Their classes were finished for today, and Jim and Joshua were planning on getting some sleep before they had detention with Tristan. Josh flopped down on the bed and was close to falling asleep when he heard a sound of surprise come from Jim. He sat up and saw Jim searching around the room frantically for something.

"Where is it!" Jim said to himself in panic.

"What did you lose, Jim?" Joshua said.

"The picture!"

"What?"

"I don't know where it is! I normally keep it right under the lamp on the bedside table!"

"Calm down, Jim! Look no one else has the key to this room except us. I'm sure you just misplaced it. We'll find it; I promise." Joshua said putting a reassuring hand on his friends shoulder. "You're right. I'll find it later." Jim agreed with a relieved sigh.

The two of them slept in their beds until their alarms went of, and they made their way down to the lunch hall where they met the cooks and Tristan. "Okay then boys, take every dish in this kitchen and make them sparkle." Said the head cook.

Jim and Josh took care of the serving pots and kept their distance from Tristan. Jim moaned in disgust and said

"This is where all those years of working in the Benbow and that time as a cabin boy pays off."

"What ship did you work on?" Josh asked.

"The R.S. Legacy." Jim said uninterested.

"What were you doing on such a big ship?"

"Uhh. I'd tell you, but the captain said it was confidential."

Josh shrugged and continued scrubbing the pot with the rough brush. "Makes sense that you'd be skilled in such chores." Tristan said, drying some plates over the sink. It was obvious that he had never done work like this before. Jim took this insult out on the pot and scrubbed with all his might. Josh noticed something else altogether. Tristan's insult was lacking bite. It was almost as though he was hiding a greater scheme in all this.

Jim, wanting to go back to the room and search for the picture, finished early and was allowed to go back to his room. It was past 9:00 and Josh and Tristan had just finished their detention punishment. They were both walking in the same direction towards their dorms, but they stopped when Tristan set his plan snowballing. "Well 'Josh', I'd say that Hawkins seemed rather troubled by something. You wouldn't happen to know what it is, would you." Tristan said, as though he was proclaiming to the world that he stole the photo.

Joshua stopped and turned abruptly to face Tristan. He had an angry yet composed look on his face. Tristan didn't seem fazed by this and keeps his arrogant smile without flinching.

"Listen, Tristan! You know just how important that picture is to Jim, So you better give it back."

"And if I don't?"

"I'll give you a black eye to go with your cut lip!"

Joshua raised a fist to punch Tristan's eye, but before he even came near him Tristan pulled out a small device and threw it at Josh. The device attached itself to him, and Joshua lost all strength in his body. He fell to the ground face down, and looked up at Tristan with a livid look on his face. "Fascinating isn't it? Glad I brought it with me before coming here. Now I can pay you back for humiliating me when you got your acceptance to the academy before me. My family never looked at me the same again."

Tristan kicked Joshua in the stomach and Joshua let out a gasp as the air was forced out of him. Tristan grabbed Joshua by his collar and lifted him up to his eye level. He gave him a hard punch to the face which cut his lip to match his own. "How does it feel to be the one in pain?" Tristan continued to beat Joshua until he was covered in bruises.

Joshua was propped up against the wall of the hallway and Tristan detached the paralyzing device from his shirt. "Here you go. I got what I wanted, so you can have your friend's picture back." Tristan took the photo from his back pocket and threw it at Joshua. "I'll see you tomorrow." Tristan walked back to his dorm room, leaving Joshua leaning limply against the wall.

Josh took the picture from his lap and stood up using the wall as support. He limped back to the room where Jim was waiting for his friend to return. During the fight Tristan returned Joshua's room key to his pocket, and he used it to enter the comfort of his room.

Jim heard the door creak open and turned to see Josh limp in with a smile on his face. "Josh what happened?" Jim said, rushing over to help his injured friend. "It's was nothing. By the way, I got your picture back from Tristan." He said holding up the slightly bent photo. "What! Is he the one that did this?" Jim said with an upset tone. Joshua laid down on the bed and said "Its fine. Me and him are even. Now let me get some sleep." With that, the two of them went to bed and they woke up the next day with nothing but the cut on Josh's lip to remind them of what happened.