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 10: Bomds, Confrontations And Medical Personal Truths
"The simulated explosion in T-95, to make their parental instincts to start taking back control. It was making it seem like the explosion threw a piece of shrapnel across the tunnel and it sliced your hand. The first bag was to make it look like you lost a 1/2 liter and the secondary bag was to get that liter back. While the knitter was to heal the laceration on your hand, right?" he asked and Wesley nodded to him and they sighed.
"I know we were working together in this, but are you trying to give us all a heart attack man, because that's going too far right now. And at the moment. I know our parents are medic's, but had that cut been for real and it's enough. That you'd have bled to death before you went to self care in first aid man." Dayton said for himself and Robin in irritated exasperation as his mother looked at him in annoyance at that remark.
" And instead of it being loss of blood that lays you out finally, it's your ankle and the muscle spasms that do it. For gods sakes, honey I swear, you keep this up. And I'm not going to make it to my next birthday, stage acting is one thing but doing it like this is enough to give us all a heart attack if this happens a second time here." she added and he sighed as he answered her gently at the remark then as he looked between them.
"With our luck at the moment we don't know who's who yet, but for every secondary programmed officer we 15 to 30 normal ones right now at the moment. But we still got a bunch of crew man suffering secondaries at the moment here, and the guys, Robin and I are exhausted and I'm too worn out to deal with when we got a bunch of compromised officers on board the ship, not to mention a plant working as the added link as well."
"But to repeat that remark in our case, the trouble never lets up at the moment here as what strength I have, I just drained half of it at the moment. But of the three of us, I'm doing this when not up to my best right now, though with those words in mind right now." he said and Pulaski sighed in annoyance. "Trust me the training got so out of hand I nearly did suffer a coronary after he did a jump from twenty feet instead of ten."
"Let me guess, the situation just started a second time and the knack is still effecting you right now. Especially if you pushed yourself into driving yourself into the ground to prevent this from getting off the ship?" she asked and he nodded with a sigh. "It's the issue of that damn nickname that's wearing thin on my patience Doctor. I couldn't have prevented it with Jaan, but I get a second chance now by pulling a third choice."
"And keeping this from infecting the entire fleet and federation now, so how long are you staying for exactly?" he asked and she smiled. "Henderson requested that you had me back on the ship honey, Jean Luc. There's a medical conspiracy going on that we have to deal with right now, but I just arrived right as the ship was attacked by the hologram. And Miles O'Brian filled me in, in regarding what the heck was going on around here."
"They, that is Morrison, Haden, Brand and Henderson, had the requisition set for seven months here." she told him and Picard nodded. "That's fine Doctor, aside from that, it's best you better take sickbay. Because I doubt Beverly is going to want to let him out of her sight, medically, not that I'm saying anything bad about you here. But she's going mother bear right now, regarding his health." he said and she smiled gently, bemused.
"Lovely, our situations keep dragging up references to the year I was with you and now it throws in an old joke in there as well. Any references from that year yet, because I'm guessing if we had several from when Beverly was still here, there got to be a couple from when I was filling in for her." she asked and Wesley tried to keep from laughing at that as he looked at her as the group tried to keep from smiling at the look on his face.
"Let's just say the reminder of the Bringloidi just came back with a vengeance now, because this scenario dragged up a couple of areas in the manhunt. But I took two situation from the year you were here, along with when you came to visit grandpa. But the situation in cargobay 7 and the gym that that dad and grandpa used. And the holodeck I set up for the lieutenant's coming of age ceremony now, so both of those."
"Along with having grandpa back on board, at the time, dad was going to go into combat training with me, before Etana hijacked it. And I'm down for the count the next six weeks, before we can go back to basic training again." he told her and she nodded. "Anbo Jyusitsu, well if he's..., Will has been acting like your father ever since Kyle showed up here, let me guess, he's being for you what Kyle pulled himself out of."
"Will is that what's been going on ever since Kyle came to the ship at the time and you turned down the command to the Aries?" she asked and he nodded to her. "Yeah it is, with one member of our senior staff crew dead, Beverly on earth. I wasn't letting the system take me away from him next, and I decided he needed me still. And in all three areas, mentor/father and best friend, but that's why I turned it down at the time."
"I wasn't leaving whatsoever, and not after he was just beginning to get over Jaan now. Though now that's only more necessary at the moment with the fact that whoever is messing around with his health just caused this. But if it's not severe annoyances coming into the situation and preventing our guests from burning the place down. It's making sure nothing is screwing with our young charge's health now, or making it worse."
"As to why, this is because this situation just got started." he said to her, bemused and she nodded to him as she thought it over. "You recall the abrupt end to your conversation a few weeks after dealing with the Borg and Sarjenka. Because I chose the first half of that situation and had the cargobay looking like it did. And before and after our guests nearly burned the place down in there." Wesley added and she tried to think it through.
