Pike stared at the brown haired woman as she sobbed into a tissue, as the woman who stood beside her was bent and hugged her, rubbing her arm. The woman certainly looked terrified and quite upset as she sat in the farthest seat possible from Jim who had arrived on earth two days before. Pike had to admit; she was one hell of an actress. Spock was at Jim's side, quiet and serene, as was usual, and what Pike had expected to see from the stoic Vulcan. McCoy was also there, sitting on Jim's other side, arms crossed over his chest and scowling.

"Why would you allow that monster in here, hasn't Maria suffered enough?" the woman who was comforting the former ensign snapped, before turning a glare on Jim.

"Because Captain Kirk has a right to face his accuser" Pike answered and the Woman glared at him at that point.

"Don't worry Miss Lewis, Captain Kirk can not get near you" Marrow assured her comfortingly, and Pike noticed that McCoy rolled his eyes.

"The only good thing that will come out of this is that Kirk" the woman spat the name with absolute contempt. "Will be put where he belongs. Although if it was up to me, animals like him would be put down instantly".

"Good thing it's not up to you then, or every innocent man in the world be dead" McCoy said angrily narrowing his eyes at the blonde haired woman.

"Innocent? He's not innocent and he knows it. That man is a monster who paraded himself around as a hero" she argued, matching the doctors glare head on.

"He is a hero, if it wasn't for him all of earth would be destroyed right now, just like Vulcan" McCoy snapped.

"That doesn't excuse what he has done" the woman all but yelled.

"Why are you even here in the first place? Who are you?" Bones asked.

"Michelle Lewis, I'm her sister," she answered, brushing her hand through the brown hair of Maria Lewis.

"Can we please stop arguing and get this started?" Archer hollered above the voice of McCoy who was just telling the woman what he thought of her sister and her. The two yelling attendees stopped immediately and Jim jumped in his seat at the unexpected shout.

"Good" Archer sighed in frustration, scrubbing a hand over his wrinkled face.

"Now, Ms. Lewis would you like to tell us your story?" Archer asked and the brown haired woman sniffed and wiped at tears but nodded and sat straighter in her chair anyway.

"The Captain asked me to meet him in his quarters, said that his shower wasn't working, I assured him I could fix it. When I got there, he showed me to the bathroom, I checked but the shower was working perfectly fine, Captain Kirk just laughed and said he must have been mistaken. When I tried to leave, the door was locked. He told me not to scream, said that everything was fine, and that there was no reason to worry. He said that he knew I liked him, and I had, but I knew he was with commander Spock. I told him that I wasn't going to help him cheat on commander Spock, and then he grabbed me and threw me on his bed. I struggled of course, but he ordered me to stay still and told me not to make a sound, he held an old fashioned letter opener to my neck, and then he raped me" She sobbed harder.

McCoy mentally cursed, the girl had done her research apparently, if she knew that Jim owned an old letter opener. Jim and his damn obsession with antiques, Bones knew they were gonna get him in trouble one day, he just assumed that it would be Jim hurting himself with one of his stupid prized possessions.

"Captain Kirk, do you own an old fashioned letter opener?" Archer asked, and Jim bit his lip.

"Yes" Jim reluctantly admitted. Archer nodded as the computer beeped, alerting that it had finished recording the answer.

"Why don't you tell us your side of things then Captain?" Archer asked.

"Maria Lewis flirted with me from the first day she started on the Enterprise, I always turned her down. And I had thought that after she found out I was in a relationship with Spock she would stop, but she never did. She would say innuendos and try to get me to sleep with her. Bo...Dr. McCoy constantly tried to tell me to have her transferred, but I just thought it was harmless flirting. I never encouraged her advances or responded the way she wanted" Jim said.

"Dr. McCoy, did you try to encourage Captain Kirk to have Ensign Lewis transferred?" Archer asked.

"Yes sir I did. What she was doing was just on the line of being sexual harassment and I tried to get Jim to listen to me and transfer her before she did something. Jim didn't want to be mean though, so he always told me it wasn't a big deal" Bones replied.

"If I may say something Admiral?" Spock spoke up for the first time since they had arrived.

"Of Course Commander" Archer nodded.

