"Does he ever shut up," Bones whispered from next to her. Jamie slowly shook her head and tried to hold in the chuckles. Ferris was coming close to getting dropped on his ass by her first and chief medical officers; Sulu told them about the last two days and they weren't happy. Jamie was actually scared for the man; Spock is not an easy person to piss off. Jamie never, ever, wants to be on the receiving end of his rage, she saw it once and it's not pretty. Ferris was still talking to her but by this point she had tuned him out.

"...Wait until I inform Starfleet Command. I don't care how much pull you think you have, Miss Kirk." Yadda, yadda, yadda.

"Mister Sulu assures me that we'll be there with time to spare. I look forward to reading your report but in the meantime, I have more important things to do." Jamie left the conference room before he could stop her and Bones was right behind her.

"I'm surprised that you didn't kill him while we were gone," Bones said to her.

Jamie laughed, "It was close, sweetheart... so very close. Me and Sulu were plotting how to get away with it." He smiled.

"That's my girl. So, more important things to do?" Bones asked her, she smiled as they walked and tapped a message on her PADD to Spock that he and Uhura were confined to quarters –together- for a little while. She looked at her husband.

"Yep. I haven't slept in two days. You wanna come cuddle with me?" she asked.

He chuckled, "I'd like nothing better, darlin'." Jamie wished that they had more energy but sleeping in Bones' arms was enough for her... at least until they woke up.

They filled her in on everything that happened on Taurus II. She was saddened to learn that they lost Latimer but she was also proud of her officers. They encountered a species and held their own while Scotty and Rand fixed the shuttle. It still took a boost from Uhura's shuttle to get them out of there but Jamie wasn't picky about the details. She took the heat for Uhura's impromptu rescue attempt because there was no fucking way that woman was getting in trouble for rescuing their family. Ferris could do his worst, her crew was safe, that's all she cared about. They also made their delivery of medical supplies –and Ferris- right on time. Jamie was never so happy to get rid of someone in her life and considering that she lived through a massacre, a couple terrorists and a crazy Romulan who destroyed a planet, that's saying a lot.

They spent the next week patrolling the sector before Spock called her attention to an anomaly that they kept coming across reports for, "Captain, there is an overall pattern of mass insanity on several planets that lead straight to Deneva."

Bones looked at her, "Jim…" She put her hand up to silence him from saying anything. The little sister part of her wants Sam, Aury and the boys to be alright but the soldier in her knows that there is a good chance that they aren't and the last thing she wants to do is turn Bones into a liar if the latter was the case.

"Keep trying to raise them, Uhura," Jamie ordered.

The communications officer nodded, "Yes, Captain."

Jamie looked at her favorite doctor, "Any idea what we're dealing with, Bones?"

He shook his head, "There's no apparent medical reason for any of this, Jim. I'll have a better idea when we get closer."

Sulu turned in his chair, "The sensors are picking up a ship on direct heading to Deneva's sun."

"Intercept, Mister Sulu. Warp eight. Uhura, hail them," she told the lieutenants. It was a ship with one person on-board. They tried to get him to change course but he went into the sun anyway after they caught part of his statement about something being gone and him being free. Jamie had that feeling that this day was about to get worse. She ordered Sulu to get them to Deneva as fast as possible, she needed to figure out what was going on and she had to find her family.

There was no way she was sitting this out and none of them even tried to stop her,if anything, she had to sit some of them out. Jamie grabbed Zahra, Edwards and Hendorff from security to go with on the away team with her. Bones and Spock both refused to let her go without them either. She left Scotty in command of the ship. Chekov sat in the transporter room waiting for them. She looked at her young friend, "Keep checking the sensors, Chekov. We'll report back if we find something."

"I advise we limit our exposure as to not contract the same affliction," Spock told her. Jamie agreed and ordered that they ready phasers on stun. Chekov beamed them down to the capital city, and Bones started scanning the second they materialized.

"At least the weather is good," he told them. Jamie was uneasy, something was very wrong here.

"There are over a million people in this colony. Where are all the people?" she asked the others. They all looked around, the place was empty but Chekov said that the scans showed that the population was normal. A few minutes later, a group of colonists came out of nowhere screaming 'intruders' and brandishing blunt weapons. Jamie gave the order for them to stun them. After they were down, Bones scanned them. "Bones?"

The doctor looked up at her, "Jim, their nervous systems… it's like they're being violently stimulated, even when they're out cold. We'll need to do more tests."

Jamie heard something, Spock and Zahra heard it too; it sounded like screaming from one of the nearby buildings. Spock's tricorder showed life signs, so they readied their phasers and entered the building. They were in what turned out to be the colony's maintenance tunnels. She felt that tingle crawl up her spine; someone was watching them.

"You. Help me!" a voice called from behind them.

The next thing she heard was Bones, "Hey!"

The women had a hold on him, "Kill me, they're in my head." Hendorff offered, not that Jamie was surprised. The officer got into a fight with her the night Pike got her to join up. Cupcake, as she called the security officer, jumped at fighting with people. At least they were on the same side now. Jamie shook her head and tried to keep the woman calm while Bones loaded a hypospray and sedated her.

"We should get her to the ship, Jim," Bones told her. Jamie looked at her husband and nodded just as Spock spoke from next to her.

"The use of the word 'them' implies that this isn't an illness but a sentient threat," her first officer said. She was thinking that, Spock has a knack for bringing the bad news.

"Edwards, take her to the surface and beam back to the ship. Alert Nurse Chapel that we might have more incoming," she ordered.

"Aye, ma'am," the officer nodded, picked the woman up and headed out. The rest of them continued their search for answers.

"Oh… well… I… damn," she said as they entered a room and found these pink blobs with tentacles clinging to the walls.

"Fascinating," Spock always says that. He stepped further into the room and one of the things jumped on his face.

"Spock!" Jamie ran over to him. "Bones?"

The doctor did a quick assessment of her first officer, "He's alive just unconscious. His vitals are stable but we gotta get him outta here." More of the crazy mobs started to show up just when they need to make a quick exit. Jamie and Bones each pulled one of Spock's arms over their shoulders and carried him together while Hendorff and Zahra phased the crap out of the blobs and the charging people.

"We gotta get topside, ASAP," she said. Of course that was easier said than done. Jamie tried to hail the ship but there was interference. The panel near their feet moved, "Don't tell me they're coming out of the floor, too." Whoever was down there tossed a smoke grenade at the mob.

"Down here!" Jamie knew that voice. Bones climbed down first, Jamie handed him Spock, then she, Zahra and Hendorff climbed down.

"Ma'am, they're attempting to open that hatch, we need to get outta here," Zahra warned. She nodded.

"Man, am I glad to see you, Jimmy," he attempted to hug her but Hendorff stepped closer to her.

"Can we trust him, Captain?" the security officer asked.

"Of course we can, Lieutenant. This is Doctor George Kirk, my older brother," she told him. Sam smirked at her and pulled her into a quick hug.

"I know the fastest way up, we need to get Spock outta here. I can fill you in on what happened once we're safe." Jamie nodded as the led the way, Hendorff and Bones carrying Spock. Her brother didn't say anything and Jamie had a nagging thought in her mind: Where are Aury and the boys?