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Rating: NC-17. Same
old same old.
Pairing: Kirk, Spock and Uhura
Summary: Sequel to “Bulletproof Soul.” Can anything good come out of defective birth
control?
Disclaimer: Still not mine, except the characters you do
not recognize.
Warning: Sex, both het and slash. Language, adult situations.
1. The Runaround
Kirk
sat on one of the empty cots in Medical Bay, his head in his hands. He was surrounded by nine hysterical women,
ready to attack him or Dr. McCoy. McCoy stood across from him, arms folded, red
splotches in his face. McCoy requested
his presence to Medical Bay not long after he and Spock returned to their
quarters to see about Nyota. He had not
even begun to process Nyota’s news before McCoy called him down. Apparently,
Nyota was not the only woman on the Enterprise
to get pregnant due to a defective birth control shot. Nine other women were also pregnant and they
were furious. Kirk was trying his best
to prevent a riot as the women screamed their frustrations.
“THIS
IS YOUR FAULT!”
“THERE
BETTER BE A HYPO TO UN-CONCEIVE!”
“MOTHERFUCK!”
“MCCOY,
YOU INCOMPETENT ASS!”
“I’M
GONNA FUCKING SUE THE SHIT OUT OF STARFLEET!”
“YOU
BETTER BE READY TO CARRY THIS LITTLE BASTARD!”
“GET
THIS FUCKING THING OUT OF ME!”
“I
DON’T EVEN LIKE KIDS AND NOW I’M CARRYING ONE?”
“YOU’RE
GONNA BE A DAD AGAIN, YOU ASSHOLE! IT’S
OKAY, TINA, YOU’RE ON THE SHOT! WHY THE
FUCK DID I LISTEN TO YOU?”
“GOOD
JOB DUMBASS!”
“YOU’RE
GONNA BREASTFEED THIS MOTHERFUCKER, MCCOY!”
“THIS
IS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE!”
“I
SHOULD HAVE STAYED ON THE PILL!”
“CAPTAIN,
IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT RESTRICTING MY DUTIES, I WILL HAVE YOUR ASS BROUGHT UP
ON AN EEO CHARGE BEFORE YOUR BOYFRIEND CAN EVEN REMIND YOU OF THE REGULATIONS
YOU VIOLATED!”
Kirk
sighed. At a certain point, the
expletives and insults started to come in languages he was not even sure his
girlfriend could recognize. The yelling
continued. The women screamed and
screamed and screamed and screamed until Kirk couldn’t take it anymore. He stood up.
“Ladies,
please. “ He held up his hands in a
warding-off gesture and tried to get their attention, but the angry and tearful
rants continued. They had every right to
be upset and he understood that.
However, he needed them to shut up so he could think.
“WHAT
ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS CAPTAIN?
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I’VE WORKED FOR MY CAREER?”
“I
NEVER WANTED TO BE A MOTHER!”
“CAPTAIN,
I DON’T WANT THIS BABY! I TRUSTED DR.
MCCOY! I TRUSTED STARFLEET TO PROVIDE US
WITH PROTECTION THAT ACTUALLY WORKED!”
“SO
DID I! TRUSTING YOU BASTARDS WAS MY
FIRST MISTAKE AND THE SECOND WAS NOT USING A CONDOM LIKE MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD
ME TO!”
“THIS
IS SOME STRAIGHT UP BULLSHIT!”
“MY
FATHER IS GOING TO KILL ME AND THEN HE’S GOING TO KILL YOU!”
“MCCOY,
YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!”
Mayhem
was about to ensue. Kirk had heard
enough. He screamed as loud as he
could. “SHUT THE HELL UP!”
The
women all turned to face him and the room got quiet. Kirk rubbed the top of his head. “Ladies, please. I need there to be order right now. I know you’re upset. I know.
Can we please act like
professionals? I will talk to you shortly.
Meet me in the main conference room in ten minutes. Right now I need to speak with Dr.
McCoy. Dismissed.”
He
used his best captain’s voice, hoping that they would obey his orders and leave
without attacking him. But for a brief
moment, Kirk felt as if he had absolutely no authority. The women glared at him and he was sure that
they were going to turn and destroy sickbay instead of leaving the area. After a very long pause, they turned and
walked out, grumbling amongst themselves.
Kirk heard a lot of colorful language, but they weren’t screaming and he
was relieved. He had been worried there
for a minute.
