Prompt: "shhh, it's okay now, you're safe, I'm here."
Authors note: sorry about so many typos!! Writing this on my phone without much editing due to the lack of internet otherwise.
Misadventures of a time traveler in space...
A resounding crack vibrates through the ship, pulsing waves rocking it like a boat on the water. The captain swallows his rising impatience as he can barely hear over the resounding roar of the emergency systems clicking into place. Everyone's eyes are trained outside the window, looking around, expecting some sort of enemy. Pulling himself to his feet, Kirk shakes off the way touching his chair seems to allow excess energy to route through his veins.
"Scans, Mr. Sulu." He calls, his voice barely heard, but understood.
"No surrounding ships, sir." He states, voice raised to be heard over the alarms, just as it quits sounding. For just a moment, there is silence on the bridge, kirk fighting a small smile at the timing.
"Mr. Scott!" He calls again, waiting for the familiar thick accent to call back. "What's going on down there?" His eyes are still scanning the horizon, looking for abnormalities.
"A couple of fried circuit's, captain. Whatever that was, all it affected was the air cooling system."
"Its going to get hot in here until I can get this figured out."
"Understood." Slowly, he turns back to chekov and sulu, nodding to them. "Anything?"
"A lot of excess electricity, sir, but still no ships."
"Sensors are reading the source to be behind us, captain." Natoya states, sulu taking his cue to turn the ship.
"An electrical storm… in space." Bones finished, everyone having been so preoccupied they didn't register the door sliding open.
Silence washes over the bridge crew again, in awe as they watch lightning crack across the surface of the storm, purple and blue clouds twisting and spinning.
"Uh, Captain." Scottys voice calls out again, an odd tension in the engineers voice.
"Yes, Mr. Scott." Kirk calls back, tearing his eyes from the image before him.
"You need to get down here… and being the good doctor, would ya?" Just before he cuts off, he swears he heard scotty speak to someone. Without so much as a glance, kirk, bones and spock race down to engineering, assuming nothing, and expecting everything.
But, whatever they were expecting, it wasnt this.
A young girl sat curled under scottys desk, trembling from every limb, clenching one of scottys screwdrivers like a knife, eyes like saucers.
"Where… where am I?" She asks slowly, trying, and failing, to hide the tremble in her voice.
"The Enterprise." Her eyebrows pinch as her eyes dart between her newest company before they stick to Spock, drawing in a shaky breath.
Bones bends down to her level slowly, hands up to show that they're empty.
"My names McCoy, Leonard McCoy, but my friends call me Bones. I'm a doctor." He assures, she nods slowly, tearing her eyes from Spock to face Bones. "What's your name, kid?"
Swallowing, she closes her eyes for a moment, sound slipping past her lips sounding almost like a whimper. "Ellie."
"Alright… Ellie," Kirk interjects, voice softening, seeing the fear in her eyes. "How did you get on the ship?"
"I… I dont know. One moment, in the house of mirrors with my friends, riding out a storm, and the next, I'm here."
Kirk and Spock share a look as Bones approaches her slowly, light in hand. "Alright sugar, you're okay now. You're here, you're safe," He begins. "I just want to check you out. She nods, letting him look in her eyes.
"Can you tell me what the stardate is?" Her eyebrows pinch, again.
"The year, honey." She pauses, answering confidently.
