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She’s five, and they’re three; Joanna, George, and David Kirk are some of the most protected kids in the empire. Growing up he never pictured himself a father of any kind. He’d known hiding what he was meant he was never going to be ‘free’ to have a family. Funny how life works, figures his luck too. He figures he’s as happy as an omega in his position could be. Luckier than most too, he knows how bad it could have been. The fact that he can and does love his alpha, and that he’s loved in return just adds to his luck he supposes. Even if most of the time he’s waiting for the other shoe to drop; Because it doesn’t feel right to be this lucky.
He doesn’t get to do his job as often as he’d like. He’s still what he is, and he’s got three young kids to prove it. The crew prefers him, they’re probably the only crew in the Fleet to ask for the ‘omega doctor’. But they do, they ask if he’s working when they have to go do their annuals, or when they’re hurt. M’Benga has gotten better at practicing medicine more like him, but it’s hard to erase how you’re taught to do something all your life. Sometimes old dogs can learn new tricks, sometimes it’s hard though.
He won’t say how old he is now, but he’s old enough that the ‘new’ talk about him is when his alpha is going to get rid of him for a newer model. The talk in Terran circles wonders if his alpha still fucks him. If he still even has heats, if he still looks good when he’s naked. It all makes him roll his eyes. Ny loves to laugh at it all as she tells him the gossip when they get together in the mess hall. If those bastards only knew Jim still gets just as hard for him as he did when they first mated, they’d be shocked. The crew laughs about the gossip as much as Nyota does. They see the hickies often enough to know yeah, he still gets fucked. Leonard knows he’s got nothing to worry about. Besides, he’s still the only doctor Jim Kirk trusts.
His five-year-old princess is always the talk of Terran circles as well. For completely different reasons than him of course. She’s a little beauty already, with her papa’s fluffy blond hair that falls down her shoulders in blond ringlets, a little button nose, and a smile that lights up a room. She’s got his eyes, not Jim’s; He’s heard people say she’d be perfect if ‘only’ she’d gotten Jim’s eyes too. But those people can go fuck themselves. His daughter is perfect, thank you very much. Sure, Leonard can already see the little psycho in her forming. She follows her papa around a little too much. She learns a little too quickly. She’s a little too intelligent for anyone’s good. She’s going to be more dangerous than his alpha for sure. No idiot alpha will see her coming. They’ll see the beautiful little omega doll before they ever see their death coming at her hands. But there’s little Leonard can do about that. For now, he can protect her from the universe, and the universe from her. But eventually he’ll have to let go. He’s already dreading that day, she’s her father’s daughter after all.
Currently she’s already impressed the Emperor several times. They’re on Terra, at the Emperor’s palace in fact. The Emperor in all his ‘grace’ saw fit to throw a party. Leonard hates these things with a passion. He’s got to be ‘social’ and not frown up a storm the entire night. He’s dressed in a gorgeous suit, and he knows he looks good. He followed Jim around for the first half, being shown off like he’s some damned peacock. But he’d done it, because he’s not an idiot, and he knows this is important to Jim and his kids so he’s doing his part. At least he can now stand by the royal family. Walking around is tiring when you’ve been fucked to the nines before the party. He doesn’t know if anyone can tell, he always smells way too much like Jim these days. So, it’s hard for him to tell. All the other omega smell nearly the same anyways. They all smell way too much like their alpha.
Jim is still doing the charismatic Captain thing, chatting up all the important people at the party while Spock stands near him. Spock is also being ‘sociable’, or as sociable as a Vulcan can be anyways. Leonard knows he’s not here for appearances. He’s here as a bodyguard and attack dog for Jim.
His daughter wasn’t at his side the entire night. She had the crown prince at her side through part of the party. The two kids spent the party dancing together and talking. All the while Cupcake acted like her bodyguard. His daughter has impressed everyone by already being able to hold a proper conversation in 4 different languages. Leonard will give Nyota another gift for his kid’s language lessons tomorrow.
Of course, Leonard is worried, but that’s a normal state for him. He knows Cupcake loves his job. He’s got orders from his Captain, and the Emperor to protect Joanna against anyone. For him that means a free license to kill. The man is just itching for someone to mess with Joanna so he can kill something. So, Leonard watched him spend the party following Joanna, and the hoard of little omega at the party around while they dance, giggle, and play on their own after the prince had been called back to his father’s side.
