A/N: So, here is the change in view point. Now we see what happened with Jim and Spock after they left Dean and Sam. Hope you enjoy.
Spock followed Jim as he entered the bridge after leaving Winchester and Campbell. Taking his seat, he waited as Jim got the attention of all there.
"You may have heard that Lt Winchester, the navigator of Alpha shift, is Acting Captain until what happened in the mess hall a couple of hours ago, is cleared up. Has anyone heard of Hunters? In the sense of ghosts."
"Yeah, I have … uhhh." Sulu spoke up suddenly, groaning in realisation. "Winchester, I didn't even think to connect her name with them."
"What is it, Sulu?" Jim asked. Spock also wondered at the familiarity he heard in the voice.
"An ancestor was saved from a vampire by Hunters, Winchester sisters. It was a favourite story of ours growing up." He sat and rubbed his hand over his head. "How many on board?"
"Including Lt Winchester, 27." Spock said then. He informed them of the names that he knew, and where they were currently located and their job.
"Are we sure this is real?" Nyota asked.
"It is, Nyota. The dark shape that was trapped within the doorway was the ghost. The Captain, Dr McCoy and myself were in the mess hall when it attacked there. As, weird, as it may be, what is happening is real. Lt Winchester is in charge until it is dealt with."
"Also, as senior officers, myself, Bones and Spock were given a code to remember, and we were told to obey whomever gave it. Winchester did so shortly before Swells and Zinar came in." Jim said, sitting down and activating the UV setting, showing the warding again. "All this is designed to help keep us safe. Campbell, Winchester's brother and 2IC, said that this area, the engineering decks, medbays and our rooms are the most heavily warded." He said.
"So, what do we do?" one of the others asked.
"We monitor everything. I want to know about anything that isn't part of the running of this ship. If we don't what it is or what's causing it, we contact Winchester." He paused then, "Spock, any idea what it was they were using to talk to one another?"
"No, Captain. I have never seen anything like it." Spock answered as the turbolift sounded. He was baffled as to what the devices were.
"They're called cell phones." A voice sounded. Spock looked over and saw that it was Singer. He came over and handed one to Jim, Spock joining them. The man's accent sounded to be from Texas, and he was no longer in the Starfleet uniform. "Sam figured that you might need one here. It's more efficent than asking for us to comm you." He showed him how to activate it and contact Winchester. "Just press and hold the number 1 for a few seconds, it'll contact her phone. Dean is number 2, I'm 3 and Fitz is four."
"Is there anything else we can do to help?" Jim asked, taking the phone and flipping it closed. It was similar to the portable comm. devices. He looked it over before looking at Singer.
"Yeah, Jones could use another pair of eyes to look over everything." He said. "Also, Captain, if you could issue an order to keep crew to their quarters unless to attend duties or their assigned shifts. It would help with clearing people and rooms. We need to do a room by room search, but it's hard with people scattered."
"Done." Jim said, "Anything else?"
Singer paused a moment, "This thing seems to go after females, and uses males to do it. All women are not to travel alone; they are to be in pairs or larger groups if possible."
"And I'm guessing you want the men to stay away from them?" Jim asked.
"If there are more women than men, I think they'll be fine."
"What is the meaning of your casual attire, Officer Singer?" Spock asked, catching the man before he left the room.
"The uniforms aren't designed for this. Our clothes, we've modified them to hold a lot of things. And, if we're going to be Hunting, we might as well wear our uniform." With that, Singer left.
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Several hours later found Spock looking over everything that had been brought on board during their stopover on Earth. He had contacted Jones, and was now helping her to go through the list. Everyone on the bridge, the women going as a single group, left the bridge to go to their rooms so that they could be searched. Everyone was cleared and Spock found it easier to concentrate, knowing that the people he was with, had not brought anything back that they shouldn't have. He knew of things that made it on board without clearing a quarantine check; the tribble incident while under Captain Pike many years before, the most memorable. (I haven't seen the full episode, but I've seen a some of it and found it funny)
Scotty was also going over everything he had ordered. Jones had mentioned that some of those items were shielded against supernatural scanning by how there were made and needed to be visibly inspected. She had found the Hunter who was meant to have done it, and found that they hadn't gotten to everything. They had found something and had 'cleansed' it, but then had forgotten to go back and finish. They hadn't been Hunting for long before they had been put into the academy.
From what he had been able to find out, Winchester, Campbell, Singer, Fitzgerald and an older man by the name of Max Devereaux were the only ones with the most experience. The rest were younger, with the exception of Devereaux, than the senior Hunters.
Alpha shift was ending, and the next shift was about to start. Spock left it to Jim to inform them of what was happening and agreed to meet Nyota for dinner.
"Everything ok, Nyota?" He asked. He had noticed that she had been very quiet that day.
"Yeah, just trying to wrap my head around everything. I mean, ghosts? I know what I saw, but I'm still trying to understand it." She said as she ate. "I didn't think I would ever see anything more unusual than what happened with Krall."
"I understand. Vulcan had only a very small number of its people still studying such things, and until now, I had no reason as to why that was. They all perished when Vulcan was destroyed. I believe that is what my Father was talking to Lt Winchester about when we were there."
"What did he ask her?"
"New Vulcan hadn't been cleansed when the last occupants had left, and as a result, several incidents had occurred." Winchester said as she paused at their table. She was dressed in jeans and a well-worn vest with a long sleeve shirt underneath and a backpack tossed over one shoulder. "When I left for a few moments, I did a hasty one that kept the city safe. I organised another Hunter to head out there and do a planetwide one when we got to Earth." She tossed over her shoulder as she left, "Think that was the reason they left, they didn't know what to do. The knowledge had been lost over the eons." She continued on after several other people that were similarly dressed.
