That wasn't exactly your best work, especially considering Spock is much more popular than Kirk anyway.
Roger let me ask you something:
Kirk or Picard? How much do you think Jill knows about James? Until MC brought it up, Jill was unaware that the room by the stairs was locked. We still don't know what's in there, but it's possible she might.
When Jill is chewing out Bella for fucking MC, she never once throws the fact that Bella is married in her face, mainly just the age gap and being his teacher. That could imply Jill is privy to the details about his disappearance and has accepted the fact he is more than likely dead, despite Bella personally holding out hope for his return. Or maybe she knows little to nothing, and since Bella never brings it up, neither does Jill.
It might even be possible that Jill met James before going MIA, but I highly doubt that. We still don't even know when or how Bella and Jill met.
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I'm not 100% sure but I think they mention having met after James had already disappeared. Jill probably wishes Bella would move on and so doesn't bring it up. If she has said something to that effect, throwing it in Bella's face now would not look good. Or she could just feel that it would be a low blow. Or she has learned not to bring up the subject of James with Bella. As far as the room goes I don't think Bella has only just started locking it up. Jill not knowing it was locked would imply that she has never been suspicious of it before MC talks about it. And if Jill already knew what was in there I don't think she would confirm that the door was indeed locked. She would understand why Bella would want to lock it and leave it at that.
After telling Eugene to use a fucking computer Bella has the following thoughts:
(I did the right thing.)
(This was for Jill.)
(Married women don't fool around with young students.)
(...)
(They aren't intimate with friends either...)
(But that...that was different!)
(It doesn't matter... I've stopped it.)
(Please, James... Forgive me)
(Please, just come home again...)
(It's been long enough now.)
It could be that the friend in question is Jill, but the "young students" would cover Jill as well so I've wondered who else it might have been. I've toyed with the idea that it was actually Lana, but the "I've stopped it." bit is kind of extreme next to the fact that Lana is dead. Otherwise there is a lot of potential in Bella having been friends with Lana and getting sexual. She and James clearly had problems before he disappeared and it would explain how Jill is so important to Bella.
I have a feeling that all the nasty things are connected. Not necessarily done by the same hand or ordered by the same mastermind, but connected. It's a bit conspiracy theory-ish, but this is a work of fiction so all conspiracy theories are at least 50% more plausible.
I speculate the following sequence of events:
1) Bella and James have problems and Bella sleeps with Lana.
2) Bella puts a stop to the affair and doesn't see Lana for a while.
3) Lana is killed.
4a) James tries to find out more about Lana's death to make sure Bella isn't in danger. He finds out too much and is disappeared.
4b) James is the one who killed Lana and disappeared because he was about to get caught.
5) Bella meets Jill.
There is the obvious counter point that Bella worries about becoming an adulteress as if it was a new thing after having oral sex with MC. However the "being intimate with a friend" happened long before that so for some reason it didn't count. Either it didn't quite cross a line just like the other moments with MC didn't quite cross a line or it didn't count because the friend was a woman. "Intimate" could be an intensely emotional moment that didn't quite get sexual, but close enough for Bella to feel guilty about it.
Of course the friend doesn't have to be Lana and James' disappearance doesn't have to be directly connected to her death, but how Bella and Jill got to be so close in spite of a 15 year age gap requires an explanation and Lana would be a good one.