His boys already speak two languages of their own. Their own looks have also been commented about at length. Identical twins, they have soft light brown hair that will probably end up being close to Leonard’s own color when they’re older. In looks they’re closer to Jim, but their eyes aren’t his blue. Their blue eyes are closer to a baby blue or a cornflower blue. Leonard can see his father in both his son’s eyes.
He can tell they’re both going to be just as handsome as his own alpha. Even if at the moment they just look too much like little dolls. They’ll have Jim’s trouble with being taken seriously as an alpha though. Jim has told him the horror stories through the years. The teen years while he was ‘too pretty’ to be an alpha, his lips too red, his eyes too blue. Leonard has nightmares about his boys going through that. But it did help him understand his alpha a bit more, anyone would be a little psycho in Jim’s shoes.
They’re at the party as well, along with all the other important people’s children. Since they’re little alpha Leonard was reassured by everyone that they could run around. Everyone seems to act like it’s nothing out of the ordinary that all the little alpha at the party are running around being little terrors. The omega kids are protected by Cupcake and various other officers ordered by the other parents. But no one seems to protect the little alpha like that. It rubbed Leonard wrong, but you’re not supposed to ‘cuddle’ little alpha too much. He’s been told that makes them weak. Leonard would like to do a lot of horrible things to the people that tell him that shit. But he can’t, he has to stand there and behave.
Leonard just spent the party watching his kids like a hawk. Jim had spent it pretending not to do the same while he talked with the Emperor and other dignitaries the entire time. Neither trust anyone after all, the Kirk children are too important. Leonard knows any of their enemies would love to do harm to the kids. So, when he sees Cupcake following Joanna off out to the hallway, he’s on alert. When he loses sight of them, he’s already moving.
No one at the party takes any notice, even the royals don’t seem to raise an eyebrow. They don’t pay Leonard any mind when he moves through the party. Spock is the one that does take notice though. The half Vulcan quickly mentions it to his Captain in a quiet voice close to his ear. Both excuse themselves from their current conversation, they’re following after Leonard within seconds.
Leonard is following his nose to his kids, an omega can follow his children’s scents through nearly anything. It’s instinct, the natural law of things, protective instincts just making the senses stronger. Right now, Leonard is thankful for that. He hears the little growls of the kids before he sees them. When he does come up to the scene his own growls are loud and threatening almost instantly.
First thing he sees when he turns into the hallway is Cupcake on the ground. His uniform showed a clear phaser fire hit in the middle of his chest. Cupcake’s favorite phaser lies on the ground near his hand. There’s a beta on his knees, surrounded by children kicking and growling at him. Joanna’s little legs are wrapped around his neck as the little girl attacks the man. The beta is the Captain of the Enterprise’s sister ship. Leonard doesn’t know what the hell is happening. All he knows is that his boys are crying, growling, clearly feeling threatened. His daughter is going to town on the man’s head. The twin’s eyes are glowing red as they try to get the man to let them go. Leonard can see the Captain is holding the twins by their arm. The rest of the little alpha are just as angry, just as threatened as they keep attacking the Captain as best they can. Leonard can see bruising already on some of the kids, but they keep attacking the Captain.
“Daddy!!!”
Leonard hasn’t been this angry in a very long time. Last time it was Jim that was under threat. It was Jim being attacked, this time it’s his kids. Leonard can only silently hope it’s not a sign of things to come. But for now he’s not thinking of the future, he’s thinking about how he wants to cut this bastard into little pieces.
“You got five seconds to let my kids go.” Leonard doesn’t know what his voice sounds like. But the beta in front of him looks surprised, as if he hadn’t realized someone had arrived. If the bastard doesn’t know that there’s nothing more dangerous in this universe than an omega or a mother protecting their kids, then that’s his problem. Leonard looks to the man, his eyes colder and eviller than anyone knew him capable of.
“Daddy!!!” David and George cry again, the three year olds want to run to their daddy’s protection. But the Captain is still holding them tight by the hand. The twins are all red faced, crying, and growling up a storm.
