The Bonds of Friends And Family: Season 4
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warnings: With this chapter its after they get the ship fixed and leading into the next day and a few days after Brothers ended and he's dealing with finishing the latest glitches in the chip he created, as they go over his emotions and what caused the power blast Deanna felt.
Chapter 11: Mariposa, Getting The Truth And Preparations
"Yeah we just have to add Anna and me to group next, but other then that I think that Jack happens to be Hanson." Will said and they nodded to him. "But I think you next problem is that if Hanson decided to lie to you then I'm telling you the truth. And if my brother at the academy was trying to prevent something and whatever it was. Now that turned into a riot, because they turned the situation around at the time here now."
"Though that happens and I'm telling you my side of the story and leaving my emotions open, Deanna as their attempt to sabotage us, repeatedly. But these guys are trying to blow our image or just trying to commit political sabotage. Just to blow the golden boy image in your eyes and until I either give up or drop out of the academy." he said and they nodded as she answered him gently, but firmly at that remark.
"Then it's enough of the screwing around, because we had all we can take of this, it's been just under five days. So once we reach Mariposa, make it clear that you're sick of their taunting you and Will can give me his side of the aftermath to to the knack. And when you were recovered from it, but it's clear to us you're sick of the special treatment and having your title thrown at you, so just tell us why these idiots are so jealous."
"But if Marks was the ring leader it's he's got another week to pull it together he doesn't and that's it for him. As he and his friends are getting a 'not fit for active duty' status on their records and getting sent back to the academy for another four years of training." Picard said sharply and he nodded as they heard another fight break out and went to look and see who it was this time and saw Hanson then as Anenzi said it sternly.
"Alright young man that's enough, calm down right now, Eric what's happened if you dragged him in..." he started to say and then saw his lower arm covered in blood and nodded. "I take it the fight broke the monitor we prevented you guys from breaking after Sarek was here this time. Because Peter said that until he and his friend were clean, no game playing?" Hanson's mother said sternly as she came in with her husband then.
"Data, Geordi replace that panel cover, but watch the glass guys." Beverly said and they nodded and left the room. "He broke his wrist and it nicked a vein, damn it young man, are you trying to land yourself in the emergency room right now." The orderly said sharply scanning his wrist. "I'd say with the fact that the last one was provoked, he's trying to make it seem as if you're the one he got into a fight with at the moment."
"But you were in ten forward for Colin, but this time you arrived in here, before this happened five minutes later right now. And with that, how could you be in two places at once, if he's trying to make it seem like the provoked fight was with you now. When you've been in here for 15 minutes and that fight was after Derek and I dragged Colin in here." Perkins said and he nodded as he look between them as the boy paled at that.
"Yeah you just hit the nail on the head, as to why, I think he thinks he's on the same shot that Marks was, that his probation, by the town government was done. As the stress of the scholarship issue gets worse, he decided to break his rehab and went there and took 3 with several caffeine pills. Got caught by Ben and knew the second I called you it was getting to you mom, and Dr. Anenzi." Wesley said and they nodded sternly then.
"Dad that's not what happened, I swear." the boy said quickly to his parents and they nodded as they looked at Picard as he answered that with a stern tone. "Well just how many times have we got to do this, your BAC levels of the last one were ridiculous. And young man, your body can't take this type of abuse repeatedly. From any drug, so just how much was in that effect this time." Picard said to him sternly as Anenzi did it.
"150 in caffeine, BAC level of .35, I'm looking at a 3 to 4 glasses, looks like Sir, looks like he was hoping to practice, got caught by one of the clean members of the team. A fight broke out in the hall as he was entering the holodeck for practice. The team mate ducked the punch, he slammed his hand into the panel next to the controls. It broke the glass as Walters commed Eric and sent him here." he said and they nodded firmly to him then.
"Well that just added onto the probation status, the years got only 3 months left in the term here at the moment. And you're on the edge of 18 buster, but you get arrested one more time there's no scholarship and you have to work your way through school young man. But how long do you expect your mother and me to accept your half truths exactly. My brother gave you 'duty to your friends', well this is 'duty to the truth' now."
"He doesn't expect any less and until you accept that, you're never getting on their good sides right now, young man." Hanson's father said to him sternly at that. "After you take care of his wrist, I'm extending the probation, Captain. But if we go on sabbatical, I'm making it clear he gets caught by his peers or you for being in ten forward. And he's drinking on drugs or both, I want it out of his system Beverly, Eli, and young man."
"I'm giving you a fair warning, regarding this, but keep it up and you're not going to academy at all, whatever reason you got to annoy him. And his mother, I'm not tolerating it at all, so we learn anything else and you're speeding up in eroding your chances at a fair recommendation right now. So watch it, I learn anything else and that's it." he said and the boy nodded as the orderly took care of his wrist and his hand firmly.
