Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last chapter. Also thank you to everyone who suggested baby names. Keep the suggestions coming.

This chapter is relatively short because I didn't want you guys to wait for weeks for another chapter. I also had this really cute scene outlined in my mind involving Amanda watching everybody interact with her new baby cousin but I did not write out the scene because I really do want to get this story done by May 17th. Actually, I'm threatening myself with not being able to see the new movie until I get the story done if I don't make my self-imposed deadline. I'm going to try to write faster and not go out on created tangents.


Chapter 29: Amanda Kirk Knows Everything

Amanda doesn't understand why people think that she is too little to know what's going on. She knows more than people think that she does. For example, she knows exactly what her daddies were doing in the bathroom the morning before. They're kind of loud. She understands that her Daddy Jim is sad because his mommy is dead. That means that she is no longer able to play with him or do other things mommies do.

She understands that her Daddy Spock is a little jealous of his little sister because she gets to have the daddy that he always wanted to have. Her cousin T'Mandy is sad and angry because her parents are getting a divorce because her mommy likes other women and not her daddy grandpa in a fun grown up play time way, but they're still friends. (Yes, she knows that technically T'Mandy is her aunt but grandpa Sarek said it was okay to think of her and baby Sonnick as cousins, especially because Daddy Spock winces every time Amanda refers to Sonnick as an uncle).

She also knows T'Mandy is scared because Daddy Spock went unconscious during the funeral. Amanda was not worried because her daddy has passed out before due to an allergic reaction. Although, it was usually the other daddy that got sick. Apparently, her Daddy Spock knows that he's not supposed to have the chocolate brownies, but he eats them anyway. Sometimes, daddies are silly.

She knows that her new big brother had a really bad mom who hit him and said bad things to him all the time. Last night he woke up crying. He's afraid that Daddy Jim and Daddy Spock will send him back if he is not perfect. She has tried to convince him otherwise, but it's not working.

She knows that her Uncle Sam, who everybody refers to as a word she is not allowed to repeat, is nasty to everybody because he is sad that his mommy cannot play with him anymore. Her aunt Akia said he's angry because he keeps making bad decisions because he keeps thinking with his genitalia, but that's not the word she used. Amanda just thinks he is mean and stupid. She doesn't like Uncle Sam and is happy that she now has an Aunt Marissa instead. She is so much cooler and she played Barbies with Amanda before the funeral when she tried to get cousin T'Mandy to talk about how she feels about her daddy grandpa and her mom getting divorced. T'Mandy threw a Barbie at her. T'Mandy is really sad and angry about the whole situation, but mostly because she thinks all the other kids at school are going to be horrible to her because her parents won't be together anymore. The grown-ups don't know about that either, but Amanda does.

She also knows that the mean chicken guy, that her daddy calls the same names that she's not allowed to repeat, is trying to break up her family. She already knows that her mommy won't be coming home when this vacation is over. Everyone says it's because it's better for her new brother and sister, but Amanda knows better. The chicken guy doesn't like Daddy Jim and therefore is trying to make him really sad so he will leave Starfleet. Nyota being somewhere else and Daddy Jim not being with his ship would make him very sad. Her Daddy Jim loves his ship a lot, but not as much as her and Daddy Spock.

Amanda does not want this to happen because living on a starship is really fun. When she grows up she wants to be a captain just like Daddy and soon her mommy too. Because Amanda doesn't want to be away from her mommy, she is going to try to stay on earth anyway, even if it won't be as much fun. Somebody has to watch mommy and make sure that the babies are okay (and maybe her big brother will be less scared if he had some quality solo daddy time). Uncle Bones was supposed to come too but the mean chicken guy does not like him either. He said a lot of bad things about Uncle Bones (that Amanda is not allowed to repeat) in the hallway outside the play room. He also thinks that Daddy Jim is really incompetent and can't do anything without his friends and Daddy Spock. Amanda personally thinks that's just silly.

Apparently, the chicken guy was being really mean to mommy because of something grandma did. He also cursed her for being responsible for Sunk existing in the first place and for him being forced to do whatever Uncle Pike said. He really doesn't like Uncle Pike either. He called him six different words Amanda is not allowed to repeat, including the really nasty F one. She didn't tell mommy what the guy said because she was already really sad and Amanda doesn't want to get in trouble for cursing.