All the while Joanna is fighting right along with the little alpha to help her baby brothers. She knows full well how much her parents love her and her brothers. She’s the big sister, she’s an omega like her daddy. In her mind it’s her job to make sure her brothers are okay. Just like it’s her daddy’s job to make sure papa is okay. She has a miniature old-fashioned scalpel in her pocket that was a gift from her daddy. She pulls it out and takes it into her hand. Her papa was ordered not to bring hypos, no one said shit to her about anything she couldn’t bring, let alone scalpels. She hears her papa and Spock rushing up behind her daddy even as she gave a growl and plunged the scalpel into the man’s eye.
The Captain saw the scalpel flying towards him from up above. There was nothing he could have done to stop it at that point though. He was too slow to try and move out of the way. Too slow to try again to dislodge Joanna. The scream rang out in the hallway they were at as the scalpel found its target in the Captain’s eye. The beta let go of the boys as his loud, ear piercing screams rang out further now alerting everyone at the party.
Leonard heard the music stop, he didn’t care. It had all happened in minutes or seconds, he wasn’t sure which, but he knew it was fast. He didn’t even have time to call out to Joanna before she did it. As it was happening, he was rushing towards his daughter even as she tried to grab at the scalpel to try and pull it out of the screaming Captain's eye.
With the man screaming in pain Leonard plucked his daughter kicking and screaming off him. Cuddling his daughter to him he took steps back in shock. He can’t care at the moment that Joanna’s hands are covered in blood and other fluids, he just knew he had to keep her from looking at the injured Captain. Jim and Spock now stood behind Leonard, the group of little alpha rushing towards Leonard for safety. Both his boys growled out cries for their ‘daddy’ as they rushed Leonard’s legs and clung to him.
Spock logically knew things were about to become more erratic in a few moments. The scene was confusing, with no easy way to tell just what had happened before they had arrived. The half-vulcan checked on Lt. Hendorff before calling for a beam-up for the man straight up to sick bay.
Jim came up besides his omega with a frown and red alpha eyes. He didn’t bother even trying to help the other Captain. His main focus being his family. There would be hell to pay if even a hair on them was hurt. He picked up David who was crying harder and rubbed his back.
As the Emperor himself and the guards rushed into the hallway Jim was speaking in a soft tone to his son. George has always been the more outgoing of the two twins. So, neither Jim, nor Leonard are surprised that he’s the one still growling.
“What is the meaning of this!” The Emperor is now bellowing as he comes forward. The Captain of the Enterprise’s sister ship is now holding his face as if that will stop his bleeding eye. Scalpel of course still in his eye, the man dares not touch. Even going close makes him scream louder. Leonard can tell the man is about to pass out. The doctor in him wants to help, the rest of him doesn’t give a crap. He does nothing but stand there, cuddling his daughter to him.
“He mean!” George says, all the innocence of a child, and all the toughness of a little alpha Kirk as he points his little finger towards the bleeding Captain. The other little alpha still around them nod in agreement to what George says. Some of the older ones can’t look away from the Captain. They squirm whenever he screams again. Leonard turns, motioning for the other boys to go find their parents. He knows everyone at the party is probably nearby listening to everything anyways. The little alpha obey and rush off, calling for their parents. They’re quickly picked up and cuddled by their omega parents when they find them. The Emperor looks down to George with a raised eyebrow. He quickly lands his sights on Leonard himself, clearly waiting for an explanation.
“Dr.McCoy, care to explain why one of the Fleet’s finest Captains is currently bleeding all over my palace hallway?!” The Emperor’s tone is calm, but there is deadly seriousness behind it. Everyone knows there’s hell to pay if he doesn’t like what he hears.
Leonard straightens, it’s very rare for the Emperor to speak directly to an omega like this. He never has before with Leonard either. Usually he speaks to the alpha, in this case he usually speaks only to Jim. In most cases Leonard feels like he could be painted on a wall and get more attention and respect. But he knows better than to argue about it. So, getting that attention now is more than a little disturbing.
“Sir… I came looking for the boys. They know better than to run out where they can’t see me. I found the other little boys attacking the Captain while he was holding my twins. They were kicking, trying to get away from him. He wouldn’t let them go, I don’t know what started it.” Leonard always could keep a strong tone, even in the harshest circumstances. He’s not surprised he can do that here and now. With everyone starring, listening, making judgements. Joanna is still in his arms, he keeps her bloody hands tucked into him, so they’re not seen.
