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"McCoy.. Captain what are you two doing here?" She hesitated eyes flicking to her knife.

"Relax Nora Jim won't kill you with me right here. If Pike put you under his protection that also means you automatically are put under Kirk's and to a much lesser extent mine." Nora must have made a face because McCoy added. "You would be surprised how few people want to mess with medbay."

Sometimes Bone's reminded her of a kitten a cute fluffy little kitten that people forgot had claws if pushed. "Falken how did you get his protection?"

"It wasn't really his idea just a precaution since I am technically still academy. They were worried about the number of id.. people attempting to attack me." Kirk saw Pike as a Fatherly figure any jealousy he harbored could be dangerous for her. He doesn't want to feel he has to compete with someone else for affections. Bone's only saw Pike as a semi sociopath and a person not to be crossed he wouldn't present a problem in the situation but would take Kirk's side ultimately even if he tried to talk sense into him. Dangerous territory to be in at the moment. Make it look like Pike didn't want to offer the protection diffuse the situation giving Kirk a sense of security and satisfaction beware of any backlash and he would be watching her much more carefully along with the rest of the command crew curious as to why Pike offered her of all people protection without seemingly wanting anything in return. Of course only Nora knew he expected her to back him up within Starfleet and to watch his back he was playing the pack mentality that all G.E's shared. Anna suspected it was somehow engineered in or taught at subtly at a young age and reinforced as the year's passed only to become cemented when so many died so quickly. In a way they were the most endangered species now. Only ten survivors and three of those were men. "Falken what are you?" Nora paused and furrowed her brows even as her heart thrummed in fear as she eyed McCoy.

"Human, why?"

Bone's gave her the do you really think I'm stupid look and tapped beside one of his eyes. Nora blinked her contacts she forgot her damn contacts instead of the golden hazel that she had switched to after her talk with Pike they were an inhuman deep bright blue with black ring surrounding the outside of them. "I found your other contacts so don't lie."

"Is that why Kirk is here or is it because you thought I would get violent when you brought it up?"

Bone's sighed and folded his arms he knew when she was trying to distract him. Nora wasn't human he would bet his life on it she was too graceful and moved too softly she had caught Kirk and the pointy eared bastard unprepared since she got here. Her blood work was closer to Khan's than any of there's. The tinge of fear in those alien eyes confirmed it she wasn't human not technically and had been persecuted for being different. Her mind while technically strong was delicate when it came to trust and self esteem she had been betrayed and hurt far too many times by now. She hated and loved herself she loved her abilities her differences while hating it made others resent her, fear her wish to destroy her. The need for stability, affection and friendship could twist her more easily it didn't take a genius to figure out that she needed a family and if Pike thought she was useful than she was an ally he wanted to have and the icing on the cake would be if she was even close to as strong as Khan she would be a powerful friend or enemy. You just had to tie her to you through her greatest weakness. The need to belong somewhere and the enterprise is full of misfits already she would feel accepted… Holy hell he had been spending way too much time with Jim, Kirk dammit it! Kirk not Jim. His eye twitched starfleet was getting to him and Kirk was rubbing off on him.

"I am human technically a couple generations ago we had betazoid in our family which will pop up randomly and other than my eye color I haven't noticed anything else about me that would be strange."

McCoy looked at Kirk who nodded once studying the girl. "Why did they transfer you?"

"Betazoids tend to have issues with certain species and so they moved me to an environment without those species in hopes it works better in the long run. I decided it would be safer in the long run just to have people assume I am human." Nora frowned at McCoy who handed her the green contact case she used.

"Thanks McCoy Captain anything else you need?" Kirk shook his head and ushered his consort out. They didn't believe her not fully Pike was going to be pissed.

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