Kirk
turned to look at McCoy and there was no mistaking the fury in his eyes. McCoy could barely look him in the eye, but
he managed to do so. He stood up and
Kirk resisted the urge to punch his so-called friend. Barely.
“Bones,
what the fuck happened?” He didn’t
even try to hide his frustration. “How did this come about?”
“Jim…I’m
really sorry about this; I am still trying to figure it out! The active hormone in the birth control
injections degraded faster than normal and I didn’t realize it until now.”
Kirk
could see the genuine worry on his friend’s face. He stared at him in disbelief. “What?”
“As
I started to prepare the next series of injections, I ran tests on the previous
batch to guarantee internal consistency.
The hormone concentrations must be within appropriate limits. My results showed that the progestin decayed within
a month as opposed to three months.”
Kirk
stared at him, events clicking into place.
“Are you saying that Nyota and all of these other women could have
gotten pregnant within the last two months?” He stared at McCoy in a state of
shock.
“Possibly,
Jim. I can’t give you specifics because
the decay was inconsistent. All I can
tell you is that out of the two hundred women who serve on board the Enterprise, five percent was
affected. You’ve met them all.”
Kirk
closed his eyes, trying to process it all.
His head was starting to throb. “Bones, you’re saying that Nyota could
have been pregnant before Madir.” He had
assumed that the child Nyota carried was Spock’s, based on Spock’s proclamation
that Vulcan sperm was more motile than human sperm and because of the sheer
time they were together in Madir.
Could
the baby be his?
McCoy
looked at him, hesitant. “Jim, it’s possible. I don’t know for sure.”
“Bones,
this is personal for me. Nyota could be
carrying my baby.” Kirk’s voice was pleading. Even though he had just accepted the
possibility, he realized that he wanted it more than anything else. His baby.
His child.
“Or
Spock’s. If it’s possible that a hybrid
can even conceive naturally.” McCoy
couldn’t look him in the face when he mumbled the last. Kirk cocked his head. The possibility of Spock being sterile never
occurred to him.
“The
point is we don’t know whose child it is.”
“It’s
too early to do any sort of paternity test, Jim, and I’m gonna have my hands
full dealing with prenatal care for ten angry women to do a paternity test. I’m really sorry.”
“You
had better backtrack and find out what happened, Bones. I will need specifics. Because when I report this to Pike, he’s
going to blow his top, and you will have to be there to explain how ten women
on the Federation flagship became pregnant simultaneously due to your
negligence.”
“Yes
sir.”
Kirk
folded his arms and looked down at the floor before looking back up. “Bones, there are ten pregnant women on this
ship. What in the hell are we going to
do with ten pregnant women at one time if they decide to carry the babies to
term? Are we even equipped for
this? What are we going to do? What am I going to say to these women and
their partners? How are we going to deal
with this? Ten? Ten? You
fucked this up good, Bones! This is a
disaster. I should not have to deal with
something like this!”
“Jim…”
At
the sound of his friend’s voice, Kirk softened.
“Look, I’m sorry for yelling. My
head is reeling. Nyota’s pregnant and is
it Spock’s child? Is it my baby? How many weeks pregnant is she? I’ve got all these questions that we need to
work out and now…shit!”
But
did it really matter whose child she carried?
She loved them, they loved her and they loved each other. Besides, he had far more important issues to
deal with other than paternity.
“Jim…”
“Bones,
look…I’ll talk to you later. I need to
go and calm these women down.” With
that, he left McCoy in the main wing.
*
The
nine angry women were arguing among themselves when Kirk entered the conference
room. When they saw him, they directed
their anger towards him. He wasn’t about
to put up with another verbal assault. He
raised his hands. “Ladies, please. Please.
One at a time. Let’s be rational.”
“Captain,
what happens now?” It was Sgt. Tina
McElroy, the personnel officer. “Not one
of us planned to get pregnant; that was the reason for the injections in the
first place, sir!”
“Sir,
I would be upset to learn that this is going to have an adverse impact on my
duty aboard this ship.” This was Koko
Yubari, one of Spock’s scientists.
“I’m
not married, sir! Pavel and I weren’t
ready to start a family!” Ensign Iliya
Vadasconovich.
Some
random woman in Security reds: “Baby,
it’s 2261. You don’t have to be married
to start a family.”