"Burn the place down, why would..., oh my god, yes I remember that, the Bringloidi, our conversation in the lounge while we were talking this over. I take it he decided on a subtle reminder of the first five days of that mission, huh?" she said with a chuckle and he nodded with a smile. "Yes, but to Etana, she's considering this reckless and bordering on psychotic after he simulated what caused our conversation to end that fast."
"But it was enough that after we broke out it was now more than funny, after we separated when the alarm went off. As recalling this particular memory now that we were both trying to keep from laughing. As we were talking to Danilo, as he explained his daughter's personality to us till she yelled at him. As we tried to hold it in and keep from breaking till the captain finally did after we saw the mess in the cargo bay that day."
"But you remember my remarks as we were talking about this as barely thirty seconds later we get evidence to that and they tried to make a fire in there." he said and she nodded as she chuckled at that. "Nice reminder Wes, that certainly is enough to start breaking through the conditioning and you can tell me the rest, during this." she said to him smiling and he nodded to her as she saw him trying to keep from laughing at that.
Watching him as he tried to keep from laughing she knew he was finding that memory funny. "Well one things for sure is that the good memories out weigh the bad right now for us at the moment. But though we get traumatizing memories in this case, it's nice to know that the good memories out weigh them and with that pull yourself together, Wesley." she said smiling and he nodded to her with a grin as he answered her.
"Trust me, that's one I chose on purpose, I mean the first half of the mission was a circus, before the more serious part of it took hold at the time. But best to focus on the funny parts of these situations now, and with that in mind, I've been trying to block out Jaan ever since that point. The reason I laid into him is because he's the one who started these rumors, and it has made my mother out to be a harlot as a result to these guys."
"And as such it's relationship situations, and into a case of quid pro quo in the sexual sense you been wondering. Into who started the rumors even though we all agreed to keep it buried and I found him the night of the bar brawl in ten forward here. But first him and then my brother and sister, these two tel me that he and Marks. They were the ones that starte the rumors and he nearly cost the Potts their son last year."
"Here's a question for you, would you shoot the person that started these rumors when you find out it's more than just jealousy?" he asked and the trio all nodded as she answered him at that remark. "I wouldn't shoot to kill, but stun yes, why do you ask?" she asked and he sighed as O'Brien sighed at that. "Here we go again, it's back to this again, huh son?" O'Brien asked and he nodded to him as she looked at him at that.
"Like you once said this doesn't bother either your grouping or hers, and you encourage my ability to think outside the box and 'we' pull off the impossible today as a result. And here's that remark I gave here on the bridge last year, but it just hit the table. I have the position he wants, the rank, a person who can keep up with me. And is my total equal in everything now, and my best friend as well as the moment too, but as a result now."
"And with Robin and me together, if he..." he started to say and the duo nodded. "Yeah it's what you're thinking Wes. But he's been asking her out repeatedly ever since we arrived here. And I've been protecting her from him till you came back, you're who I approve of anyway." Dayton said and he nodded. "And with the fact that the mind meld is messing with it." he said and Geordi nodded as he finished that remark, annoyed.
"The girl, you have everything he wants and the damn opposition just barely took it away from you today." he said with a firm growl at that. "Yeah, but I've accepted she belongs to Wes, but Hanson is exhibiting everything that you were considering about me when you were talking this over last year." Dayton said and they nodded. "But Charlie's my exact match in skills, and my best friend, Hanson is the rival in our conversation."
"Last year after Sarek was here, I was coming to report to the bridge with the added report regarding the frequent outbursts around here. And heard the conversation, as I found the catalyst while doing it, as those rumors floating around the ship. Regarding me, mom and the captain were created by him, as Charlie told me he started up again. After he just barely killed him in an altercation, he broke the glass panel in the fight."
"When they arrested him a few weeks ago and the blow caused the glass to shatter causing it to slice into his arms. And barely missing an artery while doing, but this was enough to get him arrested. For speedballing with the alcohol and as a result, Charlie did the same thing I did, same wall and just to get their attention. But third time's the charm now, because he got arrested once for this last year, he got in trouble last year."
"In regarding the Potts brothers and his actions just barely resulted in a murder, but he wasn't paying attention to boys. Jake pulls a practical that nearly resulted in a deadly conclusion." he said and she nodded. "What was the conclusion if you were that irritated as Data got hijacked for a second time in 3 years?" she asked and he sighed. "Billy ate the fruit of a Cove palm tree." he said and she nodded with a furious look then at that.
Thinking over what he meant by that remark she looked at Hanson and then saw the annoyed and aggravated look on his face. "You got to be kidding, that started up a second time and you threw the clique that landed him in the emergency room off the ship." She said and he nodded. "Yeah we did, and it was after hearing him give the details to his own interpretations and with it was why Devin lost his mind that year."
