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[verycold_inspace]

Do you know how cold it can be in space? No, I do not think you do. You know nothing of what I have been through. Because of him.

James T. Kirk. He shall have his day. I shall have my revenge. Something, that is rightfully mine before he marooned me on Ceti Alpha VI. Left me to die. He shall know the pain I suffered. My people among the ones who were treated like dirt.

No. He will die. I will make sure of it and you will not get in my way, mundane. Just stay out of my way and we will be at peace with one another. Hm? A generous offer, as you'd do well to take it.

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[vintage_fine]

You won't believe me, Khan. But I never left you to die.

[verycold_inspace]

[Oh YOU.

Kirk. You lie. You marooned me and my crew on Ceti Alpha VI to die. The planet exploded and we were all stuck on Ceti Alpha V. Do you remember that? [He almost hissed out the words.]

[defusing]

Marooned? According to the Enterprises records, the ship has never been near that system. Captain Kirk can't have left you there.

[A momentary pause.] Who are you that you hate him so much?

[vintage_fine]

I was mistaken. I did not lie. I marooned you there to start a new life. To avoid the lack of consideration you would have received had I taken you back to the Federation.

[verycold_inspace]

Who might you be, to know such things? [He looked her over. Not bad. She was with Starfleet, by the looks of things.]

You are wrong. Kirk did leave me there. My crew were abandoned by Kirk and left to fend for ourselves. A desolate desert planet with a harsh environment. [He paused. Why was she so keen to know about him? She would know.]

I am Khan.

[verycold_inspace]

Marooned. Do you not have any conscience about leaving men and women to die? You cared more about your commission than you do human life, Kirk.

A new life? [He scoffed.] We had no life!

[vintage_fine]

You ask if I have a conscience. You.

I respected you. I trusted you to survive, to rise to the challenge. You did. I was not wrong about that. I was wrong not to realize what had happened to the system.

[defusing]

I'm Dr. Carol Marcus, I'm a science officer assigned to the Enter-

[Khan. No way that this is Khan. Khan is younger. And a douchebag. And on ice.]

You couldn't possibly be. We just refroze Khan.

[Where's her tricorder? She needs one right now.]

[verycold_inspace]

We survived because we had to. We had nothing else. No ship to leave the godforsaken planet. [He crossed his arms as he stared at Kirk. So many bad memories.]

I respected you until you left me and my crew to a harsh world, devoid of all life. [Except those big, nasty bugs. Remember those, Kirk?]

Did you not ever stop to think what the implications would be? What if we did not survive?

[verycold_inspace]

Dr. Marcus? [No. She couldn't be. Carol Marcus was Kirk's bit of stuff, was she not? Also, in charge of the Genesis project with her son, David. Kirk's son.

But, she was older. A lot older.]

You cannot be here, since Carol Marcus is a lot older. Refroze? What do you mean?

[defusing]

[HAH! Genesis is so far off. If it ever happens now.]

I'm not in the habit of impersonating Starfleet personnel. And I mean precisely what I say. Mister Spock and Lieutenant Uhura knocked Khan unconscious and we put him back in his cryogenic unit with the rest of his augmented crew.

[Aha! Tricorder acquired! Running a scan on him now.]

[verycold_inspace]

[If it does happen, Khan will be the first to know about it. He wants Genesis for himself.]

Spock? Uhura? Those are the names of James T. Kirk's crew. [Aha. Was she part of the Enterprise crew? Such a fate he had in for them.]

You must be mistaken. I am Khan.

[t_pol]

Yes I do, in space currently it is -273 degrees C.

According to Starfleet logs you were not marooned, simply relocated. How is it that after the time differences, you still hold what can be called a grudge against this man.

[verycold_inspace]

[A Vulcan? That was all he needed right now.]

Yes, it is very cold in space. Cold enough to freeze someone or many people to death.

Starfleet. Of course. [He smiled slowly. Always so strict with their rules. Easily broken.] I enjoy being who I am because I make my own rules. No Starfleet governs me.

Kirk left me to die. I bare more than a grudge.

[defusing]

[Not likely.]

Of course they are.

[Scanning... And almost drops her tricorder.]

This shouldn't be possible. [Completely ignoring the whole Spock and Spock Prime thing.]

[t_pol]

Indeed. Have you had previous dealings with the Starfleet previously?

[She gave him a curious glance. She had read of him before in Starfleet's records]

Who are you exactly? Are you known to Starfleet?

[verycold_inspace]

[Thank you for telling him all this information, Carol.]

What shouldn't? That I exist? I am here and I am here to stay. No more running and hiding.

[defusing]

[What's it's common knowledge.]

That you exist isn't what I refer to, although I still find it curious that twentieth-century Earth was even capable of augmenting humans. The problem lies in the fact that you are Khan but you aren't.

I've dealt with Khan, he's a terrorist and a murderer and we put him on ice, locked him away. He will never again see the light of day.

[dontwannabeastatue]

Hey. You- you look familiar. Are you famous or something?

[kirk_tng]

I wonder if there's anyone in the universe he hasn't managed to enrage.

[vintage_fine]

But the plain truth of it was, I didn't. I left you to a lush, fruitful world. Something which many disagreed with. I had no way of knowing that would happen.

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[emboldened]

... [ You sound familiar, but damn do you look different. ]

Afraid I don't think we've met, though I think I can probably guess who you might be.

[kirk]

And what should have happened to you, Khan?

[It would be wrong to say that Jim hero-worships his older self, the one who has boldly gone where no Captain had gone before, but it's a near thing.]

From what I understand, the Kirk you knew left you and your people to survive on a planet where you wouldn't be a danger to anyone, rather than cart you all back to Starfleet to face a worse fate. That's a better solution even than the one we found for the Khan I ran into.