The Bonds Of Family And Friends

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and everything else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warnings: This story is going to be alternate reality from the end of this episode and forward, as what if the game had far reaching consequences than they were expecting and as time went on the bonds between him and the sextet had deepened even further, as this reaches season seven and his future.

If he'd been part of the enterprise for a following few months and the repeated traumas effect him enough he's choosing to stay longer. But in this story Journey's End to Nemesis never happens and the stories leading into Nemesis never happen and he, the O'briens, Riker, Worf and Deanna never transfer off the enterprise as they stay with the crew and Starfleet after things end.

All characters named that were not in the show, are members of the un-named members of the crew in each episode, but the ones named the most are part of the engineering crew and Geordi's team and the ones Wesley spent the most time with. Aside from a guest appearance from the duo in 'The Naked Now.', and the duo that are his age, next to Robin Lefler.

Chapter 2: The New Friendship And Truths

As the conditioning broke in him, Will felt his paternal instincts activate at the exact same time. 'What the hell did she just do to me exactly, alright never mind that, I have to take care of him now. The last few remarks between Worf and me when this started, he was looking like he was running a fever. Ad he was drenched in sweat, looking like he was starting to come down with something, but it's no longer that now.'

'And he doesn't drink or take drugs either, so it has to be some sort of stimulate so that's what's got to be what's causing the body temperature spikes right now. But than whatever stimulate it is and was in his system has to be what's causing him to look like this. And it's definitely not the adrenaline he took into his system earlier he's been running on fumes and one too many..., that's it, damn it, why didn't I see it before.'

'There's only one stimulate that could possibly be causing body temperature spikes during the come down and he's looking like he's recovering from a withdrawal and rebound of it. He's never taken in too much caffeine before when I been looking after him after Beverly left, so something had pushed him into this. But nightmares or something, for him to go to excessive use of caffeine from whatever it was he took in earlier.'

'But he never took in any caffeine before he ended up in the engine room, or the spasms from the withdrawal and rebound hit him. Alright he had one when we got the orders, had another when we caught her and then a third just before he walked in there. After escaping her attempting to arrest him, he'd been on the go for six hours and stopped after the attempt in cargo bay 6 after the anithezine, and he dodged us again.'

'He got hit with another after the simulated explosion in T-95 and then headed for his quarters so he could get a recharge and..., that's it.' he thought as he said it out loud to them. "It's caffeine withdrawal alright, the reason he looked like that when I saw him. Whatever these have in them right now, it's enough we got to analyze them, because this could be the same serum that they used on Jackson, but if that's the case."

"It explains the sudden jolt of detoxing from it, and hit him while he was listening to the conversation. He was getting ready to get fix Data, got hit by the jolt and collapsed against the wall, as for his winding up in your quarters. He needed a recharge and to eat something loaded with both caffeine and sugar. It's every symptom from sleep deprivation and if he's lost weight, that's made it clear, but next question is why."

"Just what caused this in this first place exactly?" he asked and Dayton answered that. "Well for starters it's what you guys possibly talked about when he added her and that program to the computer. But I'm confirming that thought right now Commander, but being in Nova is like being in Wolf pack and he's the youngest wolf to join the pack." he said and the seven looked at him in response to that remark gently.

"The act of peer pressure in the way most normal students try it, when the new addition is the child of medical doctor, of both versions. And your raising us on healthy habits in that area, but the nightmares started two months in like I said and to block it out he went to enforced sleep deprivation. And the trio were reason #3 at the time now at the moment, but he's been trying to keep this hidden for a while right now."

"If the stupid fools at the academy didn't see this, then the K'tarian medic had been screwing around with the records in keeping that information hidden. But it's not one planet or another right now, it's an alliance here, but his condition is two layered and it's half the said medic giving him a case caffeine pills. Though I don't doubt once he realized they weren't working, but making it worse, he stopped." he told her and she nodded to him.

"Alright, care to tell us how you know what's going on over there, if you said that?" Will asked and he sighed. "The last time we saw each other was six months ago, before Brand sent me up for training, but here's the truth. We met like two days in after he arrived at the academy now, and seeing in him the very same traits, the very same appeals in him that he was in training from early teens now, we got into conversation."

"During that time we saw we had a lot in common with each other, as he told me he was dealing with Hanson's cousin, my version had my first two initials,. But his middle name was Peter, before Wes told me that he ran into his cousin on board the enterprise. And then said he had the other member of the duo of my squadron's command. When on board the ship with him, and with it knew about Commander Jacksons background too."

"As to how and why, it's because he'd also gotten singled out and then spilled it all to me and that did it as I did the same. It took less then a month for our friendship to get started, and as a result now we were now a single duo and the Admiral, let alone the captains at the academy never saw one of us without the other. As the bonds started growing, as we and Robin became a trio now, but he told me he wanted to be on Gamma."