"Especially if this switches from stimulates to something more dangerous, we created these rules for a reason, do you think you're above them, young man?" Will said sharply and crossed his arms. "No Sir." he said and he nodded to that as Picard said it then. "You got two more chances, if this keeps up and you blow your shot. And at getting in by a scholarship, to get into the academy, so choose your actions carefully, Mister Hanson."
"For they maybe your last on this ship, and to repeat our: his mother, himself and me, but our truth, his mother and I have been friends for 25 years. Do you honestly think our newest arrivals are going to by that lie and rumor you came up with. Just to discredit him, because no half solder/half scientist would buy that load of trash you're telling your friends right now?" he said sharply and the boy swallowed as, after the orderly finished.
His parents dragged him out of the room and they sighed and shook their heads. "I think like Marks the jealousy is just as bad as I'm, in your eyes, the model student officer, during my part time job. To them their jealousy is so bad that if he decides on political sabotage and he gets caught by you, and he's screwed. Because he pushed his lies and your trust till it snapped now." Wesley and the rehab doctor sighed as he said it to him.
"Like you said, uppers and downers boys, that's a good way to cause a seizure, especially if he resists arrest at the moment. Though he keeps this up and it switches from caffeine to true drugs, and he suffers a real seizure from it. It's he's on light duty till the two of us, Will and you decide to lift it, Jean Luc, because he's under arrest. And especially if this switches to a real manhunt at the moment, but again son."
"Just what makes him think you'd ever get that reckless and attack us head on, because that's a good way to get arrested right now. Besides if you're looking like you're on the edge of ending up in here yourself for something. Then it's never mind the recklessness, get under cover and if it's because of the caffeine. It's get that taken care of and deal with your supplies and one other thing, these masterminds never play fair."
"So improvise." Anenzi said and he nodded to them gently. "That's exactly the problem, Eli, he's Jack O'neill, Jack would try and attack head on. Nick would stick to the tunnels if there were any and when around something this dangerous when on your own turf. It's thinking it through, taking it slow and thinking through all the alternatives. Because you jump too fast and it can get you and whoever's with you arrested or killed, Wes."
"But we're doing this on a case of hard and soft versions in training, everything we taught you so far is based on speed, precision and careful thinking and strategy. That's the act of goju, translated it means hard/soft, black ops its weapons, jumping in before you think and violence, that's hard training, black ops training, they try to fight head on, extended violence and try to do it by force, by the catch of a conspiracy and manhunt."
"Soft training is by a half soldier:half scientist touch, and it's by out thinking your opponent, being two steps to three ahead of your enemy or opponent. But distraction and division, thinking it through, and working based on strategy, looking at all the options. But Rice saw that there were three options on the navigation test, saw it didn't have the one he wanted, crossed them out and created his own and it has four options."
"But listen just because these situations don't have the option you're looking for it doesn't mean you can't create your own. But take your time, think it through and whatever you don't get too reckless, otherwise whatever injury you ended up with. Thst is going to lay you out before the end of it now, so whatever you have in mind now, don't tell us we can wait to see." he said and Wesley nodded to the orders then gently.
As they ended the conversation at that, Data ran into the room. "The mess was cleaned up, but Harry Junior just barely missed slicing his arm when he slipped in the hall." he said and they nodded as Wesley covered his eyes. "These guys need to slow their jets down, before they run right into the wall next. But from deck two and down its a free for all around here." Jake said as he exchanged looks with him before Geordi answered that.
"What happened to you, get caught in a water fight here?" Will said and he nodded as he answered him. "The panel he broke was the weather terminal it's turned into a thunderstorm in there. And I just got hit by a massive flood in there as I was standing on makeshift rock in there." he said and they nodded as the two teenagers exchanged looks and he smiled. "Alright laugh it up boys." he said and they nodded to him smiling then.
"Ensign, set course for Mariposa, and I want you to check the record, see who it was set for in the case of the boys because their negligence could have resulted in a murder. And I want you to finish the program, but Marks and his squadron has a one more chance. And before we get to work here, and our added trouble, if we suddenly get paged in the middle of this is the next catch." Will said and he nodded to him as Picard finished that.
"So we're heading for the next planet, but be careful." Picard said and he nodded to him as he left the room then, heading for the bridge, he flipped his controls then as he said it firmly. "Lal, run through teenage chaperones, who was set to the Potts brothers, because, this is serious right now." he said and dialed in the coordinates to the planet, before she gave him his answer, her tone furious as she said it to him then.
