Crashed the Wedding

Days passed, and eventually the crew arrived at Vulcan, where they laid Tziporah and Demantra to rest in the mountains, so that they could never be disturbed. Spock walked over to his sister's still body, thinking of how at peace she looked as she lay there, her eyes closed and her hands folded on her stomach with one of her knives resting underneath them. As they were about to fasten the lid upon Tziporah's coffin, Spock slid her necklace around her neck and gently touched his fingers to her forehead.

"Sweet dreams." Spock whispered, moving back and watching as Kirk, Bones, Sulu and Scotty put the glass lid over the coffin. The top of the coffin had been written on in gold lettering:

"HERE LIES TZIPORAH

DAUGHTER OF SAREK AND AMANDA

VULCAN WARRIOR AND PIRATE

REST IN PEACE"

When Tziporah had been successfully laid to rest, everyone went towards Spock's parents' house. Once they were introduced to Amanda and Sarek, Uhura and Spock watched as Kirk and the rest of the crew went up to the ship, then Uhura was led to hers and Spock's room by Amanda. The day after they had gotten to Vulcan, Spock was standing on the balcony of his and Uhura's room in his parent's home and he watched the sky, toying with his half of Tziporah's locket that was around his neck, though he tensed as he felt arms around him from behind.

"It's me Spock." Uhura whispered against his back.

"Hello Nyota." He turned to look at her.

"How are you feeling?"

"Considering the fact that I just lay my sister's body to rest, and I can't tell my parents about her, and everyone is asking about the wedding…I think that I am functioning effectively."

Uhura moved a hand through his hair. "I know that it's tough Spock, but maybe you should tell your parents, wasn't there questions that you wanted answering anyway?"

Spock nodded. "Yes, from my father."

"Then, why don't you go and ask him about it?" Uhura asked.

Spock nodded. "I shall." He pressed a chaste kiss to her lips. "I will be back soon."

"I know." She smiled, watching him leave, just as Kirk walked to her.

Spock walked briskly through the halls of his parent's home, and he soon found his father and mother in what would be known as a dining room.

"Father, may I speak with you?" Spock asked.

Sarek looked at him from where he had been helping Amanda to set the table. "Of course, Spock."

Amanda looked at them. "I will leave you two alone." She told them, walking off into the kitchen.

Sarek watched his wife leave, before he looked back at Spock. "What is troubling you, Spock?"

"Father, I wish to know more about Tziporah."

The question brought Sarek to the quick, before he replied just as monotone as it always had been. "Tziporah, who?"

"Don't try and fool me father, you remember my twin sister, the one who was supposedly dead."

"Spock, she is dead." Sarek told her.

"Yeah, she is now." Spock told him, and he noticed the tense of his father's shoulders.

"What do you mean?" Sarek asked.

"She was alive, living as a pirate to a man who used her to bear children, her body permanently scarred from losing so many of his children. She was mutated on and damaged, bearing wounds that she hid in shame. But you knew all of this, didn't you?"

"What are you implying Spock?" Sarek asked.

"I am implying father that you organised my sister to be taken and made into a pirate, you organised her to suffer."

"And why would I do that Spock?"

"Because you've never liked her, you never wanted a daughter and shunned her from the minute she was born. I remember."

"You remember what you want to remember, Spock." Sarek told him.

"No, I remember the truth, and until you can admit what you done to me, to my mother, to everyone, I will never trust you with anything." Spock told him as he left.

Despite not trusting him, Spock hardly spoke to his father, only putting on a Spock. front for the sake of his mother. Sarek hadn't brought himself to admit that Spock was right about Tziporah, and he was thinking about this as it got to the day of the wedding.

"What's the matter Sarek?" Amanda asked, as she looked over at her husband once she was dressed. "Our son is getting married, you should be a tiny bit happy."

"Amanda, I am fine." Sarek told him, though taking one look at his wife's face showed that she didn't believe him and he sighed. "Amanda, I have something that I need to confess."

