AN: Chris Pine and Bruce Greenwood both sing... that's seriously not fair. The song lyrics Pike sings are from Chris Pine's song Someday Came Today. It actually fits with Pine's version of Kirk. Youtube is crack.

I LOVE JJ Abrams... but STID had too many crazy plot bits that just didn't sit right with me, so, I'm changing the whole thing. Harrison is not Khan in my story... that's all I'm gonna say.

Jamie

"Christine, my favorite nurse in the whole universe…" Jamie started.

"Whatever you want, Captain, the answer is no."

Jamie laughed at Chapel, "You spend way too much time with Bones. I just wanna know where he is." The nurse pointed towards the CMO's office.

"He's in there, ma'am," Christine told her.

Jamie smiled, "See, you do love me. I heard you have a date with my favorite engineer when we get back. Don't let him talk your ear off about the ship." Christine blushed, she and Scotty had gotten pretty close, Jamie told her friend to go for it and ask the nurse out. Love must be in the air because Sulu and Gaila were going out now, too. Jamie made her way through sickbay, saying hi to all the officers she passed and walked into her friend's office, he didn't even look up from the PADD he was reading.

"Unless you're bleeding to death, go away, Jim," he told her.

"Bones, your attitude is starting to rub off on the rest of your staff. I come with good news. We're almost home, a few more hours. How are the crew members you still have?" The ship had taken just one too many hits this past year and HQ decided that they would do the repairs at Starbase One. They would only be near earth for a few weeks but it was something.

"Stable. You delivered your news, now get out of my sickbay," he said. Jamie laughed as she sat in the chair across from him.

"I'm ignoring your continued attempts to kick me out. When are you going to just going to realize that you can't get rid of me? It's not like you really want me to leave, anyway."

He rolled his eyes, "Is there any particular reason you're still here?"

"Yea, shift's over, time to go play with the cuter versions of ourselves, unless you want me to keep your little girl, forever and ever. Because I can, she's awesome." She smirked because he knew she how much she loved his daughter and Joanna was the best way to get him to do something.

"Alright, but I'm only going because I bet Jo is already in your quarters." They left sickbay and headed off in search of their children and her husband.

"…someday was a dream that always seemed to turn out wrong, but now it's not so far away. Putting off tomorrow is twenty-four hours too long, I guess my someday came today," Chris' voice carried through their quarters. They waltzed into Chris and Jamie's place and heard the kids laughing and singing with Chris. Jamie and Bones stood in the doorway to Charlie's room and watched the Admiral with Charlie and Joanna.

"Did you know he could sing?" her friend whispered. She nodded; it was on the list of Chris' secret talents that only family and friends knew about.

"He plays the guitar too," she told him. The first time she heard him sing, he had just returned from the Lake. She was reading some paperwork for her new job with Starfleet when she thought she was hearing things. He was singing in the shower, she always liked his voice so she leaned against the wall and listened. She teased him for a week but when he broke out the guitar, she was done. If she was the queen of telling bedtime stories, Chris was the king of singing Charlie to sleep.

"Are you two just gonna stand there?" Chris pulled her from her thoughts.

Jamie chuckled, "Well, I'm not even gonna try to sing with you."

Bones laughed, "Are you telling me that there is something that Captain Jamison Teresa Kirk Pike can't do? Oh, wait until I tell the others." She punched him lightly on the arm.

"I never said I couldn't sing. It's just not that great. And there's nobody to tell," she told him.

"Leave Aunt Jamie alone, daddy," Jamie stuck her tongue out at him.

"Listen to your daughter grumpy," Jamie said. He glared at her until Joanna spoke up again.

"Be nice Aunt Jamie," Jo ordered.

"Be nice mama," Charlie said a second later. That made the adults in the room laugh.

Jamie sighed, "Yes, children."

Charlie

He was happy to have his family back, if only for a little while. He was sitting with Jamie on the porch at the house in Mojave; Chris, Hobelia and little Charlie were out by the lake.

