She had just put her hands on his neck to pull him closer when the door to his office opened and Jack shocked secretary gasped and dropped the files she had in her hands as she stared at the scene in front of her.
Her boss was passionately kissing his client.
His married client.
His married client who husband, whose Vulcan husband was growling threatening behind her as he also took in the same scene she was witnessing.
"Remove your hands from my bondmate at once." Spock snarled; his Vulcan control obviously lost as his eyes took in the couple kissing in front of him.
Jane and Jack broke apart with a start; Jane turning to stare at the husband she had, for at least a brief moment, forgotten about for the first time in seven months.
"Spock" Jane looked at her bondmate guiltily even as she shook herself mentally for feeling guilty – they were after all over, crashed and burned due to his lack of trust so she could kiss whomever she wished guilt free.
But the annoying guilt soon turned into worry as she quickly noted the anger that was flickering over her husband's usually controlled expression as well as his tightly clenched fist; he was obviously furious and the anger was obviously directed at the man standing slightly behind her.
Jane began to quietly panic as Spock began to advance towards them his intent clear on his normally unreadable face and she quickly moved so Jack was placed between her and Spock.
The last time she had seen him this mad was when he was choking her over a console.
"Move" Spock told her tersely; obviously she had not been that discreet at her attempt to protect Jack and unfortunately all it had seemed to do was raise Spock's ire.
"Not a chance." She replied. She really did not need Jack's blood on the walls... or on her conscience.
"Jack" she turned to her lawyer "Is there anywhere Spock and I can go for that... conference."
"Jane" he pulled her to his side; his eyes widening and his body tensing as Spock growled at him once more "I am not leaving you alone with him."
"It's not me he wants to hurt" Jane tensely told him keeping one eye on her Vulcan bondmate. "Look we have discussed this before; physically he can't touch me and lets face it Jack; Spock and I really do need to talk. It's time we sort this mess out and organize custody for our daughter"
"I will give you my office" Jack sighed "But I am phoning security and getting them to keep an eye on you"
Jane sighed but nodded her agreement "Fine."
Still Jack stayed in the room for a long moment, looking between Jane and then Spock with his concern for her written all over his face before he sighed and turned and excited the room; leaving a wide berth between him and the obviously furious Vulcan.
Left alone in the room with her husband Jane paused unsure of how to commence but her mental debate of how best to progress was shattered with one question by her husband. .
"Are you engaging in a sexual relationship with your so called lawyer?" Spock demanded.
Whirling around to face him, her fury at that question written over her face Jane spat out "That is none of your business."
"You are my bondmate" Spock retorted "That would render the answer to my question relevant to my knowledge."
"You may be my bondmate" Jane told him softly but with a note of steel lacing her tone "But only because our bond cannot be broken. Our relationship however was shattered by your lack of trust in me, by your rejection of me and our unborn child and as far as I am concerned our marriage is over. That makes me single again"
"You are not single" Spock grated "You are my mate; you carry my unborn child..."
Jane cut him off abruptly "You must be joking" she looked at him in disbelief "You threw me out of your life, you refused to return any of the numerous correspondences I sent you, messages where I pleadedwith you to believe me, where I begged you to trust that the child I am carrying was yours then when I kept on contacting you, you threatened me with legal action if I continued my harassment of you – your words by the way not mine."
She broke off to take an angry breath before continuing "But now, now that you have medical proof that what I was telling you from the start was true; that the child I carry is your, you have the audacity to tell me we are what? Married? Bound together by law?" Jane shook her head as Spock open his mouth to speak and to undoubtable offer pathetic explanations for his trespasses against her
"No" she told him firmly cutting him off "You do not get to speak. I am speaking now. You passed sentence on me as soon as you found out I was pregnant; you painted me with a scarlet A and threw me off of MY ship as a slut and a whore. You killed any feelings I have ever had for you and believe me when I say that I have no intentions of ever taking you back. Our relationship is dead and as far as I am concerned I am free to sleep with whomever I please; be it Jack or the whole fucking fleet."
Spock face had gone paler than what she had ever seen it "Jane" his voice was not its usual confident, controlled modulated tones but for the first time since she had known him shaky and uncertain "You must believe that I am immensely sorry for my regrettable actions against you. Yet you must understand that my actions were..."
