Chapter Twenty-Two
Sarek blinked as he came back to consciousness to find his mother standing next to him. “Ko’mekh? What are doing here?”
“I was summoned when you fainted here in sickbay. Amanda told me that you came here when you felt her faint and when she awoke and told you the cause, you fainted as well. What could possibly cause this?”
“You better sit down then T’Pau,” Amanda said to her. She waved over one of the nurses and asked for a chair. Once one was brought over, T’Pau took a seat facing them.
“What is the matter?”
“It seems that the Excalbians did more than just kidnap my son. They performed experiments on all of the captives.”
“What do you mean?”
“What ko’mekh means is that we have been genetically altered. They combined our DNA two two other races in order to create a new race as part of their grand experiment,” Spoke told her.
“What was done?”
“They created two different classes in the race they are trying to create, hence why they took two of each when they kidnapped people. There dominants and submissives. I am the dominant and Jim is my submissive. They are trying to create a strong Telepathic/Empathic race that the submissive males can be breed. They chose to use DNA from the Kintzi and the Betazoids. They pulled the ability to go into heats, telepathy, among other things from the Kintzi. They looked for the gene on Telepathy and Empathy from the Betazoids, that was the trait they wanted from them. The dominant in the pairing now have the ability to lock into their mates at the time of breeding. The dominates of the pairings all have barbs on their penis’s.” Jim winced at the remembered feeling of the barbs digging into him. Though that had happened, the sex was still great. He felt and answering tundril of desire from Spock. “The submissive now has the ability to go into heat, just like a female of the Kintzi. Somehow they figured out a way for males to become pregnant and carry babies to term. They can give birth to them naturally as well. There would no need to perform surgery to remove the child. They figured out what to adjust in the DNA that will force the body to create its own womb and eggs. This is why they chose a species that experiences heats.”
“Oh and we can also breastfeed,” Jim put in helpfully.
T’Pau swayed a little in her seat. She could not believe what had been done, not only to her own family, but to the other four men as well. “I will speak to the Council. I believe we will have it set up so that your mate and the other four will be under the protection of New Vulcan. Perhaps this will assist in bringing our population back from the brink. We do need some new genetics and perhaps this ability can be passed on.”
“So you are okay with this?”
“Yes, Captain. You are now the bond mate of my grandson and you are now carrying my future grandchild.”
“Grandchildren.”
“Excuse me?”
“I’m carrying twins.”
“Indeed, that is good news. You will need to see someone to assist you in controlling your new abilities. The Human mind is not meant to process the information this ability gives you.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Jim said to her.
“You may call me T’Pau. We are to be family. When we reach New Vulcan, we will have a tel-tor ceremony. This will let the others know that you are telsu. If the others wish it, we can do a ceremony for them as well. They too will need to meet with a mind healer to teach them to hand this.”
“We will let them know, T’Pau. And thank you.”
“You are most welcome, Jim. Know if you will excuse me, I need to contact Council to let them know as to have everything ready for when we reach New Vulcan.” And with that, she rose from her seat, nodding to them all and departed.
“I spose it would be best of we contact Admiral Pike now. I can’t put it off any longer.” Jim sighed at the prospect of that conversation.
“You are correct, T’hy’la. Sa’mekh, Ko’mekh. We will speak later?”
“Indeed we will, Spock.”
“Bye, Amanda, Ambassador.”
“You may call me Sarek. You are my sons bond mate and have earned the privilege.”
“Thank you, Sarek.”
“Bye Jim, Spock.”
They turned and headed to Doctor McCoy's office. They had seen him leave earlier so they knew that they would have privacy for the call.
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No sooner had Uhura put in the subspace call to Pike, then it was answered,
‘He must have been sitting there waiting for this call.’ Jim grumbled to spoke mentally.
‘Indeed.’
“Only you Jim. So anything I should know about, kid?”
“I was kidnapped, genetically altered and Spock knocked me up. Not much really.”
“Look it smartass. I just had a lengthy meeting with the other Admirals, one of which wants yours and Commander Spock's command pulled and you two kicked out of Starfleet as apparently you are making us looking like a joke.”
“Komack, sir?”
“Yes, it weren’t for the fact that the Vulcan’s despite everything still have a lot of pull and I used that to our advantage, you would be in deep shit.”
“This was so not our fault.”
“Well a certain Xenophobic, homophobic idiot doesn't care.”
“They were talking by the end of the meeting to split up your command and ship Spock to the USS Delta.”
“That will not happen, sir.”
“And how do you pray tell stop it from happening Commander?”
“We are bonded now. Due to the experiments done to us, we now are a bonded couple and recognized by the head of the New Vulcan council.”
“Really?”
“Yes, sir. T’Pau is in contact with them now as we speak and you will be receiving the necessary forms soon.”
“Well that should pull your collective asses out of the fire. On to happy news, I plan on promoting Lieutenant Commander Scott. He did an excellent job while looking for you both.”
“Awesome. I am happy for him. You won’t be able to steal him for the command track. That man is mad for engineering.”
“Well, one can hope. So pregnant, huh?”
“Yeah,”
“You okay with it?”
“Yeah, I am. Though not looking forward to getting fat and having man boobs.”
“Pregnant, T’hy’la. Not fat, but pregnant.”
“Yes, dear.”
Pike laughed at the two’s antics. “Just so you know, when you reach New Vulcan, we are going to have the Enterprise retrofitted. You two will be moved in together and we will add a nursery/children's quarters.”
“Scotty should have fun drawing up the plans for that. You have unleashed the monster.”
PIke shook his head and laughed. “Take care you two. I have to go and see what I can do to put out the fires until that paperwork from New Vulcan arrives.”
“See ya.”
“Sir,” Spock said and nodded.
The screen went blank and Jim turned to Spock. “That went better than I thought.”
“Indeed, time to rest.”
“Lead onward oh beloved mate of mine,” Jim said and slapped him on the ass.
Spock spun around and grabbed him into his arms and bit him on the neck. Jim went limp when he bit and whimpered. Spock liked the spot, “You will behave?”
Jim whimpered again, “Yes, Spock.”
“Good.” He liked the spot again and let him go. “Come, T’hy’la. Time to rest.”
Jim followed him from the office and into the isolation room without comment. Spock pulled him down onto the bed and into his arms, “sleep, T’hy’la.”
Jim closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.
Vulcan translation:
tel-tor - bond
telsu - bonded
t'hy'la - friend-lover-lifelong companion, blood brother/sister; soulmate; soul-brother/sister