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So here is chapter 7, as always please Enjoy!
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Someone was knocking at the door. Loudly. At 6:34 in the freaking morning.
Someone was going to get killed.
Natalya growled, throwing back the covers and marching toward the door. If this was Nyota, as much as she loved her friend, she was going to kill her. It had taken hours to get to bed, between the baby and worrying about all the shit with James. The knocking became more frantic as she headed down the hallway. "Calm the hell down, I'm coming!" She snapped, yelling Enter after and the door shot open. James came in, looking slightly panicked and extremely worried. "James you better have a damn good reason for waking me up because-"
"I have to leave in two days." He said, running a hand through his hair and staring at her wide eyed.
"W-what? You still have a week and a half-"
"No, they just told me that the updates and repairs are practically done. The only reason we had to wait so long was because they needed a shipment to come in and it came early. This is-" He trailed off, not able to come up with a word. Natalya shook her head, sitting down at a chair and sighing.
"Can't you ask for a couple more days? I mean if the crew is visiting family and stuff then they need more time to get back." She pointed out.
"They need us out soon anyway. They want us to head out to sector 2 and do some crap there. Jesus." He sighed, rubbing his face tiredly. "We have to work this out, Natalya. If you're not coming aboard the Enterprise I have to tell them now that I'm staying-" But Natalya was already shaking her head. "I'm not missing my kids birth. And I said we'd do this thing together. I can't be here with you together when I'm galaxies away." He snapped, folding his arms stubbornly.
"I get that James, I do. But we both know you would hate being stuck on Earth. You'd go stir crazy and then you'd start hating me and the baby." She sighed, laying her hand over her stomach.
"Then the only other option is for you to come on the Enterprise!" He cried, throwing his hands in the air. "Nyota has Amanda up there with her. Spock and her are just fine up there with her. And there are other people on other ships who have kids with them."
Natalya bit her lip. He was right. Amanda was being raised in space and she knew if Nyota really thought the ship was bad she would stay on Earth with Spock and Amanda. But she didn't, she raised her family there. She had gone through her whole pregnancy on board. Plus... Nyota could help her through everything. The rest of the pregnancy, birth and actually being a good mom. There was only so much Nyota could tell her through beaming her. But her being there in person would be ten times better. And it wasn't like there was anyone here she would be leaving. She had kept to herself for most of the five and a half months she had been teaching down here. The only people she really cared about and had connected with in recent years were on the Enterprise too.
Natalya had to admit the pros out wieghted the cons here. So she bit her lip and gave a defeated nod.
"Okay... if Admiral Bennett will let me, I'll go with you." She whispered, watching James' head snap up and a giant grin spread across his face.
"You're serious?" He asked cautiously, still looking extremely overjoyed though. She rolled her eyes, smiling slightly at how happy he was and nodding.
"No I'm yanking your dick- yes I'm serious. There's more pros then cons in this situation." She shrugged. James let out a little breath he had been holding, smiling widely.
"Thank you." He sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I would have, but I didn't want to abandon ship." Natalya laughed, shaking her head. James grabbed her arm, jerking her up suddenly. "We need to go talk to him now, get everything settled."
"James seriously it's seven in the morning and I look like shit-" She protested, but he wrapped an arm around her, pulling her out the door. God, someone was excited.
Two days passed quickly for Natalya and James. Not only was James having to run around getting things together with the Enterprise and his crew, he had to help Natalya with packing and getting things wrapped up to get aboard the Enterprise. Nyota helped quite a bit when he couldn't, something he was extremely thankful for, and Natalya was ready to move by the time it was ready to go. Her things were set aboard the ship in new quarters for her and the baby. They had materials sent for the baby's room when it was time to be set up. Natalya had insisted on green things since they didn't know the sex of the baby and so several boxes of green baby things were put into the room with the rest of her things. To say it wasn't all slightly hectic was a total lie.
"So, how good does it feel coming back?" Sulu joked with Natalya the day of boarding, following them through the processing center. Natalya smiled, following him through the scanner.
"Alright," She shrugged, obviously playing it off. James gave a laugh, nudging her.
"She started crying when Bennett cleared her to come back." James joked, and Natalya smacked his arm.
