Luna's body was immediately wheeled away into the medical bay by other nurses. Jim, Bones, Scotty, and Spock simply watched, not sure what to do. Jim was still thinking of one thing. Revenge. When Luna's body was out of their sight, Jim immediately began hurrying to the bridge. Scotty let out a loud sniff before hurrying after him, not wanting him to do anything stupid right now. "Jim!" He called after while following him by the heels. "You have to take a moment to calm down."

"I don't need to calm down." Jim growled back. His eyes were murderous, only looking straight in front of him. "I need to kill Khan."

"Jim," Scotty's voice was painful as he moved directly in front of him, trying to get him to see sanity for a moment. "This won't bring her back." Those words stung both of them deeply. Jim swallowed a huge lump in his throat while staring at his friend. Scotty mimicked his action, finding all of this extremely hard to think about, but this was their reality now. "Luna wouldn't want you to do this."

Jim looked down for a moment, knowing that rang true in the back of his mind, but he had to do this. For his own sanity, he needed the one who murdered his love to be dead by his own hand. He picked his head back up, his eyes steely and blank of emotion. Scotty stepped back slightly, scared of what grief was doing to him. "Luna's dead, Scotty." He said it harshly as if he was the one who needed to face the facts. "She doesn't have a say in anything anymore."

With a huff, Jim swerved past him, and continued up to the bridge. Scotty had to bite on his lip as tears began to escape his eyes again. He couldn't believe that out of all the people on this ship, Luna was the one to go. He let out a ragged breath from his tears, finding every movement harder than the next. He thought back to everything that happened before she knocked him unconscious. Was there something he could have done differently that would have stopped her? Probably not. Luna would have done this despite any measures done to stop her.

He had never felt grief like this before. He had his heart broken a couple of times by friends and lovers, but nothing stung as bad as Luna's death. With a big gulp, he looked off at where Jim had gone, knowing he had to stop him. For Luna's soul, he had to.

Uhura was still in the med bay, trying to help take care of Carol. She saw the doors open for a stretcher but could only catch the bottom half of the person. They were in a command dress with slightly heeled black boots. Uhura's eyebrows furrowed. She knew those shoes. She thought it was stupid to recognize something as small as shoes, but she knew them.

Without a word to Carol, Uhura began advancing towards the medical officials with the stretcher. She felt her stomach drop a million feet, knowing something was awfully wrong. The closer she got, the more her nerves bundled together in her stomach and chest. She peeked over the curtain where the stretcher laid behind. She only saw the body, not the face. The nurses were hooking the woman up to a heart monitor and breathing machine. Each machine was silent, though. She took another step forward, knowing the person was dead, just curious to see who her dead crewmember was, and why they were so desperate to save someone who's heart was no longer beating.

With that step forward, she was able to see the face. Uhura let out a cry as her hand flew to her mouth in shock. One of the nurses turned around to her, but Uhura couldn't stop looking at a dead Luna. The nurse began to usher her away, but Uhura still had that image burned in her brain. "No." Uhura cried out while trying to break out of the man's grasp.

"Ma'am." He told her calmly, knowing if anyone saw Luna McCoy's body, they were going to freak out. "I need you to step away from the body."

Body. That word hurt Uhura like nothing ever had before. "You don't understand." She cried out, still trying to move past him. "That's my friend!" Sobs began to tear through her body, still trying to fight him off, but it was much weaker now. "That's my best friend." She sobbed finally, falling into the man's embrace. He let Uhura cry on him, knowing how hard this was for her.

"Nyota." Uhura broke away from the nurse, seeing Spock standing there with tear stained cheeks.

She quickly ran to her boyfriend, the two clashing together in a tearful embrace from the events that had carried on today. Spock tried to comfortingly shush her, but it wasn't working. She had just seen one of her best friends dead, and she had no idea what happened or how to begin to move past this.

Uhura adjusted herself so she was able to see Luna's still body, but that was just making her cry harder. What had happened? That's all she wanted to know. What happened?

Jim hurried into the bridge with Scotty following him, still trying to urge him that this wasn't the best thing to do right now. Khan's ship had just fallen into Starfleet headquarters, giving Jim the homefield advantage when it came to tracking Khan down and killing him. "Search the enemy ship for signs of life." Jim immediately growled, his eyes only focused on the screen in front of him.

