Where was she? Who was she? The woman tried to open her eyes but her eyelids were too heavy. She tried to move but she got nothing. Why the hell can't she move? It felt like she was being held down by something but she didn't know what. She tried to open her eyes again but it was no use. The young woman started running through her options when she heard a crash outside the room. Fighting. Someone was fighting. How did she know that?
A door opened near her and she heard heavy footsteps on the floor. She was trying not to panic, but even if she did there was nothing she could do about whatever was coming her way.
"I found her. Captain, can you hear me?" the voice sounded like it was underwater but she recognized it. Captain? She was a captain… of a ship. A starship. "Captain Kirk?" the voice asked. The voice made her think about food; something with a C. Carrots... Cookies... that's not right. She attempted to nod at the man to tell him that she could hear him but it was no use. "She's out, Sulu. I think they gave her something."
"We'll carry her, Hendorff. We gotta move now, Spock's team is already on their way back to the shuttle," the other man said. She knows that voice, the feeling in her chest told her that it belonged to someone special. He confirmed that feeling when he pressed a kiss against her temple, "We're gonna get you outta here. Stay with me, Jamie."
She wanted to nod, to tell him that she understood but she couldn't open her eyes. Jamie –her name was Jamie- felt herself being lifted into a pair of strong arms.
The first man, "I got her, Sulu. Let's get outta here before she wakes up and kicks my ass."
The second man chuckled, "Like she doesn't do that on the mats anyway. Come on, exit's this way." She doesn't know how long they were moving but there came a point when she could tell they were outside. The warmth of the sun on her face was a welcome feeling. "Hendorff, run. Get her out of here," the second man –Sulu- said.
"What about you?" Hendorff asked.
"I'm right behind you," Sulu's voice was strained, like he'd been hurt. "Get her back to the Enterprise, if you have to leave without me than you do it just get her home."
The big man waited a second before he took off, towards what, she didn't know. She felt it when they were in shelter. It was colder and the sun was gone. "Doc, take her, I'm goin' back for Sulu. If she wakes up and he's not there…" Hendorff told another man as he handed her over. The arms were strong and warm; the man smelt like home, like family.
"It won't be pretty, I know. Make it quick, Lieutenant. What'd you do to yourself this time, Jimmy?" the new man asked. The sound of his voice washed over her, protective and worried. "And what did your boyfriend do to get you outta there? I swear the two of you are just as crazy as crazy can be." She felt something cold press against her neck and Jamie felt herself losing a battle to stay…
"What… what happened?" she asked no one in particular. Jamie blinked her eyes open and realized that she was back on the Enterprise and in sickbay.
The man in the bio-bed next to hers chuckled, "You don't remember?"
Jamie shook her head, "If I remembered, I wouldn't be asking, Hiri. I heard you and Hendorff. Bones too. Beyond that, it's all… Total Recall. I don't know what was real and what wasn't."
"The short version: you went down to do some diplomatic thing, they kidnapped you, tried to tell us that you wanted to stay, wammied you so you wouldn't remember anything, we broke in, pulled you out and doc got the drug outta your system. It's been an interesting three days."
"Is 'wammied' really a word?" she asked.
Hikaru laughed, "That's your question?"
"I understood the rest of it but 'wammied', Hiri. Really? Is that even a real word?"
He shrugged, "I think it is and I'm awesome, so it stays."
"Yes, sir. What'd you do to yourself, anyway?" she asked.
"Got shot on our way out, Douglas Quaid. You're welcome," Hiri told her.
Total Recall is a good movie. She likes the original for the story, the 2010 version for the actors –the girls are badass and that John Cho dude was a hottie- and the 2151 version is cool, the other versions of the movie sucked.
Jamie sighed, "Want me to kiss it better when Bones lets us outta here?"
"You can kiss any part of me you want. Just… never do that to me again. You scared the shit outta me."
She nodded, "I'm sorry, babe. It couldn't be helped. How do you think I felt? I couldn't move, I couldn't talk. I recognized your voices but I couldn't say anything, it was… terrifying. I was scared. I didn't even know who I was until you and Cupcake started talking."
"If you need me to jog your memory, I'm more than willing to show you a few things I know you won't forget," he said with a smirk.
Jamie was about to answer him when Bones jumped into the conversation, "Not in my medbay you're not."
"We wouldn't dream of it, Bones."
Hikaru snickered, "Speak for yourself. You didn't see that dress they had you in."
"This is just my fuckin' luck," Jamie muttered. Spock didn't say anything, not that she expected him to.
