Academy Mother
Chapter 12
'April'
"Do you have everything you need?" Jim asked as she straightened Pavel's shirt for him which was wrinkled.
"Yes Jim," he said with an exasperated sigh. This was the fifteenth time she'd asked him since they got up that morning. "And everything is packed as well."
"Good, very good," she said with a smile before her son walked into the room soaked. Her daughter came in laughing and Jim knew what had happened. "Amanda Winona Grayson. What did you do?"
Her daughter stopped laughing and looked down chastised. Before her daughter responded, in walked Leonard. Most of the belongings he was taking had already been shipped, just like all of theirs except for their single carryon. He was dressed in baggy blue jeans and a baggy tee-shirt. His shoes were worn and he was wearing that same coat she'd seen him in the first time they met on the shuttle.
"How many times did you patch me up this year?" she asked out of nowhere and he smirked.
"About fifty. Every xenophobe is scared of you. Plus your number of training accidents were high. They always requested I be there when you had training missions because I was the only one you let near you with a fifty foot pole. Though I feel I should mention you did die the one time," he stated.
"Yeah, well, I wasn't about to risk another reaction. Plus, it was not my fault mother nature decided to be a bit… I mean, you know what I mean. They shouldn't have had it where a rock slide could happen so readily," she told him. He just nodded in response.
"I agree, but you still need to be careful," he told her and she shrugged.
"I did that once… most boring day ever," Jim said cheekily and Leonard rolled his eyes while Pavel chuckled.
"Okay, Smart ass. Just don't get in trouble you can't get yourself out of," he warned her and she did an old fashioned two finger salute. He rolled his eyes before saying bye and leaving. Then it took her fifteen minutes to get everything organized.
Once that was done she left for the shipyard.
"You sure you have everything?" Jim asked Pavel again.
"Yes!" Pavel said exasperated.
"Okay. Now, be good, Comm. often, and see you in June," she told him. He nodded before hugging her. Then she watched him hug the twins. Mandy didn't want to let him go once she latched on. Her daughter had Vulcan strength so it took some prying to get her to actually let go.
They watched him leave, waving goodbye. Then Jory led the way to their shuttle. He was annoyed at their antics.
Inside she got them settled in. Soon they fly away and after an hour and a half flight they land. The group escapes the cramped shuttle. There she saw familiar Iowa. She saw the old farming property. She saw the half completed starship. And she saw that old beat up truck she knew well sitting at the entrance with Richie leaning against it. Jim couldn't help but smile at the feeling of being back.
~ACADEMY MOTHER~
It was late as Spock stepped off of that shuttle back on earth. He was back in San Francisco after having been gone over a year. It felt weird returning to an empty campus. Not even summer classes would be running for at least three weeks.
That meant he was alone with the other adjunct members.
He walked through to the one building he would specialize in where his version of the Kobyashi Maru was located. He'd been programming it since he graduated and wanted to see how the students fared.
Looking through the reports he was pleased with the results. They were as expected.
Sitting there he looked at the ID he had. It stated he was a professor. He was the new linguistics professor. He wanted some time among humans, to try and understand them. It would be difficult for him to know how to react around Tibby's family without that.
Thinking about Tibby he wondered what she would think about him being a teacher at Starfleet. He knew she had negative feelings toward them after the death of her father. He hoped she would not be angry at him for joining.