A/N. Ok, just a quick chapter. It's near the end, we're almost there!! HOORAHH!!! There's some major fluff at the end. It started of being all angsty and self questioning, but I didn't like it. It jsut didn't fit, so here we go... let's try this :) Reveiws??? They are my pride and joy XD
Love, Jay.She flicked her comm. over to Scotty's, and listened in and he mumbled the calculations and then sighed in disbelief.
"Nice timing Scotty!" Jim's voiced rang through to her ear as she looked down upon the cadets, standing prepared at their loaded weapon stations.
"Ha ha ha!" Scotty cheered, "I've never beamed three people from two targets onto one pad before!" He cried out in joy, and Emma barely heard the door slide open.
"Jim!" Even his voice made her tingly.
"Bones!" Jim said, gruffly, obviously hauling something heavy. Emma grinned as she realised that it was Chris. Chris was home, at last.
"I got him" Bones offered, and Emma pictured him shouldering the weight of a limping Chris. She felt her stomach twist at the thought of Chris, the closest thing she had to an actual father, being injured or worse. She heard the sound of a medical scanner, and chewed on her lip nervously.
"That was pretty good!" Scotty put out there, sounding as if he needed some more attention. Emma looked out her window, and pushed Chris to the back of her mind.
"Uhh, Scotty, I think we're gonna need you down here on the Engine level, now" she told him, nervous and gruff at the same time. Emma watched as the same blue light that destroyed Vulcan was starting up in the middle of the Nerada. She heard Scotty start to sprint and breathy curses flying out of his mouth.
"Emma, where do you want me?" Brian asked, as he waiting patiently behind her.
"I need you to go back to med bay. I'm fine now" Brian nodded and headed off to the elevator, and Emma hoped that nothing would happen to him.
"Aye, lass" Scotty told her breathlessly, between mumbles caked in Scottish accent. Emma ran from the weapons deck, all the way to the Engine room, and then out to where she could meet up with Scotty. The two set to work calculating the necessary safe distance from the singularity, and Emma looked to Scotty as they both realised they were two close.
"Follow me!" He hollered suddenly, and he sped off, Emma close on his heels. As they rounded a corner, Emma's comm. unit opened up,
"Kirk to Engineering, get us out of here Scotty" Jim's voice was calm, not slightly panicked, and Emma knew he was freaking out.
"You bet yer ass Captain!" Scotty yelled back, he stopped at a station, and checked it out, "Captain, we're caught in the gravity well, it's got us!" The noise was grating on their ears; a loud, splitting groan that seemed to be emitting from the ship itself.
"Go to maximum warp! Push it!" Jim yelled back, not sounding quite as calm. Scotty sped off again, heading towards something and Emma ran after him.
"I'm givin' her all she's got Captain!" Scotty yelled, looking up, as if he could yell at Jim directly. They heard some cracking noise over their comm.'s and they looked to each other.
"All she's got isn't good enough. What else you got?" Scotty stopped and looked to Emma, thinking on his feet as the girl looked around madly for an idea.
"Eject the core! Detonate it!" She suddenly yelled, the thought popping into her head. The propulsion should do the trick... maybe.
"Okay, If we eject the core and detonate, the blast could be enough to push us away! I cannae promise anything though!" Scotty put his hands to his head and scrunched up his face. They heard grass cracking and Emma's eyes went wide and her breathing stopped.
"Do it, Do it, DO IT!" Jim yelled, and Scotty and Emma sprinted off toward the core, both yelling for the people still in there to clear the area. They punched into the screen harshly, telling it to eject, and eject now. Emma held Scotty off pushing the detonate button for few seconds until it was just right.
For a brief second, the noise stopped and Emma felt the world just slow. Then she hit the detonate button, and everything came crashing back. The sirens screamed out, and the blast threw the ship forward.
Emma herself was also thrown forward, her body ramming into several pipes. She felt a few sudden bursts of pain, and felt as blood started to soak her shirt, and slide into her hair. She was barely aware of Scotty yelling out to her, instead pulling herself up and grabbing onto a pipe to steady herself. She took a few steps toward the consul, blinking back the darkness and starting when Scotty spun her around to face him. The blackness tugged harder, making her vision blur and the noises around her become one giant hum. She tried to focus on Scotty, but the blackness pulled her in and out, and Scotty was only miming to the noise of the hum. She giggled a little before fainting.
By the time she finally came to, she was being carried in to med bay, and the blood had caked into her hair. She looked up to see Scotty carrying her, his face worried and his hands stained red. She moved a little bit, and her side screeched in pain. She almost vomited. Scotty looked down to her and sighed in relief.
"I was scared I was goin' to have to explain thin's to yer lad for a second there" He grinned down to her, and carried her through the door, immediately getting the attention of a few nurses.
"I'll go get doctor McCoy" one nurse said, obviously one of younger cadets, who had no idea who the woman was. The other nurse cringed, and Emma giggled. Scotty carried her over to the bio bed that he was directed to, and the nurse who had recognised her started to scan her. Emma made a face before remembering she had business.
"Is Christopher OK? What about Munder? Do you know if they are OK?" she asked the nurse desperately.
"Christopher... Oh, Pike, of course. Yes, Captain Pike is stable. Munder... Munder is still critical, we aren't sure if he'll survive" The nurse cringed as she told her, worrying about the woman's condition; mental stress could add to physical stress. Then she heard Doctor McCoy.
