The Bonds of Friends And Family: Star Trek TNG Season 1

Characters: Wesley Crusher, William Riker, Beverly Crusher, Jean Luc Picard, Geordi La Forge, Data, Deanna Troi, Worf. Tasha Yar, Miles O'Brian,

Time Line: During the Polywater Virus

Synopsis: Directly after getting the ship out of range of the meteor flying at the them, the Enterprise crew. Then get the truth now, that Wesley's Crusher's skills are far more valuable to them then ever. Working out a way to manage, after their first year together as things start preceding for Wesley now. They come to the realization, his abilities just got the attention of a very powerful aliens

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

Chapter 1: Close Calls And Truths Come Out

"Engineering urgent, we must have ship's power!" Commander William Rilker called out, to them. "Those are control chips!, Bridge from engineering!" Commander Sarah Macdougal said and Will called back to her at that quickly. "The star is still collapsing, we're directly in the path of a..." he started to say and she shouted back to him at that. "I can't help you bridge, someone has pulled all the control chips." she called back and the teenager looked at her then.

And with annoyed look as he said it firmly. "It was an adult who did that." Wesley Crusher snapped and they heard Lieutenant Worf call out to them and Will as Counselor Deanna Troi sighed at the amount of agitation and annoyance in the group. "Sir I estimate fourteen minutes until the mass gets here." he said and she shook her head as she said it. "No way Sir, I can't replace them, these chips in fourteen minutes, 2 hours, 3 hours maybe here."

"But not fourteen minutes." she said and Wesley said quickly to that remark. "Damn it, alright hold a second, you over looked one thing here, guys, I set that up so no one else gets in there." Wesley said and she froze up. "What?!" she asked quickly and he said it. "History repeats itself, only instead of hindering you, I was helping here, mom's what exactly?" he asked and Worf nodded. "Your mother is the Chief medical officer." he said and Will stood up then at that.

"Think about it, this happened before, and the technician locked Chehov out of the control, but what am I, and what is my mother?" he asked and Will froze up at that in shock. "Your mother is the CMO, and you're a junior technician." he said and Wesley nodded. "Exactly, we're in a bio-lab IV, what areas killed the entire crew on the other ship?" he asked and she covered her eyes. "The environmental controls, and the life support." she said quickly and he nodded.

"And with it, bio-lab IV, means what?" he asked and she nodded. "Containment, to prevent it from getting out." she said and he nodded to her. "Mom never gave the orders, Data activated me, so I could do this part for you." he said and they nodded in shock to that. "Like right now, with both of you and the Captain beyond frustrated at it getting out of control on the ship. As you needed someone to man the control room here, just no one does what that idiot did."

"And on the other ship and our counterpart Enterprise, but whoever was too drugged to think straight here. Never considered that this could kill them if they play with the systems necessary to control environmental control here, but when frustrated. It's you forget key things needed to prevent this, and this ship is a smaller version of Atlantis, you need a computer genius. And secondly your junior technician is also the son of the head of the medical department here."

"You needed someone in here and that forcefield was the insurance." he said to her and she nodded as Will froze up in shock he forgot that. "The force-field was meant to keep everyone infected out, but when you were trying to take it down, you short circuited the damn thing." he said and Will covered his eyes then in shock at that news. "Till I do it myself and get in here, so you tell me what you came up with, and we do this together, before Jim got infected next."

"I needed help, you took that part without needing to be asked?" she said and he nodded to her. "I'm the youngest member of your team now." he said to her and she nodded. "But took care of de-activation of the shuttle-bays, the transporter rooms and the turbo-lifts." Wesley said and they nodded. "That and anyone getting in here, and while you're working on whatever you were working on, as I couldn't see over the edge of the window to see what you were doing here."

"I didn't realize you were preparing to upload that tractor beam into the computer logs here." she said and he nodded as Will finished her sentence at that remark then. "Geordi is infected, as is Tasha and Data and I were trying to control this, before it got out. And now with him infected as well, your mother, she is working on the cure for this. And the captain and I were also trying to control things, so no one left to man the control room."

"Aside from…." he started to say and his eyes widened at that. "Aside..., aside from you." Will said as he realized it and Wesley nodded to him then as he said it. "Exactly, that shield was meant to keep all infected out, but George was in my apartment, before I got it." he said and Will covered his eyes. "So you chose to get involved, or Data activated you, and gave you permission to get involved and while you're locking up the room, the system went crazy."

"And locked us out, before we got in there and now we're seeing what else you came up with here and we can after you get us out or this." she said and he nodded gently to her then. "We got one chance, but my generator was meant for this purpose, but only one person can put those back in place." he said and she nodded. "Just getting to know you honey, and already, we're seeing how good you are, and here's where taking something five steps ahead here."

"And before the hotshots can think through it is going too far, but I see it clearly here, that drugged 4 or 5 good ideas in an hour now. And thinking straight, whoever it is better get out of your way, or they're never going to manage now." she said and Will nodded in agreement. "Alright hold fire a second, we don't have that capability to do it, this quickly, drugged or not, so a human can't get it done that fast. But an android can, that's it, alright hold it, hold it, wait."

