Ch. 3: Sex

Wesley knew he could have tested out of the Academy a lot earlier than he had so why did he stay? The women. Wesley realized that Starfleet women wanted to be valued for their skills most of all so if he acted a little less smart and in need of help, it made the women puff out their chests and let him touch them. He didn't mind at all playing dumb because it made the women roll over.

The women. It was the reason he wanted to go to the Academy in the first place. There had hardly been any girls around his age on the Enterprise and so he had always only been with older women. There were only a few that he knew onboard that would make sure whatever they did never got around to his mother or the Captain. He went to the Academy for the fun.

And it had been, until Josh died during their Kolvoord Starburst maneuver practice.

Josh was the one that told Wesley about wanting to do the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver in the first place so that he could help get Nick, their Squadron leader, into it. Josh always loved anything to do with explosions and danger. So Wesley made some passing reference to it once and Nick picked up on it and got everyone else on the team enthusiastic about trying the flight maneuver.

It had actually been their fifth time practicing the Kolvoord Starburst. Every other time had been a success. The reason Josh died was because Josh was trying to make a bigger explosion without letting the rest of them know about it, like usual. Wesley figured out what was happening only because during the accident, he slowed down time enough to look over and actually see what buttons Josh was trying to push. Josh was trying to move his hands to reprogram the release valve in time and lost control of his steering. It had been the first time Wesley had slowed down time, but it didn't last long enough for him to change anything.

Nick, the Nova Squadron leader, liked to believe that he was manipulating everyone on the team. The only one that it probably worked on was Sito. The rest of them were doing their own thing and making him take the blame. Josh had blown up a few things in the science lab during the middle of the night that Nick took the blame for. Jean liked to get into bar fights and Nick always stepped in to get her out of disciplinary hearings. And Wesley was just having fun fucking him. Nick was one of the few guys that he did have sex with at the Academy. He had been good in bed and Wesley found it fun to be held once in awhile instead of doing the holding. Also, acting like he needed help got Nick to lend him his Squadron leader ID chip and hack into more systems at the Academy. It was funny that the Captain always said the first duty is to the truth when all the files that he had hacked into at the Academy proved that Starfleet had nothing at all to do with the "truth." But he really admired Captain Picard's ideals. He was hoping there would be more like him in Starfleet in the future.

So he told the truth at the hearing and got Nick feeling sorry enough to take the blame for them all. He didn't really feel bad about it because Nick liked power and control too much to be good for Starfleet anyways. Wesley probably wasn't qualified to be one of Captain Picard's ideals either, though. And thus began a new year of Wesley pretty much torturing himself at the Academy, feeling bad about not being able to save Josh even though he had slowed down time and not knowing what he should do with his future.