"Come on, we're playing hooky." Jamie rolled her eyes and looked at her friend. January 4th was her least favorite day of the year, most people would be excited about their birthday; she would be too if it didn't also double as the day her father died.

"Go to class, Bones. I'll be fine."

He shook his head and walked to her dresser, "No can do, Jimmy. Get up and get dressed. We gotta go."

Jamie raised an eyebrow but did as he asked. After a quick shower, she put on her clothes and walked into the living area to find Bones and Pike talking to each other.

"Do I even wanna know?" she asked the two men. The look on Bones' face told her that she probably didn't.

"The press knows that you're attending the Academy and keeping them off campus is not as easy as it should be, some of your classmates are already in trouble for talking to them. I'm sending you to my cabin in Mojave. I didn't want to send you by yourself, so McCoy is going with. It's not like anyone would be surprised by that, you two usually go everywhere together. You've both been excused from class and I gave McCoy your assignments," Pike told her.

Jamie nodded, "How we getting there?"

The captain smirked, "Transporter. You can thank Archer." Bones rolled his eyes, he hated the transporter with a passion. His exact words were, "I joined up to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by that damn gadget."

"Why do you care?" Bones asked. Judging by the look on his face, he didn't mean to say it out loud.

Pike looked at him and chuckled, "The short version is that someone has to. She'll fill you in." Pike told her weeks ago to tell McCoy, "He's your friend and he's your doctor, you should tell him. You can't keep it all buried, it'll eat you alive." She sent a glare at the older man, she wanted to talk to Bones but not like this and not today. After a quick 'see ya later,' Pike opened his comm. unit and told the person on the other end to beam them out. One second they're standing in their apartment and the next they were in Pike's cabin.

Jamie had been here before when she was thirteen, there was nowhere for her to go when they got back to Earth from Tarsus Four. She told Bones where everything was as she took off her jacket and sat down. "How do you know your way around Pike's cabin?" Jamie looked at her friend for a second, no time like the present to talk about the past.

She shrugged, "I've been here before." Jamie gestured at the chair across from her, "I guess I have to tell you the whole story for any of it to make sense." He didn't say anything, he just sat down and nodded for her to continue. "Everyone knows about my dad so I won't bore you with that part. My mother went back to the fleet when I was little, two years old, I think. My brother, Sam, and I stayed with Grandpa Jim until I was six. That's when mom came home from one of her assignments married to this guy who worked at the Riverside Fleet Yards, Frank. He wasn't a bad guy, just strict and unsure of what to do with two kids who weren't his. Mom kinda left us with him and split again, my grandpa died a few months later. Sam and Frank had this big blow out over my dad's car when I was eleven, Frank wanted to sell it, but technically, Sam and I owned it. Sam was done after that and he ran away. I drove the car into the quarry later that day but that's a different story. Anyway, I had an easier time with Frank then Sam did, probably because he knew our father and all I knew were stories. Sam is alive, the last I checked but I have no idea where." Jamie could remember it all like it was yesterday, she used to be mad at Sam for leaving, but as she got older, she realized that he was only doing what he had to do for himself and she couldn't hold that against him.

"Frank got hurt at work after that and couldn't take care of himself, no way in hell he could take care of me, so my aunt and uncle took me to live with them off-planet. My mom died a few months after I got to their house. I still remember the look on Aunt Marie's face when she told me." She stopped for a moment, "I was in college when I moved so I didn't go to school with the other kids, I worked with my uncle, fixing stuff and learning computer programming. One day I was walking home and ran into this older women; she was speaking the most beautiful language, so I asked if she could teach me. Her name was Hoshi Sato." Jamie stopped and let it sink in; Tarsus Four was covered in Fed History and Hoshi's death resisting Kodos was well known.

Realization dawned on Bones' face after a few minutes, "You were on Tarsus Four?"

She nodded, "Uncle Jeff and Aunt Marie were part of the group that founded the colony. I was there when the shit hit the fan."

"Do you know who J.T. is?" Bones asked.

Jamie nodded, according to the history books, J.T. was a young teenager who fought Kodos, ended up saving the colony and, specifically, saved a group of children hidden in the caves outside the main colony.

"You're J.T." Bones said with a sigh. He didn't phrase it as a question, it really didn't need to be one.

She nodded again, "After Starfleet showed up, it was decided that my involvement would be best kept classified. Didn't want to tell the Federation why the Kelvin Baby was at the Tarsus Four Massacre. Only a handful of the people on the colony knew who I was since I used my mother's maiden name, family knew, a few friends and Hoshi. I'll skip the details, but we spent three months in hell before Starfleet showed up. Pike was on the away team that found us kids; it took me a minute to recognize him as the guy who interviewed to my mother for his dissertation on the Kelvin. When we got back to earth, Pike brought me here since I didn't have anywhere else to go; he was legally my guardian for a while. Since my mom died, Frank didn't have any rights to me. He got remarried right before everything went down and I didn't want to mess up his life. I talk to him sometimes but it's weird."

Jamie felt like she would cry, other than Pike, she never told anyone about Tarsus. She had the occasional friend in college but no one she trusted enough to spill her guts to. She didn't realize that Bones had moved to sit next to her until he was pulling her into his arms, Jamie rested her head against his chest. She couldn't help the laugh that escaped when Bones chuckled and said, "I guess that solves the mystery of your missin' medical records."