"Idea two, as you and can'r get it back in place that fast, but Data can reassemble them faster then we can." he called out to the bridge and Picard tried to focus on his voice at that. "Crap, Commander, my shield was meant for this purpose, to prevent any infected from getting in and screwing around. And with anything, Geordi is infected and as is Tasha, Worf is piloting duty, and you didn't have anyone left." Wesley said and Will nodded in shock to that news then.

"That's anyone left of the senior staff crew, and you're the son of a member of the 8 of us." Will said in response and he nodded. "Captain, Commander, listen to me, but that repulser shield was meant for this reason exactly, but to get us enough time. And the shield, I need Data in here, Sir, get in here, I need both of you up here now!" Wesley shouted out and Will nodded to the request, knowing he was on a dead line as Captain Jean Luc Picard said it for him then.

"What was that, what was that Wesley?" he said quickly and Will froze as he listened to him carefully at that. "Captain, Commander listen to me carefully, but when I came in here, it was so we could keep the infected ones out, Bio-hazard level IV." he said and Will stood up at that news. "I'm in control here, but I need back up, as I finish the upload, while Data gets those chips, but I was working on the repulser shields and we jut ran out of time, I need back up."

"Repeat, I need back up, I'm taking a big risk here as I just invented it, but Data, he's our one chance." he said and they nodded as he went on, feeling his tension growing then "Well they're isolinear chips Sir, to Data anyway, he can shuffle them like cards and get them back into place." he said and Will nodded. "Commander you better get back down here, we need both of you right now, I can get us enough time, but he has to get them back in place, Sir."

"That tractor beam was to latch on to the Tsiolkovsky, but I need help in getting both done to get us out." he called out and Will nodded. "Captain go check on mom, her progress with the cure!" he said and Picard nodded as he grabbed Data and pulled him up at that. "Come on Data." he said and as he lead him out of the room. "No time for courtesy, get the damn control chips back into place, in the correct order." he said and Wesley nodded as he focused then.

Sick-bay-The Cure:

"Beverly." he said to her gently and she smiled at him then. "Yes Jean Luc?"she asked and he smiled. "You will address me as Captain." he said and she hid a smile as she answered him. "Captain, well then my dear captain, you will address me as Chief medical officer or Doctor." she said and he leaned over the desk. "I will, that's true, I started calling you Beverly, and of course, naturally you, I am not thinking straight." he said and she nodded gently to him.

As she answered him. "Likewise, where the hell was I headed?" she asked and he went over it gently. "If that was something you were going to test?" he started to say and she refocused immediately on that. "Yes on Geordi, come here." she said and they nodded to that….

Engineering:

As he picked it up then as he carefully explained it to him. "I was talking to Geordi before when I said this, since as a technician, he was and would understand this." he said and they nodded. "See how I reversed the fields on this Commander, I made it into a repulser beam." he said and she nodded. "If this was a hundred times more powerful, then it is, why not try it with the real thing?, why not reverse the field on this, Mam? If we just need an extra minute here now."

"Give a fast push, like pushing off the wall after diving into the pool." he said and she sighed as she answered him. "It would take weeks of laying out new circuits." she said and he quickly said it to her as he thought it over as he started uploading it into the system. "Why not just do it in your head while explaining it right now." he said to her at that as she watched him. "Wesley, you pass this test and it begins, come on now, just relax and focus, I know you are drugged."

"But you can do this, just relax, my young friend." Data said gently and the rest of the group that knew nodded in agreement as he said it. "Come off the main lead, split off at the main activator then..., then, God, if I could only think straight right now." he said and she quickly said it to him. "It's okay, just relax and pretend you're in class, or doing this when you first created it, just relax and focus, don't push, just let it come forward." she said gently and he nodded

Sickbay-The Cure II:

As she explained it to him. "I made this a broader based remedy, I hope, but it's still close to the formula from the old Enterprise records." she said and he nodded. "Decades ago, light years ago." he said and she nodded. "But almost exactly the same, come here." she said as Geordi quickly sat up and said it to her. "Wow!, what was in that doctor, my head is beginning to clear." he said and she nodded quickly.

"That's it and now for the deadline as we get it ourselves and then I get it to the boys, before we finish this." Picard said in relief and she nodded smiling. "Come here!..." she said as she did him first and then gave herself the dose at that. Before she passed it to him and gave out orders. "Here, take this to engineering, I'll make up some more hypos for the others." she said and he nodded to the orders and took it at that.

"Okay Bev." he said and charged up to engineering…

Engineering II:

And as Picard came running in and Will pointed to Wesley first and he nodded as he gave it to him. "We're not not going to make it Captain, if we only had another minute or so." he said and Picard gave him the next dose as they heard him explaining the intention carefully at that as he was working as Shimoda stood up at that finally. "Come on, come on, you can do it." they heard quietly from the two technicians gently as he finished it finally as he said it quickly to them.

