Okay this is my first SeaQuest fic I'm not actually certain which series it's set in but Tony and Lonnie are or will eventually be in it as well as Ben, Ortiz and Kristen…Now that's sorted. If you think some thing needs adding or something's wrong or out of order let me know.

*Enjoy *

CHAPTER ONE

A stern looking man in his early forties looked up from his reading and faced the door waiting for whoever was walking along the outside corridor to reach his room. He glanced impatiently at the clock on his study wall, the time reading 12:01am his visitor was late and he hated tardiness. The large oak door creaked and opened; a middle-aged, grey haired woman peered inside the neat office.

She spoke hesitantly as he made his way toward her, "Megan is waiting for you outside Mr Culver" he rolled his eyes as he heard her response both knowing he'd arranged for Megan to call at an appointed time before turning up at the senator's office. "Shall I tell her to come here?" the secretary asked nervously, he shook his head, frustrated, already marching down the corridor to the waiting room.

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Megan stood in the middle of the cold, bare room tapping her foot impatiently on the grey stone floor; she glanced up at the television in the corner of the room every so often checking the incoming reports on the latest news updates about the UEO. She turned her attentions to Mr Culver as he strode into the room. She breathed deeply, his mere presence making her blood run cold.

He glared at her and shook his head when he saw her turn to him with a bored look on her face "you're three minutes late Megan."

She walked over to a torn leather seat and sat down before replying to his all too true accusation. "I'm here aren't I" she stated this rather than asked it and he nodded. "Don't worry everything's going like you said it would; Bridger's been told to expect me tomorrow morning at 6am we'll be setting out an hour after that."

He looked at her a smirk appearing on his hardened features, "I'll need that info ASAP also two of my employees will be joining you on the SeaQuest."

She looked at him, thinking for a second, "mechanics?"

He broke out in a grin "that's what they'll think". He opened his mouth to say something else.

She rolled her eyes and spoke before he could say anything else. "I know what I'm doing!" she said this a little too sharply and she stopped momentarily…"we've gone over this twenty times before and nothing will go wrong."

He turned to leave the room "you'd better make sure it doesn't, you won't want to suffer the consequences."

"Oh you're all heart, dad" she said this sarcastically knowing it will aggravate him, before he could say anything else she silently walked out of the room.

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6:02am SeaQuest

Dawn has come too soon that day as Megan sat in another waiting room, she couldn't believe that within the next week or so she'd be betraying the people who had so far treated her so nicely, she pushed her thoughts back into the deepest corners of her mind. She had a job to do and if she started to think of these people as anything more than targets, then her job would be a lot more difficult than it should be.

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Lucas watched a video of Senator Quentin Culver on his computer:

Culver smiles broadly and waved to a crowd of adoring people holding banners and shouting his name. He says something inaudible to the screaming mass of onlookers and whatever he said it must've been something good because all the people bearing Culver's blue and white badge cheer. Megan runs up the stone steps grinning like a Cheshire cat, Lucas notices a quick scowl cross Culver's face and then disappear as a camera flashes in front of his face, Quentin Culver hugs his 'daughter' and they walk inside a tall stone building.

"Something is very wrong with this picture", the video footage stopped just as Lucas' PAL Communicator beeped, and he rubbed his eyes and tore himself away from the computer screen and yawned as he picked it up. "Yeah?"

He heard Captain Nathan Bridger speak over the communicator, "not waking you up am I?" he joked.

Lucas switched off the computer, "no just doing some research."

Bridger started talking and Lucas just agreed with him not really hearing what he was saying "…come to the bridge now Lucas…Lucas?"

He started paying attention and opens the door, "yeah on my way Captain." He walked into the corridor…and bumped right into Megan, "sorry I didn't see you there I--." Megan cut him off in mid-sentence and barged past him angrily as she looked around for her room, "nice going Wolenczak" he quietly berated himself before hurrying toward the bridge.

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Captain Bridger greeted him with a mock frown as he saw a flustered looking Lucas run over to him, "oh I did wake you up."

Lucas blushed slightly then regained his composure as he saw Tony grinning behind Bridger, "no, I, you wanted to see me?"

Tony stepped forward and stood at the side of Bridger "you're on baby sitting duty Lucas."

Bridger gave Tony a sarcastic 'thank you for that now let me get back to my sentence' look and Tony backed away, Bridger looked back at Lucas who looked at him questioningly "babysitting?"

"We have a visitor onboard, you're age, and I want you to help her settle in, show her around" Lucas groaned and sank into the captains chair, Bridger looked at him alarmed "what's wrong!"

"I think I already met her…we didn't get off to a very good start."

Ben Krieg leant on the chair "I'm sure it wasn't that bad."

"Well I was talking to you…" he indicated Bridger, "and I walked right into her, almost knocked her to the floor, she dropped her bags on the floor--."

Tony started laughing, "what did you do?"

Lucas sunk deeper into the chair "I carried on walking."

Ben buried his head in his hands "I'm embarrassed for you kid."

Lucas looked up at him "I'm embarrasses enough for the both of us."

Bridger looked away laughing, he coughed when he sae Lucas' expression, he wasn't amused. "Well I think you'd better smooth things over with her, we don't want her to pass on bad reports about us to her father."

"Who's her father?" Ben asked.

Tony filled him in "Mr Culver's daughter, as in the Senator…"

Lucas started to walk away "I'll go apologise" He ran from the bridge with Tony following not too far behind.

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A polite knock on the door snapped Megan out of her trance and she saw a somewhat familiar face peeping through the glass in the heavy metal door. Lucas waited for a few seconds outside before Tony pushed him inside her quarters "hi I'm Lucas, the captain asked me to show you around--."

Tony peered over Lucas' shoulder at Megan "us, he asked us to show you around, you know see if you're settled in."

Lucas continued "so are you settled in?"

She smiled slightly and it faded almost as soon as it appeared and she answered curtly "I'm fine."

Tony pushed past Lucas "so let me show you around."

"Please excuse Tony he's got the manners of a five year old" Lucas apologised for his friend's behaviour.

Despite their antics Megan forced herself to give a bored sigh and she stood in front of them "I'm fine."

They stepped back as she moved forward to slam the door in their faces, Tony looked indignant "oh that was polite."

"She's probably just nervous it's her first day after all…she's probably intimidated." Tony shrugged and looked through the small glass window he watched her sitting on her bunk in a trance like state "she doesn't look very nervous to me."

Tony started walking away down the corridor and Lucas looks at her "No, she looks worried" Tony disappears round the corridor and Lucas' curiosity finally got the better of him and he re-entered her room.

She looked up as he entered "what do you want? I don't need your help with anything!"

Lucas looks at her slightly taken aback by her sudden change in attitude "you won't make any friends around here if you bite everyone's head off when they try to help." "I'm not here to make friends I'm here to work. And it isn't my choice that I'm here." He looked at her understandingly "I know how you feel, but everyone's really nice here and they'll make you feel at home."

She got off the bunk and stopped beside Lucas before walking to the door "that's what I'm worried about."