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U.S.S. Kelvin, Capt. George C. Kirk, Capt. Christopher Pike

For the living, the Enterprise's sickbay was as silent as tomb, yet busy as a beehive…nurses rushed around in the treatment of patients and trying to provide what comfort they could to the rescued Vulcans whom lost all they hold dearly. Dr. McCoy, along with a few other nurses, was in surgery frantically trying to save the life of Captain Christopher Pike, who was hovering between the edges of life and death.

For the dead, the Enterprise sickbay was definitely not silent nor busy…in fact the newly dead souls were currently mobbing the only soul they felt could help them, Captain Christopher Pike. George Kirk winced and the Kelvin wearily sighed as they tried to get through the mob.

"Captain! Please, help me! I've got a fiancée," said one soul, while another whom George Kirk recognized as Dr. Puri said, "Chris! What the hell is going on!"

Noticing that they wouldn't be able to get thru the mob that surrounded Pike, George Kirk finally decided to put an end to this nonsense, by whistling very loud and sharply, all the souls turned to his as well as the Kelvin's direction, "Okay, listen up! All of you, with the expectation of Captain Pike are dead! I know it takes some getting use to, but I suggest you, to pardon the pun, live with it! Nero killed all of us, starting with me twenty-five years ago! And since I've been dead the longest on this ship, I will be the one to receive Pike's help!"

Silence met his demand, finally Dr. Puri asked, "Who are you and why to do you need his help?

Before he could answer, an Orion woman in a Starfleet uniform; answers the first question for him, "He's George C. Kirk, and you look just like your son except for the eyes."

He wearily sighed, "I know… and I realize being dead is a shock, but I need to inform Captain Pike on certain people that could pose a danger to the Federation."

Silence once again reigned over them, finally one man who was once the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise commented suspiciously, "That's not the only reason."

"No," admitted Kirk, "But, it's a very personal reason."

The souls mused over his request, finally they all drifted out of sick bay with the expectation of the Orion female cadet, she softly spoke, "I died on the Farrguet; I couldn't go on without saying good bye to my roommate or your son. This personal reason, it has to do with him?

George Kirk didn't say a thing just folded his arms and narrowed his eyes at her, however the Kelvin answered for him, "Yes, and if you wish to help us…to help young Kirk, go to the Bridge and keep watch if Winona Kirk contacts the Enterprise; come and warn us if she does."

The young cadet stared at them for a moment, finally she said, "I assume that she did something to Jim that you do not approve of."

"That," answered George angrily, "is putting it mildly!"

"Okay," she told him, "I'll do what you ask, but I would love to know the details!"

Before they could respond that comment, she disappeared, sighing George Kirk turned his attention to Captain Pike who was watching what was happening with interest as well as apprehension, "George," he drawled out, "What the hell is going on?"

Pinching his nose bridge, Capt. Kirk answered, "Chris, usually someone who is on the borderline between life and death would not remember the experience; however in your case there will be an acceptation due to the fact we need you to remember!"

"And just how pray tell will you do that?" questioned Pike sarcastically.

"With my help, Captain Pike," answered the Kelvin as she held out her hands to Kirk and Pike, "Come! There is so much to do, and so little time!"

As they each held one of her hands, she said, "Our first stop will be another place, and another time. Where Captain James T. Kirk had a loving family, and was Captain of the Enterprise at a much later age."

After watching the events of "Space Seed" and "The Wrath of Khan" in the Prime Universe…

Chris Pike groaned in despair as he stared at the brokenhearted faces of James T. Kirk and the rest of the Enterprise crew, loosing Spock as well as David Marcus had an appalling effect on them. George Kirk commented to him, "We steered Jim away from Carol Marcus in our universe, Chris. They're not right for each other, and it's better for everyone if her future son had a different father. Besides, I want a lot of grandchildren, not just one!

The Kelvin added, "All of my sisters have been informed of the situation and will shoot the SS Bounty Bay on sight, despite what any captain or crew may do to stop it. But, there is always a chance that a civilian ship may discover that ship before any Starfleet ship!"

