Kathy sat back on the medical table as Dr. Crusher ran a scan of her knee to see how well it had healed and at what step in the rehab process she was at.

"Doctor Crusher is it possible to continue her therapy here so as not to interrupt her recovery?" Picard asked.

"Yes, it is possible, I have looked up methods used then to treat her knee and I think I can oversee her care here." Beverly said as she returned to her desk. "I want to get her off those crutches as soon as possible, perhaps transition her to a cane and then to walking on her own, we want to get the strength back in that joint without destroying the grafted ligament in the process so we work at a slow steady pace with her."

"Grafted ligament?"

"Yes, they took a ligament, or actually part of a ligament from another part of her leg and grafted it in place of the destroyed ACL as just reattaching the pieces of the destroyed ACL won't work it won't knit back together at all." Beverly explained.

"Okay."

"I'm just worried about her immune system; we have diseases that weren't even heard of in 2012, diseases in which she has no immunity to. I'm torn between my duty as her doctor to keep her from becoming ill and not muddling the timeline." Beverly sighed "there are at least three vaccines that I can think of that she should have before I can let her out of this sick bay and have a clear conscience about it."

"I understand your frustration, Dr. Crusher."

"No you don't, Jean-Luc, I don't know if the prime directive will allow me to give her these vaccines."

Picard sighed "Look up the vaccines she requires and then contact Starfleet and ask if it is permitted to give them to her, or if it would mess with the time stream, then we would just have to be careful with her."

Beverly nodded and went to work pulling up the vaccines.

"These are the ones that as a doctor I would feel I was neglecting her if I didn't administer them, the rest are minor illnesses that she could fight off easily."

"She is not of our era, Dr. Crusher."

"The ones I'm not mentioning are harmless, existed in her world heck she's probably had a cold or the flu in her life, these are the ones that are a direct threat to her life as the conditions either didn't exist or didn't exist on Earth." Beverly explained.

She sighed and called Starfleet and told them of her dilemma.

"This is defiantly an issue to test our ethics, do we withhold this to preserve the time line or do we give her the medication to prevent the illnesses and give her freedom to walk the starship safely?" the head doctor sighed "give her the vaccines, we preach equality then we must abide by our own preaching and give her equal treatment, just treat the ACL as those in her era would we cannot use our technology on a condition she came with, we just cannot send her home to cause a plague to wipe out our ancestors."

"Sir I believe she may be from an alternate time line, she has a genetic anomaly not seen in our history." Beverly stated "A mutation that isn't in the recorded anywhere."

"It might have been an isolated mutation."

"No, she says it is a wide spread thing in her time, many have the same genetic abnormality as her, including her own father." Beverly explained. "It gives people powers that ordinary humans don't possess."

"What power does she possess?"

"She has telepathy that, according to Councilor Troi is equal to any Betazoid. Although her use of this power and the ethics she was taught regarding them are very different, she will not read another's mind without their consent unless not given any other option. She cites that a person's private thoughts should remain private. She also has telekinetic powers we do not known the strength of the telekinesis as we have not tested it."

Kathy looked up as Dr. Crusher approached.

"Is something wrong doctor?" she asked

"No, I just need to give you a couple of vaccines before you can be allowed to roam the ship."

Kathy gave an involuntary wince.

"They aren't like vaccines of your time" Beverly assured Kathy but Kathy looked unconvinced.

"The skeptic I see." Beverly smiled "how old are you Kathy; that seems to be the question everyone has neglected to ask"

"I'm sixteen."

Beverly sighed; she was only a year older than Wesley.

"Kathy this is what I use to give you the vaccines" Beverly said holding the tool up then putting it to Kathy's shoulder and administering the first one.

Kathy looked confused it felt weird to her.

"That's it?"

"Yes, and the second one… this is actually two vaccines combined" Beverly said then administered the second one. "You look tired why don't you get some sleep here, we'll get you set up in quarters later."

Beverly left Kathy to rest and went to Picard.

"Captain, I just asked Kathy her age, she is only sixteen years old, I don't feel comfortable putting her in solo quarters."

"Neither do I, with her lack of knowledge of modern technology she could have problems with things we take for granted, plus with her leg the way it is, she is going to need assistance, preferably by a woman."

"Between my job and Wesley I am too busy to help her." Beverly said.

"She is a telepath; she might do well with another with mental powers." Picard said "Councilor Troi, report to the ready room."

A few moments later Deanna entered the room.

"You wished to see me Captain?" Deanna said

"Deanna I was wondering if you would mind helping Miss Xavier until we can return her to her rightful time and place."

"I don't understand what you want me to do."

"Watch out for her, help her with things she has trouble with." Picard elaborated "she is sixteen years old she is going to need someone to lean on. When the novelty of this place wears off, and it will, she is going to need someone to help her deal with the homesickness that will no doubt set in. I figure that you might be able to relate to her better than someone she hasn't met."

"I will do what I can to help her"

"You and she will temporarily move to family quarters if that is okay with you, councilor."

"That is fine; I would like to have her near at night to make sure she is okay." Deanna said "I will also lend her some clothing to wear while she is on the ship; she is about the same size as me so my clothing should fit her fine."

Deanna was dismissed to tend to what she needed to in order to be ready to take the family quarters.

To Be Continued…