"He's asking for you," Bones told her. Those four words were like music to her ears. It's been two weeks since the Battle over Luna, as it was being called. Jamie was at her wits end waiting for word on Trip. She was there in a flash when Bones comm'ed her.

"Hey Bones. How is he?" Bones rubbed a hand over his face and smiled.

"He's better than me, darlin'," her husband muttered.

Jamie chuckled, "You need to get some rest."

He looked at her, "Me? When's the last time you slept? And a couple minutes here or there don't count." He had her there, she shrugged at her husband and entered Trip's hospital room.

"Hey, J.T." the engineer in the bio-bed quipped.

"'Hey, J.T.' That's it? I should kick your ass, Charles. And I'm not the only one," she told her friend.

He laughed, "Come on, Jonathan can't be that mad." She crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. He stopped laughing and looked at her. "Oh shit. I'm sorry, Jamie. There weren't any other options and I'm a little more durable than Scotty or Chekov. It was me or everyone and I figured that I at least had a chance of walking away… I'm sorry that I worried you but I couldn't let you die. You're my family and I wasn't gonna just stand there and let your ship fall outta the sky." She didn't say anything, she walked over to his bed, leaned over and hugged him. He pulled her onto the bed next to him and she didn't fight or argue. She doesn't know when but she started crying against his shoulder.

"You scared the shit outta me. You almost died, Trip. Bones and Phlox have been working their asses off to keep you alive. Marcus tried to kill us, to kill Carol. I'm just… I don't…" Jamie was truly lost for the first time in a long time and it scared her like nothing else.

"I know, little one. I know," he whispered.


At some point she must have nodded off to sleep because Bones' voice woke her up, "Should I be worried about this?" She knew he was teasing so she didn't respond.

Trip chuckled, "In all fairness, she's slept next to me long before she slept next to you. Just saying." She blinked her eyes open in time to see Bones rolled his.

"As Gaila would say, 'at least I put a ring on it,'" Bones said. Jamie didn't know what was funnier, that the Orion would actually say that or the fact that her grumpy husband did. She laughed as she got up and looked between the two men.

"Wait 'til I tell Gaila."

Trip chuckled, "I like your Orion friend, she's sassy."

Jamie looked at him, "Don't even think about it."

Trip smiled, "No can do. My brain already went there. And so has yours, admit it." Bones chuckled because Trip was right, she has thought about it before.

"I'm only human and she's hot. I'll give you that one," Jamie told them. She watched as Bones checked Trip over.

"I can let you outta here tomorrow if you promise to behave. My advice, stay with Archer for a little while. I think he misses you. And she likes knowing where you are for more than a day," the doctor told his patient.

Trip nodded, "Can do, Doc."

He pointed at Jamie, "This one needs a break."

Bones chuckled, "Yea, she does but the Bradbury was destroyed, the Enterprise is a mess and we lost people. She'll crash eventually."

Jamie looked at them both, "You boys realize that I'm standing right here?"

They both nodded, "Yep."

"You two don't get to team up on me, Spock by himself is bad enough," she told them. The Vulcan seemed to be overly overprotective as of late, he didn't know why, except to say that something told him to look after her. "He's just doing his job. As your XO and as your friend," Bones said to her but that wasn't it.

"Want me to look you over? Might get him off your back," Bones offered. She nodded at her husband.

"Sure. We both know it's more for you than him though."

Trip laughed, "She got you there, Doc." Bones did a scan with his tricorder.

"You need sleep and a few more meals but other than… wait a second." Jamie glanced at Trip as Bones ran the tricorder over her again. "Can't be."

"Can't be what, Bones?" Jamie asked. He handed her the scanner and didn't say anything. Jamie –and Trip- looked over the readout, it seemed normal to her but Trip must have noticed something.

"Well, hello," her friend quipped. Jamie looked at the screen again, she was missing something. She couldn't see anything other than her hCG levels being a bit higher than they should be.

"Oh, shit. That explains Spock's hovering over me," she muttered.

Bones nodded, "I am so…"

"Don't say it. If my math is right, and it usually is, then I missed my hypo around the same time I got stabbed on the ship. Then we had more important things to worry about and by some miracle, I haven't needed any medical attention, so you didn't need to scan me for anything and I was only in medical to hang out with you," she said. He just nodded at her. "Are you mad at me?"

That shocked Bones enough to grab his attention. "Why would I be, I'm your doctor, this is on me."

Jamie crossed her arms over her chest, "I'm not Jocelyn. I'm also not the safest person in the Federation and I've been going at full speed..." He looked at her.

"I know that. It's just… The ship. I don't know how we're gonna…" he started.

"We'll figure it out, just like we do with everything else. Bones, this is a good thing. Earlier than I planned but still a good thing," she told him and he looked at her. Bones smiled and wrapped his arms around her.

"Wait 'til we tell Jo," Bones whispered.

Trip chuckled and they both glanced at him, "Congrats, J.T. I never thought I'd live long enough to see the day." She smacked his arm. "Hey! Don't tell me you never thought about that. Wait until you tell your friends." Jamie looked at Bones.

"Can we not tell them, at least for a little while?" she asked.

He raised an eyebrow, "How long do you think that'll last? I'm pretty sure that if Spock hasn't figured it out yet, he will. Gaila and Kai will too." Jamie took a breath.

"I can't believe that I didn't notice. I mean five weeks and I didn't notice. I was I was fighting Gorn four weeks ago and I went to Qo'noS nine days ago."

"Like that would've stopped you," Bones had a point.

"I don't know, Bones. That might have. You want to tell everybody for me?"

Bones shook his head, "I'll tell them with you, darlin'." She smiled, as long as nobody else tried to kill her in the next eight months, they were having a baby.