Ah…time for Jim to wake up? Yeah I think so! There will be two more chapters-one with her returning to New Vulcan and then the rechristening of the Enterprise. And I am sorry I have not shown Chekov a lot…that little genius is hard to write for! Review please?
The Future of Non Existance
Chapter 29
Amelia smiled as she stopped in front of the hospital room door hearing McCoy talking. "It looks like Jim's awake," she told the younger Spock. Both of them had been constant visitors to the young Captain Kirk's room for two weeks, essentially driving Bones crazy.
"I insist you go in," Spock said.
"We go in together Mr. Spock, and don't argue, you winning an argument is once in a life time, any life time, occurrence," she warned.
"Don't be so melodramatic, you were barely dead. It was the transfusion
that really took its toll. You were out cold for 2 weeks," she heard McCoy tell the bed ridden patient.
"Transfusion?" Kirk asked, weakly.
"Your cells were heavily irradiated. We had no choice," McCoy answered.
"Khan?" Jim questioned.
"Once we caught him, I synthesized a serum from his super blood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal? Power mad? Despotic?" he asked.
Amelia smiled coming into view. "Bones, I think you just described James T. Kirk to a tee, luckily traits I didn't inherit," she answered. "Ok maybe, I inherited them a little bit," she admitted. "Welcome back," she told him.
Jim looked at her. "I thought you'd be back on New Vulcan by now," he said.
"Well, you know, I sort of have an invested interest in you being resurrected," she told him.
The younger Kirk looked at Bones. "How'd you catch him?" he asked.
"I didn't," McCoy answered as the younger Spock came into view.
"You saved my life," Jim told Spock.
Bones huffed. "Uhura and I had something to do with it, too, you know," he said.
"Who noticed a dead tribble moving around on the table?" Amelia asked.
"You saved my life, Captain, and the lives…" Spock started to say.
"Spock! Let him finish," Amelia told him.
"She's right, let me finish. Thank you," Jim told him.
"You are welcome…Jim," Spock answered. "Doctor, I think the Captain and the Ambassador need a few minutes alone."
Bones nodded. "Don't get him worked up," he warned.
"I'll try to remember not to borrow another Star Ship and almost crash it," she responded as she raised an eyebrow at Bones.
"See you are just spending to much time around Vulcan's," Bones grumbled as he walked out.
"Commander Spock, would you mind getting me a shuttle schedule to New Vulcan?" Amelia asked.
"Of course, Ambassador," he answered as he left.
"I wake up and you leave? I might think you don't want any more excitement," Jim told his future daughter.
Amelia laughed. "Well, you are right, no more excitement for quite a long time. And, I did promise my Spock, that as soon as you woke up that I would return to New Vulcan. You are awake."
"You and any version of Spock…creepy," he said as he shook his head.
Amelia patted his shoulder. "Don't think about it," she told him. "I need to apologize to you Jim…"
Jim looked at her. "Apologize?"
"I came onto the Enterprise under false pretenses, and I hid myself from you when Nero destroyed Vulcan and this Mr. Spock deserted you on the planet. I told myself that it was because you needed to discover the way without any pressure. But the truth is, I did it because I didn't want to relive my last conversation again with my Captain Kirk. We didn't agree on many matters," she said.
"Really? I find that hard to believe," Jim responded sarcastically.
Amelia rolled her eyes. "I wanted to fix a relationship that you had no part of…and that was wrong of me. But as I said on the Enterprise, I needed to see this version of you. It was not logical, but I am human, so I let emotions take over."
Jim looked at her. "I am glad that you took that chance."
"What do you mean?" she questioned.
"You were always one step of Khan…you saved the ship and it's crew," he told her. "Actually you know what…no that's not the reason. You know in this time line, I never knew my father."
Amelia nodded. "He was a good man," she told him.
Jim nodded. "It sounds like the other Jim Kirk wasn't the best father…and I'm going to take a wild guess that he didn't know about you until you were older."
"Fourteen, but how did you know?" Amelia asked.
"The way you told me that you were my daughter in front of Khan, I had a feeling you had the same conversation before," he said.
"I didn't do it in front of Khan last time," Amelia said with a smile.
"That's probably a good thing," Jim said.
"Where are you going with this line of questioning Jim?" she asked.
"Maybe this time, whoever your mother is and I can get it right," Kirk told her. "From what I see Amelia Kirk is an amazing woman, and I can just imagine what she'd be like with both of her parents in her life at the same time."
Amelia smiled. "Captain if that's your way of asking who my mother is, nice try," she said with a smile.
"You would have made a great Captain, I'm going to have to work on the future you to get in the Command track," he told her.
"Well maybe if Amelia Kirk exists in this time, she won't have a eel in her ear, and her track will be different. But I have no regrets, Jim. As I told Spock, I never wanted to command a Star Ship."
Kirk smiled. "But it's in your blood. Captain Pike once told me that my father commanded a Star Ship for 12 minutes and he saved 800 lives. He dared me to do better," he said. "You took command of the Enterprise and pulled the ultimate bluff on a maniac superhuman, you did better. I'm really going to have to step up my game."
Amelia smiled as she kissed the top of his head. "You'll do amazing…Dad," she said as she stood up and wiped her eyes. "I will see you at the rechristening of the Enterprise. And, yes my Spock will be there, he's never letting me out of his sight again. Something about being a Kirk, and attracting trouble. I would have no idea what he was talking about," she said with a grin.
