[Disclaimer: The movies and its characters don't belong to me. I don't own them. They belong to their rightful owners and I'm just borrowing them for this one-shot.

A/N: Crossposted on tumblr, following this year's prompts of Whumptober.

Rated M for violence and cursing!]

No. 1 All thrust up and still nowhere to go (prompt: bound)

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"Please, just let me go. My Captain will find me one way or another."

The cables and wires wrapped around his body only tightened and the Scotsman groaned in pain. This was awful!

Why did the Rhodanian betray them? He had only been here to help them! And now two members of his engineering division were dead.

A cold chuckle was the only reply he got from the reptil like creature in front of him.

"Oh, I sure hope that your Captain will come here to find you. After all, I need to kill him."

Scotty's eyes widened in shock when he heard those words. Kill Kirk? No... he couldn't let them do that!

So he just struggled even more, trying to break free on his own. It didn't help. The wires cut into his skin. How did they tighten? He didn't understand the technique.

"Stop struggling, Mr. Scott. Or else they will cut through your weak human body like blades."

A hand was placed on his cheek and he looked into those red eyes of the Ambassador.

A door opened and a well-known man was forced inside the room.

"Captain," Scotty grunted in pain and Jim looked at him in shock. Why was he here? He shouldn't be here!

"Scotty!"

It was horrifying for Jim to see his Chief of Engineering dangling from the ceiling, wrapped up in cables and wires. The Scotsman looked so pale.

"Now Captain Kirk, how do you like the present?"

Jim's eyes moved from Scotty to the Ambassador and his hands clenched into fists.

"Let him go!"

It was an order. Scott could hear it in his Captain's voice. But the Rhodanian wouldn't listen.

"Well, we don't need any witnesses, so... I prefer to kill him."

Another wire was wrapped around Scotty's neck by one of the guards. And suddenly... he felt blood running down his throat as the wire tightened.

He tried not to scream in pain, knowing it would only increase his pain. But still he couldn't help but struggle.

"Scotty!" He heard Kirk screaming out his name. And then there was nothing. His mind blacked out from the pain.

The last thing he heard were phaser shots.

When he opened his eyes, Scotty was certain that he was dead. Why else would the light be so bright? Well... then maybe that person in front of him was an angel.

"Scotty?"

An angel with a familiar voice. He didn't think he'd hear that voice again.

Slowly his blurry vision cleared and he found himself in a well known place.

Sick bay.

"Leonard?"

It really was him! The man he loved so much, he sometimes didn't even know how he deserved him.

A punch against his shoulder was the answer Scotty got.

"Ouch!"

He rubbed his shoulder and looked at Bones. Were those... tears in his eyes?

"Don't ever do that again!"

Scott smiled softly. Well... it hadn't been his fault that they were betrayed on a simple mission!

"I'll try, love. Thanks for patching me up."

This time he was rewarded with a kiss and when Leonard released his lips, he could see Jim standing in a corner of the room.

"Ye're alright, Captain? They... they wanted to kill you."

To that Kirk just smiled.

"Ha! Did they really think I'd come to save you without backup? Fools."

The Captain walked over to them and placed a hand on Scotty's shoulder.

"Well... You usually do so," Scott joked, his voice still a bit hoarse. Jim chuckled to that.

"True. But... this time I was smarter. I'm glad you're okay, Scotty."

"Thanks to you, Jimbo. Thanks to you."

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