Author's Notes: Here's chapter three! Enjoy!

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Time Twist

Chapter 3

"NO!" Lara screamed. Spock and Kirk watched from the bridge of the enterprise as Lara ran at Khan only to be thrown off screen. Suddenly com was cut.

"Sulu get that feed back!" Kirk demanded.

"Captain."

"Not now Spock. We've got to get Lara back."

"Captain, we activated the torpedoes. In a moment they will explode."

"Lara's over there!"

"Captain we cannot save her."

"Dammit Spock, he just threw her across the bridge over there didn't you see it? We have to get her off that ship!" an explosion outside the Enterprise violently rocked the ship, sending crew to the floor.

"Sulu what was that?"

"The torpedoes sir, Khan beamed them into space." The video feed clicked back to life. Khan stood before the Captain's chair, an unconscious Lara seated behind him.

"Where are my crew Mr. Spock?" Khan glared coolly at Spock.

"What the hell did you do to Lara?" Kirk yelled.

"She is not your concern anymore captain. I want my crew. You have thirty seconds before I destroy your life support.

"Lara for your crew!" Kirk yelled. Khan thought a moment and nodded.

"Where is my crew?"

"Tell him Spock."

"Captain it is illogical to free seventy-two war criminals for one girl."

"Spock tell him where his damn crew is, that's an order!" the video feed suddenly cut out again.

"Sulu get him back!"

"Sorry captain, he's gone to warp."

~OOO~

Khan looked at the message he'd just received. 'Your crew is in the medbay. Give Lara back to us.' These people were naive to think he'd just give Lara back to them. A quick scan of the enterprise showed that indeed his crew was in the medbay; He transported their cryo-tubes into a cargo bay. A beeping caught his attention, Lara's life signs were fading. He shut off communication with the enterprise, set the ship to warp, grabbed Lara and raced to the Vengeance's medbay. He had been planning to make her part of his crew anyway, now to save her, he would make her augment also.

~OOO~

When Lara awoke, she was laying in some kind of medbay, it wasn't the Enterprise. She couldn't remember where she was. What had happened? She knew she was on a ship warping through space, she could feel the of the ship movement. She tried to shit up, only to find she was strapped to the bed. The heart monitor started to beep franticly as she began to panic. Khan was at her side in an instant, she tried to shift away from him, and felt the restraints snap.

"What did you do to me?!" she scooted off the other side of the bed, trying to keep it between her and Khan.

"I have made you better. Your mind was already superior, now your body will be too."

"WHAT?" She screeched and Khan dived across the bed to grab her. She struggled against him as he pulled her close, sitting on the bio bed.

"You are completely superior now." He said softly as he held her. She pushed against him.

"Let me go, you madman!" Khan held her tighter, Lara knew on some level it should hurt to be held so tightly but it didn't.

"If you do not calm, you will hurt yourself." Lara wiggled an arm free and slapped Khan as hard as she could. His face turned from the force of her smack, Lara looked at her hand and stilled. It wasn't throbbing like before, she wasn't hurt. He had really done something to her, the thought sent her into shock.

"If slapping me calms you down, feel free to do it whenever you need." Khan looked amused at her stunned expression as she studied her hand. "Now I'm going to let you go. Can you behave?" Khan shook her once when she didn't respond.

"What? Oh, yeah, I can behave." Lara muttered only half paying attention.

"Good. I have much work to do. You can either be locked in the brig or if you can behave, you can be free to explore the ship. If you choose you can help me look for a world for augment colonization. Something pre-wrap, where we will be worshiped as Gods."

"But we're not gods." Lara looked softly at Khan.

"We are superior in every way, is that not godlike?"

"No it's not."

~OOO~

Lara sat silently on the bridge watching Khan scan through star fleets database. She turned to the screen in front of her and began to type. At first it was just random bits of code she remembered, but as she continued a program began to take shape. She didn't notice when khan had stopped working or when he came to stand behind her.

"Using force fields to create a simulated environment… interesting project." Lara jumped at the sound of khan's voice and looked up at him.

"What?" khan nodded at her screen. She looked down and reread her work. "It was just a theory I had bounced around with Scotty, he was going to help me start it on our five year mission, just something to help pass the time… did I just do all this without him?" Khan knew her question was not directed at him.

"You are better now."

"I liked who I was." Khan sighed.

"Lara, it is late. I am unsure how much rest you will need. You are something between human and augment at this point. It will be a few days before you are fully an augment." Khan gestured to the door. Lara looked at him.

"You kidnapped me from my ship, done some sort of genetic engineering on me, and now you just want to be all buddy-buddy?" Khan raised an eye brow at her. When she still did not move, he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.

"Put me down!" Lara screeched kicking her legs and beating against Khan's back. He took no notice of her actions. When he entered a cabin and put her down she swung he arm and hit him. His face turned with her hit. When he turned back to face her, his expression turned cold. He grabbed her arms and shoved her against the wall. Before Lara could even be afraid of his next actions his head descended and his lips were touching hers in a hard and brutal kiss. The harder Lara struggled against him, the harder Khan held her. Lara opened her mouth and bit his lip, she didn't let go until she tasted blood. Khan pulled his face back and looked down at her.

"Let me go!" Lara hissed.

"Never. You are mine." Khan's voice was clam and steady.

"I am not a thing, I can't be owned. I'm a person!" Khan leaned in again this time his kiss was gentler, his grip on her arms loosened. Lara pulled her face away.

"You are mine." Khan whispered against her forehead. Releasing her he stalked out of the cabin. Lara stood against the wall for a moment, trying to collect her thoughts. Taking a deep breath she headed to the cabin door, but it didn't open.

"Really? Locking me in? Like that's really going to work." Lara huffed as she turned to the panel net to the door and began to reprogram the system.

~OOO~

Lara walked slowly through the vengeance. She really should have made a map or notes or something as she wandered. She was lost now, but no one was around to help her this time. She really didn't want to bump into Khan, but he was the only other person who wasn't frozen on board. Lara stopped mid step. She was alone; she could send some sort of signal to the enterprise, if she could get to a computer station. Lara hurried down the hallway looking in each room as she past. Finally she found a computer station and quickly started typing. She wasn't surprised that khan had attempted to lock her out of the systems. It was a meaningless effort on his part, she side stepped all of his security. She was attempting to locate the enterprise to get a signal to them when a hand grabbed her wrist.

"Who are you? Why are you aboard the vengeance?" Lara looked up into the face of an unknown Starfleet officer. Hadn't khan killed all the vengeance crew?

"Khan kidnapped me and brought me here. I'm trying to get a message to the enterprise." He eyed her suspiciously, but let go of her wrist. She turned back and begun working again. Once the enterprise was found, she tried to hail them, but they were out of range. She typed a quick message and hoped they would get it. At the sound of the door opening, Lara turned around to face an enraged Khan. He stalked toward her and the vengeance crew men stepped in his path.

"IS this Khan?" he asked over his shoulder. Lara opened her mouth to answer as Khan grabbed his head and twisted. The crewman's neck gave a sickening snap and his body went limp.

"I left you in that cabin so you could rest. Imagine my surprise when I found you gone."

"Locking the door was just challenging me to break out."

"Should I lock you in the brig instead?" Khan roared. Lara stood slowly from the chair and yawned.

"Do what you like; it's obvious I can't stop you. I'm going to go hunt for that cabin and take a nice long nap." Lara made it to the door before Khan spun her around to face him. He stared into her eyes.

"You anger and tempt me like no other." His mouth claimed hers as she felt a hypo-spray hit her neck. Lara slumped limply into Khan's waiting arms.

Author's Notes: Review please!