"Because he was desperate for a cure and his desperation throws the knack at him so hard he's brainwashed into continuing till he collapses. And his system crashes finally and it's my portion of the crew and a portion of it that set that chain of events off, Kate." Will said sharply and she nodded. "And it's because the rumor mill has been going crazy, since you arrived that year Doctor, it's regarding positions of status and how exactly."
"The truth is he's the cadet who has been passing this around that I got in because she and the captain have more than a professional friendship with each other. And evidently that rumor landed itself at the academy and that's part of the problem. But he's trying to usurp my position when I'm the JCL of the junior crew members as of yet as I'm on sabbatical." he told her and she nodded to him as he looked at Hanson at that remark.
And he gave a nod to him and Will, Deanna and Pulaski looked between them before it hit the three of them at the exact same time. "Acts of quid pro quo in a sexual sense here Sir, but that's what this really is, and that's what made me deck Hanson. It's his implication regarding your relationship with my mother, our doubles." Wesley said and they nodded slowly with a furious look at the news as Will answered him at that firmly.
"That's what they're thinking right now, regarding you and your mother, whoever started that rumor mill is getting charged with insubordination. And when I find every piece of it later, because that's not only disgracing your family, but the captain as well. And when we already threw the first clique off the ship and..." Will started to say as he turned and looked at Hanson who had a defiant look on his face as he said it sternly at that.
"Derek I thought we've gone over this last year after you got arrested for the speedballing and you're not watching the boys. So that's the problem huh, you're jealous that we spend so much time on him and now Charlie as well. You're lucky you missed the artery, or we'd have you charged for murder and with you being an adult, that's it." he said with a furious growl and Geordi looked at them in shock as he figured it out.
"You have got to be kidding right now?" Geordi said in shock as the remark translated itself into a completely inappropriate bond between her and Picard and he sighed. "No I'm not, that's exactly what they're thinking right now. I once said, when you asked me about why they were acting informal with each other at the time. Was that they knew each other, but in how was something every person your age or mine misdirected it."
"Until I told you the truth, he was my father's commander on board the Stargazer, as we got caught in the middle of a foothold situation. As you encountered one of their friends in common with each other, but dad introduced mom to the captain, 25 years ago. And they've been friends ever since now, but the virus, in effect of the trio. Not keeping their mouths shut, and his envy of the lime light, his jealousy is being fueled not only by that."
"But by the fact that my scores under all of you are something he can't even touch right now, the fact that in your eyes nothing could take my place. Or didn't until Charlie came into the picture, but we're your best students and we're a quartet in 3 ways. As the four of us are now the next version to your squadron, but the characters of that series. The other space saga, the trio of teenage wizards in that book series and us as ourselves."
"But to you it didn't matter in things regarding back history between my family and him at the time now. You, as the senior staff, know that bond between us, the captain and me, because we talked it over the weeks after our deployment at the time. It was after the outpost and we had the traveler on board that I decided to just tell you how then. Just so you or the engine crew never got jealous that I'm now working on the bridge."
"But to whoever on board the ship, and I think it's someone who's not even part of the crew, started this regarding him, me and mom at the time. But the exact truth is enough to tick me off, because it's gone passed rumors and is having every person. And of your age thinking he's acting on being my father and mom left him no choice. In that matter when she left and with that is it somehow made its way to the academy now."
"And whoever spread this around has every cadet like him treating me with resentment, though now that I caught his cousin. That ends that as I told Brand and she did what you did now as you arrested the people that didn't keep their mouths shut. And she transferred them to in the job training on board the other ships in training mode. But Derek wanted to be with Peter so they could continue with the political sabotage."
"Because while they're working towards their promotions, I'm rising through the ranks while I was here and with that. It's not playing favorites when I'm getting into the academy by gaining credits in doing it. But it's that fact that he can't replace me in your eyes no matter how hard he trieds now, Geordi. With that fact in mind is that I've had to go through one too many traumas and he's now jealous that I've passed everything."
"That you tested him on and here's where it began as well and this is where you come in Doctor, you guys. The five of you, practically raised me yourselves after mom left that year and I told you everything. In regarding the truth of their friendship and why it started in the first place. But ever since the void, that's when it got worse and from there I was working at shoving aside that and basing it on the fact that I only helped you out."
"I even told you that exact truth of how he and I knew each other, and how they knew each other. He's all I have left of dad, like I'm all he has left him, and they're both sharing the pain still of his loss after the Ferengi murdered him. But that's where's the facts turned fiction and the gossip channel started going crazy after that. But that's why I pushed myself into that collapse that year regarding Jaan, at the time."
