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Chapter 3 - "Year 2– a once in a lifetime chance"
They say time fly's when you have fun and it is true. At least for Izzy and her new friends it was definitely fun. The first year everything was new, but she nailed her course as top of her class together with Jim and Dean. They have grown together were good friends, even family including Bones and Sammy. But Dean, Izzy and Jim are known around campus as the three musketeers and that after only one year. They study, work and hang out together most of their free times.
During her first year she was so invested in Sam's education that she made her own studies one time and not in advance. But after her help for one year, he has his studies under control, so that they only studied together if he really needed it, which he didn't often. The only thing she still wasn't letting go was that he got enough sleep and everything else in that matter. She was mothering him in that point, he hates it, but not as much as if Dean would do it, because it was different from him, because she was the first female, who took care of him. She was like a sister to him.
So with her extra time she worked in her second year as double as fast as in her first year. That's why she could finish her second year midterm. She was happy about her achievement and had a meeting with the dean about her further education. The dean made the suggestion that she could start her third year earlier, but that would have mean she wouldn't be with Dean or Jim. So she declined, but she also didn't want to do nothing for half a year and that's why she asked him for something different.
Star Fleet command offers internships for a year on one their ships. The only thing the intern had to finish his second year at the academy and he would rotate during the education at the sections tactics, science, engineering, communication and command. She knew she had the necessary requirements, but she didn't want to be away from the education for a whole year, only until the end of her second year. So she had to ask if she could have a shorter internship, especially because she knew that the U.S.S. Division would be send away for a sex month mission starting in only a week. As the good lawyer she was she argued her case to the dean and she saw in his face that he considered it. He told her that he would think about and talk to admiralty as well as Captain Rose about it, if they would have anything against it. That was all she could hope for, so she said thank you and left his office with a big smile as well as hope.
That was three days ago and today she got her orders. She has to report for service in two days to Commander Bishop, because her first shadowing would be command. She was so surprised, she never would have thought, that they would grant her, her request. But her happiness is clouded with fears, because she doesn't know what to do next, especially in matters of her friends or better her family. They still don't know who her father was. Daniel still tries to work against her and started some nasty rumors, but they died down soon, because Dean and Jim always made sure of it. So until now, he didn't leaked her inheritance, she is sure that he will use this internship to discredit her with revealing, who her father is and she doesn't know how her friends will react to that.
She needs advice and a logical one that is. Normally she would go to Sam. Somehow the younger boy has become her best friend. Not that Dean and Jim weren't her best friends, but the feeling she has for them differ from the feelings she has for Sam. She isn't sure, what the difference is, but maybe she will find out someday. Even if Sam is a good adviser for this decision, she needs logic and not emotions. She knows only one person, who can give her that. Thank God that her father's ship was on a short leave and his first commander gives lessons at the Academy in his free time.
So she makes her way to the lecture room 4, where he holds his tactical course for the third years at this time. She takes a position in the back and waits until the course is over, which wasn't long, because after ten minutes he called an end to the session and she made her way to the podium. Behind her the cadets left quickly for their next course. As soon as the last left, she tries to get his attention. "Commander Spook."
He turns around and looks at her with a raised eyebrow. "Yes, Cadet O'Neill, with what can I help you?"
"An advice." he nods at her to go on. She thinks a moment, how to approach the subject. In the end she decides that a question is a good as any other beginning. "Do you know that my father works at Star Fleet Command?"
"Affirmative."
"So you know that I am the daughter of …" she lets the end open, so he could finish it for her.
"Captain Pike, my commanding officer." he answers in a dry tone.
"Yes, you are the only one besides the Dean, who knows about that."
"Interesting, can you explain why that is the case?" he wants to know."
"I don't want the other cadets say that I only was accepted to the Academy because of my father."
"The question is why you are telling me this now."
"I received orders for a special internship and I don't know how to tell my friends without not mentioning my father."
"Why is that?"
"I don't know how they would react to that."
"The logical answer would be that are friends for a reason and that who your fathers is doesn't change that fact."
It makes sense. "Thank you." she says, but after a moment she has to ask him something else. "Can I ask you another question?"
"You already did." was that sarcasm from a Vulcan. Funny. "Go on." he added after she didn't react to that in the slightest.
