Yo I guess this is the last part of Into Darkness! Next Chapter will be the beginning of Beyond! Thank you all for sticking around~

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Once Jamie opened the door, she was through. She crawled as fast as she could, taking deep breaths as she climbed through the ventilation way. Eventually, she arrived at the core, and it struck her breathless.

It was really high. How was she going to get that high?

However, there was no time to think, only time to act.

She felt her muscles tensing and her stomach churning as she climbed the equipment, each handle getting harder to hold the higher she went. Her grip even slipped a couple times before she managed to catch herself.

She had to do this for her crew.

Things were starting to blur as she got closer to the core.

She climbed on top of the misaligned power auxilorators, she held on to the top as she kicked down the lower bit into place.

The room was too hot, and every breath she took felt like she inhaled fire. The first kick nearly took out her energy.

However, she couldn't give up. She quickly recollected herself so that she could pour her entire strength into her legs. She did this, for the crew.

Her family. Her boyfriend, the damn Vulcan.

Khan's words echoed in her mind: My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?

She would do anything if it was to keep her family safe. She now understood what Spock went through when he risked his life at the volcano.

After a final kick, the warp core busted to life, and she was blown off the core and slammed into the wall.

Suddenly, the Enterprise shuddered and they were flying normally. Power was back, shields were back on.

Spock never believed in miracles. However, he assumed this might just be one. "Spock?"

The voice over the intercom woke him from his thoughts. "Yes, Mr. Scott?"

Scotty paused on the other end. "It's…. It's Jamie. You should come to engineering, sir. Right away."

The Vulcan rose from his seat immediately. This could not be good news. Scotty's voice sounded concerned, weak even. So, he was currently ignoring any protests and hurrying through the crowd of injured and confused cadets. Some even looked at the Vulcan with concern of their own.

Spock didn't care. All he cared was that something was wrong with Jamie, and she needed his help.

Eventually, he met up with Scotty at engineering. Scotty shook his head with forlorn. The Vulcan looked behind the engineer, expecting Jamie to be standing there with a smile on her face.

However, she wasn't there.

The door to the core was closed. Spock knew that Jamie was in there, somewhere, dying alone.

"Open it." Spock demanded.

Scotty explained that he couldn't and he wish that he could.

Numbly, he watched as the door inside the radiation chamber opened, revealing a weak Captain, struggling to crawl through the door and shut it behind her. Spock knelt down beside her, on the opposite side of the glass as she propped herself up.

She was breathing, hard. Her eyes were glazed, but she had the smallest of smiles once her blue eyes looked up and met his own. Spock tried to smile back, but it was weak.

Seeing Jamie like this was torture. He almost couldn't look straight at her in the eyes.

"How's our ship?" She asked, her voice raspy.

"Out of danger. You saved the crew." He said fondly.

He wanted to ring his fingers through her tangled, greasy hair. He wanted to brush the strands out of her eyes and face, as it was smudged against the window. Yet, he couldn't. A thick wall of glass stood between him and Jamie.

She sighed in relief.

One of the many things Spock admired about Jamie: even though she was a reckless human being, she still put crewmembers ahead of her own life. "You used what he wanted against him." She managed a smile. "That's a nice move."

"It is what you would have done." Spock murmured.

He was struggling to hold back tears, which is something he's never done before. It is difficult. His feelings are normally well under control, except that one time he slipped once his mother died. This… this is different.

"And this… this is what you would have done." Jamie said.

Spock tried to smile again, but failed. "It's only logical."

Seeing his Captain weak and frail like this is odd, it isn't right. She was broad, fierce, proud, fearless.

Her eyes glistened with tears, and her lips wavered. She let out a sob, which broke his heart. "I'm scared, Spock. Help me not be."

Spock blinked. "Jamie…"

"How do you choose not to feel?" Her voice was barely a whisper.

"I do not know." Spock said, looking down at his hands. "Right now, I am failing."

Jamie coughed, rasping and spitting up blood. Spock's heart skipped a beat. "I want to know why I couldn't let you die."

Spock frowned, shaking his head slowly. Jamie's eyes were drooping, but he could tell she was struggling to stay alive. "Why I came back for you…" She couldn't continue. She looked exhausted, and she was choking up in tears.

"Because you love me." Spock said, managing to keep his voice strong. "Jamie, you don't have to say anything. I already know. And… I love you. From the bottom of my heart."

Jamie smiled. "Spock…"

Spock put his hand on the glass, in his universal greeting. Live long and prosper.

Jamie slowly slid her hand up to meet his. Spock could almost imagine her touch.

Once Jamie's smile disappeared her hand dropped. Spock's eyes widened at first, but he knew that the inevitable had finally come.

Jamie died.

At first, grief rolled in his gut. He put his head against the glass, knowing that he had lost his Captain, friend, and lover forever. He couldn't do anything to save her.

Then, his thoughts turned to blame. There was one man responsible for her death. He was going to find vengeance. Sure, it wasn't logical at all, but logic had no say right about now.