"Oh, that mouth of yours I didn't miss." She laughed, patting his cheek roughly. He laughed.
"So ya did miss us down there, Rider?" Monty smiled, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and crushing her to him. "God, knows I missed ya. Damn Ensign who replaced ya didn't know a damn thin'." He sighed, shaking his head sadly.
"You're gonna have to wait for a couple more months for her to start working again, Scotty." James warned as they moved to the docking station. Natalya whipped her head around, raising her eyebrows.
"What? I can still work. For at least another month." She stated, lifting her chin stubbornly. James already knew this was gonna be another argument. Before all there arguments, whether it was before when they were in bed or now when they were discussing the baby she always lifted her chin and narrowed her eyes.
"Maybe teaching, but not Engineering." James pointed out, giving her his own stubborn look. "Right Bones?" He asked, looking over toward the doctor for conformation.
"You can't lift anything over five pounds, so Engineering...." Bones mumbled, giving a little shrug. Natalya glared at him while James gave a truimphant smile.
"While Lt. Natalya may not be able to return to all that she did before, she still could help Mr. Scott run the transporter room. It would not require physical strain." Spock put in. "Nyota continued working up until her 8th month of pregnancy, just not as many hours." Natalya beamed at her friends bond mate. She would have slapped his arm in thanks... but she didn't really know what the half Vulcan would do so she just gave him a little smile.
"Thank you, Spock for that wonderful logic." Natalya smiled, giving James a smug little smile as she settled into the shuttle seats. They were uncomfortable and hard, but it didn't matter. Between winning her little argument with James and the excitement of going back to the Enterprise, not much else mattered to Natalya.
The Enterprise was almost exactly the same it seemed like. From the outside and the inside. The metal walls were still a bright white and computers were found everywhere. It was... home. And Natalya was surprised how much she really did miss the ship. Not just the people, but the place itself.
She found her rooms easily. They were in the same general area as Nyota and Spock's. It was larger, almost as big as her apartments were back on Earth. Her things were there, unpacked and still boxed. Natalya didn't bother with that though, she headed straight to the baby's room. It was smaller then hers, but roomy. Several different boxes were lined against the wall. A crib, a changing station, a green dresser, a rocking chair.
Natalya suddenly felt her chest constrict and her head swim. Two months. Just two months and the baby would be born and would be living in this room. It was so overwhelming. Sure, Natalya had agreed on keeping the baby and raising it with James, but it still terrified her. And even before they could get to raising the baby, she had to have it first. Birth... that was just as terrifying as raising the baby. She remembered visiting Nyota when she was in labor with Amanda. Even in the early stages it looked extremely painful. And as Natalya waited outside the birthing room she could hear Nyota scream. It sounded horrible. Nyota had been through 30 some hours of labor in all. 30 hours of pure pain. Natalya never did have a high pain tolerance.
She sat down in the rocking chair, taking deep breaths to calm herself down. She had two more months. She would be fine by then. More prepared. It would all be fine. At least she hoped. She just kept repeating that as she rubbed her stomach gently.
Her and James could do this.
The first few weeks aboard the ship went fine. James had finally broken down and agreed to let her help in the transporter room, just as long as she didn't try and go fix things and such. "Leave it to Scotty." He had said. Natalya had gritted her teeth, but agreed. She hated that he was treating her like she was freaking disabled, but she understood. It was kind of sweet if she really thought about it.
Everyone seemed happy to have her back. She talked and ate with everyone from bridge just like before. She would never tell any of them this, but she really had missed them. The only people who didn't seem happy to have her back were James' little fan club of girls. After it got around that Natalya was pregnant with his baby the girls seemed to hate her even more then before when she was just sleeping with him. She had over heard several conversations about the "knocked-up slut" James was parading around with. It didn't really bother her, the girls had said the same things before she had gotten pregnant. It always made her laugh actually. Like they wouldn't have jumped into bed with him the minute they were given a chance. Only difference was they didn't get there first. Some of the girls who weren't all talk seemed to think that they could distract James and get him into bed still. Some of them had even had the balls to come up and hit on him right in front of her. At least she got to see the looks on their faces when he turned them down.