Finally realizing what they were getting at, he muttered, "You want me to keep an eye out if such a situation arises."

George patted his friend arm consolably, "You're right, we do. But, that's not the only thing; I need you to continue be a parent to Jim!"

"That's the second time you mention something like that, I don't want to replace you, or Winona!" he shouted.

The Kelvin sighed as she transported them back to they're own universe, "Captain Pike, perhaps you need another point of view on the life that James T. Kirk has led so far."

Re-boot universe, Iowa…

Looking around at the farmhouse and cornfields, Pike asked, "Where, or should I say when are we?"

"My family farm," replied George Kirk as he pointed out an elderly gentleman and two young children, "A year after my death; that's my father Tiberius, George Jr., and the little tyke trying to walk is Jim."

Chris frowned and asked, "Where is Winona?"

Frowning, the Kelvin pointed to the woman coming out of the house, "There."

"Winona!" yelled Tiberius, "Jimmie-boy is walking, look at this!"

"Can't right now, Tiberius; I have to catch a ship to Riglian 3 for a conference!" she yelled as she hurried to the hover car, "Take care, I'll see you and the kids in a month!"

Tiberius frowned in displeasure, while George Jr. scowled in the direction that his mother left; in the meantime, Chris Pike was flabbergasted, "What the hell?"

George let out an angry sigh, "This wasn't the first time that she had done this! At this particular moment in time, I thought she was still grieving over my death. But, it got worse after my parents died and she married a bastard by the name of Frank Long."

Ten Years Later…

Captain Pike winced as George Kirk Jr. protected his brother from the belt that their alcoholic father was whipping them with, "Where in the hell is Winona?" he asked in anger and disgust.

"Off planet," answered the Kelvin in bitterness, "Again!"

George quietly said in a fury, "While that son of a bitch did what you are watching, again. I snapped!" Chris watched in amazement as the alcoholic man was lifted up by invisible hands and smashed into the wall, where he fell down into unconsciousness. The two little boys looked at each other in shock, and then ran out of the room.

"That night," continued George Kirk, "I appeared into my older son's dreams, I told him to run away to San Francisco and find you at the Academy. I knew you could help my sons out of this situation, and maybe even get custody over them. But, things didn't go exactly as planned…"

Two weeks later, around midnight…

"Sam," whispered a young James Kirk, "Why do you have to leave?"

"I told you," responded George Kirk Jr., also known as Sam, "I'm going to find an old friend of Dad's at the Academy, he can help us! I'm using Grandpa Tiberius's emergency stash of credits that he hid for us. Can you hold on until help arrives, little bro?"

Young Jim Kirk bit his lip as he replied, "I guess, just be careful Sam!"

"I will," he promised.

Half an Hour later, at a bar outside of the Iowa Shipyards…

Chris Pike stared around, and mused, "This is the same bar that I found your son, drunk as a skunk."

George chuckled darkly, "There was a reason he was here and drunk on that particular night; and that reason is about to happen! Watch the doors, Chris."

He did, and suddenly Sam Kirk burst thru the door, screaming, "PLEASE! HEL…"

He never finished his sentence as a shot was heard, and he fell down on the floor…dead. His stepfather stood over him, waving what appeared to be to Chris, a twentieth century handgun, he drunkenly said, "Now you'll stay here, you little bastard!"

Chris closed his eyes in pain, "Oh, god," he muttered, and when he opened them, he was now in a civilian courtroom.

Frank Long was standing as the judge pronounced the sentence, she was about to finish when Winona Kirk, now Long, stood up, "Frank isn't guilty of murder! Sam just ran away, I'm sure he'll turn up."

The judge's gaze hardens as she replied, "The evidence is overwhelming, and if I could…I would sentence you right along with him! Court Dismiss!"

George Kirk stared at his friend as he said, "Do you have any idea how I felt at this particular moment, Chris?"

"I can imagine," he whispered, "Winona needs help!"

"Oh, she needs more than that!" yelled George.

