Bundles of Joy

Jim sighed as he walked out of medbay. He was glad that Sarek was going to be alright. While Sarek was taken in for surgery, he decided to give Amanda, Spock, and Sarek some time alone before the surgery. He turned the corridor and headed towards the bridge to check on everything when he heard a noise behind him.

He turned and quickly jumped out of the way as an Andorian tried swinging at him. Jim put his back against the bulkhead and held his fists up to defend himself when the Andorian turned towards him and pulled a knife out from somewhere.

Spock! Need you! Jim yelled at his mate as the Andorian lunged forward and slashed at him with the knife.

Jim dodged to the right and swung his arm out, getting cut on his forearm, before falling to the ground. He looked to the Andorian in time to see him get hit with phaser fire and fall to the ground.

Jim held a hand to his arm as somewhere knelt down and helped him into a seated position.

“Are you well, young one?” Selik asked.

Jim blinked and nodded before looking to his arm and seeing how bloody it was. “Nope, changed my mind. Not well.”

“JIM!” they heard Spock roar from around the corridor before he appeared next to them. “T’hy’la, what happened? Your arm. Who did this?” Spock looked to Selik and snarled.

“He saved me,” Jim assured him. “Andorian did it.”

Spock glanced to the unconscious alien before kneeling down and picking his mate up as security officers stormed the area.

“Put them both in the brig,” Spock ordered, nodding to Selik and the Andorian.

“No, put the one that attacked me in the bridge. Selik, come with us.”

“Captain,” Spock tried but Jim glared at him.

“Medbay, now,” Jim ordered.

Spock frowned but quickly walked them to medbay.

“Thank you,” Jim said to the nurse who patched his arm up.  He smiled at Jim before checking on the fetal monitors.

“The heartbeats are strong and I don’t see anything wrong with them,” the nurse said. “Doctor McCoy will be out of surgery soon and will double check.”

Jim nodded then looked to the babies and listened to their heartbeats.

“I’m glad you are okay, Jim,” Amanda said from where he sat next to him. “You and the babies.”

“Thanks. Sarek will be okay too,” he told him before hearing growls. Jim sighed as he looked to the side and found Spock glaring at Selik.

“Spock, stop,” Jim ordered. “And Selik, explain yourself. You’ve been missing and we have a dead Andorian ambassador.”

“I did not kill Gav,” Selik said. “I attempted to save him from that fate but was unable to. Since then I have been attempting to locate the Andorian to keep him from attacking you.”

“You were unable to do that as well,” Spock said.

“Selik, we need more of an explanation,” Jim told him.

Selik sighed and sat down near Jim. “As I have previously said, your path is yours to walk, and yours alone. I will not give you information that could alter your destiny.”

“Yet you keep breaking that,” Jim said with a small smile.

“Indeed. For good reason though. For almost two years I have not needed to…help in any way. I had hoped this conference would not take place in this time but it has.”

“Is something wrong on Babel?”

“No. The conference will go smoothly, however, this journey to the conference is rocky. Sarek, Gav, and Thelev. Thelev was the Orion that attacked you.”

“Andorian,” Spock corrected.”

“No, an Orion in disguise,” Selik told him.

“Why would an Orion disguise himself as Andorian and attack me?” Jim asked.

“Orion smugglers have been raiding the Coridan system,” Selik said. “You’ll find that the Orion in the brig is still trying to get into contact with his ship and they will soon be attacking the Enterprise.”

Spock nodded then turned to leave but Jim grabbed his arm.

“Wait for me. I am the Captain around here.”

“You need to…”

“I’m fine, babies are fine.  If you tell me to rest I’ll slap you.”

Selik chuckled.

“I’ll slap you too, Selik, and don’t think I won’t just because you’re old,” Jim said. “Any other news to share?”

“No. I am certain you will know what to do, Captain.”

Jim nodded then had Spock help him out of the bed. “To the brig then the bridge, Mr. Spock.”

“Aye, Captain,” Spock replied, putting his arm around Jim and leading him out of medbay.

When they were gone Amanda looked to Selik and asked, “Sarek will be alright, won’t he?”

“He will,” Selik said. “I made sure medbay would have a sufficient amount of T negative blood on board.”

“In your time, they did not? Did he…”

“He lived then as well, but the procedure was a lot more complicated. My relationship with my parents was much different.”

Amanda reached out and cupped his face. “I’m glad you’re here.”

“As am I, Ko-mekh.”

Amanda smiled then lightly patted Selik’s cheek. “You have been a little naughty lately though, so go sit in the corner.”

“I do not think…”

Amanda narrowed her eyes, “Don’t talk back to your mother. Corner. Now.”

Selik’s eyes widened slightly as he nodded then slowly walked over to the corner of the medbay.

An hour later, after the enemy Orion ship that had been following them had self-destructed and Thelev had died, Jim and Spock trudged back to medbay with Chris and sat down to wait for Sarek to come out of surgery.

The twins were there with their grandmother, walking around and saying ‘hi’ to all the nurses and injured crewmembers laying in biobeds.

Jim smiled at them before sitting down in a biobed himself and relaxing. He looked to Amanda and asked, “Why’s Selik in the corner?”

“He’s in trouble,” she replied.

“That’s nice,” Jim chuckled as the nurse from before walked over and attached the fetal monitors back to him. “Thanks again.”

“No problem, Captain,” the nurse replied before walking away.

