Disclaimer: Still don't own them, wouldn't be writing this if I did :)
A/N: okay, this chapter has also been updated. I added a bit more detail and fixed some mechanical errors :)
Chapter 3:The Naked Time
The Enterprise was on a routine mission to observe the disintegration of planet PSI 2000. When the away team investigated the surface we were surprised to find that no one was alive. The inhabitants had all died in very curious manners; we later learned they had contracted a disease. Unfortunately Lieutenant Junior Grade Joe Tormolen caught the disease and brought it onboard to the Enterprise. The disease quickly spread. Currently things are not going well. Scotty has no time to fix the problems with engineering and the crew is quickly losing it. This disease most closely resembles the effects of alcoholic intoxication. It seemingly is spread by touch, hopefully being half Vulcan I will be unable to get it. I must head to sickbay and see how McCoy is coming along, and whether he requires any assistance. But first the captain wants me to go to Engineering and tell Scotty to hurry up. Engineering and Sickbay are by far the two most important areas on the ship right now. If Scotty fails to resume control of engineering we will be unable to obtain a safe distance from the disintegrating planet. However with out Dr McCoy finding a cure regaining engineering will matter very little if there is no one left in our crew who can run it. As I near engineering I hear the hysterical laughter of a crew man, he is holding a paintbrush. I tell him to report to the lab. he keeps laughing, not even acknowledging I spoke to him. I decide to ignore him and continue on my way to engineering. I discover the source of his merriment. On the wall in red paint he has scrawled the words "Love Mankind." This is really getting out of hand. As I continue on I see a crewman serenading yeoman Rand and not letting her threw. I tell him to stand aside and continue on my way. I give Scotty the captain's message and start toward sickbay- another long and eventful trip. I finally reached sickbay and no one is there. I walk in and look around before I notice Nurse Chapel in the corner. I inquire to Nurse Chapel as of the whereabouts of Dr McCoy. I notice her hair is not in her usual style and that she seems to be perspiring. She is also rubbing her hand. Could she have the disease? She informs me that he has gone to the lab. I head to the computer and turn on the view screen, requesting the lab. I was unaware that Nurse Chapel was following me. The lab is not responding so I turn to leave. I am stopped by Nurse Chapel though. She grabs my hand and caresses it, at the moment I was unaware I had just contracted the disease. She starts to talk about how Vulcan's treat their woman strangely, at the moment she wasn't making to much sense. She went on to say that I am part human to and that I do not and could not love her. I pull my hand out of hers and turn towards the door, but once again she stops me. She stopped me with words I would never forget, no matter how fogged my thoughts were becoming.
"I'm in love with you Mr. Spock. You the Human Mr. Spock, the Vulcan Mr. Spock"
I try to tell her that I can not love her, that I am promised to a Vulcan woman. To T'Pring, a Vulcan I hardly know. However my thoughts are muddled and I am fighting terribly hard for emotional control. She goes on about how honest I am and about feelings. To this I reply that I am in control of my emotions. Yet she presses on, stating that she doesn't believe that and that she loves me dearly just as I am. All I can get out is "I am Sorry." It was pitiful and not nearly enough. I barely made it into the hall before I lost control. By the time I reached the briefing room I was in tears, my emotional control gone, and my logic lost. Christine probably never knew the affect that her words had on me. That night, actually it was now three nights prior, as I sat in my room I thought over what she said. I did not wish to marry T'Pring but I really had no choice. Nor would I ever be able to act on the hidden attraction I felt for Christine. My mind should have been on what had happened that day. We somehow managed to restart the cold engines, and get away from the imploding planet. Dr. McCoy found the cure and administered it to the crew. The restart of the engines and the explosion of the planet had the combined effect of sending us back in time three days. However all I could think of was what she said, "I'm in love with you Mr. Spock. You the Human Mr. Spock, the Vulcan Mr. Spock" She loved me, not just what I had, but me as a whole. Throughout my life I have always had people trying to change me, my father wanted me more Vulcan, and my mother wanted me more human. Even on board the Enterprise people still try to make me more human. However Christine had accepted me as both a human and Vulcan, she even went so far as to love both halves.