Iliya
turned on the woman like a cobra. “That
is NOT how I was raised, Glynis!”
Glynis
shook her head. “My mother was a single
parent and I turned out fine. At least I
did until I screwed that guy in the club.
This is a big old mess! I can’t
believe this shit!”
Kirk
groaned. “Ladies, let me say this. No matter what happened, or didn’t happen, the
fact remains is that you are all pregnant.
That can’t be undone. I know these
babies weren’t planned. I can assure you
that you will be accommodated regardless of the choice you make. I will make sure that you are not inconvenienced
if you decide to continue your pregnancy to term. Just work with me on this and please, please
do not bombard me with complaints. I
will speak with each of you individually so we can discuss your options. Just go back to your quarters and let me take
care of this mess.”
“Captain.” It was Lieutenant Dana Hannity. “For those of us who decide to keep our
babies, it will disrupt our duties, sir.
Case in point: morning sickness and not just in the morning, but during
the middle of shift. Frequent restroom
breaks during Romulan attacks. Ergonomic
chairs. Maternity uniforms and
functional shoes that we shouldn’t have to tie.
Do not forget the mood swings and hormone fluctuations. Prepare to get insulted.”
Kirk
sighed but let her continue.
“All
of us take our careers seriously, but the situation will impact how we do our
jobs and you have got to understand that, Captain. Our bodies are going to change. We’re all professional and will do our very
best to adjust, but this is something that our colleagues will need to consider
and respect. Pregnancy isn’t a joke,
sir.”
Kirk
sighed again and nodded. It certainly
wasn’t. “Ladies, if possible, you need
to inform the fathers of your children before you make any decisions. And you need to give me their names. It’s only fair. I am going to have to make massive
accommodations and I’m going to need your input.”
There
was a pause and Kirk wondered if they were comfortable telling him that
information. Just to make sure they knew
they didn’t have a choice, he said, “That’s an order.”
Another
pause. Then:
“Ensign
Pavel Chekov,” Iliya said, hesitantly.
“Lieutenant
Parker Morrow in Security, sir.” Dana
said. She couldn’t look at him.
“Lt.
Commander Montgomery Scott, Captain.” It
was Charlene Masters and she said it with obvious irritation.
“Fucking
stupid dumbass Len McCoy!” Tina screamed
as she said the name of the man responsible for the mess. She looked ready to kill.
“Sir,
I am embarrassed to say.” It was Barbara
Jean Thornton and there was a hint of shame in her tone. “It could be Lt. Hikaru Sulu or Sgt. Donald
Timmons in Stellar Cartography.”
Kirk
looked at Barbara Jean, unable to believe what he was hearing. Sulu and Barbara Jean? She was almost twice his age, but she was an
attractive woman. He frowned, as he was
of the belief Sulu was gay.
Glynis
looked at Barbara Jean. “Babs, you were
sleeping with Sulu AND Donald?”
Koko
rolled her eyes. “Really, Glynis, should
anyone on this ship be surprised at
the thought of a threesome?”
Kirk
had the temerity to blush. “Sgt. Yubari,
the father of your child, please? And
you too, Sgt. Davis.”
Koko
folded her arms and clucked her teeth.
“I don’t know, sir. I had sex
with about five different guys while we were in Madir.”
Glynis
sighed. “That guy in the club. I was drunk, so I didn’t get his name,
Captain.”
Kirk
looked up at the ceiling. If the
situation wasn’t so serious, it would be funny as hell.
Janice
Rand glared at Barbara Jean. “You fucked
Sulu, you old bitch? He IS the father of
my child!” She lunged for Barbara Jean
and Kirk wisely got in the way, unable to believe what he just heard. Sulu might have two kids?
The
last lady, a redhead in science blues, also acknowledged she didn’t know who
impregnated her.
Kirk
sighed once more as he struggled to keep Janice away from Barbara Jean. His headache was turning into a full-blown
migraine. Maybe he should have had these
conversations individually. He could not
believe it. His entire command crew was
affected by McCoy’s massive blunder.
They were all getting ready to become parents. All of them.
All of them.
“Ladies,
please. Please. Yeoman Rand, I order you to cease and
desist. Ms. Thornton, can you please
move over there? For now, everyone go
back to your quarters. I will be
speaking with all of you personally. But hear me clearly: I do not want you converging on Dr. McCoy
unless you need medical attention and that is an order. We are
all going to have to adjust to these children.