"Stages of grief one and two until Marla Aster and that ended it, as we then encountered the Terran empire, our doubles as we see my double taking on my alter egos thoughts. Stewart's double is trying to keep his memory focused on his own version of you Sir. And I accepted the truth, but these guys are fixated on this." he told him and the quartet nodded in disgust at the news as Pulaski said it for the four of them with a stern growl.
"Whoever on the ship started this they're in serious trouble, because that's not only out of line, but completely inappropriate right now. You once told me how he knew you and I got used to you telling me things like you told Deanna and the duo. But this is going way too far after I got used to working with Data at the time. Jaan's condition is one thing, I could take that, but you pushing yourself into a collapse, because of these little brats."
"I'm not tolerating that whatsoever right now and with that in mind, I'm ending this right now, before you shove yourself into a relapse. Though your mother is acting as your doctor, I'm dealing with the rest of the crew and training is under my regime right now with Dayton here under going physical training at the moment. And with those words in mind, I'm nipping this in the bud right now." she said with a firm growl and he nodded.
"Too late we arrested the trio already and they're also getting thrown off the ship when we get Starbase 67 right now. But we threw Marks off the ship and with him his friends, but we learned certain facts and said facts are that Colin is Derek's cousin and surrogate big brother." Picard said and she nodded. "That's a relief, alright I'll cover being the training field medic and the others, Jean Luc." she said and he nodded to her gently.
"Doctor, our bonds shifted course, we're a trio now, so if you don't mind, Charlie, Jake and I would like to have her. As our doctor and you deal with Derek, he's the catalyst right now." Robin said and she nodded. "Fair enough Robin, alright young man, I'm warning you with my being your CMO, I will not tolerate this attitude any further. I catch you drinking and you're ending up in a detention cell for detox, before you can blink."
"Young man within the ranks of the group in staff the captain has the right to choose who's allowed for what position. And he chose Wesley from the very beginning, you're an acting ensign, he's a full, so if you're jealous that he's taking this position. Then I suggest you get over it right now, or that's it and your training is at an end on the ship." she told him sternly and Will saw the furious look in his eyes as he answered her at that.
"What's the problem exactly?" Picard asked and she sighed. "I'll tell you later, that's if this child doesn't push the issue further Jean Luc, but at the moment. And in addition to my helping you out, I'm dealing with being the training field medic so I can deal with this kid. Before he makes a fatal mistake and if the meld doesn't cause him to lose it in Sickbay later." she told him and he nodded in acceptance to her choice at that remark.
"What business is it of yours is this exactly?" Hanson snapped and she crossed her arms. "It's my business, because I'm now your CMO, Commander Riker may be your training instructor, but where situations like this are concerned. The ones in charge now are the commanders and I'm his rank And secondly because I was around for the situation. That had him looking like this back then and believe me it was a concern I wasn't risking."
"If you don't realize this now young man, I was here when he ended up in the emergency room and when your lies caused this to happen. You really think we'd never find out that you're the source of those rumors, or that. Now you're trying to destroy him out of jealousy, well guess again, because we did and with that. If you don't want to lose your chance at training, you better straighten up right now, or it's terminated."
"And I understand exactly what he's feeling right now, because I was around for the entire year of his training when this happened. But if there's more to this anger and jealousy regarding that nickname, it's enough that the gossip mill is getting shot when I find out who started it." she said with a stern tone and Wesley finished that remark. "And could you be any less naive right now Derek, I gained my position on raw talent."
"It's not what you're thinking and if it is what you're thinking, keep those thoughts, whatever they might be to yourself right now. Because my mother has been his best friend since we shipped out Derek. That's why we're this close, when she got recalled he offered to let me stay here and they set up the regime with my godparents. The quintet practically raised me themselves after she got recalled to earth at the time."
"And prior to that could you take managing to protect a group of kids, a sextet, one of who was beginning to suffer Stockholm syndrome. And maintain a strong demeanor when you're kidnapped and have to think up a way around security precautions. Come up with the solution on the fly and lose one friend and nearly a second. And while doing it at the time here, as a result, following that is you nearly lose your other mentor."
'Said man the closest thing to a father you have, a few weeks later you see a situation similar to yours. And you have to be the one to talk some sense into the younger version of yourself. But all of this starts because of one thing said, one thing is that the catalyst is that it started with as one friend takes a phaser blast for you. And you nearly lose two more friends in the process here and the second of the two now is so furious here."
"That someone screwed with your emotional well being and he barely kills him for it, huh, and your godmother has to be the one to counsel you afterwards. Tell me just how hard do you see being a student this good is, when you have someone say you're this good. As you start standing and then when around adults you stand out even more, as you're slowly resenting this and having your abilities thrown at you every other day."
