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Previously:
"Spock, his blood is the only chance we have at saving James!" she tried again and Spock stopped and looked at her.
She wiped the small drop of blood from her mouth.
"There's still a chance," she murmured and Spock promptly knocked Khan unconscious.
Two Weeks Later...
Olivia knew Spock was visiting with James. She planned on going over there shortly to see how he was doing. But she had to see something first. She arrived at her destination and watched the Starfleet officials load the cryo tubes into their hubs. She stared at the numbers embedded on the front of each and then looked down at the key in her hand.
72.
The number 72 was embedded in the key and as she walked down the aisles of cryo tubes, she could feel the hair on the back of her neck stand up.
1
2
3
55
56
57
68
69
70
71
She stopped in front of the cryo tube marked 72 and looked at the key again. She slid the key into the hole and took in a deep breath.
She shouldn't be doing this.
She turned the key and the shield lowered. Her eyes widened and she gasped horrified.
"Those people are my crew...my family."
"They made us this way to create superior weapons for them, and then they feared us and our creations and placed us in cryo sleep," he said angrily.
"What would you do in my position? Is there not anything you wouldn't do for your crew? For your family?"
"Who do I remind you of?"
"Someone I once knew a very long time ago."
"You came back. You didn't have to come here and yet you did."
"Perhaps because you understand."
"A long time ago...I knew this woman. And she told me a story of when she was a child. Civil War raged on her planet. Hope was becoming rare among the people there. Many died every day. She herself was losing hope, as the war wasn't coming to an end anytime soon...or so it seemed. The only spark of hope she held onto was something her mother told her, before she died. She told her, 'When the light finally breaks through the shade of this world, it will reveal our fate,'" he said having the quote memorized.
"What lies in the shade of the vessel?"
"He who will save us all."
"How do you know that riddle?"
"When I was on an enemy ship...they asked me to answer that. They said I should have known the answer, but I didn't."
"They're after her."
"After who?"
Olivia stepped back in shock, but couldn't look away. She reeled forward seeing the person lying in the cryo tube.
It was her.
Silence.
Silence.
Silence.
She slowly turned the key and the cryo tube closed back up.
Silence.
Silence.
She backed up slowly and turned, clutching the key tightly in her hand as she walked off quickly. She walked to the ceremony and stood next to Spock, adjusting her hat.
"You are six minutes late," he spoke, but she didn't look at him.
"Sorry," she mumbled, watching Kirk speak.
Spock glanced at her, regarding her calmly.
"You are upset," he acknowledged.
Olivia swallowed and then looked up at him smiling. She shook her head.
"Quite the contrary. I'm happy. James is back and well and we're all together. I couldn't be happier," she grinned.
She was an excellent liar.
Except when it came to Spock. He watched her face carefully.
"When you are ready to speak about it, I will be there for you," he said and continued watching James.
Olivia closed her eyes, the frozen body; her frozen body, entering her mind.
"Your captain hit me several times and I didn't even bruise. Don't you find it curious how one hit from you caused me to bleed?"
"Or for that matter, why a species such as the Klingons fell so easily at your hands?"
"That hit would have killed an ordinary human."
"Hello?! Monroe?!" Bones called and she looked at him.
"I've been calling you for five minutes! Where's your head?!" he snapped and she shook off her daze.
"Sorry, it was somewhere else," she admitted.
He nodded.
"Clearly. I know Jim's speech wasn't the greatest, but to zone out completely. Where'd you go?" he asked and she stared at him.
Silence.
Bones suddenly became uneasy.
"You alright?" he asked and she blinked.
"Can you keep a secret?" she asked and his eyes widened.
"Well that depends—"
"—come with me," she said turning and walking off.
He followed.
They stopped by the cryo tube marked 72 and she turned to him.
"We're doctors so we attempt to think as logically as we can when given a perplexing mystery, correct?" she asked and he nodded, curious as to where this was going.
She took out the key and opened the cryo tube. Bones peered in curiously.
"Explain this, doctor," she asked and Bones' eyes widened.
"My God," he whispered unblinking.
Olivia shook her head slowly.
"No, I don't believe God had anything to do with this. This was man," she whispered angrily.
Silence.
"What does this mean?" he whispered and Olivia turned the key, once again closing the cryo tube.
"It means one of two things. One, I am a clone of this genetically enhanced individual, or two, somehow her blood mixed with my mother's and I inherited it," she said with no emotion to her voice.
"Artificial insemination?" Bones questioned and she nodded.
Silence.
"Either way...it explains why I was able to survive so long on a planet such as Qo'NoS with the wounds I had endured. I'm genetically altered like them. That's why I could hurt him. That's why they shot down my shuttle that day. They view genetically altered individuals as threats. It's cryo sleep or termination," she spoke calmly.
Silence.
"But who shot down your shuttle? Who could have possibly knew that you were genetically altered except—"
"—her parents," a soft voice came from behind them.
They both whirled around and froze as phasers were trained on them. Olivia's eyes were wide with shock.
"Mom? Dad?" she whispered.
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