Enterprise Models 10
After her stint in the hospital, Jenna was finally reunited with her colleagues at their high security hotel suite. She hugged Bones with relief and let him and Carol fuss over her while she talked to Spock and Nyota about the raid, letting them fill in the missing pieces from the moments she'd been unconscious. Spock's mind was like a computer and he dutifully recited every detail until she told him he could stop.
"Unbelievable," Bones muttered. "You sure he's not an android?"
Nyota poked him. "You're just jealous you don't have an eidetic memory."
"No I ain't." He shuddered. "Then I'd remember every hellish moment with the ex and my life would be one horrible nightmare."
Jenna snorted and Carol snaked a hand up Bones's shoulder, causing him to turn mildly pink. Ooh. Something was definitely going on with them, but she'd interrogate Bones later.
Hikaru was the last to join them, being occupied on a long call to his family, assuring them he was safe.
"What drama have I missed guys?" He said, sitting down and rubbing his hands together in anticipation of some interesting gossip.
"Where should we start?" Nyota asked.
"Well, Chris is furious with Jon for giving him fake employees and very angry with me for other reasons which I will not go into at this time."
Jenna grimaced as she said this and everyone looked pained, guessing what those reasons were. They weren't blind. They'd seen Jenna showing interest in the man.
"But that's not all!" Gaila burst out. "Christopher Pike used to be an agent himself! He was Archer's partner a long time ago, but I couldn't find anything else on him in the database. It's all been redacted."
Jenna's curiosity perked up. This last item was news to her. What super secret mission had they been involved then that had forced the extreme move of basically wiping Chris from the files. As she began to plot hacking, Archer entered the room.
"What? Why are you looking at me like that? Did I grow a second head?" He joked, trying to distract them.
"You've got some 'splainin' to do, boss," Leonard drawled, crossing his arms.
"About what?" Archer asked.
"Why you didn't tell us Pike was an agent." Carol said firmly, looking him square in the eye.
"Security reasons. He doesn't talk about it, because he believes himself responsible for a mission gone wrong. If he's going to tell anyone, it should be Jenna, but I'm afraid I really bungled things by not telling him what he was getting into."
"Well, duh!" Jenna said, rather irritated at Archer just then. "With all due respect, sir," she amended, "I don't see why he should tell me more than the rest of us."
"Because of your dad," Archer said.
Jenna froze and every eye was on her as she digested this fact.
"Was Chris there when my dad d..."
"He was on the case." Was all Archer would say, but he looked pained mentioning it and Jenna was horrified.
"And yet he agreed to hire me knowing who I was."
"He knew whose daughter you were, just not what you really did."
"I hope he'll be willing to talk. He said he expected us all to meet with him to tie up loose ends so maybe I can coax him to tell me." Jenna said.
"If anyone can, you certainly could," Archer noted, before getting back to the business at hand and going over their mission reports with a fine-toothed comb. It was a full three hours before they got out of that meeting and Jenna was too tired to anything more than crash into bed.