"Alright Derek just watch it, I'm not in the mood for that type of remark and neither are they at the moment, so cool it already." he said to him and then, watching the other boy, Will watched him as he said it. "So why not save your elf buddy exactly, not enough time to think up a way out of that. Or is it that your mind didn't have enough time to think it up at the time." he said and that did it as Wesley got up and answered him at that.
"Mr. Hanson don't even think of bringing that up, right now young man, I've been trying to insure he recovers from that ever since that happened, so cool it already." Pulaski said sharply as she looked at Wesley and saw the anger building up in his eyes. 'Oh god not again, he's been holding it in ever since Jaan was killed at the time, he doesn't need this right now.' she thought as the same thought shot through the trio at that.
Feeling his anger shoot through her, Deanna realized what was causing that reaction. 'Oh low blow there, don't go there.' Will thought to himself at the remark. 'Oh you didn't just say that, you think you could take getting stuck between two decisions. And then of having to destroy your entire family just to prevent a foothold, stuck between two choices, of being forced into destroying your home.'
'But your family, your friends, everything that ever mattered to you, no..., Tasha, Jaan gone. And my mother and friends nearly lost repeatedly, don't give me that right now. One two many close calls, don't say anything else right now or so help me you're ending up in the emergency room, so shut up.' she heard through a massive jolt of anger and feeling his anger building every minute then.
'Easy cub, calm down, easy, easy Deanna what's happening here, is it the added side effect or is the syndrome right now?' Will thought to her. 'The syndrome just combined with the left overs of the knack and the fuse is lit right now, and it's about to start again.' she thought back to him. 'Oh no not now, Wesley stop, calm down.' she thought quickly as he shifted position to lay into him as he stood and, at that.
They quickly reacted to it. 'Oh god, son, sit down you're too drained right now, sit down, easy easy.' The sextet all thought together at that. "You asking for a fight right now Hanson, I'm not in the mood for this right now." he said as he got up. "Oh what, you don't want to make a bad impression now, you're just a wimp." he snapped and at that did it as he moved around the podium as he started squaring off with him at that.
'Oh boy even though he's this drained the damn link is over riding it, son, don't lose it, focus.' Will thought as he watched them. "Watch it Derek, you really want to start this now when we have fifteen adults in the room with us, huh. Just try it, and it's enough that it's getting your parents thrown off this ship. Or did you forget the warning the commander gave you last year when I lost it at the time when the syndrome hit me."
"And again none of us are in the mood for a temper tantrum when the duo and I had the alnighter from hell. And we're all exhausted, I've just got put through the workout from hell here." he said firmly and listening to this, Geordi tried to remember where he'd seen this reaction. "So that's it, you're a mama's boy and don't want to see her lose your temper right in front of her." he said and that did it as he moved to lay into him.
"Shut up, don't you dare talk about my mother like that Hanson." he said coldly and he smirked. "What is it, captain's pet, or just the fact you lost your nerve after the elf was killed." he said coldly and at that he shoved him backwards at that as the other boy pushed him back. "Don't even think of dragging that up right now, you think you could take losing a friend like that, loss of Joey, Terry, if they were suffering from leukemia."
"You try anything you can to save them, but you can't, and while I'm at it right now. Facing this stuff in the real world isn't like in training, in training you make a mistake and you can try again tomorrow, but here in the real world when you're facing seeing someone you care about killed or minutes away from death yourself. Well you have no clue just what that's like, especially when the person in question is a friend."
"Or a parent, I lost a close friend when Lieutenant Yar was murdered and again when Jaan was killed, and I've had to watch this more times than I care to think about. But think it over, every time its ripping pieces out of your heart, you become battle hardened and it changes you, think about that." he said and finished with the next remark. "What I just had to go through today is a fate worse than death emotionally at the moment."
"But imagine the enemy putting you through a live action version of a training scenario that is a no winner and you're stuck with two options and it's to destroy your home, or shoot to kill the people that are your family, your friends and they're compromised. Now with that in mind let me ask you something right now at the moment, you think you could take nearly destroying your entire life just to save the the greater good."
"Could you come up with a way to save everything that mattered to you and while you're trying to prevent the said level IV virus from escaping the place you call home. And with it right now, you're trying to keep from getting arrested by your own people. Would you be able to come up fifty good ideas that don't involve violence, right now Derek, huh." he asked him as he went further then, feeling his anger growing by the minute.
"Having the enemy make you choose between destroying her plans or having to sacrifice your entire life, the life you had, before you left for the academy. And prior to that, you've come too close to losing those people repeatedly, after losing a member of your nine person group when you were just a kid, you lose another friend six months later. And then nearly all seven and your other friends repeatedly, you think you could do it?"
"You haven't just had to nearly rip your heart out in the last 20 hours, once you realized that your test just turned into live fire exercise and the ship and crew in question happened to be your own, so just cool it." he said with a growl at him then as that got their attention and the quartet quickly shifted position at that. 'No not now, son calm down, don't lose it, easy.' Will thought to him softly as he kept his eyes on them.
