I-I love you"... " I love you"... He cried. You were in shock, so much was happening, your hand had just been chopped off and reattached, you had almost died, Montgomery Scott said he loved you… Montgomery Scott said he loved you!!!! All the other stuff going on in your life melted away instantly, leaving you with only the words that had been spoken by your one true love. Remembering that you still had Scotty crying and hugging you, you slowly use you good hand to lift his head up enough for you two to be at eye level, you smile, wipe away some of his tears, shedding a few of your own; and whisper "I love you too, Scotty", and smiling bigger than you had ever seen him smile before, he crashed his lips against yours in a kiss that you know that you will never forget, a kiss that you know you will cherish all your life, a kiss that you know will change everything...