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Time Twist

Chapter Two

Khan walked between the guards assigned to take him to the brig. Really what were these humans thinking? He had just taken out two dozen Klingons and just three Starfleet security personnel were putting him in the brig? Did they honestly think they had him trapped? Khan wanted to roll his eyes at their stupidity. As they rounded the last bend, the captain strolled into view, now in his uniform. Really the security must be idiots if the captain had time to change and still almost beat them here from the cargo bay. He walked calmly into his cell and turned to face his "captors".

"Sorry I'm late Hend-" A soft, feminine voice started but stopped as soon as she saw the Captain and extra security. She was carrying a tray with food in one hand, and a violin case in the other. Khan smirked. Her distraction was had been just enough that the security forgot to seal his cell; It was opened the barest crack. He would leave it like it was and if need be, escape.

"Lara what are you doing here?" the captain's voice had soften to talk to the girl. Perhaps she was family to him? Khan watched the two interact and filed the information away.

"Um... Hi Jim. Well you see Hendorff and I have been practicing music together. And since no one is usually here, and he can't leave until his replacement comes, I've been bring him lunches and sometimes we practice while we eat?" Khan tilted his head. She was acting shy and guilty. How odd.

"You should hear her sing captain; she has a voice like an angel." The man at the desk piped up. The captain looked back at him; Khan had on an innocent look on his face by the time the captain meet his eyes.

"Harrison is secure at the moment. Why don't you sing for us, Lara?" The Captain smiled at the girl, and her face light up like a tomato. Khan wanted to hurl at the display.

"I don't like singing in front of people. I've never sung in front of anyone other than Hendorff." She said quietly.

"When you play your violin, you said the world melts away. Why not play and sing?" the desk guard smiled at the girl.

"Just imagine it's only you and Cupcake. We're not here at all." The Captain added. The girl sighed and placed the tray and case down. She didn't look at any one as she opened the violin case and stood before them, her eyes closed. Slowly she started to play.

"I pirouette in the dark

I see the stars through me

Tried mechanical heart

Beats 'til the song disappears

Somebody shine a light

I'm frozen by the fear in me

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me

So cut me from the line

Dizzy, spinning endlessly

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me"

Khan could only stare in wonder as she sung. He had never heard anything like her voice. It soothed, and calmed him in a way he never imagined. As the chorus ended, her eyes still hadn't opened. She began to dance in time with the music; it was loosely based of ballet. Her movements were stunning, she was as gracefully as one of his people. As Khan watched her move, he knew he had to have this girl. The other men in the room were equally entranced by her and Khan wanted to kill them all, she belonged to him. He shook his head, he was an augment, she was a human. He would never take her. As she continued to dance, it matter less and less she was a shy and meek human; he couldn't ignore the way her body called to him as she moved. Her dance slowed.

"Shatter me!

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me!

If only the clockwork could speak

I wouldn't be so alone

We'd burn every magnet and spring

And spiral into the unknown

Somebody shine a light

I'm frozen by the fear in me

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me

So cut me from the line

Dizzy, spinning endlessly

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me"

Her dance began to pick up again, and Khan slid the door to his cell open. He eased out behind the guards and Captain, off to their left and moved closer to the girl. No one noticed his movements; they were too focused on her. He stopped behind her as she started to sing again.

"If i break the glass then I'll have to fly

There's no one to catch me if i take a dive

I'm scared of change, and the days stay the same

The world is spinning but only in gray

If i break the glass then I'll have to fly

There's no one to catch me if i take a dive

I'm scared of change, and the days stay the same

The world is spinning but only in gray

Only...

Somebody shine a light

I'm frozen by the fear in me

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me

So cut me from the line

Dizzy, spinning endlessly

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me"

Khan began to dance with her. They seemed to move as one. His action only seemed to enhance her performance. More than anything, Khan wanted to feel her in his arms. Part of his mind knew this was wrong, he had never fallen for a woman before and he should hold nothing but contempt for this small, fragile, thing.

"Me!

Shatter me!

Somebody make me feel alive

And shatter me!"

Khan pulled her to him, one hand on top of hers, holding the violin with her, the other on her back pulling her into his chest. Her eyes flew open in surprise. Did she not know he had danced with her? Khan leaned down and kissed her; at her surprised gasp he slid his tongue inside her mouth. She tasted like heaven, he couldn't believe his reaction to her; he'd never had anything like it before. It was perfect, until something very hard hit his groin.