"Then reversing power leads back through the force activator. Repulser beam back hard against the Tsiolkovsky." he said and slammed his hand on the desk in triumph as he said it. "Don't you see? it's giving us a push off, the extra time we need." he said and they looked at the close up view and of the other ship as it started getting smaller at that as Data finished working at that. "We're moving away..." Will said in relief and Data put the last one in and shouted it out then.

"Done, do it now." he snapped and Will shouted out the order at that remark then. "Bridge engage engines!" Will called out and that did it as they got out of range, just as the meteor slammed into the Tsiolkovsky and destroyed it then and they sighed. "God that was too close right now." Wesley said and leaned his arm against the terminal. "Talk about the heat of the moment, when there is no time to think." Will said in exhaustion, as Picard sighed in relief.

"That upgrade was for this purpose, but more than 10, we over did it, in cutting it way too close, but there it is, my abilities can get us out of jam, but we're taking that too far. After I just separated from Commander Jackson, Sir." Wesley said to him in response to that. "Just take it easy and rest, kiddo." he said gently and he nodded. "Jackson, as in Daniel Jackson?" Picard asked and he nodded. "He's my mentor, in Ancient training." he said and Picard nodded gently.

"I just switched mentors, but 4 years training." he said and Picard nodded to the news then gently. "Punchline given, drugged 4 good ideas in an hour, but when thinking straight, whoever it is, better get out of your way, before you throw everything you have at them here." Lieutenant Jim Shimoda said as Will took a deep breath, before exhaling then and looked up. "Wes..." he started to say and then quickly grabbed him as his legs gave out as he caught him.

"Wes, easy, easy, come on, you better sit down." he said and she helped him sit him down and crouched in front him as he laid his head against her shoulder. Before Shimoda said it to that. "Adrenaline come down, Sir, he's exhausted." he said to Picard and he nodded. "On top of the hangover from hell at the moment." Will said and Wesley nodded gently as he lifted his head as he explained it to them. "Make that both at once." he said in response then looked at Picard.

"At the rate this is going, once you and mom start with the Dixon Hill mysteries, I know he's your favorite detective here. That I got to work through that if the holodeck start short circuiting." he said and Picard nodded to that. "And for whatever reason, but if someone does that when you're in a training mission, I'm not taking it lightly. Right now that their idiocy nearly killed you, and whoever was part of your team, in junior crew." he said and Will nodded to that.

"Issues when you trained me better then you thought here, first day on the job now, but I know this about you guys, it's when short handed, you can't be everywhere. And at once, that you need a little help and at times from the next age group down." he said and they all nodded. "Good point, but I wish you told me what you created, we could have been out of range, an hour ago, before we cut it this close." Picard said to him gently then and Will nodded to that gently.

"I knew you were good, based on what Nick told me, but I didn't realize you were this good, Wes." Will said to him and he nodded. "Issues, when just getting to know your young peers here, as adults you tend to over look a single thing necessary to survival, but with Geordi out. And with him Tasha, Worf is on the bridge, and you, mom and the captain busy, and Data with you, that left it to me next." he said and Will and Picard nodded to him as he said it then.

"Like we would you, if you forgot a single thing in survival exams, as you fix that for the next test." Picard said and he nodded to him. "Yes Sir, that's the part you missed, it was in mom's logs that I checked on it, realized Geordi exposed me and Data and I both quickly realized it. I had only minutes, to get in here, and lock out everything that could get that virus off the ship. Or shutdown everything that could kill us."

"I wasn't lying when I said that, Data activated me, before it started getting out control here, and I decided to do Tasha and Geordi's jobs. And for them, but he shouldn't have done in getting you out of the Commander, as we and Commander Riker did this together, as we did this. But mom would have ordered us to remain in one spot, bio-lab IV, we have to remain in quarantine." he said and Picard nodded gently at that.

"Alright report, what the heck was that about exactly, if you had to get her out of the room and Lieutenant Shimoda yanked the chips?" Picard asked him gently and he sighed. "Think about our family history with each other, we all share one thing with each other, what is it?" he asked and Will answered that. "Our grandparents all served on Atlantis." he said and Wesley nodded to him as he said it gently.

"This was a medical situation and I'm the chief medical officer's son and junior engineer Sir, I was going to tell you this immediately. Knowing mom when we're not under a time constraint: Mom would order that somebody locked up all ways to leave. And with it, making sure no can get near the equipment that could kill all of us, either by venting atmosphere or by bleeding all the heat."

"But with the security chief indisposed and with her the engineering crew leader, Commander Macdougal needed back up. No one was considering what would happen if someone got in here and started screwing around. Though infected, I was thinking straight enough, I realized we had to lock it all out. And every spot that could result in killing us now, either by freezing to death."

"Or by suffocation and knowing mom, she'd order me to do this anyway, while we yanked all but ten chips. And that wasn't in the cards either, to yank them all, but if we got out of range first and then yanked both. That works as we worked out the problem, before I realized that the protein marker changed. Last time it was by bodily fluids: sweat, blood, this time, it's spreading like the flu."

