Wow, so this took way longer than it should have to update. Sorry about that. I had this all ready to publish then one night I had an epiphany and decided that this story was getting slow so I've added some adventure to it! Sorry if thats not what you wanted but I promise it'll be good!
Spock slowly wakes to a 'happy' sort of humming in the back of his mind. Before truly gaining complete consciousness, Spock illogically enjoys the feel of his bondmates presence not only in his mind but also in his Captain's bed. He tries to imprint this moment to memory as one of the first where is heart and mind were in complete agreement that this was home and that this feeling was right.
After their conversation with his counterpart, Selik, they had all spent the rest of the day in a "drunken haze" as Leonard had told him once. They were all incredibly happy about the baby but moments of sadness and remorse would drip through the bond as they thought about their counterparts losing a child and then Selik being separated from any family he had left. Larger amounts of fear and panic would also seep through as they thought of the dangers they now faced. To put it mildly it had been an emotionally draining day for all of them.
In a wordless understanding they had regrouped that night in the Captain's quarters and quickly passed out in each other's arms. They were still too overwhelmed to try and come to any decisions but Spock knew they had a lot to undertake today.
Spock was just about to open his eyes when his Captain's ears, although not as sensitive as his own, picked up on a tiny voice whispering,
"…I mean it'd be easier if you're a boy cause you're gonna have three awesome dads and we can do boy stuff like..."
Spock's eye shot open as he realized Jim was talking to the baby, he experienced an overwhelming sensation of love at that moment but before he could say anything to Jim he looked up to see his own eyes staring back at him. Those eyes where smiling at him in understanding but as Leonard silently mouthed a "shhh" Spock knew they should let Jim have his moment. They both listened to Jim as he continued to speak to their unborn child.
"…and Bones will teach how to use hypos and fix everyone up. Spock will make sure you are all smart and logical and I can teach you how to be a Captain and protect everyone in space…but if you want to be a girl that's cool too! Girl's can be Captain's and Doctor's and I'm sure once we tell everyone Uhura can buy you dresses and dolls and stuff…but I'm warning you now if you decide to be a girl you are not allowed to date until you're 25!"
Bones rolled Spock's eyes as Spock's eyebrows, well Jim's eyebrows, shot up obviously amused.
Bones decided that it was time to get up he knew as well as Spock there was a lot they needed to do today. Deciding to go easy on Jim, Bones pretended to stir in his sleep which had Jim shooting up from his position of his head resting on Spock's stomach as he quickly bolted into the bathroom and turned on the sonic shower.
"Leonard shouldn't we tell Jim that we heard his conversation with our child? There is no need for him to be embarrassed like this." Spock asked sternly.
"Naw Spock just let him have this time with the baby, we'll tell him later. I made a mental list of all the people we need to call today. First, obviously we need to talk to your future-alternate self again cause there's a lot we need to ask. If we're gonna stay stuck like this we have to tell the Admiralty cause we just can't risk any kind of mistakes. They'll already be on our asses for waiting this long. I'm sure if we tell Pike first he can make up some BS to keep us in space so Jim won't have to give up the Enterprise and we can do milk-runs until we can switch back. We need to tell the crew…" Spock opened his mouth in assumed protest but Leonard quickly stopped him, "At least the command team Spock. There's too much at stake if something goes wrong, they need to know how to help us."
Before Bones could continue Spock cut him off, "I was not going to disagree with you Leonard. All your arguments have been sound and logical, I was simply going to add that we must also call my father." Bones suddenly looked panic stricken, which was quite a frightening sight on the half-Vulcan's face. Unfortunately Jim chose that moment to walk out of the bathroom.
Jim was bent over towel drying his hair as he walked out and began to speak "Hey guys I was thinking we should probably…" Jim stopped abruptly as he looked up and saw the panic on Spock's face and instantly forgot what he was going to say.
"Whoa, what's going on? Bones you ok? You look terrified, is the baby ok?" Jim said, quickly panicking himself as he jumped back on to the bed. Bones tried to school Spock's features as he sat up but Spock answered for him.
"Leonard and the baby are fine Jim. He mentioned that we should call Ambassador Selik and inform Admiral Pike and the crew of our situation. I pointed out that we should also inform my father and he, logically so, panicked. Thus was the moment you walked in." Spock said calmly.
Bones came back to himself at the "logically so", "How is it logical that I panicked?" Leonard honestly wanted to know what Spock thought, he knew why he was panicking but he wouldn't call it logical. Jim seemed to calm himself as well at the explanation and was now sitting cross-legged in front of his partners waiting for Spock's answer.
