One and Another

A few days had passed since Tziporah had come to the ship, and within them days, she had shed more light about what she knew about herself and what she didn't know. Although, it did worry Spock that she didn't know a lot about herself. However, the more that she shared with Spock, the more he shared with her, about his own life and about Amanda, their mother and even some things about Sarek their father, even if the mere mention of their father made her grimace. However, on their morning, Spock was still asleep in his and Uhura's room but he was woken up to the sound of Uhura being sick. Getting up, he put on a pair of lounging pants and walked to the bathroom, holding Uhura's hair away from her face as she threw up in the toilet.

"Spock, you don't have to see this." Uhura told him groggily, before throwing up again.

"I will see this, because it is my job to be there for my mate when she is ill." Spock told her, getting glass of water for her when she had thrown up for the final time that morning and as she tied her hair back, he leant against the bath and held the glass of water out to her, watching her take a drink, before she put the cup down to brush her teeth to take away the taste of vomit, and she then settled back into her mate, with her bare back pressed against his bare chest. Spock wrapped his own arms around her.

"You should go and get checked out by Dr McCoy."

"I know, I'll go later." She mumbled, almost falling asleep against him.

At hearing the sleepiness in her voice, and figuring that it was still early, Spock picked Uhura up into his arms and carried her over to their bed, lying her against the pillows and pulling the blanket over her before he got into bed beside her. In her state of almost unconsciousness, Uhura slid closer to Spock, smiling to herself as he slid his arms around her.

When they both awoke, Spock was getting dressed while Uhura took a shower. He was debating on visiting his sister that morning, and taking her some things, but he wasn't sure what the Captain would allow him to do.

"What's on your mind?" Uhura asked him as she walked back into the room, naked and towel drying her hair.

Just the sight of his mate naked was enough to get Spock's pulse racing, but he fought for composure before he answered. "I was wondering whether to go and visit Tziporah."

"I think you should, it would be nice for you to catch up fully." Uhura told him, sliding her arms around him when she was close enough.

"You need each other." She told him. "And anyway, while you see her, I can go and see Bones, and find out what's happening to me."

"Wouldn't you like me to accompany you?" Spock asked as he watched her move away and dress.

"No, I'll be okay, I'm a big girl now Spock, and it's probably just a bug or something that I ate."

"I do hope that it is nothing serious." Spock told her. "When we meet up at the bridge, will you tell me everything?"

"Of course, now go and see your sister, before I drag you there myself." She told him when she had finished dressing and putting her boots on.

"As you wish Nyota." He kissed her cheek, knowing that it made his mate shiver when he said her first name, and he left their room, walking down to the cells.

When Spock had gone, Uhura tied her hair back once it was completely dry and she walked down to the medical bay where she found Dr McCoy easily enough.

"Bones." She spoke, waiting until he had turned around to face her and he looked at her.

"Ah, Uhura, what can I do for you this early in the morning?" He asked.

"Well, I've come to ask for some advice."

"Advice about what?" He asked, he now looked at her in pure curiosity.

"Well, I've been sick every morning this month so far, and my boobs also hurt and I'm late." She told him, nervousness in her voice more obvious now, since the last two things she told him, weren't things that Spock knew about.

"Ah, well judging from your symptoms, I would saw that it seems like you are pregnant Uhura, would you like me to give you a scan to check on everything?"

Uhura nodded, and she moved to lie back on the bed, as McCoy put something on the top of her dress, which resembled some sort of scanner, and they both looked at the screen and what they saw made Uhura smile as a strong heartbeat sounded through the machine.

"Well Uhura, it looks like you are indeed pregnant, and judging from the size of the foetus, you are around three weeks pregnant."

"Wow, really?" She sat up as she removed the scanner, and she looked down at her stomach, gently touching it. "Wow, I'm going to be a mum."

"Now, I'm going to give you some vitamins that you will need to take once a day in order to help the baby develop, and assuming that it is Spock's, I suggest that you try and contact his mother, for any advice."

Uhura nodded. "I will, thank you Bones." She smiled, and when he handed her the vitamins, she left the medical bay and went to hers and Spock's room, where she put the vitamins into a drawer and then went off to find Spock.

Meanwhile, Spock was sitting on a chair as Tziporah sat on the platform of her cell, she was back to wearing her hood and mask after refusing any medical treatment from Dr McCoy over the injury that she had sustained to her face.

"SO, what was your wedding like?

"Uhura and I haven't done the whole wedding thing." He told her.

