Unbeknownst - Chapter 9
Author: Mousling1014
Story: Unbeknownst
Chapter 9 of ?
Rated: T
Pairing: AOS Spock/Uhura
Warnings: Mind-control, sexy times (rating will change to R for that)
Synopsis: What happens when you thought you were in control, but you're not....
Disclaimer: I don't own them - Paramount does and I'm making nothing from this.
Chapter 9
“Ahem.” It was more the feeling of a presence than the actual vocal interruption that made Spock and Uhura pull reluctantly back from each other. They remained seated together, Spock’s hand lightly grasping Uhura’s, the tingling feeling now supplemented with a whisper of Spock’s mind within hers. Prem stood in the balcony doorway, his eyes sweeping across both of them, behind him Surat was finishing up with his communicator, he snapped it shut and they both made their way back into the apartment.
Surat and Prem sat down facing Spock and Uhura. Surat sighed and raised his eyebrow at them, he began to speak quietly.
“For you to understand what is happening, I need to start from the beginning, as best as I am able, and with no interruptions please.” Surat looked over at Prem, who nodded in agreement, he continued. “The Federation has been monitoring local terrorist attacks on planetary government and civilian targets within a select group of planets. All these planets appear to have one thing in common; their inhabitants have some sort of psi ability, either telepathic or empathic. This monitoring began in earnest about 10 years ago, though the Federation has data to support the fact that these attacks were happening before then. The attacks appeared at first to be random, so the local governments didn’t report to the Federation. It wasn’t until the F’alua incident on Betazed that made the Federation ‘stand up and take notice’ as it were, and that these attacks were not as random as they appeared.”
Surat turned his gaze to Spock. “Vulcan is one of the planets under monitoring. Being one of the founding members of the Federation though, they have managed to keep any incident perpetrated on Vulcan soil from becoming public knowledge, but now the Federation believes that whatever group or groups working on Vulcan are now in the process of stepping up their attacks.” Surat leaned back into his chair and continued to gaze at Spock as if gauging his reaction. Spock returned his gaze steadily, calm and stoic, though Uhura could feel through their growing bond that Spock was clearly disconcerted about what Surat had said so far. She squeezed his hand gently and rubbed her thumb in a soothing circle against his wrist.
Surat noticed the gesture and grinned slightly, then frowned and sighed again. “We have a little information on how the Vulcan groups perform these attacks; one of our operatives managed to infiltrate such a group and at great personal cost, provided us with a lead. From what we understand from the information, the group has managed to ‘seed’ Vulcans into strategic positions within Vulcan government and prominent civilian business at planetary and local levels. These ‘seeded’ Vulcans are used to carry out the attacks. The instructions appear to be given telepathically. However...” Surat clearly was uncomfortable with where the conversation was heading. “However, the ‘seeded’ Vulcans are not aware of their own actions. We also know from our operative, that technology is being used to create these ‘seeded’ ones, or rather create the link that is used on them, though we are not sure how. The Federation has so far only managed to acquire a small specimen of the technology and even they are unsure of its origins or complete uses. Only that it is an advanced technology and not something that has been categorized before to our knowledge.”
Uhura’s thumb continued to circle Spock’s wrist, she wanted to speak and bit her lip to prevent herself. She felt a growing sense of unease and looked over at Prem and then at Surat before finally resting her gaze onto Spock. She just knew what Surat was about to say, she just knew it wasn’t good. And almost like he could read her thoughts, Surat confirmed her suspicion.
“Our operative was also able to obtain a small list of names of ‘seeded’ Vulcans that this particular group has. Spock, your name is one of them.”
TBC……..