The Emperor is still calm, there’s still the deadly seriousness behind his eyes. Everyone is watching as the man looks over to the Captain. He motions to the guards, two go over, they get the Captain up off his knees and begin carrying him off. Leonard can’t know to where, but figures it’ll be a doctor first. He knows the Captain’s eye isn’t salvageable, he doesn’t care. He just watches with a bit of surprise as the Emperor bends over in front of him to be closer to George’s eye level.
“Did the ‘mean’ man hurt you?” The Emperor doesn’t figure he’ll have to look into this much. He remembers the troubles Jim had when younger. It’s too bad his son’s troubles have started already. Of course, he still can’t possibly imagine that it’s Joanna the one that hurt the Captain the most. He’s still thinking it was Leonard.
George nodded quickly to the Emperor, he was still way too young to truly understand everything going on around him. The politics, backstabbing, and hell of it all were all still unnoticed by the three year old twins. So, George answered truthfully, he nodded with a little pout.
“What did the mean man do?” The Emperor’s tone is soft. It’s a unique tone the alpha man only uses with children. With his own, and the Kirk children in particular. Everyone knows Jim Kirk is his favorite, the favoritism extends to the twins. They’ve been too long awaited for the Emperor to not take any threat to them seriously.
“Said we weak…” George says as he showed the Emperor his arm, the hand shaped bruise already forming from where the Captain had grabbed him. “He grab, I growled, he no let go.”
Jim’s eyes are blood red with anger now. Listening to his son, seeing their bruises just angers him more. He knows Bones would have done worse to the bastard if he’d been able. But it’s his daughter that surprised him the most. He had no idea she was capable of that already. As it is, he's glad the other Captain is suffering. He inspects David and sees similar bruising on the boy’s arm too. One look over to his daughter being held protectively by Bones and he can only give a smirk when she looks over to him. His baby girl is looking for approval, so Jim gets closer; He kisses her little forehead before patting his omega daughter’s back. He gives her another soft kiss on her nose when she giggles soft at him.
“Daddy say let go, he no obey.” David says, speaking up with the same innocent tone his twin has. Born and raised on the Enterprise, the Kirk twins only know that as their world. A world where they’ve seen their omega parent yell, bark out orders and be obeyed. To them it has been a shock to see their daddy not get obeyed. “He call us mean words.”
“Did he?” The Emperor said as he straightened, he patted David’s head, looked into Leonard’s eyes with an understanding. “I understand you were told no hyposprays.” Leonard raises an eyebrow at that, he can tell it’s not a question, so he says nothing. The Emperor can only give a little grin of a smirk as he shakes his head at the omega doctor. He still has no idea it was Joanna that did the damage.
“Wanna go home!” George’s tone shows a stressed, now tired baby boy. Leonard throws Jim a look at that. He’s not surprised when half a second later Jim puts David in front of him. He’s not paying attention as Jim calls for a beam-up. He’s cuddling Joanna, and feeling his boys clutch his legs. The little girl is holding her daddy close. The familiar feeling of a beam up surrounds them. For once Leonard is supremely happy to feel it, if only because it means getting his kids away from this mess.
~*~
Leonard has put the twins down in their beds after their baths the second they got to the Captain’s suite. Joanna took last place because Leonard knew her bath would take longer. Sure enough he’s still washing the dried blood and eye fluids from her hands when he hears Jim come into the room. The little girl looks up from under the shower when her papa comes into the bathroom.
When she’s finally clean, dried, and dressed Jim picks her up. Leonard knows to wait, whatever has to be said can’t be in front of the kids. They’ve never done anything to each other in front of them. Leonard watches as Jim tucks Joanna into bed, watches as he kisses her forehead. Knows he’s telling her he loves her. He doesn’t know what he was expecting, because of course Jim Kirk won’t see anything wrong with what Joanna did. Maybe there isn’t? Leonard isn’t sure.
He does go over, he does kiss his daughter good night too. He does so before heading back to the bathroom for his own shower. With the kids asleep he can afford to try and relax. He’s luxuriating with actual hot water tonight just because they’re docked at Terra so he knows they’ll get more provisions before they depart.