Sulu turned around to look at him, his eyes wide with fear at his captain's orders. "Sir, there's no way anyone survived."

Jim turned back to look at Sulu, his eyes staring daggers at the man who only questioned him. "He could."

Sulu turned around, trying to look for help from Luna to why he was acting the way he was. When he turned around though, she wasn't there. His eyebrows furrowed, and then his eyes drifted to Scotty. He had to know something.

Scotty swallowed a lump in his throat before shaking his head and looking down. Both Sulu and Chekov looked to each other, their jaws slacked in shock. Everyone on that bridge knew what that look meant. Luna was dead, and Jim's behavior was completely understandable, although this seemed like a suicide mission. Sulu looked down, he wasn't sure if it was out of grief or wanting to avoid eye contact with his captain, but he eventually nodded before moving to do what Jim had asked of him. "Yes, sir." His voice was nearly nonexistent, and that did hurt Jim, but he couldn't think about that right now. He had to put Khan in a shallow grave.

Sulu tracked him down, immediately seeing Khan drop from the ship. "Whoa!" Sulu gasped before leaning closer to make sure he was reading the information right. "He just jumped thirty meters!"

Jim's eyes continued to scan the screen, but this time quicker. "Can we beam him up?" His voice was hoarser as he spoke, but everyone on the bridge understood perfectly.

Chekov sighed before speaking, really wishing there was something he could do about this. "There's too much damage. I have no incoming signal." Uhura and Spock then came onto the bridge, hand in hand, knowing they needed to get back to their duty no matter how hard that would be for them. "But it may be possible to beam you down, sir."

Jim turned around quickly, knowing this would be perfect. This way, he would assure that Khan would be dead by his hands. He nodded before turning around. Immediately standing in front of him was Scotty, Spock, and Uhura. Scotty was just shaking his head at him, his eyes wide with fear at what was going to happen. "Jim," His voice was wavering as he stared him down, trying to get him to understand that this was wrong. "Nothing good can come from this."

Spock, he was tied in the middle. He knew Scotty was right, but he loved the thought of Khan paying for what he did to Luna. Spock looked to Jim, not knowing what to say or where he stood in this moment. That's when Uhura stepped in front of Spock, her gaze intense and ferocious. "Go get him."

Jim's eyes narrowed before nodding and hurrying off of the bridge. Uhura looked back to the two with tears in her eyes. Scotty just shook his head at her. "This isn't going to end well."

Uhura quickly turned to look at him, her eyes holding tears, but now also burning with anger. "What are we supposed to do, Scotty? Just let him get away?!"

Scotty was becoming frantic, not understanding why everyone else didn't get what he was saying. "Khan has beat Jim down multiple times! If he goes out there, Khan is going to kill him!" Uhura straightened up slightly, it finally hitting her what was going to happen. She turned back, and looked where Jim had gone, but it was too late. Chekov was already giving the coordinates. She couldn't stop it. All she could hope for was that the drive of rage was going to be enough to save him in this fight.

When Jim arrived in San Francisco, Khan saw the warm light of the transporter almost instantly. He gulped for a moment when he noticed it was Jim. He was shocked he was alive, and when Jim made eye contact with him, he saw that murderous rage in his eyes. He quickly turned his phaser to kill. Khan wasn't going to stay around any longer for that. He ran off in the other direction as Jim followed him.

Khan was a super human, and he was running fast, but there was no way Jim was going to live with himself if he let him get away. Because of his rage, Khan was leading Jim on a chase through the streets of San Francisco.

In the med bay, Luna's death certificate was being made. Bones took a deep breath while looking at his daughter's still body. Scotty was standing on his left since he was the only one who would be able to pinpoint her time of death. Scotty had the same empty look on his face, seeming to age over ten years in an hour. The usually youthful and goofy man was somber and grief-stricken while he stared at her.

Bones was the same way. Older. His eyes were bloodshot from his tears, and for the first time since he had discovered Luna's body, he wasn't crying. He felt like he cried out all he could, and his grief still wasn't even beginning to be explored. As he stared down at her, he remembered back to when she was a small child, and he was the one who protected her from the world's dangers. As she grew up, she could handle herself more, and found other people along the way that could help in her protection, but this was something no one could have stopped. She was going to save this crew no matter what happened to her. As he stood there, he wished he could have raised her to be selfish. A selfish person wouldn't have run into the warp core. She would be alive. That's all he wanted. As he began to think of all the things he could have done to change this outcome, he felt a few tears roll down his cheeks.