~OOO~

To say Lara was surprised was an understatement. Frist she was grabbed and pulled into a hard chest, the chest of John Harrison if she wasn't mistake, and now she was getting kissed. When his tongue entered her mouth uninvited she'd had enough. She moved her leg backward, and quickly brought her knee up into his groin. He released her at once, but it seemed to be more from surprise than the fact she hurt him.

"Who the hell do you think you are and what gives you the right to just waltz up to me and kiss me? I don't even know you!" She growled up at him, her hand balled up during her rant and she pulled back, swung as hard as she could and hit his jaw. His face didn't even move at her hit. It was only then that she realized he was about a foot and a half taller than she was. Hands pulled her back away from him, her violin still in his grasp as security rushed at him. He roared and fought them, throwing three men away from him at one time trying to get back to her. A phaser blast sent him to his knees, but he looked up right at her and shook his head as if clearing it. He seemed to have calmed down considerably; he stood slowly and followed the security without question back to his cell.

"Lara, don't come back down here. Cupcake will bring your things back to you." Jim called as he gently pushed her out the door and closed it in her face. If that's how people acted to her singing voice, she was never singing again; Harrison had been frightening. Lara sighed and pushed her bangs out of her face and winced at attempting to use her hand. She looked down at her hand, it was throbbing and starting to swell. 'Lovely' she muttered to herself as she went to go visit McCoy.

~OOO~

"What do you mean you hit him?"

"I mean I balled up my fist and hit his jaw. Ask Jim, he was there. Beside the bastard deserved it."

"Lara just because he killed innocent people, doesn't give you the right to hit him."

"Bones the bastard pulled me to him and kissed me. I'm sorry I'm not into kissing complete strangers. He had the punch coming!"

"Wait he kissed you?"

"Yes and Lara's not going anywhere near the brig again. Right?" Jim cut into the conversation. McCoy and Lara looked startled and glanced at Kirk.

"Jim, are you sure Lara didn't hit something else? There shouldn't be this much damage to her hand for one hit to the face."

"Oh it was just one hit to the face alright; I pulled her off of him before she could hit him again. Bones, that bastard is just as hard as a rock. I must have hit him a dozen times down on Qo'nos and he didn't get so much as a bruise. My hands feel like I went ten rounds with Cupcake."

"Jesus Jim! Not you too. He is a prisoner we need to escort back to Earth, we can't have him showing up looking beat to hell."

"Um… not to be all me, me, me, but can I get my hand wrapped up or something?" Lara looked innocently at Kirk and McCoy.

"I'm half tempted to tell you no." McCoy grumbled as he started to fix her hand.

"Lara, I want you to stay here with Bones until we get back to Earth."

"JIM!" Lara and McCoy said at the same time.

"Lara, think of this like basic medical training. Bones you get two extra hands. Win-win." Lara and Bones looked at each other. "Glad you two agree! Now remember Lara, everywhere Bones goes, you go!" Jim hurried out of the Med Bay before they could say anything else.

"I don't need a baby sitter, I have no plans to go anywhere near John Harrison again." Muttered Lara.

~OOO~

Lara watched from behind Carol Marcus, and McCoy as they tried to open a torpedo. She had a PAD in her hand trying to reprogram it. So far Carol and McCoy were making more headway. All of a sudden a door slam shuts on McCoy's arm.

"What the hell happened? I can't get my arm out!" Lara immediately tune out everything around and focused on the torpedo. With-in ten seconds the detonation had stopped but McCoy was still trapped. Lara continued to type at an alarming rate. Suddenly not only had the door holding McCoy's arm slid open, but a second door on top did as well. Lara took a deep breath and looked up. Bones and Carol were staring in the torpedo. Lara moved to look down inside also.

"Oh hell." Lara was too stunned to say more. The three just starred at the frozen man inside the torpedo.

"What the hell's going on down there?" Kirk yelled trough the communicator.

"Jim you're gonna wanna see this." McCoy answered.

~OOO~

"Is he alive?" Kirk asked staring down at the frozen man.

"He's alive but if we try to revive him without the proper sequencing it could kill him, this technology is beyond me." McCoy glanced at Lara, who was busy ignoring them and working on her PAD.

"How advanced Doctor?" Spock looked to McCoy.

"It's not advanced. That Cyro-tube is ancient." Carol input.