The commanding officer of the USS Enterprise and her amazing first officer were trapped in a turbolift. It wouldn't have been a big deal on any other day but today wasn't like any other day. The ship was under heavy attack, the engineers had their hands full and the comms cut out on them after Jamie notified the bridge.
The captain of the ship sat down on the deck. As long as the emergency systems held, the lift wasn't going anywhere but it was too dangerous to climb out into the tubes. "You might as well sit down, Spock," she told the other person in the turbolift.
He looked at her, "That is unnecessary."
"Suit yourself," Jamie muttered.
The pair had come a long way from their days of academic review boards and fistfights on the bridge but Spock was still stoic as ever.
"How long do you think we'll be in here?" she asked.
Spock looked at her, "I do not know. I must have all the variables to give you an answer to that question, Jim." She smiled at the use of the nickname that only a handful of people get to use. Jamie leaned against the bulkhead and closed her eyes. After a few minutes, the ship stopped their evasive maneuvers and went to maximum impulse which meant that the fighting was over.
She sighed, "At least the ship is moving."
They stayed like that for a while when the turbolift finally started moving again. Jamie was a bit curious as to who was in command. Spock was usually on the bridge during Beta shift but he had a project to oversee. Jamie thought about the officers who usually man the bridge during Beta and wondered who Spock would've let in the chair. Before she could ask, the doors opened to the bridge. Spock helped Jamie to her feet and they stepped out together.
The place was a bit of a mess but everyone was working their asses off and following orders from the duty officer. Jamie bit back a laugh, "I should've known. How'd you end up in the chair?"
"Ran up here when the fighting started, Samson said you and Spock were trapped in the turbolift and Scotty's in Engineering, which made me the ranking officer on the bridge. You guys okay?" Hikaru said as he stood from the chair.
"Got tossed around a little but other than that we're good. Gimme a status, Mister Sulu."
"I was having such a good day too," Bones muttered as the group of officers was led into a pit of some kind.
Jamie, Bones, Sulu, Hendorff and Kai were investigating a distress signal on an uncharted planet. They found the wreckage of the small ship but none of the seven people that should've been aboard; dead or alive. Apparently, the locals were closer than the scans said they were and the away team was overpowered, unarmed and captured. Then, the officers were chained to each other and led through some kind of compound.
Jamie glanced at Sulu and then his hands. He gave her a quick nod and glanced at Bones, who was chained next to her. Jamie smirked and gave him a nod.
"We need to get outta here," the southerner muttered.
Jamie smiled, "We're working on it, Bonesy."
"Is that what you call making eyes at Sulu?" he huffed.
Hiri chuckled, "On a normal day, it's making eyes. Today, however, is not normal."
The pair of command officers slipped their cuffs, Jamie went for the guard next to Bones and Hikaru attacking the guard next to Hendorff. Kai, still restrained, was strong enough to strangle another guard using the chain. Hikaru got the keys and un-cuffed Bones, Hendorff and Kai.
"How'd you two do that?" her best friend asked.
"What? The conversation we had just by looking at each other? Or slipping the cuffs?" Hiri asked with a smirk.
Bones looked at him, "Both."
"The conversation thing is easy, we've all managed that one at some point. The cuffs were trickier and you're gonna flip if we tell you," Jamie said.
"Try me," Bones snorted.
"We dislocated our thumbs," Hikaru muttered.
Bones' hazel eyes locked onto her blue, "You did what?"
Jamie sighed, "Keep it down or the rest of the guards will come this way. We do it all the time on the ship for moments just like this one. I'm trying to beat his time but he's always a second faster than me. It's annoying."
"What are you two, Bonnie and Clyde?" Bones glared at her.
"Talk about throwback references, that's goes way back. Give a lady a boost, Clyde," she said to Hiri.
"Anything for my Bonnie," Hikaru quipped as he helped her climb out of the pit.
"I'll distract the feds while you boys climb on outta there," Jamie told them in her best –horrible- Texas accent.
Bones took a breath, "There's something very wrong with you two."
"Says the aviophobe who works on a starship. Maybe we're not the problem, doc," Hikaru whispered just loud enough for them all to hear. Jamie stifled a laugh at the look she knew was on her friend's face and got down to the task at hand; getting the hell outta here.
"Мишка косолапый по лесу идёт. Шишки собирает, песенки поет. Шишка отвалилась прямо мишке в лоб. Мишка рассердиля и ногою топ!" little Pavel sang.
Bones raised an eyebrow as he tried to check the five-ish year old boy over, "What the h… What is he singing?"
"A clumsy little bear was walking through the forest. He was gathering pine cones and singing songs. A pine cone fell directly onto his forehead. The little bear got angry and stamped his foot!" Jamie told him.