Carol was leaning on her crutches close behind him, wanting to be there for him, but knowing how. This was the worst grief a person could experience. She didn't know how to begin to be there for someone going through this.

Bones moved to his desk as Carol watched him walk off. She turned to Luna, taking a deep breath. Her face was so still, and she was so pale. This was so opposite of her usual demeaner. To see someone who felt so much express nothing was an odd experience. Death covered her, and everyone was just staring at her body. Luna would have hated having so much attention on her if she was alive.

When Bones sat down, he felt that draining, numb feeling again. With a deep breath, he placed his hands over his eyes, not wanting anyone else to see his tears. He turned his head, and sitting on his desk was the death certificate, awaiting the physician's signature. Himself. He didn't think he could do it. To put a rest to what was left of Luna's official death sent shivers down his spine as well as an additional wave of grief.

He continued to stare at the certificate when he heard cooing from nearby. When he looked up, he noticed the creature he had injected with Khan's blood. It was no longer dead, but…moving. Alive. That's when Bones thought of an idea. It might have been crazy, but he'd rather give his daughter another chance at life than not try it at all. Bones stood up to look at his monitor, taking deep breaths. He was either filled with hope or madness, but he wasn't going to waste his time trying to figure out what it was. "Get me a cryo tube! NOW!"

Khan had jumped onto an ascending aircraft, and with an angry growl, Jim jumped, just barely making it. Once Jim had made it to the top of the aircraft, Khan kicked the gun out of his hands. Sure, that made Jim's task harder, but maybe it would be more satisfying to take Khan's life with his own hands.

The two began fighting. Khan was strong, but Jim's insatiable rage was making the two fair opponents. He remembered back to when he was sent off the Enterprise a year ago. Spock had taken him down with one move. He repeated that move, sending Khan to his knees in pain before breaking out of it and punching him to the ground.

Once a nurse came to Bones with a cryo tube, he turned to him with a wild look in his eye. "Get this guy out of the cryo tube." He paused, knowing they still had to keep the original owner of the cryo tube alive. "Keep him in an induced coma." He moved to Luna, injecting her in the neck with a freezing antigen. "We're gonna put Luna inside. It's our only chance to preserve her brain function."

Carol crutched to Bones, knowing she had to help in any way she could. "How much of Khan's blood is left?"

Bones sighed as his eyes scanned the room to find the nearest intercom. "None." He moved to the intercom, quickly typing in Jim's code. "Enterprise to Kirk!" There was no response, panicking Bones. "Jim!"

Jim couldn't pay attention to any page. He couldn't call them back until he killed Khan. Jim grabbed Khan by the skull, squeezing just as he did to Admiral Marcus. "You killed her." Jim growled out. Khan was beginning to feel intense pain before kneeing Jim in the gut.

Jim fell to the ground, wincing in pain before Khan jumped onto another aircraft. Jim quickly jumped onto the aircraft as well. In that moment, blood fell into his mouth from a cut on his cheek that he couldn't feel. His adrenaline was too strong to notice it. Once he steadied himself to stand, Khan kicked him in the face.

Khan continued to deliver blows to the face and gut even when Jim tried to stand up to fight. Since the first time he started this fight, Jim was beginning to feel helpless.

Bones had placed Luna's body in the cryotube extremely careful as if anything could do more damage to her. He looked down at her again, taking a deep sigh and pressing a hard kiss to her temple. This had to work. This just had to work.

He quickly shut the cryotube before turning to Carol. "Activate the cryogenic sequence."

She quickly did as he said as Bones ran back to the intercom. "McCoy to bridge! I can't reach Jim. I need Khan alive." Bones took a deep breath, wanting Khan dead as much as Jim, but they needed to save Luna. "You get that son of a bitch back on board!" He took a deep breath, really hoping this would work. "I think he can save my daughter."

On the bridge, Spock turned to Chekov with an awakened hope in his eyes. "Can we beam them up to the ship?"

Sulu just looked down at his board, shaking his head before turning to look at Chekov. "They keep moving! I can't get a lock on either of them."

Uhura began to feel this guilt from urging Jim to go, but maybe she would be able to fix this. "Can you beam someone down?" Spock turned to his girlfriend with wide eyes, hoping – for her safety – they weren't thinking of the same thing.

