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The Way to Man's Heart is Through his Stomach	By : Clarissa_Eden Category: S through Z > Star Trek (2009) > Star Trek (2009) Views: 3301 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Trek, or any of the characters belonging to the franchise. I do not make money from writing this, it's just for fun.

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Elizabeth was still pissed off. She and Spock had been in the middle of a very one sided heated argument, her ranting didn't allow Spock to get a word in edgeways, when he had received an urgent message from Jim calling him to the bridge. And now she was sat on her couch, hand resting lightly on her stomach, silently fuming to herself. She hadn't moved for over five minuets, and so when her door chimed it made her jump slightly.
"Come in." She called out, immediately noticing how weary her voice sounded.
The door opened and Nyota came in with Caleb balanced on her hip, his head resting on the other woman's shoulder. He was awake, but not far off being asleep.
"Thanks for looking after him for me." Elizabeth said as she rose to her feet.
Nyota smiled softly. "I'm sorry that I had to look after him, I should have kept my mouth shut."
Shaking her head, Elizabeth said, "No, don't be sorry. You did the right thing by telling me. I shouldn't have been kept in the dark about something like this. Surprisingly, I'm not a fragile as people seem to be making me out to be."
She reached for Caleb, who was sluggish to respond to the change of hands to his mother.
"Just let me put him to bed and I'll be right back." Elizabeth stated as she was already halfway across the room. She had a feeling that Nyota wanted to talk about everything that was going on, and Elizabeth needed an understanding ear.
She sat Caleb on his bed and moved across the room to get his PJ's. When she turned back to her little boy, she let out a small laugh as saw that he was trying to take of his t-shirt, but being half asleep made him struggle slightly, getting his arm caught in the sleeve.
"Awe, come here sweetie." She cooed as she helped him with his struggle. After she stared helping him, he seemed to give up on making an effort on taking his clothes off and just went limp.
Elizabeth quickly managed to get him changed and slipped him between the sheets. Her eyes scanned the bed, but not seeing what she was looking for; she got down on her hands and knees. Peering under the bed she found what she had been searching for, Cujo, he must have slipped off the bed at some point the night before. Getting back to her feet, she tucked Cujo in next to Caleb and leaned down to press a kiss to his forehead.
"Night baby." She whispered with a small smile on her lips.
"Night Momma." He mumbled back, before turning over onto his side, Cujo clasped tightly under his arm.
Coming back into the living area of her quarters, Elizabeth noticed immediately that Nyota had made herself comfortable and had made them both a cup of tea. From her place on the couch, Nyota tilted her head slightly to the left in a questioning gesture. Elizabeth simply shook her head as she walked over to her friend and collapsed down next to her.
"Come on then. You need to vent. Tell me all about it." Nyota prompted after a few seconds of silence.
"Where do you want me to start?" Elizabeth asked, glancing at the other woman out of the corner of her eye. "It's a long story."
Nyota let out a puff of air, that sounded sort of like a sigh, but not quite. "Well, I tend to find that it works best when you start from the beginning." She commented off handedly, adding a small smile to take the edge of the slight amount of tension that was building. It worked.
Elizabeth launched into the monologue of her life, explaining about her time on Vulcan and what had happened to her whilst she was there. When she had talked about what Stark had done to her, Nyota's jaw had dropped, sure she had wondered about Caleb's paternity before, she thought it would have been rude to directly ask about it. She had just assumed that Elizabeth had had a relationship with a Vulcan that hadn't worked or something similar, she would never have guessed that Caleb was a child of rape. Nyota had a lot of respect for Elizabeth, but it had doubled now. She thought about how hard it must be sometimes for Elizabeth sometimes; to look at her little boy and be constantly reminded about that night and what had happened to her. She cautiously asked about this, being careful to word her question properly so as not to upset her friend.
Elizabeth simply responded by telling Nyota that whilst what Stark did to her was the worst experience in her life, and something that she wished had never happened to her, if it hadn't she wouldn't have Caleb. And that she wouldn't give him up for anything, he had been the ray of hope in her life when everything else had been so dark. They talked for a little while longer about what had transpired that day. "And now Spock's got it into his head that he needs to fight Stark for some reason." Elizabeth concluded.
Nyota looked sympathetically towards Elizabeth. "Lizzie, surely you can see it from his point of view too."
Elizabeth bristled as Nyota continued with her point.
"I don't mean to upset you, it's the last thing you need right now, but I know Spock quite well. I've seen him function from day to day for years. I've seen him at one of the worst points of his life, when his mother died. I've seen him go through a lot, but I've never seen him react like the way he did when he heard Stark's voice over the comm link. I swear, it was like there was a wild animal on the bridge. The ambassador and Jim were struggling to restrain him, it was that bad." Nyota paused to take a breath. "He's being like this because he loves you and wants to defend and protect you. He wants to fight for you, because you're worth fighting for."
"I don't think I am Nyota, I really don't." Elizabeth commented in a small voice. "What makes me so damn special?"
"I don't know if you already know this or not, but Spock and I used to be involved with each other." Nyota looked up at Elizabeth to gauge her reaction to the information she had just given her, she didn't look surprised. "Well, we got together when his mom died; I helped him through that time in his life. I thought that we were meant to be. He was my instructor at the academy, and he's the reason why I'm stationed here on this ship, in a way I owe him my life. I always had a crush on him, but because he was my teacher I didn't act on it. But when Amanda died, I was there for him. It was never a real relationship. It was one sided on my part, his heart was never really in it. Sure we were close, but when we started to drift further and further apart, he didn't fight for me. So I let my fantasy go. And now he has you, and I'm happy for the pair of you. Lizzie if Spock fights for you there's a reason, so let him."
There were tears building up in Elizabeth's eyes, but she blinked them back into submission. "Nyota, I just don't want him to get hurt or worse for me."
Nyota couldn't help the small laugh that escaped from her mouth. "Lizzie, how long have you been on this ship? You know Jim, do you really think he will let anything happen to Spock? Or you for that matter?"
"I don't know."
"Well I do. Jim'll look out for him. Hell he'll cheat if needs be, I can't let myself believe that he'd allow his godchild to grow up without their daddy."

The last comment made Elizabeth laugh. Nyota was making sense, but it didn't stop her from worrying.
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