“Wow, there really is two babies in there,” Chris muttered, looking at the view screen.

“Yep,” Jim sighed.

When Bones was finished with surgery, Sarek was put in a recover room while Bones went to check on Jim.

“I’m fine,” Jim fussed as Bones quickly scanned him then checked his arm.

“I know, but I have to double check,” Bones grumbled before checking on the babies.

“Hey, Bones?”

“What?”

“Could you…write on a piece of paper what the sexes of the twins are so I can surprise Sarek?”

Bones looked to his friend then smiled and nodded. “Of course. Just…wait a few hours. Don’t want to give the hobgoblin another heart attack.”

Jim laughed. “Of course not.”

“Why can’t we open the envelope?” Soren asked.

“We want to know about the babies too,” Xander added.

“We all want to know, but it’ll be grandpa that gets to find out first,” Jim told them.

“What do you hope the twins are?” Spock asked his sons.

They looked to each other then back to their parents. “A girl and a boy.”

“I would like that as well,” Spock nodded.

“Alright, let’s go in and see everyone,” Jim then said before taking his sons’ hands and leading them into Sarek’s room.

They smiled at Chris, Selik and Amanda as the boys released Jim’s hand and went to Sarek’s bedside.

“You okay, Grandpa?” they asked.

“I am well,” Sarek replied.

“We have a surprise for you,” they said.

“As long as you agree not to have another heart attack, though,” Jim added. “Bones said so.”

“He won’t,” Amanda assured them before pulling her grandsons to her for a big hug.

Jim smiled as Spock placed a hand to the small of his back and guided him to Sarek’s bedside. “Here is your surprise,” Jim said, handing over the envelope.

Sarek arched a brow before opening the envelope and taking out the piece of paper inside. Sarek’s eyes skimmed the note before the Vulcan broke out into a small smile.

That’s weird, Jim commented. Never seen your dad smile before.

Neither have I, Spock replied as Sarek looked to room’s occupants.

“May I read the note aloud?” he asked.

Jim nodded. “Go for it. We all want to know.”

“Know what?” Chris and Amanda asked.

“Jim and Spock are expecting daughters,” Sarek said.

“YES!” Jim screamed before hugging Spock tight.

Amanda lightly sobbed happy tears as the boys clapped. Chris smiled and tried not to join Amanda with the sobbing.

Two girls! Yes! Jim mentally exclaimed as Spock hugged him back.

Indeed. Two beautiful daughters, t’hy’la.

“What’s with all the noise in here?” Bones came into the room and barked. “This hobgoblin just had major surgery and ya’ll are in here hootin' and hollerin'.”

“Hootin?” Spock questioned, looked to the doctor with a raised brow.

“Shh!” Bones snapped and before anyone else could say anything he shushed them too.  The room went quiet as Bones stared them down. “Good. Keep the noise down or else everyone is out.”

“Uncle Bones,” Xander said sweetly.

“Yes?” Bones asked, looking down to the twins.

“You need a nap,” Soren told him.

Two Weeks Later

Jim fanned himself as they stepped off the shuttle and into New Vulcan’s heat. The conference had been a success and now everyone was back where they were supposed to be.  Chris had been dropped off with another federation ship after the conference to head back to San Francisco to update the Admirals while Sarek, Amanda, and Selik stayed on to be transported back to their planet.

“Can’t you stay for at least a night?” Amanda asked sadly. “It’s Christmas.”

“Yesterday was Christmas,” Jim told her. “And we had a lovely time with you all aboard, but we have to get back to Starfleet business.”

“We’ll be back soon,” Soren said.

“Before our sisters are here,” Xander added.

“Maybe not that soon,” Jim sighed. “But perhaps right around their due date.”

Amanda nodded then knelt down for hugs from her grandsons. “Grandpa and I love you all so much. We’ll see each other again.”

“We love you too,” the twins replied.

“We will arrange for a video conference soon and on the boys’ birthday,” Spock said.

“That is acceptable,” Sarek replied before hugging his son. Spock stiffened at the contact before relaxing and hugged his father back.

Jim smiled at the sight before getting a hug from Selik. “You behave now, young man.”

Selik chuckled. “I will attempt to, little one.”

“Little,” Jim laughed, stepping back and touching his baby bump. “I’m not little at the moment.”

“Indeed not,” Selik agreed before pressing a hand to Jim’s stomach. He smiled at feeling the movements under his hand. “They are active.”

“Yeah. They keep kicking and making me have pee every ten minutes. We’ll see you soon, Selik.”

Selik nodded before Spock appeared behind Jim and growled. He put his arms around his mate and swatted at Selik’s hand to move.

“Have fun keeping him in line,” Selik told him.

“I shall try,” Jim chuckled before moving from Spock to hug Amanda.

“I am no threat to your mate,” Selik told Spock.

“I am aware. I just…”

“Cannot help yourself,” Selik finished. “Jim brings that out in us, doesn’t he?”

Spock nodded before holding his hand up in a Vulcan salute. “Thank you for your help. I do not know what I would have done if Jim or our daughters had been seriously hurt or…worse.”

“That is why I felt I needed to be aboard and found out I was right.” Selik then held his own hand up. “Live long and prosper, Spock.”

“Peace and long life,” Spock replied.

“Dada Selik, you need to hug us too!” the twins then said, running over to Selik and hugging him.

Dada Selik? Spock internally growled.

What? It’s cute, Jim replied.

No.