"Do you really understand why they're worried sick here when we start at the academy at the moment. But to them, we're kids and so to them though we become adults once we enter the academy. To them, the more experienced officers of ten to thirty years, to them we've lived a sheltered life, protected from seeing the traumas. Of seeing something destroyed in the blink of an eye, to pull that trigger for real for the first time."
"We're training ensigns Derek, translated, we're still cadets, children in their eyes, we still have our innocence. They're experienced officers, we're just children taking our first steps into the real world once we enter the academy and though we prepare for this in theory. We can't once we deploy, because once the opposition decides to take away that innocence it's you have to kill to defend yourself and belief me its traumatizing."
"Neither of us have used the damn weapon to take a life yet and until we do that, we're still considered, to the adults, children. We're still innocent, and the enemy barely makes us lose that the second something like this happens. I'm not talking training traumas here, I'm talking real life traumas, killing in cold blood just to save the greater good. And as I said you just began your training, I've been in training even longer at the time."
"Though I've seen some traumatizing sights in these last four years as a training ensign myself, I haven't been the one to pull the trigger. As a result it's even worse, and to them until we: you, me and the trio, do, we're still kids, we're still in our training phase at the moment. The duo and I just had to suffer a training ensign's worst living nightmare with them just arriving at the same time you started but to them, and me."
"This is our worst nightmare right now as it's we're dealing with the Puppet Masters, said puppet a megalomaniac and she's beyond traumatized right now, as am I. To put this bluntly our puppet master is acting like the damn ventriloquist dummy. In the kid series of that author my psyche out was being made off ofm Robin, Charlie and me. It's facing off against her is like repeatedly deal with that demonic dummy, in that book series."
"And no matter how many times you kill the damn thing it keeps coming back, like the mental maniac in the horror series in the 1980's. And we've suffered enough a trauma it's going to take years to get over it, for the adults they can. because they've been at it longer, you've been dealt that card sure, but you're still just a kid in their eyes. Here right now, you get infected and that's not making a difference on your personality."
"But for me, Charlie and Robin, it does, because we've suffered a trauma you have no idea how serious it is. And this scenario is like something out of your worst nightmares, for us kids now, we may not have had to pull the trigger. But it's still dealing with our friends and adult counterparts alter egos, until you find someone. Someone who hasn't been turned into their's, as you found someone just like you as you get to work now."
"As you work out the cure just to get them back and we can relax, but until I got the senior crew staff back to themselves again. I couldn't, because they're my primary targets for the deprogramming. I was pulling and when I lose a member of them when I'm barely 16 no less. You have a clue what that's like right now, because you haven't lived among the stars like I have, you haven't suffered traumas to understand this."
"I've seen things that are enough to give you nightmares for a month out of P.T.S.D., watched a friend be killed right in front of me, see a few of our ships be destroyed. It's traumatizing and then you get passed something like this and you have to be the one to make the choice when your entire crew is compromised. Your family, your friends, you have no idea what that's like Derek, you don't get it, because yore a Nova now."
"You're as bad a the black ops, in thinking you can push the limit, pushing the limit till it snaps, and you get arrested. For us, we're like Commanders Jackson, Riker, Carter and Ferretti, and it's because our past lives are our grandparents. This isn't just some game Derek, it's real, there's no coming back from a real fatal injury. No coming back from a real explosion that destroys the ship, once you take a life, you can never take it back."
"So think about that, think about it, that you're the one to take the lives, if your loved ones were the drones in a real situation. You don't want to do it, but for the safety and security, you have no choice, if it was your family your friends. If they can't be saved, they have to be put down, for the safety and security of Starfleet. The entire federation, and you had to do it yourself, think about that." he said to him firmly and Will sighed.
Hearing that remark the same thought shot through Deanna at the same time then. 'That's the amount of grief in him, he's been holding it in too long, and today's situation gave the release. We can't have them fighting it out now, or he's going to drain his strength completely right now, Wesley, calm down, it's okay, it's okay.' Deanna thought quickly as she watched them carefully then as he tried to focus then.
Not bothering to say anything else he turned away from him and grabbed the chair, watching that movement. And his body language carefully she heard him think the next remark and his voice held the tone that worried her the most. 'No not again, that virus, the effects of one exposure to that thing are beginning to hit me now. Come on not now please.' she heard him think and felt her heart tight in concern.
'Wait a minute, I collapsed into the chair when the virus finally hit me in engineering, before the captain got me the antidote. But with it and..., oh god no, not now, not now please, son sit down quick.' Will thought as he watched him carefully. As he watched his face he felt his concern shoot up as he thought it again to him. 'Sit down, come on son, sit down, you're in no condition for this right now.' Will thought as he watched him then.