Mommy Nyota cried a lot as she waited for Uncle Bones to come to bed. The only good thing about this was she admitted that she loves Uncle Bones. That meant it wouldn't be too long before Uncle Bones became another daddy. That would make it easier for her to be away from Daddy Jim and Spock for a little while. She always knew that Uncle Bones loves her mommy, but she was glad her mommy knew that. She was happy about that because her mommy needed somebody for fun grown up play time and Uncle Bones always made her happy. Her mom needed to be happy because Amanda didn't want to see her cry anymore.

The problem was, the mean chicken guy was trying to keep Uncle Bones from staying on earth with her and mommy until the babies were born. She may have been playing hide and seek in the living room with her other cousins when her mommy and grandma were talking about the best way to keep Uncle Bones with the two on earth as her mom was waiting for the babies to be born. She tried not to cheer when marriage was suggested because she really wanted Uncle Bones to be her new other daddy. She thinks Uncle Bones feels the same way as she does because Amanda saw him smile for a second before he walked into the kitchen with her new aunt Madison. (Yes, she knows that Landon is technically her cousin, but he's closer in age to Daddy Jim than T'Mandy was to Daddy Spock and Daddy Jim saw him as a brother, therefore Landon was her uncle and his girlfriend was her new aunt. Besides, she needs a better biological uncle than Uncle Sam. He's also really horrible to his kids like Sunk's old mom, even if he doesn't hit his children.)

Amanda was awake when her Uncle Bones asked her mommy to marry him. She woke up when he sat on the bed after delivering her brand-new baby cousin that she can't wait to hold. She really wanted her mommy Ny to say yes, but she was afraid. Grandma Alexis said that mommy was afraid to fall in love and have her own white picket fence fantasy again because Mister Scotty blew up her heart in 1 million little pieces before Amanda was born because he was another word that Amanda was not allowed to repeat. Amanda knew that she just had to do everything possible to make sure that she got her new Daddy Bones.

A few minutes later she felt Uncle Bones lifting her out of her mom's arms to most likely carry her to her bedroom. She quickly grabbed an arm around her favorite uncle. Since this action already made Bones aware that she was up, she decided to put her plan into action.

"Do you want to be my new daddy?" Amanda asked sort of sleepily as she snuggled into him.

"You already have two good daddies, even if they do stupid things that give me gray hair, such as eating fun brownies and getting arrested at the worst possible time," he said, placing a kiss on Amanda's forehead as he opened the door to what was being referred to as the girls room. "I would be staying at a hotel right now if it wasn't for your mommy. Your family is crazy."

"Daddy Spock said the same thing about staying in a hotel," Amanda said with a yawn.

"I'm sure the walking computer would," Uncle Bones mumbled under his breath.

"I know I have two daddies but mommy doesn't have anybody for fun grown-up play time and grandpa Sarek said you can only have grown-up fun time if you're married."

"Your grandfather has issues." Of course, he said this after he compared her two other daddies to bunnies and said another f word that she's not allowed to say.

"Mommy also needs someone to hold her when she is crying. Mommy loves you despite what Mister Scott did to her," Amanda continued, ignoring his earlier comments.

"But that doesn't mean we are going to get married right away, despite what your grandfather believes."

"But you already asked her." That's when her Uncle Bones' eyes went really wide.

"You were not sleeping at all, were you baby girl?" he asked her.

"You woke me up when you sat on the bed," she replied as she yawned again.

"I'm sorry I woke you Princess. I know it's been a long day, baby," he said, stroking her hair as he laid her down on the bed covered in basketballs that obviously belonged to one of her cousins.

"That's okay. When you ask her again, do something with violins and a pretty ring. I want you to marry mommy so you can stay with us here on earth," she said with another yawn. The bed was really comfortable.

"I'm going to do everything I can to stay here with her, but Princess, I don't know if you'll be able to stay with mommy. Won't you miss your daddies?" he asked after a moment.

"I already told Daddy that somebody has to watch mommy," she said as Uncle Bones put a blanket over her.
"Did you say that to Daddy Jim or Daddy Spock?"

"Both daddies." Uncle Bones just rolled his eyes.

"I can't make any promises, baby girl, but I'll see what I can do," Uncle Bones said as he placed a kiss on her forehead.

"Okay, I will help," Amanda said just before falling asleep again, knowing exactly who she needed to help her.