"Or infecting others as the protein fibers on this version mutated, it turned into the flu and once one person had it. Well then ten others get it and if it gets off the ship in all areas..." he said and Picard closed his eyes for not seeing that piece."And we're in deep shit, we have got to keep it from jumping off the ship and infecting anyone else or ending up on earth." he said and Wesley nodded to him.

" Not a hostile takeover Sir, as the son of the chief Medical officer, you needed someone in here to lock out the shuttle-bays, the transporters and the turbolifts. Mom needed help and with Tasha now infected and with her, Lieutenant La Forge, I was the one option now. And as we didn't have 2 or even 3 extra people with the quartet just starting." he said and the trio nodded in amazement to that.

"Oh god, I wasn't looking at a severe contaminate, that we had to keep contained until your mother created the cure at the time. Level IV quarantine procedures in effect, as you kept us in one spot as we worked out the cure. Running past history on our predecessors and we're working on a way to make the tractor beam stronger, just to drag it back to base at the time here?!"

"Were you running studies on Kirk's crew, if you knew I'd have recommended you study history on all starships named Enterprise. Just in case I activated you until you got into the entrance exam for the academy?" Picard said and he nodded to him. "Aye Sir, I did, but realizing, now, once mom said that he was running a fever, I realized he just exposed me and I had only minutes to get it up."

"You said they blew the escape hatch and vented the heating, so the damn bug was just thawed, and on the loose in our own ship. So with mom working on the cure, you trying to figure it out, Tasha and Lieutenant Forge infected. I was acting on mom's unspoken order to get it up and running. As I disabled the site to site transports, the shuttlebays, Turbolifts and the transporter rooms."

"That was a protective shield Sir, the Security shield was meant to keep anyone drugged from getting in here. You said they triggered the escape hatch and were playing with the life support and environmental controls." Wesley said and they nodded as they got it. "You decided to follow unspoken orders given by your mother and us and do it for us." Picard said and he nodded to him gently at that.

"Aye Sir, I realized with Lieutenant La Forge already exposed, he walked into my quarters and Data and I realized I had only minutes before I got it next. And rather then risking any other technician playing around in here. With Geordi infected and sedated, Lieutenant Shimoda and I would do it ourselves for you. And while we were working out how to keep it from jumping off the ship now."

"So he yanked the chips at the time, it was like the virus that knocked out everyone's memories. When on Atlantis, so I combined two scenarios together as one and then the repulser beam was something I cooked up today. Geordi saw it and thought it was worth a try today, so we could drag the Tsiolkovsky back to a starbase, before we realized it." he said and they nodded gently to him.

"Data you decided to get him involved to help us?" Picard asked and he nodded. "Aye Sir, I saw how good he really is, and decided if he intended to get into the academy now. By running a practice mission, and under emergency situations, close maybe right now. But it worked right now, you needed a computer expert and a mechanic involved and as this was turned into level 4, quarantine."

"But honestly, we can all say this with certainty, but what do you look for in cadet trainees. We're the new version of the one ship that is a training station for others at the moment, before the chosen cadets get sent to their new post?" he said and the duo both nodded. "I look at good grades, the ability to follow orders and fast thinking, under pressure." Picard said as he looked at his student.

"Me too, I prefer intellect over sports, but if we were our grandparents, I'd see this as I want the smartest officers we have under my command. And Wes just proved that by taking the initiative that he has what it takes to make it under our command. I think he deserves that commendation and award for services into the academy." Will said and Picard nodded in agreement to that gently then.

"Nice thinking, well I can see that if you were thinking straight, the person trying a foothold on the ship, well said better try harder. Reason being is because you're throwing the entire arsenal at them, but half focused and 4 good ideas in less then 15 minutes, fully focused. And whoever it is better get out of your way here with this example, in worst case scenarios." Macdougal said and the duo nodded gently smiling at that.

"But if Geordi already said this, I'm saying it again, I could use a young team mate, honey." she said and he smiled and Shimoda chuckled at the gentle look on his face at the remark. "Sure I can do that, as we get to know each other." he said and Picard shook his head with a smile as he said it. "Haphazard with this job, but what happened today, between certain members is confidential right now, starting now, in fact people."

"At the moment, I think whatever happened between each member is left unsaid now." Picard said and Wesley nodded. "You and mom..." he said trailing off and he shook his head. "No, with your mother working, I was staying clear, before Counselor Troi infected Commander Riker, and from there. It's he infected your mother and she me, as I went to check on her progress on that cure."

"She means a lot to me, but we're just friends, son." he said and Wesley nodded and the trio nodded in shock at the revelation as Wesley sighed as he said it to him. "Well last time you saw me 4 years ago, as one changes here, and it's going to cause the grapevine to go crazy on this ship Sir, but I think it's time we tell them this. You knew me on sight the second you saw me, as I look like dad as a cadet." he said and Picard nodded in agreement to that remark then.

"Honestly, I've been trying to sort through this since we saw each other again after 10 years, but it's not you I was angry at, it was him. After the last time now you came to see us the last time we saw each other was 10 years ago, after dad, I can't believe he did that, Sir. What the heck was he thinking, did he ever consider, in what this would do to us: you, mom and me?" he asked and Picard sighed at the question.

