THE DOCTOR IN THE MORGUE

Another chapter for you guys. Hope you like it.

I think I've finally decided what will happen in this story. I had a small idea but now I think I know vaguely what direction it's headed in. Anyways, hope you like this chapter.

Much love,

Day

PART THREE

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Jim Kirk didn't know what he was being called down for. He had a ship to charter through space, and a crew to lead. While in some light they were drifting along until something happened – something would, it always had – he still had no idea why Bones couldn't have just told him the situation. Seeing as he knew his friend wouldn't call him for nothing (though sometimes he did, to check on him), he knew it had to be a pressing matter. He hoped that was the case anyhow.

When he got to the room where they usually beamed in and out of the ship for different things that didn't require landing on a planet he came to a full stop. His friend was standing over someone. "Is she alive?"

The woman, whoever she was looked limp and pale as she lay against the side of the wall near the com.

Bones looked up at the captain of the Enterprise. He had been in his head trying to find a good excuse to use in order to let the girl – Dev be put with someone else to look over her. He knew Jim trusted him to do it, but he wasn't exactly used to women fainting in his presence. That was more Jim's job. He had the hair for it, or so he had heard many women whisper about him on and off the ship (in the medic bay, in corridors, everywhere else).

"Uh, yeah. She saw one of our new friends come by after we got beamed. You need to talk to that kid, Chekov. She was standing a bit too close at the time. Now she's unconscious."

"Did she hit her head?"

"No. I told you she saw the green woman. What is her name again? I need a proper name for these people." Bones paused shifting as he tried to think of the species that were aiding the crew for a few weeks while their planet was being cleansed from another disease. He had been one of the few in the medical bay who had decided which of the lot could be trusted to stay on the ship while the others were under quarantine. Some kind of new virus – a disease! that no one had ever seen before. Bones and another doctor had managed to find an antidote that worked, it took a few days but it was successful.

"Vilziyana, I think. It started with a V. So what should we do?"

"You're the captain, Jim! I follow, you lead, remember?" Bones huffed.

Jim just grinned at him. He loved to annoy Bones. He was right though. "Let me talk to our resident Russian and I'll get back to you. Take her to the medic bay. Check her over, and make sure she doesn't hurt herself when she comes to."

Bones stopped from saying something along the lines of "why me", he knew it wouldn't help this situation. He was really in the mood to ring Pavel Chekov's neck not that Jim would let him do that. Especially now that he had a new patient on his list.

Jim left him there with only a small phrase in his leave. "She's only a woman."

How helpful he was. Bones grumbled before looking back at the brunette on the ground. Her glasses were slipping off her nose and he wasn't really liking the shade of her skin right now. It had a better pigment when they were on the top of Bart's roof.

He let out another heavy sigh before bending down and carefully picking her up in his arms. The last time he had to carry a woman like this was in his marriage to his ex-wife. He tossed the thought out of his head. Damn woman left him with nothing but the memories – there were good ones, but the bad ones outweighed them in his head. Damn her.

He was careful though with Dev. That was her name. At least he had remembered hers.

She was a friend of the good Doc of the undead. He grumbled even more when he realized that she and that brooding detective of hers would probably be trying to find a way to get her back. Well, he still had a reason to blame it on the Russian.

Perhaps he wouldn't have to deal with her too much longer. The kid for all his mess ups (not too many to date), was a genius and probably knew how to fix it. If not they would have to pay a visit to Scotty. He had a solution for most things like this. At least he hoped he could.

He knew it was highly childish of him to be so bent out of shape over a woman but he didn't know what to do with them. He didn't get opportunities to interact with them. For one, he wasn't exactly a perfect gentleman about it. He could flirt, as noted by Jim during the Khan debacle but he didn't exactly do it too much. His focus was on his job, making sure everyone was healthy and good for travel. Taking care of the head man in charge. He didn't have time for it.

Not that he was exactly worried about that now.

Dev was unconscious and she annoyed him when she was awake and pestering him.

He stopped again, moving over to his table of gadgets to retrieve his little scanning device so he could check her as requested by the Captain. He would have done it anyways but it was nice to get direction on occasion.

She was in the clear, though he did notice a small problem with her heartbeat. It wasn't steady as it should be.

It could be a murmur.

