Ah seeing new reviews make me happy! I woke up extremely early-I see coffee in my future at work. But let's see if I can get a chapter out. REVIEWS LOVED!
I will be giving periodic flashback's now that this Amelia and past Amelia are intertwining. So yeah good luck with Kirk telling her current self how annoying she is. If he only knew right?
The Future of Non Existance
Chapter 7
Amelia leaned on the turbo lift as she rubbed her temple. "Doctor you can stop running your tricorder over me, I'll be fine," she insisted.
"Ambassador, your blood pressure is extremely high and you were shot. I would advise anyone to lie down and stay in sickbay. A woman of your age, I should put in a self induced coma," Bones warned as he looked at her. "I only know one other person who can be as stubborn as you are being right now about recovery and that's the Captain," he told her.
"It must be a family trait," she mumbled under her breath as she stepped off the turbo lift.
"Bones, I need you in the brig," came Kirk's voice over his comm badge.
"I'm sorry Jim, but I've got a stubborn Ambassador who insisted on seeing the torpedoes' and I'm not leaving her side until she is back safe in sickbay. And when I get her there, I'm going to tie her to the damn bed. She's as frustrating as you are," Bones said as he looked at the Ambassador.
"Captain, I need you to come to Engineering," Amelia told the younger man.
"I'm a little busy, Ambassador. Is this important?" Kirk asked.
Amelia walked up to one of the torpedoes and looked at it. "Life or death Captain."
"Whose?" Kirk and McCoy asked in unison.
"Everyone on this ship Captain," Amelia answered as she rubbed her temple. This was the third time she had dealing's with Kahn in her life, and dealing with Kahn once in a lifetime was enough. And she had the feeling that third time was definitely not a charm.
"On my way," Kirk answered.
"We need to open one of these torpedoes," Amelia said to no one in particular.
"Not on my ship, you don't," said the acting Chief Engineer's voice. "Leonard, what's going on?" she asked as she joined them.
"I'm not sure, Jen," the CMO said. "Ambassador if you are going to be here, I insist that you sit down. Bring a chair," he ordered an Ensign. "There is unusual swelling in your cerebral cortex, I must insist that you go to sickbay."
Amelia looked at him. "I'm not having a stroke Bones, it's a remnant of a Centuri Eel that made itself home in me ages ago, when I get stressed it tightens around my cortex, but really is no harm besides that. It has been dead for years," she informed him. Hell there was no way of hiding that she had interaction with the other timelines version of these people now. "But my Dr. McCoy could not remove it all, otherwise I would have died," she explained as she got up and looked at the torpedo. "We need to open one of these blessed things," she repeated.
"I agree with the Ambassador," a woman's voice said from behind her.
Amelia looked at her then at the woman who was a alternate of her mother. "Oh this is…" she thought to herself. "Dr. Marcus," she greeted.
"Her name isn't Marcus, it's Wallace," Jen Walker corrected her.
"Actually the Ambassador is correct, my name is Carol Marcus," the younger version of the mother of her half brother corrected she said as she looked at her. "Have we met?"
"In my time line, we have," she simply said.
Jen turned as Kirk came in. "Thank God Jim, these two want to open one of the torpedoes. Would you tell them they are out of there minds?"
Kirk looked at Jen then walked over and kneeled in front of the Ambassador. "Amelia, you looked me in the eye and told me you did not know John Harrison. I saw the look on your face before you passed out, you recognized that man. Why did you lie to me?"
Amelia's hazel eyes met his own. "I didn't lie to you Jim….I didn't know a John Harrison. That man you have on this ship….he may call himself John Harrison, but that is not his name. Seventy Two torpedoes' correct Dr. Marcus?"
"Yes," she answered.
"Amelia, I appreciate that you and the older Spock want to keep out the two time line's separate, that you need us to find our own way. But you said it was a matter of life and death, what do you think is in those torpedoes?" Kirk asked as he took her hand.
"People…no not people…genetically engineered….Eugenic's war," Amelia answered.
"People in torpedoes?" Jen asked. "She can't be right can she Jim?"
Jim looked up at the woman. "I don't know," he said as he turned his attention back to the older woman. "You're sure about this?"
Amelia looked at him. "No Captain, I'm not sure. But I do know that man that killed your friend, that killed Klingon's like they were nothing but bug on his shoe, he's not human. You hit him didn't you? He didn't even flinch did he?" she asked.
Jim looked at her. "You were passed out by then."
"This may not be the way it happened in my time, Jim….but the one thing that I can be sure of is that the man you have on this ship is one of the deadliest foes that the Enterprise ever met," she said as she looked at him. "You need to open one of those torpedoes…." she begged.
"Not on my ship!" Jen exclaimed. "Jim I swear if you even suggest going along with this, I will join Scotty wherever he is and you are going to have to put Chekov in a red shirt and here," she warned.
"The Ambassador is right, we need to see what's inside those torpedoes and why my father wanted this Harrison killed," Dr. Marcus said.
"What if the Ambassador is wrong? What if it's not a person but a real torpedoe? Seventy two real torpedoes? Some of us didn't have the fame of our father's to get by for where we got, and worked our asses off Dr. Marcus. You may want to prove something, but not with my ship," Jen warned the other woman. "No offense, Jim, you are a wonderful Captain," she added.
"Ladies, I happen to agree with both of you," he said as he stood. "We need to open the torpedoes but we aren't doing it on this ship," he told them as he looked at Dr. Marcus. "You're Admiral Marcus's daughter?" he asked. "Never mind, I really don't have time for this now. Bones and Dr Marcus will take one of the torpedoes down and open it," Jim instructed.
"Bones will do what? Bones has a patient that he needs to see back to sickbay," McCoy answered.
"I'm not going back to sickbay, Doctor," Amelia said as she raised her hand. "Before you argue with me, I've been dealing with my friend Mr. Eel for ages. I just need some time to meditate, and I also need to make a call to New Vulcan," Amelia told them. "I would appreciate being brought to see this man Harrison when you get confirmation of what's in those torpedoes."
"Why do I have a feeling even if I say no you know the codes to open the brig?" Jim asked.
"Well you don't think I'm going to admit it do you?" Amelia asked with a grin.
Jen looked at them then at McCoy. "Is it just me?"
McCoy shook his head. "No it's not just you, it's kind of creepy the way they seem to stand alike, think alike and have that same annoying disregard for the well being of themselves, but care about everyone else."
"I'll accompany you to your quarters, Ambassador," Spock said as he came out of the turbo lift.
Amelia looked at him and took a breath. She wouldn't win this argument with him. He was already to curious. "Thank you Commander," she said as she walked with him.
(Yes I'm mean leaving you on a cliffhanger aren't I? Well then you'll come back now won't you?)