"But it was close to three months prior to the latest when we were getting ready to graduate it started, but it was just before we graduated. That his squadron leader chose him out of 375 upper classman, but that's the catch now and here's the bad news. He's been trying to get involved with my friends in my squadron now, but every time he tried to do that, the duo just keep pulling him back in with them and as to why exactly."

"But the squadron got turned into a pack, you know the old clique thing, well that's what this is, the in-crowd. Despite his wanting to get on his own they keep dragging him into it, and after six to seven months of this, it's completely dismantled, his, our, regime. But prior to his joining the Squadron, I became his best friend at the time. And the reason for this problem now is his squadron is one piece of it and the other."

"I'm not sure, but if it's connected to anything that you dealt with before, I'd have to hear that from him. Because someone's screwing with his sleep cycles right now, till he got back up here and they quit all at once, before the axe fell last night." he said and they nodded. "If he mentioned Nick then I can explain that to you, but I'm Nick's best friend, and like you two and Robin they never saw us without the other piece."

"When it came to our trio or quartet, as Peter Ferretti was the last piece to our quartet as kids when we were your age at the time now. So that sums it up in what was going on this week, you had to pretend you didn't know each other. Otherwise with you taking my position, that would have put you at risk as a result, that he and Robin just met to protect her and you had to do the same, he had to pretend you three just met now."

"Because two of you were compromised and you were acting as a plant in the grouping while he was acting on a decoy now?" Will asked and he nodded. "Aye Sir, the conversation they had in engineering was faked as they worked in case Etana tried to use her as a way to get to him. But we all knew the rules of the conspriacy and it worked in preventing the damn thing from getting off the ship." he said and they nodded firmly to that.

"Anything we dealt with, yeah we one had one problem or another, to answer your other question we had several dealings with having our bodies and minds hijacked. But of which was we had an entity get into the computer, and I'll explain that one later. But what would you consider this to be if this was a multiple planet incursion into the federation?" Geordi asked crossing his arms and the young man sighed as he said it.

"If they tried anything here and we have to analyze those pills, because someone dug up the records on Jackson saw the formula that the people of 636 created. And used to turn him into a drone, and replicated it until the sudden going cold turkey off of it is the reason you saw him looking like that last night." he said and they nodded, as Data looked at he pill bottle in his hand and Will saw his eyes narrow in anger at that.

"If that's true and whoever did it is ending up getting vanquished when I find them, he wasn't lying when he told you that, Commander. He had two in the shaft, one last night and another when he got your attention, and then three: one after another, before he got me back online. But if they did to him what the people of that planet did to your friend's grandfather..." he said and they nodded in anger as he said ii firmly at that.

"One option we're heading for starbase 67, so this way we can prevent them from walking him out the front door if they did do that." he said and Picard nodded in agreement, thinking it over he remembered the two scenarios that muched up to that situation and felt his heart lurch then. "I'm looking at only two scenarios that would connect to this Will and both are from year one, after the traveler." he said and Will nodded firmly.

Hearing that remark he thought it over then as he felt his heart start speeding up then. "Yeah and they all started all with the same situation now, but someone hijacks us and then it starts bouncing from member to member. Or the other real alternative is repeated headaches and he doesn't suffer migraines either, but I..., oh no, it's happening again, either it's the entity or the thoughtmaker or both and if it is now..."

"If it's really one or both of those, then just to block the possible host, who, through their eyes, he's seeing everything that's going on up here to us." Will said sharply as he finished that mentally, as he shut his eyes as he remembered the last time he saw him like this. "And possibly a case just like the captain, just to block out those possible nightmares of us he's gone to..., enforced sleep deprivation the last four to five months.'

'Damn it, God I hope I'm wrong right now, because if that's true we have to pull the damn plug. Than he's in serious need of a sabbatical to recover from this right now at the moment. Caffeine use, 5 to 6 months lack of sleep, and malnutrition and all in the same time frame. Unless it wasn't just from today but further back in the case of any caffeine product at the moment, alright going by what I saw on him last night."

'And he left the clues lying around, our theorizing this was correct before that chase down started, he'd just come from sickbay, Data got him a version of the general stimulate cocktail or a medical cocktail to regulate his temperature and keep that headache under control so he could concentrate during this. Than he created several more, but rather than using the second all at once he needed a recharge.'

'And then used three of them and the third dose after he had a chance to eat something and rest, and that last dose was in the run around, and it just crashed now. Damn it, she, or her accomplices, forced him into taking one too many caffeinated drinks and I'm hoping to god I'm wrong right now, but caffeine pills as well, and if that's the case. He quit taking them when he realizing the pills were making them, these dreams.'

"Whatever he was dreaming about worse, and he's gone to drinking too much of both version in caffeine, coffee and soda pop, that has to be it. Colonel Jackson had spent close to three weeks awake in enemy territory because they turned him into a drone at the time. And Nick told me about this already as a result now, but O'neill set him up to be a POW when they were my age at the time and with it now here.'