"For mom, he never considered this at all right now, I'm 5 years old and I had this going through my head since the accident here right now. That in total honesty here now just what did he think now, was going to happen here, what about mom and me right now in truth here. Did he ever consider what kind of position this left you in at the time, he never considered mom being able to go on with out him at the time."

"What about you, he left you guilt ridden for the following 10 years you're his commander, I mean if he was so good here now in this. Just why did he never consider not leaving the ship, just as Ferengi show up and are taking potshots at the Stargazer honestly it's not you now. That I'm angry at it was him did he ever consider what this would do to the three of us now." he said and Picard nodded gently at that remark.

"Let alone Walker, but the no winner and that's the one test some of us keep failing Wesley, I understand, I miss him too. Still thinking about it right now, for the first time in ten years and now you and your mother. With you both serving under my command, time we had to clear the air between us." he said and Wesley nodded to him as the trio exchanged shocked looks as Wesley looked at the quartet and said it gently to them.

"Honestly, it's case of if he's that good, why did he not consider them taking pot shots at the Stargazer, before leaving the ship in going out. To fix it, I can't believe he did that, did he ever consider what this was going to do to us: mom, you, me and Walker right now, as well. Now, about Admiral Brand, Captain Varley and everyone else he happened to be friends with here now?" he asked and he put his hand on his shoulder.

"If he did, he decided, to prevent you from losing me to, sacrifice himself so I could take care of you and your mother now, Wesley." he said and Wesley nodded. "Well so long as I never lose you guys, I can manage, but we got who knows how many years together right now in truth here. But training as a teenager just took on a whole new meaning as you get to see my next 4 years, before I start at the academy." he said and Picard nodded gently.

"And I got your mother back right now as well here, so with that, we can handle this easily now in this case, then again whoever in truth. Now, wasn't paying attention and starts pushing you around when you're helping Chief O'brien and Commander Macdougal. Just tell me and I'm going to handle this, or they do it for me right now, as after this incident, you got a free pass for engineering." he said and Wesley nodded gently.

'Oh my god, this is why he's so familiar with the Crushers, Wes's parents are the captain's best friends, Walker, Walker..., okay now. So Walker must be Captain Walker Keel, Picard is and was Crusher's Commander on the stargazer, and our commander and Walker Keel now. We're friends of the family, now this makes sense, but lovely timing to tell us this. But I get it kiddo, this explains everything now, between your mother and him?!' Will thought in amazement then.

"We got to right now, because what if some hotshot in a redshirt hears the conversation, if mom leaves and comes to the wrong conclusion. Here you knew me all my life that to us, it's case of not playing favorites, 1 year makes a difference, and you spent that entire year around me. I know you better then these hotshots ever will, to know you're not playing favorites in junior ensign/still cadet officers on this ship."

"So how the heck are they supposed to get passed me and whoever in my side of the junior crew gets activated next at the moment here. I'm a student officer, and I see things they never catch, to know they're not paying attention, take the fact I knew something was up now. And don't try to deny it Commander, I saw the look between you and Counselor Troi now." he said and Will looked down with a smile on his face.

"You guys never needed to tell this to us or mom right now Commander, we can see it, now you got our own secret now." Wesley said and he nodded as Macdougal hid a smile as she and Shimoda both looked at Will with an amused look on their faces at that remark. "He is my mother's best friend, and was dad's former commander on the Stargazer." he said and the quartet nodded to the news gently at that remark then to the news.

"Issues in what goes on in personal secrets as it hits one area, it's all over the ship in a week, so lets just get this over with." she said and Wesley nodded. "There were a few things I knew without a doubt, but the captain had a slight health problem. So don't tick him off that way, and secondly, is after losing one member of their quartet. Is he's afraid to lose mom and me next, at the moment as well here." he said and she nodded as Will and Data nodded.

"So tell us first and it's all over the senior staff crew in a week, and you're the leader of the cub crew." Will said and he nodded to him. "Yeah you and Data were the first to know as first and second right behind the captain. And so soon, with Commander MacDougal hearing this, it's all over Geordi's team in a week. Before Tasha tells this to her team and mom tells her own next."

"And secrets never stay secret for long here on this ship, just like they never stay secret for long at the SGC, and that's personnel secrets. But for areas like this, we're keeping it close quarters, this was personal between us and everyone involved, and anyone outside of our circle. They're in big trouble for letting it out, after we created a pact that what happened today is never spoken of again." he said and they all nodded.

"Yeah I agree with that, but like him, Doctor Crusher and the captain, we figured it out on our own, you never needed to tell us this, Will." she said and he nodded with a smile. "Before you say it, I'm your rank, so I can get away with the first name business, but let's try to keep this clean, shall we." she said and Wesley looked down as Picard saw him shaking in laughter. "Alright laugh it up, cub." Will said to him and he looked up smiling.

'But yeah he got me, she and I were together, I was still young, but back with my mate again.' he thought gently and the cast chuckled at that remark. "I know you better then they think, I'm always around you, and you never pay them an ounce of attention as you focus more now here. On intellect then athletics right now?" he asked and Picard nodded. "Yes I see what you mean, and you're right son." he said and Wesley nodded to him.