Jim was getting his skull crushed by Khan. Jim tried to fight him off, but his vision was starting to get blurry. He thought he was imagining it when Uhura beamed down right behind Khan.

Khan got off of Jim as Uhura shot him with her phaser on stun, having to shoot multiple times just to slow him down. Jim looked down, finding part of the aircraft he could use on Khan. He ripped it off, and ran to Khan, slamming him in the head with it then broke his arm.

Uhura didn't know what to do. "KIRK!" She screamed, but Jim was still overcome with rage, and the want to kill Khan. Jim quickly flipped Khan down on his back before beginning to deliver punch after punch into his face.

Every single punch he delivered, flashes of Luna appeared in his head. He remembered her smile when they first met. He remembered how close they were when she buckled his seatbelt on the shuttle taking them from Iowa to San Francisco. He thought of her face, only lit by the moonlight when they shared their first kiss as the waves crashed into the rocks below them. He thought of how beautiful she looked when she came back from vacation with Uhura. He remembered her pregnant belly. He remembered holding her while she slept and let out soft snores. He remembered her crying. Her touch. Her laugh. Her still, pale face.

"He's our only chance to save Luna!"

Jim looked up. He was deaf to her pleas earlier, but that sentence woke something up in him. He slowly looked back down to Khan. He then felt someone grab his right arm. He turned to look, and it was Luna. Her hair was still mangled like the last time he saw her, and her command dress had a slight tear on the shoulder, but it was Luna. She let out a terrified breath before looking to Khan and then back to Jim. "Save me by sparing him."

Jim then looked back down to Khan, sending one final punch into his face to knock him out. When he turned back to where Luna had stood, she was gone. He then looked back up to Uhura, just nodding. A small smile then spread across his lips. He was going to see Luna again.

Luna took a deep gasp of air as if her lungs hadn't been filled in weeks. The sensation was almost too much making her begin to cough. "Don't be so melodramatic." Luna turned at the sound of her father's voice. She had to sit there for a moment, letting her thoughts run through her head, trying to make sense of everything that happened. "You were barely dead."

She began to think of her dreams. At least…she thought they were dreams. She was dead. For all she knew, she was in some sort of afterlife. "We were leaving Georgia." She whispered in thought as she tried to sit up. "And we stopped at that shop." She looked up at her father who was giving her a worrisome look at that random memory. "I got the blackberry tea, and you got the peach, but on the drive to Iowa, I drank all of your tea."

Bones sighed, giving her a slight eyeroll. "Well, I told you, you would like the peach tea better."

Luna couldn't help this smile on her face. She was going to take the grumpy old man's scolding because she thought she wouldn't be able to hear that again. She thought she wouldn't be able to hear anything again. Her smile then slowly faded, thinking of what her life had been like since she closed her eyes in the decontamination booth. "And I dreamed about the night I first met Jim."

There was more silence until Bones finally interrupted her thoughts. "Darling," She looked back up at him, her face focused. "We left Georgia when you were seven, how could you possibly remember that so specifically?"

She opened her mouth, but an answer failed her. How could she answer that? She decided to ask a question instead, remembering she kind of had no idea what the hell was going on. "What all happened after the decontamination booth?" Bones took a deep breath before looking away from her. She knew that look. He was avoiding it. "Dad," He looked to her, remembering what it was like to see those big brown eyes completely lifeless. He didn't want to think about that day ever again let alone retell it. "Please, I have to know."

Bones took a deep sigh before moving even closer to the side of her bed, looking down at her hair before speaking. "After you…died, Jim tracked down Khan." Luna straightened up a little more, making Bones look back to her, knowing she was now worried about Jim. "Once he caught him, I synthesized a serum from his blood and we began the transfusion to bring you back." Bones decided not to tell her the difficulties when bringing her back, or how many times she flat lined. He didn't want to talk about it, and decided she didn't need to know about it.

Luna looked around for a moment, still not getting the answer she wanted from him. "Jim's all right though, right?"

"Yeah," Bones spoke, side stepping out the way so she could see him fast asleep in his chair. Luna let out a little laugh, loving his sleeping face. The last time she saw him, he was in such agony, she loved seeing him so peaceful. "He wouldn't sleep, though. He rendered himself emotionally compromised during the whole two weeks you were out. Spock's been running the place and it's been…interesting." Luna gave him a little eyeroll, but she quickly turned back to Jim. Bones looked back to him as well, but he didn't look as amazed as Luna. "So, I gave him a sedative, so he could go to sleep."