"Do you think I got the internship because of my father?" An important question to her, because it is one of her fears: that she not really deserves, what she is so hard working for. To ask that question a Vulcan was very smart, because they can't lie, at least that is what always tell others.
"Your grades, your extra work as well as your personality are off the charge and that is the reason you got this internship. I am sure it has nothing to do with your father."
"Thank you."
"Your welcome." he answers and Izzy left the lecture room to find a terminal to send a note to her friends as well as her parents. She sends a message to Dean, Jim, Sam, Bones and her roomy Uhura. They may be still not on the same page about some things, but their relationship has improved over the last year at least a little bit. She told them that they should meet her at 1800 hours at lecture room R2B, their normal study room, a relatively private area, which she could secure so that no-one else would overhear them. Until the meeting was enough time for her to eat something so she did that.
Lecture room R2B
Jim met Dean and his little brother outside of room R2B. He was a little nervous what was coming. Izzy sounded urgent in the mail. Dean also had a bad feeling about the meeting. She normally wouldn't call for a meeting if it wasn't important. "Do you know, what is going on?" Jim asks Dean.
"No I haven't seen her all day, not even in class, which isn't like her." Dean replies.
"I think we find the answer, if we enter the room." Sam points out. But like his older brother and Jim, who had somehow become like second big brother to him, he also has a bad feeling and that something is going to happen.
So they stay outside for some moments till Jim has the courage to enter the room followed by the Winchester brothers. As soon as they enter they see that they were the last ones to arrive. Bones and Uhura were already there. Izzy was nervously pacing in the front of the room. That was never a good sign. She is never nervous, so what got her this worked up.
As the doors behind them closed, Izzy says. "Computer secure the room authorization code alpha omega two four." That couldn't be good.
"Izzy what's going on?" Jim asks her concerned.
She takes a deep breath and starts with the good news. "I finished my second year two days ago."
"Wow." Sam says.
Jim and Dean get up and give her a big hug. They were proud of her. Even if it means that they wouldn't finish their education together. "Congrats, darling." Dean says as he lets go of her.
"Yeah congratulations, Love." Jim says as it was his turn to hug her.
"So you will start 3th year next week." Uhura wants to know.
"No." Izzy answer shortly.
"What do you mean by no?" Bones wants to know.
"You're taking some time off?" Dean concludes questionably.
"Good for you. You study too much." Jim says smiling. Sam was the only one, who didn't say anything. He was perplex and of course proud of her, but he has a feeling that there would bad news following the good ones.
"No I got a special internship."
"In which form?"
"I will be stationed for the next six months on the U.S.S. Division to get to know the different sections of the ship."
"I thought there are only one year internships."
"That is true, but I don't want to start my 3th year without you guys. So I asked if I you could accompany the crew of the Division on their six months mission as a special internship. I didn't believe they would grant it, but they did. I received my orders today and we will start in two days." Izzy says and lets her words sink in.
Wow, Dean was proud, impressed, but also a little bit jealous. But if someone deserves it, then it is her. She would be a good Captain someday and this chance would help her reach her goal. Sam also was impressed, because that is some achievement, she has some serious guts. Uhura and Bones didn't know what to think about that, but they were proud of her. Jim thoughts were on the same page as the rest of them, but he had the feeling like Sam before him, that it still isn't all, she wants to tell them. "There is more or?"
"Yes."
"What is it?" Dean wants to know.
"I don't know where to start or how you would react to the rest." Izzy says nervous.
"Out with it, we don't have all day." Bones says as his usual sarcastic self.
"Do you believe in favoritism by Captain Pike?" she asks them.
"Please don't tell me you fuck him?" Jim fast tongue says. Dean looks from Jim to Izzy with a questionable face. Both of them hope that isn't the case. Not that they have the right in saying, who she is dating or dating at all. That's why they normally scare away any male interested in her, because this way they won't lose her. Yeah hypocritical, because they still fuck what they won't, but Izzy is somehow theirs and they aren't ready to give her up now or even at all.
"No, uwwwww." her only thoughts to that were, that it was disgusting.
"Ok." Dean says relieved."
"Can you answer my question please." she asks them.
"If he favors someone it would be Jim or even Dean, but he was always considerably hard on you." Sam says something for the first time.
"Yeah I second that." Bones says, the others simply nod at that statement.
"So you don't believe that I got it, because of him?" she asks further.