"We have to right now, they saw the interactions between you and mom and now you and me, at times you call me by my nickname. But we have to tell them the truth, our history with each other, we have to tell them the truth, in how you weren't surprised to see mom. For the first time since the accident, or that you knew me since I was born at the time, but everything else now." Wesley said and Picard nodded to him gently.

"Agreed, and I watched you grow up, and now with your mother stationed here, I get to watch your next four years as you finish school. Here on the ship, with you just turning fifteen now, freshman maybe and with your training, you're going to be able in truth now. To get that recommendation into academy at the moment. Especially if you keep taking the initiative like this right now, but now this is it, finally."

"But what happened between your mother and me is personal and none of their business, to be honest I prefer intellect over athletics. When in my officers, but I swear that if someone says anything and you choose to stay with me and if your mother gets transferred now. And for whatever reason, we catch the person that created that rumor and they're getting kicked off this ship, for not keeping their mouths shut."

"Especially if this connects to another trauma after the first one happened, you get sick or worse, because whoever it was broke the pact. Now we all made and that person is in serious trouble with me and your mother and I mean that right now." he said sternly and Wesley nodded. "I know you're good, that's very apparent to me here right now in truth now, we know this, but in honest truth, you don't need your title, skills or abilities."

"Thrown at you every time you turn around, your training is up to your mother and me, it's family business and whoever it is not family. So from now on just stay away from you, you're off limits and as for you, you little brats, you want the truth, well said truth now here. Is that I knew Wesley all his life, I'm a friend of the family, and he's my adoptive son." he said and the trio exchanged looks at that remark then sternly.

'Yeah now they pissed him off if something causes cub to have his system crash and he gets sick for whatever reason, but again right now. Is you guys need to get it through your heads it's not all think on your feet, and think fast, you need every minute, and while you're the ones. Who are driving the ship, we got the real problem of making sure everything is working correctly, so get over yourselves, you knuckleheads.'

'It's brains over brawns, but touch this kid or whoever let it out, you're asking for the telling off from hell once this gets back to us. And I mean it, you little brats.' Macdougal thought sternly in response to that remark. "On top of the fact that what happened was between us and the only ones that knew were here for the 18 months, afterwards here. But who heck do these people think they are, this is personal family business, but a crew is a team, a team a family."

"And they're outsiders, we said this, time and time again, we don't tolerate showing off, hotdogging, going by your gut instincts. Or your trying to act like a hero, and definitely not in the middle of crisis, you want to succeed up here. Well then rein it rookie, and get that attitude under control." Shimoda said sternly to this remark. "What business is this of their's we tell our elder members everything, so we know everything about each other here, but rumors now."

"As in, our personal lives are none of their damned business, you're my parents best friend and my mentor, I know and knew you longest. But not playing favorites, you're a friend of the family, and my mentor, so what does it matter you spent and spend more time on me here. I'm always around you guys, to know the in's and out's of everything talked about in the conference room here, it's my job here now too."

"As the youngest of your senior staff crew." Wesley said and Will hid a smile at the remark. "And as for your personal life in truth, our secrets are none of their business in the new arrivals. As only us of the last year, now know you better then these outsiders do, aside from mom. If she's transferred now, so we keep this between us, but as for whoever let it out, this was no one's. I repeat no one's business, but our own why I focus more on you, and if that doesn't do it now."

"Get out, and whoever said it, is asking for the telling off from hell here and with them the ones implying anything about our bond here now. But if there is one thing these idiots never took into account it's the case of you losing your temper to cause hypertension here right now. So if this doesn't concern them, but out, the ones that deserved to know this are already here, everyone in the staffs of every department."

"Said that is on the ship, the first to know this are the first and second in command of every department currently on board the ship." Wesley said and Picard nodded. "I get that, but remember, still a teenager, a cub, so watch the language son." he said and Wesley nodded to him. "Yes Sir, but I swear these guys want information, why not get it from who was directly involved and not take it at face value, and what makes him think."

"That any adult officer is even going to listen to this, and they do, they clearly don't have what it takes, as no self respecting adult officer. Now would even listen to this stuff right now, and get it directly from the horse's mouth, or from the second in command of said horse here." he said and the trio hid a smile at the remark. "Indeed, go ahead." he said and Wesley looked at the quartet.

"If you saw a picture of 3 people next to the captain, that was my parents and Captain Walker Keel. The captain was my father's commander for six years, before he was killed ten years ago. By a group of Ferengi at the time, but mom and him, close friends, even before that. But that explains this, the last time we saw each other was 9 years ago" he said and they nodded to him in shock to that.

"That's your connection, the reason you know each other?" Shimoda asked and he nodded. "Yes it is, in fact his father served under me on the Stargazer, but his parents, they are my best friends and as a result that's how I know him." Picard said and the quartet nodded. "Beverly, your unspoken orders were activated here by Wesley." he said and they heard a gentle remark. "Got it, and nice work honey." she said and he hid a smile to that remark.

