Green Blooded Hobgoblin

xStarletx

A/N: Chapter 3 is up! We have a flash from the past! WOO! I think I'm doing Spock awesomely! Now I know it's not the best, but I am getting quite a few alerts and favs…… can you guys review too? Well, just so you guys know, I have chapter four done, and half of chapter five. If you guys want me to update even sooner then I already am…. REVIEW! I'll settle for getting just two reviews at this point. Just REVIEWS PEOPLE!

Chapter 3

"We're getting a transmission from Starfleet Center of Science." The Chekov told him. Spock looked up to him, relatively surprised.

"Who is it?" Spock asked, Chekov put the message on the screen. Dr. Marbellin was looking at them. Spock felt the panic welling up in his chest. Why was he hailing them? What had happened to Teresa? Behind the clearly panicked scientist a white test chair was thrown through a window. He ducked.

"Spock we can't control her! We're putting her down!" He cried. Spock was on his feet in an instant.

"No! Just hold on. I'll take this in a more private area." Spock nearly bellowed. He left the bridge before anyone could stop him or ask him what was going on. He rushed to his cabin and put the message on screen, making sure that no one else could listen in he focused on the problem at hand.

"What is the matter? What have you done?" Spock asked. He could see them trying to subdue her through the broken glass. He was suddenly very angry, he tried not to show it.

"She's uncontrollable. It is no longer a good idea how to keep her here, we need to send her away." Dr. Marbellin repeated.

"What did you say to her?" Spock asked. Dr. Marbellin looked away. Spock was getting frustrated with him faster than he ever got with Kirk. "Let me talk to her."

Though the scientist sighed, he obliged. The screen zoomed showing a very angry Teresa fighting off several scientists.

"TERESA!" Spock screamed. The fighting stopped and the girl turned to look at him, her pink eyes full of tears, her short hair, which she had opted to grow out this year sticking up oddly still getting accustomed to the new length she desired. In her pause the scientists attacked her tackling her to the floor. Spock was suddenly a combination of livid and frightened. The mixture made him more irritable then he was before.

"GET OFF HER!" Spock screamed. If someone had been listening outside the door, they clearly heard him. Hell they could have heard him all the way in the bridge. He counted to ten in his head before he could look back at the screen. When he did he saw that Teresa was clearly calmer, though she was crying, but she didn't look too damaged.

"Are you ok?" Spock asked her. She shook her head.

"When are you coming home?" She asked him.

"Not for a while. Tell me what happened." Spock demanded. Teresa took a shaky breath.

"They made me go to some class. A special class where they learn about different people. They let the students poke me and judge me. I told them I didn't want to but they gave me a sedative and I woke up in class. I said you were going to be angry but they told me that you don't care what happens to me, that you weren't coming back!" Teresa sobbed. Spock was past angry now he was borderline lucid with anger.

"You KNOW that that is not true. I will come back, and I do care, and they will pay dearly for that incident. Trust me." Spock swore to her. He wished he could be there, to hold her, to soothe her fears, to wipe away the last of those tears. He wished he wasn't on the Enterprise, in the middle of deep space. He needed to be on Earth. With his Teresa.

"You promise?" Teresa asked. Spock was sober in a minute. Logically he couldn't be there, his job was on the Enterprise. Logically this shouldn't have affected him the way it did.

"Of course. I shall see you in a few months. Make sure to see a doctor about your injuries, just to see that they're not too severe. Live long and Prosper." Spock whispered, lifting his hand to the screen. Teresa pressed her palm to the screen, and Spock did the same. She faded out and this time he was looking at Dr. Marbellin again.

"She is under my jurisdiction. If you ever do anything with her that does not have my full consent I shall see you court marshaled and thrown out of the Center!" Spock warned, his voice a low growl. Dr. Mabellin gulped but agreed. They bade each other chilly goodbyes and then that was the end of that. Spock knew he should be going back to the bridge, but he couldn't right now. He was unsettled, troubled even. His anger had yet to run its full course. It burned inside him, threatening to explode much like a Super nova. He threw open the closet door and examined the pictures Teresa had drawn for him, the various cards she had made him, not to mention a picture he had of the two of them together.

Yearning, yet another emotion he displayed when around her… well in this case away from her. He missed her when he wasn't there with her. Though he often debated the pros and cons of bringing her with him on the Enterprise, the same emotions won the argument hands down – fear and jealousy. There was no way he'd have Teresa finding Kirk more appealing then him. No way he'd be sharing her attention. It was why he hadn't told anyone aboard about Teresa. Not even his girlfriend Nyota.

He was about to leave when the door whooshed open. Nyota walked in, cornering him in front of his closet.

"What was that about Spock?" She asked. She didn't sound impressed and Spock was still too angry to care.

"Nothing." Spock barked. He regretted it immediately.

"That was not 'nothing'. Tell me." Nyota demanded. Spock angered further at this.

"I do not have to tell you everything. I am in no way obligated to inform you of everything aspect in my life." Spock snarled. He could see the hurt on Nyota's face and was immediately sorry. Her eyes turned away from him and held a spot on his closet door. Spock groaned inwardly. Dear god he had left it open.

Before he could stop her she ripped the picture off of the door. Spock made a wild grab for it but Nyota backed away from him quickly.

"Nyota I can explain!" He cried.

"A child? You have a child? Do you have a wife too?" Nyota howled. Spock paused. He wondered if it was logical to conclude that two who were so different in outward appearances were related. Now was not the time to quibble about logic. Women were hardly logical. Well, the Vulcan women were.