"Derek Hanson is the teenage chaperone, looks like instead of reporting in, or paying attention to the boys. He was off with Anthony Farley and Peter Wilcox, as a result he's a near accomplice." she said and he nodded with a furious look as the sextet walked in then, before Worf did the same as they caught the look on his face. "Alright what you learn if you're this furious honey?" Beverly asked and he said it firmly.
"Just found it, Derek is and was assigned to the boys, he either decided not to report in, or didn't want to and was hanging with the duo you arrested with him dad. That night of the riot and as a result to that, he could have gotten Billy killed." he said and Picard nodded. "That's strike one borderline two with graduation in less then five months, so one arrest in a DUI and now he's the near accomplice to a murder a week ago now."
"Well he gets in trouble one more time and..., Lieutenant Walters, report to the bridge." Will said and 5 minutes later he walked into the room. "Yes Sir, what's wrong, because Wendy and Jared told me they're extending the his medical probation?" he asked and Wesley sighed. "You're going to want to extend it even more when you hear this, but he's the reason for a medical emergency in this, he was the Potts baby-sitter."
"And not even paying attention to the kids his negligence is the reason we were nearly lost a child, I'm looking at a DUI and a court hearing on the ship now for him. He gets in trouble for a third time and this time, if my version of Commanders Riker and Carter are on board the ship after I leave it and he nearly kills Riker's teenage self. That's it and he's lost his athletic shot into the academy." he said and Walters nodded to him gently.
"That's the problem right now it's just you and Jake and you have our attention but you're a pilot in command training. And a jack of all trades and no one, in red, can top your skill on the ship right now, and you stand out. Around us adults, and you stand out even more, we add two more and you and Jake. You have your version of the commander's squadron, well I'm just answering that with this, but these kids today."
"It's the added act of always wanting to be in the lime light, the best at everything they do that they get jealous when they find someone even better then they are. Commander Carter's grandmother, she was a female version of you, but in truth you're a combination of her and Jackson. They, Commander Riker and the Ferretti twins got in on their SAT's, Lieutenant O'neill and his friends in the same way my current problem are at it."
"But though you play sports, safe sports that don't do much damage, you're not on the holodeck doing dangerous stunts. But there's more to the job then always using your muscles, as to that right now. It's making sure we put an end to this right now, but at the moment it's finding the person that started this at the moment." Walters said and Wesley nodded as he answered him, looking between him to the senior staff crew.
"Hanson's attitude is something you're not going to like, but that explains the altercation two months ago here. It started off quiet, before he made a derogatory remark regarding your friendship with my mother, Captain. And from there the issue of Sarek losing control over his emotions were what caused that explosion in the hallway. And I know you could hear that after the riot." he said and she sighed in exasperation at that.
"Though I think that may have something to do with the Polywater virus at the time, but either way, in his eyes, it's a shot at causing as much trouble as possible. In fact, despite the fact that Tasha said that what happened that day was never to be spoken of. Again, after the barriers got dropped between us, someone was discussing it in the hall. He over heard it and started making up some sick rumors after that, regarding our bonds."
"And the idiots who were in Marks clique asked about it, he gave the situation to his own interpretations and I'm classed as the hotshot. And the who should be given a wide berth after that, but I'm not asking for special treatment. You know I hate being treated like I'm that good and you understand. Their jealousy and in their perverted minds, your friendship with mom is something different." he told him and he nodded to him firmly
"If I had chosen to marry your mother, you'd be my son and even touching you or causing this type of damage. I'd have their heads for landing you in the E.R., that year when we had the knack hit you that hard. Let alone touch you in the way Marks and his clique did." Picard said to him gently and he nodded. "Yes Sir I know that, but he doesn't, but then being my mentor is the next best thing here right now anyway."
"You and the quintet spent one year taking care of me yourselves and our bond shifted directions to the point that, after the surgery. We both know what mom and I really mean to you and I took dad's place at every activity you did together. And you've been training me in several other things since then, but I'm him at 18." he said and Picard smiled. "Yes, I had you for one year and then both of you up to now at the moment."
"But that bond is something none of these jocks can understand, because they're never around to watch us together. Like the quintet and the sextet here do at the moment, but as I understand your abilities better than they do. It's enough that the act of training just took on an entirely whole new meaning right now and as for loss of control. Its you only get off and got off with a warning, but then you'd never cross the line anyway."
"But then we did say that you were of age there was no drinking in this case, aside from that you've been acting like the model teenage officer. And just doing what we asked our interpreted our orders. And with that its the case of, to them, you're trying to act like a teacher's pet, which is enough to cause jealousy, but having that outburst breakout in ten forward, I'd say someone was crossing the line here at the moment."