"My father can be very intimidating, he is Vulcan." Spock said with a slight smirk, "Furthermore his first impressions of you both are not the greatest." McCoy's face (Jim) suddenly went white as Spock's face was suddenly blushing green, Spock pretended not to notice as he continued in an almost cheerful tone, "Jim tried and succeed in getting an emotional response from me by insulting not only my planet and its culture but also my mother, who was of course his wife and bondmate. And if I recall correctly, while in sickbay later that day Leonard referred to myself and several of the elders as 'stubborn, emotionless, green-blooded, hobgoblin pixies'. So of course my father is most definitely impressed with you both." Spock ended sarcastically with one of Jim Kirk's shit eating grins.
Jim and Bones could tell Spock was teasing them but it wasn't exactly an exaggeration either, Sarek would most likely think Spock had lost his mind. Spock could sense their unease through the bond as well.
"Do not concern yourselves T'hy'la's my father has never seen me as his most logical son. If he decides to disown me, kaiidth, it would not be the first time he has done so. If he cannot accept that you are both my T'hy'la I know my grandmother T'Pau will and as-" Jim cut Spock off before he could inform them that T'Pau was Grand High Matriarch of Vulcan and that Spock was here favorite grandchild.
"Hey Spock what does T'hy'la mean?" Jim asked curiously, this was like the seventh time Spock had called them that. Bones nodded his head at the question.
Spock smiled as he looked at his bondmates, "The term does not translate exactly into Standard but a rough translation is; friend, brother and lover, in one word, soulmate. The other half that completes us. It is a very rare and prized occurrence for my people." Spock finished somewhat wistfully.
"Wow. That's…surprisingly romantic." Leonard said a little shocked, "Ok so we're not gonna worry about your dad so we'll save his call for last. Let's call Ambassador Spock and then worry about how we are going to tell the crew." Bones finished.
"That's weird. That's the fourth time I've tried calling Ambassador Spock and still no answers…Do you think something happened?" Jim asked more than a little concerned.
"Relax Jim, I'm sure future-alternate timeline Spock has plenty of work to do running the colony. Let's round up the crew and then we'll talk to future Spock
"Computer initiate Captain's code Zebra-one-Oliver-seven-Edna-zero-one." The Captain said gravely. Everyone in the room froze.
"Privacy lock engaged" the computer responded
"Ay, whaz goin' on Cap'in?" Scotty asked nervously, that was a top security clearance code and everyone there knew it.
"Are we being attacked?! Are we going undercover or something?!" Sulu asked panicking slightly.
The rest of the Command crew started shouting out questions becoming more and more anxious as they none of their questions were being answered; not that they were giving anyone the time of day to answer them at any rate.
"Calm down!" Bones finally shouted.
Everyone froze. Several jaws were hanging open becoming very acquainted with the floor. Did Spock just yell at them?! The world must be falling apart if Spock is emotionally compromised…again.
The Captain was glaring at Commander Spock as if silently telling him to shut up. Unbeknownst to the command team Bones was being reprimanded through their bond.
"That," Spock said pointing to his own body, "is the reason we are here."
Everyone's face became ghostly white. Was Spock dying? Why was he emotionally compromised? Bones rolled Spock's eyes startling the crew even more. Jim decided things could only get more confusing so he cut in before Spock and Bones could make it worse.
"What we are trying to tell you is that the three of us," Jim pointed to his body, Spock's and McCoy's, "have a slight problem…one of which we are still debating whether or not to tell Starfleet of and-" Jim was cut off as Uhura jumped up squealing like a teenager.
"Oh my god! Guys they figured it out! It finally happened!" Uhura screeched as she jumped around pointing at the trio that just stared back at her completely dumbfounded at what the hell she meant. Confusingly enough for Jim, Spock and Bones, Scotty Chekov and Sulu apparently knew what she meant because suddenly they were all smiling.
"Ach! Congratulations sirs! I always knew ye'ed figure it out eventually!" Scotty cheered.
"Hikaru? Vho von de pot?" Chekov asked excitedly. Uhura returned to her seat as Sulu pulled out his PADD and began searching through what Spock assumed to be charts.
"Damn! I lost 20 credits to each of you! Scotty you won, you beat Chekov by 2 weeks…Damn!" Sulu sighed.
The trio of bondmates stared at each other completely clueless
~What the hell did we miss?~ Bones asked through the bond.
~I'm confused~ Jim whined. Spock was so confused he didn't even respond.
"Um…what are you talking about?" Jim asked his crew still thoroughly confused.