'And there was only one way to end that drone type effect and it was going cold turkey..., and immediate surgery now at the time. But...' he started to say as he heard his friend's voice in his mind as he explained it to them after their past selves were talking it over. 'Getting turned into a a drone is the same as getting possessed by a demon, and the only way to counteract it was going cold turkey if they drugged you.'

"When doing it in the process, wait out the clock and then perform a surgery to get the contaminated blood out of the system. But if the attempt was by a small wiring or anything else like this, a pact, the only way to deactivate that pact was by preventing the person they did it to from walking out the front door. Was by arresting them and preventing them from getting to whatever it was that kept it active now.'.'

'Yeah alright, we have to analyze these pills before it gets started and if this is the same thing it's set to go off by connecting to the knack. And if it is than we have to hear the words from him now at the moment in this. But if they're correct it's yanking the medical/command/parental card here. And she, or whoever she's in league with, are ending up dead when the medical diagnostics come back, when we do them again.'

'Cub why didn't you tell us when you came home exactly, huh, you know that rule.' he thought then as he looked him over gently with a gentle sigh as he felt his concern growing by the minute. Feeling the connection between them snap back into place he realized that the conditioning had been suppressing his personality traits, the bonds of four years together, as he heard the suppressed pain and anger in his voice.

The night before and the fact he'd been acting like a father to him ever their second year together and hid a nod at that. 'Alright that's it, I'm back, the me he knows is back now, I'm his godfather, god, son what's going on with you exactly right now anyway, huh. Just stay put right now, I'm not having you collapse out of exhaustion, I know you're beyond exhausted right now and you can explain everything to us later.'

'And you can tell us whatever you have to tell us finally and you're staying home indefinitely as well now, but severe exhaustion, malnutrition and a near broken to dislocated ankle right now. There's no getting around the fact that you pushed it to the limit right now, but in your case and we already had this discussion. Regarding your ignoring your need for rest right now and with that in mind right now young man.'

'And considering that sprained ankle laid you out in the hallway, that's enough already.' Will thought to himself as he carefully examined Wesley himself and felt his concern and parental thoughts take control completely then as he thought it. As he crouched in front of him as he ran his hand through the hair at the back of his head and in response he buried it into his shoulder then and he tightened his arms around him.

'Whatever they did, if this was her intention it's crossed a line, when around you I go father bear and she's just set the father bear on her for this right now.' he thought angrily as he tightened his arms around him as he rubbed his back, as he felt him shaking out of exhaustion and as the adrenaline burst quit. 'Easy shh, it's okay, it's okay, just rest.' he thought to him softly as he nodded to himsef as he said it firmly mentally.

'Yeah he's more then exhausted, but this is like after Soong hijacked Data, alright if I have this correct right now at the moment. He went into sickbay ran that diagnostic on himself, before several tremors hit him as we were, or rather she and her guards tried to catch him and get the drop on him then. Before he got the drop on them and then left as they tried to chase him down, yes alright as ourselves we knew something was up.'

'When we made that decision he was soaked in sweat and was already exhausted up there, the spasms, either narcotics and ethanol. Or just a caffeine, or all three together right now when he left that message to us, and now he's looking like he lost every ounce of energy he has, both last night. Whichever one it is, if this was the plan we have got to put an end to this right now, if there's more then we figured in this past week.'

"And this morning, after that adrenaline surge wore off and just what the heck is going on here.' he thought as he looked at him trying to get himself out of the chair and rested his hands against his legs to stop as he thought it to him gently looked him over then. 'No don't get up son, just stay put for now, we don't need you collapsing right in front of us.' Will thought to him as he tried to keep from falling asleep right then.

'Yeah that's what I thought, the last dose just drained what's left of his strength and he's so exhausted he's likely to fall asleep on us right now at the moment here. After twenty four hours on the go, though he got six in Data's quarters. It's still enough drained a third of the amount again, but, caffeine withdrawal, it's enough to wear you out and he was on fumes by the time he got to Data's quarters last night and...'

'And after midnight, it's long enough he's going to need to sleep this off, and I'd classify this, now to the all nighter from hell last night just to prevent that piece of crap from getting off of this ship right now. But if you were going to tell me that you needed time away from the academy. Just to get away from whoever's causing you to look like this and instead this happens and you've got to throw every ounce of energy into it.'

'Though doing it when at full strength is one thing. Doing it when in the condition you're in is another and with that, that's the last time you're pulling a stunt like this in training and I mean that right now.' he thought firmly as he watched him gently and knowing the young man knew he was busted with them for doing it like he was then. As, looking at him, he felt his paternal instincts take charge then as he said it to him mentally.

'Alright, cub, whatever you're thinking right now, it's not happening a second time after you just ran yourself ragged for the third time in five years. And I'm not kidding right now either at the moment as well, and we've gone over this 100 times in four years ever since the Microbrain. If you're not up to something, especially something like this you had to tell us that, though obviously you can't do that with us now compromised."

