Even positive. Those were some of the harder ones to find, and most had been...less than academic, to say the least. A few had been downright poisonous. But he'd been desperate to know everything he could possibly find.

It was...well, a way to deal with what he'd found out had been done to him. Perhaps not the best one, but it wasn't as if he could talk to a therapist about it.

He doesn't back down when Khan steps closer, even though every instinct in his body is screaming at him to.

First, he thought...he had to confirm something. He wasn't exactly sure how--he hadn't had much of a chance to speak with Doctor McCoy about the changes to their timelines.

"Alright then. But first, I have to know something--who was it that found you, in the Botany Bay?"

Any answer but Kirk and the Enterprise crew would tell him what he needed to know.