Something was wrong. Perhaps he had an added advantage of being able to feel it through Jim's mind. Spock could recognize the surge of panic almost as one of his own, the doubt creeping through like water through a wide sieve, completely unhidden. Yet he didn’t know how to soothe it in the immediate sense, confused by it, and in such confusion allowed himself to be shifted from one person to the other without protest. He opened his mouth to argue as he saw Jim’s back disappear out of the room, but was completely lost for words.
Logic didn’t come to his call as fast as it should. Jim’s footsteps disappeared in one, two, three beats to his hearing before Spock reasoned that he had every right to go back to the bridge, too—and after Jim. He kept his hand tight on Nyota’s, looked back at her after he had disappeared. Please, he simply asked, and with her agreement, walked out after Jim into the hallway with her.
Except Jim wasn’t in the hallway.
Spock narrowed his eyes. He couldn’t have walked that fast. So he stepped up to the nearest console, Nyota’s hand still at his side, and asked, “Computer, locate Captain Kirk.”
Captain Kirk is not located aboard this vessel.
He asked again, and received the same answer.
Panic, cold and frenzied, flooded out from his mind but he couldn’t break the grip between their hands if he wanted to. Outside, he remained calm, as he always did, but his mind was an endless stream of jimjimwhereisthecaptainwhathappenedjimwhereareyouwhyareyounotherejimcaptain…
About ten seconds later, he had ordered engineering and the bridge to raise all the shields to maximum, and strode back into sickbay with the unwelcomed feeling of captaincy heavy in his mind.
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Date: 2009-09-15 12:30 am (UTC)Logic didn’t come to his call as fast as it should. Jim’s footsteps disappeared in one, two, three beats to his hearing before Spock reasoned that he had every right to go back to the bridge, too—and after Jim. He kept his hand tight on Nyota’s, looked back at her after he had disappeared. Please, he simply asked, and with her agreement, walked out after Jim into the hallway with her.
Except Jim wasn’t in the hallway.
Spock narrowed his eyes. He couldn’t have walked that fast. So he stepped up to the nearest console, Nyota’s hand still at his side, and asked, “Computer, locate Captain Kirk.”
Captain Kirk is not located aboard this vessel.
He asked again, and received the same answer.
Panic, cold and frenzied, flooded out from his mind but he couldn’t break the grip between their hands if he wanted to. Outside, he remained calm, as he always did, but his mind was an endless stream of jimjimwhereisthecaptainwhathappenedjimwhereareyouwhyareyounotherejimcaptain…
About ten seconds later, he had ordered engineering and the bridge to raise all the shields to maximum, and strode back into sickbay with the unwelcomed feeling of captaincy heavy in his mind.
"The captain is gone."