"I never believed in fate until the thing with the Narada. Then... then I did." Kirk's fingers tightened as his sides into fists. "There's no way all that could have happened without fate being involved. Bones deciding to pull me onto the Enterprise as a stow away. Spock deciding to drop me off on an ice hell hole. The monster chasing me, the SECOND monster chasing me, in that exact direction, falling off a fucking cliff, seeing the cave, and fucking a Spock from another universe? That's... impossible."