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2

Thursday arrived far sooner than she thought it would and after a long goodbye and good luck hug with Hadrian she went to say goodbye to her captain which was surprising in the least. Captain Valerious had actually frozen when she said she was leaving and her eyes widened briefly. Almost regretfully Naraya bid her good luck and actually told her to visit. Maybe she was on her period. Hmm, ah well she skipped to the teleporter room and after quietly threatening the person behind the controls to get the coordinates exactly right she was a blue beam of light shooting out of her ship which she would remember fondly even with the idiots inside it and reappeared on a sterile new teleporter pad. "Officer Falken I presume." A vulcan in science blues stated, Spock

"Yes, commander Spock. Commander if I may ask where exactly shall I be working if I am to help medbay and the security department during this venture?"

"You have your own office and lab on the same floor as medbay and Officer Sulu's office. I am pleased you read into your job thoroughly."

"Is there a reason not to? It is necessary to do a thorough job is it not?" What kind of people was she working with?

"Ms. Falken the Enterprise is a strong ship but we are not an academy vessel. The crew members prefer to skim the barest details then find out later the other things they need to now. May I inquire as to why your records are sealed and why the Vulcan's have you listed as visiting Vulcan 2.5 years ago and staying for 3 years?"
"Schooling actually my parent's believed it would be beneficial for me to meet others who could help me move ahead in schooling and issue a challenge. Now if I may it is apparent through my reading that other vessels in starfleet are well inclined to violence aboard the ship." Spock paused in his walk and faced her.

"Are there not fights aboard your vessel?"
"Yes, but no rapes or murders it is foolish to waste the blood of your shipmates."

"Officer Falken it might be beneficial for you to brush up on you training and carry a weapon at all times particularly since you are a smaller female. I will escort you to the meals for your first week and offer advice when I can." With that he left her outside of her quarters and her wondering how she was supposed to find her office tomorrow or explain she only required one meal a day. Perhaps if she just ate small amounts she could make it work the bigger problem was what was she supposed to do now G.E's didn't need more than five hours of sleep she had twelve hours till breakfast. Damn.

By three am she had all the sleep she could get by five she was doing upside down sit ups hanging from the door six she was banging her head against the door and six thirty she was showered and dressed in her uniform somehow she got science blues whatever it worked. Oh right weapon hm, she looked around dumping out her knapsack and frowning. Her dagger and twin long knives/half swords. The dagger went up her sleeve and her twin knives inside her waistband on either side the pommel hidden by her shirt. She should ask Spock if she could carry her bow later. At exactly seven a soft knock pulled her away from her musings and brought her to the door. "Good morning Officer Falken."

"Morning Commander Spock." She stepped into the hall making sure to lock her door with the upgraded keypad she installed last night at around four. Spocktastic was watching her seemingly fascinated by the device.

"I see you took the security risk seriously but you don't appear to have any means of protecting yourself."

Nora snorted in amusement her eyes twinkling at him "Of course not that would give it away Commander." He raised a brow but nodded before leading her towards the Cafeteria well this is new and exciting, not. "When will I meet the people I am upgrading things for?"

"When we sit down there is a group of commanding officers that sit together."

"Are you not a practitioner of the Vulcan old ways?" He blinked and she got her answer. "Then I assume this is some kind of test. Do not touch my coffee it will only end badly for you. You are vulcan but I am a computer genius and I am responsible for all the updates now and am more than capable of getting access to your personal files and room Mr. Spock it would be wise to remember that." Her smile added another layer of threat to her words as she brewed a fresh cup of coffee and double checked her food for poison not that it would probably affect her but better safe than sorry.

"Clearly I have underestimated you it won't happen again. Now follow me the Captain will be happy to meet you."

Nora couldn't help it she was a cheeky person "Since I survived you mean?" Spock raised a brow again and kept walking. Grumbling she followed him and hummed in curiosity when they reached the table two seats were open and she followed Spocks motion and sat down. He did tell her to and despite her threat Vulcan's could be pretty damn scary.

"Captain this is Officer Falken. Officer Falken Captain Kirk."
"Captain." She greeted sizing him up. Don't get on his bad side has two separate parts the tough captain persona and the 'softer' family side. In a relationship with Dr. McCoy the sweet hearted doctor and CMO of the ship.

"Falken how old are you?" McCoy asked.

"Seventeen."

McCoy furrowed his brow "You have been an officer for three years."

"Not an officer that was only a year ago." She corrected oh wait that wasn't normal. "The academy recruits younger than starfleet does." He nodded before glancing at her meal and gave her a disapproving look.

