Previously: "I don't care" Jane broke in "What kind of bond we share I just want it broken."

"It cannot be broken unless through death" Spock monotone informed her "The traditional methods, if we tried to utilize them to break the bond, would only lead to both of us descending into madness; our minds would never recover as our bond is so deeply imbedded in the deepest reaches of our brains – by destroying it we would destroy our minds."

Jane just stared at Spock "You must be joking" she whispered, eyes wide and horrified; was this some type of cruel joke? "

"Vulcan's, as you well know, do not joke about such serious matters as our marital bonds" Spock turned slightly away from her; as if hiding his reaction to her request to break their bonds from her "Even if I wished to break our bond, which I do not, it is impossible . You are welcome to question the healers at the Vulcan Embassy but you will find that they will only tell you what they told me months ago; our bond is indissoluble."

"What about a disseverment of your legal rights to her; even if you can't break the mental bonds that tie you, surely you can dissolve your marital status." Jack queried, blue eyes showing his dismay.

Spock pinned him with a cold glare "As a practising lawyer can you not even advise your client on her legal rights?" he queried. "I would have thought that would have been inclusive to your job description."

Jack glared back "As you well know Captain Spock, Vulcan laws, as with most of Vulcan's society rules and traditions, are bound in secrecy especially those concerning your marital bonds. I have studied law; both human and alien for nearly a decade now and have found that no other civilisation has such maddening mystery surrounding it."

"We value our privacy" Spock retorted coolly

"Well as her lawyer I should be privy to any information that is valid to my client's case"

"You are welcome to contact the Vulcan embassy and plead your case" Spock intoned "But I believe you will find that as with our bond, our marital status will also be immutable; Vulcan's bonds are more crucial to our well being than your own human marital rituals; we do not take them lightly and dissolve them rarely."

"Yet you chose to reject your bondmate and threaten to break your bond, a threat you now admit could not be carried out."

"I chose to reject, as you call it, my bondmate for her own safety for if I had done as she had requested and mind melded with her only to find her guilty I feared I would not only do harm to her revealed lover but to her herself."

"Harm?" Jack scoffed "Your bondmate? I might not know much about Vulcan's and their customs" he admitted "But I do know that no sane Vulcan would ever harm their bondmate – it is well documented that Vulcan's have no domestic abuse problems as your precious bonds make hurting your bondmate impossible – you literally could not raise a hand to her without feeling via a mental backlash whatever you did to her, yourself."

"How do you know that" Queried Jane curiously; not even she had known that fact until six months into her relationship with Spock when a protective McCoy had queried her sanity over marrying a being 4 times her own strength, a being who had nearly choked her to death!

Spock had coolly replied to McCoy's rants that even if he desired it, which he never would, he was incapable of raising a hand against Jane due to the mental backlash that would be inflicted on him if he tried to raise a hand against her.

"It was in the case of Huntington vs. Sorrel" Jack explained "A human woman tried to accuse her Vulcan bondmate of spousal abuse; the Vulcan was able to prove via rigorous testing and testimony from the Vulcan High Council that it was impossible for a Vulcan, mentally bonded to a human, to cause their bondmate physical pain."

"Why did she do that?" Jane frowned wondering why any sane person would want to get rid of their bond, get rid of a thing that had always for Jane, until it had been taken from her, filled her with a warm feeling, letting her feel Spock's deep love for her wrap around her like a comforting blanket.

"I remember the case" Spock said softly "She had tired of her Vulcan bondmate and when he refused to break their bond she tried to accuse him of abusing her to force the issue."

"So how can you say you feared you would attack Jane" Jack neatly changed the topic back to the original one "When it has been so clearly proven in a court of law that no Vulcan male could attack his bondmate."

"I said no sane Vulcan would attack their bondmate" Spock corrected "And I doubt after witnessing through a mind meld my wife's infidelity that my sanity would survive. As I said before" He added quietly "Vulcan bonds are much more essential to a Vulcan well being than a human's bond is, and unlike human's Vulcan's rarely cheat as it is illogical to deliberately damage something that is essential for ones well being.

"A bond "Spock went on "bounds Vulcan's together for better or worse and infidelity will damage that bond weakening it, leaving both parties at risk during certain times of a male Vulcan life when the bond is required to be strong enough to bind them together to ensure the male recognizes the female as his mate to ensure no damage is done to the female."

/Pon Farr/ Jane suddenly realized what Spock was describing from the older Spocks memories /The time of mating when Vulcan males lost their vaulted logic and were driven by biological urges/

"Then why did you not accuse Jane of infidelity until you found out about her pregnancy" Jack looked curious almost despite himself seemingly missing the Vulcan information titbit above "If she had cheated would you not of felt it via your bond?"

"Despite common belief" Spock raised an eyebrow "Sharing a bond does not mean a lack of privacy for either party; it is quite possible for infidelity to occur within a bond without the cheated on mate knowing. As you have studied the Huntington vs. Sorrel case you would know that Mrs Huntington had several lovers during her bonding to Sorrel; lovers he knew nothing about until they were revealed to him in court."