Amanda took her promise to help Uncle Bones marry mommy Ny very seriously. She even gave up the possibility of spending quality time with her new baby cousin to talk to her mommy about the whole thing. That's why she chose breakfast with her mommy over finally getting to hold the baby. Besides, it was a little bit difficult with all her big brothers crowding her.

"I think you should marry Uncle Bones so he can stay with us when we move back to earth because the mean chicken guy is making us. You need somebody to take care of you and I can't do it alone." This resulted in her mommy choking on her orange juice. She had no other choice but to wait for breakfast because her mommy was busy packing to go the San Francisco and having secret meetings with her daddies that Amanda is not supposed to know about. Sometimes they forget how good Vulcan hearing really is. This morning Amanda overheard the three talking about how mommy Nyota would be leaving today with Daddy Spock to go the San Francisco. (Mommy also cried a lot when she was talking about her dad because he was really sick.) Amanda would be coming in a couple of days because her Daddy Jim had to stay to deal with the lawyers. That was why Grandma Alexis was staying too.

"So you're staying with me?" her mommy questioned, purposely avoiding her comment about marrying Uncle Bones.

"You need someone to watch out for you," Amanda said as she took a big bite of apple. It was one of the few fruits that did not make her tongue blotchy.

"Yes, but who will take care of your daddies?" Nyota asked.

"My new big brother. He needs some one-on-one daddy time. His old mommy was really mean to him and he needs to learn that not all mommies and daddies are like that. He's also a little scared that the daddies will not want him anymore." Sometimes when all the grown-ups are busy doing other things, Sunk will tell her about what it was like living with that unpleasant Vulcan, like early this morning when he woke up from another nightmare. She didn't feed him half the time and would hit him a lot when she wasn't passed out.

"You are an amazing little girl sometimes," her grandma said as she gave Amanda a big stack of apple pancakes without cinnamon because she wasn't allowed to have it. She may have also said certain things about Sunk's old mommy under her breath that Amanda cannot repeat because it involved decapitation and choking.

"However, it is not your job to take care of your mommy all by yourself. I think Dr. McCoy should be there too, and every step necessary to secure his presence should be taken," Grandma Alexis said, looking directly at mommy Ny as she just rolled her eyes.

"Does that mean you think Uncle Bones should be my new other daddy too?" Amanda asked with fake innocence.

"This is what happens when you put Jim and Spock's genes together in one tiny cute little package. She's manipulative and adorable," her mother mumbled under her breath.

"Why do you think— why do you want— I'm not even sure how to ask you that question," her mother said, stammering.

"However, I do. Why do you want your mom to marry your Uncle Bones?" Grandma Alexis asked with a bright smile.

"Because the mean chicken guy that Daddy calls a word for genitalia that I'm not allowed to repeat wants to keep us all apart from each other so we will be unhappy and he can get rid of us once and for all. But if you marry Uncle Bones his plan will not work." That's when Amanda repeated everything she overheard the mean chicken guy say yesterday to one of his friends that also hates both of her daddies.

"That's not necessarily a good reason to get married." Of course her mommy said this after she called the man several Klingon words that Amanda is not allowed to say again, after she caused what Daddy referred to as a diplomatic cluster F-word-she-is-not-allowed-to-say. Her mommy looked like she was about to cry again. She also looked like she was ready to punch somebody out.

"But you love him," Amanda said, as if it was the most simple thing in the world.

"Yes, I love your Uncle Bones very much." Her grandma Alexis actually cheered when mommy said that. Amanda just smiled to herself.
"I do want him to be here with me, but I can't be that selfish. Besides, sometimes love is just not enough." Grandma Alexis put her head on the table and sighed at that moment. She also said "if I ever see that Scotsman again, I'm going to cut off his balls with a dull butter knife." Again, because she's a little kid, they don't think she knows that Mister Scott broke her mother's heart into 1000 little pieces, but she knew all about it. Uncle bones and Doctor Christine tell her all the good stuff and grandma's voice carried a lot when she was having her secret conversations with grandpa last week. She also cried a lot whenever she talked about mommy Nyota's daddy.

"You're thinking about Mister Scotty, but that's not fair to Uncle Bones. Uncle Bones is a lot better than Mister Scotty. Mister Scotty is fun to play with, but I don't think he would've made a very good daddy or partner. Sometimes he says he is going to play with me and then he forgets and does something in engineering that gets Daddy Jim to yell at him. Daddy Spock says he's flaky." Mommy Ny's response was to laugh.

