"Sometimes I really hate him," Bones groaned.

Jamie smiled, "No you don't. He's family, same as Pike or Spock. You hate that he shows up with crazy missions but you don't hate him." Bones looked at her, he didn't like that they were taking a team to the surface to retrieve this Section 31/Redux agent.

"Okay, I don't hate him… but I swear if you guys get yourselves killed down there, I will bring you back and kill you myself," he told her. Jamie had every faith that he could pull it off.

She smiled, "Fair enough, sweetheart." Jamie, Trip, the real Harrison, Sulu and Gaila were going down to the Ketha Province on Qo'noS. She hoped that they found this guy and got out without drawing the attention of the Klingons.

"Be careful, please." She gave her husband a quick kiss.

"Yes, dear," she told him.

Jamie left Spock in command of the Enterprise as the five officers boarded the K'normian trade ship that Trip 'acquired' and headed out; Jamie took the center pilot's chair while Trip and Sulu took the other two. Harrison and Gaila strapped into the last two seats that were in the rear of the cockpit. Jamie flew the small craft as low as she could and Trip activated a cloaking device on the ship to avoid the Klingon patrols.

"I think your husband is plotting ways to kill me," Trip joked.

Jamie chuckled at her friend, "Well, I do tend to get into trouble when you're around."

"True… but you get into trouble without me too," Trip replied, he had a point. Sulu was monitoring the area around them for interference from the Klingons. If they show up, the whole mission goes from bad to worse.

"Still nothing, ma'am," the pilot told her. Jamie didn't know if she was comforted by that.

"Found him… I think. I have four human life signs. I swear, for an anti-alien terrorist group, they pick the craziest places to hide," Trip informed her.

"I don't know, I think it was actually smart to hide here," Jamie told him. The Ketha Province was uninhabited for years, no one would come looking here.

"Set us down over there, we gotta get out." Jamie did as Trip instructed. They armed themselves before heading to where Trip found the humans. Jamie and Gaila hacked the entrance and the five officers entered the compound. It wasn't very big.

"They're in the back," Trip whispered before he nodded to Jamie and Harrison. The two officers moved to the door, Harrison in front and Jamie right behind him. As soon as Trip gave them the word, they entered the room shooting, using the stun setting. They worked together well and took out the four men in seconds. They checked the rest of the place while Trip cuffed the men, Gaila hacked the computers and Sulu stood watch.

"Got it." As soon as Gaila said the words, they collected the men and the case containing the nano mask's system before getting the hell out.

They got the men to their small ship and flew back to Enterprise. As soon as they got close enough, the men were beamed to the brig. Bones took blood samples from each man and told Jamie that he'd let her know if he found something. Scotty was having a field day with the mask.

"You could be almost anybody with this thing," he told her and demonstrated by changing to Harrison, Bones and Spock's faces. The official name was 'photostatic veil'. The damn thing was a thin polymer with nano-circuits weaved into it that made it programmable. It didn't last forever, just a day or so but the possibilities were frightening. Jamie locked it in the safe in her quarters under a biometric lock that would need her, Bones, Spock and Scotty to open.

Trip gave her coordinates –on Earth- and she instructed Sulu to get them home as fast as possible. "Does Marcus know where this place is?"

"No… me and Malcolm have been in 31 longer then he's been alive. There are some things that even he doesn't know about," Trip told her. She was gonna say something but Bones walking into her ready room stopped her.

"I got something, Jim," her husband said. She nodded for him to continue and he handed her a PADD. "These three aren't that important, they're Redux. The last guy is fleet." She looked over his file. Commander Damon Brooks was a Starfleet officer, his last known assignment was with Starfleet Intelligence. Single, no children, both parents were deceased, killed in action.

"Just the kind of guy that Section 31 recruits," she whispered. From the parts of his file that still exists, he was a damn good officer who followed orders but harbored anger and resentment over the loss of his parents. "He's me without all of you." Bones and Trip both looked at her as she continued, "If you and Chris weren't keeping an eye on me, Trip, this could've been me."

Her old friend nodded, "I know. He's not the first. 31 has a habit of… fostering existing prejudice in the name of the Federation. I was lucky enough to know the what and why of my job before I took it but a lot of these guys don't."

Jamie took a breath, "Wanna go have a chat with him?"

Trip nodded, "Sure, why not."

"I have nothing to say to you," Brooks told her as Jamie, Bones, Spock and Trip went to the brig and walked right up to his cell.

Jamie nodded, "That's okay, Commander Brooks. We got plenty." He looked at her. "Didn't think we'd figure out who you were? I've been on Section 31's wish list since I was thirteen years old and he's been 31 longer then we've been alive. There isn't a trick you've been taught that we don't already know. You don't want to tell us what's going on, fine. Of course, it might help for when you go on trial for terrorism, treason and murder."

He looked at them, "I didn't…"

Trip cut him off, "I know the guy that developed the mask you wore and the real John Harrison was with me and Admiral Archer when you killed a bunch of Starfleet officers wearing his face, so save your breath. We got you. The only question is if you're going down for all of this by yourself, or if you were just following orders."

Brooks looked at them, "You don't understand."

"Then explain it to us," Bones told him.

Brooks looked at the floor, then at Jamie, "You don't know what it's like. They killed my parents. Everyone thinks that we aren't at war with the Klingons but we already are; a little fight here, an ambush there, thousands of people die. I was tired of just watching… but you wouldn't understand that."

Jamie laughed, "You do realize who you're talking to. I'm the poster child for Starfleet orphans. Your parents were killed in action so you go join up with the harbingers of destruction? That's a slap in their faces. It goes against everything they died for."

He glared at her, "You killed the man who killed your father."

Jamie nodded, "Only after he destroyed Vulcan, almost destroyed Earth and tortured the crap outta my CO. Avenging George was the least of my concern when Nero showed up." She's had to answer that question with the brass a few times, in the end, it was about saving Earth and Pike to her, not about the man who shared her DNA. She even offered to help Nero before he was killed, it was to avoid war but it was still a real offer. "Nero was business. Now, me killing Kodos was revenge, pure and simple." Spock looked at her and both Trip and Bones smirked. That man brought it on himself, she wasn't even sorry that she did it, he deserved worse than she gave him.

"You're lying," Brooks said to her.

"She's not. That's how she ended up on 31's radar. She killed him with my favorite combat knife when she was a kid, saved the whole damn colony. My advice, Brooks, tell us what's going on and we won't let her in there with you," Trip informed him.

"You wouldn't," Brooks looked at her.

Bones chuckled, "You obviously know who she is, which means you know that she would. You shot at her and her first officer… if nothing else, she'll kill you for attacking Spock just on principle." Jamie didn't say anything, she just smiled. Bones was right, even though she had no plan to go in there with him, he didn't know that.

"Angering the Captain further would be… unwise," Spock got in on the bluff, only he wasn't lying about pissing her off, she needed answers.