"I can't believe how big he is," he muttered. They had been gone for almost a year, they sent holos but it wasn't the same. The ship had just finished with the repairs and the crew was due to leave next week. "How are you doin' out there, kiddo?"

Jamie smiled, "You know me, I love an adventure. It's good. We saw some really cool stuff and almost got killed a bunch of times… the usual." The stories that they told him about what happened out there was common for a ship on an extended mission. While most people would be worried for their children, Charlie knew better. They were both way too stubborn to die on any terms but their own. Jamie's communicator beeped, "Kirk." Charlie was going to ignore her conversation but she grabbed his hand, something happened in London. She closed her comm, "There was an explosion at the Kelvin Memorial Archive, forty-two dead. They're calling an emergency session of all the senior officers in the area." Charlie knew what that meant, it wasn't that nothing bad ever happened but an emergency session meant that the explosion wasn't an accident.

"Go, we'll keep Charlie here," he told his daughter-in-law.

She nodded and yelled for Chris, "Suit up, we gotta get to HQ." They both ran up to get dressed and each kissed their son goodbye. Hobelia hugged them both and told them to be careful.

"Charlie will be just fine with grandma and grandpa, right buddy?" He asked his grandson, who smiled big and told his parents to 'go save the world.'

Chris

"It's good to see you again, sir," Jamie said to Captain Kamnach as they all made their way into the building, he was happy to see her too.

"I always knew you would save the world one day," he said to her. His old CO wasn't surprised to find that they not only worked together but they were married to each other. They made small talk about the past thirteen years before arriving at the Daystrom conference room, Spock was there waiting for them. There was something on his mind, he pulled Jamie aside and they had a whispered conversation in Vulcan.

"Admiral Pike," Chris looked up to find Captain Frank Abbott heading in his direction. The former captain of the Hernandez and current captain of the Bradbury walked up and shook his hand.

"What's it been eight years?" Abbott asked.

Chris nodded, "About that. How have you been, Frank?" Abbott told him about the change in ships and some other stuff that wasn't important before they were called into the room. Spock was going to wait with a few other officers in the conference room's lobby.

"Thank you for meeting on such short notice. Be seated," Admiral Alexander Marcus was the Admiral in charge of the fleet, the only people with more power were Admirals Archer and Reed. Everyone took a seat at his instruction, he continued as soon as the room was settled, Chris nodded at One and Shran who were sitting across from him and Jamie. "By now, you've heard about what happened in London. The target was a Starfleet data archive at the Kelvin Memorial Archive, now the whole thing is a damn hole in the ground. Forty-two men and women are dead. One hour ago, I received a message from a Starfleet officer who confessed to carrying out this attack, that he was being forced to do it by this man." Chris glanced at Jamie, there was something on her mind; something was up and she was figuring out what. He looked at the holo that popped up on his screen, Marcus filled them in, "Commander John Harrison. One of ours, he is the man responsible for this act of savagery. For reasons unknown, John Harrison has just declared a one man war against Starfleet and under no circumstances are we to allow this man to escape Federation space. You here tonight represent the senior command of all the vessels in the region. And in the name of those we lost, you will run this bastard down. This is a manhunt, pure and simple, so let's get to work."

Starfleet wasn't in the business of revenge and war, Chris was sure that Marcus was holding back information. The look Jamie and One gave him, told him that he was right. Marcus began speaking again, "Earth's Perimeter sensors have not detected any warp signatures leaving the system, so we know he can't be far. You will park your ships in a blockade formation and deploy search vehicles and landing parties to run down every lead. This man has shown willingness to kill innocent people, so the rules of engagement are simple. If you come across this man, and fear for your life and the lives of those nearby, you are authorized to use deadly force on the subject," Marcus didn't want him brought in, he wanted him killed.

"It's the bag," Jamie whispered in his direction. He glanced at the holo on her screen, Harrison went through all this trouble for whatever was in the bag.

"Chris, everything okay there?" the commanding officer of the fleet asked. He hated that Marcus used his first name, nothing he could do about it though.

"Kirk and I were just running through some ideas, sir. Sorry for the disruption," he told the other admiral.