"You remember the generator I created and showed you, mom?" he asked and she nodded and smiled in delighted relief as she answered him. "You reversed it from tractor to repulser, Wesley?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah I did, it gave us the extra minute needed, as Commander Data got all the chips back into place. But just following your orders, as our CMO, so with that in mind right now."

"How's it going up there mom?" he asked and she quickly said it to him. "I'm done and heading for the bridge to give it to the others honey. Guys: boys, Sarah, meet us there if what you're about to say is what I'm thinking. Well then we tell the entire group all at once now." she said and the duo nodded in agreement gently. "Agreed the rest of the senior staff in all three areas deserves to know too."

"But as does your young friends, as well, the quartet, if they accepted you into their team, you can train with them. In case we have another situation like this come up, but remember, your priority is you're a student officer, student first. Over the officer, understood." Picard said and he nodded to the orders gently. "Aye Sir, I understand." he said as the Bridge crew refocused then, ans she did everyone on board the bridge and Beverly at that.

"Captain, something seemed to move us aside at the last minute." he said and Worf finished that. "Do we owe our thanks to Mr. Data, Sir?" he asked and they heard a slight tone of pride in his voice. "Yes and Wesley may have given us a few seconds as well." he said and Worf looked at Geordi in shock at that. "Did he say Wesley, the boy?" he asked and she said it with a smirk to him, gently at his query.

"He said 'Wesley'." she said and he nodded as Geordi said it for both of them with a bemused smile. "Whatever he created to get us out this jam, I'm finding out what he did when they get up here. But though we're used to alnighters, he's not at the moment, he's going on fifteen in two weeks, he's in high school. We can be his mentors in engineering, but first I need to know what he did right now."

"Just to get us out of there?" he said to her and she chuckled. "Too late, he showed it to you already actually, Geordi, but side effects of being a jack of all trades. He knows the system better than his counterparts, but his father and I are both officers in Starfleet. And before he was killed, he knows the system rules and regulations, but with us exposed and you walking in. Into my apartment, he decided to do my orders for me while reversing the output."

"Geordi, it was the generator he showed us, after realizing that everyone was getting infected he decided to lock out the places now here. That could possibly kill us or get it off the ship, but used the generator he showed us now to get us out of range, by reversing the output. And from magnetism to repulsion, he gave us the added thrust to get out of range now." she added and he smiled in impressed amazement at the news.

"The one before I got hit?" he said in shock and she nodded and he smiled at that. "Oh I never would have come up with that idea, kiddo that was great, nice thinking right now, but I'm like him, an engineer here, so his idea worked." he said smiling proudly at that news. "So with me and Tasha out, that left him to do your orders for you, a junior tech and you're CMO?" he said to clarify and she nodded.

"So with me and Tasha out and Worf up here he decided to do your unspoken orders for us, huh, okay so taking the initiative. Acting as a junior member of the senior staff crew, that works well. And as a junior member of the crew, whatever else he's working on I can use his help now finally." "Alright so he reversed the output from tractor beam to repulser beam, treating the Tsiolovsky like spring board. Just to give us enough thrust and giving us enough push start to get us out of the way. Before we activated the engines, nice work kiddo, that was great, really. We keep this up in the future, you're going to make captain by the time you're 25, little brother, nice work." he said, smiling at his idea then.

"I could certainly use you as a member of my team, we're all young to fully grown adults, we need a young team mate now." he added and she chuckled at the remark. "I think the captain is saying this for both himself and me, Geordi, but his first job is student. And then officer, but you're his part time job okay, knowing Data, he just activated his training."she said and he nodded smiling.

"Fair enough, I like the kid, he's like my kid brother now, if you get transferred again, we can take care of him."he said and she nodded as she gave his shoulder a squeeze at that as he smiled at her As it flipped back to the sextet as Will said it gently at that. "It's only fair that to mention Wesley in the log entry." he said and Picard nodded. "Agreed, fair is fair, and let's give credit to his science teacher as well right now." he said and he nodded gently to him then.

"You alright son?" Shimoda asked and Wesley nodded. "I am now, let's get up there."he said and they nodded in agreement as they headed up there gently as they headed up then. "Congratulations, Sir." Geordi said and he smiled as he looked at his new star pupil. "Too many people." he said and they nodded in agreement as Lieutenant Tasha Yar grabbed Data by the arm. "Data, I'm only going to tell you this once, it never happened." she said and he nodded

In acceptance to her request as she looked at Wesley. "Nice thinking Wesley, what with me out of commission and with me, Geordi, it's you did what I wanted you to do. But you deserve that commendation for helping out the engineering and medical crews as well as my department. I'm proud of you kiddo." she said and he smiled at her as she ran her hand through the hair at the back of his head and then pressed her forehead to his and as he closed his eyes then.

"Big sister bond Jean Luc, he's an only child, I think she's acting on being the big sister to him." Beverly said and he nodded in agreement smiling gently at that. "If they were the characters of that movie series, before our show came out. I think she was his mentor's best friend at the time here, Wesley himself. He is the boy, before the character, that rebel system lord character, got to him."