"I suppose it is a good thing that you are working with me today. You get a checkup kid."

Nora paused in pushing her food around her plate and grimaced. "Any reason why?"

"Dr. Reach sent me a note to watch your nutritional intake and to make sure to keep you in a padded room with nothing that isn't wrapped in foam and bubble wrap. You are accident prone apparently." Nora chuckled she had enjoyed 's company in medbay and usually her new ideas and pranks ended up with her in medbay one way or another with the sarcastic doctor that manhandled them to her office time and time again.

" Reach is biased and upset because of the raccoon incident." She muttered staring at her coffee suspiciously she had a feeling about it and decided to wait until she could brew her own to drink any.

"Raccoon incident?"

Nora grimaced "Kadie and Julianna's adopted it. It was purely an accident it ended up in medbay." Poor little Rocky Vivian had screamed when she saw it in her supply cabinet then the poor little guy ended up getting literally kicked off the ship at the port they had stopped at. Though he ended up with Hadrian and Nathan another G.E. took him in.

"And the spider?" McCoy asked eyes scanning her.

"Oh that was Charlie the daddy long leg perfectly harmless Commander Herveaux actually ended up keeping him. The only problematic animal we ever actually had was Julianna ended up getting what she thought was a bunny. It wasn't a bunny." She shook her head it had been a fluffy long eared little monster that ended up growing claws and fangs then grew twice as large. "It was overly protective of Julianna and if anybody got within three feet it got rather violent."

"What was it?" She shrugged they never did figure it out they just moved it to her shoulder where it stayed happily and cooed almost tribble like but much scarier. McCoy gave her a stern look "Refrain from bringing animals aboard the ship." He suggested and she nodded she liked this guy. Then she looked at Kirk who was staring at her like he was trying to see inside her soul or something.

Thirty minutes later breakfast came to an end and she had figured a lot out about the crew. Sulu and Chekov were in a relationship and neither wanted to admit how deeply they were actually involved and how much they actually cared about each other. Uhura was far more obsessed with Spock then he was with her by far. Scotty was obviously in love with the ship in an odd way. McCoy had somehow been twisted into being in a relationship with Kirk and had far more feelings for him then he admitted and had always had a spark for him even in the beginning which was probably terrifying the man was a ruthless bastard and McCoy a softhearted non violent doctor. Kirk was head over heels for the doctor and striving to win his affections and love. He wanted to possess McCoy completely and have him forever marriage and all that he wanted to possess McCoy as much as McCoy possessed Kirk. It was actually sweet in a twisted fucked up kind of way.

McCoy and Falken were headed to medbay in a comfortable silence it was time for them to take stock of the equipment he used and if there was already a better newer version out there of if she had to work on it herself. Also he insisted on giving her a full check up mother hen indeed. Ah well maybe he wouldn't be a hypo happy as Reach was.

She was wrong so freaking wrong! As soon as he found her vitals a little off and her nutritional levels low he had a plethora of hypos he was more than happy to use on her. By the end of her check up she could barely turn her head to the right and she was certain it looked like she got attacked by a vampire with one fang. Stupid freaking hypo happy doctor and his stupid medical scanners.

"So onto other pursuits what did you think about the equipment?"

"Most of it works fine I could probably speed them up and make them more sensitive to commands and subtle problems in the human body if that makes sense. Also I can find you more potent knock out drugs and such. Research is my major thing so if you want to know of any stronger or better working meds give me a jingle and I can look it up or something." She paused to take a breath and noticed the look he was giving her. "What? I really like to keep busy as much as possible and be helpful."

"You are a bit of an odd duck Falken but yes I can give you stuff to do if it makes you happy." He patted her head and turned back to his inventory.

Nora paused and eyed the man he seemed to understand how important it was for her to keep busy to always have something to look forward to doing especially at night when she had nothing to do but let the four walls close in on her. "Thanks McCoy." She murmured under her breath giving him pause before he gave her a small smile.

"Just get enough sleep and you will at least find people to talk to if not help watch your back. Falken you are young and not in the same way Chekov is if you ever need help or a place to hide anything like that come find me. Kirk won't mind after he gets to know you." Nora nodded but puzzled over his words. How was Chekov not young in the same way she was he was the same age was there some other way he was her age.

Still puzzling over the doctor she made her way to her office and only her reflexes saved her from having a knife embedded in her chest and instead it struck her forearm and imbedded itself there.

SO that is chapter two let me know what you think. Also who do you think Nora should end up with. McCoy and Kirk will not be available for that pairing they are happy together.