[The Kalòn Kakòn and The Enterprise] [The Reboot!Kirks and Pike]

[dreadpiratekirk]

“What is it now?” Sam moaned, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. They’d had a scare the previous day and he had found his shift on the bridge extended to almost a full twenty four hours

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[dreadpiratekirk]

"I may be twenty-nine, but I've committed more than my share of crimes in life." Sam looked off into the distance. He had always expected to pay for his crimes. Maybe not at such an early age, but definitely some day. That time had come and he was not going to stand in the way of justice.

[kirktastic]

"How long were you captain of that ship?" Kirk asked, sitting back down with a huff. He was already trying to think of something, anything... something that would save his brother from the colony.

[dreadpiratekirk]

"Six years and I'm technically still the captain." Sam stated, sounding slightly offended.

[kirktastic]

"Sorry." Kirk said, shaking his head slightly. "I didn't mean it that way." He leaned back in his chair, staring across the room as he thought. "Sam, you've gotta know I don't want you wasting your life in some fucking penal colony."

[dreadpiratekirk]

"S'ok," Sam said, "you weren't really thinking about it. What you want and what I want doesn't really matter here. Starfleet has rules about what you're supposed to do. I don't get some free pass just because I'm your flesh and blood."

[kirktastic]

"I don't mean a free pass because you're my brother." Kirk rumbled, his fingers clenching. "Throwing you into some colony is a waste. There's gotta be a way..." Something that would keep Sam out of the colony and still serve as his punishment. Of course, thinking back on it, he hadn't exactly taken punishment for everything he had done in the past either.

[dreadpiratekirk]

"You think Starfleet is gonna let me off on work release?" Sam chuckled, eventually managing to stifle them before they turned into full fledged laughs. "I'm a god damned pirate, Jimmy."

[kirktastic]

"...I've got an Admiral on board." Kirk pointed out, "Someone who can give us some insight to what'll be available. I don't know what the hell we can do, Sam. I just... want all my options in front of me."

[dreadpiratekirk]

Sam sat back on his chair, trying to relax. "I'm not going anywhere soon. Take your time and gather your options, Jimmy."

[kirktastic]

"Jim." Kirk corrected. He had stopped being Jimmy the day he got thrown in jail that first time. "And I have a day. I can't tow that thing you call a ship behind us forever." A light tease despite how tense he felt.

[dreadpiratekirk]

"I'll have you know that the Kalòn Kakòn was a perfectly good ship until a bunch of Romulans blew a hole in it." Sam sounded slightly annoyed, but the laugh he chased it with showed that it was only a front. "It used to be able to outrun anything we came across."

Sam frowned at the correction. Obviously he had missed something. Jimmy would always be Jimmy to him, but he would try to call him Jim out of respect.

"Then use that day wisely, Jim."

[kirktastic]

Brows went up, "Romulans?" He immediately grew concerned, "You were out in Romulan space? Or in the neutral zone?"

[dreadpiratekirk]

"We chased another pirate vessel into the Neutral Zone. The Romulans decloaked in the middle of the fight and blasted the other ship away." Sam bit his bottom lip. "We were lucky."

[kirktastic]

That set off every alert in Kirk's mind. "How big of a Romulan ship, Sam? How long ago was this?" He needed information. Romulans weren't supposed to be in that zone, and if they were hanging there, cloaked... not that Sam and his ship OR the other pirate ship should have been there either, but they weren't Federation. They didn't fall under the agreement between the two sides.

The Romulans did.

[dreadpiratekirk]

Sam looked his brother up and down. It was not uncommon for the Kalòn Kakòn to run into hostile alien ships. He'd thought nothing of encountering the Romulans there.

"Ten days ago. It was small. Couldn't have possibly been meant for military or transportation, but it must have been retrofitted."

[kirktastic]

"Dammit!" Kirk growled, standing up, thinking quickly, "Romulans aren't supposed to be there... its breaking the agreement between the Empire and the Federation for them to do it. I'll need to tell Starfleet about it immediately."

He let out a breath and looked back to Sam, "I'll have to think about what to do with you and your crew." He walked back up to his brother, looking down at him. ...fuck, he had missed Sam.