Harmony Chapter 4: Revelations

Spock and Jim's relationship progressed nicely, they had gotten used to living in each others minds all the time. They still had their arguments, with Jim screaming and Spock slightly raising his voice and getting an inpatient tone of voice. The arguments usually ended with either Jim storming off, a move that Spock's mother perfected years ago, or in bed. Both Spock and Jim preferred the second outcome but sometimes Jim had to storm off or risk saying something very stupid.

Bones had settled down somewhat even if refused to tell Jim who he was dating. He wasn't seen with anyone on campus anyway, so Jim thought that Bones must be dating someone from the city. Since no one knew that it had been Bones who had been parading girls in and out of his and Jim's dorm room, everyone assumed that Jim had found a girlfriend. When the cadets asked Jim if he had a girlfriend he denied it. He didn't have a girlfriend he had a husband.

The rumours spread by Christine Chapel had taken a life of their own and had grown and spread to even the Admirals that wasn't in the know. But since the mission was top secret Admiral Archer could not tell the others the truth. That resulted in slightly abusive behaviour towards Jim from all teachers except Archer.

Spock's parents had returned to Vulcan for a short holiday and they had invited Winona to come with, something she had accepted right away. So the only support left on earth for Jim, who was the one the rumours was about, was Spock and Pike. Neither of which could do much about rumours floating around the campus.

More and more of the cadets refused to interact with Jim and the teachers accepted that. In more and more classes Jim was alone and was forbidden from talking in class. It made Jim depressed, something Spock could feel but Jim refused to tell Spock why. It made Spock anxious and a whole vicious circle was begun.

Christine, who was watching from the shadows, smiled when she saw Jim move away silently from the last class of the day. That morning the first pranks had started, Jim being tripped in the hallway or his computer programs destroyed by viruses that left all other computers alone. The last prank had happened in that last class. The classroom was set up so that the commanders and captains of Starships could sit on the balcony above the students and observe the leadership classes for good lieutenants for their ships when their schooling was finished.

This day there was no captains or commanders on the balcony but instead it was full of cadets that had the period free. They had conspired with the rest of the leadership class so that Jim would be forced to sit at a spot right under the maintenance hatch for the lighting. And then they poured paint down through that hatch onto Jim. The paint was easy to remove from plastic or metal but nothing but time could remove it from hair or skin. So Jim would have to spend the next four weeks a very bright neon green.

Christine was happy that she didn't have to start the pranks. The next step was to get the more promiscuous girls of the academy to throw themselves at Jim while dosed in Orion pheromones to make sure that he could not help himself.

It worked in a way. Jim refused all advances since his mind was so focused on Spock that the compulsion part of the Orion pheromones didn't work. But he was still seen with women clinging all over him in parts of the academy that was usually reserved for couples.

Spock was annoyed that Jim refused to tell him what was going on, and to make matters worse Jim had learned somehow to block Spock from his mind. So he couldn't even use Jim's emotions and memories to find out either. That made Jim's home life more difficult too and he spent more and more time alone in his and Bones dorm room. Bones was almost always out with his date now and hadn't noticed how miserable Jim really was.

Spock in reaction to Jim never being home, went out more with his friends and slowly Christine managed to work her way into his group of friends. She had apologized to Spock and blamed the fact that she wasn't used to that amount of alcohol. She made sure to keep this charade up by drinking almost nothing every time she went out with them.

Slowly she managed to get Spock to talk to her about Jim, he never mentioned his name of course or the fact that they were bonded so she did not know that, but he talked about the fact that his partner didn't trust him enough to tell him what was going on. He also told her about the rumours and that they must be false.

The night he told Christine that she went home from the bar, so happy that she didn't even care that Uhura and her boyfriend had apparently failed to reach Uhura's bed. Christine's plan was working, Spock was starting to doubt that Jim had been and still was faithful.

The next part of her plan was the hardest. She needed Jim to be caught in the act with someone. And to be caught by a Admiral. What she hadn't counted on was the fact that Spock would force Jim to come over and then tell Jim that either he could talk to him, or he could call Winona back to earth.

Jim had, like most, caved and talked to Spock. The threat of his mother working like Spock had anticipated. Jim told Spock everything from the rumours that didn't reach the teachers, to the pranks and all the women that had been throwing themselves at him lately.

Spock had called Bones and got him to take an evening of from the girlfriend and come talk to Jim, telling him just how long it had been since he had talked to his best friend. Bones had arrived with in minutes, only he had taken his girlfriend with him. Both Jim and Spock was surprised to se Nyota Uhura with Bones. Last they had heard she was dating Montgomery Scott.

Jim told both Bones and Uhura what had been happening and Uhura had gasped when Jim told her about the women throwing themselves at him. When pressed she explained that it sounded like something her roommate had been working on in her time off. Uhura had thought it was the plot for a novel, Christine was apparently very good at writing stories.

Uhura had told them to stay where they were while she went back to her room to copy the information from the PADD she had read the thing with the girls on.

It took her a while to get back to Spock's room, she had been stopped by a teacher who wanted to talk about an assignment that Uhura had handed in the week before. It had been over two hours when she managed to extract herself from the teacher and get back to Spock and Jim, who had by that time prepared dinner.

She was invited to eat before going over the information. Bones told her quietly that it was best to eat first since Jim rarely ate when he was upset and he had already lost enough weight over the last few weeks.

After dinner Jim had a request, that they called in Pike and Archer so that they could know what was going on too. They might need their help if it turned out to be as bad as they anticipated.