"Yet he did not attack Mrs Huntington" Jack pointed out

"Only because a Vulcan healer was positioned at the ready beside him and was able to help him keep control." Spock fixed Jack with a challenging stare "It is not public knowledge what I am about to tell you but if you chose to check it is easily provable. "

"Sorrel, after his bond was broken with Mrs Huntington, was taken back to Vulcan, with his mind damaged and in disarray, where he chose to go through the kolinahr ritual to purge all emotion in order to regain his control."

"Kolinahr?" Jack queried.

"Vulcan rite of passage to purge all emotions" Jane whispered.

"If I had witnessed via a mind meld my wife's amorous sessions with another man, which I believed I would, I feared my control would break like it did after Vulcan was destroyed and that I would succeed where I had failed then." Spock referred to the incident when he had nearly chocked the life out of her against a bridge console.

"I could not risk touching my mind against hers when all logic and evidence pointed to her infidelity. I could not risk doing harm to the being I treasured above all else"

"But I wasn't unfaithful" Jane swallowed against the lump in her throat as she tried to ignore Spock's words of love "I never cheated on you, I never so much as fantasised about another man in the whole time we were together; you were all I ever wanted, all I ever needed"

Spock lowered his gaze like he could not look her in the eye "I truly believed my proven sterility spoke for itself; I had it tested again upon your positive pregnancy test and it showed that I had no viable sperm: that I was as McCoy so charmingly put it 'Shooting blanks'. It is not even as we had been to a planet and interacted with beings or substances which could have changed my sterility for a short time; we were star charting.

"Yet I am pregnant and it is proven to be yours" Jane breathed out "So how does your beloved logic explain that?"

"It cannot" Spock admitted "It is what you humans would refer to as a 'miracle'"

"You need to leave" Jane choked out; finally having had enough emotionally for one night "I need to process what you have told me"

Spock bowed his head "I will do as you wish for now, but this conversation is not over as we need to discuss our future."

"I don't think we have a future" Jane shook her head cutting Spock off when it looked like he was going to reply "You cast me out of your life Spock - no matter what your reasons were, you rejected me along with everyone else I cared about. You forced me to rebuild what was left of my life and I did it; I survived and now I do not know if I have a place for you in my new life."

"Our child" Spock began.

"I will never deny you your daughter" Jane told him "It's why I sent you the results; I want my child to have a father." Snorting indelicately she added "I of all people know how important that is"

"Our bond cannot be broken." Spock began again.

"It's already broken' Jane cut in "Maybe the mental bond is still there but everything else; our relationship and my feelings for you have been broken into a thousand pieces and I don't think they can be put back together."

"It is not as simple as that" Spock insisted "Vulcan bondmates are drawn together during certain times of their life despite themselves; we will still be bound together for the rest of our lives no matter what you hope to gain legally."

"During Pon Farr" Jane nodded.

"We do not talk about such things in front of outsiders." Spock looked at Jack stiffly.

"Pon Farr?" Jack's curiosity was definitely peaked now.

Jane went to answer him but was stopped by the look on her bondmate face "I really think we should call it a night" she said instead "Thanks for the pizza Jack" She told her handsome lawyer "But I think I need to go to bed and sort out what has happened here tonight.

Jack looked at her and nodded "I think I will go back to the office and get the ball rolling on obtaining the information from the Vulcan embassy we will need as we explore where we can go legally from here."

Ignoring Spock he looked at her questioningly "You do still want to press ahead with the court case?"

Jane also avoided Spock's eyes "Yes" she confirmed "I at least want to know my legal options."

Nodding Jack walked towards the door with Jane accompanying him "Are you sure you are right being left with him" the dark haired lawyer nodded towards Spock.

"He will be leaving in a moment" Jane shrugged "And as you confirmed yourself he can't hurt me; physically at least."

Jack nodded shoving his hands into his pockets "Well you know my number if you need me; otherwise I will be in touch once I find out the legalities of the situation."

Jane watched him leave then turned around to face her impassive bondmate "Out you go too" She told him.

Spock walked to the door, pausing before exiting it "This is not over" He told his unimpressed bondmate "I will fight to keep you for my mate, even if it is a fight against yourself. I realise I have done you a terrible injustice, no matter how logical I thought it was at the time, but I will not stop until I have regained your regard, I will do anything to prove myself and my love for you once more"

Jane closed her eyes "Why bother?" she asked him "You showed me exactly how important I was to you seven months ago."

Spock bowed his head knowing for now at least he was not going to change her mind "I am not the only one who feels the need to apologize" he told her changing the subject "Dr McCoy and the Enterprise staff acknowledged my need to come apologize to you first but I know they wish to make amends with you as well"

Jane felt tears swell in her eyes and she hastily dashed them away "Tell them to stay away" She warned him "I have no interest in their apologies; they told me with their actions what a whore they thought me to be seven months ago. I don't need that kind of 'friendship'" she told him."And I don't need you, now please leave" She demanded.

"I will see you in court to arrange custody of our child."

Seeing the cornered animal look in her eyes and knowing Jane enough to know when to quit, Spock reached for the door handle and quietly left leaving Jane to lock the door behind him.

Slumping against it she blinked back the tears that had threatened to fall ever since she had seen her wayward bondmate again and sliding down to the ground she rested her head against her knees and gave into them.

She could always blame her damn pregnancy hormones later.