He listened to it again after giving the rest of her body a full spec and signaling that she was fine otherwise. He went back to her heart just to be sure. He took her pulse before going back over to his table to retrieve another little doodad that he used sometimes when he needed a closer inspection of something. It was a blue color and shimmered a little when he held it at the handle. He moved back over to the bed he had put her on. He hadn't bothered to hook her up to anything just yet, though he was thinking that maybe she needed a few fluids to bring some of that color back into her face. It was worrying him that she was so freaking pale. He had seen paler faces before but it didn't match with what she was supposed to be.

He decided to give her fluids first. It took a few minutes to find it. Someone had moved his things around while looking for something.

"This is why I guard my tools like a hog." He muttered before turning back to put the IV in her arm. It was quick and painless for him. Then he went back to looking at her heart.

The pace was off. It skipped at an odd beat.

Possibly a murmur, he finally decided before jotting it down. He would have to ask her about that when she came to.

He left her alone after that, and went over to look at a few experiments he was working on for several different projects. One was a medicine, another a new vaccine, and then there was a write up on one of the plants he found in one of the new places they had landed on for a little while a few days back before he fell to Earth. He spent a little time on each before he heard the sound of someone whining.

There were no kids on this ship or even in the medical bay though there had been some before a few months back but he didn't think that was it. He got up anyways.

"Why am I hooked up to a drip?" She mumbled, taking off her glasses to wipe at her eyes.

"You needed fluids. Your color looks much better."

Dev's head lifted a little as she eyed him, blinking. It was still very fuzzy. Glasses. She put them back on before focusing on him. Her head felt a little weird. "Did I hit my head by any chance or am I actually on a space ship?" She started looking around. She was in a different room than what she remembered being in when she was last conscious.

Oh. Right, she had fainted.

Before Bones could even begin to relay back to her how she was indeed on a "ship" as she called it. The Enterprise was more than a ship – if said captain of the ship had been in here he would have probably went into a lengthy discussion about it or taken her on a tour of the vessel but Bones was not James Tiberius Kirk, so instead he let her start to ramble. She could talk, this one.

"I was in shock. People don't just move from a rooftop to places like this. This is just, wow. This is something." Then she started to get up and if Bones hadn't been so close he was sure she would have fell over.

She was dizzy.

"Okay. Bad idea."

"This is just the medic bay, and you should stay sitting for a little while. The altitude is difficult for most people to get used to. It's stupid to just jump and run head first into things you know about."

"Then give me a crash course, Doctor. Molly said you were a doctor." She smiled at him and though the woman had freaking been unconscious at least an hour and a half ago, she still had that look in her eyes. It was like she was amused by him or maybe it was men in general.

"Yeah, okay. Wait right here and don't move." He ordered her.

Dev saluted him before he moved from her sight and left through a door that slide open. She sat there waiting for at least five minutes before she decided she couldn't sit still. She was on a space ship. She wasn't going to leave the room for that would be disobeying orders. Though in a way she was still ignoring what he said. He hadn't wanted her to move from the bed but she was slow about it as she moved over to the other side where a glass barrier separated another room. It reminded her of a cubicle in an office.

It had a table and a few monitors but there wasn't any kind of keyboard. There were these odd gadgets there.

When she moved to grab one of them, she heard the voice of her "doctor" as he came back through the sliding door with another man. "Don't touch those!"

"Bones, don't be mean to our visitor. She's just curious."

Dev smiled as she turned around to see a very handsome man in a yellow shirt with that little symbol that she had seen on "Bones", shirt. She wondered if the different shirts meant something. Maybe? He had golden locks that deserved to be documented with photographs. She reached into her pocket for her phone thinking she might but instead she just stowed her hands in her pockets and rocked back and forth.

"Listen to your friend. You can't expect me to just sit here while I'm on this space ship. I am human after all. By the way, you never answered my question. Are you alien?"

Bones opened his mouth to speak when the golden haired man stopped him. "Of course not. There are a few different species on the ship but Bones and I, are as human as me and you." He paused as he swung his arm around Bones' neck pulling him closer to him. "Though he is half mad every second of the day." To his credit Bones didn't smile nor did she think he would any time soon.

She felt a new mission coming to her head.

Perhaps it wouldn't work but she wasn't known for quitting without trying several times over. She smiled at them, she could sense that they were actually good friends. Something about this guy who was hanging off Bones made her feel safe even if she didn't know if she would just be gone the next day.

"I believe it, so who are you anyways."