"What time we have left before graduation here on the ship, we're putting it to use now, but we're reaching the peak in your training right now at the moment. Though whatever that traveler has in mind for you right now we have to prevent, but remember, as Starfleet officers we have a duty to the truth, whether personal, science or ethical. And there is no duty to your friends if they're trying to get you to lie to us."
"To maintain this bond, you have to be honest with us, just tell us what happened and we can deal with this. Although if you're also nearly killed in whatever idiotic decision your team leader chose and nothing is saving their careers when I hear what happened and why." he said and Wesley nodded to him. "Yes Sir, at the moment just finding a group who are just like me and my age is next to impossible at the moment."
"The stupid fool doesn't realize what connection we really have here and it's because they're not paying attention though the 3/4's of the ship did, but then they're science, medical and engineering teams. Though him on the other hand, if he was in training, by that I mean Hanson. But it's he'd be part of the command crew who are the full jock type. And he's outnumbered 100 to 1 here regarding this at the moment."
"While everyone else is both sides of it and to you I'm practically a prodigy here at the moment. A couple setbacks, but that's not stopping me from getting a job done. But lying to you is something I never would do and neither is having my career put at risk for the sake of my squadron if I had joined the team. But your trust and respect mean the world to me." he told him and Picard nodded as Beverly said it to him gently.
"I take it that wasn't a mistake when you decided to do this against that wall at the time?" she asked and he shook his head. "With being the son of a medical doctor, I knew what you were about to double check, but then I'd never break your rules. When in my case mom, as I'm still under age, I'd never deal in the toxic chemicals. And not when I'm still a teenager, but that's the catch at the moment here now and as to why."
"Jake laid the news on me we had a few kids drinking and when the fight in the hall broke out I got a whiff of straight alcohol. I may have gotten hit by Sarek's loss of control, but I was still thinking rationally enough I had to get your attention. After what just happened in ten forward, mom. You made it very clear what the consequences of drinking in our case was going to be with the fact we got our own school system."
"Here on board the ship and Dr. Anenzi was the doctor in charge of rehab, Derek knew that the second that you both heard this, let alone his parents heard this. That he was getting kicked off the high school basketball team here on the ship. But to let you know I needed back up, I did it so you could prevent another riot from breaking out and it destroying something else next." he said and she and the quartet all nodded to him.
"Nice thinking, like I said not many teenagers know where the areas that make the most noise are, if they're not trained in engineering. Mechanics and medical areas, but your SAT's alone are enough to get you into the academy at the moment. But that's what we take pride in right now, and with it, you're the type of role model, you and Jake. That these children should have at the moment." Greyson said and he smiled and nodded.
"That why you let him have it in the hall the day your mother told me what the devil was going on around here after the riot in ten forward, though?" Picard asked and Wesley nodded to him. "Yes Sir, as you said, until I got into the academy, I was still under age, but I'm still in the high school system here on the ship. So I can get away with it, and only get off with a warning with you being my mentors, him on the other hand."
"And after I explained this to the trio at the time, but the commander told him the same thing. With that fact is that Marks was drunk and I reminded him I was only seventeen at the moment and it's against the law either on earth or on the ship to get that rough with a teenager and when drinking when on duty. To you, you never allow anyone to be drinking when on duty anyway, which is why we created synthethol at the time."
"As it eliminates the side effects of being in a drinking binge at the moment to prevent anyone from getting arrested, though we've had five case studies of that in three years here. Or landing themselves in sickbay for alcohol poisoning at the time but the second I saw Marks I knew he had several glasses of the strong stuff. I tried to get him to cool down and warned him if he didn't, the guys were going to arrest him then and there."
"And it wasn't just the effects of the disease or the alcohol either." he said and she crossed her arms. "I checked his bloodwork and saw there were several indications of drugs in his system. Marks was speedballing when you arrested him, Miles?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah the type of drunken manner that we could see in a young adult when he's speedballing with the alcohol and I could see it from across the room."
"Before getting David, Jenny and Eric and the four of us and Geordi tried to get him to cool down before the five of us arrested him then and there. When Dave asked what the heck was going on, he snapped at him and Dave told him regarding Wes being our team mate. That when it comes to him this is our business and to dial it down, before she repeated that. And I went to asking what the heck was going on over there."
"And he told us we had to get him into the E.R. and in a detention cell, because he was beyond loaded. It was after running my tricorder om him that I saw his BAC level was three times the safest limit and said that he needed to be confined then. Before Henderson hit Wes and I grabbed him and threw him face down on the table, so we could arrest him. But that's when it shifted from drunken arrest to bar brawl."