"Why not?"

"Because we are waiting until we get back to New Vulcan." Spock told her. "You should come."

"To Vulcan…Where our parents are…Where no one knows that I actually exist…Yeah that would be a wonderful idea."

"Come on Tziporah, mother would love to know that you're alive, she and I mourned for months on end when we heard that you were supposedly dead." Spock told her, the siblings entwining their hands together, though this caused the guard on the other side of the room to grab hold of his phaser, this caused Tziporah to let go of her brother's hands and the guard relaxed.

"What if she's completely forgotten about me Spock?" She whispered.

"She hasn't, I can assure you." Spock told her, and they both looked at the door as it slid open and Uhura walked in, smiling.

"Uhura." Spock got to his feet, and walked to her. "I thought our agreement was to meet at the bridge."

"Well, we were, but I wanted to tell you what Bones told me now." She told him, as they shared a hug. "And anyway, since your sister is already here, now would be the best time."

"What did Dr McCoy tell you?" Spock asked, he sounded nervous of her answer.

"Well, he found out for me, but Spock we're going to have a baby." She told him.

Spock was frozen, and Tziporah had gotten to her feet as she heard the news.

"Uhura, that's wonderful." She walked over and both of them shared a hug, which had the guards walk over and suddenly thrown Tziporah off of Uhura and she ended up hitting the back of her head on the floor, leaving a mark of blood. This caused Spock to use the guard's pressure point and render him unconscious.

"Tziporah, you're hurt." Uhura exclaimed as she walked over to the alien and with Spock's help, though he still looked dumbfounded, they pulled her to her feet, and carried her over to sit on her bed.

"I'm fine." She told them and she pulled the bit of her hood back to reveal her wound which had now healed. "You two had better go back to the bridge, you should be starting your duties about now."

"We will, I'll come back and visit you tomorrow." Spock told her, and when she nodded, he left with Uhura.

As they walked, Uhura looked at him. "Spock, aren't you happy about being a father?"

"Of course I am Nyota, it just came as a shock." He got her to stop walking beside him and he moved to gently hold her face. "I've wanted this for a very long time, and I am very excited about the prospect of having a son of daughter of my own…"

"But?" She asked, knowing from the look on his face that there was more that he wanted to tell her.

"But I have come to realise through this, that my sister will miss out on everything that I have and yet to experience. She will never be able to experience the rush of love which comes from seeing your child for the first time, she will never step foot on Vulcan again, our community will shun her. I'm sorry Nyota, I know that you are ecstatic about this, and I am too, but it has made me realise much more than I wish it would, but once I have tried to fix what is going on in my mind, I will be more happy. I promise."

Uhura looked up at him and smiled. "Spock, you can't fix everything, but we can make sure that Tziporah has as much involvement with our child as possible, in order to make up for her not being able to have one herself."

Spock nodded. "Indeed." They walked to the bridge, hand in hand, and upon their arrival they apologised for being late and then got straight to work.

Later that night, when their shifts were finished with, Spock was in his and Uhura's room, reading whilst Uhura lay beside him.

"Spock, why would your family shun Tziporah?"

"Because she came back, for years we have all believed her to be dead, they can take that she isn't in a bad way." He told her, flicking another page of the book.

"Why was she sent away in the first place, that wasn't exactly made clear?"

"Because, we influenced each other, around her I was always protective and I got into many fights with people who tried to bully her, so they thought that she was the problem, being a half human as well as a half Vulcan, and they decided to send her to Earth….You know the rest of that story."

Uhura nodded. "Do you think that they ever realised that you were just being brother and sister?"

Spock shrugged. "As her big brother, it was my duty to protect her, a duty no one but my mother fully understood."

"Are you going to tell your mother about her?" Uhura asked. "About Tziporah and the baby?"

"I will, when we reach New Vulcan." He promised her. "But it depends if Tziporah is still here and not cast out like many wish."

"Kirk won't just kick her out for no reason, even you have to admit that your sister can be useful to us Spock." She decided to elaborate for his sake. "After all, she has learnt how to properly survive without the things that the enterprise gives us, maybe she could teach us how to do that, or what it's like to endure true hardship."

"You could be right, now come on, we need to get some sleep, and Kirk wants us all up early in the morning." Spock told her, watched her snuggle down right next to him as he put his book down and lay with her, his arms around her protectively.

"Good night Spock." She whispered.

"Good night Nyota."

As both of them fell into a soothing slumber, they never realised how early their wake up call was actually going to be.