"If you don't fuck him, why would he favor you?" Jim asks again, the same question, he wants to be sure.
"Can you please stop that? That's disgusting because Pike is my father." Izzy babbles out.
Wow nobody of the others saw that coming. Kirks idea of her fucking him was a more possible way to them than that, because Captain Pike was really hard on her during classes. But what they don't know is that Izzy asks her father not to see her as his daughter during their time together at the Academy. It was silence for some moments. "Could someone say anything please?" Izzy's after says she couldn't stand the silence anymore.
"So Pike is your father. Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Sam asks in a neutral tone.
"There are only three persons beside the application bureau, who know who I am. I let the office seal that away so that my name wouldn't be the reason for my grades only my work. I didn't know how any of you would react, but most of all I was scared that someone would say that I didn't deserve to be part of the Star Fleet Academy."
"If anyone knows how hard you work it's us." Sam says matter-of-factly.
"Okay." Izzys says in a small voice.
"Darling it isn't that of a big deal." Dean tries to ensure her. What does it matter to them that her father is Captain Pike, besides the implication that she maybe always will be only a fantasy to them. Dean knows that Jim sees her in the same light as himself, they maybe don't do chick-flicks, but with the topic of Izzy all bets were off during their talks in sanctuary of their dorm.
"Yeah, Love he is right." Jim confirms.
"Thank you."
"So you start in two days." Uhura wants to know.
"Yeah, I be gone for six months, don't rent my bed to someone else." To all the others it looked like a joke, but her roomy gets the message. Izzy knows about the affair or relationship or what you want to call it between Uhura and her Dad's first officer. And she hoped they would find other places for their get together then their room. As answer she simply nods with understanding in her eyes. The others of course didn't see it.
"I think that calls for a celebration." Jim declares with a smile, but it wasn't whole heartily, because six months without Izzy would be torture. But they have to get used to it, because after graduation they would be stationed on different ships and it would be always a long time until they see each other again.
"Excellent idea." Dean confirms even if he has the same thoughts as Jim, that the time would be too long without her.
"I know, because it was my idea." Jim says with a smile.
"No that's the surprise behind it." Dean gives back.
Before their bickering like small children could go on Izzy decides to intervene. She knows humor is way for both of them to work through their issues or problems. She has a slight idea, what their problem could be, because she also didn't know how she could be apart from them for so long, but communication makes everything possible today. "I can't boys. I was ordered to dinner with the Captain."
"Ok." they answer, she saw the disappointment in the faces of Dean and Jim. As always Izzy took pity on them, because the captain ordered her to bring her friends.
"But if you like you can come with, all of you." she includes everyone in the room.
"I have to study. I have a test in two days, Iz. Sorry." Sam declares.
"Ok, but don't do too much and don't forget to sleep." Izzy says stern.
"Yes Mum." he gives back as he hugs and kisses her on the check before he left the room.
"I also don't have time." Uhura says and her good bye was with a wave of her hand into round to all of them, before she left.
As soon as she was out and the door closed, Jim asks. "Why did you include her in the first place? I thought you hate her."
"She is my roommate and I thought she should know. Even if I don't like her that much, doesn't mean I hate her."
"If you say so." Dean says. He as well as Jim wasn't convinced about that. Not only once or twice did Izzy vend about her roomy to them. Especially every time she criticizes her friendship with them, which was surprisingly often. The Xenolinguist only liked Sam and for some parts Bones, but they weren't on her top 10 list, not even close.
"So Bones, do you wanna come with, because I am sure that Jim and Dean have nothing against celebrations. So?" Izzys says. Yeah Jim and Dean didn't say anything to that question, because they didn't know what to do. Captain Christopher Pike was their mentor, their officer, but if that's not enough, he is now the father of the woman they both like very much, too. But on the other hand it isn't like they date Izzy or would anytime soon. Both are still determined that they aren't right for a woman like her.
"As funny as it sounds but I have better things to do then watch those two embarrass themselves in front of your father." Bones says in his typical voice filled with sarcasm. Even if it wasn't funny Izzy had to laugh at the shocked faces of Dean and Jim. She never had seen them that speechless before, since she knows them. Normally they have a fast reply with their lose tongues. It was a good change for once, so she laughed.
"Hey." Dean and Jim pout at her.
"Sorry couldn't help it, with the faces you two made."