"Well then that makes Will his own mentor, but he loves them both, and if they changed the code, the duo would be married as a result." Deanna said as she came in, in time to hear that remark and Picard nodded in agreement. "Yep, and with that, we got to keep this under control around here. And with those words in mind at the moment here." he said as he looked around the assembled crew gently.

"I put it to you all, I think we shall end up a fine crew, if we can all avoid temptations, so Number One, let's get to our next job." he said and Will nodded."Aye Sir." he said and turned to Geordi. "Helm, prepare for warp three, head two hundred and ninety four mark thirty seven." he said and Geordi nodded as he set the course as he read it out then gently as he repeated it to memorize it.

"Warp three, heading two hundred and ninety four, mark thirty seven." he said and Will said it gently at that. "Engage." he said and they all nodded. "Captain, I recommend that we make a pact that what happened today. None of this is ever to be spoken of again right now, Wes's getting involved to help. That can as can the official report on the virus." Tasha said and Picard nodded to her gently at that.

And the senior staff crew nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "Agreed, I agree with you, I think that what happened today needs to be kept under wraps. But there was something else involved that came out that Dr. Crusher and I. We need you all to understand now." he said and they nodded as she tapped her communicator. "Lieutenant Greyson, Lieutenant Bates, you and your seconds get up here."

"All officers: first and second in command report to the bridge, the captain and Dr. Crusher have something to tell us right now."she said and they heard thirty affirmatives to that. "Where did you come up with that idea, it would take us seven hours theory and another day in practical to get it up and working?" O'brien said as he walked in and they chuckled as Beverly answered that question.

"His physics teacher was good, but his ideas came in handy to the point, that, on our last placement. The results were Donald suggested he could be useful on the enterprise. With the fact our predecessors were constantly getting into trouble, I think we took on their legacy if this happened now. But my son is a jack of all trades at the moment Lieutenant."she said and the engine crew nodded.

"Captain Varley, you were on our Sister ship?" Geordi repeated and they nodded to him. "We were stationed there, so arriving on this one, that's why he knows where everything is at the time. That project wasn't up for a debate, but he knew, if the virus thawed and ended up on our ship. He had to prevent what happened on their ship, before it happened on our's, but with that."

"And we were going to tell you guys this anyway." Beverly said as Greyson walked into the room as he said it for all of them, just as every department head and second in command arrived then. "Tell us what Doc?"he asked and she explained it to them gently. "I suppose all of you notice that he wasn't surprised to see me or Wesley last month after he showed him the controls on his chair, or personal talks."

"Between us at the time, we were always together in private the last month talking?" she asked and they nodded as Geordi and Worf turn the chairs to look at the trio gently. "Well the reason for all of that is because her husband, Jack Crusher was my second in command on board the Stargazer. We've been friends for 25 years and I watched Wesley grow up." Picard said and they all nodded quickly.

"The sudden switch from his real name to his nickname was because of this, you watched him grow up and knew his parents personally?"Worf asked in amazement and they nodded. "I do, but with his mother now my CMO, I get to watch his next four years, before he graduates right now. Captain Desoto told me of his abilities as a prodigy of many sciences at the moment, as did Donald."

"And he just demonstrated one of them to me a bit ago, not playing favorites, I'm a friend of the family."he said and they all nodded gently. "So who's the other that was close friends with you three as I saw a picture of you. But you, her, Commander Crusher and someone else?"Tasha asked and he smiled gently. "That was Captain Walker Keel, the four of us had been the best of friends now."

"And for 25 years at the time now, as a result, with things just starting expect me to get defensive if we got children like J.J. O'neill getting sent up here. With the fact I took a special interest in his education and training up here. But that commendation and recommendation into the academy is long in coming. But will if he keeps up this way right now." he said and they all nodded smiling gently.

"I'm not playing favorites, I'm a friend of the family." he said and each department nodded gently. "Well that explains the discussion between you, that Will, Jim and I heard, he's still furious at his father for abandoning him and doing that." Macdougal said to him and he nodded to her. "Accidental conversation with you in the room for it at the moment guys, but this was not the way we wanted to tell you the truth here."

"That's his history with my family." Wesley said to her and she nodded with a gentle smile."Well it's fine." Will said to him and he smiled. "I also wasn't kidding when I said that either Commander, I know, you and Counselor Troi, the way you look at each other is a dead give away. But secrets never stay secret for long on this ship, then again, the personal information between the senior staff at times now in truth."

"Gets told to the primary teams in every department, so it's all over the ship within a week." he said and Tasha started laughing and Will nodded in agreement. "Said being the senior staff of every side in every department there is on the ship, yeah you're right." Will said smiling gently. "Yes that's the reason for it alright, we've been together so long by the time we have that one dragged up now, I'm repeating it."

"But you all watched him grow up, that to you, it's one thing and one thing only." he said and they crossed their arms. "He's not showing off to us, he's always around us, and we see this as it's not all think on your feet and think fast, you need every minute. Whoever makes that implication in earshot of any of us is getting the reprimand from hell here." Tasha said sternly and the rest of the senior staff nodded in stern agreement.