"But the fight was basically that of trying to arrest a couple drunks who had more than one glass in their systems. To it turning into a full blown fist fight because these little brats are the reason our youngest team mate ended up in the E.R., and because we were all getting sick of the stereotypes. And that said rumors are the reason our cub team mate suffered his first true trauma back then." he told her and she nodded as she sighed and Wesley finished that remark then as O'Brien looked at Wesley gently.
"Yeah and you're no pushover yourself Chief, you maybe a technician, but that doesn't mean you don't have the build of a wrestler as you tried to help the duo arrest Roga that day at the time." he told him and he chuckled. "Yes and though I knew you wanted to get involved you did exactly as you were supposed to do by staying put. Because at the age you are, its reckless, dangerous and beyond irresponsible at the moment."
"At the moment I don't give a damn if he knew it or not about your connection to the captain, or why we took such an active interest in your training at the time. And it's because you're still under age and he's an adult, this is child abuse and we're your surrogate parents, in addition to the sextet. So he wants to mess with us regarding you, he better be ready for the consequences right now." he said and Jenson nodded to that.
"It was after I saw the fight getting worse that the five of us walked over and I decided to see what the heck was going on. But upon asking that, Marks snapped me and I could tell he was drunk and I warned him to cool down, before we arrested him then and there. Hearing that Pulaski's thoughts of it shifting from harassment to possible violence, Wes told us we had to get him in the tank, because he was beyond loaded."
"It was after Miles said he detected some sort of stimulate in his system that I realized that he was speedballing with the alcohol and Greg, Jim and Tom walked over as well. That it went from warnings to it shifting to violence as I saw Henderson hit Wes hard enough to knock him into the chairs by the table. And Miles grabbed him and threw him against the table before he started fighting us as I told him to calm down again."
"Before Marks lit up the fuse and the explosion went off just as the commander walked in the door. But Marks was the red I was fighting it out with as I was trying to keep from getting hit by one of my own team mates. But the group's, both colors, were actually trying to arrest these knuckleheads. The fight was a cross between a domestic disturbance and riot and it's because we had a quintet of Reds, beyond drunk."
"And here's where you're really going to be ticked Sir, but they're on drugs as well, but it's like jocks that get so ticked off. And at being reported for a medical violation in high school that they start taking it out on the person that turned them in, but the first strike was a warning. Second strike was a week suspension and third strike is expelled and kicked of the team in sport of choice that they were on, if they landed said the kid."
"In need of medical care and the kids that are reporting to us adults are the ones that are getting targeted for just being good students. And the caffeine, or whatever, loaded hotheads start pulling hits on the ones that reported them to us. Till the teachers have to arrest them or remove them from the team and Marks was the first after he ended up in the emergency room at the time, but that sums it up." he said and she nodded to him.
"Dave didn't you say you got promoted just before these knuckleheads arrived?" she asked and he nodded to her as he crossed his arms. "Yes I did, I just earned my promotion to Lieutenant Commander by the time the quintet arrived and with them, the Hansons. So I was acting by that rank and he was a training ensign that was drinking way too much and I was going on the paternal commanding officer tone with him that."
"As to that, suddenly getting mouthy with a superior officer when drunk is enough to get them in trouble at the moment. What's also in there was that Wes happened to be my favorite student and I was coming to see what the heck was going on over there. To put this bluntly it's like the added issue in coaches, though he's dressed in red, Wes was under our command, dual training, and with us around, in there."
"It's the catch of the coach and assistant coaches needing to deal with a member of the team while our student is trying to defuse an escalating fight. And we knew our other player was drunk and letting him know if he didn't calm down and take it down several notches, he's was getting arrested then and there. With 259 young adults and teenagers on board this ship, it's dealing with a sports team drinking and drugs epidemic here."
"As if that's not enough we got outside influences causing tempers to start fraying and tensions escalating till Wes reported to the seven of us. That we had a case of speedballing with the alcohol that night. Just trying to maintain order with repeated fights breaking out was enough of a problem that week." he told her and she nodded to that remark as Wesley finished that sentence then with a sigh as he said it.
"And I warned him if he touched me at all like that than you were going to haul him up on charges at the time, since I'm a training ensign, I'm not over eighteen yet, so I'm just a minor still. But I wasn't trying to start something in there, but this was barely fifteen minutes after the chief got into it with Ensign Fieldman at the time. And Geordi deflected that fight as I mentioned that this was beginning to point to something else."
"And he told me to keep an eye out and barely fifteen minutes later comes this. But I simply told him the truth, but he was so loaded that the fight was getting the attention of everyone in the room. And just as Geordi warns him to take it down several notches I get a hit taken to the head and one that throws me into the table. Before the chief let the guy who hit me have it, before the fight shifted directions at that."
