Gone | Jim Kirk | STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Barely Dead

Scotty drags Carolynn to the med bay, as two suited medical officers, take Jim's limp body to Bones. Bones reveals Jim's face as Carolynn walks forward towards the bed. She cups his face in her hands and places her forehead against his.

Bones looks at the girl with a defeated expression. He watches her sob silently holding his body. Her own small being shaking with grief. She isn't howling, but the calculative sobs on her part is expressing so much more. She didn't want to be the typical broken woman with a dead lover. She thought she is more than that. But, now that he is not here anymore, now that his lifeless body is laying on the bed, she feels herself crumbling from inside. To exhausted to express any more than what she's been doing right now.

Carol Marcus comes forward and places a hand on her back. Carolynn glances up at the woman and stands up straight. "I'm sorry about your father, Dr. Marcus. I empathize with you."

"And I.." Carol stops for a bit before continuing, "And I, Miss. Pike, have no words of condolences for you. I don't. And I'm sorry."

"He was supposed to stay." Carolynn says, a sob breaking through her voice.

Carol Marcus nods her head and hugs the crying brunette, when they hear Bones shouting, "Get me a cryotube. Now!"

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Within seconds, Carolynn is asked to take a seat, as the medical officers get to work. 

A cryotube is pushed beside Jim. Bones points towards the tube and orders, "Get this guy out of the cryotube. Keep him in an induced coma. We're gonna put Kirk inside. It's our only chance to preserve his brain function." as he walks beside Carol, and looks at Jim's unconscious body.

"How much of Khan's blood is left?" Carol asks.

"None." Bones mutters and walks up to the comms.

"Enterprise to Spock. Spock!" He calls over comms, but doesn't receive any response.

Carolynn watches Bones, Carol and another medical officer place Jim into one of the cryotubes.

" Activate the cryogenic sequence." Bones says and Carol obliges.

"McCoy to bridge. I can't reach Spock. I need Khan alive. You get that son of a bitch back on board right now! I think he can save Kirk." Bones says over comms as Carolynn bolts out of the med bay to the transporters room to find Uhura prepare to beam down to the surface.

"Your phaser." Carolynn orders the Lieutenant as the man hands the weapon over to her. She joins Uhura on the pad. Soon both the Gold and the Red shirted women beam down in time to distract Khan from crushing Spock's skull.

Both the women fire lots of stun shots at Khan, weakening the man considerably. Spock pulls a small metal cover off something and uses it as brass knuckles to take his revenge on the fallen Khan. Spock twists Khan's arm as a loud crack is heard.

"Spock! Don't!" Carolynn shouts but, all in vain.

"Spock! Spock, stop! Stop! He's our only chance to save Kirk!" Uhura finally catches the man's attention. Spock stops, then throws a final punch knocking him out.

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Time skip to two weeks later. Location- Starfleet Cafeteria

Uhura walks into the food court to find a pale brunette seated alone at one of the tables, sipping coffee. An untouched plate of crepes by her side. She is not in her uniform, but in casual clothes, something is strictly not allowed, but given that her father was a respected official of Starfleet and she herself is one of the senior command officers of the organisation, Starfleet made an exception for her. Young cadets are staring at her with sympathy in their eyes.

Uhura makes her way towards her friend and takes a seat in front of her. Carolynn looks up from her coffee and gives her friend a tired smile. 

"Hey." Uhura greets her. "How is he?"

"The same." Carolynn replies. "He is still in coma. His cells were heavily irradiated. We are lucky, Bones could keep his brain function stable.

"Don't worry, Lynn. That bastard is barely dead. Soon he'll be back on his feet." Uhura says squeezing her hand."

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Location- Starfleet Medicals

"Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives. I dare you to do better."

"I'm in love with you, James Kirk."

Various voices run through Jim's head as he comes back to his senses abruptly. He takes in and exhales out a few heavy breaths. He turns to his right to find Bones say, "Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead. it was the transfusion that really took its toll. You were out cold for two weeks." while checking his vitals.

"Transfusion?" Jim mumbles in question.

"Your cells were heavily irradiated. We had no choice." Bones replies taking a reading of his heart rate.

"Khan." Jim says, furrowing his eyes.

"Once we caught him, I synthesized a serum from his super-blood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal? Power mad? Despotic?" Bones asks sarcastically.

"No more than usual." Jim pauses for a moment and then asks, "How'd you catch him?"

"I didn't." Bones says as Spock enters.

"You saved my life." Jim says, a small smile on his features.

"Uhura, Lynn and I had something to do with it, too, you know." Bones adds making Jim glance at him for a moment.

"You saved my life, Captain, and the lives of-" Spock begins, but id interrupted by Jim's "Spock, just. Thank you."

"You are welcome, Jim." Spock replies.

Jim groans a bit as Bones straighten the bed and helps him sit properly. "Where's Rose?"

"She is at the cafeteria, Captain." Spock replies.

"Yeah. She kind of never left this room in the past two weeks. The only time she finally agreed to leave is when I told her that she stinks and needs to shower. I had to throw her out of this room cause she needed to eat something." Bones says shaking his head disapprovingly.

A few minute later Spock leaves and Bones leaves to check on other patients leaving an exhausted Jim Kirk to rest.

Jim is gazing out of the the glass wall when the doors slide open and Carolynn walks in. Her eyes widen a bit, but she reaches her normal soon. She walks up to the man, holds his face in his, and Kisses him deeply. Jim realizes her urgency and parts his lips and lets her in. He lets her dominate the kiss.

"Asshole." Carolynn mutters placing her forehead against his. Both their eyes closed as they breath each other in.

"Aah. I love you too." Jim replies chuckling a bit.

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One more chapter to go!

The film kinds of ends here tbh.

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