He just lost another woman he held dear to his heart.

"KHAN!"

Bones turned once the door to the med-bay opened, expecting another casualty from the battle that had just sufficed.

His heart stopped once he actually noticed who it was. Spock was carrying a limp, pale, weak body of Jamie T. Kirk, his longtime friend. As soon as Spock knew Jamie was in Bones' care, he was out of med-bay.

He immediately ordered nurses to other patients so he could work with Jamie, saving only a couple nurses to properly assist him. They lay her in a bag, after one final glance at her pale face he zipped it shut.

Bones buried his face in his hands. "Jamie… why?"

Knowing there wasn't anything he could do to help her anymore, he sat to the side, watching the body bag warily, until he couldn't take it anymore.

He sat at his desk, most nurses hustling and bustling around him to work at the injured crewmembers that still had a chance at survival. Unlike Jamie, who had already lost hers.

Bones let out a wavering sigh.

'Bones, you should see this.'

'Did you just call me Bones? Don't.'

'It's a good name for you though.'

Bones scoffed. "You reckless idiot."

Suddenly, the tribble he had injected some of Khan's blood in twitched and gurgled. Something flicked a switch in his brain - maybe there was a way to save Jamie.

What is it?

It's a girl.

He saved 800 lives. I dare you to do better.

I love you too, from the bottom of my heart.

Jamie's eyes snapped open, taking in the nice, clean air as her first breaths in a while.

What just happened? Wasn't she dead?

She looked to the side, and found that Bones was there. "Don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead."

Jamie smiled. She hadn't seen her friend in a while.

"It was the transfusion that really took its toll." Bones said, scanning her. "You were out cold for two weeks."

Well, at least she wasn't out for a century. "Transfusion?"

"Your cells were heavily irradiated." Bones said, sitting on the edge of her bed. "We had no choice."

"Khan?" Jamie asked, as he felt her heartbeat.

"I synthesized a serum from his superblood." Bones explained. "Tell me, are you feeling homicidal? Power mad? Despotic?"

Jamie shrugged. "No more than usual. How'd you catch him?"

"I didn't." He said, smiling. Jamie narrowed her eyes, her mind still not able to work since she just woke up.

Bones moved to the side and she saw that Spock had entered the room. Jamie smiled as Spock knelt to her side. "You saved my life."

"Uhura and I had something to do with it too, you know." Bones reprimanded.

Spock took her hand in his own. "You saved my life, Captain. And the lives of-"

Jamie squeezed his hand. "Spock, just… thank you."

"You are welcome, Jamie."

Spock smiled and kissed her forehead, his lips lingering. Jamie was glad that she had Spock by her side, and she was glad that she still had the rest of her life and career ahead of her.

"There will always be those who mean to do us harm." Jamie said, preaching to the new group of cadets. "To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge, when those we love are taken from us."

The memorial for Pike and those who died on the Enterprise was currently taking place, and it was a very solemn event. However, she hoped that her speech would inspire hope instead of dread. "But that's not who we are.

We are here today to rechristen the USS Enterprise and to honor those who have lost their lives nearly one year ago.

When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath, words I didn't appreciate at the time. Now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were, and who we must be again."

Jamie found Spock's face in the ground, and he nodded in reassurance.

She also managed to find the rest of her crew, who all had smiled. "And those words? Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."

"Captain on the bridge."

Jamie smiled, glad she was back in action. Healthy, living the life she wanted.

As she approached the chair, she noticed Sulu was still sitting in it. He grinned, challenging her. "It's hard to get out of it once you've had a taste. Isn't that right, Mr. Sulu?"

"'Captain' does have a nice ring to it."

Captain Sulu? She didn't think it had as good a ring as her own name, Captain Kirk.

"Chair's all yours, ma'am." Sulu said as he moved out of the chair.

Jamie smiled warmly, but she knew she wasn't going to quite settle down yet.

"Mr. Scott." Jamie said. "How's our core?"

"Purring like a kitten, ma'am." Scotty replied. "She's ready for a long journey."

"Excellent."

Bones looked at her with dread once Scotty said 'long journey' . "Come on, Bones! It's going to be fun!"

She clapped his shoulders as she walked by, moving to check in on Carol. "Dr. Marcus. I'm glad you could be a part of the family."

"It's nice to have a family." She replied coldly.

Awkward. Jamie nodded, decidedly moving on to other members of her crew. "Spock."

"Captain!" Spock appeared, and walked to her side. Jamie grabbed his arm, nuzzling into his shoulder.

"Where should we go?"

Spock huffed. "As a mission of this duration has never been attempted… I defer to your good judgement, Captain."

The Vulcan kissed her temple before going back to his post. Still grinning, she finally sat back down in her own chair, looking into the empty void that was space.

They were going to explore this space, for five whole years.

"Mr. Sulu, take us out." Jamie ordered.

"Aye, Captain."

Just like that, they were boldly going like no one has ever gone before.