"Marks was fighting it out with Dave, but as Dave was more experienced and stronger the fight ended with the fact that Lieutenant Bates helping him arrest him. Though the reason he got into it with Dave was because he was about to attack us, Shayla and me. Before he and Rick arrested him and Rick told me to get out of the room, before seeing the cut on my forehead and I knew they were pissed at that."
"After we got the added link up with your team, the members that were in there. It took fifteen minute to get it under control. Till we had every single red rounded up and I think the word got out that the fight was because of the rumors, because someone, possibly Jack Weatherfield told Hanson. And fight number two ends up the hall just as you're going to a debrief when mom tells you what's going on around here."
"But the fight started after I was patching things up with Geordi and the two of us, Rick, the Chief and Sarah were discussing what the heck was going on around here. And just as our conversation ended and I was getting into conversation with Shayla, Marks attacks me from behind and I tell him to cool down three times. Before the quintet come over and they warn him to cool down before he triggers the explosion in there."
"And the five Red's in the room started going at it with the technical and science teams and that's what he told you mom." Wesley said and she nodded as Will said it. "Well that explains why that blue hit me, he didn't realize I was not part of Marks's clique, and was too caught up in the fight. Alright to break this down, every member of the science and technical teams were getting sick of these guys attitudes towards you at the time."
"Was he science or medical though?" he asked and Wesley sighed. "He was part of the science team, he, Fieldman, Brecker and Jacobs were science, and the other sixteen were all medical. As to that, it was taking the medical and engineering crew teams to control things before the security teams got into the room." he said and Wil nodded. "Yeah alright so they were trying to control things in there, just as the fight got worse."
"And just as one fight ends, another one gets started in there. So you were just minding your own business and Marks starts a fight with you. Miles let the guy who hit you have it and the quintet started going at it with the 50 of each group?" Will said and he nodded. "Yeah, I didn't provoke him or anything, he just attacked me from behind, I tried to tone it down and one of his friends hit me and that's what started the riot in ten forward."
"But yes Sir." he said and they all nodded to him. "As for Hanson he crossed the line between jealousy and deciding to cause trouble, I was on my way to report into Data so I could get to work and tell you what Deanna mentioned. And it's that we've had twenty cases of fights either turning into violent altercations or someone getting testy around here coming up. The first being Ensign D'Amato and his vocal altercation with Worf."
"And then a second broke out between me and Geordi, before you walked in. The next morning another broke out between mom and me. And from there it started getting out of hand around here till the latest one landed itself in ten forward and a fist fight turns into a bar brawl in there. And it was a double trouble issue as just as Geordi ended the first, a second breaks out, before I get hit for real this time."
"And I don't even realize it hits me as I get into it with Hanson, as he insults not just mom, but our entire family and the captain and with it why you decided to train me yourself. He's the one who instigated the fight, and despite the fact I said drop it, he wouldn't and when his remarks went one too far. I'm talking along the lines of my double's statement regarding my mother, that did it finally and I let him have it."
"Before the trio arrived and Geordi and the commander snapped me out of it, before I realized what I did. But I knew you were going to hear the fight with that wall being so close to the bowels of the ship. Mom's office is connected to the Jeffries tube tunnel system on this side of it, I knew with it being that close to the wall. Normally in training, if I had been using the Jeffries tubes to get around when in a real life scenario."
"I'd be using them, but this is one area where it's best to use that against the opponent. That the amount of noise was going to get your attention from both directions and one of you going was going to come and investigate what the noise was about. Before you heard my side of the story before he made up another lie." he said and they nodded as Picard said it for all of them gently as he exchanged looks with Beverly, Will and Deanna.
"I did, in fact while your mother and Counselor Troi were telling me this. I suddenly heard several shouts break out and the fight was loud enough to be heard on that floor and all the way up here. If that's why the trio came to prevent you from breaking your wrist, again, than it's enough I'm not risking that happening a second time right now." Picard said as Geordi looked at him with a bemused look as he said it to him.
"In our case we'd never lose it or resort to blows, but then once we snapped out of it, we apologized to each other. But hearing this was happening repeatedly before the bar brawl in ten forward. And then I hear the fight break out in the hallway with a kid your age, that was enough to aggravate me at the time. And even after the fact I was furious enough these guys attacked you for no reason at the time."
"Because that just brought back the memory of what happened after Beverly left the year before." Geordi said to him gently as he went further in that. "I wasn't letting them get away with that and not when we, as the senior officers on board all decided. That whoever got caught drinking, if they were under twenty six was getting arrested and this was a combination of stereotypes and jealousy that you were acting as the JCL."