"And without telling her in the process regarding this, and I get the intention in that, but that's no excuse right now.' he thought as he injected a stern tone into his mental voice as he finished that remark as he looked at him. As he felt his paternal side take total control as he finished that remark. 'And with that in mind, that's the last time you pull a stunt like this and I'm not kidding right now, young man.'

' You knew the rules we decided on, but this is thelast and final time we had to do this right now, so that's enough already with the reckless stunts. You trying it like that with the distractions is one things, but the jump into the shaft. At the rate this is going you keep this up and I'm not going to make at this rate, so that's enough of this already. And I meant it right now, you cubs need to take it down several notches here cub.'

'Or I'm going to have a heart attack by the time you reach 21, kiddo, enough already right now, eighteen hours on the go. I know you were trying to get to the me you know and doing this without lethal force at the moment, but the extension shaft is one too far. You've done enough now, now whatever else's going on, we can take it from here, just rest now kiddo.' he thought as he ran his fingers through the young man's hair.

Watching him lean his head into his touch, he practically heard him think, 'Dad' he saw him thinking as he rested his head against his shoulder then as he tried to keep from falling asleep then. As he hid a smile remembering that reaction he thought it softly as he wrapped both arms arounnd him as he rubbed his back as he hold him, 'Just like when he was recovering from the flu, he responded to my calling him that.'

'By his calling me that one, our bond is still strong enough, he still needs me.' he thought as he knew the younger, sixteen year old, version of his student was beginning to come out in him as the teenager settled and leaned his head against his shoulder as he said it. 'Shh, it's okay, it's okay, just rest for now and you can tell me everything later, but for now save your strength.' he thought as he finished that remark then softly.

"You've done enough now, we can take it from here and deal with the next situation, while you're recovering cub.' he thought softly to him. Watching him as he leaned his head against his side and he gently stroked his hand through his hair as he buried his head into his side and he hid a smile at that. "Well I remember that reaction from three years ago, he's so exhausted that the fact we're back to normal this is enough."

"That he's acting like he did when in recovery after the worst of the flu was over with, we just hit the wall in this situation. With Kate possibly back, and she's the only one who can determine if we got a repeat performance of both the knack. And what they did to Nick's grandfather on that planet right now, but enough is enough of this right now." Will said and Geordi nodded in agreement to that remark as he said it to him.

"Yeah no kidding, he pushed it to limit on three occasions 18 months ago, but the nanites, after Shelby blew the accelerator on the reactor last year and finally when Soong hijacked Data. He was working until we were sure that Billy was out of danger, and we got the news that the knack was still affecting him. Well that's enough of this already now at the moment." Beverly said for all of them and Geordi nodded to that.

"I'll say, but 3 situations all drawing to the same conclusion and now we just hit the big one and this time, it's not just one or another of us. We all get hit this time and I think the adrenaline just quit now, because he's on the edge of falling asleep here right now, I lost track of time, but the effects of that thing are like drugs." Geordi said and they nodded as they looked at Data then to go into it then as she answered him then firmly.

"At the moment, he's got nothing left now regarding this, what with the fact that last dose just wore off now. What strength he had he channeled it into this situation, best guess he was getting ready to tell us he needed to be put on sabbatical from the academy. With what Charlie just told is now, I think the acts of peer pressure and the in-crowd resulted in dismantling his regime, as he said last year and with that."

"But she prevents and prevented his telling us that by turning this into a foothold and he has to prevent that thing from getting off the ship now. And this had to have happened when whatever nightmares he's having now have gotten out of control at the moment here. But she made him desperate enough to push himself into a collapse when he's clearly in no condition for this, he's shoved the deprogramming so far upscale."

"That he's ended up draining himself completely at the moment, but if this is the left over of what the knack caused and I'm really going to be ticked, because this is getting out of hand." Beverly said and Will nodded to her. "Trust me, after the knack and then Derek had to talk him into getting some rest in sickbay, we just had a repeater and he decided once he created his supplies to get some rest, but he's exhausted right now."

"If I have to guess whatever's going at the academy is part of this, but whatever he never got the chance to tell us. With Deanna and me now compromised when he came home is getting addressed right now, thought at the moment you said you met at the academy already Charlie." Will said and the quintet nodded in agreement as Picard looked at Data then to go into it, before Dayton answered him.

"Aye and Hanson's remark of there being a cadet like you at the academy, he never mentioned a name to that cadet, well I'm that young man he mentioned to you last year. Wes told me he had his own Hanson that he was dealing with, I pointed out Derek's cousin to him. And that did it as we started comparing notes, but the connection, between us and Robin, it's the same as the ones you had with Commanders Jackson."

"Carter and Ferretti, but he found Robin and me not long after he arrived and we started comparing notes in connections as he said that you were the previous generation." he said he said and they nodded in amazement. "Should have seen that coming when you guys were acting like this around each other, but I didn't think he'd find you this soon after arriving there, so you're the former leader of the squadron."