Scotty, Uhura, Chekov and Sulu all stopped their excited chatter and looked blankly back at their commanding officers. Their faces went from blank to confused to suddenly very nervous very quickly…maybe they were wrong?
Uhura spoke first, "You mean you three didn't finally figure out that you are madly in love with each other and are now dating?" she said skeptically, her instincts were hardly ever wrong about things like this.
Spock blinked rapidly suddenly realizing what conclusions the crew had come to, laughter from both Jim and Bones rang through their bond and Spock debated for a moment whether or not he should laugh out loud, he didn't but Jim and Bones could feel his amusement through the bond. As illogical as humans could be they had one hell of a crew.
"This is true, Jim the Doctor and I are now in a relationship but that is not why we summoned you here today." Spock said seriously in their Captain's body. The command crew stared blankly at the man they assumed was their Captain but was definitely not acting like their Captain; what the heck is going on? They all wondered, they remained completely silent causing the room to have a sudden eerie feeling.
Jim broke the silence awkwardly "Ok…so what we were going to tell you was that Spock, Bones and I have magically traded bodies." Jim in Bones body said seriously. Blank stares. Absolute silence.
"It was not magical at all Captain, along with several other possible factors it was the transporter accident that started this whole predicament." Spock in Jim's body corrected. More silence. Chekov may have blinked.
"And now we can't change back, well not yet at least." Bones in Spock's body said with a bit of southern twang.
Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov were still completely silent. They didn't even seem to be breathing.
"Guys…say something! You're freaking me out!" Jim squeaked in an embarrassingly high pitched voice.
Chekov finally remembered how to speak, but just barely. "Vat!?" Sulu managed to nod to Chekov's statement. Scotty was still trying to find the connection to reboot his brain while Uhura's lips started moving but no sound came out for several more seconds.
"Explain." Uhura demanded.
"Approximately 13.274 days ago Doctor McCoy, the Captain and myself were planet side when we accidently created a planetary incident. Upon beam up Mr. Scott had trouble returning us to the Enterprise. Upon materialization we came to the realization that I was trapped in Dr. McCoy's body, Dr. McCoy in the Captain's body and the Captain in my own body. Mr. Scott appeared to realize that something was wrong but we had him ordered out of the room while we attempted to understand what had transpired." Spock said stoically, before he could continue Scotty cut in.
"So that's what was wrong with ye! Ack ye should have told me sirs, a trip back through the transporter would have set ye straight!" Scotty said almost scolding his commanding officers.
"We know that now Scotty." Jim said quietly as he continued where Spock had been cut off, "We ran some test and figured out that there was a new protein in our bodies. Spock figured out how to get rid of it and figured that doing so would change us back. It worked and we switched but not into the right body. Spock is now in my body, I'm Bones and Bones is now Spock, hence the over emotionalism." Jim said smiling at his bondmate teasingly.
"Hey! I'm not that bad!" Bones shouted indignantly. This earned him two glares from his lovers and several giggles from the rest of the command team. Leonard sighed, "Anyway that is why we are here now, we figured out that yes Scotty a trip through the transporter will work but we have other…complications now." Bones said rather dejectedly.
"What kind of complications?" Sulu finally spoke up.
~Do you want to tell them Spock? It's your body~ Bones asked
~But it is our child~ Spock replied with surprising warmth.
"My person is k'khan." Spock said rather proudly.
Uhura gasped, startling the others as she jumped up again and seemed to almost dance around the room. "You're pregnant!" she all but screamed cheerfully. She bolted to her 'Captain' and pulled him into a tight hug, Spock stiffened but managed to pat her awkwardly on the back. Jim gave her a bear hug and Bones actually chuckled as he returned the hug Uhura gave.
"Ughhh!" Sulu sighed as he banged his head on the table repeatedly, "I lost another 20 credits each! Chekov you won this round!" Sulu sighed as he continued to bang his head into the table as a laughing Chekov tried to calm the now broke helmsmen by rubbing circles into his back.
"Wait a sec you guys had a bet going on that to?! How did you even know it was a possibility?" Jim asked confused
Uhura scoffed, "Besides the fact that I majored in Vulcan, Spock was my professor and that I dated him?" Uhura said as if the answer was the most obvious thing in the world. "Not even 2 months after the Narada incident we had the bet going on when you three would get together. To make it interesting I mentioned the difference in Vulcan physiology and started the bet on when we should expect to see baby Vulcan hybrids running the ship." Uhura said smiling at the gob smacked look on McCoy's, which they now is actually Jim's, face.