"She needs to be placed in a fucking metal institution!" finished the Kelvin, "After this… Winona sent Jim to her sister and her family on Tarsus IV; he thought he could finally be safe and have a family who would love him. Unfortunately, George and I knew differently thanks to the information I received from my sister in the other universe."

"Why do I get the feeling this isn't going to be good?" asked Chris.

"It's not," confirmed George Kirk.

Tarsus IV…4 years later…

Chris Pike felt like he was going to throw up as he watched Governor Kodos used a laser whip on a sickly and pale, thirteen year old James Kirk; suddenly Kodos dropped the whip and escaped the room, right before Starfleet officers burst in to rescue the young boy. "Please tell me that son of a bitch is dead," he pleaded.

"No," growled George Kirk, "He's in Klingon space somewhere!"

"With his equally crazy daughter!" added the Kelvin, "Look on the bright side, Frank is dead, though Winona's fifth husband is just as a deadbeat as he was! But, back on the topic at hand; after this incident, Jim was sent back to Earth, and lived in a Starfleet youth hostel until he was eighteen. Winona didn't want him anymore, and the only times she contacts him is to ask him where Sam is…"

"Or to tell him how much of a hero I was saving eight hundred lives," finished George Kirk, "If I know my dearly, beloved wife as soon as she hears how he destroyed the Narada and saved Earth…she will contact him to tell him he shouldn't have overshadowed my sacrifice and Jim will never be the man I was."

Chris closed his eyes in pain for a moment, "Let me guess, this is where I take Winona down a peg for you and you want me to be a father to your son! Good, God! George I am not father material! Plus he's a grown man now!"

"Chris," George said as he wrapped an arm around his shoulders, "Who got Jim out of that bar fight and into the Academy?"

"Well…"

"Who became his emergency contact and next of kin at the Academy?" asked Kelvin.

"I…"

"Who lectured and scolded him at the Academy?" questioned George.

"Okay, maybe…"

"Who encouraged and praised him at the Academy?" she asked quickly.

"Who sat beside him and stayed with him at the hospital after every allergy attack or whenever he got sick these past three years?" questioned George.

"ALL RIGHT!" bellowed Chris Pike, "The both of you made your point! I'm starting to see Jim like a son! But, he certainly doesn't think of me like a father!"

"Chris," George told him in reassurance, "Look…" Before Pike could blink he was seeing himself on a biobed in a private room on the Enterprise, sitting beside him was James T. Kirk.

U.S.S. Kelvin, Capt. George C. Kirk, Capt. Christopher Pike

"It's been three days since the battle, Da...er…sir," spoke Jim Kirk to his unconscious body, "It will take us six weeks to get back to Earth, but Scotty has this crazy idea that he can boost the impulse power and cut our trip back down a week. Starfleet can't send us anything, but they are anxious to talk to me as soon as we get back."

Before he could say anything further, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy step into the room, "All right, Captain! Let me see how those injuries are healing!"

"Aw, Bones!" protested James Kirk.

As two young men had an intense conversation, George Kirk pleaded to his friend, "You see…he does think of you as a father! Do what I can't do, Chris! Help him be a good Captain of the Enterprise; get Starfleet to bend the rules on marriage and families, no place is completely safe to raise families! Nero proved that to everyone! I want Jim to get married as Captain of the Enterprise, and raise a family! I want lots of grandchildren, and you can spoil them for me! And, you can tell Jim that I am proud of him! Also, I better not see him until he has a bunch of grandchildren and great-grandchildren!

"Get married your self, Captain Pike," the Kelvin added to the plea, "Jim could use a better mother than Winona! And he would make a wonderful big brother!"

Captain Pike smirked, "I'll do my best for Jim, though no one can replace you, George! And as for me getting married, I'll think about it!"

George smiled sadly, "That's all I ask, and it's time for you to go back, Chris."

Chris stared at him in curiosity, but before he could ask, he found himself groaning and waking up in his body, "Hey, Bones! Look, he's waking up!" shouted young Kirk.

As the good doctor rushed toward his patient, the Kelvin and George C. Kirk looked at one another, "Our baby bird is finally safe," he told her.

