Where we left off... Jane had just received a new ship: The Endeavour!
"What is her name" Jane directed her stare back at Pike.
"The Endeavour" He told her smilingly.
Jane rubbed her stomach as a short pain dashed through her mid region.
It had been a long week since Jane had set eyes on her new ship, a week that had been filled with the mountains of paper work that she had to read, sign and return to Star fleet to make her sudden recommission a reality.
With all the paper work the admiralty were sending her way she was beginning to think that maybe she should of stolen the holo of the Endeavour from Pikes office to have a memento on hand to remind herself why she was submitting herself to this mile of red tape nightmare; for the eight months that she had been out of Starfleet it had seemed she had forgotten about their love for all things paperwork; all of which apparently had to be signed in triplicate and witnessed by the devil himself!
Doctor appointments had filled in the rest of the week; with only a month left to go before the arrival of her little girl and with her child's rare hybrid heritage to consider, Dr Peterson, who reminded her more of Bones than she sometimes felt comfortable with was erring on this side of caution and seeing her every second day to ensure both she and her still unnamed daughter were in top health.
And as if that was not enough as well as dealing with Star Fleet and Doctor Appointments Jane had also been busy avoiding Jack.
Looking back on the kiss she and her handsome lawyer had shared, she had almost immediately came to the conclusion that it had been a really bad idea and one not to be repeated.
Although she was attracted to her gorgeous lawyer she had almost instantly realised that with all of her baggage which included
being eight months pregnant to another man,
undealt issues with previously mentioned father of her child who just happened to be her current bondmate
This was not even mentioning the Endeavour and subsequent and upcoming 5 year mission.
It was definitely not the best time to start anything up. Jack deserved someone who was not on the rebound.
So mentally she was exhausted; the only blessing from this week had been the fact that she had heard neither hide nor hair from her ex bondmate. It would appear that he had finally gotten the message that she was not interested in his pitiful excuses.
Or so she thought.
Having signed yet another official document agreeing to return to Starfleet and giving them all but her soul (or so it seemed) Jane paused as she heard a knock on the door and smiled; she was expecting a cookie run from Mrs D.
Deciding now was just as good a time as any to have a well deserved break, Jane waddled towards the door and threw it open smile on her face ready to greet her ex employer (who had taken Jane's resignation from waitressing last week with a huge smile, warm hug and even warmer congratulations on the new ship).
But the woman in front of her was not Mrs De Luca, her delightful ex employer... but Lady Amanda Grayson, her ex mother in law.
"Lady Grayson" Jane automatically placed a protective hand on her rounded middle and looked haplessly at her ex mother in law. She had not been expecting this and she was definitely not looking her best as she was clad only in a baggy sweat shirt and pants and had her hair had been casually thrown up into a ponytail.
Unlike Spock's mother who as always looked impeccable and the very portrait of a lady.
The very image of a proper Vulcan bondmate and an ambassador's wife.
"Jane' Spock's mother said in a quiet voice "May I come in?" she asked
Stepping back from the doorway Jane allowed her ex bondmates mother to walk past her; glad at least that the nesting stage of pregnancy had kicked in and that her flat, small and modest as it would seem to an ambassadors wife, was scrupulously clean.
Leading Amanda through to the living room Jane bowed her head as she remembered the previously warm and understanding bond they had once shared; a bond that had been mostly based on the sole fact that Spock had been the most important person in the world to BOTH of them and that subsequently Amanda had came to think of Jane, the person who had made her son the happiest he had ever been, as a daughter not just a daughter in law.
That was until eight months prior when over vid link a furious Amanda Grayson had damned Jane and her nonexistent lover to the deepest bowels of hell.
She had even put Uhura to shame as she had had chastised Jane in no less than 6 alien tongues.
When they were both seated and not knowing what to say Jane asked "Can I offer you refreshments'
Startled looking Lady Grayson nodded her head "A cup of tea would be heavenly, please Jane"
Waddling to the kitchen, Jane could not help but wonder what Amanda was doing here? Jane pondered this for the couple of minutes it took her to program tea into the replicator, Amanda was probably here to try to convince her to take Spock back and to resume her bondmate duties Jane concluded.
Carrying the tea into the living room Jane decided to cut directly to the point Jane began "Look I know Spock probably sent you here to..."
"Spock does not know I am here" Amanda gently interrupted her.
"Then why are you here?" Jane asked her bluntly.
'To intervene on my son's behalf' Amanda replied calmly, like the proper bondmate and mother Jane could only dream about being.
Standing up agitated Jane shook her head 'What do you possibly think you could say that he has not already" Jane demanded, hand on her stomach as she felt a small but intense pain jolt through her core.
"I don't know" Lady Grayson admitted "But I do know that he, that WE, did wrong by you and that you have every reason to never forgive him, to never forgive us."
"But" Jane gritted as she was rocked by yet another small but intense pain that lasted longer than the others.
"But" Amanda sighed "I don't want to see my grandchild suffer. Or" she went on quietly "My son."
"And you think I do?" questioned Jane incredulously "Do you think this is how I would have ever planned to have brought a child into this world? With a father and mother who can't stand each other? Who hate each other?"
"Spock does not hate you' Amanda shook her head vehemently "Even when he believed you to be unfaithful I do not believe that he could fully bring himself to hate you"
"Yeah?" Jane questioned rubbing her aching belly "Well he sure did a good imitation of it then. Anyway" she went on "It does not matter if he loves or hates me. I hate HIM and I have no plans of acting like a dutiful bondmate and taking him back."
Amanda eyed Jane off considerately "Do you really intend to let my son, your husband and father of your child to die in the flames of his next Pon Farr?" she questioned her ex daughter in law.
Jane paused, did she? When it came down to it if Spock went into Pon Farr in a couple of months could she really allow him to succumb to flames?
"I" she broke off as an even deeper pain flickered through her and she suddenly felt liquid gush down her legs to pool at her feet.
Looking at horror at a suddenly wide eyed Amanda Jane started to panic.
"I think my waters just broke"
