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In Med-bay Thea was sitting on a bed watching Spock who was staring pensively ahead of himself. She didn't know how she would feel to know that her planet was turned to nothing in just a few moments if she was in Spock's shoes. At least he still had both of his parents though.
"How you feelin' darlin'?" She pulled her eyes from Spock to look up at Leo who was standing in front of her with a scanner.
She raised an eyebrow at him, noticing that without waiting for her response he had started to run his scanner over her. "I don't know, why don't you tell me?"
He snorted, "You have some bruised ribs, probably from hitting your station earlier-,"
"Your fault if I recall correctly," She mused as she watched his facial expression intently. This was a common thing that she and he did whenever the rare times that she had to get stitched up. He would tell her what was wrong and she would make sarcastic remarks in return, normally driving him insane by the time he had her stitched up. Jim found it hilarious, although the one time he had tried the same thing, Bones had hypoed him into unconsciousness. When he had awoken and asked why Bones never did the same to Thea, he received two different answers. Bones turned red and just threatened him with another hypo while Thea had grinned and said, "Because I'm more his type, brother dear." This made Bones sputter for a moment then stomp off to leave the Kirk twins to smirk after him.
He ignored her and continued. "Some lacerations on your temple,"
"Probably should have dodged those rocks faster. My bad,"
"There are some muscle strains on both of your arms near each socket."
"Tends to happen when you're being used as a human safety net,"
Leo finally looked up at her at that. "Human safety net?"
She gave him a sweet smile, "Yea."
"Care to elaborate, darlin'?" The question was clearly a demand.
Thea simply shrugged, "I'm sure you'll hear it sooner or later. Best to keep you in suspense,"
Leonard huffed and lightly grasped her chin, turning her head to the side so he could see the cut she had at her temple. Neither noticed that the moment that Thea had looked away, Spock had turned to watch them. He fought the unease at seeing the two; Dr. McCoy looked at Thea with exasperated fondness while Theodora seemed to grin up at McCoy unashamedly. His mind whirled as he tried to figure out how Nero could possibly think that he and Theodora Kirk were t'hy'la. The Romulan sounded so sure of that fact, the man was delusional so he could have just conjured up some make believe relationship. But how did Nero know the exact wording a Vulcan used? The word t'hy'la was kept sacred to Vulcan's only, and though Romulans shared a close ancestry to Vulcan's, that word was only used with Vulcan's.
The only way for Nero to have known it, was if he had heard a Vulcan speaking it to said Vulcan's mate. T'hy'la was considered a pet name too, Spock recalled some instances of t'hy'la mates calling each other that. But where would Nero have heard it? When?
Through his thinking, Spock did not notice his mother looking between him and Thea very closely. Amanda had seen Thea watching Spock before the gruff doctor had captured her attention, then saw Spock watch her as soon as she looked away. She needed to watch the two more to see how they react together in other situations.
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Once everyone was healed, they all moved to the bridge. Thea and Leo were leaning against one of the railings, watching everyone else as they discussed what to do.
"Have you confirmed that Nero is heading for Earth?" Spock asked as he idly paced about the bridge.
Uhara spoke up, "Their trajectory suggests no other destination, Captain."
"Thank you, Lieutenant." Spock responded.
From his spot sitting in the Captain's chair, Jim said, "Earth maybe his next target but we have to assume every Federation planet is a target."
"Out of the chair," Spock softly reprimanded. Leo softly snorted as Jim rolled his eyes and stood up, moving to stand next to him and Thea.
"Well if the Federation is the target, why didn't they destroy us?" Chekov asked.
Sulu scoffed, "Why would they? Why waste a weapon? We obviously weren't a threat,"
Thea couldn't help but agree with what Sulu said. They truly were outmatched, and that just pissed her off. She looked over to Spock when he said, "That was not it. He said he wanted me to see something…the destruction of my home planet."
"How the hell did they do that by the way?" Leo asked, shifting slightly to cross his arms. "And where did the Romulans get that kind of weaponry?"
"The engineering comprehension necessary to artificially create a black hole may suggest an answer," Spock hinted.
Thea raised an eyebrow, "You can't honestly be saying what I think your saying." She had moved slightly toward Spock in her shock at what she concluded he was meaning.
Spock focused on her, making Uhara narrow her eyes. "Such technology could theoretically be manipulated to create a tunnel through space-time."
"Theoretically." Thea stressed, neither of them noticing that they had again moved closer.
Leo cut in on the two's staring match with, "Damn it, man! I'm a doctor, not a physicist! Are you actually suggesting they're from the future?"
"If you eliminate the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Spock said back with an arched brow.
"How poetic," Leo said sarcastically.
"Yes, but Sherlock Holmes isn't the one in our situation, right now." Thea told Spock. When he focused his eyes back on her, she sighed and decided to give the Vulcan some leeway. "If what you're saying is true, what would an angry-future Romulan want with Captain Pike?"
"As captain, he does know details of Starfleet's defenses." Sulu mentioned. Spock gave Thea a look which she responded with slightly rolled eyes, clearly saying he won this round. Spock moved past her as Jim spoke up, "What we need to do is catch up with that ship. Disable it, take over and get Pike back." He looked at Thea for her support.
Spock spoke up before she could say anything, "We are technologically outmatched in every way. A rescue attempt would be illogical."
"Nero's ship would have to drop out of warp for us to overtake it," Chekov clearly saw that Jim's plan would be unlikely.
"Then what about assigning engineering crews to boost our warp yields?" Jim asked instead of giving up.
