"What did you do?" was the first thing out his mouth after Bones took one look at her. Jamie and the rest of team Delta were all ordered to go to medical. They were all beat up, but it seemed like her injuries were worse.

She sighed, "Why do you always think it was my fault? We got our asses kicked during the security final, literally." He ran the tricorder over the whole group; they had cuts, bruises and even broken bones. Ha, broken bones.

"Ok, what did Tikhonov do to you?" he asked her. Viktor Tikhonov was the leader of team Alpha. For the security final, the two teams were pitted against each other. Jamie's team had the better score for the first contact final, and Viktor was not happy.

A.T.T. was a semester long, Jamie's team picked up the first week of February and ended the first week of June, finals took up the week after that. She doesn't know why they picked her as the leader, what she did know was that it zapped a lot of her already crowded schedule. It was a good thing that she and Bones lived in the same apartment; otherwise they wouldn't have had any time together. Jamie had even taken to sleeping in his room, which was slowly becoming their room. They promised each other that even though they were busy, they still had to make time for each other, even if it's only a few minutes. Jamie was glad that finals were in full swing and they were all due to go on break for a month. She wished that she could say it was because she was excited to see her brother's family and the McCoy's –which she was- but she was just happy to have time off with Bones.

"It's not that bad, Bonesy," she said when he pulled her into an exam room.

He sucked in a breath, "Your nose is broken, even though you reset it, it still needs the regen. And Raynor's arm is fractured. Don't tell me it ain't that bad, class isn't supposed to kill ya, Jim." Jamie let him huff as he patched her up. She'd smile at him, except her face hurt.

"You could kiss it better," she told him.

Bones looked at her, "Don't start with me, darlin'. I will hypo you into next week. I'm not in the mood, no matter how hot you look in black tactical gear. I should've went with you." Sometimes, Bones watched her team run training exercises. They usually had a doctor -Bones- around when they ran through stuff but during the exam, there wasn't anything he could've done if he was there. Jamie knew that he didn't like team Alpha at all. Viktor was an arrogant jerk, he was a good tactician but Jamie couldn't see him in command of a ship.

"I'm not starting with you. I could use a kiss from my favorite doctor, it would make me feel better." Bones looked at her for a minute, then he placed a gentle kiss on her lips.

"Now, sit still and let it work, I'm going to check on the others."

He was almost out of the room when Jamie spoke, "Thank you, Len. I know you hate patching me up, so thank you for fixing me." There were so many meanings to what she said. Jamie wasn't just talking about the physical injuries and he knew it. She did feel a little bad, he was a doctor, so it was his job to fix injuries but seeing someone you care about bleeding wasn't easy no matter who you are.

"I don't hate patching you up. What I hate is seeing you get hurt in the first place. I'm just glad that there are some things I can fix. Now, sit still, darlin'," he told her with a small smile.

"What are we gonna do about Alpha?" Raynor asked her. Jamie didn't know anything beyond figuring out how to beat them for the science final.

"We should prank them. Especially Viktor," Brax offered. Jamie laughed at her friends and teammates as they tossed around ideas. They were some of the best minds that she'd ever met and they liked to have a good laugh. As much as Viktor got on her nerves, she didn't think setting up a prank for him was a good idea.

"After the final, before break, guys," Jamie suggested. Team Delta, Gaila, Uhura, Braxim, Kelso and Gary were sitting in her living room studying for multiple finals when Jamie's communicator went off, it was Bones, "Hey Bones, when you coming home?"

"This is nurse Chapel, is this Cadet Jamie Kirk?"

Her heart stopped, "Yes, what happened?"

The nurse told her to get over to the medical college. Jamie –and Gaila, Uhura and Braxim- ran over to the hospital, Pike met them there.

"What happened?" she asked before she even stopped walking.

Doctor Griffin looked at her and Pike, "He took a beating. He has multiple blunt force injuries and lacerations. His arm was broken, but it's under the regenerator now. He's asking for you." Jamie glanced at Pike and her friends before she followed the doctor.

"Len," she whispered as she entered the room.

He looked up at her, "Hey, darlin'. I would say that it isn't that bad but it kinda is."

She stood next to the bed and took his good hand, "What happened?"

He slowly shook his head, "I think you pissed Tikhonov off. I didn't get a good look but I'm pretty sure that this was his team. I guess he's too scared of you to go after you directly. Maybe he sees me as your Achilles' heel or somethin', I honestly don't know."

"That doesn't make any sense. He has the advantage, the teams aren't even anymore." Jamie's team had suffered the loss of one of it's members when Collins decided to leave the Academy after the security final. Braxim switched from another team to round them out to five, they were going into the last final with a new teammate. Bones didn't say anything as she ran the reasoning through her head. "I'm sorry they came after you because of me."

He shook his head, "Better me than you, you practically have your own exam room in this place." He gave her a minute to fill in Pike and the others, Jamie asked Pike to let her worry about team Alpha and he reluctantly agreed that as long as she didn't go beat them up he would stay out of it. A few hours later, Griffin let her take Bones home. Kelso, Gary and the rest of Delta had cleaned up and cleared out; someone even made something to eat and left a note that it just needed to be warmed up.

"I'm gonna kill him. I'll kick his team's ass, then, I'll kill him," she was mad. Not mad, livid.

He shook his head, "No you won't kill him. I won't let you hurt someone, even if it's for me."