The U.S.S Kelvin was under attack and Madeline was fighting trying to stay near her best friend. It had been a hard night for Winona and Madeline was starting to worry that she was going to give birth in the middle of the attack. George Kirk had been on call the whole night as well as her husband and not having heard from either was worrying her.
"Madeline, please call George. I need him here."
Taking her friends hand Madeline turned to the medics. "We need to get her out of here now. They are beginning evacuation." With that, the medics started getting ready.
In the command center, everything was chaos. The U.S.S. Kelvin was being attack by an unknown vessel and every power and back up was failing. They had lost their captain to the unknown vessel.
George Kirk had just utter his first words as captain when his best friend stepped onto the bridge.
"Lieutenant Pitts. Transfer Robau's vital signs to the main view screen." Kirk turned to his best friend seeing him coming on the bridge. "Ronald where is Madeline?" he asked turning to his friend.
"With Winona do not worry," Ronald responded walking next to his friend. Being an officer he was more than accustom to stress situations but being under attack was something he hoped never to get accustom to.
"Vitals on line." They heard an officer said.
"… thank you," said Kirk slightly awkward. Turning back to Ronald he took a deep breath. They had been best friend since they were children, and marrying two women who love each other as well had only made then closer. Working together on the same ship had been a dream of theirs since they first enter the academy.
"The shuttle's pulling out of main bay, Sir."
George moved toward the captain chair with Ronald by his side. "I want to see him - floodlights please."
After watching for a minute and monitoring his vitals the last thing any of them wanted to see happened. Their beloved Captain's vital had gone flat and the ship was launching another attack.
"They're launching again!" Officer Pitts turned back to the captain. While Kirk said, "Evasive! Evasive! Delta-Five maneuver! Fire full-spread!"
There was no way out of this and they all knew it. The U.S.S. Kelvin was going down and if Captain Kirk had anything to say about it, it would not take any more lives.
"I'm initiating General Order 13! Set self-destruct for maximum matter- antimatter yield! Two minute countdown!"
"Yessir!" he heard Pitts answer him.
"I want auto-pilot targeted for their fuel cells!"
"Sir, unable to locate the ship's power source!"
"Then just target the damn thing dead center!" Captain Kirk knew one thing if his ship was going down it was going to make as big of a hole in the other ship as possible.
"Kirk we have another problem," Ronald said looking over some systems in the comm. "The auto pilot is destroyed. The only way we are going to ram that thing is with manual control." He turn back to looked at his friend and could read his face without a doubt.
With a determined look, George turned back to his crew… to his friends, "- then I'll do it myself - get to the shuttles, now!" As no one moved, Kirk turned to everyone and screamed, "THAT'S AN ORDER! GO!"
As everyone left with agony on their faces, George Kirk turned to his best friend who hadn't moved.
"Go Ronald," he said sitting on the Captain's chair so he could send out a ship wide message.
"There is nothing you could do that could possibly make me leave you here like this," Ronald said sitting at the controls.
"All decks, this is the Captain speaking - evacuate the ship immediately, get to your designated shuttle crafts –- repeat: evacuate ship and get to designated shuttles. Now!"
Winona looked at her friend as the medics started moving her out of Med bay. She held on to Madeline as she listened to her husband's voice.
"That's George's voice -what's happening?"
"Don't worry he is probably getting everything ready to meet us at the shuttle. Hey Winona concentrate please you are literally bringing a human being into this world in the middle of a fight ok. This kid wants to be born now." Madeline said as she moved with her friend around falling debris, smoke, and disaster.
"George!" Winona said into her com as she opened it.
"I have medical shuttle 37 standing by, get to it now - can you do that?" George talked to his wife.
"Yes - where are you?" Winona asked looking up at her friend with a smile. She had been right her husband was on her way.
"I'm on my way," she heard him say.
"Good- and George, it's coming—our baby, it's coming now."
With a heavy heart, Ronald turned to his friend. He could see the devastation on George's face. He knew how important this baby was for both George and Winona and knowing he was never going to be able to meet him was a horrible moment to witness. So he opened a communication channel with his wife. The same wife he knew he would never see again.
"Love are you there?" he asked.
Madeline heard her comm and walked a little farther away from her friend. They had just arrive at the shuttle and she was being well looked after.
"Ronald, where are you?" she asked her husband.
"Love listen to me," he said as he heard George talking in the background with the shuttle. He could tell her now there was no way she could get off the shuttle now. "I can't leave. The auto pilot is ruined and I can't leave him here."
For a moment, Madeline had no idea what was going on and then she understood. That morning when she had kissed her husband when he left to work and she was still somewhat asleep was the last time she saw her husband.
"Ronald what are you doing?" she asked knowing exactly what he was doing. Her husband loved her and would always choose her, but George Kirk was as close as blood. He was his brother.
"Sorry love I have to do this," he said his voice breaking as he heard George talking to his wife about the baby's name. "Listen to me love no matter what happens; no matter where we are in the universe I will always love you. Do you hear me?"
Crying her heart out yet holding it together just to make this easier on both of them she said, "I know love. No matter what happens, you are the love of my life. I will see you in my dreams."
