Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned Rysher Entertainment et Al and Paramount pictures and Gene Roddennberry... etc.,etc... not me.

- I still think, Ben, that you shouldn't have gone there for five years.
- It's Leonard now. Leonard McCoy. Don't you appreciate at least a part of my name?

- The 'Mc'? Nice touch, Duncan would be so proud.

- Please tell me he has a pseudo. There is no cure for 'Duncan', but there must be something for 'of the clan MacLaud'.

- Yes, he is believed dead for some time now. He's even become Head of Orion's Watchers' branch.

- Oh stars, I didn't need that picture.

- He was almost transferred to Vulcan, you know. That's how he staged his demise. Ben. Ben! Adam!

- Transferred by whom? 'Just a history professor', he told me!

- Well, turns out he wanted to try VSA.

- Idiot.

- You know that's why we love him. Of course, his little project of studying extraterrestrial martial arts is a triffle paranoid. But who cares? I wish he could go into 'Fleet, though. Orion is for realistic humans. But his aide isn't qualified enough - I say, not detecting an Immortal right under your nose is...

- And you?

- Well, Nick and I, we serve in SI.

- That's a shock. Do they know?

- Duncan helped a bit, contacted Terra Watchers' branch. Such a bureaucracy, though. All these papers between missions. You know. CMO can't be less difficult.

- Nick's alive?

- Thank you.

- No offence, Amanda, but a youngster with incurable monogamy is prone to make stupid mistakes.

- Well, he's alive. He's serving under Pike. Classified.

- I'll meet Pike at the reception tomorrow. He's a good man.

- Yeah. I believe, we better close this connection now.

- M'lady, your wish is my command.

- Darieux out.

- McCoy out.

Methos looked at sickbay's occupants through the door of his office.

To his right, there was a photo on the wall. His first daughter, a gift of medicine, named after Dawson - his mortal daughter, whom he had to abandon due to his wife issues with not-getting-old business.

Well. No sense in wallowing in self-pity when you have bourbon.

So, Amanda didn't know that Pike was an undercover Watcher. Duncan didn't know that Orion's Immortals only hunted intraspecies. Nick didn't know Amanda still reached out to old acquaintances. Pike watched Nick, Duncan was watched by a harem of green-skin insubordinates - even if they considered him mortal - and could be swayed to join Enterprise's crew. Under right circumstances, o' course.

Could be a real help with kids, not necessarily only the Captain Kirk.
Perhaps... his talk with Admiral will be a bit more interesting then expected.