( that sinking feeling starts at jim's words, the little cliffhanger where all she can assume that follows it is he's dead. una knows that chris is playing with limited time after what he experienced on boreth but he doesn't die there... just a fate that really isn't much better than it.

but then spock confirms it, her heart sinking lower. and then she goes cold, surprise entirely evident in her expression, stronger than the pain she feels... and she wonders maybe if she feels a little sick.

khan noonien-singh? that wasn't right, wasn't what was supposed to happen to him-- but maybe the future she knew for chris had changed because of the other changes in this timeline, the destruction of vulcan... surely that would have set off a chain of other events. including chris being killed by her best friend's homicidal generically engineered ancestor. the reason why she couldn't legally join starfleet.

that was all entirely a mess. she didn't say anything at first, trying to process it, to pull some of herself back together to be able to respond. una knows that it'll hit her fully later, will only let herself really feel it when she's alone. so for now she forces some neutrality back into her expression, nodding to them )

Thank you for telling me.

( even if it's quite possibly the worst thing that she's ever heard and she wishes she didn't know. but the truth is better than the two tiptoeing around her )

I serve with Captain Pike. Where I'm from he's still the Captain of the Enterprise. I'm his first officer, Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley. Call me Number One.

( would they have said anything different if they knew who she was first? even if she's glad they didn't hold back )