"What did you do this time?" Bones asked when she walked into medical. Jamie didn't say anything, she just pulled him into the C.M.O.'s office. The second the door closed, she hugged him, whatever he was going to say died on his tongue. "Jim, what happened?" Bones wrapped his arms around her and she stood in his arms..
"Vulcan was destroyed. Spock's mother is dead. I don't even want to think about the other ships or the fact that we have no word from Pike. And I'm taking up your time. I should get to the bridge." He shook his head and made her sit down.
"You hurt your hand and did a number on your face. Since I'm your doctor, I'm gonna fix it while you fill me in." Jamie told him everything that happened up to that point. He thought about it, "What about Spock, should he still be in charge? Vulcans feel each other, part of their biology. They also have mental bonds with their family members which means…"
"That he felt his mother die. He's compromised. There's no way he'll admit it," Jamie finished for him. Spock usually thinks logically but Jamie knew that he loved his mother. "I don't want to take the chair; I'm not ready for it."
Bones smiled, "knowing that is half the battle, darlin'. I'm gonna go up there with you to see what's going on, since I'm the acting C.M.O." Jamie nodded as he finished wrapping her hand. Sickbay wasn't so crazy that he couldn't leave. Bones and Jamie get on the turbolift and went to the bridge.
The first thing Jamie heard was Spock asking a question, "Have you confirmed that Nero is heading for Earth?"
Uhura answered him, "Their trajectory suggests no other destination, Captain."
He nodded, "Thank you, Lieutenant." Jamie glanced around before she spoke.
"Earth may be his next stop, but we have to assume every Federation planet's a target," she told the others.
Chekov looked at them, "Vell, if the Federation is the target, vhy didn't zhey destroy us?"
Sulu shook his head, "Why would they? Why waste a weapon? We obviously weren't a threat."
Spock interjected, "That is not it. He said he wanted me to see something. The destruction of my home planet."
"How the hell did they do that, by the way? And where did the Romulans get that kind of weaponry?" Bones asked the group. Jamie will admit, it was a damn good question, Spock seemed to have an answer.
"The engineering comprehension necessary to artificially create a black hole may suggest an answer. Such technology could theoretically be manipulated to create a tunnel through space-time," the Vulcan told them. Jamie got it but Bones didn't.
"Damn it man, I am a doctor, not physicist. Are you actually suggesting they're from the future?" he asked.
"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth," Spock told him.
Bones rolled his eyes, "How poetic."
Jamie shook her head, "It's Sherlock Holmes, Bones. The Sign of the Four from 1890." Some of the crew looked at her like she was crazy but she shook her head and looked at Spock, "That also explains why they need Pike, he has details for Earth's defense grid. We need to catch up to that ship, disable it and get the captain back before they destroy that planet."
Spock looked at her, "We are technologically outmatched in every way. A rescue attempt would be illogical." No, it wouldn't, Jamie looked at Bones and Uhura, both seemed to be thinking the same thing.
"There has got to be something we can do," Jamie said. Sulu and Chekov nodded their agreement. Spock refused to see the logic in her statement.
"We must gather with the rest of Starfleet... to balance the terms of the next engagement," he told him.
She looked at him, "There won't be a next engagement. By the time we've 'gathered,' it'll be too late! There are billions of people on that planet, we can't just abandon them and run in the opposite direction. I didn't want to say this but you aren't leaving me any options, Spock."
He looked at her, "In regards to what?"
Jamie took a breath, "I believe you're compromised. Per regulation six-one-nine, you aren't fit to command. Nothing you've suggested makes any sense. You can't stand here and say you feel nothing, I have too good a read on you and I'm not the only one who can see it." Ambassador Sarek stepped onto the bridge behind Spock.
The young Vulcan looked at her, "This is an attempt take control of the ship. You can be court marshaled."
Uhura shook her head, "Listen to yourself, Spock. She's only trying to do what's best for the ship, running in the opposite direction isn't it. You may not be able to admit it but your emotions are not in check. Don't accuse Kirk of mutiny because she brought it up." Jamie looked at her friend, Ny was a good person, even if it meant disagreeing with her boyfriend. Jamie stepped closer to him.
"I get it. My dad has been gone my whole life, nobody ever lets me forget it. I never got the chance to mourn or forget because everything about my life has been about his death for so long, I just accepted that it was a part of who I am. What you're feeling right now is something I've had to live with for twenty-five years. It hurts, God does it hurt but I know how to work around my feelings, which is something you never had to do." Jamie was getting through to him. His father stepped forward.
"Listen to your friend, Spock. She speaks with logic," Sarek told his son. Jamie was begging him to see logic, she didn't want to hurt him. Spock looked at his father, then Uhura and finally at Bones.
"Doctor, I am no longer fit for duty. I hereby relinquish my command on the grounds that I have been emotionally compromised. Please note the time and date in the ship's log," Spock informed the doctor. Jamie watched as Spock left the bridge with his father.
"This sucks," she whispered.
Bones touched her shoulder, "Better now than later. If you would've waited, we'd be too late. We still might be." Jamie sat in the command chair, it was nothing like she thought it'd be. There wasn't anything exciting or cool, it was just a weight, one that she couldn't drop. She opened a comm link to the ship.
"Attention, crew of the Enterprise, this is Jamie Kirk. Mister Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting Captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want status reports from all department heads in ten minutes. Kirk out." She looked around the bridge, "Sulu and Chekov, set a course forEarth and get us there as fast as the ship will take us. We also need to come up with a plan. Uhura, I need a roster of who is on the ship. One for the fleet and one for the Vulcan embassy. Bones, I need a casualty list. Deaths and major injuries are the priority. You two can work together." They all nodded and moved to follow her orders. Jamie comm'ed engineering and asked for Scotty to come up when he got the chance. Jamie looked around the bridge and thought to herself, 'Help me out here, dad.'