"Logical" Jane agreed "Yes I suppose they were"
A fleeting look of hope appeared on Spocks face before she ruthlessly quashed it "But" she went on "Love is not logical. If you had really loved me" she went on "You would have trusted me; you would have believed in my innocence and you would of accepted that the child I carry was yours from the get go. You would have used that big brain of yours to figure out how we had been BLESSED with this miracle. You would of shared in the last seven months of my pregnancy thus ensuring that my pregnancy was a happy and joyful event it should have been and not the stressed out and lonely time it has been."
Jane broke off there and looked at Spock with a sadness that cut him to the bone "Spock, you need to realise that there is no excuse or reason that you can give me that will make me forgive you and take you back. We are over."
"Our child deserves a family" Spock told her quietly.
"She will have a mother who loves her" Jane told him "And she will have a father who loves her. She just won't have a mother and father who love each other."
Jane sank down in a padded armchair tiredly "Spock I am willing, for my child's sake, to share custody with you but that is the only concession I am willing to offer you. If you have any hopes of winning me back I advise you to abandon them. I don't love you anymore."
At least, Jane pondered, that lie was getting easier to say every time she said it.
"You must know that due to his Vulcan biology" A new voice entered the conversation as a tall, silver haired and austere looking older Vulcan entered the room "There will be periods in Spock's life where he will require his mate, where he will require you to meet his biological needs."
Jane looked hard at the newcomer; had he been eaves dropping? This must be the other Vulcan that Jack warned her about; the one who demanded a meeting between her and Spock.
"Pon Farr?" she queried them; smiling in amusement as both Vulcan males flinched
"Indeed" The older Vulcan got over his shock of her casual use of a phase that induced fear in a usually emotionless race before Spock to respond to her question.
"So he can use a proxy mate"Jane told them tartly "Because I won't willingly have sex with him ever again."
"A 'proxy' mate as you so charmingly put will offer Spock no relieve in the flames of his fire. He will require you and your bond"
"Well he should have thought of that before he threw me out of his life." Jane told the unnamed Vulcan tiredly. "He chose to end our relationship seven months ago. Not me."
"His logic at the time was faultless" The austere Elder told her "He was proven sterile numerous times by both the esteemed VSA as well as the venerated CMO of the Enterprise, one Leonard McCoy. The possibility that he could have fathered your child was rendered impossible in the face of his confirmed sterility."
"Yet" Jane told the elder sarcastically "Here he is the confirmed FATHER of my child.
"Indeed an unforeseeable turn of events" The elder conceded "Yet how was he supposed to ignore, the regrettably incorrect, truth he was at the time offered?"
"We call it trust on Earth" Jane told him.
"He is Vulcan." The elder raised an eyebrow at her "We do not 'trust', we accept logical and scientifically proven facts as they are proven and presented to us."
"Well that is great for you" Jane told him flatly "But I am human and we expect our love ones to trust us." Jane shook her head "We could go round and round all day but the facts of the matter are Spock and I are over and the only thing left to arrange now is custody arrangements for our child not an impossible reconciliation or whatever it is you hoped to gain here."
"Reconciliation between you and Spock is both logical and necessary; you are th'yla, and as such you will be bonded for the rest of your lives." He told her severely "Are you willing to allow your bondmate, the father of your child to succumb to the flames during his next time?"
"So what" Jane stared at the man and dodging a question she had no answer for; could she let Spock die? "I am expected to never have another chance of love? I am expected to wait around for seven years at a time so I can do my 'duty' as Spock's very own blow up toy?"
"You are expected" The older Vulcan told her "To fulfil the duties you willingly agreed to when you bonded to Spock."
"Screw that" Jane told both Vulcan's angrily "He is not the one who has been betrayed. It was me who lost everything I ever loved because of his lack of faith and trust in me. I am willing to be reasonable about custody for the sake of our child but hell will freeze over before I allow him to lay one finger on me ever again. Before I reassume our relationship."
"I also have no intent on being single for the rest of my life" Jane informed them, "Hell I have no intent on being celibate for the rest of my life. I intend on finding love again and barring that I intend on having a lot of good sex."
"You will not allow another man to lay a hand on you" Spock all but growled at her.
"You have no say in my sex life anymore" Jane told him "You lost that right seven months ago when you chose to eject me from your life."
Jane and Spock glared at each other for a couple of moments before Jane shook her head - they were never going to get anywhere at the moment they were at an stand still until Spock could accept they were over.
"We are getting nowhere here gentleman." She told them wearily wanting nothing more than to go home and to relax and forget about this conversation. "When you are ready to meet to discuss custody arrangement's let me know but for now we are done.
And with that she purposely walked out of the room without looking back.
