Both Jim and Luna sat across from each other, staring at each other nervously when Bones came into the dining room with chicken fried steak, so fresh they could still hear the sizzling. He hadn't mentioned their relationship since they left the Enterprise, and they didn't dare bring it back up or be near each other for too long. "Thanks, Dad." Luna muttered, grabbing the first steak.

"Thanks, Bones." Jim muttered before grabbing his steak, trying his hardest to avoid eye contact with the both of them.

Then it was Bones turn to grab his steak. "You're welcome."

The three sat there, feeling the awkwardness stick to the walls with the sound of just their forks hitting the plates. Jim and Luna finally shared a worried look before looking back down at their plates, finding just that look to be too much. "It's good, Bones." Jim finally spoke, having to break the silence somehow.

"Yeah," Luna agreed while looking to her father, but he didn't look up. "Really good." She whispered before looking back down at her plate.

"Thanks."

There was silence again. Jim finally just shook his head before putting down his fork, deciding to bring it up. How bad would all of it really turn out? "This is weird, isn't it?"

"Yes." Luna spoke immediately while dropping her fork and picking her head up.

Bones sighed, following their example of dropping the fork. "What do we even talk about now?"

Luna furrowed her eyebrows, looking to Jim with confusion before looking back to her father. "Jim and I have dated when we all lived together before."

Bones looked at her for a moment, and then looked to Jim. "What are you talking about?"

"What are you talking about?" Luna asked as she leaned in to get a better look at her father's face.

"I'm talking about how we're all high ranks on the Enterprise, and that we're all in an alternate reality, and were almost sucked into a black hole." Both Jim and Luna let out relieved sighs, Jim putting his face in his hands while Luna put a hand over her pounding heart. "What the hell did you two think I was talking about?"

"Do you not remember," Jim muttered before taking his face out of his hands and giving Bones an irritated look. "on the Enterprise when Luna and I kissed and you said you were going to 'kill us, both of us'?"

"Oh," he spoke while waving a hand at Jim. "I don't really care about that anymore."

"Oh, my god!" Luna exclaimed to him, finding all of her stress release in that moment. "You have to be more specific when you don't talk for hours after saying you're going to kill the both of us!"

Bones looked her over for a minute before shaking his head at her. "You're fine." He then turned to look at Jim, Luna looking to Jim while throwing her hands in the air. "Are you two not freaking out, though? Our lives could have been completely different if Nero had stayed in his own time."

Jim turned to look at Luna as she slowly turned to look at him. Jim got a glimpse of what their future was like together without Nero, Luna didn't. So, when Bones brought up that little fact, Jim began to get worried. What if it had all really changed? What if they didn't get married or have two kids now? What if they weren't even supposed to meet in the academy? Maybe that's why they had a… Jim didn't even want to think about it. Nero had already taken so much from him that he didn't know he had, he didn't want to think about what he took away from him that he was supposed to have.

"I wouldn't think about it too much." Luna spoke while shaking her head, tearing Jim out of his thoughts. "We'll never know what our lives were like in that universe. So, why waste time trying to imagine or fix it?"

She ended her gaze on Jim, but when she looked at his terrified face, she moved her foot to his leg, rubbing his shin gently. He looked up at her, giving her a weak smile, but in all honesty, he was scared. Scared about how much the future was going to change for the two. Scared for their relationship. Scared for their lives. But the way she was looking at him, it made him feel just a little bit better.

"Yeah." Jim chuckled out while giving her a little smile. Maybe he shouldn't worry about the future so much. Maybe he should just focus on the present. After all, Luna was in the present. And what more did he need? "You're probably right."

Luna gave him a large smile before shoving a piece of the chicken fried steak in her mouth. Bones simply rolled his eyes at the two. They were already making him nauseous. "Maybe I should revisit that threat." Both Jim and Luna rolled their eyes.


Luna opened up the door to her bedroom as Jim leaned even further into her lips. Once the door was shut, Luna placed her hands on his face while tilting her head back as Jim shoved his tongue in and out of her mouth. Once they reached her bed, Luna pulled him on top of her, making Jim smile that devious smile, but refusing to break from her lips.