"No, not now, I already drained to much of my strength, damn it you idiot, I shouldn't have gotten out of that chair.' she heard as she saw his face break out in a sweat. 'No focus, come on, not now.' she heard and hid a nod at that, as watching him close his eyes, she knew the effects of getting up. And standing were beginning to hit him then, as Will charged forward as the latest jolt hit him as his legs gave out then.
And he quickly grabbed him as the younger man fell into him as he gently lowered him to the floor. 'Damn it, what's left of his strength is completely drained now, come on son stay awake right now, come on stay awake.' he thought as he looked at her. "Beverly." he said quickly as he finished his remark as she moved to him. "Oh god no, not now, baby stay awake, come on!" she snapped out and as Pulaski moved to her then.
"What's wrong with him right now?!" the secondary conn officer said quickly. "He's suffering a case of iron deficiency right now and combined with it is exhaustion. But that finally did it at the moment. That last and final dose of adrenaline, before she arrested him finally quit on him, Lal, 10cc's of iron sulfate. Combine cocktail of fever reducer of 5cc's, and mixed dose of 10cc's of adrenaline, stat!" Data said sharply at that to her
And it appeared on the chair and he grabbed and gave to her at that. "The added side effects of what you saw last night, this isn't that Commander, it's the final side effects. Of what leftovers are from the the last spasm he had in the extension shaft. But this is what Charlie meant, before she nearly caught him." he said and Beverly injected the one he just gave her into his arm and they waited as Will ran his hand through his hair gently.
"Is this what you saw when you caught sight of him, before the chase down started last night Will?" Beverly asked him and he nodded. "Yeah I didn't see him collapse but I saw the sweat covering his face and his eyes had a slight glazed look to them. This isn't what the tremors of the side effects of those pills are. It's not the pills it's the side effects of malnutrition and whatever is in this crap, if their not genuine but bioengineered."
"But this, I think it's a combination of three things if another one just hit him now, it's not the effects of whatever's in those pills. But everything we never had the chance to hear, because she hijacked us as a result. We're seeing what didn't have the chance to deal with when he came home." he said and she nodded. "And as a result we're seeing it now and it's because, with the fact we know that the knack is still affecting him."
"And it's enough we need to keep these two separated right now, so this doesn't happen twice." she said and he nodded as he looked at the other boy with a stern look. "Get Cadet Hanson out of the room right now, he's in no condition for this right now. At the moment, though Derek that's enough of that, you've already gotten in trouble here. And once too often with the captain, the quintet and me lately for breaking rehab right now."
"And breaking direct orders we have you and you're not picking a fight with the duo right now. And because they and Robin did what you can't and got on our good side after you nearly cost the Potts their son last year." Will snapped out as the guards shoved him to the door as she looked at him sternly she checked his temperature and sighed in relief. "It's done, his temperature is coming down right now, damn it, alright, alright."
"The sudden temperature spike just gave out, looks like those fever spikes are the reason he was drenched in sweat last night when you saw him. He was in no condition for doing this and she forced him into it. This could be considered to attempted murder on two counts right now. And if he had a shower in Data's quarters it's enough that he's going to have to drain the rest of this by going swimming on the holodeck now."
"But either way, he was in absolutely no condition for this situation right now at the moment, and if this was a three fold conspiracy. And it's enough that we find the plant and they're ending up dead when I get through with them later." she snapped and they nodded. "I think we can all agree on that, because this was supposed to be a normal visit home and instead it turns into preventing a foothold." Will said with a firm growl at that.
As he looked at Wesley gently as he felt his concern growing by the minute. 'Come on cub, come on, wake up, wake up.' he thought gently to him as he looked at Pulaski and she nodded in agreement. "In fact take him to the isolation room in sickbay till the effects of that mind meld wear off right now. Keep him under guard, and he's under arrest till the exam now." Pulaski snapped out and they nodded as she looked at him.
"Just what the hell was that exactly?" Evans said in shock and he explained that. "The added side effects coming down off the high from the headsets and it's effects are like the effects of alcohol. Or recreational drugs, and the entire veteran portion of the adult crew have seen this only one before and it was during our first year together as a crew. Not long after we deployed at the time either." Beverly said and he nodded as he said it.
"Well there's one I'd like to hear now, if he decided to take charge and was fooling around with the ship's controls by remote. Looks like, to me, he knew what he was doing and by some unvoiced and given orders decided on doing whatever orders you guys gave. By that I mean what you three, Counselor Troi and Commander Data would have asked." He said and the quintet nodded to him gently as the captain looked at him.
"I did ask him to at the time last year, in case this happened, and it was due to mind control. But if the entire adult crew become compromised he must pull the ploy he pulled then just to prevent whatever our programmer got onto the ship from getting off it now. Looks like the game was the said situation if he decided to do what I asked and ordered him to do." Picard said and Will finished that remark as he explained it to him.