"Yeah, yeah." Jim begins.
"Have fun." Dean ends. During their two year friendship they developed some sort of one mind thing in some situation and finished each other sentences like twins. It was adorable, but sometimes also annoying.
"Okay. I leave you three alone. Izzy congratulation again, we see each other next year. But don't be a stranger." Bones says and hugs her. Even if he wouldn't say it out loud, but he likes Izzy very much she was like a little sister he never wanted to him. With a wave to the two idiots, who apparently like that girl, but were too dumb or proud to admit it, he left them. To the rest of the campus they act like they all were together without the benefits of course. That's the reason no guy tries to get near her. So he left them and hopes that these six mouths of separation open the eyes of all three of them, because Izzy is equally as dumb as the guys. Let's hope but its Dean, Izzy and Jim so his hope may be misplaced.
"That leaves us three. So are you coming with me to the dinner with my parents?" Izzy asks them as Bones was gone.
"Wouldn't they want to have you to themselves?" Dean asks with a possible way out. He doesn't know why, but his gut is telling him he should refuse the invitation or was it possible that he was nervous. No of course not, there is any reason for that, right?
"No, because Dad asked explicitly for my friends, he wants to get to know them as he says. Especially for you two." she points at them.
"Why us?" Jim wants to know slightly panicked.
"Are you serious?" Izzy asks the counter question.
"Yes." Dean and Jim say together.
"The whole campus knows us as the three musketeers and he may see it in the lectures, but not outside of them." she says matter-of-factly.
Discretely both let out the breath they were holding in. That isn't so bad, because they had the feeling her father wants to tear them a new one. But he still could do that, so they would watch each other's back. They turned to each other and had one of their famous silent conversations of which they believe no-one could understand besides them. But they forget Izzy, who is almost 24/7 with them, so she understands them as well. But she let them believe that she didn't know, what they are talking about, of course she knew that they were all of a sudden afraid of their father. It was cute. After some moments they turn to her and say. "Ok, we go with you."
"Yippie." Izzy yells, the boys have to smile at her childish behavior.
"Good where too?" Dean wants know.
"A restaurant on the other side of the city." Izzy says, claims both their hands and drags them after her.
It took them 20 minutes to get to their destination. Jim and Dean were fearful that it would be a ritzy restaurant and that they would be awfully undressed. But the contrary was the fact; it was low key Italian restaurant, Izzy's favorite from her time in Stanford. Good atmosphere, good food and good company. As the three of them enter, Izzy sees that her father was already there. She let the hostess bring them to his table.
She was ecstatic while the boys followed her like they would go to their own execution. Where are her two egomaniacal, funny friends, who never back down from a challenge? In the face of her father she sees that he asks himself the same question. The mischievous glints in his eyes tell her that it would be a funny evening. So she greets her father with a hug and says. "Hey Dad."
"Hey sweetheart." he says before he looks at the boys and then back at her. "Whose cat died?" he asks her.
"I think she is called curiously, but I believe they are intimidated by someone." Izzy gives back and takes a seat across from her father.
"Who?" Pike looks exited around in the room, before he goes on. "Is it Admiral Sparks or is it the Dean, they owe me some money from the last poker night."
Jim and Dean gapped at both of them. They were at ease with each other and made fun of them. They were speechless, but tried to find their wit back before dinner was over. Because jokes and sarcasm were normally like second nature to them, so it didn't take them long to find it again. "Hopefully we don't get detention?"
"Possible if you still stand there like I would shoot you any second." Pike says with a smile. "Come take a seat."
"Only if you aim anywhere else besides my face, because we don't ruin art work." Dean says as he took a seat on Izzy's left.
"As if, it only can get better." Jim says while he takes the seat at her right. Both at the positions they always took when they were together with her, like the flank her. Slowly they found themselves again.
Christopher Pike looks at them for a moment. The chosen position tells him an interesting story. They have a hierarchy of some sorts with her on the top. He had heard from his colleagues about the three of them, how they are outside of class, but seeing them like this confirms to him, what he already knew. They would be a force to be reckoned with and that says something because his daughter alone was scary, but the three of them either destroy Star Fleet or help to strengthen their position in space. He personally hopes for the last one.
"Kirk, Winchester, your mouths are really bigger than your egos." he says with a smile.
