Finally the others got on the ship and we set sail for my home world. I was looking around the bridge and getting a little to close to people.
"Ekibe tell me something." Blonde said while he sat in his captain's chair.
"What do you want to know Captain?" I asked and turned to look at him. I realized that I was wearing regular clothes for Arcadians but not for the Starfleet crew.
"What's up with the outfits?" He asked me staring at my barely held back breasts.
"This is what all Arcadians wear." I stated simply and looked down. It was basically a tube top made of animal fur, my stomach was there for all to see and I was wearing some animal skin booty shorts and some thigh high leather boots.
"And the men they wear basically what Baste wears?" Chekov asked me blushing a little. Baste basically wears a leather lion cloth, leather boots, bracers and sometimes a vest.
"Yes that outfit is normal for the males of my kind. But remember my planet also houses many other species. Basically we are the orphanage of the universe. There are children of all kinds living on my home world. So you'll see many different clothes and many different people." I told them and walked around. I stopped for a second in my explanation in front of the Vulcan, for some reason being near him made my mark tingle.
I shook it off and continued my talk and noticed that the woman, who now I know to be Lt. Uhara, was glaring at me. She must have feelings or is in a relationship with the Vulcan. I mentally shrugged and stood near Chekov.
"Any other questions you want to ask before we get to my home world?" I said standing near the young Russian boy.
No one said anything so I just shrugged it off and walked off the bridge. I went to the med area and saw the one called Bones talking to some underlings. I smirked and hopped onto a bed just enjoying the show. He turned to me and glared a little.
"What are you doing here?" He growled at me.
"Nothing much the bridge was boring so I decided to come see what this place was about." I explained and stayed still.
"Are you going to get in the way?" Bones asked.
"Nope I really had no plan on moving from this spot." I said and looked around.
He nodded and went back to work. I just watched people for what felt like hours when I got bored and grabbed a piece of paper and pen and wrote a note to him telling him that I was going to look around the ship.
I walked around for a while until I heard some voices. I stopped around the corner and peaked. It was Spock and Uhara, he looked like he always did but Uhara looked as if she was livid.
"What do you mean you have to stop seeing me?" Uhara growled at Spock.
"I must end this relationship with you Lt. Uhara. It is for the best, I do hope you understand." Spock simply stated as if that was the end of it.
"It's that Arcadian isn't it? You want to be with that slut then go and be with her." Uhara hissed and walked away from Spock. I could see that she had tears in her eyes.
After she was a safe distance away I showed myself to Spock. His face didn't give anything away so I just walked to him so we stood next to each other.
"So you ended it with her for me huh?" I said to him looking out the window into space.
"Yes I did but there is more to it than that." Spock stated.
"You're my mate." I said simply enough to him and blushed a little.
"It would appear that I am. I do not know what the steps are in your culture for accepting mates so you have me at a disadvantage." Spock stated
"Well Arcadians simply touch each other and if the mark has color then we get married and breed. If we are mated to a different culture we do their mating rituals in between our own." I explained and finally faced him.
He nodded and suddenly made a move to me. He placed his hand on my shoulder and turned me around. He then touched the mark on my lower back and saw that the colors not only appeared but glowed from my body.
"Fascinating." Spock said and lightly traced the lines of the mark with his hands.
"Well tell me Spock how do Vulcans mate for life?" I asked him and slowly moved away from him.
"We mind meld, experience ponn far and then we hold a binding ceremony much like your weddings." Spock said simply enough.
I nodded my head and blinked a few times. Even though this was happening so fast it didn't feel as if we were moving too quickly. I mean yeah we are but in our lives we have to get to the point. We don't know when we are going to die tomorrow or if we can have a full an rich life time with our mates.
"I want you to know that we can get married as soon as we get on the planet but we can take things slow. I want to get to know your Commander Spock." I told him and looked him in the eye.
"That would be acceptable Ekibe." Spock stated and kept his hand on my mark.
"We need to tell the girl what would have happened if we found out while we were on my planet." I stated and slowly started to walk away from Spock.
He seemed to be thinking about this, as if there could be a negative outcome to this. He nodded his head slowly and followed me to finding Uhara.
It didn't take long to find her, she was sitting in a hallway near engineering and I could hear her crying. I slowly made my way to her and knelled in front of her.
"Oh why are you here? To rub it in my face?" She hissed through her tears.
"No I wanted to tell you what would have happened if you were still with him and we found out we were mates while you still dated him." I explained gently and sighed heavily.
"Oh what I would be forever banned from your home world?" She said sarcastically.
"No I would have to fight you to the death, then whoever was still alive would get to stay with Spock." I explained and placed my hand on top of hers.
"So you could have easily killed me." Uhara said not getting the point.
"I don't like fighting those who aren't a mark or aren't trained enough for hand to hand combat. It's not fair, an it's really not fair to you when you did nothing wrong. I would forever feel guilt in knowing I found my mate but killed an innocent woman for doing nothing more than loving a man at the wrong time." I explained and Spock touched my shoulder.
Uhara stared at me as if she realized that I didn't really like what was going on either but I was more prepared for this than she was. She looked like she was trying to find a way to be angry with me but realized that the three of us were being put in a situation that in the end regardless of the fact that I do want to be mated, didn't want to be a part of something that ruined love for another.
She hugged me out of nowhere and cried into my shoulder. I held her as she cried, as she realized that I wasn't the enemy, that I was a victim just like her, that I wanted to be her friend if she would let me.
Once our display of emotions were done all three of us stood up and two of us gathered ourselves and made our way to the mess hall. We sat down and we chatted quietly. Trying to get over this rift that we created and just exist without a fight breaking out all the time. Then we heard it.
"Enterprise, welcome to the Assassin planet: Arcadia." Jim said over the speaker.
Time to see the family.