Emotionless: Spock x Reader

Questions and Answers

I felt him take a heavy breath. "If at all possible, I will never leave anyone behind. You have to make the same promise." I nodded lifting my bloodied hand to touch his shoulder. Just breathing brought immense pain, but I needed to push past it to make this promise.

I felt my breath crack just before I spoke. "I promise."

At that moment Kirk came walking into my lab. "After she said that her hand slipped down my arm falling across her chest. Her head dropped back so quickly I almost dropped her. She was asleep for close to a week. I carried her to waiting ambulances asking to be notified as soon as she woke up. I wanted to be there for her after everything that had happened that day. I went off for the academy about a year after the incident occurred. She went off to a higher level of schooling. But that day she first woke I knew something was wrong. Even though she put up a smile for me, there was not any real emotion behind it. Her eyes , as I'm sure you've noticed are dead. They have been since that day."

Even thinking back on that day, I couldn't feel anything. I could see all the images just as clear as if they had happened to me in that moment. "When I woke, I felt dead. But when they asked me if I wanted to see the Captain I said yes. I wanted to thank him properly for saving my life, even if that meant very little to me. After he left I launched myself into my studies. I couldn't go right out into star fleet for obvious reasons, I was far to young at that point in time. That didn't make me work any less diligently. I was going to be a science officer aboard a starship that he was the captain of. So when I graduated, and was offered the position I was quick to accept."

Kirk laughed. "She has been calling me Captain and sir ever since. Even though I've told her several times just to call me Jim." I watched Spock for any expressions, change of body language. Yet he had just listened to everything I had said. Every word that had come past my lips about a day I tried not to remember.

Instead he raised a brow. "I see. A traumatic experience as a child would be cause for such a change. Thank you for telling me, I have much to think on. If you will excuse me, Captain, (Y/n)." I watched him get up from the chair and start to leave.

Before he got to far Kirk called out to him. "Spock, you're on the away team with McCoy, (Y/n), two security people, and myself. Something happened to Sulu on the last run." I watched him a start to leave again knowing his job. "Are you up for it (Y/n)? If you're not-"

I held up my hand. "Only one of them returned correct. I promised you that no one would get left behind again Captain, and I will keep my promise to you." I watched Kirk nod before leaving my lab as well.

"There will be a change of clothes for you outside your quarters in ten minutes. Be at the transporter room by seventeen hundred." Once the doors close I began my cleanup, this took ten minutes. When I arrived at my quarters there was indeed a dress laid out for me. It was long and plain brown. I slipped into it in under five minutes, taking down my messy bun and brushed out my hair before changing it to match the dress. Two small intertwining buns on the bottom half of my head, followed by a small slightly feathered hat and gloves. I nodded once done and made my way to the transporter room. I was the last to enter the room. Kirk, McCoy and the two security officers were dressed in suits and ties. Spock had on similar pants with a dark cloak to cover his ears.

McCoy gave me the rundown on what had happened when they beamed Sulu up. I found this to be quite odd. Still, just before eighteen hundred we beamed down to the planet's surface. I had my phaser and communicator hidden inside the small coat like shawl over my shoulders. Not long after our arrival I noticed something strange with this planet's inhabitants. They all seemed to have plastered smiles on their faces. "Odd. The expression on that man's face... the mindlessness, vacant contentment." Spock pointed out as he spoke with Kirk.