~*~
Jim had watched his family get back to the safety of the Enterprise. He’d taken a breath at that, he wasn’t sure what would happen with the Emperor and the injured Captain but his family was safe. The Emperor gave word that the party was over. Jim and Spock of course went nowhere. It took longer than he wanted but eventually they were alone with the Emperor, the other Captain’s brother, and the guards keeping the peace.
“I demand justice! My brother is at death’s door. He has been mutilated by Kirk’s bitch! I think we can all agree that bitch has been allowed to do as he pleases for much too long! He must be made to pay!” The man speaking isn’t part of the Fleet, but he is from the House of Lords. Jim knows his family has influence. Too bad for them Jim doesn’t care what influence they may have. His eyes blaze red as he listens to the man go on about his omega.
“I suggest you not speak about my omega. You won’t last long if you threaten him again.” Jim’s tone is calm, but Spock takes a step closer. Jim knows the Vulcan is doing it because he thinks Jim will lose it on the bastard speaking. It doesn’t matter if the other man thinks the action from the half-vulcan is a threat to him.
“Is that a threat, Captain Kirk? I’ve heard you think much too highly of yourself. My brother has dealt with you before. He’s right when he says you’re nothing but a bitch as well.”
Jim can only laugh out loud as the man speaks. “Your brother? The same man that got his ass fucked in the courtyard of the Academy because he pissed off a senior cadet? The same brother that had to get said ass repaired by my mate and was in the hospital for a week during our second year? The same brother that clearly was picking on kids during the party and then said kids took him down?” The more he speaks the more he watches the man get angrier. Jim is telling the truth though, they all know it. The other Captain had only gotten to Captain because of his family’s influence. The man might have found his footing as Captain, and become a good one. But that didn't erase his past. “I wouldn’t be putting too much stock on what your brother says about who’s a bitch or not.”
The other man is infuriated while Jim only gives him a smirk. Jim wants the man to lose it and try to attack him. He doesn’t though, he’s smarter than that and it annoys Jim.
“Gentlemen!” The Emperor calls out and all of them stand straighter while turning their attention to the man on the throne. While they’d been talking the Emperor has been watching the security feed of the hallway on the padd the head security brought him. What he sees they can’t tell, the Emperor’s expression is as always calm and collected.
“Your brother acted without control, attacking children in my palace during a ball is unheard off. He is a beta, and he should remember his place when he’s around his betters. Even if they are children! I don’t think your family is in any place to speak to Kirk about what he does and does not allow his omega to do. Dismissed! You may take him home.” The Emperor’s word is law, the man knows it. Jim can tell he’s angry and upset. But he bows to the Emperor and leaves without looking at Jim again.
Jim knows however, that the man being dismissed doesn’t mean he and his family is in the clear. He stands stock still as the Emperor gets down from his throne, padd in hand. He comes closer to Jim, and the Captain senses Spock tense besides him.
“You know... When I first arrived at the scene, I was fairly certain it was your omega to blame for the ancient medical instrument in that Captain’s eye.” The Emperor said, his voice betrays him a little. He’s getting slightly more and more amused as he talks. “Imagine my surprise when reviewing the security feed reveals your daughter, my son’s future mate fighting on top of the Captain. Plunging the previously mentioned medical instrument into the Captain’s eye without so much as a wince. And why did all this happen you may wonder. Well of course because the Captain called your son David a little bitch when the boy bumped into him as they played.” The Emperor is showing Jim and Spock the feed now.
Jim watches as the boys get angry at being spoken to that way. He watches as one of the other boys kicks the Captain’s leg. The Captain gets upset at that, trash talks them some more. It only leads to the kids attacking him harder. Soon he’s got the twins by the arm. Soon Joanna shows up in the hallway. More yelling, growling, Cupcake goes to attack the Captain. But the Captain moves quicker, and the redshirt goes down. It’s mayhem after that, soon his baby girl is attacking right along with the alpha. Soon she’s on him plunging that scalpel into the Captain’s eye just as his omega arrives at the scene.
The Emperor is looking at him with a raised eyebrow as he turns off the padd and hands it to a guard. “I knew when I chose your child for my son that her teaching would be ‘unorthodox’. I did not however realize it would quite this much. Care to explain where she got an ancient scalpel to plunge into someone?”