Only thing was when they got turned down, most of it was taken out on her. Not that she couldn't handle it, but it got old after a while. She still remembered a particular girl from the first few days back.
Natalya sat down at a table by herself, munching away on her chips. The rest of the crew were still working or finishing up and she didn't feel like waiting on them. She was too hungry. So she had grabbed food by herself, reading a PADD Monty had given her.
She heard someone sit down across from her suddenly. She expected one of the bridge members, Bones or Monty. But to her surprise it was some pretty red head. She had a sweet smile on her face as she gazed at Natalya and extended her hand. Her fingers were perfectly manicured and pained a bright pink. "I'm Bianca." She smiled, tilting her head to the side all cute and blinking her eyes innocently. Her voice was high pitched and slightly whiny sounding. She already got on Natalya's nerves.
"Natalya..." She mumbled, ignoring her pink fingered hand. That cute little smile faded a bit as she let her hand drop but she regained it quickly.
"Natalya Rider right?" Bianca asked, grabbing one of the carrots from her plate. It was all salad, fruits and veggies. It made Natalya feel even fatter, with her chips, sandwhich and pudding.
"Yeah." Natalya answered shortly. She was growing bored with this girl already.
"Oh, wow." Bianca smiled.
"Wow?" Natalya asked, glancing up at her.
"Your the girl James got pregnant right? The captain?" She asked, still feigning that cute innocent face.
"Obviously. What is it you want?" Natalya sighed, rolling her eyes.
"I just didn't believe them." Bianca said, shaking her head as her eyes traveled to Natalya's pregnant stomach. "I mean, everyone knew you and Jim had a thing, but I couldn't believe when they said you were pregnant. I mean after you left, Jim went around here jumping into bed with every girl he could get his hands on. He even pursued me for a while." Bianca said, that little smile gone as she tried to look sympathetic. Natalya felt her chest ache a bit, a nagging feeling. She didn't know why it bothered her so much to hear that. It was what she had expected. And James had every right to do what he wanted with girls when she had left. They weren't in a relationship and she hadn't broken his heart or something when she left. But it still hurt a bit to hear it. Not that she showed that to "sweet" little Bianca here.
"Bianca, is it?" Natalya asked, giving her own sweet little smile. Bianca nodded, blinking those big brown eyes at her again. "Why don't you take your fat ass up out of that bench and go bother someone else. I'm not stupid sweetie. The sweetheart act is just plain sad. Go be a bothersome bitch somewhere else and get over the fact that after you and James jumped into bed together, he didn't look at you again. It's not my problem sweetie." Natalya smiled, loving when that innocent look fell from her face to be replaced by a look of anger and slight shock. Her nostrils flared and her cheeks turned a bright red. It was just funny.
"At least I'm not the one stuck with a kid for the rest of my life because I'm not smart enough to use the pill." Bianca snapped, rising from the table and throwing back her red hair and marching away. Natalya smiled to herself, biting into her chip.
Stupid girls like that she could handle. She had far bigger things to worry about.
Her ultrasound was today. She wasn't nervous anymore and even James seemed a bit calmer this time as they headed down to see Bones.
Bones was chatting up a younger looking girl and it took Natalya a minute to realize it was the girl from the bar that night. He was smiling at her, actually smiling. James snorted next to her and she grabbed his arm. "Don't go embarrassing him." Natalya hissed at him, digging her nails into his arm as he tried to move toward them. "What the hell is she doing on here anyway?"
"Apparently she works down in maitenece. Her names Tilly Rogers." He shrugged, giving a sly little grin.
"She's cute. And Bones is smiling." Natalya grinned, watching as Tilly through her head back and laughed at something Bones had said. Bones saying something funny... weird.
"Bones does need laid, that's for sure." James mumbled, shaking his head. She slapped him, making him give a pout and wince. "What?"
"Not everyone's a pig like you. Maybe he wants something more than that. I mean, it's been nearly 7 years since his divorce right?" She said, running a hand through her hair. "Bones needs more than just mindless sex."
"You didn't mind "mindless sex" with this pig." James pointed out, giving a cocky smile.
"Ya but I used you there. You were my little boy toy in that situation." She countered, flashing him one of her famous smiles and heading over toward Bones. James mouthed dropped as he followed after her.
