Hey folks, I know it's been a while, but I'm back. I haven't forgotten this, don't worry.

This chapter kinda makes fun of Bones a little bit, so enjoy, even though I don't own Star Trek or Kayla


Every now and then
Soft as breath upon my skin
I feel you, come back again
And it's like, you haven't been
Gone a moment from my side
Like the tears were never cried

-3. A Spark of Hope -

Kayla ran like lightning to Sickbay, where Bones had moved Spock's body and was now standing over it with a bewildered look on his face.

"What the hell?" the doctor was saying as he ran a tricorder over the body.

"What is it?" Kayla asked, her own issue momentarily forgotten in favor of curiosity at what the medic was finding

"His body. I managed to bring it back, but..."

"But what?" Kayla pressed.

"...but something's not right. The lights are on but nobody's home."

"What does that mean?" Kayla asked. Bones leaned on the side of the table where he had Spock's body.

"It means his body is alive, but there's no one in it." The doctor shook his head, " Where the hell did that pointy-eared idiot go?"

"Um...would you believe me if I said he was in me?" Kayla asked.

"What?"

"He mind melded with me, remember? When he taught me to run the science station." McCoy's face brightened up.

"You can work that thing? Oh good, I was worried we'd need a replacement Vulcan. But if you can do it, we'll be fine." He'd never admit it out loud, but the idea of a science officer that didn't drive him insane was very tantalizing to him. So much that it came out in his new temperment.

"What do we do now?" Kayla asked.

"You can replace him and I can take his husk off life support." Was it her imagination, or did he seem just a bit too happy to take Spock off life support. She felt him stir in her mind, which reminded her completely of her condition.

"Doc, I can't go walking around with two people in my head, free to do what I want, while poor Mr. Spock is trapped in my head. It's not right." She scoffed. Then her voice seemed to change tone, without her realizing it, two words escaped her.

"It's...illogical."

McCoy froze.

The doctor turned slowly to face her.

"What did you just say?" His voice was soft and shaky with disbelief.

"Illogical." she repeated, without meaning to. McCoy's eyes widened.

"Oh dear God, now you're turning into one, too! One of them was bad enough!"

"Don't be stupid, Bones, I'm not turning into a Vulcan." I hope, she added to herself.

"Oh no? You're talking like a Vulcan. One specific Vulcan, to be exact."

"It's not me talking, then...it's Spock!" Kayla's eyes got as big as the Enterprise

"Well, make him shut up." growled an irritated McCoy.

"If I were human," she said, but in a deep male voice that was certainly not her own, "I may have been offended by that, Doctor." That sent McCoy into a frenzy.

"YOU EVEN SOUND LIKE HIM!" the doctor screamed. Kayla's hands flew to her mouth.

"Th-that w-wasn't me!" she stuttered in her own voice.

"How the hell do we get him out of you?" Bones smacked the table, frustrated. "Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a Vulcan brain surgeon!"

"A doctor is supposed to know how to fix stuff like this!"

"I deal with physical, body stuff! Not this weird Vulcan mental crap! Can't you just...I don't know, mentally shove him out or something? Shoot him back into his own head?" Kayla's voice changed again to that of Spock as she glared at him.

"The odds of that working are almost none."

"Oh, for God's sake, Spock, get your ass out of her!" The Vulcan raised Kayla's eyebrow at him.

"Doctor, I am unable to get my "ass" out, as it is not in here with me." Kayla facepalmed. Spock had the worst timing for his attempts at humor.

"If you weren't in the body of a female crewmember, I'd smack you so hard right now. This is serious, Spock!"

"I was not attempting humor, Doctor."

"Well then would you please try to do SOMETHING to help this situation, before I go insane?" The doctor was red in the face by now.

"Why don't we try a meld?" Kayla suggested. The doctor's eyes lit up.

"Kayla, that's it! You can have him mind meld with his body and go back that way! It should work, since you seem to have his other abilities, like being able to figure out that confounded science station."

"What have we got to lose?" Kayla shrugged and walked over to Spock's body. Spock then took control, placing his hands in the correct positions. It was strange, attempting this in a body that was completely alien to him, and attempting this on his own body. He concentrated, trying to find the right pathways to form a meld. But Kayla's human brain and lack of telepathic ability made it impossible, and he gave up after trying every way he knew of.

"Dammit." Bones swore when Kayla told him, "now what do we do?"

"Take me home." Spock had taken over her again.

You have GOT to stop doing that, Kayla snapped at Spock.

"What, take you to Vulcan?" Spock/Kayla nodded.

"Ugh, fine." McCoy went to his office, pulled out a PADD and wrote up a top priority confidential medical order to go to Vulcan. He handed it to a nurse to have her take it to the bridge.

"What was that about?" Kayla, now herself again, asked, "That was freaky."

"Just got worse." said Bones, "We're going to Vulcan." Kayla raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Said who?"

"Who do you think?" Bones crossed his arms over his chest.

"Oh yeah. That makes sense." Kayla leaned against a wall, "But why couldn't he tell us this before now?"

"He's an ass." Bones stated, as if it were an obvious fact. Kayla stared at him.

"That was a bit harsh, Doc."

"Please. You haven't tried to give him a physical."

"If he took over while you were giving me one, I'd laugh so hard." Kayla had to stop herself from giggling as Bones glared daggers at her.

"Let's just get to Vulcan so I can kick his ass." he grumbled.


Next chapter, they arrive on Vulcan, and the universe seems to be bent on annoying Bones. But none of them can imagine to twist that awaits them on the desert planet. Stay tuned!

LLAP