Uhura sighed, "It's a children's song from Russia… it loses something in translation. Jim, you're Russian has gotten better."
"That's because I've been practicing with Chekov. How long is my twenty-one year old navigator gonna be this cute little five year old, Bonesy?" Jamie asked.
Her best friend shrugged, "No way to tell until me and Spock can analyze all this information and that could take a while. In the meantime, I suggest getting him some lunch and finding something for him to do that'll keep him outta trouble." Bones placed the small child in her arms.
"Whoa, me? Bones… I… I can't… I have a ship to run," Jamie sputtered.
The country doctor chuckled, "Today, you have a genius five year old to take care of. He likes you and you speak Russian. It's not like we're goin' anywhere until we figure out what happened to him down there. Sulu's his best friend, he'll back you up."
"You hungry, Pasha? Голодный?" Jamie asked, accepting Bones' logic.
The boy's precious little face lit up, "Я очень голоден. Это среднее человек обещал мне мороженое." Jamie and Uhura laughed.
Bones raised his eyebrow, "What did he say?"
Uhura smiled, "He said 'I am very hungry. That mean man promised me ice cream.'"
"I am not mean," Bones huffed.
"If you say so, Bones. Come on, Pasha. Ice cream it is," Jamie told the boy.
Bones glared, "He needs real food, Jim."
She chuckled as she walked out of the medbay with her small friend in her arms, "I know, I know." Jamie pulled out her communicator and sent Hikaru a message: Congrats, it's a boy. Meet us in the galley, dad.
Walking though the ship with an adorable little boy took longer than she thought it would. Half the crew wanted to know what happened to Chekov and the other half wanted to fuss over the cute cheeks and mini-uniform. They finally walked into the galley and Jamie spotted Sulu almost instantly.
"He looks like he could be your kid, Jamie," her boyfriend said as they joined him at the table.
"Don't you start that too. Pasha, this is Hikaru, do you remember him?" Jamie asked the boy.
Chekov looked at Hiri for a minute before he decided that it was okay to sit next to him and start talking to the helmsman in Russian. Hiri kept up with Pavel and motioned for Jamie to get the kid something to eat while he wasn't paying her any attention. As promised, she got him some ice cream; chocolate with nuts was his favorite. Jamie also managed to grab the kid a couple Pirozhki, this baked stuffed bun thing from Russia that can be filled with different things, in this case, beef and mushrooms. It was a good thing that Jamie paid attention to the kid's eating habits.
Jamie walked back to the table and her heart did a somersault, Pavel had moved onto Hiri's leg and they were having an animated conversation. Hikaru glanced up and her and winked before turning his attention back to his de-aged friend. She had to stop herself from dreaming up cute little half-Kirk, half-Sulu babies.
"Hey, Pash, Jamie brought you some ice cream," he told the kid. Pavel's eyes lit up and he began eating the cold desert while sitting on Hiri's lap.
"I guess it's true that every kid loves ice cream," Jamie muttered.
"Yep. You okay?" Hiri gave her a pointed look.
She sighed, "It's weird. I mean he's him but he's not. This is all my fault, he pushed me outta the way."
"Just like the rest of us would've done," Hikaru smiled. "Doc and Spock will figure it out. Besides, it's not like you'd want to revisit your childhood. We'd still be trying to get you out of the transporter room."
"I don't know. He recognizes us for the most part. I probably would've too. Well, you and Bones at the very least. But you're right, my childhood was not particularly good and I wouldn't have talked to any of you until Sam told me it was okay. Since he's dead…" she trailed off and watched her young friend finish his ice cream and move to the food.
"We'll fix him. In the meantime, we get to act like kids and nobody can say anything about it. Especially McCoy," Hikaru told her.
Jamie smiled, "That sounds like a plan."
It took three days but Spock and Bones figured out how to turn Chekov back. Jamie and Hikaru stood next to each other in the transporter room as they waited for whatever the scientists came up with to work. One minute, Pavel was five, then one beam out and beam in later, he was his normal, twenty-one year old self.
"ё моё. Let's newer do that again," Chekov muttered.
"Can do, kid. How do you feel?" Bones asked.
Pavel smiled, "Glad to be back in my right skin but a little sad that Jamie and Ru aren't my parents anymore. I can't vait to meet their children." The captain and the helmsman looked at each other.
Hiri smirked, "Look at our boy, sweetheart."
"They grow up so fast," she smiled. "We might have to get him a little brother."
"Or a sister. Would you like that, champ?" Hiri asked.
Chekov lightly punched his friend in the shoulder, "Don't make fun of me. I remember ewerything and you guys did a good job. Your children vill be wery lucky."