Mr. Golden Locks beamed and moved away from his grumpy counterpart before walking over to her nearly invading her physical space as he leaned down to talk to her quietly as if it was some sort of secret. "Oh, I'm just the Captain of the ship. It's called the Enterprise by the way. I'm sure Bones didn't really explain much. My name is Jim Kirk. What's yours?"

Dev flushed a little, his eyes were very overwhelming and it wasn't because she found him remotely attractive, though she did. He wasn't her type exactly. She took a step back slowly. "I go by Dev. Last name not really relevant. So, you own this ship?"

"No, he just is in charge. Don't let his good looks fool you, he is always up to no good. Constantly making me stress out. It's a wonder my hair hasn't turned gray yet."

Mr. Bones was awfully chatty all of sudden. She grinned at him which only made him make a face that made her think again that he wasn't fond of her. That was okay. She could be a handful. Molly had told her that often enough that she didn't take offense to it.

"Aw, don't be like that Bones. I always come out of it fine."

Bones just glared at him, which made Dev giggle.

"You two are something."

Bones face did something strange. If frowning was normal on him then the look on his face when she was laughing was something else entirely. She didn't exactly know what it meant. Or why he was looking that way but he was odd. She liked odd though.

"Thank you!" Kirk smiled at her before turning around to his friend who hadn't moved from his spot. "So, you should be fine in this fine man's hand. Chekov, he's this Russian kid who knows way too much about things that I only vaguely understand – also the reason why you are here in the first place is trying to find a way to get you back to…London? Yeah, I'm sure you're missed." He winked at her and she sighed already reading way too much into this Captain of the Enterprise. She would need to watch out for him but also keep in his good graces. There was something about him that made her think he was also the kind of person you wanted on your team when you needed a way out of something. He was a loyal party in other words. "Bones was telling me about the doctor that saved him, she works in a morgue. A friend of yours." He continued on.

Jim Kirk talked a lot when he was trying to lay everything on the table. He liked being clear about everything.

He waved his hand as if erase the thoughts from existence. "Anyways he's having a little trouble with the system we use, so we got to talk to Scotty – another person who is good at these kind of things. Perhaps your stay won't be long but I hope you enjoy it anyhow. It's a nice ship." He ended proudly.

He wheeled back over to Bones and said something lowly to him that he only nodded to before he left the two of them.

"You're stuck with me." He said as he ran a hand through his hair. "Sorry."

"Why are you apologizing?" He did look genuinely apologetic if not a little irritated – not totally annoyed. Those were two different expressions on his face.

"I'm not the most pleasant to be around," He coughed a little, clearing his throat. He was uncomfortable talking to her, she noticed. Her brows raised at this. "Jim thinks you would be safer with me so well that's how it's going to be. I'll show you around tomorrow when there is more going on. You'll probably like that…" He trailed off a little unsure.

She nodded. "Cool."

As if he remembered something suddenly he moved over to the table behind her – his desk – and grabbed a little square device that as she looked around him and down at was lit up with graphs and things. It had a number on the top of it. "What's that?"

"Your medical file. I scanned you while you were knocked out."

"I'm sorry what?" Did he say he scanned her? What is that like a MRI or something? Her brows knitted up as she continued to look at the screen as it switched to a different thing. There was words, some of it she understood and the other she didn't get at all. She was in the medical field and new most things but some of these terms were highly foreign. It made her feel a little lost and stupid.

"Like an x-ray of your body. This device tells me everything I need to know. I've put my notes in here. I saw something weird."

She backed away from him then. "Oh?" She sounded surprised but she didn't feel it exactly. She already knew what he was going to say.

"Your heart beat is off. Took your pulse and it was still there. It's weird. Do you have a murmur or some kind?" He turned to her but she had sat down and was looking at a little device flicking through it.

"Dev." He called her name and she looked up.

"Oh. That." She waved it away. "It's nothing."

She was not fazed by the weirdness of it all but Bones hummed to himself.

There was definitely something not right about that.

As a rule since his divorce, he decided that digging into another woman's business was not indeed something he should do so he left it alone. For now.

"You know our communication devices are better than that. That phone is practically useless here but I have an idea. C'mon."

He felt a little dumb for not thinking of this sooner but he had been a little distracted by a woman fainting in his presence and all the hoopla that came with that, so he wasn't too bothered by it.

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Sherlolly will be back in the next chapter. I just wanted to focus more on Bones, Dev and Jim in this one. Let me know what you think.