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Captain's log. Our position, orbiting Psi 2000. An ancient world, now a frozen wasteland about to rip apart in its death throes. Our mission: pick up a scientific party below; observe the disintegration of the planet.

Bones left the bridge and found Ellie sitting with her feet propped on her desk, flipping through something on her padd. "What are you doing?" he asked sitting on the edge beside her feet.

"Nothing," she answered, her eyes still on her padd. "I am literally doing," she looked up at him, swiping her finger across the screen, "nothing."

It was a simple scientific mission, there truly was nothing for them to do. Their last mission had started with telekinetic powers and ended with two dead officers, one of whom Jim had to kill himself. So to say they were grateful for the moment of reprieve was not a strong enough statement.

Which left them both with not much to do; at least for the time being. "Well," he said placing his hand on her leg and looking at her heavily, "I can think of a few things we can do."

Her brows rose. "Oh really?" she asked softly turning her padd off and putting it on the desk. "I thought you said we had to be professional when we were working."

That was true, he had said that. Only they hadn't slept together in almost a month and now was about as perfect a time as they were going to get. "Well you see, you're not doing anything," he said lowly, a smile curling on his lips, "and I'm not doing anything."

"What is it you have in mind?" she asked, biting her lip.

He hated when she did that – it made him want to kiss her, and she knew it. "Oh darlin' I have a lot of things in mind," he told her. "In which will you won't be wearing a damn thing."

Heat spread through her and she smiled. "Your room or mine?"

"Which one's closer?"

…

"You have got to be kiddin' me," Bones nearly growled at Jim through the communicator.

Ellie looked at Bones to see him scowling as he listened to whatever Jim was saying.

"Yeah alright, I'm coming. I'll bring her with me," he said before snapping his communicator closed. He groaned laying his head on her chest, wanting nothing more than to disregard his orders; Bones had riled them up to the point they were desperate for each other, and now they couldn't finish.

They reluctantly got out of the bed and into their clothes, morosely returning to their posts in the medical wing. Ellie lowered junior lieutenant Tormolen on the examination table and Bones looked over the readings.

"You're fine Joe," Bones told him, "up and out of there."

She raised the table for Joe to step off and Spock took his place. "Elenore," he greeted with a nod.

"Mr. Spock," she said blandly, not happy to be in the examination room anymore than Bones was, before lowering him to be examined.

Bones met her eye briefly before looking to the readings. "Your pulse is two hundred and forty-two. Your blood pressure is practically non-existent. Assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood," he mused aloud.

"The readings are perfectly normal for me, Doctor, thank you," Spock said emotionlessly. "And as for my anatomy being different from yours, I am delighted."

Ellie looked between the two before rolling her eyes and pushing the table upright, nearly sprawling Spock on his face from the force. No matter how many times she told Bones to be nice he never was, and Spock didn't make it easy. She didn't look at either one of them before leaving, raising her chin for Jim to kiss her cheek before making her way back to her desk.

It was less than an hour later that the intercom beeped, the message saying; "Attention. Engine room on standby alert. All duty personnel to the bridge, acknowledge."

She barely looked up from her padd, not thinking they were in any danger – why would she, it was a dead planet? What harm could possibly come from it?

Only a few minutes later the intercom beeped again. "Emergency!" the voice said breathing heavily. "Wreck room area 39, we need medics."

Ellie was on her feet immediately. "Nurse Chapel, Dr. Wyatt," she called. "Take a stretcher."

Dr. Wyatt called her moments after they arrived, about the same time Bones made it to the medical wing. "He stabbed himself in the abdomen with a knife," she told Bones bewildered.

"Why on earth would he do that?" Bones asked rhetorically.

Even if he had been looking for an answer Ellie didn't have one, at least not of a sane man. "It seems a simple surgery, I should be done in no more than two hours," she said when she heard the commotion of Tormolen being brought in.

"You can take the next one," Bones told her, wanting to get his mind on something other than her.

"You're joking right?" she asked, her brows furrowed. "He's joking right," she said looking to the nurse next to her, who shrugged almost frightened of Ellie's hard eyes. She looked back to Bones to see him watching the door, and she shook her head. "Unbelievable."

Dr. Wyatt and Nurse Chapel wheeled Tormolen in, who was still putting up a fight though it was worn out by the drugs. "We don't belong here," he said loudly, grabbing Ellie's hand when he was wheeled past, looking at her with crazed eyes.

"Put him under," Bones said and Ellie pulled her hand out of the young man's, wiping his sweat off on the skirt of her dress.

Why are his hands so sweaty?" she thought as she watched Bones and the patient disappear behind a door. They had been nearly drenched in sweat, and they shouldn't have been. She pondered over that as she sat back at her desk, to once again do nothing.

The surgery was even simpler than she'd assumed, and Bones was done and closing not even an hour later. Ellie was at her desk filling out paperwork, absentmindedly wiping her hands on her skirt. It was a minute longer of doing this before she realized how many times she wiping her hands off – and it startled her. Her hands were sweaty.

For those of you who haven't watched the episode; the disease is passed through sweat. So that's not good for Ellie. She's not really going to be part of the rest of the story, and that might be the case for a few episodes I do - in that she's there for part and then not for others. So I won't be doing entire episodes, just the parts she's in.

Also, I started my KhanxEllie story and it's called Kill Me I'm a Monster. I decided to try something and do it in first person. The events leading up to Into Darkness are the same, just that Ellie meets Khan before the movie is different (also there's no Scotty and her romance).