"And two straight fights in three hours one getting turned into a bar brawl and the other a school boy grudge in the main hall and we can hear it all the way up here, since it was deck three and by the extension shaft. That's close enough we can hear whatever noise is going on inside or next to it till we come to see what's going on around here. You may not have entered the academy truly yet, but that's still going a little too far here, kid."
"I may not have been the recipient of that fight that started between you and as we've just fixed our bonds. That's enough I wasn't having you destroy your career, before it even started and not when it comes to little brats like Hanson, Marks or their clique. Wes was that do to another anger management issue like Tasha now." he added to him and he nodded. "Yeah, he wasn't just insulting my parents, he just hit a nerve regarding dad and combined with it, was Tasha and Jaan." he said to him and finished that gently.
"Yeah I know you're not risking my career, and not when we've gotten me this far in getting ready for it, but I could never do that to you guys, three years of friendship and a Vulcan with a disease like this nearly drives a wedge between us at the time. Though if that mind meld starts getting erratic once again. It's I'm expecting that to happen a second time, and while you are in total control, though loss of control of it is from exhaustion now. And I'm the one possibly dealing with the side effects."
"Although if I'm too exhausted to think straight if this leads to trouble, but with that in mind, if my replacement or rival gets stationed here and at the moment I'm hoping it's not someone I meet at the academy at the moment as they're going to be a slightly more reckless version of me. As they're probably my kind as well. But if this starts a second time with you doing that mind meld with Sarek I have to explain this to him before it starts getting out of control here."
"Though that happens and I'm expecting it to come out with my rival here on the ship next time. Though these guys wish to make it into outer space, it's a pipe dream, doing this for real it's not like school, you make a mistake and you can try again. But up here, it's a whole different ball game and my rival is going to have to learn that, if he gets taken himself, it just makes more clear, he'd never survive without back up." he said and they nodded firmly to that.
"Not that I blame you for that reaction at the time two months ago, but repeated fights, physical violence, the tempers were getting frayed even before you lost yours, but that's going too far kiddo. Alright who started it this time exactly?" Will added and he sighed in aggravation. "He did, I was busy dealing with getting the added report, when I heard him saying some remarks regarding her and the captain and I confronted him for it."
"Before they went passed derogatory and straight to implication and when I warned him to cool it, he crossed the line between snarky. And going straight to disrespect towards, not only my parents, but you Sir and that did it finally, because his final remark, and I'm not repeating it either. But the wording is like what you heard back in the horror movies and novels and it's that crude, but let's just say he insulted his own mother saying it."
"Because with my being first born son in my family and dad's gone, I'm the man of the house, he insults you mom, than he insults us. And with us, since you have friends with 30% of the veteran staff including the captain and they're our entire extended family here on the ship. But this is enough you're going to ground him for a month to 6 when you deal with him yourself." Wesley said and the quartet nodded as she answered that.
"Good point and you're right with us being the senior staff crew and I chose four of six to take care of you after I left while the engineering senior crew team took it upon themselves to look after you in the same way. We just became adoptive family to each other and with in mind, but being a crew is being family. You don't have to tell me what that remark either, from the way you said that is I can guess, but these rumors."
"They are going too far and if Kate hears them, and just what is the problem why are they so jealous exactly." Geordi said and Wesley nodded. "What dad said was just that, I'm the chosen one, but chosen for what, that I don't know. They can't trust what they don't understand, to you I'm your most powerful warrior, a skilled pilot, engineer. And Jack of all trades right now, and to them that's offensive, as to why exactly."
"It's the act of my being valedictorian in our glass, I'm getting in on a academic scholarship, they're getting in on an athletic scholarship. And I don't have to show off to you to do so now, but that's exactly the problem the Junior Novas, NID, squadron are safely sitting elsewhere while we have the dangerous jobs. And in retrospect, that's why they're so jealous, but my plan it's fail proof right now at the moment."
But it's intending on making sure this doesn't get worse, he's jealous he'd better get over it, because nothing they do is ever going to change thins in your eyes, once Pulaski returns here." he said and she nodded to him as she answered him. "Than she's shutting up the person who started it, but whoever in Hanson's gang did. Whoever started that rumor, they just ticked me off, because you're ready to defend my honor now honey.
"It's not enough we get added problems around here, but we just had a very close call and one that's enough to shake us all up now. Because we've managed to keep the team together this long so far and no one's chosen to transfer since either at the moment here." she said and he nodded as he answered her, but before he could though a teenager walked into the room with his parents and he crossed his arms.
"I understand you were on the roster to watch Jake Potts and his brother Willie yesterday, Derek, because this could be considered negligence on your part. You get arrested this afternoon and the panicked look on your face and when I give to my own interpretations. And it's clear why you were, your team knows that you're the reason we almost lost a child." he said and and the young man swallowed as he answered him.