Jim was unbuttoning Luna's top while she was working on his pants, but a thought quickly came to her mind. "Jim," she whispered, stopping what she was doing, pulling Jim out of his focus on the buttons as well. There wasn't much light, but the moon was angled just enough for his baby blue eyes, and her almond brown to be visible to the other. They were both mesmerized, and Luna wanted to say it. "Jim," she began again. Jim knew what she wanted to say. It was burning on his lips too. "I lo – "

"Don't say it." He whispered to her. Luna had to blink. Why wouldn't he let her say it? She began to get nervous, going back to that insecure girl she once was. Jim then got a little smile on his face, not wanting her to be worried. "We have our whole lives to say it."

Luna offered him a little smile, but she was worried. She didn't know what Jim knew. To Jim, they had all the time in the world to reestablish this relationship, but Luna didn't know when either of their time on earth was done. She would rather get it out right now so if anything happened tomorrow, she would die knowing she said it, and they each felt it just like they did on the first day they met. But she was going to go along with Jim…for now. "Fine." She whispered to him.

He pushed his head into hers, his voice coming out raspy while working on her buttons again. "Fine." He then put a passionate kiss on her lips, finding everything they needed to say was in that kiss.


Scotty pulled out another picture on his PADD, both Luna and Chekov giving him confused, blank faces. "What is this?" Chekov and Luna shared a quick look before looking back to Scotty. They had to say something. "Oh, come on!" They each tried to avoid eye contact with him. "We went over it three times!"

"The," Luna began, not quite sure what to say, but Scotty was looking at her expectantly. "The, you know…doodad."

"It is a valve transfer function, you idiots."

Luna turned to look at Chekov with a hurt look on her face. "I don't like this anymore."

"Neither do I." Chekov whispered so just Luna would be able to hear it.

"Luna!" Luna perked up at the sound of Jim's voice as he hurried into the room.

"Oh, thank god." She whispered while standing up, not really wanting to be in this room anymore. "Yeah, babe?"

He didn't say another word, he just leaned in and kissed her. Luna wasn't going to complain, but this is not what she expected from getting picked up from an engineering lesson. When he pulled apart, Luna had to hold onto his shirt so she wouldn't fall over. "What the hell was that for?" She whispered as Jim began planting kisses all over her face.

"You'll never guess what I just found out." He whispered in-between the kisses. She pulled away from him slightly so she could look at his face. He was bouncing up and down almost, and she knew he wasn't going to give her any time to guess. "I'm the official Captain of the USS Enterprise."

Luna's eyes went wide as her jaw dropped. She didn't know what to do or say. She was so proud, she couldn't put it into words. She bit her lip as a smile grew on her face. This all just meant so much to him. He was doing what his father had done, and in a way, it was like he was following in his footsteps. "I knew you could do it." She whispered to him before wrapping her arms around her neck and giving him a large hug.

Scotty and Chekov watched with a small smile on their face. Sure, normally they would be grossed out, but they were just so damn cute. And now, they had probably the coolest captain in all of Starfleet.


The gang was walking into the auditorium together, excited talking and whispering spreading through the whole group. Bones and Jim were holding their own conversation of who Jim was going to pick to become is first and second officers, but Luna was trailing the group. She watched them all with a slight smile before taking a deep breath. If she was asked a few months ago, if this dream would ever become a reality she would laugh, but here it was. Right here before her. And she couldn't help, but feel like she was looking outside into a perfect reality. It was like when she was pregnant. It was all so good, but it was ripped from her, and she was terrified this would be ripped from her too.

"Well," Scotty spoke as he approached her, not wanting to talk to loudly and scare her out of her daze. "I think I'm a shoo-in to become Lieutenant Commander of Engineering."

Luna chuckled a little bit before looking back to her friends who were still talking excitedly. "I think you already got the job, Scotty."

"Yeah," he spoke before shrugging and looking off at them along with Luna. "Look, I know I've only known you for a few days, but I can tell something is bothering you. So, spit it out?"

