Rihannsu Part 2
by Starsinger
I can't promise that the Romulan chapters will be together, I'm contemplating a request from AlbusSPotter right now, but they will be headed with Rihannsu. Jim gets word that his wayward officers are taking alternate transportation. Don't own them.
Kirk was in his office after speaking to the Admiralty. They wanted the Enterprise to escort a Romulan Bird-of-Prey named the Honor Blade into Federation Territory and to New Vulcan where its Commander, Charvanek, would meet with the Vulcan High Command. And while they were there, could he please take a look at their cloaking device? Pretty please? They weren't asking for a lot. They figured, apparently, with a Captain and an Engineer with engineering degrees, they could figure it out between the two of them. Jim shrugged as he looked up from a report to find Uhura storming in, she was speaking in three different languages, two he spoke fluently, the third, he was still trying, unsuccessfully, to get the hang of. Romulan, Reman, and Rihannsu were the three dialects of Romulan. Romulan was the language Romulus, Reman was the language of the Remus, and Rihannsu was the native language of the Vulcanoids who had been living on Romulus when the Romulans took over.
"That son-of-a-bitch, how dare he do this? It's not like last week wasn't my birthday…" Kirk blanched. They'd thrown her a party, hadn't they? She continued her tirade until Jim stood in front of her.
"Nyota, look whatever I did, I'm sorry. I didn't mean too, I know I can be jerk but could you just calm down?"
Uhura came out of her tirade to realize that Jim was standing in front of her, "What are you doing here, Captain?" she asked.
"This is my office, Uhura," he said carefully.
Uhura looked around, astonished to find herself there. "I'm sorry, Captain, it wasn't you I was upset about. I just received word that the freighter Spock and McCoy were on was attacked by pirates. A Romulan vessel picked them up and are headed into Federation space. Did you know they expect to rendezvous with us?"
"Yeah, just got word. Wait, did you say they're on their way here on a Romulan vessel, together?" he asked, alarmed. Jim groaned as Uhura nodded, "Oh, this isn't going to end well. I won't be at all surprised if neither gets here because the Commander decided to chunk them both out an airlock." Uhura wisely said nothing, she wouldn't be surprised either.
In Sickbay a young Lieutenant Commander Terise Haleakala-LoBruto was getting used to her new ears and eyebrows. Soon, she would be going deep undercover into the Romulan Empire. Not as a spy, per se, but as an Anthropologist. The Federation wanted her to learn everything she could about the culture so they could be better understood. Nurse Chapel smiled at her, "Well, the crew will just think you're another Vulcan."
She wasn't sure of the details, all Terise knew was that her new name was Arrhae ir-Mnaeha. A Rihannsu who had escaped slavery and was recaptured to be brought back to Romulus to a new master. She wasn't sure at all about being a slave, but for a budding Anthropologist, this was the chance of a lifetime and one she couldn't turn down after Admiral Barnett presented it to her. Terise took a deep breath, she could do this. This was why she joined Starfleet. She smiled at Nurse Chapel and left to find Uhura, she had a lot more of the Romulan language to learn if she was going to pull this off.