"Congratulations sirs. Vut I am confused. How does the baby affect you svitching back?" Chekov asked curiously. Scotty suddenly was deathly pale.
"Cause when the transporter switches them back it could possibly switch the babe as well, thus…" Scotty didn't know if he could even say it out loud. The idea of anything happening to the child made him sick. He looked at his commanding officers standing before him; they nodded their heads at his questioning look and continued in a chocked whisper, "Thus potentially killing the baby…" Silence engulfed the room.
Sulu immedeatly froze, a panicked look marring his face as he glanced over at Chekov who was on the brink of tears. Scotty was whiter than a sheet and looked ready to faint. Sulu had to do a double take, Uhura looked…angry? He didn't have time to wonder why as Uhura spoke up.
"Well there's no way in hell we are letting that happen!" yep she was pissed, "Don't worry sirs I'll help you rework the schedule so the three of you won't have to beam down together." Uhura pulled out her own PADD, "Hikaru, think you can handle navigating on your own if I schedule Pavel into the science labs to help Commander Spock find another alternative to switching?"
Sulu was too shocked to vocally reply so he just nodded his head.
"Scotty, do you think it's possible to rework the transporter so if all else fails the baby won't be switched?" Uhura asked on a roll.
"Woah, ok guys hold on!" Jim said in a mix of anxiousness and relief, "We appreciate this greatly, we really do but we have to tell Starfleet first…they may not even let us stay on the Enterprise. If we are damn freaking lucky they'll let us do milk runs for a while if not we'll be grounded, because there is no way in hell that they are separating the three of us. I'm so relieved that you guys are ok with this and obviously so ready to help but we need to take this slowly." Jim said equal parts grateful to his crew and annoyed with the prospect of what Starfleet will do to them.
"We were gonna call Pike first and see what he thinks and then we'll go from there. We'll keep you four updated and we know you'll keep it to yourselves." Bones added gently.
"So for now you are dismissed." Spock said as he motioned for everyone to exit the room. They rose but did not immediately leave. Scotty clapped them all on the back wishing them luck as he headed back to his engines. Sulu smiled and gave his congratulations again as Uhura and Chekov gave the trio another round of hugs, if it was slightly awkward no one commented on it.
"Well that went a hell of a lot better than I ever thought it could." Bones said as he Jim and Spock made their way through the Enterprise's many hallways and back to the Captain's quarters.
"Ya think Chris will have a cow?" Jim asked starting to get nervous again.
"I highly doubt Admiral Pike possess any form of subspecies Bovinae." Spock said with a glint in his eye.
"You know what he meant Spock, let's just get this over with." Bones said as they entered Jim's quarters.
Before they could even cross the room the communications screen on the desk started blinking that there was an incoming call. Jim unceremoniously ran up to the screen to see who it was.
~Well whatdya know its Chris!~ Jim said excitedly ~Hell maybe he figured it out and is calling to congratulate us~
~Doubt that~ said Leonard
~Unlikely~ Spock seconded. Jim just shrugged.
Jim flicked on the screen "What can we do for you Chris?" he asked cheerfully.
"As glad as I am to see you Doctor McCoy I need to speak with Kirk we've got trouble." Admiral Pike said looking a little worse for wear. His hair was sticking up in all directions as he shuffled through the disaster zone of papers covering his desk. Spock walked into the screens view.
~Jim…~ Spock scolded before he could say something to stress Pike even more.
~Oops, sorry~ Jim said suddenly apprehensive as to what was wrong with Chris
"How can we help you Admiral Pike?" Spock asked. If Pike noticed that they were acting weird he was too preoccupied to comment.
"You might want to grab Commander Spock for this Jim." Pike said distractedly as he continued to shuffle through his papers obviously looking for a specific one.
"He is already present. Please explain what is stressing you." Spock responded now secretly dreading what could possibly be happening that would make his former Captain and mentor look just as stressed as he had during the Narada incident.
"There's no easy way to say this so I'm just gonna spit it out." Chris paused to look at the body of Commander Spock, "Commander your father and several other Vulcan elders have been kidnapped." The three sets of eyes that were staring at Pike widened in horror.
"Ambassador Selik managed to send out a red alert right before he was taken as well. The message is only one word, top priority and we have no idea what it means." Pike said finally finding the paper he was looking for.
"What did it say?" Bones managed to ask. Pike turned the piece of paper over.
"Sybok"
Is that enough of a cliffhanger for y'all? I told ya I was adding adventure. Hope you liked it, please rate and review!