"What is it?"

"Amanda, our daughter Tziporah didn't die as a child, I sold her to pirates in the hopes that she and Spock would be parted. I never wanted a daughter, and when she was born I despised her." He sighed and repeated what he had been told by Spock, and by the time that he was finished, Amanda was almost in tears.

"So, you made me and Spock suffer for years just because you never wanted her?" She asked. "Sarek, did it ever occur to you that me and Spock wanted her, that by doing this what consequences that it would have on Spock?" She asked. "You know, when Vulcans are disgusted with each other, they don't just walk away do they?"

"No, they don't."

"Well humans do." She then walked away, to where she could hear Kirk, Bones, Scotty and Sulu walking up the corridor, and she put on a smile a s she looked at them. "Do any of you know where Spock is?"

"Um yeah, he was on the balcony of his room, we were just going to see if Uhura was ready." Bones told her.

"Alright, thank you." She smiled and walked off towards her son's room, and when she got there, she simply knocked once and walked straight in, closing the door behind her. "Spock, may I join you?" She asked as she stood in the doorway which led onto his balcony.

"Of course mother." Came Spock's reply, as he turned and looked at her. "What is the matter?" He asked as he saw her tears.

"Your father just told me, about Tziporah." She whispered, before she almost ran to her son and hugged him tightly. "I'm so sorry Spock, I wish that I had known, you shouldn't have had to put up with this all by yourself."

Spock hugged his mother tightly and he sighed. "I am fine mother, my ability to not feel has come in useful due to these recent events."

Amanda looked at him. "Spock, you can't bottle everything up, you know what will happen if Uhura finds out."

Spock nodded. "There is nothing else that I could have done."

Amanda simply sighed and nodded, she knew how hard it was for Spock to open up to people, after all she was his mother.

As Amanda fixed Spock over, brushing away imaginary marks like any mother would, Kirk walked in.

"Hey Spock, it's time to go." Kirk told him. "Everyone is ready."

Spock nodded, and his mother left ahead of them, leaving Kirk alone with Spock.

"You still think of her, don't you?" He asked.

"Tziporah was the only person, besides Uhura, that I could talk to. Have you ever lost something that kept you together, Kirk? Something that made you feel normal?" Spock asked him.

"Not in the way that you have." Kirk told him truthfully. "But you still have Uhura, and you will have your child in a few months, and Spock."

"Yes Kirk?" Spock asked him.

"You will have me to, if you ever decide to trust me enough to let me know you the way that Uhura does and that Tziporah did." Kirk told him, resting a hand on the Vulcan's shoulder.

Spock nodded. "I would like to trust you that much." He told him.

"Are you ready for this?" Kirk asked him, and at the Vulcan's nod he gestured back towards the door. "Let's go and get you married then."

The two men left the room and walked down the corridors side by side, then they got to the large room that had been catered out for the wedding. Spock and Kirk stood side by side at the alter and Kirk looked at him.

"Try and relax a bit Spock."

"I am relaxed, Jim." Spock told him.

They went quiet as music started, and the doors to the room opened once more, and Uhura walked in. She wore a white wedding dress, which was tightened at the waist and hips, so it showed off her tiny baby bump, and then fishtailed at her knees until it reached the floor. Her hair was up in a tight bun, and she looked beautiful, as her arm was entwined by Bones' as he walked her down the aisle.

At seeing Spock, she smiled to herself, though it wasn't that noticeable until she was standing beside him. As the elder who was conducting the ceremony started to speak, Spock lent slightly closer to her.

"You look beautiful." He whispered.

Uhura smiled at him. "And you look very handsome." She whispered in return.

However, as they were about to say their final vows, an explosion went off and then they lost each other as Heliosa sauntered into the room.

"Sorry, am I late?" He asked offhandedly, brandishing a phaser – this wasn't going to be pleasant.