Luna bit her lip in thought, not realizing she was being that obvious. This was probably the best thing that had happened to her in a long time, but she couldn't help but think of something weighing her down. "Sometimes, I look at everything that's going on, and I just think it's too good to be true." She turned to look at Scotty, still chewing on her lip in thought. "Is that crazy?"

Scotty scoffed before shaking his head. "After everything we've been through, I think that's the least crazy thing out of all of this." Scotty turned his whole body so he could face her, looking her right in the eye before she could take a deep breath. "Luna, you have to remind yourself that despite what's happened over the past few days, everything is going to be fine. You and Jim will be fine. The Enterprise will be fine. You will be fine."

"Everything's different now, though. It's…been different since the moment Jim was born."

Scotty gave her a smile before clapping her shoulder. "You know what's the best part of that?" She gave him a shrug, not really sure what he was talking about. "You don't even know what your life was like before that so you won't know what you're missing." Luna's face went straight while Scotty panicked after he thought of how he phrased that. "Alright, that sounded way better in my head."

Luna began to smile. She had known Scotty for such a short amount of time, but she already knew he was going to be her new best friend. "Come, on, let's watch Jim get handed the Enterprise." She told him before looping her arm through his and guiding him to the seats they had always sat at during the long, draining meetings. She had actually never been more excited to come to one of these before.

When they found their spots, Luna looked around, realizing how big their circle had grown. Spock was sitting with them. Someone she thought would never be here to support Jim. Chekov, the Russian wiz kid she tried to offer middle seat to months ago without even properly meeting him. It would have been a good choice, though. Uhura was laughing with Spock, and Luna would never say this to either of their faces, but they were really cute together. Sulu had officially joined them, always unsure about whether to sit with them or the rest of the flight students. And they had Scotty now. Most definitely her new best friend.

The biggest thing that was to come out of all of this was the person sitting next to her. She turned to look at him with a wide smile as he grabbed her hand. After everything, they were finally together. She felt like she knew in her heart that this was always going to be the end game, but it was a much different feeling for it to actually happen. Her life was falling perfectly into place. She didn't feel like she was missing anything anymore.

Jim gave her a big smile at her quizzical look before leaning forward to give her a quick kiss. She missed that quick show of affection where her lips puckered up way more than they should. Or when she would taste coffee on his lips after their eight AM classes.

When Jim pulled away from her, his smile was still glowing. "Get ready because in about five minutes you're going to be dating the captain of the USS Enterprise."

"Oh," Luna scoffed. "I'm thrilled. The big headedness is just going to increase." Jim smiled at her, remembering his thought before sleeping with Gaila. It was a dumb thought. Luna would love him whether he was captain or not.

The admirals walked to their spots at the platform in front of the audience while everyone got silent. Luna's grip on Jim's hand tightened a little bit as she looked up at him, giving him a proud smile. She was so happy for him. "This council calls Captain James Tiberius Kirk."

Jim gave Luna's hand a quick squeeze before standing up and making his way down the steps. Bones leaned across Jim's empty seat, giving Luna a little smile. "No matter how much it pains me to say this…" He gave his daughter a wide smile, wanting her to know that even if he was messing with her, he was still so happy for her. "I'm proud of you both."

Luna turned to him, giving him a wide smile, knowing what he was doing. She could have played his teasing game or she could have thanked him, and after everything they had been through recently, he needed to know that she still appreciated him and all the sacrifices he had ever made for her. "Thanks, Dad."

"Your inspirational valor," they both turned back to the front, looking back to Jim with proud smiles. "And supreme dedication to your comrades is in keeping the highest traditions of service." Even if Jim was standing at attention, Luna could tell he was swelling with excitement. "And reflect at most credit to yourself, your crew and the Federation. It is my honor to award you with this commendation." A small smile slipped on Jim's lips at the sight of his medal, and Luna had to put a hand on her mouth, her heart swelled with pride just like Jim's smile. "By Starfleet order 28455, you are hereby directed to report to Admiral Pike USS Enterprise, for duty as his relief." Jim leaned in to shake the Admiral's hand before turning around to the now Admiral Pike.

