"This is a dumb idea," Bones said to her while they were in the elevator heading up to meet the lunatic. Jamie knew this plan sucked but they were too far in it to turn around now. With Uhura's help, they had figured out that the swarm and the creator was from the delta quadrant. It spoke a mix of Romulan phrases and Xanno, which explained why it attacked Jamie and Gaila but not Braxim; it had studied the Xannon race before. It was conducting 'bad science,' as Bones phrased it. They learned that another Orion girl was attacked and killed in the days since Jamie and Gaila were released from the hospital.

Right after she was released, Uhura and a linguistics professor at Stanford figured out that the words were a code hiding images; the last was the logo for Transamerica Pyramid. It was a building that was finished in San Francisco in 1972, it was also where the other Orion girl worked. The plan was simple, get in, get the guy and don't die. They were armed with modified phasers that let off a high-frequency pulse to disrupt the nanites, a sound emitter that froze everything within a specific radius, and their packs were made to vacuum and contain the nanites. Jamie could believe that Bones and Chandar put this stuff together in less than two days; Bones was smarter than he gave himself credit for.

The police were skeptical when the trio showed up; the detective they were working with, a guy named Bryce, had a little more faith in them than the others did, barely. Uhura wasn't going up with them, she would be listening from the command station with the police and communicating via headsets. She built –because she's just that good- a translation device so that she could help them understand what this guy was saying.

They stepped off the elevator and were met by a swarm, Bones froze them and Jamie shot. They climbed the stairs, freezing and shooting as they went. They got to the top and got ambushed by multiple figures made out the swarms. They put up one hell of a fight before a figure approached her, "Jamie T. Kirk." She heard it say something else but she couldn't understand it. She felt the swarm wrap itself around her neck and head, she glanced at Bones, begging him to run with her eyes before it knocked her out, she hoped that Uhura got all this.

Jamie came to with a start; she hadn't been down long, a few minutes, tops. The guy was running, she alerted Uhura that he had a flyer while she looked around the room for Bones, "Toss me your phaser." He did as she asked, Jamie caught it and ran towards the ship, "Uhura, have fleet ops to get a lock on that ship." Jamie would only get one shot, she turned the weapon to its highest setting and took aim; the blast was awesome. She hit the ship and almost blew the roof off the building, glass flew everywhere, Jamie covered her face and she noticed that Bones did the same behind a section of the wall. When she looked up, the ship was gone, "Damn!"

Bones made his way over to her and started checking to make sure she wasn't hurt, "You ok?" She nodded, the ship got away, but Jamie was sure that fleet ops had a vector on it. She let her eyes scan Bones to make sure that he was ok.

"I'm alright, Jim," he muttered. She hugged him, she was more worried about him than she was about herself. Jamie was built for this, fighting was in her blood, it was part of her DNA but Bones was a healer, he didn't fight unless he had no other options. She knew that she was the only reason he agreed to go looking for this guy; had it been anyone else, he would've stayed in the command center with Uhura. Jamie wasn't sure when it changed, but there was something different about the way she and Bones interacted with each other; they went from being fast friends to something more. Jamie touched the side of his face where a bruise was starting to form

"Len," she whispered. They looked at each other, her blue eyes taking in everything about the man in front of her. She stepped closer to him, moving slowly so he had the chance to back away and she kissed him. The feel of his lips against hers sent shivers through her, her hands held on to the sides of his jacket while one of his hands was pressed against the small of her back and the other slid into her hair which had fallen out of its bun.

"Kirk? McCoy? You alright up there?" They reluctantly broke the kiss, Uhura sounded worried even over the headset. She rested her forehead against his and spoke to Uhura.

"We're ok. We'll be down in a minute," she told the other woman. Neither of them moved, they just stood there.

"We better get down there," Bones whispered.

She nodded at him, "Yea."

He smiled and gave her a quick kiss, "We'll finish this conversation later."

Uhura hugged her; Jamie wasn't sure if she was dreaming or if she had lost her mind because this wasn't like Uhura at all. They both assured the linguist that they were ok when they were all joined by Detective Bryce who patted Bones on the shoulder, "Good job, cadets. Starfleet Operations is tracking the vessel."

Jamie nodded, "Better than nothing," she was disappointed that they didn't capture this being, they still didn't know what it was.

"I'll have one of my officers take you back to campus, the Commandant wants to see you." The trio just looked at each other.

Bones said what they were all thinking, "Just when we think it's over, they pull us back in."

It felt like they had been in the admiral's office forever, the man debriefed them, thanked them and then let them go. Jamie and Bones walked Uhura to her building and Jamie couldn't help herself, "You know, I'm not as bad as you thought I was."

Uhura took a breath, "True, but don't think that I'm going to be your best friend or anything."

Jamie chuckled, "Wouldn't dream of it. Give Gaila my love."

"If you tell anyone I said this, I'll deny it, but I'm glad that you're ok," the linguist told her. Jamie smirked as Uhura walked into her building, maybe they could be friends one day. Jamie took Bones' hand and finally headed home.

They walked into the apartment in silence. She wasn't sure what to say, she was scared that she messed up her only real friendship by kissing him.

"You can't ignore me to save your life, darlin'. Talk to me." She looked at him; she started to speak but stopped herself. What was she going to say? 'Hey, sorry I kissed you.' Or, 'Hey, I've always wanted to kiss you.' Her favorite was, 'Please, don't hate me because I kissed you.'

Bones must have figured out what she was thinking because he took her face in his hands and looked into her eyes, "I'm not going anywhere, Jim. I think you deserve so much better than me, but if you want to try, we can. We just have to promise that if it doesn't work, we'll call it off before we hate each other."

Jamie looked at him, "Who's better than you?" That brought a laugh from both of them, "So, we're really going to do this? You know I suck at relationships, right?"

Bones nodded, "You aren't the only one, darlin', we'll figure it out."