"She is not my child. She is my charge. Her name is Teresa." Spock explained. Nyota started to soften.

"You're charge?" She asked. In the end, Spock told her the whole story, he even promised he'd introduce her to Teresa when the docked back at earth.

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Until now, Spock had managed to persuade Nyota that it wasn't the right time to meet Teresa. Today – however – Nyota Uhura demanded that she meet Teresa today. There wasn't much one could do to get around an angry and determined Nyota. So Spock handed her a tub of Cherries Jubilee ice cream and took her down the hall way that lead them to Teresa's room. Before opening the door Spock stopped and turned to Nyota.

"Now, Teresa is very shy. It will take her some time to get use to you. It does not reflect upon you in anyways. It's just how she is." Spock warned her. Nyota nodded and Spock through open the door.

"SPOCK!" Teresa cried running forward to hug him. She was small for her age, she only came up to his shoulders. She glanced around Spock and caught sight of Nyota. She looked up to him, her eyes silently asking him who the woman was.

"Teresa this is Nyota Uhura. She works with me on the Enterprise. Do you remember?" He asked her. Teresa turned her big pink eyes to Nyota and then back to Spock. She hid herself behind Spock her small hands gripping his blue shirt her head buried into his back.

"Teresa, you are nineteen years of age. I hardly believe that it is acceptable to behave in such a childish manner." Spock chided. Teresa shook her head, her forehead rubbing against her back. Spock sighed and sent Nyota an apologetic look.

Spock took a hold of Teresa's hand and lead her out in front of him. She had that worried look on her face, the one where she scrunched her nose and chewed on her lower lip. Spock turned her towards Nyota, Teresa immediately looked to her toes.

"Nyota here has brought you a present, but since you won't talk to her, I don't think she'll give it to you." Spock nudged. Teresa smiled to Spock, then reluctantly turned to Nyota.

"Can you say hello?" Spock prodded.

"Hullo." Teresa murmured, Spock didn't have to look down to know that Teresa was blushing. Nyota smiled kindly to her and showed her the tub of ice cream. Teresa smiled and took it from her.

"Cherries Jubilee! My favorite!" Teresa cried. She beamed Nyota. "Thank you."

Spock smiled himself and went to stand beside Nyota as Teresa busied herself with her ice cream.

"She's positively darling Spock." Nyota whispered. Spock beamed with pride, Teresa was something alright. She rivaled many on the scale of cuteness, as Kirk would call it. If Kirk would here he'd have given her a solid twenty on a scale of one to ten.

"And she's smart too. When she decides to participate for her tests." Spock teased. Teresa frowned, the spoon sticking out of her mouth. She swallowed her mouthful and then took out the spoon.

"I don't like the other scientists, they're mean. I'd learn more if I went with you." Teresa insisted.

"You know you cannot go with me." Spock argued.

"I don't see why not. The ship does have a schoolroom and child care room." Nyota inputted.

"See! Please take me with you?" Teresa begged. Fear overrided his system, but it was anger he reacted with.

"NO! And that is the final word." Spock bellowed. Teresa cringed and backed away. Spock softened immediately, knowing how easily Teresa spooked. Big bright tears appeared in Teresa's eyes.

"I didn't mean to sound so curt." Spock tired to apologize.

"You don't want me to come with you." Teresa sobbed. "You don't love me."

Teresa picked up the old raggedy toy and jumped to the highest pedestal.

"Teresa come back here!" He demanded, he winced at how angry he sounded.

"I hate you!" Teresa cried. Spock was shocked. She had never said anything like that to him before. She didn't respond to Spock's attempts to coax her down after that, and he could clearly hear her crying. Sighing, Spock had no choice but to leave her there. He turned and saw a disapproving Nyota glaring at him. Luckily the lecture didn't come until Spock had closed the door behind them.

"If you didn't want her coming then you should have said so. Though I see no reason why you wouldn't want her too, there was no reason to be so rude. Clearly you hurt her feelings!" Nyota cried. Spock didn't need this lecture to feel the guilt welling up inside him. The fact that his Teresa was crying was guilt enough.

"It isn't safe in space. At any time we could be attacked, we could be killed. Any space anomaly could happen and wipe us out, we could be pulled into a black hole and transported far into the future. Anything could happen at any time. I do not wish to put her in such jeopardy." Spock tried to explain.

"Well why didn't you just tell her that then?" Nyota asked.

"I have, but she continually presses the issue." Spock cried, throwing his hands up into the air in his frustration. He began to pace in his worry. How could she doubt that he loved her? And could she have possibly meant that she hated him?

"She wants to be with you Spock and clearly you want to be with her as well? Would it be so difficult to bring her aboard the Enterprise?" Nyota asked. She was using logic, or trying to. Logically, yes it would make more sense to just bring her aboard the Enterprise and put an end to his foolish worryings. But the irrationality of his emotions won him over again. Shaking his head quickly, Nyota gave up. She went to walk away from him when Spock stopped her.

"I trust you won't tell anyone about her?" Spock asked. Nyota shook her head disapprovingly at him.

"Of course." She replied. She was frowning, but Spock didn't care. He glanced back at the closed door, wondering if he should go in to talk to her just one more time. He doubted she would talk to him now. Sighing, Spock told himself he'd talk to her before he left for the next voyage tomorrow afternoon. Surely she'd at least say good bye to him. She couldn't possibly hate him, he told himself, she just couldn't.

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