Pike was still healing, so when Jim walked over to him, he was in a wheelchair, but that didn't change the proud way he looked up at Jim. Jim stood at attention again, ready to get all the formalities over with so he could celebrate with his best friends, and his amazing girlfriend. "I relieve you, sir."

Pike took a moment to smile up at him. Somehow, from the moment he met that scrapper in a tiny, rundown bar in Iowa, he just knew, there was something great about him. "I am relieved."

Jim looked down at him, giving him a smile. "Thank you, sir."

"Congratulations, captain." Pike leaned forward to shake his hand, and Luna was the first person to launch out of her seat and begin applauding. "Your father would be proud of you."

Little did Jim know, while he was shaking Pike's hand, Luna was making her way out of her row, almost falling over people. She apologized as she forced her way out, but they all knew it wasn't quite sincere. Once she was finally out of her row, she hurried down the stairs so when Jim turned around, she threw herself into his arms.

Jim caught her, but she scared the hell out of him. Once she fit perfectly into his arms, though, he couldn't help but smile. Everything in their wildest dreams were coming true, and it all felt so surreal. That's when Jim thought of something, not daring to see the expressions of the other admirals while she was clinging onto him in the middle of an official meeting. "Are you allowed to do this?" Jim whispered.

Luna pulled apart from him slightly so they could look at each other's faces. "You think I'm gonna let them stop me?"

Jim nodded, knowing she had a good point before pushing his lips into hers. It felt just as good as their kiss on the bridge, if not, even better. All of their friends were clapping for them except Bones who stood there with his arms crossed, not totally used to seeing his daughter being kissed so passionately. He let out an angry breath before shaking his head at the two. "These two are going to give me a heart attack."

Scotty moved close to Bones while he continued to clap for them, a dumb smile on his face. "Yeah, but they are cute, right?" Bones simply turned to him, not wanting to hear that at the moment. When Scotty saw his irritated face, his smile was gone and he was looking straight forward again. "Or not. They're not."

Jim and Luna continued to smile into each other before he set her down. He was holding onto her waist, looking into her eyes while Luna placed her hands on his chest, continuing that proud smile. "I am so proud of you, Jim."

"And I'm proud of my gorgeous second officer." Luna's eyes got wide, not expecting that. "That is, if you'll accept."

"Yes! Hell yes!" She almost screamed at him while vigorously nodding. Jim let out a hearty laugh before pulling her in for another hug, his arms wrapping around her shoulders while pulling her close. His crew really was going to be the best of Starfleet.


On the bridge, Luna turned around in her middle seat to give Jim an excited smile as he walked in. "Thrusters on full."

"Firing thrusters and impulse engines at your command, sir." Sulu spoke as he got the helm ready.

Both Luna and Sulu turned to look at Chekov, knowing he was next. "Weapon systems and shields on standby." He turned to give Jim a smile as well.

Uhura turned around in her seat as well, never believing she would use this sentence directed at Jim. At the same time, she couldn't picture the Enterprise having any other captain. "Dock control reports ready, captain."

Jim looked around the bridge, never wanting to change anyone in this crew out. His eyes then fixated on Bones, noticing him standing off to the side away from everyone. "Bones." He turned around to look at him, wishing there was a way he could do this job from earth. "Buckle up."

Bones rolled his eyes at him while Jim moved to his seat, hitting the intercom button, knowing he still needed the report from engineering. "Scotty, how we doin'?"

Scotty looked around at the whole engineering deck with a big smile on his face. "Dilithium chambers at maximum, captain." Well, the smile was on his face until he noticed where Keenser was. "Get down!"

Keenser looked down at him from the top desk before shaking his head at him.

Jim smiled before looking back to the bridge, giving Luna a large smile. "Miss. McCoy, prepare to engage thrusters." She nodded to him, prepared to perform the command she was given until the elevator doors opened. Everyone turned to see Spock walking in. Luna hated that a smile came to her face at the sight of him. She couldn't believe she would actually call Spock a…friend. It made her sick.

"Permission to come aboard, captain." Spock finally spoke.

Jim gave him a huge smile. Sure, he was thinking the same thing as Luna, but he knew that the three of them would be a great team. "Permission granted."