Spock didn't agree. "Remaining power and crew are being used to repair radiation leaks on the lower decks." The others watched as the two continued talking, both raising their voices above the other, trying to each make a point. Thea reached out a hand to stop Jim from moving closer to Spock when she noticed her brother marching over to where she and Spock were still standing.
"By the time we've 'gathered' it would be too late. You say he's from the future and knows what's gonna happen then the logical thing is to be unpredictable-what Thea?" The last part was growled at his sister when he noticed her shaking his head in the corner of his eye.
"We don't know that, Jim. For all we know Nero being here changed everything." She tried to get her point across before her brother winded up to get himself thrown into the brig.
He gave her a confused expression causing Spock to say, "You're assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold. The contrary, Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the U.S.S Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party."
Thea looked at her brother, "Nero brought on an alternate reality, Jim."
"Precisely," Spock said, giving Thea a small nod as he moved toward the Captain's chair. "Whatever our lives might have been, if the time continuum was disrupted our destinies have changed. Mr. Sulu, plot a course for the Laurentian system, warp factor 3."
Jim moved toward the acting captain, "Spock, don't do that. Running back to the rest of the fleet for a con-fab is a massive waste of time."
"These our orders issued by Captain Pike before he left the ship," Spock reminded Jim.
"He also ordered us to go back and get him. Spock you are captain now, you have to make-,"
Spock cut in, "I'm aware of my responsibilities, Mr. Kirk." Thea moved toward her brother, prepared to stop him from making a big mistake, even though she agreed with him entirely, her tactical brain could see both points of views and she was more willing to go with Jim's plan since it was more active than running away for help.
"Every second we waste, Nero is getting closer to his next target!"
"That is correct and why I'm instructing you to accept the fact that I alone am in command."
Jim glared, "I will not allow us to go backwards and cower from the problem instead of hunting Nero down!"
"JIM!" Thea yelled, as Spock stood up. She made a move to step in when Leo pulled her away from the two angry males.
"Security, escort him out." Spock ordered. Jim blinked, glancing to his sister who gave him a warning look. As two security officers came up behind Jim, Spock sat down glancing between the twins who were having one of their silent communications. He was silently hoping that Theodora didn't do anything to make him have her also forced from the bridge. Whatever Thea seemed to be communicating to her brother seemed to make him sigh and allow the security guards to start to lead him off the bridge. Thea started to relax, pausing when her brother fought out of the security guards holds.
"Enough Jim!" Leo yelled.
Jim continued to fight, not even pausing when he heard his sister, "JIM! STOP!" if he had looked over he would have seen Sulu reaching out and stopping Thea from jumping into the fight with him by wrapping his arms around the young woman's waist. Thea struggled against Sulu; everything in her was urging her to help her brother. She watched as Spock came up from behind Jim and seemed to pinch the back of his neck, causing him to drop like a pound of potatoes.
They all looked at Spock as he commanded in a dark tone to one of the security guards, "Get him off this ship."
Leo looked to Thea when she let a growl at the command. She was glaring at Spock as the security guards reached down and started to carry Jim off of the bridge. Spock glanced around the quiet bridge, before focusing on the fuming Thea that was glaring at him venomously.
He waited for her to yell, curse, or even try to hit him like humans were wont to do when highly emotional, especially women. The bridge seemed to be waiting anxiously also, everyone in that room knew how close the Kirk twins were. If you attacked one, you would not only get the one you had attacked on you but also the others sibling as well. Sulu was trying to calm her down, his voice low as he whispered something in her ear as she continued to glare at Spock.
Everyone, including Spock, were astonished when suddenly all anger on Thea's face vanished, leaving her face completely blank and cold. She pulled herself out of Sulu's arms, causing everybody to tense and ready themselves for Thea to throw herself at Spock.
Thea didn't do that. She pivoted sharply on her heel and stalked to the lift on the opposite side of the bridge that her brother was just carried out of. She glided in, stabbing at a button with her back to the bridge. The doors closed on her tensed shoulders and her hands slowly clenching into fists at her side.
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Hearing the doors closed behind her, Thea let out a deep sigh before saying to the bank of numbers next to her, "Computer: locate James T. Kirk."
A moment later a robotic voice said, "James T. Kirk is located at shuttle bay three." At hearing that, she reached over and pressed the button that would take her to her brother. When she reached her destination she started down the halls, passing a few crew members. Finally she came upon the security guards that had taken her brother, they having already released the pod into space.
"Damn it!" She cursed softly, hiding as the guards turned and left. She moved to the window next to where the pod had recently been launched and watched as the small ball big enough to fit a human being was soaring to a nearby planet.
"The Kirk twins should be together, it's only right," A voice suddenly sneered from behind her. She turned; ready to hit whoever was behind her in agitation, when she was suddenly pushed into the window she had just been looking out of. She unwillingly let out a cry of pain when she felt her head connect hard to the window, she blacked out for a moment, not feeling her body start to slide down the wall, blood trailing after her from her head. She didn't feel her body roughly picked up and taken to another shuttle pod and carelessly thrown in.
She awoke slightly when she landed on her left arm wrong, grunting from the sudden fiery pain in her arm. She might have just popped her shoulder out of place and it hurt like a bitch. She looked up through bleary eyes to see a figure she vaguely remembered. "Have fun, slut." The figure snarled before she felt the shuttle being released from the Enterprise.
She gave a sharp cry when her body was flung around, again landing on her arm. The pain was intense and caused her to fortunately pass out as her shuttle flew after her brothers.