"That's why you panicked when he told his diagnosis in sickbay, regarding the fight, your team knows you never reported in for chaperone duty?" Will repeated sternly at that. "Yes Commander." he said and Jared Hanson looked at him at that as he repeated that in shock at the news as he said it then. "My son was on babysitting duty two days ago and he never reported in at the time?!" he said sharply to him and Will nodded to him.
"That's right, Commander Hanson, I ran the roster logs on every teenager our age so with us planet side, each teenager was assigned to a group of charges if they're younger than we are by four to five years, and he was assigned to the Potts' brothers. But upon discovering this I see a very dangerous mistake, if we'd been back 380 to 390 years. And the act of not reporting in for a job or not watching the charges carefully."
"Is enough the parents could sue his own for an incident that landed their child in the hospital, when he's the one in charge of taking care of them. Though the kids parents were notified of the incident, I just dug into the records, like twenty minutes ago and found out that Derek was the designated babysitter this time around." Wesley told him and Lieutenant Commander Jared Hanson nodded with a furious look on his face.
"Russel and Maria Potts won't have to worry about pressing charges regarding this, because I'm taking full responsibility and with those words in mind right now. Damn it Derek what the hell were you thinking about here, we don't take chances. And with a bunch of kids younger than 18 on board it, if we hadn't been that close to 416. Than William would be dead right now?!" he snapped and he swallowed as his mother said it.
"He's seems to be intent on annoying the hell out of my son right now as well at the moment, though just because he's got their attention. And it's no damn business of yours, young man, in truth when I left the ship, the captain decided. That he and the quintet would be the ones looking at my son till I returned. And here's the added truth to this fact, but the ones acting as legal guards are Commander Riker and Counselor Troi."
"As she is my best friend, I think you can connect the dots if she and Commander Riker act like this, but this delusion of your is going too far, and what's the problem. Is it just that you like being the lime light you're going for political sabotage. And when there is someone even better then you that has their attention at the moment. When around him, if you and your college buddies, let alone your gang think it's something else."
"But just why wouldn't they listen to him, when in actual fact Commander Riker and Captain Picard are his mentors. When I was off the ship I named them his legal guardians, and they're training him and he's earning credits. And simply by doing on the job training up here right now, before he gets accepted into the academy." Beverly said firmly and she watched him freeze at that and his mother got it as she answered her.
"Excuse me, just what is he saying here regarding your relationship with the captain, if Wesley let him have it?" Jared asked her with a firm growl and she crossed her arms as she answered him. "Well despite the fact that Tasha Yar suggested we make a pact regarding our first true initiation mission as a crew. And saying what happened was never to be brought up again, someone did and he overheard the conversation."
"And he decided if this was enough to cause trouble, he was using it, the quintet arrived at the exact same time and from there. My son is branded under something we'd see as a case of quid pro quo, with my relationship with the captain. But no, he's my husbands best friend, and he's mine, we're close, but I don't think of him that way. Now young man, care tell me just what are you thinking if you see it like this."
"That you're jealous that he's getting all the attention you and your friends are not, because he's a mixture of both the captain and commander together. Or is it that you wish to stir up trouble in being the village idiot here on the ship and you jocks are jealous that the captain is listening to a teenage version of himself?" she said and he swallowed as his mother crossed her arms at that as Deanna finished that remark.
"As such, is the fact you continue with this delusion and the results are we're seeing that as you're not capable of serving in space and on a spaceship. If you and your friends believe this tripe, but believe when I say it's no just a matter of physically capable. But mentally and emotionally and you're slowly degrading yourself with every decision you make here, so again what makes you think that?" she said and he swallowed at that.
"Don't bothering answering that Derek, you weren't thinking at all, and it's because you and your friends are intent on annoying the hell out of Dr. Crusher and her son. What business and bond they have with the captain is none of our damn business right now, it's personal. It's pretty damn obvious now that you're the bane of Wesley's existance and it's because he managed what you can't by getting on the captain's good side."
"Look at him, if the captain could trust anyone of you teenagers to watch his back during a final mission, before you left for the academy. I can see he'd choose Wesley in a heart beat and it's because he's the epitome of a model teenage officer on board this ship at the moment. While your acts of hanging around a bunch of college kids, that evidently the captain are ejecting from this ship just bit you in the behind now."
"They blew their chance of serving on board this ship for hitting a 17 year old teenager two months ago and if I have to guess now. They are the reason he ended up in the emergency room for coming down with the flu when his system crashed two years ago. Will, who was the primary catalyst if the elf was the secondary reaction, we just arrived after Beverly left the ship?" Ensign Wendy Hanson asked him and he crossed his arms.