"Dammit, Jim, you promised." Jamie knew that Bones wasn't happy but she really could care less.

"I told you that I wouldn't kill him, I didn't say I wouldn't hurt him. Besides, he started it." Viktor and two of his guys approached her while she was on her way home from a stop at Gaila and Uhura's room. Team Alpha found out that her team not only scored better than they did at Tanika Station, but that they earned the top score since the test's induction. She wasn't in the mood to deal with their bullshit and was going to ignore them but Viktor put his hands on her and she was done being civil. "He was already on my shit list because he hurt you. It's his own damn fault, Bones. You know what happens when people touch me without permission." When they first moved into their apartment together, Bones tried to wake her up after she fell asleep on the couch. He was lucky that his doctor reflexes kicked in, because she almost punched him. He'd seen her lay a few guys out at bars, they got touchy-feely and she introduced them to her right hook.

Viktor didn't know when to leave well enough alone and he paid for it; Jamie broke his arm and his jaw, she knocked idiot number two out in one punch and idiot number three was going to be fifty before his balls dropped again because of how hard she kicked him. Jamie broke a couple fingers from hitting Viktor and had a cut on her face from the knife he pulled out; coward brought backup and a weapon. Jamie looked over Bones' shoulder, "I'm not in trouble, am I?"

Pike shook his head, "Nope. The security system recorded it, and we managed to find footage of the attack on McCoy buried in junk data. Tikhonov will be lucky if he doesn't end up in a penal colony, he's done with Starfleet." Well, thank God for small miracles. It sucked because he could've been a good officer if only he could curb the arrogance and aggression. Pike checked to make sure that she was alright before he left to do damage control, cadets getting into fights happened, but three-on-one with a knife was a different story.

"Can we go now, your shift is over and the regenerator is done with my hand?" she asked Bones. They were due to get on a shuttle for her brother's place on Ganjitsu. Her boyfriend grumbled but he nodded at her. "I'm not sorry that I defended myself, even if you're mad at me."

Of all the things she expected him to do, being pulled into a kiss wasn't on the list. When he pulled away, he looked into her eyes.

"I'm not mad at you, Jim. I'm mad at Viktor. You can fight your own battles; this would've ended a lot worse if you couldn't. I should've been there." He looked at her, "I can't believe you broke your hand."

"Oh God, tell me that's not what's bothering you? The fact that you weren't there to protect me?" He shrugged but Jamie knew better. He was upset that he couldn't fight for her. "Damn caveman." She took a deep breath and reached for his hands, "These are not the hands of a fighter; they are the hands of a healer. They are the hands that hold your daughter and help your parents. They put me together and show me just how loved I am. You don't get to ruin them on the likes of Viktor Tikhonov."

He looked at her and nodded, "I still want to kill him."

Jamie laughed, "Now you know how I felt when they beat you up." She kissed his lips then pulled him from the room; they had a shuttle to catch.

"Don't tell me that you're scared to fly." Jamie and Bones both looked up at Sulu.

"He suffers from, and I quote, 'aviophobia. That means fear of dying in something that flies.'" Jamie did her best impersonation of Bones on that first day, she chuckled when he glared at her. "We're working on it though; otherwise next year is going to suck." Jamie and Sulu both shared at laugh at Bones' expense. He rolled his eyes but didn't say anything as Sulu took the empty seat next to him.

"You know, maybe you should learn to fly sooner, rather than later, it might make you feel better," the pilot said to Bones. Everyone had to have a basic understanding of flight controls on a shuttle, just in case. Bones' flight class was supposed to be next semester; Jamie already knew how to fly -thank you, Pike- and tested out. Sulu continued, "I could teach you. I have plenty of free simulation hours that we could use."

Bones was going to argue but Jamie spoke first, "That's not a bad idea. I'd teach you myself but the two of us alone in a small room is not a good idea."

Bones looked at the two of them, "You're both crazy."

Jamie shook her head and Sulu chuckled, "Only a little, doc."

The next day, they found themselves on Ganjitsu, "Jimmy!" She smiled at her brother but before she could say anything to him, she felt a little body connect with her legs. Jamie looked down into a pair of eyes that looked like hers.

"Hi, Aunt Jimmy." Little Peter James Kirk was so much bigger than he looked over comm.

"Well, hello to you, Peter."

He smiled big and looked at his dad, "She remembered my name."

Sam smiled, "I told you she would." Jamie picked the little boy up and hugged him. Since they reconnected, Jamie and Sam talked to each other all the time and she's had more than a few conversations with Peter. Bones laughed at her when she asked how she could love someone that she's never even met before, she would do anything for the little boy.

"How could I forget you, Pete? You're my favorite nephew." Peter smiled and hugged her tighter. Eventually he looked over her shoulder.

"Hi, Mister Hiri and Doctor Bones," the little boy said. Jamie laughed at the face Bones made at the nickname, he tried to get Pete to call him anything else, but that one stuck.

Sulu smiled at her nephew, "Hey, Peter. Long time no see." He was heading off to his house, he offered to introduce them to his mother when they got a chance and left in the opposite direction.

Sam and Aurelan didn't live far from the space dock, so they decided to walk. Sam grabbed her bag and she kept her nephew in her arms. He talked the whole way; baby Alexander and shuttles seemed to be his favorite topics for the moment. Sam and Peter pointed things out as they walked, looking at some of the buildings as they went.

"Wow, place is bigger than I thought it'd be," Bones muttered. The city of Ishikawa wasn't huge but it was beautiful, it reminded Jamie of Tarsus before Kodos killed half the colony; this was what it could've grown into.

They walked into the small house and Peter motioned to get down, Jamie placed him on his feet and he grabbed her hand. Peter pulled her through the house, Sam and Bones smiling behind her; Jamie found herself in the nursery where Aurelan was putting the sleeping baby in his crib. Alexander looked like his father. Where Pete looked like Aurelan with Jamie's eyes, baby Alex was Sam through and through. Before she could say anything, Aurelan put a finger over her lips and pointed out of the room. They all left baby Alex to his dreams and went back into the living room.

"It's nice to finally meet you, Jamie," Aurelan said as she pulled her into a hug, "and you must be Leonard." She hugged Bones, too.

The woman was gorgeous and motherhood certainly agreed with her; when Jamie whispered as much to Sam, he told her that he was a lucky guy to have such beautiful and brilliant women in the family. After they were introduced, Sam showed them where they'd be staying and gave them a little time to get cleaned up. They both changed out of their uniforms and went to join everyone when Jamie heard the baby.

She stepped into his room, "Hey, little guy." He calmed a little and looked at her, "No need for all that noise." Jamie didn't know a lot about babies since Peter and Joanna were the youngest people she's ever met but she did know that most liked to be held and you have to support the baby's head. She carefully picked him up and held him in her arms.

"You're a natural," her sister-in-law said as she walked into the room with Alexander.

Jamie looked at Bones who just smirked at her, "What?"

He shook his head, "I'll tell you in a few years."