Who Kirk Really Is

by Starsinger

AlbusSPotter again, this is the Academy hurt fic, I refuse to do allergic reaction, mostly because I think it's been done enough. Let's try something else. Oh, it can be well done, and I've really enjoyed some fics with his being allergic to everything, but McCoy hadn't known Kirk had been allergic to ANYTHING until ST 2009, or he wouldn't have injected him with that vaccine, just saying. I was tempted to name this, "Let's try to kill Kirk again before Khan has a chance" but the title's too long. During their second year, Uhura discovers something about Kirk that she never expected.

Uhura and a bunch of cadets celebrated finishing mid-terms like most did, they went off to a bar and had a drinks. Uhura managed to drag Jim along, just for the fun of it. He was actually a good dancer. Jim sighed as he looked around the bar, Uhura realized his heart really wasn't in it tonight.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Uhura asked.

"McCoy is working tonight at the Fleet hospital, and it's Joanna's third birthday, he's kinda bummed. And when he's kinda bummed, I get an earful. Being his roommate isn't the easiest thing in the universe sometimes. I know, I know, I can be a pain in the ass too, don't need to drag that one out of me." Kirk grinned at her, a glass of bourbon cupped in his hand on the bar in front of him.

"Who's Joanna?" Uhura frowned.

Jim reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his wallet, he showed her a picture of a cute little girl with grey eyes. "She's beautiful! She's not yours?"

"No, she's McCoy's. She was born right before Jocelyn, Bones' ex-wife, divorced him," Kirk sighed. "It was the main reason he joined Starfleet." Uhura nodded, he hadn't been the most cooperative person on the shuttle ride to San Francisco. "Hey, Cupcake!" the man turned around, "I'm headed back to the Academy. I'm just not in the mood." The other man nodded before turning his attention back to a young woman who seemed to be enjoying his attentions. It was standard operating procedures, the cadets let each other know when they were leaving someplace like this, in case they never made it back to the Academy. Kirk paid the bartender and headed out.

Jim was considering going over to the hospital to keep Bones company when he heard the scream from the alleyway. "I said NO! Leave me alone! Somebody help me please!" a woman's voice pleaded.

Kirk stopped as he heard a man's voice answer, "You know you want this. Dressed like that, you're just begging for it. Kirk didn't think about it twice, he ran for the alleyway. There, a man had an attractive girl, no more than sixteen, pinned up against a wall. His hand was up under her skirt and half her blouse was ripped away.

"Hey, the lady said no," Kirk said slowly, insolently. The man turned around, the girl took advantage of it to flee toward Kirk dodging the man's friends as the lunged toward her. Kirk never took his eyes off the men as he handed her his jacket to cover herself up with. "Go into the bar and tell a woman named Uhura what's going on here, she'll do the rest."

The girl fled toward the nearby bar, Jim's jacket wrapped around her. She burst in trying to find this woman named Uhura. When Uhura finally arrived she told her that she'd been attacked and that a man came to her rescue, and he was still back in that alleyway with those thugs. Cupcake and his friends ogled the girl as Uhura opened the jacket to reveal cuts, bruises, abrasions, and the torn blouse. No more words were needed as they bolted for the door. Uhura called for reinforcements as she too ran for the door, the bartender right behind her. They reached the alleyway in time to find Cupcake and friends finishing up the fight, but Jim lay on the ground. A large blood stain was forming on his back.

"Uhura to medical! We need a team down to the alleyway by Cayman's bar Stat! We have a cadet down!" she turned and instructed the girl to wait at the entrance for the arrival of Starfleet Security. Cupcake came over, breathing heavily.

"When we entered the alley one of them had him around the neck. I saw what I thought was a blade and Kirk went down. We waded in at that point, no one takes advantage of a girl on our watch."

Uhura understood that, "May I have one of your shirts?" she asked politely. One of them ripped off the shirt of one of the offenders and handed it to her. She lifted up Jim's shirt and found a bloody mess. She pressed the shirt against the wound, hoping to stem the tide of the blood before it was too late.

"Here! We're here!" she heard the girl's voice calling someone before more people joined them. Uhura gave security a quick summation of what happened before they hauled the attackers away.

"Hey, we didn't do nothin' wrong. Just having a bit of fun before HE showed up!" Uhura wanted to hit the man.

An EMT quickly assessed Kirk's condition as another talked to the girl. Her name was Lisa, and she was going home from a party when she was attacked. No she wasn't raped but would submit to an examination. Uhura followed the paramedics as they loaded Jim into the ambulance. "He's lost a lot of blood, I don't know how he'll do, we're getting him back to the hospital, ASAP."

It was McCoy who took the call of the wounded cadet coming in, and McCoy who saw Kirk lying on his stomach on the stretcher. "Dammit Jim, what'd you do this time?" McCoy muttered as he looked at the wound. His lips stretched thin. "Let's prep him for surgery," he announced as they moved from the ER into the rest of the hospital.

Uhura sat in the waiting room, Christopher Pike, and, surprisingly enough, Lisa Hayes, the girl Kirk rescued from the alleyway. Her father was Admiral Hayes, and he was coming over to pick her up later. She was somewhat a genius herself, she was now in college at the age of sixteen. Uhura had given her one of her shirts to wear so she gave up Jim's jacket to Pike as they waited. Pike wasn't surprised by Jim's actions, just said something about his childhood giving him strong opinions about what women should and should not be subjected to.

Admiral Hayes joined his daughter waiting. Cupcake and his friends came around to see how things were going, Uhura promised to tell them when she returned to the dorms. They nodded as they left. Finally, McCoy emerged from surgery to find them waiting. "He's in critical condition, Chris. The knife was serrated, it made a mess going in and an even bigger one coming out. I think Cupcake's arrival was the only thing that kept Jim from being stabbed more than once. I think Jim will be fine, I don't know. We'll keep you posted."

McCoy turned and left as Jim came out of surgery, he was on a ventilator. It was as scary a sight as Uhura had ever seen. This whole night had caused her to reevaluate everything she knew about one James T Kirk. She only hoped that he lived so she could tell him.