Three Strikes

by Jane Seaton

..."Not that. Not only that. That his son is going to die. I don't know how to tell him and…" Fryer scrubbed childishly at his eyes with his fists.

"You can't give up!" Uhura protested. All around them, the to-ing and fro-ing continued heedlessly. She caught sight of Kirk, coming through the huge entrance doors. "The captain won't let you give up."

"I know," Fryer said defeatedly.

She grabbed at his arm and looked hard into his face. "Chekov's not going to plead guilty, is he?"

Fryer simply turned his back on her. A Starfleet lawyer trod a difficult path between loyalty to his client and his service, but at the end of the day, Fryer's first loyalty was to neither. Like Chekov, David Fryer owed his soul to James Kirk.

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