Pike had time to come at once but they had to wait a few more minutes for Archer since he had to find someone to watch over his precious dogs. Jim told his tale for a third time when they had both arrived and they agreed with Spock that while you couldn't do much about rumours, the actions of the teachers and instructors were not fitting of the Academy.

Uhura then told them what she had read a few weeks before on her roommates PADD, and that it had been before random females started throwing themselves at Jim. She then held up the PADD in her hands.

"This is a copy of the PADD I read the first information on. It has more on it now." She handed the PADD to Pike who started to read the information out loud.

"Step one, spread rumours about Kirk and cheating on Spock. Done successfully.

Step two, start pranks on Kirk. Done without interference from me.

Step three, more rumours about Kirk and this time his activities of campus. Done successfully.

Step four, get friends to seduce Kirk with Orion pheromones. Done, somewhat successful.

Step five, more rumours about activities. Done successfully.

Step six, get Kirk to ingest aphrodisiac and put female in his path. Begun.

Step seven, get closer to Spock. Done successfully.

Step eight, get Spock to dump Kirk."

At the end of the text all of the people in the room was horrified. It was a well planned strategy to get Spock and Jim to separate. They were only thankful that Christine Chapel had taken things at face value and hadn't bothered to look beyond what was obvious.

Spock was furious enough that Jim was edging away from him with a wary look on his face. Jim knew that Spock would never hurt him, but something's was left over from his stepfather and would probably never go away. With that in mind Spock focused and blanked his mind forcing the anger to disappear.

They talked for awhile about how to handle this and Archer and Pike decided that the first step was to tell the Admirals about the Xanadu mission. And that Jim was not to be left alone or eat or drink anything from the mess hall or his dorm room until after this was taken care of. Jim agreed to be followed by Uhura or Bones for a few weeks, Spock and he would still have to fake not talking to each other.

Christine was annoyed, Jim was never alone anymore and when the few cadets that still spoke to him asked why it had been Bones who answered that he had been so focused on his new relationship with Uhura that he had neglected his own friend. He had talked with Uhura and now he had more free time to spend with Jim since she wanted to get to know the Jim that Bones knew and not the Jim she had met in a bar.

Most cadet's accepted that explanation, but there was the few that had started to worry about Jim's situation after the pranks had started, who thought that Bones or Uhura was always around to stop something more sinister from happening. They would be right too.

The Admirals had called Jim and Spock in to talk to them after they had been scolded like small children by Archer. The first thing they did was to apologize and to ask what they could do to help the situation. Spock who had thought about it in advance asked the Admirals to monitor all communications to and from Christine.

With in a day they had enough to put her behind bars if she was caught in the act. As it was nothing could be tied to her except the rumours and they could do nothing about that.

After a long talk with the Admirals it was decided that Jim would let himself be "caught" pretending to drink the soda that Christine had told one of her female friends in a communication would be spiked by her with an aphrodisiac. If they could find fingerprints on the glass from her she would be caught and could face trial and a mental evaluation.

Spock would be close by so that he could step in before the woman could take advantage of Jim. She would also be tried for the violation that an aphrodisiac was.

No matter how prepared Jim was he was still nervous when he walked in to the mess hall with Bones . It had been planed so that they would sit down and pull the cadets at the table into a conversation and halfway through Jim would absentmindedly drink the soda that would have appeared by his side. He would then leave alone a few minutes later so that he could be approached.

It worked, Jim managed to loose himself in the conversation about where they wanted to be stationed after graduation enough that he wasn't nervous when Bones nudged him to show that the drink had showed up. Jim drank the soda fast so that no one could ask to get some of it.

The aphrodisiac was a potent one, that Jim could tell at once. Most were slow acting but this one started working almost at once and it was strong. Quickly Jim excused himself and said that he had to use the bathroom.

Everything worked as it was supposed to. The woman, a nurse, followed only seconds after Jim had left the room and cornered Jim only a few meters from the door to the mess hall. She was grabbed by campus security straight away and removed from the scene before she could protest.

Spock then removed Jim from campus as quickly as he could. The rest of the day was very pleasurable for Jim and Spock, not so much for Christine Chapel who had been arrested in the middle of Starfleet Medical.

The day after Jim and Spock was shown to Christine's cell. They both wanted to know why she had done it. After the visit they were to go to the Academy where their bonding would be announced in the mess hall during lunch. The Admirals had decided to remove any chance for anyone else to even think about separating Jim and Spock.

Christine looked like she had been in a fight and they were told that she had fought all the way into the jail.

Jim was the one to ask Christine why. The answer they got chilled even the guards.

"You don't deserve him, he is so much better than you Kirk. With all the girls you had in and out of your room before and during your relationship with Spock. Whore!" She spat at Jim.

Spock turned to the doctor that was with them.

"No one told her that I have been dating Jim for years?" The doctor explained that she lived totally in her own world and that it was amazing that she had functioned as long as she had.

Jim's last comment to Christine made everyone in the room laugh. It was so in character for him that even Spock could not help but to smile.

"Christine, jump of a long cliff(1). Spock is mine and has always been mine." With that he walked calmly out of the jail to the sound of Christine's crazed cursing.

Jim smiled as he stopped outside the jail. Jim asked Spock the question that would rule the rest of their lives together.

"What do we do now?" Spock walked up beside Jim and answered. "What ever we want."

The End

(1) Kudos to Magpie1600 who wrote in a review "They should just tell her (chris) to jump off a long cliff. " It was the driving force behind the chapter. Thank you.