He actually laughs out loud at that. "Oh my god, I wish." He shakes his head a little, smiling at the thought. "Nah, I got ganged up on by four cadets who figured they were defending another cadet's honor or something. So Captain Pike walks into the middle of all this and sees four of his guys beating the shit out of some 'poor defenseless civilian,' and then he finds out whose son I am and throws the whole recruitment spiel at me. Literally dared me to stop being such a fuckup and do better than my dad did." Normally he wouldn't admit to that, but she dragged far worse out of him earlier, so he doesn't mind as much.
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