Author's Note:

Hello everyone. Lots of you put in requests but they varied a lot so I went with Rule 5 which I think most people wanted. It is a little bit different from the others and contains a bit of Pavel whump but has fluff at the end. Thank you for your continued support and I hope you enjoy.

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Rule 5-Bullying Ensign Chekov is a bad idea.

Pavel seriously hurt everywhere.

He had never thought things would get this bad since there had been no reason for them to. Regardless he was now lying in the Medbay with lots of bruises, several broken bones and a frantic Command Crew all mother-hening him.

It technically started in his first year at the Academy when three cadets in his year decided that he was young, scrawny, and weak and therefore an easy target. It never went beyond insults, barbed comments and occasional tripping up. He never reported it since it was nothing he hadn't been through before and previous experiences taught him that doing so only made things worse. The next three years he just avoided them when he could or travelled with a group of girls who were more than happy to defend him because they thought he was adorable. Coming onto the Enterprise it continued, but with two of them being science officers and the other in Security he rarely saw them. When he did it was much the same, insults as they passed when no-one else was about.

It seemed, unfortunately, that they had recently decided to go much further.

Pavel had been down in engineering and was alone in a secluded corner of the hanger studying one of the monitors. He heard someone approach and looked up to see the three bullies walking towards him menacingly and blatantly cracking their knuckles. Backing up he found himself trapped against a wall and with nowhere to run, grabbing his comm from his belt he tried to contact Scotty but a punch from the security officer sent it flying out of his hand. Grinning maliciously the red shirt readied another blow.

"You've had this coming a long time brat."

From there it became an eternity of blows and pain as they continued to beat him. Nowhere near strong enough to fight back Pavel ended up curled in a ball protecting his head as they rained punches down on him. One of them started to add some kicks as he whimpered in pain.

Then the most wonderful thing happened, one of the three beating him yelped in pain and the blows stopped.

Peeking out through his arms Pavel saw Scotty cracking his knuckles with the whole Command Crew and several other crewmembers at his back. One of the science officers was clutching at his nose while it spouted blood as he and the other two backed away from the livid crew who looked like they wanted to break their necks. Stepping forward with his eyes burning with anger, Jim gave orders to several security staff.

"Get them out of my sight."

As the security officers savagely manhandled the three away Bones shot to Pavel's side and quickly scanned him while shouting for someone to get him to the Medbay. Feeling someone lift him up gently Pavel drifted into unconsciousness.

Coming back around, he found himself in the Medbay with his family around him. Seeing him opening his eyes Bones leaned forward from where he was sitting on the right side of the bed.

"How you feeling kid?"

"Eet hurts."

"I'm not surprised. You had a broken arm, several broken ribs, internal bleeding and a mass of bruises." The doctor told him.

Feeling a shift on his left Pavel looked to see Jim sitting on that side of the bed, Nyota was sitting next to him with Spock standing behind her. Hikaru and Scotty were hovering at the end of the bed and they all looked relived that he was awake.

"Pavel what the hell happened in the hanger. Scotty received your comm. only to hear you crying out in pain. We found your location and arrived to see them beating the hell out of you."

It was Jim who had spoken and everyone else looked at Pavel expectantly. Fidgeting nervously he answered.

"Zey just approached me and guessing zeir intentions I tried to contact Scotty but zey knocked ze comm out of my hand."

"Didn't they have a reason for it?"

"Vell zey alvays picked on me at ze Academy."

"Wait." It was Bones who spoke. "These jerks have been bullying you since the Academy?"

"Da."

"Dammit kid. Why didn't you ever report it?"

"Zey only ever really threw insults and tripped me occasionally so eet vasn't zat big a concern."

Holding up a hand to stop Bones launching into a tirade at Pavel, Jim gave him a serious look.

"Pavel if someone is bullying you then you tell one of us."

"But Sor…"

"I mean it Pasha. If you're being targeted you tell us or something like this could happen again and we care about you too much to let that happen. Understand?"

Hearing the genuineness in his voice Pavel answered.

"Da papa."

At that Jim smiled.

By the time Bones released him from medical Pavel noticed that Rule 5 had appeared though he never found out what happened to the three bullies.

PS-I'm going to concentrate on the Christmas fic I'm planning so this may not be updated for a while but keep an eye out for me posting in the near future.