"Thank you. As mates Jim and I often engage in Mind melds, it is one of the most intimate acts between bondmates to my people. There can be no secrets in a meld, the other sees everything that is in their partners minds. We had engaged in this act long before we even became mates, since our romantic relationship we had engaged in melds. And of the time we had not in the beginning of our relationship, Ensign Lewis was not yet on board. If Jim had done what she claims I would have known, whether it was before we bonded or not. If he had done it after, I would have felt everything through our bond, no matter how far away I was, not to mention Jim was severely injured after our bonding and spent three weeks unconscious in Sickbay" Spock said calmly.

"Tell me your not going to believe that load of utter shit" Michelle Lewis snapped once Spock was finished.

"Ms. Lewis, one more outburst and I will have escorted from the room. Starfleet has accepted Vulcan mind melds as evidence for a very long time. I have been briefed on Mind melds many times and told there is no way to lie in them" Archer told her. The blonde just scowled and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Further more, we have a computer recording everything and at the end of this we will have the computer analyse everything for signs of deceit, and discover who is lying and who is telling the truth" Archer added.

"Fine, then are we done?" she asked.

"Yes, I suppose so" Archer answered her and ordered the computer to analyze for deception.

"People are giving me a headache" Archer mumbled quietly as the computer analyzed everything. Only Pike who was sitting right next to the man and Spock with Vulcan hearing heard him however.

"Analysis, complete" the computer announced a few minutes later.

"Computer, was there any deception?" Archer asked.

"Yes" was the artificial voices response.

"Who is the one who lied?" Archer asked.

"Maria Lewis" was the reply and Pike smiled while both Marrow and Maria scowled at the object on the desk.

"Ms. Lewis, why did you file a false report?" Archer asked, and Pike noticed the man was not at all happy with the young woman.

"Because, it wasn't fair. All he had to do was sleep with me one time and I would be famous just by saying that I slept with the savior of earth. For once in my life, someone would be jealous of me, I'd be better then my sister for once" she said angrily. "I would be the one getting attention," she added.

"Well you'll certainly going to get attention, just not the kind you wanted" McCoy told her.

"You are aware that it is illegal to file a false report of that nature, right Ms. Lewis?" Archer asked.

"I didn't think you'd use the computer" she replied, glaring at the computer once again.

"Yes, but this was a high profile case" Archer explained before turning to look at the three men who sat on the other side of the desk.

"Captain Kirk, we owe you our apologies, you are free to go now. Ms. Lewis, you may leave as well. Ensign Lewis however we ask that you remain here" Archer said standing up. The other admirals, Jim, Bones, Spock and Michelle Lewis all followed him out of the room.

XXX

Outside of the building was a group of reporters, filming the building as they walked out and yelling over each other trying to be heard. Anything that involved the savior of earth was big news and everyone wanted to be the one to get the biggest scoop.

"Admiral, Admiral, can you tell us the findings?" A small reporter asked, pushing her way through the crowd to the front.

"Due to the high profile surrounding this case we used the computer to see which party was telling the truth, and which was not. We discovered that Ensign Maria Lewis filed a false report against Captain Kirk. For that reason, we wish to offer a public apology to him" Archer replied.

"What will happen to Ensign Lewis?" another reporter asked.

"She will be taken into custody to await a decision" Archer answered.

After a few more questions, the reporters were satisfied and allowed them to leave, snapping pictures as Jim, Spock, and Bones made there way to the waiting air car.

XXX

Jim settled back against the seat with a sigh, he was so happy that was finally over with. Now all they had to worry about was the party his mother was throwing for them. She had once again postponed the party for the two days they had to spend in San Francisco. But they were heading to get Sarek and Selek and then to Riverside.

Sarek and Selek were calmly waiting in the lobby of the hotel, bags packed and waiting by their feet on the floor.

"Ah, there you are" Selek stood, straightening the black pants he wore as well as his shirt. Sarek stood as well and bent to pick up his bags.

"How did it go?" Sarek asked. Jim smiled at him, he was wearing robes just like he had expected.

"They officially proved my innocence and apologized" Jim explained, grabbing one of Selek's bags before the older Vulcan could.

"Jim I am perfectly capable of carrying my own luggage" Selek told him.

"Yeah I know, now stop arguing" Jim retorted. Sarek watched the interaction between the humans, his son, and the older version of his son, knowing that Amanda would have greatly enjoyed watching them as well. Sarek knew that his beloved wife would have been very proud of her son, for finding the one place he felt at home. Sarek was proud of his son as well.

The End!

Author's notes- Well that's the end of Bondmates, no matter what. Keep an eye out for the sequel I am calling Meet the Kirks. Hope you enjoyed this story; I certainly greatly enjoyed writing it. :D