"Your boy toy?" He gaped, shaking his head and she could almost see his pride level rising. "You were the one asking for some."
"And your the one who came back after the first time. You're the one who came begging for more." She smiled. James just gaped at her like a fish, making her laugh even more. It was true though. After the first time, she left and didn't say another thing about continuing. She talked to James the next day acting like everything was the same. After a couple days though, James came to her rooms, asking for more. She had loved that. After getting throw aside like trash with Nigel, she was happy to learn James wanted her again after one night. It wasn't the same as him wanting her in a relationship, but it was enough to satisfy Natalya.
"I sure as hell didn't beg." James huffed, looking like a little five year old pouting. Bones caught sight of them, giving Tilly a good-bye and ushering them over.
"Get up on the table," Bones ordered. It seemed the good mood he had with Tilly didn't last very long after she left.
"You really know how to charm a girl, Bones." Natalya smarted, jumping up onto the table. Bones gave a little grunt in reply and got out that goo stuff and the monitor. Natalya lifted her shirt, hating how huge she looked now. Bones sprayed the cold goo, and pressing the monitor to her stomach. The baby popped up on the screen. It looked a bit different this time, bigger and more like a baby. It's arms and legs were more proportioned to its head and she could see it's little facial features become more prominent. She felt a sudden warmth spread through her as always. It caught her off guard every time how much she felt. She reluctantly tore her gaze from the screen to look at James. He had that same look on his face as last time, fear mixed with love. So he was more nervous then he let on.
"Everything looks good as far as I can see. The kid is developing just fine and your bloodwork from yesterday is looking good." Bones replied after several minutes of looking at the monitor. "Heartbeat sounds good."
"What about the sex?" James asked suddenly, making her look back over at him.
"I don't want to know the sex." Natalya said, and James just gave her a one-sided grin.
"Yeah, but I do." He said. "Just write it down or something for me." He told Bones. Bones nodded, moving the monitor around for a moment. After a couple moments Bones shut the monitor off and wiped the goo off her belly. He wrote some things down on his PADD, obviously the sex of the baby because he haded it to James after. James gave a small smile after handing it back and she glared at him.
"You tell me and I'll hurt you." She said, moving her Star Fleet uniform back over her stomach. Bones left the room muttering something about getting something.
"I got it." James said, giving a smug little grin. "We should kinda figure out what we're gonna name the kid don't you?" He asked, gazing down at her stomach.
"You have to give me options for both!" She said immediately. "You can't go just giving options for whatever the baby is, then I'll know."
"I got it, it got it." He said, giving a little chuckle. He moved his hand to her stomach suddenly, spreading it out wide over the peak of her belly. It made Natalya jump a bit. It had been almost a month since he had touched her belly. "It's weird. We have a little less then two months." He mumbled, a sudden look of worry crossing his face.
"Yeah." She mumbled, watching his eyebrows furrow together. "James," She said softly, laying her hand out over his. "You'll be an amazing dad. I know it."
Those words seemed to trigger something in James because he met her eyes, his own swimming with so many different emotions. They stared at each other for a long moment and suddenly his lips were on hers. It wasn't like any of the kisses they had had before. Those were filled with lust and hunger. But this one... this one was soft and almost... loving. Her heart shot into overdrive as his one hand stayed on her stomach and the other intertwined with her blond curls. It lasted for what seemed like hours, before Natalya came to her senses. She shoved him back, her eyes wide and shocked.
"James- what?" She gasped, her lips still tingling from the feel of his. Her heart was thudding in her ears and her whole body was shaking. She felt like she did after Nigel had first kissed her. No.... no, no, no.
"I... I just- Natalya, stop!"
She had jumped off the medical table, almost running out of the medical bay. She heard James following after her but she didn't stop. This was crazy. She couldn't feel like that after a kiss from James T. Kirk. Even if he was giving up his lifestyle of jumping into bed with anything with a vagina he still wouldn't commit. He wasn't the kind of guy to settle down. He wasn't the kind of guy to fall for. What was she doing?
She was going crazy, that was for sure.
There ya go. Moving forward with the relastionship! Hope you enjoyed... well not there first kiss but the first one that wasn't leading to sex. lol.
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Ta-ta loves.