"hearing that you were there and the possibility that he had the chance to create his own version to Will's cadet squadron and this was it?" Beverly said and he nodded as Data looked at the four of then. "Yeah and we met within 3 weeks of his arriving like I said, but I told him to get himself checked out. But with everyone too focused on the game, they didn't realize why he was doing that." he said and they nodded as Data said it.

"I reprimanded him for waiting til things were about to get started, before he told us when he fixed me last night. But with Ensign Lefler now compromised, it was already to late and he had to push forward, thanks to her hanging around just outside the ship." Data said and he nodded. "To go into the other regarding this now, it's the fact that though two team mates are incapacitated, there was one who wasn't this entire time."

"If you considered I was part of his planning operation in this Data, you guessed right, I've been involved since he busted her last night. I played the part so easily, none of you realized it last night, but the clues, once you were back to normal. But think it over to what he said last year, he had his own version to Commander Ferretti already so, who does that leave to come up the ideas of getting him passed her."

"Without getting detected right now when, she and her crew possessed you, with Robin also compromised right now. I mean the turbolifts, though I didn't realize where he got the idea from I still decided to work that into our plan last night." Dayton said and Will nodded. "The fight over the radio, the suggestion of dividing the teams up, my plan in regarding the turbolift and a couple dozen other things here as well right now."

"Not that I blame you for losing your temper at Derek right now, because he wasn't supposed to be on duty last night anyway. But tipping him off to where the teams are, making that suggestion to us. Using my ploy as a way to catch him. You were faking it all this time Charlie?" he said with a bemused smile and he nodded to him. "Yeah, but the spots taken were replicated." he said and she looked at him as she answered him.

"Replicated, replicated off of who..., wait never mind, I already know, now that I'm back to normal in this at the moment. This situation was a combination of the Polywater virus and the conspiracy we dealt with four years ago after Tasha was murdered at the time. Decoy, plant and bait, though in this case the bait also was the science expert, she and Wes did the studies together." Beverly said and he nodded as he answered her.

"Yes, but he and I got into conversation when he ran that sting operation and I did the exact same thing he was doing. Playing the plant so easily nobody, but him knew I was faking it." Dayton said and they all nodded bemused as Will said it for them. "Did he tell you which spots that his mother, the captain and I pulled regarding the last conspiracy in Starfleet, Charlie?" Will asked him and he gave a nod as he answered him.

"Yes Sir, his mother was studying the creature, and replicated a way for you to infiltrate the meeting, so you and the captain could kill the leader, or neutralize it. You decided to act as the plant and the captain was a decoy Sir. After a silent discussion, we decided to replicate your spots in this and it paid off, because with everyone too focused on him, with whatever happened before Captain Keel was murdered back then."

"They didn't realize they had a plant sitting in their midst all this time, because us members that were Star-fleet was born. If they knew everyone and knew said ship inside and out would be able to do this and make it last longer then 6 hours and we did. But if you already figured out the inspiration." he said and they nodded. "Said inspiration being our mission to Angosia and our escaped criminal was the inspiration as a result."

"I think you kids are way too much like us as it is, if you decided to do this at the moment. But jumping feet first into this piece to do this is one thing, but holding back on medical information is going a little too far right now. And said female scientist in this situation had to be Robin, the duo figured it out together, and you three pulled the same stunt we did three years ago." Beverly said to him and he nodded to her gently.

As he looked at her with a gentle smile. "Yes mam that's right, with her knowing what to look for in these cases, and us the children of medical doctors, we knew what needed to be done to prevent her getting that device off the ship and keep her busy till Data was done." he said and they nodded. "Lovely, with us compromised, we can't tell we've got a case of teenage mutiny on board this ship when we get decoyed."

"And not even realize the boys are working together in this, if we can't see this we're losing our touch now." Worf said bemused and the adult quintet nodded in agreement to that remark. "No more like he said, that with all of you, depression meant you forget a few things or you don't notice that it's not one, or two. But you got three of your junior officers ready to take charge here, but best and brightest of all the training ensigns."

"Slight close call, but we pulled it off together." Dayton said and they nodded, bemused. "Best and brightest, if this wasn't a need for trying to pull this off without the use of weapons I'd find that amusing right now. But my remark of paying attention in class just came back to haunt me when it came to you kids. Because no first year training ensign or cadet could pull this off if they hadn't been raised on board a ship all their lives."

"And they all had the extra credit extra curricular activities involved in it as well, and I forgot all three of you took the exact same classes and your scores were all so high in school you passed with honors at the time." Picard said to him at that with a gentle smile. "Added side effect captain, but you chose the best in the field to join the crew, it's obvious to us, you prefer intellect over muscles when it comes to these problems."

"You don't just charge right in there, you think your way through the problem and then do it. Your best students are all a bunch of teenage scientists, but sometimes loss of one piece of that machine leaves and the rest of it starts getting erratic now. With that piece back you also got two new upgrades and we just kept the machine from breaking down completely." Dayton told him and he nodded to that gently as he said it.