"He's not much of a baby anymore, George," she said and then sighed wearily, "Let's go say, farewell to my sister and dragged that young cadet off with us."

"Where do you want to go?" he asked.

"Earth," she responded, "I am more than ready for a new body, and no offense, George…but I need a break from anyone with the last name of Kirk!"

George Kirk laughed in response as they disappeared from the room.

Epilogue…

125 years after the death of George C. Kirk…

U.S.S. Kelvin, U.S.S. Enterprise, Capt. George C. Kirk

George Kirk looked over at his descendents as they surrounded his son's bed…James T. Kirk was an old man now, and dying…suddenly two women in white jumpsuits appeared beside him…it was the U.S.S. Kelvin-E and the U.S.S. Enterprise-D.

"Are we in time?" asked the Kelvin who still appeared a middle aged woman to him.

"Yes," he told them, "Where's Spock?"

"He's beaming down from me now," replied Enterprise, "Along with Captain Picard."

"So, is Captain Pike," added the Kelvin.

"I thought you needed a break from Kirks?" asked Enterprise in a teasing tone.

Rolling her eyes Kelvin responded, "She married a Kirk, who is half a McCoy and her CMO thank the stars!"

"Quiet!" hissed George Kirk, "It's finally happening and I have waited a long time for this!"

Unknown to the living, with his last breath…James T. Kirk stepped out of his body and appeared as he did when he first officially received command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, "F-father?" he stuttered out.

George Kirk smiled as tears rolled down his eyes and pulled his son into a hug, which was eagerly returned, "Oh, Jimmy! I have wanted to hug you for so long!"

"Then, what Da…I mean Chris said," Jim Kirk started to ask but was interrupted by his father.

"Go ahead and call him Dad, son," he told him, "I did give my blessing to him after the Narada incident, and every word he told you was true!"

Smiling in relief, he looked at the two ladies before him and smirked, "Kelvin and Enterprise, I presume?"

"Yes," answered the Kelvin for both of them, as the Enterprise smiled with pride at her favorite chosen one.

James Kirk smiled in return and looked around, "Where is everyone?"

"Waiting on us," answered George, "They're on the other side and I imagine they will give us a big welcome home party!"

"Even, Mom?" Jim asked hesitantly.

The three older spirits look at one another, finally the Enterprise said, "Jim…your Mother is serving penitence due to what she had done in her first life."

"Penitence? First Life? What do you mean?" he asked confused.

George Kirk, sighed wearily as he said, "I'll explain when we get home, c'mon! Everyone is waiting!"

As they disappeared from sight, the two ship spirits stared at one another finally the Kelvin asked, "Do you regret sharing Jim and becoming a family ship?"

"No," she slowly responded, "I can see now, if you hadn't made me make that promise…Jim would self-destruct as soon as he retired!

"Good," the Kelvin told her, "I wonder when we will complete our penitence?"

The Enterprise snorted as she said; "Only the powers that be know the answer to that!

"Indeed," agreed the Kelvin, "Pity we can not tell the new ship spirit of the Mayflower how many of James T. Kirk's family came to his deathbed."

"Yes, pity," she said as she remembered the Kelvin in her first life shortly before her death on Earth in the late 20th century, "But the powers that be prevents us from doing that!"

"Yes," she said as she remembered a conversation she had with the old ship spirit of the Mayflower before she passed on to the other side about who the Enterprise was in her first life, " Ah, well. Some secrets must remain secret, even between ships."

The Enterprise narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "And what in the stars does that mean?"

"Oh, nothing!" she innocently told her, "Got to go back now, the Chief Engineer needs some help on the bridge!"

"Help my warp engines!" muttered the Enterprise and then glanced at herself in a mortal mirror, for a moment she did not see herself as a young dark haired woman, but one who had bright red hair, flashing blue eyes, and wore a crown of gold. She closed her eyes, as someone from her memory whispered a name to her…Good Queen Bess…shaking her head to clear her mind, "Sometimes being one of the oldest among the ship spirits is a pain in the ass! My memory is going crazy!" And with that thought, she disappeared back to where she belonged…on her bridge.