Jim doesn’t know if he should laugh, but he’s trying to control it. The whole thing is hilarious, he’s been expecting trouble from his sons, not his daughter. Clearly that was a mistake on his part.
“She enjoys spending time with my omega in sickbay, your highness. When she’s not following me around, she’s there. My omega was teaching her medical history and she learned about how they used to cut people open to heal them. The scalpel was for teaching, it’s blunt. Bones didn’t want her to hurt herself, so it doesn’t cut when used properly.” Jim explains, he’s barely controlling himself. But the Emperor is clearly amused at the story. The man is chuckling to himself as Jim speaks.
“I take it she already knows her body parts then? She went straight for the weakest point.” The Emperor said barely controlling a full on laugh now.
“She can name every part yes. She can tell you about every organ too in fact. She’s a little wiz already; Most of her schooling happens in sickbay.” Jim says, he’s looking down as he laughs out loud cause he can't help it.
“A chip off the old block as they say.” The Emperor says, even as he’s turning to leave. Jim has to laugh again just as the other man is patting his shoulder. “Too bad you don’t have another omega child. My second born needs a mate as well.” He says with a grin as he gives a quick nod to Spock and walks off towards the hallway that leads to the royal suites. “Dismissed Captain Kirk, you might wish to be careful of the other Captain’s family. They’re known to hold a grudge.”
“Of course, your highness.” Jim says, he and Spock give their bows. They wait until the Emperor is fully gone to call for a beam-up. He’d patted Spock’s shoulder and walked through the hallways of the Enterprise lost in thought about the whole night. When he’d gotten to his suite, he’d checked on his boys first. He saw their bruises gone as they slept safe in their beds. No doubt they were exhausted, and didn’t put up much of a fight as Bones had checked them over and healed any injury or bruising. He heard the shower and watched as his gorgeous mate took care of their daughter. He can still see a bit of blood on her hands, but Bones takes care of it.
After she’s dressed for bed Jim has to take her, he can’t help himself and cuddles her. Giving her kisses and smiles as he tucks her in. He watches the worry in her eyes and gives her a smile. He tucks a stray curl behind her ear lovingly and she tiredly giggles up at him.
“Am I in trouble daddy?” The innocence in her tone makes his heartache. Even after what she’d done she’s still so innocent.
“Of course not, baby. You were protecting your brothers right?” Jim asks, he’s keeping his tone soft. He knows Bones is watching nearby, that’s making Joanna calmer. The baby girl nods quickly, and Jim smiles. “See, then why would you be in trouble? That Captain was just mean, he won’t hurt you guys again.”
“I love you, papa.” Jim can feel his heart melt hearing that. His boys are important, and he’d kill to protect them. But his baby girl, his first born, she owns his heart just as much as Leonard McCoy does. For his two omega he’d raise entire worlds to the ground.
“I love you too, princess; With all my heart.” Jim says and watches her smile big and wide as she falls asleep. He tucked her in more, running a hand through her soft curls.
When he’s sure she’s asleep he silently gets up and leaves the room. He hears the bathroom, he knows Bones is in the shower, so he follows the sound there. Leaning against the doorway he watches his omega under the water. Leonard is still gorgeous, after two pregnancies he’d worked hard to get back in shape. To lose all the baby weight and get fit again. Jim knows part of it is the trauma from Tarsus 4, but he knows better than to mention it.
“Our daughter made the emperor laugh.”
“Did she? That’s good, I was afraid we’d be in trouble. Or that he’d change his mind about her.”
“Nah, in fact he said it was too bad we didn’t have another one. Apparently his second born is in need of a future omega as well.” Jim said, he’s giving his omega a grin as he takes off his clothes and comes into the shower with him. Leonard rolls his eyes, but he moans as Jim runs his hands down his sides. “Birth control?”
“Haven’t taken it... Doesn’t matter, you know you won’t get me pregnant at my age outside of my heat Jim.” Leonard says biting back a moan as he feels Jim’s finger in his ass.
“Let’s see what we can do about triggering that then, shall we?” Jim grins as his omega moans. The alpha bites at his omega’s wide shoulders even as he thrusts in without much more prep. He knows that by now Leonard doesn’t need it. The Doctor is always ready for him.