Kian sat up, shifting slightly as the ache in his muscles increased. He smiled at Lexi, expecting her to smile back. But instead she shouted.
"What did you think you were doing! You nearly died! By the Angel, that was the most stupid thing I've ever seen anyone do!" then she hugged him, and started crying.
Lexi never cried, like never, not even that time she had been impaled through the knee.
"Lexi, what's wrong?" he asked cautiously.
She lifted her head, and looked at him, deadly serious.
"I thought you were going to die, and I was terrified,"
"Lex-"
"Don't. I've never thought I was actually going to lose you, but I just saw you dying in front of me, I can't live without you. Kian, you're the only family I have left, the only thing keeping me sane. You… you're more of a family to me than mine ever was."
"Lexi, I'm not going to die, I'm far too stubborn,"
"And I know it," she smiled at him and stood up.
Kian noticed that the crew was looking at them with soft eyes, apart from the Vulcan.
"Miss Whisperkeep, please give us the answers you promised us," he said.
She nodded. "I promise everything I'm about to tell you is true, even if it seems impossible." Then Lexi told the biggest secret in the entire galaxy.
Spock watched the two teens shout, hug, cry then joke. The changeability of human emotions escaped him.
The other members of the crew were watching the pair with expressions akin to that of watching a love film. Spock decided to intervene before the entire Enterprise was effected.
"Miss Whisperkeep, please give us the answers you promised us,"
Whisperkeep nodded, took a breath and began. "I promise everything I'm about to tell you is true, even if it seems impossible," she glanced at the boy, who nodded once in confirmation.
"You may have noticed that Kian and I, well out blood is strange, half human, half something else. We're Nephilim, half angel, half human, we are sometimes called Shadowhunters. The angel Raziel gave his blood to Jonathan Shadowhunter, he was the first of our kind. We hide from mundanes, and we live to protect them."
"How…?" the Captain began.
"How haven't we been discovered? Glamours, we can use steles," she lifted up the pen-like object. "To draw angelic runes on ourselves, our angel blood allows this. That's how we disappeared, how we got out here in the first place. We fight using Seraph blades. All Shadowhunters operate under the Clave, each city having an Institute."
"What do you protect mundanes from?" Spock asked.
"Down-worlders, vampires, werewolves, warlocks, like Adwith, demons, like the ones on your ship, and the one on that planet."
"I don't believe you, Scotty can see," the Captain said.
"Montgomery Scott has sight, or is unmarked," Lieutenant Treva said.
"You're a traitor Lieutenant, there is no longer a place for you on board this ship. You will be handed over to Starfleet for disciplinary action. Miss Whisperkeep we will discuss this further tomorrow." Spock said.
"I'm a warlock you can't touch me,"
"No matter what hocus pocus you have up your sleeves, you will be put on trial," Kirk said.
"I may not be as strong as Magnus Bane was, but I can still destroy you," Treva became suddenly aggressive.
"Magnus Bane…?" asked a security officer.
"He was a warlock with a glitter fetish," at the curious looks Whisperkeep received, she shrugged her shoulders. "It's a long story."
Then Bones charged in, glancing over everyone with a practiced eye.
"All of you to the med-bay," Kirk was about to protest, but Bones silenced him with a look. "Now! Or I'll Hypo you to oblivion."
Everyone dutifully went to the med-bay, the threat hanging over their heads. Whisperkeep told Bones about Scotty being unconscious in Engineering. She got a lecture about knocking people out, but left before Bones could finish. Her light laughter echoed around empty corridors.