"Nice work with the metaphor there and you're right, losing our prize pupil hit us hard this past year. But with him back and you and Robin Lefler added to the crew. But seeing that the machine just got a complete overhaul that it needed in the junior crew. But we all knew he was lonely and he needed someone like you and in extension, we ended up finishing off your version to Gamma." he said and Will smiled at the remark.

"Probably, but then with her screwing around with our memories and him gone this past year, the act of knowing our student was this good was one thing. We had two members that were here from the very beginning and we took an active interest in their training. And then once the boys are separated, it results in Nick's teenage version finding his version of me and Anna at the moment and with it seeing the side effects."

"But having a trio of students with the exact same backgrounds and expertise. We've just been out maneuvered by our own students, to realize that us adult officers have been treated to the biggest chess game of our lives and careers. In the biggest test in on the job training for a duo of recently graduated cadets. And ones that have been in a version of on the job training on their ships growing up in the past."

"Wes said he had several aces up his sleeve, but I didn't think he meant 30 aces, another medical born and that Lal had hijacked the computer last night, because we forgot she was even in the system A.I.. And in the end, we get beaten by our own students now. Regarding this chess game with Data pulling the surprise attack to finish it off tonight now." Will said with a bemused smile on his face at this as they looked at him.

"And evidently neither could she, if she failed to realize that the trio are so good that she's been handed a case of being played by two of said new recruits. Just to realize that she's been out maneuvered now, if he humiliated her on the fact that she just broke ten of the biggest rules in a conspiracy. But if he couldn't tell us without telling her, than whatever she had planned was the reason for why he's looking like this."

"Though if it's what I'm thinking whatever storyline that fell into this has shifted positions and it's gotten worse now." Geordi said and Data sighed. "You guys are the bait Commander, he's the primary target for the conspiracy she's got planned. But if those dreams were connected to this at the moment. Then she's just set him up for ending up in a medical sabbatical." he said and she looked at him at that remark as she said it.

"If the second or third piece to this conspiracy is still on board this ship, and he causes my son to get worse nothing is saving him from ending up in a detention cell. When I get through with him, because she could have murdered my son, but with you three tied together, it's we got to protect you now. Charlie do you know what the other reason is that he looks like this though?" Will asked firmly as he nodded as he answered him.

"Yeah about that Sir, it's he's suffering from being around the in-crowd, peer pressure and with it someone is screwing with his regime and its two things in one here. Before you ask right now, Captain, I was going to tell you this when he came back. And you saw us together, but we already know each other, so though I was on Gamma. He and I got into conversation a lot and we were hoping to find each other sooner or later too."

"As for the reason why, he and I connected at the academy, but Brand chose now to get us back together by assigning me here when I got deployed. At the same time he was on break and with it, the added pieces he's getting ready to tell you next." Dayton said and the sextet nodded. "How long were you together, before you and Robin graduated, and he joined whatever team this was?" Picard asked and he explained that to him.

"Six months, we spent six months together, but just as we graduated things shifted course and the squadron leader yanked him into it. To us, it was enough that if there ever was a chance we'd see each other again, it was by asking for the same post, and we requested that Brand send us here at the time. So at the same time he's on break for the next month, we were here and we were back together." he told him and they nodded.

"I take it this squadron leader was the rival that got you in trouble with the police, for some reason. And what was the fight about exactly?" Will asked and he sighed. "It was over him actually, I couldn't believe it. When I realized that to get me back for Robin choosing our friendship over him, that he stoop so low. Just to get me back that he'd take our team mate away from us now, but what he doesn't realize now."

"Is that we're both on board the enterprise, he's out of the picture and I'm now the piece meant to help him heal now. Because we connected from day one, like you said, finding someone just like you was 1 in 1,000 and I found mine. Last night cemented it, he's my best friend and I'm not losing him, because the stupid idiot is determined, to pay me back for losing Robin to me now, but whatever problem your rival had here."

"It's happened again, but to put this bluntly, like what happened to your grandparents now, but I had Wes, before Nick came into the picture and he decided to interfere in that. But I had everything he wanted and not the least right now when the girl that he was dating was someone that meant just as much to me. And when the said girl happens to be my other best friend and sister, we had a trio and he tears that apart now."

"The stupid idiot never learned his lesson, but here's the problem now, he made one mistake by not suggesting they cool things down. And until they graduated and she breaks it off with him, because she saw him flirting with his team mate on the squadron. But he's the captain of the team and he's headed for self destruction, because he never learned from one mistake, and is about to make another now at the moment."

"And this was one too many lines crossed now." he said and they nodded as Will crossed his arms at that. "Word for word what the narrator on that movie learned, though this kid never learned that lesson, and if things continue in the way they're heading. Than my son is going to be the one to pay the price for his not doing what should have been done in the first place, if we don't pull the plug on this and soon right now."