"I think you have your fathers confused. I don't think Spock would ever use that term unless he was under the influence," her mommy Nyota remarked under her breath

"Under the influence of what? He said so yesterday," Amanda said as she took the last bite of her turkey sausage. She really didn't like meat but she was too allergic to everything to be a vegetarian like her daddy.

"Allergens," her mommy said quickly as her grandma snickered in the back to the old "Remember, just say no to chocolate brownies, especially in this house."

"I think Amanda raises a very valid point," Grandma Alexis said as she tried not to snicker. "He is not Mister Scott. He's not going to cheat on you or leave you. He will not force you to become the stereotypical housewife archetype. Leonard stayed home with his daughter when his first wife was in law school. He's a good man and I want him to be my son-in-law. It's 2267, you don't have to wait for him to pop the question. You should do it."

"It's too soon," Nyota said, just as Amanda added that he already asked last night.

"What?" both women asked simultaneously.

"You were awake last night?" Nyota asked, giving her the mom glare of death. Amanda usually got this type of look whenever she drew on the walls with her mom's lipstick.

"He proposed?" her grandma asked in shock.

"Yes." Grandma looked like she was about to cheer at Amanda's reply. Mommy did not look happy with her answer and was still glaring at her.

"What did she say?" Grandma asked Amanda directly.

"I'm right here," her mom said with annoyance.

"So what did you say?" Grandma Alexis asked, turning to her.

"I think I need to go pack," her mom said, trying to leave the room.

"That's why I didn't ask you because you always run away. You're not running away this time, daughter of mine," Grandma Alexis said, grabbing mommy's arm to keep her from leaving.

"I didn't say no, it's just…" Mommy Ny stopped mid-sentence, not sure what to say.

"You don't want him merely asking out of some misplaced sense of chivalry?" Grandma asked in a way that mommies do sometimes.

"Yes. This is the guy who married a woman that he absolutely hated just because the contraceptive failed. I don't want him to just marry me because he doesn't want his favorite patient in the hands of another doctor."

Alexis responded by wrapping her arms around Nyota.

"If I ever see that fucking engineer again, he better run," her grandma whispered so low that Amanda could only hear her because she's part Vulcan. "This has nothing to do with a misplaced sense of duty. I bet you told yourself that same self-deprecating bullshit when he showed up in your hospital room on New Vulcan. The man is in love with you," Alexis said cursing, but Amanda chose not to remind her that she owed money in the swear jar account.

"I know that," Mommy said, pulling out of the hug.

"I don't think you do. Yesterday, you said you wanted to fight. You have to fight," Grandma Alexis told her sternly.

That's when Daddy Spock came in and told mommy that he managed to book them on the 12 PM shuttle to San Francisco. Mommy managed to run out of there as fast as humanly possible.

"Did you really have to give her an excuse to run away from me?" she said, glaring at Daddy Spock. "I was trying to get her to say yes."

"Yes to what?" Daddy Spock inquired with moderate confusion.

"Uncle Bones asked mommy Ny to marry her. He also said that he wants to be my step daddy." Her daddy's response was to smile in his daddy way. He doesn't smile like other people do with their mouth but rather with his eyes. She could tell he was happy.

"Because you told her about the shuttle leaving in three hours, you gave her the perfect excuse to run away again and I was just starting to get her to not be just as stubborn as her father. This is your fault and you're going to fix it," Grandma said in frustration.

"Over the nearly 15 years that we have known each other I have learned it is very difficult to get Nyota to accept something that she is not ready to accept. I assume that she would continue to deny her fillings for Doctor McCoy for another 3 to 4 years. It took her nearly 4 years to accept that she is Amanda's mother," Daddy Spock said matter-of-factly.

"Oh I know exactly how stubborn my daughter can be. You are the only boyfriend that she has ever had that could make her see things that she doesn't want to," Grandma Alexis said before pausing for a moment, "Jim can too, but he was never actually her boyfriend."

"If you get someone pregnant doesn't that count as a boyfriend?" Amanda asked the group as her grandma put her head in her hands again and her daddy raised his eyebrows in his 'I can't believe you just said that out loud way.'

"I believe James is required for this conversation," was her father's only response.

To be continued