Spock watched as they sat down and noticed that Singer, Campbell and others that he had been introduced to over the day were with her, as well as many others that he hadn't been. A quick head count revealed all 27 to be there.
"They must be the other Hunters." Jim said as he joined them.
"I heard the reason Singer gave on the bridge, but surely there has to be a StarFleet uniform designed for them." Nyota asked as she looked them over, not a single red, blue or gold shirt to be seen.
"Not if you want what they do to remain secret. I have no doubt that when they investigate things that don't require the whole ship to know, they remain in their uniforms." Jim said as he ate his meal.
"The StarFleet uniform isn't practical. We need to attach a toolbelt whenever we go off the ship." Dr McCoy said as he sat down. "The coats and jeans have everything stashed in them that they could need; believe me. You won't believe what I saw Janet Mills store when Dean showed up. Anything else is in the bags."
They all turned to the tables they had commandeered and saw that they had moved several of them together. It was now covered in large sheets of paper, and from what Spock could make out, they were covered in drawings. The bags were at the feet of their owners.
"They have drawn the ship's schematics, Captain." He said, drawing the other man's attention to the papers.
"Why have they done that?" He wondered.
Spock was of a similar mind. Such things weren't needed. Anything could be accessed on the PADDs. Sharing a look at one another, they finished their food, watching Winchester interact with the others.
It was clear that she knew them all, joking with some as they ate, listening to others and generally keeping an eye on things. Spock recognised the signs, as he had seen Jim do the same. She was making sure that her people were ok. It suddenly occurred to him that it had been over a year since they had relaunched from Yorktown. This was possibly the first time since then that they had been able to be themselves. They would have kept away from one another to avoid detection and his admiration for her and the others went up. No one had even suspected a thing.
Spock headed to them after disposing of his plate. Those at the table ignored him after a couple of glances, their attention returning to Winchester. Knowing that Jim, Nyota and Dr McCoy were standing beside him, he simply watched and listened.
"Are there any areas the EMFs haven't been calibrated to?" Winchester said, looking over the scattered maps. Spock could see her eyes taking in every detail drawn.
A woman picked up a pen and drew several circles on the well coloured plans. "These areas here we haven't been able to get to yet. We need authorisation to access them, and you're the only one at the moment that can." Spock watched as the Lt nodded and handed the other woman her authorisation card.
"This should work, Tara. I want them done by morning." She looked over the map and pointed out another area "This area been cleared?" It encompassed the medbay the bridge victims had been taken to that morning. He had heard they had all been released, except for Sabel, who was still unconscious.
"Yeah, Dean did it before he left." Janet Mills said. "Something tripped the EMF in the medbay, but I think it might have been the Ecto left over from when it used Zinar and Sable."
"Double check. I don't expect anything to happen until tomorrow, not after I hit it with the iron. Combined with the energy draining spell in the doorway, it should be pretty weak." Several others nodded. "How's it going with the EMF updates?" She turned and looked at Fitzgerald.
"We're getting there. We may have spent the first six months finding everything we could, but we haven't been able to collate it all, let alone update them until now." He said, handing several of the devices back to their owners and taking others. "Those areas Tara pointed out will need to be added once they're done."
Spock realised because of the clandestine nature of Hunting, they hadn't been able to get together to inform one another about things they had found. Sharing a look with Jim, they would be able to do so from now on.
"Dean raised a valid point about the timeline. Whatever held the ghost was disturbed at some point in the last day or so. Check to see what has only been accessed in the last 24 to 48 hours." After that, Winchester issued orders for most of the Hunters to get some sleep. They were going to be working in shifts from now on. Those that had been sleeping throughout the day would be on that night. They all headed off until only the four senior Hunters were left. Spock found himself sitting beside Winchester, with Nyota on his other side, as Jim and McCoy also joined them. Looking over the plans, he saw several areas that were coloured.
"What made you draw all this out?" Jim asked as he leafed through several sheets. Given the size of the Enterprise, and the many areas; there were a lot. Some focused on certain areas, the bridge, the engineering decks; others covered whole floors or sections. He could make out notations and symbols that had been placed on the walls.
"Anything electronic dies pretty quickly when ghosts are around." Winchester said as she looked over the sheets, writing something into the margins of an area several decks down.
"Or did you not notice the flickering lights when it showed up here this morning?" Singer continued.
"This way, we have something to look at and mark off when we've cleared an area." Spock noticed that she was still keeping her tone distant and not looking at any of them.
"We've cleared only about 20% of the ship, but so far, nothing." Dean said, pointing out the areas.
"Unless they need to be somewhere, the crew have been confined to quarters. Thanks for that, Captain. It'll make it easier for us and harder for it." She nodded in his direction, before she started to roll up the maps. "Singer, I want you on first thing. Fitz, you've got the afternoon. Dean and I'll take the night. Dean, you head to bed, I'll be right tonight."
"Sam, you've been up as long as everyone else."
"Yeah, but I don't need as much sleep. Go, I doubt I'll be wanting for company tonight." She looked up quickly at him, and Spock saw the question.
"I will ensure that your sister is safe, Officer Campbell." He said. He saw Dr McCoy go to say something, but Winchester forestalled him.
"Leon, please." It was the first time she had spoken to him directly all day, and he could hear the desperation in it. It had the right effect as he nodded, stood and headed off. Those left at the table watched in silence, and didn't notice Winchester leave. Spock did and slipped off after her.