"We try." they say together.
"Dad where is Mom?" Izzy wants to know.
"A short visit at judge Smiths office, if I remember correctly." he answers.
"Your mother is a lawyer?" Dean wants to know. Family really wasn't a topic they talked much about, because let's face it, either Dean nor Jims family are perfect, not they were absent their whole lives. So they created their own family somehow.
"Yeah, why do you believe I studied law, not only because for the fun of it." Izzy states. But all men on the table stared at her with a glance as if they like to say we-know-otherwise. "Okay part was for fun, but I have my love for law from my mother."
"I bet she is ruthless like you." Jim says smiling.
"I am not ruthless." Izzy tries to defend herself.
"You can't fool us, sweetheart at least not me, because you are the daughter of your mother, so you are more than ruthless." Pike says.
"Why do I have the feeling you talk about me." Izzy's Mom says as she steps to table. She kisses her husband and hugs her daughter, after that she inspects the boys, before she shakes their hands. "I am Elenore O'Neill-Pike, call me Eli."
"Jim Kirk."
"Dean Winchester."
"Pleasure Jim, Dean" with that she took the seat beside her husband on the table.
Elenore O'Neill-Pike was in her mid-fifties, but didn't look older than 35. She was natural beauty like her daughter and Jim as well as Dean can see the similarities between as well as the differences between them. They had the same height, same body form, but Izzy was more in shape, because of the combat training. Her curls she shared with her mother, but her eye colors were from her father as well as her smile, that Jim and Dean Love. Only Izzy's laugh they love more.
"So what did I miss!" she asks the table.
"Nothing Mom, how was Judge Smith?" Izzy asks.
Eli snorted. "Like always a total buffoon, but I could get him drop the charges in one of cases, which is good. Because should my client earn one more punishment, he will be courted as an adult and I can't let that happen to Tony."
"Tony again. … Mom I thought you have found a good foster home for him." Izzy says.
"I thought so too, but I am at the end of my rope with him."
"Tony is a 14 year old boy, my wife represents since he was six years old. He killed his foster father after he tried to rape one of the foster girls, who lived with them. Since then she tries to give him a good home, but because of the murder the foster parents didn't take well to him. He steals to survive, because he isn't good cared for." Pike explains to Jim and Dean.
"Mom, I have an idea." Izzy says after some moments.
"I am all yours." Eli said.
"We, or better you and Dad could take him in." both try to protest. "Please hear me out. Mom you know Tony for almost 10 years and I think you are his only constant in life. We have a big house and you are alone in it, most of the time with me and Dad gone. Besides I like Tony very much and I always wanted a little brother." Izzy concludes her case.
Even if Dean or Jim didn't have already fallen for here, not that they would admit it, that was the moment that they finally fall for her. Her acceptance of someone with a critical past and her drive to help all, simply because everyone needs a fair chance in life for her, make you like her. Especially because Dean and Jim as well as her parents can read in her face that she means every word of it and that without a hidden agenda, maybe besides finally having a sibling. Izzy manages it every time to surprise the people around her. She can't be put into a stereotype personality, she is her own stereotype and is good case and it makes her unique as well as special.
It was silent for some moments before Eli finally says. "Ok, honey I think about it. But let's celebrate I think someone has gotten a special internship.
"Thank you." Izzy says.
Captain Pike and his wife were very proud about their daughter as well as her achievements. They ordered champagne to celebrate. The talk during dinner was animated and Jim as well as Dean felt somehow accepted into the family, as a part of it. They liked Eli very much as well as the Captain outside the fleet, a sign that you can isolate your private and work life from each other.
During the evening Eli watched the two men in contact with her daughter. She could see what the three of them couldn't and that was that there was love between all of them. But it would take some time till they will reach the point where they would live it. She liked the two, because they respected her daughter as equal, challenged her, but also stop her if needed. The free of them were so in balance with each other it is fascinating. And Eli couldn't wait till the day, when her little girl comes home and tells her about her two future husbands.
The picture of them as a full part of their family was a pleasant one. She believes that a triad between them would be good and functional. Especially because it isn't against the law anymore like in the past centuries. No, today you can marry, who you want and a marriage of three or four people is part of the society. So she would wait till the day she could call them sons and enjoy the show for now. But she also vowed to herself to invite them for dinner more often with or without Izzy.
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