"The side effects of that virus were like the effects of these games, before the mind control kicked in. But it's like the entire crew was intoxicated, but a much worse effect. The effects of the gravitational pull on the planet that Kirk was in range of caused water molecules to start building and when combined with the carbon of our bodies. It started acting like an alcohol on the mind, before Wes gave different remark to that effect."
"And after the ones that caught it started running high temperatures, but Wes redirected that statement. And of it being on very high level doses of marijuana, and everyone lost total control of their faculties. But it was when this happened and everyone ended up turning into a party animal, I was the last to come down with it. But it was because I risked exposure as I got Deanna in Sickbay, but I was trying to deactivate the forcefield."
"Just so I could get in there and we could get the chips back into place, but that was the first demonstration of his abilities. But it was enough that without thinking twice he stepped up to the plate and decided to help us." he said and the man nodded as she looked at him. "Will why didn't you tell me that's not the first time he's collapsed, regarding working under pressure." she asked and he sighed as he explained it to her.
"Because it's regarding Tasha back then, like I said Tasha was murdered seven months earlier at the time, but we tried to keep it together at the time you arrived on the ship. It had been four months since she was killed at the time when you arrived, but his exact words were she was more than just a colleague, she was his best friend and surrogate big sister like we said, just before she died, but this was the first test now in training."
"Having to see her taken away from him now and like that it was like a knife had stabbed him in the heart back then. As a result of that he never got the chance to tell her what she meant to him, because the encounter with Armus happened to quickly to prevent. But at the time this was going on, he never said anything, but all memories of us with Tasha were trying to remain blocked out in the case of the seven of us, now."
"And it's because the pain was still very fresh and to the point that's why the knack hit him so hard at the time, it's because he was already in pain from losing Tasha. But everything that happened in year one was never mentioned after she was killed. As to why it's because he was always around the five of us, giving us help. And when we needed it, but the five of us were the closest thing to older brothers and sisters he had."
But as you arrived after he was now working as an acting ensign at the time, he was trying to stay focused. But Jaan was just the next stage, he was working at dealing with the loss of Tasha next and till he decided to let it out. And by telling the catalyst who he handed over to us last year, who happened to be Ensign Marks, the truth. But we were told the truth to this after Soong hijacked Datw." he said and she nodded firmly to that.
"So first Tasha and then Jaan, well I can see why this would be a problem now, and these little brats are forcing him to run himself ragged now to come up with solutions now." she said and he nodded as Evans looked at them. "God whatever that virus was that you guys were all exposed to then that year was a nasty piece of work, if this is what caused your strength to give out that year, Sir." he said to him at that information.
And Will nodded with a sigh, as he answered him. "Yeah I know, but as a result of that situation right now the results are what you saw her yank out of our heads last nights. But as he said like this he comes up with four good ideas in thirty minutes, fully focused you better get our the way now. It's trying to remain the rational one of 1,245 people and with me was Sarah MacDougal at the time that day, as Jim yanked the chips."
"So he yanked the chips, Wes set up the forcefield and as a result now, we're preventing that virus from getting off the ship and ending up on earth. Let alone a class M planet or jumping to another and infecting everyone else right now. As we got a direct demonstration to that of his abilities as we're the ones getting frustrated. As we didn't realize he was helping as we're getting a bit too frustrated to think straight right now."
"Because it was just me, her and Worf that were clear headed till the rest of them got the vaccine to it at the time back then And somehow Data got infected by it as well too. But after that ended he collapsed out of exhaustion, but that was my first taste to acting like I just mentioned a bit ago, father/mentor. It's just making sure he doesn't over do it out of stress that's my concern, but this was the initiation stage of our lives together."
"With this mission being the one that started our lives together for real, since the previous one was rounding up the entire crew. This was the true initiation stage as the barriers were let down and things shifted directions, though Kirk gave details of a similar event. That resulted in several outbreaks of exposed blood, after someone got hurt as it happened to him and his crew when they shipped out 100 years earlier at the time."
"But his crew dealt with the same thing and we got it out of the computer and with it was the cure, before the effects of it started bouncing from person to person in the ship. But it's like the hemorrhagic fever gone aerosol form, as it turned into the flu and started bouncing from person to person. By that I mean the genetic code in it hit the flu bug type stage, but once one person has it, then ten others have it, as he realized this."
"And then realized that if it got off the ship and we were screwed here, as he decided to do it himself. So Beverly put us in quarantine till we figured it out and with it the cure at the time. But we were on a severe deadline, after we saw that they blew the escape hatch and they got blown out into space. And..." he started to say and then smiled as he got it then as he remembered the added portion to their conversation the year before.