"You got something to say, Kirk, say it. Tomorrow is too late," Marcus told her.

She nodded, "It doesn't seem odd to you that he targeted an archive? It's like bombing a public library. I ju... All that information is...is public record. If he really wanted to damage Starfleet, this could just be the beginning."

"The beginning of what, Captain Kirk?" Marcus asked, all eyes in the room turned to her.

"Sir, in event of an attack, protocol mandates that senior command gathers Commanding and Executive Officers, at Starfleet HQ, right here...in this room," she said.

Shran had caught on to what she was saying, "It's odd that this Harrison would commandeer a jump ship without the ability to go to warp." The next thing Chris notices, there was a red light flashing from behind him, Jamie stood and turned to look out the window.

"Clear the room!" Jim yelled to the officers. He and Jamie hit the deck at the same time and hecould tell that she was scanning the room from her spot near him.

Chris opened his comm, "We need air defense team, Daystrom conference room!" There were too many people in the line of fire.

"I'm goin' for One. She's hit," Jamie told him. He looked over at his former first officer and nodded at his wife; she hopped up, ran to One and pulled the woman behind a pillar. The defense team wasn't doing any damage, they were adding themselves to the casualties. Spock and the other officers he was waiting with were helping to pull people from the room, Kanmach was dead and Abbott was bleeding out in Spock's arms. Chris had lost track of Jamie when he moved to put pressure on Shran's wound. When the shooting stopped he was sure Jamie had something to do with it.

"Shran. Shran, wake up. Shran!" he told the Andorian.

"No, no, no, no, no," Jamie said as she made her way to them. "Stay with us, Valas, come on. Stay with me." Shran stopped breathing. Jamie was still trying to get him back, when she realized that she couldn't, tears rolled down her cheeks.

Shran was one of the first officers who ever saw who she was. The Andorian had let an eighteen year old Jamie run around his engineering department on the Yorktown, fostering the love she has of learning everything. Chris looked at Jen, the usually stoic woman had tears streaming down her face too. Looking around at all the officers they knew that were no longer breathing, Chris was sure that this Harrison guy was going to find out just what it means when you piss off Jamie Kirk.

Leonard

Getting called to HQ at this time of night was not normal. When he got to the Daystrom conference room, he was shocked to see the bodies of so many officers, Captains and Commanders just dead. Phlox was there patching up some cuts on Jamie's face. She didn't squirm or complain and Leonard was actually scared because he had never seen her sit still for a doctor since they've known each other. Something was very wrong. Pike was talking to Admirals Archer and Marcus and aside from some cuts and bruises, he looked to be okay. Leonard couldn't believe that someone would do this to a room full of Federation heroes. Captain One was sitting with Boyce, she had a huge gash in her leg and she looked to have been crying.

"Bones," Jim's voice broke through his thoughts. He instantly moved towards his friend.

"You okay, Jim?" he asked.

She shook her head, "Not even close." Jamie pointed bodies out to him, "Kanmach was Chris' CO when they rescued us from Tarsus. That's Abbott, my mom's CO before she died, I helped save his ship once. You know Shran." She pointed to the body closest to One and Boyce. Bones had met the engineer on multiple occasions and he knew that he was Jamie's friend. "There are a few others I knew in passing. Eleven dead." She stood up, pulled him into a hug and whispered against his ear, "Something's up. Don't trust anyone you don't know." Leonard looked in her eyes when she pulled back; she was scared… Jamie doesn't scare easily. He nodded, grabbed a cloth and wiped the blood off her face.

Jamie

She was still standing in the conference room when Scotty raised her comms to tell her that he and Kevin found something. She couldn't believe it when he handed her the device. They -Jamie, Scotty and Johnny Loh- had designed this thing years ago on the Lovell. The equations worked but the device itself was still supposed to be in the planning stages but not only was it real, Harrison knew where it was.

"Scotty, don't tell anyone about this. Get it out of here, you are under my orders if anyone tries to stop you, Pike and Archer will back me. Take it somewhere safe," she ordered her friend. On her way into the building to find Chris, a familiar face grabbed her attention. Jamie looked around and followed her.