Luna's head snapped back to her father, her face of wonderment replaced with shock. "Dad!" Luna complained, loud enough, she was surprised that didn't wake Jim up. How big of a sedative was in his system? She just couldn't get over the fact that her father actually drugged her boyfriend.

"What?" Bones asked as if he was the most innocent person in the room. Luna simply threw her hand in Jim's direction as a response. "He was getting in the way!"

Luna just gave him a smile. She was sure that if she hadn't just died, she would at least have a comeback or sarcastic comment. Not today, though. She was feeling too grateful for that. She looked back to Jim, that little smile coming on her face again. She wished he could stay that peaceful. "Can you wake him up?"

Bones gave her that half grin she had practically grown up on before turning around to Jim, looking at how knocked out he was. He thought for a moment before deciding to just kick him in the leg. Luna gave her father a disappointed glance while Jim jolted up, his eyes still tired. "What happened? Who died?"

After Jim rubbed his eyes, they settled to see Luna, awake, still in her hospital bed. He got up in an instant, hurrying to her side, automatically placing his hands on the sides of her face. Light tears were filling his eyes as all he could do was look at her. He pulled her face in, their noses touching as both of their smiles were past their ears. Their lips were almost touching, and just as they were about to connect, Bones had to go and ruin the moment. "Hey!" As they slightly pulled apart, Luna's face was irritated while Jim's was whimsical. "No kissing! She just got a three-hundred-year old's blood injected in her and was unconscious for two weeks, kissing is off the table, she could exhaust herself!"

Jim laughed, his forehead falling into Luna's, afraid that something like this was never going to happen between the three of them again. "Dad," Luna complained. "I'm an adult, and I was just dead! Let me kiss my boyfriend!"

"Yeah." Bones spoke, stepping directly behind Jim. "Well, your boyfriend is lucky that the blood worked or else he would be joining you."

Jim rolled his eyes as Luna just smiled to Jim. Really, they both loved this family dynamic. It was something all three missed for the past two weeks. Although, Luna really wanted Jim in that moment. And just Jim. "Hey, Dad, can we have the room?"

Bones rolled his eyes as dramatically as possible while Luna simply threw her hands in the air while looking at Jim. He was so ridiculous. She was taken back to her first boyfriend when she was sixteen. Her father seemed worse now than back then. "Well, you know, Uhura and I had something to do with saving you too." He grumbled some more before agreeing to leave.

When the door shut, Luna and Jim both turned to each other, Jim studying every inch on her face as if any moment could be their last. Luna was smiling at him, a thought running through her head. "You said, 'I love you' first."

"And I will say it first again, no matter what life or alternate reality we're in, I will always say it first."

Luna looked at him, completely swept away with every word. "Wow," she almost scoffed. "I should die more often."

Jim's face went straight as Luna laughed at her own joke before falling into his chest. Jim couldn't help but eventually laugh. "That's not funny, I'm emotionally scarred."

"Oh," Luna spoke while picking her head up. She was patronizing him, but she had to laugh through it. Especially at the look of how helpless he was. "Are you going to be using that for the rest of our lives?"

"Maybe." Jim laughed out. "At least for this whole month."

She fell into his chest again, Jim leaning down so he could give her a kiss on the top of her head. He could stay like this forever. Luna looked up at him, taking a deep breath, Jim never getting tired of looking at those shinning eyes. "I think it's my turn, though." Jim turned his head to the side, not sure what she was getting at. "I love you."

Jim moved his palm to her cheek, looking her in the eye while stroking her cheekbone with his thumb. He could look at her simply breathing all day. With loving eyes, he whispered, "I love you."

Then, despite her father's orders, they leaned in to give each other a deep kiss.

Purplestan: It was very sad, but it was low key really fun to write. Thanks for the review!

MisfitCarter: Ugh, I know. My own heart broke when I wrote "no". Lmao I'm sorry I'm a terrible person, and you know you love me :P That had to be my favorite chapter in this story even though it broke hearts.

Alright guys, we have one more chapter left after this one! I hope you all enjoyed, and I hope there are no more broken hearts from this lol. I hope you all enjoyed, and remember to review!