"Jim, I need you in sickbay, it's Spock," Bones told her over comm. Jamie and her brother looked at each other before sprinting out of her ready room and heading to medical. When they got there, Bones was trying to hold Spock down.

"What happened?" she asked. Her husband looked up at the sound of her voice.

"I got the damn thing off and he started frothing at the mouth. I hypo'd him three times but he's still fighting," Bones told them. Jamie and Sam helped hold the Vulcan down while the drugs did their job. She glanced at her brother and watched a look of sadness and helplessness cross his features. He told her that he didn't know where the creatures came from but he was at the lab when most of the colony went bat-shit crazy. Aury and the boys were trapped at home, he hoped that they were okay but he had no way of knowing for sure and it was killing him.

As soon as Spock drifted off, Jamie looked at her brother, "Do you know what these things are or anything about the force field that knocked out our impulse power?"

He shook his head, "No, I can try to help you figure it out. I got to do something but, Jimmy, we gotta get my family back." She was thinking the same thing. Before she could voice a plan, Spock started speaking.

"… I am… a… Vulcan… I am a… Vulcan… no pain… I am… a… Vulcan… no… pain… I am a Vulcan… I am a Vulcan… I am…" Spock said in a voice that none of them ever heard before.

"What the hell?" Bones took the words right out her mouth.

Jamie looked at her Vulcan brother, "That's just weird."

Sam nodded, "I think he's coming out of it, Doc."

Spock looked at them, "Jamie… Leonard… George. I appear to be retrained. I assure you, I feel perfectly normal."

Jamie touched his arm, "Sorry buddy but you tried to take Bones' head off five minutes ago. We all had to hold you down. We can't risk the safety of the crew." She looked at Bones, who started a scan.

"Vitals appear normal enough but you were in agony and now you seem to be fine," Bones told him.

Spock looked at him, "Pain is simply a thing of the mind that can be controlled." Jamie and Sam looked at each other then at Spock.

"Aren't you only half Vulcan? What about your human side?" Sam asked. "

Indeed. In this case, it may prove to be… problematic. However, I believe my ordeal has provided us with some insight as to the nature of the problem afflicting the colony. While the creature was attached to me, I could… feel it as it tried to influence my mind. This may explain the behavior of the colonists. The creature was encouraging me to act on it's behalf, all the while believing that I was still in control of my actions. If Leonard had not freed me, I fear that I may have acted on it's wishes to take over the ship." That's not good; the looks that Bones and Sam sent her way said the same thing.

"Can you guys figure out what this thing is, or at least how to disable them? I'm gonna take Sulu and Gaila down to the surface to find Aurelan and the boys," Jamie told them.

Bones nodded, "We'll see what we can do, Jim."

Jamie touched her brother's arm, "I'll get them back to you." He nodded. Jamie knew he wanted to go with her but Sam was smart enough to know that he'd just be in the way. He's the lover, she's the fighter. Sam rattled off a set of coordinates near the house and Jamie left sickbay. She had the two lieutenants meet her in the transporter room.

"You think they're okay?" Sulu asked, the worry was clear as day on his face.

Jamie looked at her katana wielding friend, "I hope so, Hiri."

Gaila put a hand on her shoulder, "We'll find them, Jamie." She really hoped her friend was right. She really should've grabbed a security team but the choice she made was two-fold. One, Sulu and Gaila could take care of themselves and two, they would walk through fire for her nephews.

She looked at Lieutenant Kyle, who was manning the transporter, "Energize."

They ended up down the street from her brother's home; the trio looked around as they made their way to the place her family called home. Jamie punched the code into the door and went in search of her sister-in-law and nephews.

"Aury! Pete! Alex!" she called. The small group split up and went in different directions. Jamie went up the stairs, Sulu checked all the rooms on ground level and Gaila checked the maintenance sub-level.

"Jamie, I got 'em." Gaila found them and a whole bunch of those creatures. The Orion was standing over her family, shooting at the creatures on the wall. Sulu entered the room and picked up Aurelan while Jamie picked up Peter and Gaila grabbed Alex with one arm, still shooting with the other.

"Kirk to Enterprise. Kyle, I need you to beam six straight to medical."

"I don't know if I can do that, Captain," she heard his voice over the communicator. Her sister-in-law and nephews had those things on their heads too and she didn't know how long they would last. Scotty's voice jumped into the conversation.

"Captain, the interference from the planet has increased, I cannae guarantee that we can safely beam you back. The good news is that Spock and George have a solution. Chekov and I rigged a satellite array to flood the city with ultraviolet waves, the trick is…"

Jamie cut him off, "Later, Scotty. Just beam us up." He acknowledged her order and a moment later they were in sickbay being swarmed by Bones and his staff.

"We got 'em, Jim. Go help Scotty stop those things." Jamie handed her nephew to her husband and went to help her chief engineer. The way he and Chekov set it up, the creatures would lose their hold over the colonist's minds but there was still a risk because of the damage they already caused to people's nervous systems. Jamie hid –yes, hid- in engineering after Scotty and Chekov incapacitated the creatures from orbit. It didn't kill them but it did free everyone from the mental control.

"It was Spock who figured it out. I swear that lad is crazier then you sometimes, he just hides behind his being Vulcan," Scotty said to her.

Jamie chuckled, "Doubtful." Spock was the test subject for this whole thing but he messed up his eyes in the process. According to what Bones told Scotty, he'll be alright but it'll take some time.

"That's not the worst of it. He didn't know what would happen, and he did it anyway. Uhura is mad at him," the engineer told her. Jamie laughed; Spock is on his own with that one.

Eventually, Chapel comm'ed for her to come to sickbay. Jamie walked into the room with Scotty and smiled.

"Aunt Jimmy!" Her nephews were sitting on a bio-bed together with Chekov.

"Hello, little dudes. You guys look better," she said as she gave both kids a big hug. They all smiled at her as Chapel gave her the rundown on their condition. "Where's Sam?" Chapel gestured towards Bones' office and she knew something was wrong.

"Go, we'll stay with the lads." Jamie thanked Scotty and Chekov, then headed to her husband's office. Bones was leaning against his deck when she entered the room, Sam was in tears against Gaila's chest. The Orion was holding onto him and whispering that it would be alright.

"No. What… what happened?" she asked. Bones pulled her out if his office and into one of the private rooms.

He took a breath, "Her nervous system couldn't take it. When we were down there, I told you that it was like something was stimulating the nervous system even when they were unconscious. That… thing overworked her heart. I tried, Jim. I did everything I could think of but I… lost her. I lost Aury." Jamie wrapped her arms around him. She wasn't sure if it was for his benefit or her own.

"I didn't get to her fast enough. This is on me, Len," she whispered against his shoulder.

"No, it's not," Uhura was standing in the doorway. "It's not your fault, Jamie. Not your fault either, Leonard. I don't know what those things are but I'm blaming them. Right now, your brother's world just got tossed on its head. His wife is gone. And those little boys… We can't fall apart and blame ourselves. They need us." Jamie took a breath, Uhura was right.