"Remember; never leave anything on the heater unattended. Always make sure you have your communicator with you whenever you leave the house. Remember to turn the lights of the kitchen off you always leave them on." The both smile as he talked. "I will always take care of you no matter where we are. I love you. Take care of Winona. Make sure you take care of each other. I love you…" were the last words Madeline ever heard her husband said.
She would never hear her husband's voice again. Never feel his goodbye kiss because he would always leave first to work. He would never again called her when he was bored. And when they made it to earth and had their complete physical he would never found out she had been four months pregnant when he died with a little girl she named after his mother, Lydia Talbot.
Growing up being best friend with a boy was complicated. There was always that faze were girls had cutties. Then there was a time that every boy at school thought you were weird for being together all the time. There were times when you could even have problems with someone and trying to defend you your friend could always get in trouble.
Then there was being friend with James T. Kirk. Being friends with James T. Kirk was all of that and more. Which is why she was sitting next to him while joy riding in a very beautiful and expensive classic corvette. The truth is though that she wouldn't want to be anywhere else. As Jim turned up the radio, she smile and screamed aloud loving being there. Singing to a song that she was sure, she had heard her mom at some point sing herself.
"Heyyyyyyyyy" Jim scream over the music making her turn back to him. Making a gesture to the roof, they moved with a grace of two people who had been moving together for years, and opened the convertible roof. Looking back, they watched as the roof was ripped from the car and tumbled through the air landing on the road. They turned to each other and started laughing. The truth was that no matter what they did or where they were a Kirk and Talbot would always have a good time together.
That is when they heard it, the "bloop bloop" of a police cruiser. Lydia looked back at the cop and turn to Jim making a sign like keep going. Never let it be said that James T. Kirk was always the instigator. Seeing that the vehicle was not going to stop the cop pulled up beside the car only to see two kids inside it.
"Son, you pull over that car!" He said over the pa, but the kids just blasted the radio louder.
"We CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Jim screamed back while he kept up driving.
The kids kept driving down the road until they saw it. The end of the road a place where both kids have been before. The place they had both been headed to since they got into the car. Looking at each other with a secretive smile, they started moving. They speed toward the edge closer and closer until the last second. Kirk slammed on the brakes and as the car skid both kids leaped from the car landing in a cloud of dust as the car fell of the cliff and exploded. Looking at each other, the kids bust out laughing because by the next day at this same hour they would be on another adventure. Looking back at the cop who had hopped off the hover cruiser, hand on weapon, they realized something. Maybe this time it wouldn't be that easy.
"What's your name, son?"
Without a thought he step forward to make sure the cop wouldn't look at his friend too much trying to keep her safe. "My name's Kirk. James Tiberius Kirk."
For years, James Tiberius Kirk and Lydia Talbot were the best friends any one could find. There was only one problem, Jim was always ready to be the irresponsible one and well, quite frankly, she was getting tired of it all. She was never going to turn down an adventure with Kirk, but it was starting to feel like earth was getting to be too small for her. That was why she was at the bar with the recruitment scout talking about the Academy and Starfleet.
After hearing everything that Captain Pike had told her, she was starting to doubt her lifestyle.
"Your father was a good man. He showed great courage and loyalty in the face of certain death," he talked as they sat outside of the bar. He had decided to talked to her at the bar, and she was starting to worry that Jim would appear. This was after all one of their favorite bar, just like she was sure the federation knew. Is where they found her a few days before and it would be where they were going to try the same sales pitch they had on her. The only problem was that she knew Jim would never listened to them.
"You should be proud of him." Her father had always been a sensitive subject for her. Jim's dad had died trying to save his family. Her dad had died so he wouldn't leave a friend. She would die for Jim that was not questioned in any way but sometimes it made her think what would happened the day that she actually fell in love.
"Look Captain Pike I appreciate the sale pitch just give me some time. It's not every day that you have to make a life changing decision," she said looking back at the bar where a fight seemed to have broken out.
"Just think about it, I know it would be hard leaving everything behind, but think about something else. You could get a new family with the Federation. Just think about it." As they started walking to the bar she thought about everything he had said. The truth was that the only family she had ever had was Jim. She loves her mother but half her life she had been completely absent and the other half she had been just an authority figure she barely listen to. She had no problem leaving behind her mother the woman had done the same thing to her.
She did have a problem leaving behind Jim. Jim who had been the only one there for her every day of her life. The Jim that when she had severe stomach ache one night he stole a car to take her to the medics and stayed with her every night she was at the hospital. The Jim who when her first boyfriend had cheated on her came to her house and spent hours just eating junk food and letting her vent for hours after he had beat the crap out of the guy. The same Jim that when he looked up after an ear splitting whistle that brought her back into reality she saw was bleeding.
"Outside, all of you! NOW!" called out Pike who she was standing behind. The Cadets left as she moved to a semiconscious Jim.
As she started trying to right him, she smile down at him. "So how many were they today?"
"A few you know there is always the ones that jump in after the fight already started," he said only how she was able to understand him Pike would never know. "You look weird," said Jim turning to the man behind Lydia.
"Y'alright, Son?" the captain asked looking at the boy in front of him.
"You can... whistle really loud, y'know that?" famous last word as Kirk passed out.
"So this is him?" Captain Pike asked Lydia.
She turned toward him with a smile and was proud to say to this Captain of Starfleet. "Yes Captain Pike. This is James T. Kirk."