They’re coming whether we want them or not.”
“Aye,
Captain.”
“Yes
sir.
“Aye,
sir.”
Kirk
watched them leave. He had to go back to
McCoy to get some aspirin for the massive headache he now had.
*
When
he returned to his suite, Spock was on the bed with Nyota. She was sleeping. Kirk removed his shoes and took his place on
the other side of her. As was the case
when they were together, their hands linked over her belly. He took a moment to reflect that their hands
were connected over their child.
“She
is quite upset, Jim.” Spock said this
without taking his eyes off Nyota.
“Can
you blame her, Spock? I mean, we were
just talking about having a family, but it was just talk. Unfortunately, we are not the only ones that have
to deal with this.”
“Jim?”
“Every
member of the command crew is affected.
There are nine other pregnant women due to McCoy’s big gaffe.”
Kirk
was sure he had just witnessed the Vulcan equivalent of shock with the dual
eyebrow raise. “Nine, Jim?” Spock’s
voice went one octet higher than normal.
“Nine.”
“That
is inconvenient.”
“That’s
a nice way to put it, but it’s the understatement of the century. The situation is far more than
inconvenient. I’ve got to report this to
Starfleet. Pike won’t be happy.” Kirk was trying to remember which regulations
applied in this extraordinary instance.
“That is an understatement, Jim.” He ran his index finger over Kirk’s, which
Kirk found very comforting. Their
relationship was so easy.
“McCoy’s
got another kid on the way, Chekov, Scotty, damn Sulu might have two…Nyota…we’re all going to be parents. All of us, if the mothers decide to keep
their babies.”
Spock
looked at him. “There is a chance that
Nyota was pregnant before my Pon Farr?”
There was a tinge of pain in Spock’s voice and it made Kirk ache.
“Yes. There’s a chance that the baby is mine.”
Spock
looked at her stomach. “It does not
matter whose child she carries, Jim.
Not to me.”
Kirk
knew that his lover meant it. “I don’t
care either, Spock. I will love this
baby no matter what.” He knew that he
would adore a child with Nyota’s eyes and Spock’s ears as much as he would love
a child that was his. Their love was
like that.
“It
would seem that you got your wish.”
Spock looked at him.
“I
didn’t expect for it to go down in this manner, Spock. I thought we’d be a bit more settled…our
relationship formalized, something along those lines.”
“By
formalized, you mean officially bonded to one another.”
“Or
married.” Kirk had been secretly
researching the possibility for months without mentioning it. He had discovered that the Federation
recognized polygamist marriages and had done so for over a century. It was a comforting thought.
“It
is not necessary, Jim.”
“I’m
aware of that, Spock. But I would like for
us to be formally committed.” He wanted
his lovers to sport the intergalactic symbol for back the fuck off.
“We
should proceed with these turn of events in a logical manner. Tomorrow, we will begin making all necessary
arrangements, which includes the notification to Starfleet.”
“Tomorrow,”
Kirk said. “I really don’t want to be
bothered with the runaround tonight. I’m
exhausted.”
“You
look exhausted,” Spock said, reaching over to run the back of his hand over
Kirk’s cheek. Kirk closed his eyes.
“Have
you ever been surrounded by nine screaming women? I’m surprised I’m still here. For a moment there, I knew they were going to
attack me.”
“Get
some rest, t’hy’la.” Kirk smiled.
He called Nyota k’diwa. “I will request a meal for Nyota and
you. She needs to take better care of
herself now. We must take care of her as
well.”
Kirk
sighed, putting his head next to hers on the pillow. “I’m gonna take a nap. Check in with the bridge and then have the
meal sent up, Spock.”
“All
right, Jim.”
Spock
acknowledged that he didn’t want to leave the comfort of his lovers, but duty
was duty and he knew Kirk needed to rest.
He stood up and kissed him gently on the lips, and then did the same to
Nyota. Their cocoon was a very nice
place to be; a sanctuary from the rest of the world. Their love was so easy. He looked down at
them, pleased to see Kirk’s hand come to rest protectively on Nyota’s belly;
over their child.
Spock
knew that Kirk was more distressed about the other nine women than he was about
their lady love. He wanted this baby
regardless of paternity. He also knew
that they would adjust to this and their relationship would become stronger as
a result. He was even more convinced
that their love was meant to be.
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