"Emma! What the hell did you do to yourself?! Huh? Oh, jeez, Emma!" His voice was stern, exasperated and angry all at the same time, and he glared down at her as he came to a stop in front of her.
"You're voice is all angry, Leo. It wasn't my fault anyway. The ship moved to fast, and the pipes just.. kind of... hit me" She tried, with a weak smile, and he started to cut her shirt – there was a large gash down the side- and only leaving her chest covered. Then he started to fix everything, making sure to keep out infection.
"Oh, good work Emma. You've broken a rib" He told her sarcastically, eyes falling down from the scan results to her and his heart squeezing a little bit as she took a sharp intake of breath.
"Uh huh. I'm sure. Leo, kiss me, would you?" she asked suddenly, and he looked down to her in confusion, before rolling his eyes and going back to working.
"You aren't going to die, Emma. You may have a mild concussion and a broken rib, but you aren't going to die" He finished her side and moved up to her head, finding the crack and fixing that too.
"Oh, I know I'm not going to die... I just want a kiss. Is that too much to ask?" She pleaded, biting her lip in the cutest way. Bones sighed, and, once he had healed her head, he leant down and kissed her. What he meant to be an innocent kiss, however, turned into a rather passionate affair as Emma wrapped her arms around his neck and drew him in, using her tongue to caress his lips and coax him into kissing her more.
"Oh, I love winning" she said with a grin once he pulled back. He raised an eyebrow.
"Who said you won?" He pecked her lips lightly and told her to get some rest, before moving back to check on Pike. Emma waited until he had closed the door, and then got up, moving around the med bay, looking for Munder. She winced as she pushed herself a little too hard, and leaned against a table. She moved towards the back of the med bay, and found what she was looking for.
"Munder? Oh, Munder" She sighed, looking the sleeping man over. There was bruising over half his face, his right eye was swollen shut, and according to his chart, he had had broken right leg, a dislocated left shoulder, and mass internal bleeding in his lung. He groaned a little when she took his hand – his right to avoid the now relocated shoulder – and she cringed at the noise. His left eye opened to look at her, and his mouth twitched in what could have been a smile and he sighed in relief.
"Emma, thank god you're OK" He breathed.
"Munder, what happened to you?" She asked, her eyes getting cloudy. Munder tried a chuckle and coughed a little bit before speaking.
"I fixed the subspace communications, and then the ship lurched a little bit and I... I fell off the deck... over the railing" He chuckled a little bit and shrugged with a wince. Emma sighed in disbelief, and raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, just fell over the railing. It happens every day. You stupid idiot, your meant to hold on to something. Jeez" she shook her head at him, and he tried a smile again.
"From what I heard, you fell out of the ship, so you can hardly talk" His voice got a little distant and he sighed. She smiled down at him, and pet his hand lightly.
"Ok, well, I'm going to let you sleep. I'll see you back on Earth, alright? G'night Munder"
"Night Emma" He mumbled, and his eyes closed again. Emma heard a groan from behind her and someone grabbed her arm lightly. Brian shoved a white patient shirt her way, to cover her stomach and she pulled it on with a wince.
"Come on, I need to get you back to bed before Doctor McCoy realises that you're not there" Brian told her, and she grinned to him, letting him lead her back to her bed.
Which Bones was sitting on. Looking very grumpy. Brian froze and let go of her arm, slinking away before he could be yelled at. Emma grinned sheepishly at the man sitting on her bed, PADD in hand, tapping it brutally as he worked on something. He looked up, saw Emma and growled. Emma raised an eyebrow in response.
"Why do you have to do the opposite of everything I say?" He asked gruffly.
"Not everything" She replied meekly. Leo raised an eyebrow, before sighing and patting the bed next to him. Emma hesitated for a moment, and just looked him over.
He looked tired. He looked very tired. There were a few bloodstains on his uniform, and a few drops of blood on his hand, and even one on his forehead. There were light purple shadows under his eyes, and his hair was messy. She looked into his eyes, and sighed happily. She took the few steps closer to him, and instead of sitting next to him, she stood in front of him, and wrapped her arms around his torso, tucking her head underneath his chin. His arms wrapped around her and he sighed in content.
"Gaila is gone, isn't she?" Emma asked quietly, as the angel wing necklace pressed against her flesh. When Leo nodded, she felt a few tears slip out of her eyes and down her cheeks, and she pulled back to look up at him.
"It'll be Ok, Emma. Everything will be fine" He told her as he rubbed her back and kissed her forehead. She pulled her arms back and pulled his ring off, holding it delicately in her hands.
"Do I have to give it back?" She asked, playing with it a little bit. Leo chuckled quietly before picking the small ring up and slipping it back onto her thumb.
"No. It's yours now" She smiled up to him, and he hopped down, lifting her up onto the bed, "Now, Emma, you really need rest. I don't care how much you think you don't need it. You will rest" He commanded.
"Is Chris OK? It's my last question" She smiled sadly and Bones sighed quietly.
"He's fine. He won't be walking for a while, but he'll be fine. Trust me. Now, go to sleep" He kissed her lips lightly and covered her with a blanket. He took a few steps before,
"Leo?" He groaned and turned around, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, Emma?" She blushed bright red and bit her lip a little bit.
"Iloveyou" She blurted out. Leo froze for a moment, before it hit him and warmth flooded his body, from his head to his toes.
"I love you too, sweetheart. Now, get some rest" He said with a grin.
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