"We don't have much time. I put up a small disruptor so that no one could hear us. I'll make this quick, Captain. I think my father was involved with what happened yesterday," the other blonde said. Jamie nodded, she thought the same thing about the Admiral. This isn't the first time the two women have met, being the daughters of Federation heroes meant that people expected a lot from them. Carol Marcus was one of the few people who fully understood how Jamie felt being compared to her father all the time because she had the same comparisons to live down. Doctor Marcus was a weapons expert assigned to a research department in London, her father had her working on different things until a few weeks ago when he locked her out of the system they'd been using. One of Carol's projects was the explosives used at the Kelvin Memorial Archives. Jamie turned off the disruptor and opened a channel to her favorite doctor. He showed up a few minutes later

"What's up, Jim?" he asked.

"This is Carol, I need you to take her home and keep her safe. I know you aren't a security officer but if anyone asks, she's your girlfriend or something. Cody and Zane are at your place, have them take Jo to my in-laws and stay there. The shit is about to hit the fan," she told him. Bones would usually argue but the look on both women's faces stopped him. Jamie looked at Carol, "I'll have orders for you with your mother's last name. When the recall is issued, report to me." Carol and Bones both nodded at their orders and quickly exited the building. Jamie found Spock and Chris with Admiral Marcus. She told them that she and Scotty might have an idea of where to look for Harrison. She didn't give any details on purpose, she had a feeling that Marcus already knew where the operative went. The older Admiral spoke to the Enterprise's top three officers.

"As part of our defensive strategy, fleet intel has been developing a new photon torpedo. Long range and untraceable... they would be invisible to sensors. I don't want you or your crew to get hurt, but I want to take him out. You find him, he's sure to be isolated, your lock on to Harrison's position, you fire, you kill him and get the hell outta dodge," Marcus told them. Chris acknowledged their orders and they left the office. Chris pulled the open communicator from his pocket.

"You get all that, sir?" he asked.

"Every word, Chris," came Barnett's voice. "Your real orders, per myself and Admirals Archer, Reed and Komack, are to detain and question. Do not fire those weapons." Jamie wasn't surprised that Chris had comm'ed his friend, Jamie's communicator was open too and she had Uhura on the other end recording Jamie, Chris and Spock's comms, she knew it would come in handy. Chris looked at her, "Jamie, get the crew back to the ship." She nodded and spoke into her communicator.

"Uhura…" Jamie started.

"On it ma'am," came the communications officer's voice. Chris raised an eyebrow.

"I'll tell you at the condo," Jamie said with a smile.

Chris

He thought that he was getting lucky when his wife jumped into the shower with him –and he did- but she had intel to give him first and thought that this was the best place to do it.

"This whole thing is a set up," she whispered against his neck. "I have a feeling that Harrison is acting on orders, we have to find him before Marcus kills all of us. Harrison used gear that shouldn't exist yet, he went to the one place we shouldn't go and we have orders to take him out with weapons that have can't be traced back to Starfleet. Marcus wants to use us to start a war. The Kelvin Memorial Archives are real but the sub-levels are Section 31. Carol warned me before I got to Marcus' office, that's why I had Uhura on comm. I had her recording all three of our communicators just in case we need the proof later."

Section 31 is officially a nonexistent rogue agency within Starfleet that says they operate in the name of Federation security. There isn't a lot of info about what they do and those on their side say that 31 is an elite intelligence and defense agency that deals with threats to the Federation that official departments, such as the Federation Security Service or Starfleet Intelligence don't know about or can't do anything about. People like Chris and Jamie know better, 31 is dedicated to its own interests, regardless of the effect on Federation security.

"They tried to recruit me after Advanced Tactical Training. I think they tried for Sulu too," she whispered. It wasn't surprising, Jamie and Sulu had the skill set for it, they were masters in multiple areas.

They finished their shower, quickly dressed, sent a warning to his dad and headed to the shuttles. This is going to be one hell of a mission.