"What?" Commander Cruger demanded

"Kat was injured on purpose" Tommy replied, "I believe the guy that hurt her intended to kill her, he just sorely underestimated what she could live through"

Cruger didn't want to believe that someone had wanted his best friend dead, but it appeared as if that were true.

"I also believe her therapist might have something to do with the guy wanting to eliminate Kat, he doesn't seem to want to see her recover, she and I both feel that way"

"I'll talk to Kat about this, it seems like I have to get more involved in Kat's recovery, or it may not happen"

Commander Cruger went to Kat's lab and Tommy went to spar with Jack Landers and teach him some of the martial arts that he knew.

"Kat may I speak with you?" Commander Cruger asked

"Sure, what about?"

"Your physical therapy, how is it going?"

"It is going good" she was happy, but her expression changed abruptly as she brought up the way that the therapist had made her feel, Commander Cruger couldn't believe what he was hearing, he heard it from her and Tommy, that could only mean one thing, the allegations were true.

"I'll do some investigating about your therapist, and tell you what I find out," he said

"Okay, thank you Doggie"

"No problem, Kat"

Commander Cruger went into the command center and went to work checking her therapist's background and found out that his name didn't exist on the database… then he did some figuring and realized that the guy was using an assumed name. He figured out the guy's real name and found that the guy had upstanding warrants on KO-35 and Mirinoi along with a few other places in the galaxy.

He gave a low growl as he read what the guy was wanted for.

"It is time for me to investigate that guy personally…" he said and then pressed the intercom button. "Cadet Carson, report to the command center immediately" he said then released the button and waited.

Bridge came into the command center a few moment's later.

"Cadet Carson, when you investigated the scene of Kat's injury, could you tell who it was that caused her injury?"

"It wasn't anyone I know, sir" Bridge paused for a second "he did look a lot like her therapist… but not exactly like him"

"Do you think it could have been him?"

"No, but someone related to him, sir"

Then the commander found that the therapist did have a brother; that sibling might have been the one that injured Kat, he wasn't sure so he looked at the brother's record and he also had upstanding warrants in the same locations as his brother, and both were last known to be on Earth.

"I think I know who hurt Kat" he said "but the question is, why?"

"I don't know, sir" Bridge said

"You are dismissed, Cadet"

Bridge saluted and left quietly, he wondered if this guy's brother might have hurt Kat, then he saw the therapist and read the guy's aura, and didn't like what he saw. This guy had a malicious aura if he had ever seen one, and Bridge figured that the guy might have had a hand in causing Kat to get hurt to begin with, even if he didn't push her over that third floor banister.

Bridge entered the lounge shaking his head; he couldn't believe that the therapist might have had something to do with Kat's injury. He turned around and left the lounge and followed the guy to his temporary quarters and over heard him talking on the phone with is brother.

"She's recovering too fast" the therapist said. "We were hoping to have at least started on our plan before she started recovering… we have to stunt the process… okay, I'll do what I can, but I've constantly got a ranger breathing down my neck, not to mention she's as stubborn as Doggie Cruger, I hate to say it, but I think we underestimated her"

After he finished the phone call he started out and nearly ran into Bridge Carson.

To Be Continued...

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