"So I guess you know what's causing him to look like this right now Charlie." She asked and he nodded with a sigh as he ran his hand through his hair. "Whatever situations you dealt with in year one resulted in a similar case, but I never looked into the SGC records to know what they did to Jackson. But if we have similar effect to that right now, we better look into that before it gets worse, but the caffeine withdrawal I knew why."

"I do, in fact, with both of us having a parent who's medical expert, my parents are stationed the board the Hood, but dad was a rehab medical doctor. His case study was the type of nightmare string that the characters on that movies series dealt with. But he hears this and the fact that it was a peer's son, just suffered his own area, regarding this, it's enough he's going to be ticked off and as to why that is."

"It's because in Wes's case, he's trying to block out whatever dreams he's suffering from, dad's going to see that immediately. And two, he was trying to stick to the regime you put him on, before Locarno started sabotaging it. Neither of us would have taken in that level of caffeine, since at this age our bodies can't handle it right now. He's suffering the comedown from the whatever it was in caffeine right now."

"Though why I don't know, because if he had told me she'd learn that immediately. And at the moment I don't have to hear the words to know he's suffering from some sort of nightmares to actually cause him to get that desperate. But if she was part of this and you're both going to kill her for attempted murder on three counts right now. Though if my theory is correct regarding those dreams, it's connected to the caffeine."

"And I don't doubt whoever she was in league had done this at the academy while the other was here just to set him up now. But I recommend sabbatical and he's away from Locarno and the girls to recover indefinitely right now with you being the ones in charge here. and you're his mother. But as his other best friend next to Jake, I'm just making the decision for him in this and I recommend immediate medical sabbatical right now."

"Though we're technically adults, you've still got the final say sirs, mam, he never told Robin, but he didn't need to tell me, because I'm his equal in everything. And with it right now at the moment, it's the only option right now. But I recommend immediate leave under a medical sabbatical and before whatever this plan of their's is activates right now Sirs, mam." He said and the trio nodded as he finished with the new title.

"What's the kid's name, Hammond, let alone Brand said they got the same problem Derek has with Wes and with you, but Derek's cousin and his best friend?" Picard asked and he said it. "His name is Nick Locarno, or to you, Nicholas Locarno, 3rd year Cadet Nicholas Locarno." he said and they nodded sternly to him. "I knew it, it's a damn NID trap, guys, cause a scandal and destroy Wes's reputation with us, alright that's it."

"Nova has two ways to go about it: Good Nova and bad Nova, bad Nova, in the prime of their careers turn into NID agents, they get jealous that officers like you. You have our attention and they don't at the moment, Derek as of right now. He is suffering a psychosis on duty to the truth, kiddo, the sextet from their generation gave us the entire backhistory." Will explained at that and Dayton nodded to the news in shock at that.

"You mean to tell me, Hammond and the others are not admirals, but the leaders of the Stargate program?!" he said in shock and he nodded to him. "Yeah, but your hero, he's descended from the best 3 star general in the entire program. But our crew is descended from the crew of Atlantis, you got chosen for the best ship crew. And said are descended from the SGA themselves." Beverly said and he nodded as he smiled in delight at that.

"Aunt Beverly the connection between him and me is established, in fact last night just triggered the bond in the way you wanted it. No severe rivalries, just complete partners now, he's my best friend." he said and she nodded as she looked at him and smiled slightly at the title he'd just given her. "If you want to call me that, then I'm fine with that Charlie, I take it you told him why I was ticked that Derek landed you in the E.R.."

"Because while my son ended up with a concussion in the riot prior to that the year before now. This time you're the one ending up in sickbay, because he just barely killed you in the fight. And if that laceration had nicked a artery, you could have bled to death, before I could heal the damage to your arms?" she asked and he nodded to answer her. "Yeah I did and he told me the reason why you were this furious at that fight now."

"And he told me what the consequences were, looks like the idiot never learns, and learned his lesson. Not if he got in trouble with you for a third time and what caused the concussion exactly?" he asked and Geordi answered that. "The quintet he sold that story off to that he was trying to use to drive a wedge between you. The quintet were beyond drunk, but speedballing with the alcohol as well and Wes reported it to me."

"Chief O'Brien, Dave Jenson, Jenny Barnfield, Rick Golderg and Tom Renfro, and one of them hit him hard enough to throw him into the tables and he hit his head against the corner of it. It was enough to trigger a bar brawl that was actually trying to arrest these guys for a drunken arrest and Rick, Jenny and I got him and Shayla out of the room while we were trying to arrest these guys for it." he said and Dayton nodded to him gently.

"Great, looks like he never learns, but I think the act of having several duplicated situations with me in this case just left the outlet open for 'her' to get to you like this. If he's the catalyst and I understand why, but he was right, try to hold it in, and her hold on you is just going to strengthen. She used your emotions to get to you and in your case Commander, your hormones." he said and the sextet sighed at the news then.