"We haven't needed to freeze anyone since we developed warp capability. Which explains the most interesting thing about our friend here, He's about three hundred years old." McCoy turned to Lara when they heard her PAD drop.

"He's from my time?" Lara asked.

"There abouts." McCoy nodded. Lara shot out the door at a run, headed to the brig, Kirk hot on her heals.

"What year did you come from?" Lara stopped in front of John Harrison's cell.

"Lara not now. Why is there a man in that torpedo?" Kirk gentle pushed Lara towards Spock. Harrison kept his eyes on Lara.

"2018. There are men and women in all the torpedoes Captain. I put them there." Khan turned his gaze to Kirk.

"Who the hell are you?"

"A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior, so as to lead others to peace in a time of war. But we were condemned as criminals, forced into exile-"

"The rumors of augments were true… my god what did we do?" Lara's soft voice drew everyone's attention.

"Lara?" Kirk was worried, her face had gone white, her eyes large.

"People were starting to talk, our army was too good. We had a battalion that was called super soldiers. They were said to be stronger, faster, smarter. It was whispered they were genetically engineered, it was true wasn't it? They were made to fight to protect our freedom, without being allowed to have freedom themselves." Lara's eyes rose to Harrisons. His face softened at her horrified expression. He gave a small brief nod, Lara's eyes closed.

"For centuries we slept, hoping when we awoke, things would be different. But as a result of the destruction of Vulcan, your Starfleet began to aggressively search distant quadrants of space. My ship was found a drift, I alone was revived." His tone was soothing. A lone tear ran down Lara's check.

"I looked up John Harrison, until a year a ago. He didn't exist."

"John Harrison was a fiction created the moment I was awoken by your admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause, a smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name is Khan."

"Why would a Starfleet admiral ask a three-hundred year old frozen man for help?" Kirk glanced quickly at Lara to see if that comment offended her. She was still starring at Khan.

"Because I am better."

"At what?"

"Everything. Alexander Marcus needed to respond to an uncivilized threat in a civilized time, but for that he needed a warrior's mind, my mind, to design weapons and war ships."

"I'm sorry Khan." Spock looked down at Lara.

"What?" khan too looked down at her.

"You should never have been made to fight the first time, let alone woken just to fight again. It was wrong then. It's still wrong now. I'm sorry." For a moment no one said anything.

"You could not have prevented it, you weren't even alive three hundred years ago." Khan gentle voice probed. A hand covered her mouth before she could say anything else to khan. She looked up into Spock's eyes.

"Khan is right. You could not have prevented it. Khan please elaborate. Are you suggesting that Admiral Marcus violated ever regulation he vowed to uphold simply because he wanted to exploit your intellect?" Spock removed his hand from Lara's mouth, his gaze returning to Khan's.

"He wanted to exploit my savagery. Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mr. Spock you.. You cannot break a rule, how can you be expected to break bone? Marcus used me to design weapons to help him realize his vision of a militarized Starfleet." Khan turned to Kirk.

"He sent you to use those weapons, to fire those torpedoes on an unsuspecting planet. And then he purposely crippled your ship in enemy space, leading to one inevitable outcome. The Klingons would come searching for whomever was responsible and you would have no chance of escape. Marcus would finally have the war he talked about, the war he always wanted."

"No. No. I watched to open fire in a room full of unarmed Starfleet officers. You killed them in cold blood!"

"Marcus took my crew from me!"

"You are a murderer!"

"He used my friends to control me. I tied to smuggle them to safety by concealing them in the very weapons I had designed. But I was discovered. I had no choice but to escape alone, and when I did, I had every reason to suspect Marcus had killed every single one of the people I hold most dear." Tears rolled down Khans face. Lara's lip trembled at his explanation.

"So I responded in kind. My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?" Khan looked pointedly at Lara.

"Proximity alert, Sir. There's a ship at warp heading right for us." Sulu's voice called over the com.

"Klingons?" Kirk asked.

"At warp? No, Kirk. We both know who it is." Khan called.

"I don't think so, it's not coming at us from Qo'nos." Sulu answered.

"Lieutenant, Move Khan to med bay, post six security officers on him." Kirk called as he and Spock raced out of the brig. Lara walked beside Khan as security led him to the medbay.

"Khan…" Lara looked up at him; he looked down at her.

