Author's note:
Since I have no idea if people are actually reading this at the bottom, I'm moving this to the top with a reminder at the bottom....
Please people, I love that you're adding my story to your favorite story lists, but I need some input on who you'd like to see Orion with. It takes all but 30 seconds to click a button and just type a name.
But with out further ado or admonishment....I give you the next chapter!
In a matter of minutes, Orion was in an elevator of sorts with the two men. She felt awkward standing there between them. It seemed to her that she was the buffer for two opposing forces. Very awkward indeed.
Just when Orion thought the trip would never end (she had begun to wonder just how large the ship was), the doors swished open and out went Spock and Bones. The young woman just followed behind and took in the sights and sounds.
The ship was incredible, though Orion knew she hadn't even seen half of it. Everything was bright and shiny, giving her a definite futuristic feel. People where bustling around in all sorts of different uniforms of red, yellow and blue. She wondered if there was a significance to that, but didn't have much time to ponder as Spock and Bones were almost out o her peripheral vision.
Orion hurried and caught up, but bumped into Bones when he stopped abruptly. "Ow," she muttered to herself, rubbing her nose. She tilted her head, crossed her arms over her chest and looked affronted, but Bones was not paying her any mind, but that was because he was about to pass through the doors that lead to the room.
Upon entering the strange room, Orion was greeted with a plethora of faces. They ranges from the young, a cheerful looking lad with a mop o curly hair, to an elderly Vulcan who had an uncanny resemblance to Spock. Orion shook her head and pushed it to the side of her mind.
Orion scanned the room again and found that everyone had taken a seat. Her chair was at the end closest to the door. The chair to which everyone in the room had a good view of. Interrogation indeed. Orion was already wringing her hands.
She smiled weakly and took her seat that was unfortunately opposite of the captain who had an air of authority on him. He sat at the head of the table like the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. It made Orion feel as if she were being interviewed or about to get fired. Just when the young woman thought the tension and her heart rate get any higher, Jim smiled and cleared his throat, which made the general buzz cease.
"Well, according to a bunch of boring Starfleet regulation, I first have to welcome you aboard the USS Enterprise, which I sort of already did, but this will make the admirals and a couple Vulcans who shall remain nameless happy to do this in a formal setting,' began Kirk with a slight wrinkle of his nose. Apparently he didn't care much for regulation. Orion raised an eyebrow. She had no idea what 'Starfleet' was, but she had a feeling the Vulcans were present in the room.
"But first...introductions. As you know I am the Captain of this here ship," Kirk said once again but with a smirk that proved he loved the position of captain. Orion had no doubt that he used it to help him win the ladies...for the night at least. 'A woman in every port, I'd wager,' Orion thought as she nodded in acknowledgment of Kirk's introduction.
"You've also met my first officer, Spock,' jim continued and looked hesitantly at the older Vulcan who just shook his head. The young woman nodded to Jim and Spock, but had a feeling they were keeping something from her.
"I need no intro, jim. Miss, just call me Bones,' said the doctor.
Orion smiled, as she was already taking a liking to the man. "Will do," she said in a quiet voice. Everything was still new and the faces just peering at her like some zoo exhibit or something.
"But Leonard McCoy is our Chief Medical Officer, so see him if you are not feeling well," added Jim with a satisfied grin on his face while Bones just scowled. Orion giggled softly. She could see why the doctor would rather be called Bones. Not that Leonard was a bad name, just he seemed much more a Bones than anything else.
"This fine lady, Nyota Uhura, is our communications officer,' Jim said, gesturing toward a beautiful woman with chocolate colored skin. She seemed elegant, poised, feminine, mostly everything Orion wasn't nor ever wanted to be.
Nyota raised an elegant brow. "I'm surprised you didn't make a smart ass comment, Captain," she said with some sarcastic and bit. Orion assumed from what the woman said, Jim had tried to 'woo' her with his 'charm'. Kirk just grinned cheekily, like he knew he could have but wanted to maybe impress her by withholding. Uhura just rolled her eyes and looked down at her computer like thing.
"Oh! Oh! Keptin! Me next!" chirped the young lad with the mop of red curls, who was grinning and just too excited to be introduced, at least in Orion's opinion. James chuckled and nodded. "Alright, alright, keep your shirt on, Chekov,' he muttered.
"The kid is Pavel Chekov, the youngest person to ever become an ensign for a flagship," Jim said with pride. "He deals with our navigation and other areas where his genius brain can work," he said, causing the lad to redden at the ears.
"Keptin...." Chekov said embarrassed, but grinning sheepishly as a kid who got caught in a bad act. Orion grinned back, knowing exactly how he must have felt. After all she was a genius of sorts. But Chekov seemed to be a bit younger than she was. Which made him brilliant and Orion only smart.
Next Kirk introduced an Asian man by the named of Hikaru Sulu who was in charge of piloting the ship. Orion never had an interest in aviation, so she merely nodded and smiled like she had with the rest of the group. She knew it wasn't her time to speak.
"Our Chief Engineer, Montgomery Scott, who completes the main core of the crew," Kirk said, but Orion's eyes shot open and whipped to look at this person. Scott? She peered closer at the man before gasping. Everyone looked at her strangely. Her heart and mind raced. There was no way that Orion thought it could happen, but she knew it was possible depending upon how far into the future she had gone and what happened in the years past.
"What is troubling you, young one?" asked the elderly Vulcan, who seemed to be observing my reactions.
Orion shook her had and took a deep breath before simply stating, "My name is Orion Montgomery, and he," she looked at Montgomery, "looks very faintly like my mother."
Author's note;
Thank you for reading! I hope you take some time to review! Don't forget I'm still wishing for some input!
I hope you enjoyed this installment. And I also must apologize for the snappiness of the first AN but I've only had one person get back to me.
But again I digress, thanks and hope you read again!