"To put this bluntly and studying the ancient gods in mythology, she's the epitome of Hathor, who had magical powers over men. She could seduce them into doing almost anything for her, and in almost every case it described them as drunk with her precense. Which is just what happened in your case, you let your guard down around this woman after Geordi got turned into an assassin and here's the result no, Commander."

"He was right, when leaving your home turf never let your guard down or you're going to get burned from it. What happened to you is what the men on that episode dealt with, if that's not just a show, but our past, if they created the federation before Sarek did. But Hathor used the second male lead as the donor for a new batch of aliens in the puppet master conspiracy notion and it takes his female friends to end it."

"Because it turned into a gender version gender, in this case though, it's not the genders going at it right now, but the age groups. As every kid our age was infected, but me, Wes and Robin. Robin got it briefly, but Wes and I just saved the entire federation. But we, Robin and Lal finished the mission and prevented it from jumping ship off of it." he added and Will nodded as he said it in exasperation at that as he said it with a firm growl.

"It's the truth alright, Sarah's the grand daughter of the apprentice of Sam Carter and with it now is she told us key information. But though the Queen was dead, it's she's the epitome of every mastermind if they're a woman, by taking advantage. And of the male officers not much older then me and I'm 33. Nick's grandfather was a year or so younger then me when that happened, but I never took the time to read all the records.

"The sheep lead in trick, with a case of seduction, I've seen this twice before. And this time I'm the drone meant to turn the entire ship into puppets to get this thing further into the federation. But if they managed to within range so they could this more easily right now, it meant that whatever plan it was they had. It's now resulted in again playing with me like this so they can cause a foothold or worse, hijack the ship."

"Lovely, first the Bynarrs, then Yuta and now this, alright that's it, I've had it, I'm not putting up with this anymore right now. I'm not letting another one get to me like this right now, not when I belong to someone else already." he said as he looked at Deanna as she moved to him and he smiled briefly as he finished that remark as they exchanged looks as he gave a nod to her and she nodded as she got what he meant.

"And it's she's crossed the line right now, where you kids are concerned, if he'd been any closer to the shaft entrance the fall could have killed him if had another spasm when he was either climbing down. Or that close to it and that could have broken his neck." she said and he noddedd in agreement to that. "Yeah and if this happens again, and if there is more to this little plot of their's and it could if we don't close that hatch."

"Well now she's really ticked me off, where you kids of my junior crew are concerned I turn into a father bear. And she had intentions of using my godson to get this into the academy, she's ending up in jail when I get through with her. And it's because she could have killed him, you and Robin by doing this, especially him, after he nearly broke his ankle earlier." he said with a furious growl and he nodded as he answered him then.

"Were you two?" Dayton asked, seeing the way she looked at him and she smiled gently. "Yes, we met when we were a few years older than you at the time, it was for a couple of years, but we lost contact, before we met here. Our bonds are that of really close friends now, though if he said that it means reactivating our original relationship, Wes didn't have to hear the words he knew everything about it at the time."

"But that's what he meant, nothing matters to him more than us, but us members of the senior staff are close friends. But it's why he never accepted any transfers or promotions right now, and it's the same for Wes, though he was ready mentally. Emotionally he wasn't ready to leave us, or, in his eyes, his adoptive father and mother now, we're his godparents." she said and he nodded as he answered her gently.

"Yes I know that, but this was either a two fold or three fold plan at the moment to and to switch subjects to why he looks like this right now. It's not just the added plan in motion, I don't think the pills he mentioned to me were genuine at all, but bio-engineered. Whoever's working at the academy is part of the second conspiracy that the duo came to tell us about." he said and Picard answered him at that remark.

"Are you saying this wasn't just a fluke that she chose now to get it on the commander at the same time that Wesley was due to return home on his break. This conspiracy was connected to another one, and both were meant to cause an incursion into the federation. And we were the first pocket cell of that virus, and that's one side of his condition at the moment, these conspiracies are the reason he's looking like this?"

"He gave me some information regarding the effects of this thing, but I didn't think he'd see this that quickly if he came straight to my office earlier last night?" he asked and Dayton nodded as he answered him, with a sigh as he said it to him. "Yes Sir, that's it exactly, though I wasn't involved in their studying the damn thing, I knew what was happening and traced it back to when things started for him, before he saw you."

"As he said, if you never want to be figured out, than never leave a clear pattern of contamination, regarding the infected, or your try is over before it even starts. But I traced it from you Commander, to the Counselor, to you Doctor, Data gets deactivated and suddenly you, Commander La Forge and Lieutenant Worf all become infected. And it's spreading like a brush fire around here, and I decided I was acting as a plant."

"Wes decided to do what I did, created two mock ups and waited for you to check their quarters, but we had this planned out in advance. And I told him to get himself checked out after he spoke to you, Captain, but we both knew that once the axe fell, there was no going back and he had to push forward after he busted her." he said and they all nodded to that as she asked him the next question gently as he looked at his team mate.