"You were slightly wrong earlier when you said I wasn't alive three hundred years ago. I was born in 1989. They had some sort of transporter accident and beamed me out of 2014. Whatever went wrong, they can't duplicate it. I'm stuck here. I may not have been there during the war, but I was there just before it." Khan starred into Lara's eyes.

"That is why you are different." Khan muttered to himself as they entered the med bay.

"Lara, Biobed three is acting up, see if you can't reprogram the damn thing. I'm tired of having engineering up here every other week to fix the damn thing." Lara nodded and sat on the floor by the bed, Khan sat on the next bed over. Khan tilted his head and watched her work. A glance at her PAD showed him binary. His eyes widened; very few could program effectively in binary.

"Don't worry; it shocked the hell out of us, the first time she did that too. As long as she can drop the language down to binary, she can reprogram anything." Pride filled McCoy's voice as he watched Khan's tilted head. He looked up at the doctor and nodded once. Grumbling to herself she took out her IPOD and popped in her ear-buds. Khan opened his mouth to speak but McCoy shook his head.

"With that little device she tunes out the world. Talking to her is pointless." McCoy walked away. Khan glanced at McCoy. He seemed to be playing with a dead Tribble; nothing that concerned Khan. He went back to studying Lara. This girl became a bigger mystery the more he found out about her. He had to have her. He tilted his head adding her to his plans.

~OOO~

As McCoy listened to Admiral Marcus and Kirk go back and forth Carol came into medbay. She took one look at Lara and her eyebrow rose at McCoy. "I needed to keep her busy for a few. Besides that bed's needed work for a while now." Carol nodded her understanding. Khan kept one ear listening to their conversation while he watched Lara. She had finished already and was just playing a game one her PAD. Perhaps she had known what the Doctor had wanted and had played into his plan. She looked up as the ship started to move.

"Well at least we're moving again." Lara took out one ear bud to hear McCoy.

"If you think you're safe at warp, you're wrong." Khan kept his gaze on Lara. Carol rushed out of the medbay.

"You said you designed weapons and ships for Marcus, how bad are things going to get?" Lara whispered at Khan.

"Everyone on this ship will die." Lara's eyes widened but she nodded her understanding and went back to her PAD. A few minutes later Kirk came in and went straight to Khan.

"Tell me everything you know about that ship."

"Dreadnought class, two times the size, three times the speed. Advanced weaponry, modified for minimal crew. Unlike most federation vessels this one is built solely for combat."

"I will do everything I can to make you answer for what you did. But right now I need your help."

"In exchange for what?" Lara's head shot up to Khan's face.

"You said you'd do anything for your crew. I can guarantee their safety."

"Captain you can't even guarantee the safety of your own crew."

"Bones what are you doing with that Tribble." Kirk turned from khan, Khan looked down at Lara.

"The Tribbles dead, I'm injecting Khan Platelets into the deceased tissue of necrotic host. Khan's cells regenerate like nothing I've ever seen and I wanna know why." Kirk turned back to Khan.

"You coming with me or not?" Khan turned from Lara and nodded. Lara stood and followed them out of the Medbay, behind security. So far Jim hadn't acknowledged her, so he might not have noticed her. She listened in horror as Jim laid out his plan.

"I'm with Scotty. You're crazy to do this whole space jump thing." She piped up.

"You're coming over too. Once we make it abroad, we're beaming you over to take care of the computers." Kirk turned to her. She shook her head.

"I'm a computer geek, with no combat skills and you want to bring me aboard a vessel with people looking to kill anyone from the Enterprise on sight? Jim have you lost your mind?" Lara could only look in disbelief.

"It is a sound plan." Khan looked over at her.

"If I get shot I'm becoming a ghost and I will haunt the both of you." Lara grumbled, Jim laughed at her.

~OOO~

Lara sat against the wall, under and slightly over from the counsel Uhura was at. She shivered as she listened to Kirk and Khan's trip through space. Once they were aboard the vengeance, she let out a breath of relief.

"Commander, I have the transmission you requested." Uhura called to Spock.

"On screen please."

"Standby." Lara was shocked at the Vulcan that appeared on the screen. He looked like an older version of Spock.

"Mr. Spock." The older Vulcan stated.

"Mr. Spock." Spock greeted.

"Hey if you can call the future, I would very much like to call the past." Lara mumbled. The Spock on the screen looked toward her briefly with a raised eyebrow.

"I will explain at a later time Lara. I will be brief Mr. Spock. In your travels did you ever encounter a man named Khan?"