Spock walked onto the bridge, and Uhura watched him as he did with excitement. "As you have yet to select a first officer, respectfully I would like to submit my candidacy." Jim stood up as Spock continued to walk towards him, that smile still on his face. "Should you desire I can provide character references."

"It would be my honor, commander."

Spock turned to look at Luna who was giving him a little smile. "Welcome aboard, Vulcan." He smiled back at her before moving to his seat. God, Luna thought, she was going to be calling Spock one of her best friends.

Jim gave her a little chuckle, only imagining what was going through her head right now. "Maneuvering thrusters, Miss. McCoy."

Luna turned to the helm, but Sulu was already one step ahead of her. "Thrusters on standby." He reported. Luna raised her eyebrow impressed with him which led to him giving her a casual shrug.

"Take us out."

Luna looked at her helm, taking one big smile before continuing with her command. "Aye, aye, captain." God, she loved her job.


SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. HER ONGOING MISSION: TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORLDS, TO SEEK OUT NEW LIFE FORMS AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS. TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE.


ImsebastianstanButter: I've been so sad writing this chapter since it's over. I get sad ending any story, and I want to thank you for staying with me from the beginning and always reviewing. You're awesome!

Sparkles of Youthfulness: I totally understand where you're coming from. This is my fanfiction, though and my imagination. I totally understand if you think the dynamics are too mixed up to read, but I think I have a good mix of the new and old with Jim and Bones's relationship and the story as a whole.

rebootfan: Oh god! Bones would kill himself if he had to deal with the both of them as children! Like I could just see it right now! Bones will always have the amazing lines and I'm honestly okay with that. Although, Luna definitely gets her sarcasm from him. Yes! Every time I watch this movie I feel like Jim is my child and I'm watching him turn into a man. I'm so glad you liked this story, and thank you so much for reading! I hope to see you on the next one!

Howling2themoon: Thank you! I hope you liked the conclusion!

Guest: Hello, I am here to answer your questions! The way I've always looked at Lieutenant Commanders was like assistant managers or team leaders. They're in charge of a certain section of the ship. Middle seat basically takes the manager spot of flight, weapons and navigation. Does that make sense? She just makes sure everything goes smoothly and has main control of that area of the ship. And yes, you jumped the gun! I've been wanting to make her second officer from like the moment I started writing this! And also, the way her, Jim and Spock did things as a team was my little hint to her becoming second officer. The whole "clever when I was six" thing was just to set up their relationship. They're going to have a lot more best friend moments. When the thought first came in my head, I thought they would be good friends by the way they both act. They're both have child like excitement and joke with people, so I just thought they would be perfect friends! It's no problem you have questions, that's what I'm here for! Sometimes I get caught up in my own thoughts, things start to make sense to only me! So, thank you for asking those questions and allowing me to clear stuff up for you! I love Christoper for the baby name! I want to thank you for all the compliments you have given me while reading! They really do mean a lot! I hope to see you on the next one!

Love. Fiction. 2017: I'm so glad you loved it, I hope you like this last chapter!

MisfitCarter: It's fine that it took you long to review! It took me long to get this up! What takes me only a couple hours to edit this chapter, took DAYS! Every time I sat down to get it down, something came up! I love writing the father/daughter moments! I WISH BONES WAS MY DAD TOO! I've also thought about writing comedy next so every time you tell me that I make you giggle it inspires me a little more to start writing that one fanfic in the back of my mind! Anyways, thanks for always being an awesome support! I can't wait for you to read the next story, but as I've said before it's going to take some time since I have to get back to my Marvel fanfic for a while! But I hope the wait will be worth your while! Thank you for being one of my favorite readers!

This took so much longer than I thought it would to get this to you guys. Every time I sat down to write it out I got busy, and I've also been at either work or school (sometimes both) and making product every single day! I'm so exhausted, but if I don't think about it, it's not too bad. Anyways, I hope you guys liked the last chapter! I'm going to my Marvel fanfic for a while, but I will post an announcement chapter in this story telling y'all when the next story will be up! See you guys not so soon, but not too far away! Thank you all for reading this story, and giving your support! It means the world to me! Goodbye for now, Trekies!