"As you know I have made a vow never to give you information that could potentially alter your destiny. Your path is yours to walk and yours alone. That being said, Khan Nooien Singh is the most dangerous adversary the Enterprise ever faced. He is brilliant, ruthless and he will not hesitate to kill every single one of you."

"Did you defeat him?"

"At great cost, yes."

"How?"

~OOO~

"Doctor McCoy, you inadvertently activated a torpedo, could you replicate the process?" Spock turned to McCoy.

"Why the hell would I want to do that?"

"Can you or can you not?"

"Dammit man. I'm a Doctor not a torpedo technician!"

"I can activate them, but I'm not doing it as long as there are people inside them." Lara spoke softly. Spock nodded at her and turned back to McCoy.

"The fact that you're a doctor is precisely why I need you to listen very carefully."

~OOO~

"Where is the captain, Mr. Sulu?" Spock called as Lara reentered the bridge and stood by the captain's chair, just behind Spock. She nodded at Spock, her job was done.

"Our sensors array is down, sir. I can't find him." The view screen flickered to life. Khan was hold kirk at phaser point.

"I'm going to make this very simple for you-" he began.

"Captain!" "Jim!" Lara and Spock spoke at the same time.

"Your crew for mine." Khan continued as if they hadn't spoken.

"You betrayed us."

"Oh you are smart Mr. Spock"

"Spock don't-" Khan smacked the back of kirk's head with a phaser, whatever else he was going to say was silenced as he slumped to the ground.

"Mr. Spock, give me my crew."

"And what will you do when you get them?"

"Continue the work we were doing before we were banished."

"Which as I understand involves the mass genocide of any being you find to be less than superior." Lara gasped at Spock's response and looked at Khan.

"Shall I destroy you, Mr. Spock? Or will you give me what I want?" Khan's eyes flickered briefly to Lara's face.

"We have no transporter capabilities."

"Fortunately mine are fully functional. Drop your shields."

"If I do so I have no guarantee that you will not destroy the Enterprise."

"Well, let's play this out logical Mr. Spock. Firstly I will kill you Captain to demonstrate my resolve, then if yours holds; I will have no choice but to kill you and your entire crew."

"If you destroy our ship, you will also destroy your own people."

"Your crew requires oxygen to survive, mine does not. I will target your life support system located behind the aft nacelle. And after every single person aboard you ship suffocates, I will walk over your cold corpses to recover my people. Now shall we begin?"

"No! Khan you can't!" Lara stepped up next to Spock. Khan looked to her with such malice and hatred that Lara took a step back. Her hands were shaking. How could this be the same man she had sympathized with? Spock glanced at Lara before turning to Sulu.

"Lower shields,"

"A wise choice Mr. Spock." Khan walked over to a counsel. "I see all seventy-two torpedoes are still in their tubes. If they are not mine, Commander I will know it."

"Vulcans do not lie, the torpedoes are yours." Khan beamed the torpedoes aboard the vengeance; golden rings encircled Lara, and she appeared on the vengeance. She rushed over to Jim to check for a pulse.

"I have fulfilled your terms, now fulfill mine and return the crew member you just took."

"Well kirk, it seems apt to return you to your crew. After all no ship should co down without her captain." Khan beamed Kirk, Scotty and Carol back to the enterprise.

"NO!" Lara screamed and ran at Khan.

"He had locked phasers on us!" Lara heard as she rushed at Khan. She didn't know what she had been thinking, as she ran at him, maybe a tackle in mind; anything to keep him from firing on the Enterprise. Khan half turned and raised his arm. Just as Lara was about to touch him, his arm hit her in her chest and shoved her backwards. Lara flew across the bridge and slammed into the wall. She slid down the wall in a daze. Khan shut off the view screen and went to her.

"You cannot over power me. Why did you try?" he knelt in front of her; confusion and concern on his face. Lara was still seeing stars; she looked slowly up at his face… faces? When did Khan get two identical brothers?

"My … family…" she wheezed, the room was spinning violent around her. Khan tilted his head.

"You do not need them." He picked her up gently and set her in the captain's chair. He went back to the counsel and started running scans. He began to frown. After a few quick movements, an explosion outside the ship rocked the ship briefly.

"Activating the torpedoes, I didn't think Spock could be that devious. Scans showed my crew was not in the torpedoes. Now Lara tell me, where is my crew really?" Khan turned to Lara. She looked at him before slipping into darkness.