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[Behind the Youth Center, past the basketball court there are several massive oak trees. Awhile back, Piglet had asked about carving out a tree trunk for a home for himself. And that's exactly what Derek is spending the morning and into his afternoon doing. Having picked one of the trees close to the center out, he's slowly but surely carving out the hollow of it to fashion what will be the first 'room' of the home for Piglet. This is exactly what the video feed shows him doing from the perspective of the device he's left sitting by a toolbox just a yard or two away. Anyone is free to bug him, both in person or over the device.]

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[A scrawny kid with curly hair--Derek might recognize him, as he likes to spend time with Tessa--watches him carve away at the tree, curious, hands behind his back. Don't mind him.]

[Derek notices the young boy a few feet away out of his peripheral vision. He's seen him around but hasn't had a moment to chat with him. He continues to carve as he poses a question.]

You do any wood work?

[He responds with a tilt of his head and a very thick Russian accent.]

No, sir, but I admire those who do. Not just wood work--creative things.

[The accent is almost so thick that it's difficult for Derek to follow. But he gets the gist of it, and prepares himself to listen closer to the conversation so he doesn't misunderstand anything.]

Yeah, I just like changing things. If I can keep changing things in some way, I'm good. This is gonna be a home for someone, believe it or not.

Someone is going to live inside of a tree?

[Derek smirks and nods. He finds it a little odd too but he understood the longing that Piglet had for a place to call home.]

Yeah, he's a little guy. This trunk is just the right size to give him a couple of rooms to live in. Apparently he lived in one back home too.

He must be very little. [Hands still clasped behind his back, he surveys Derek's work.] You have done all of this in one day?

Oh yeah, he is. You should try to meet him someday. Nice little guy.

[Derek nods, looking over his own work.] Yeah, I'm good with this kind of stuff. Back home when I'm not at work I flip houses, which is buying run down homes, fixing them up and selling them for a higher price than you bought them for. [He's had to explain that enough times that he just goes ahead and does it.] Kind of a hobby of mine.

[He takes one of his gloves off and holds out a hand to the other.] I'm Derek Morgan.

Is he a very small human?

[Sorry, Derek, but you're talking to a kid who comes from a world without currency, let alone house-flippers. He nods anyway.] Then you must enjoy building things.

[He brightens, recognizing Derek's name, and shakes his hand with both of his.] Mr. Morgan, who runs the Youth Center! I am Pavel Andreievich Chekov and Tes--Miss Tessa has spoken of you.

Pavel, good to meet you. [He grins a bit at the mention of Tessa. They've become good friends over time and he tries to watch out for her here and there without being too overbearing.] Nice girl, Tessa. Yeah this is... this is what I do. I volunteered a lot back home with youth centers but here, guess there was a need and I wanted to fill it. I've seen you here a few times.

[He smirks and shakes his head, knowing how crazy this sounds to anyone who hasn't met Piglet.] He's a little pig, a walking and talking pig. I know it sounds crazy but... you should try to meet him sometime. Piglet's a nice little guy.

You as well, and Tessa is very nice. [somewhat sheepishly] I am sorry for not saying hello before, Mr. Morgan.

[If Chekov thinks this sounds crazy or unusual, he doesn't show it.] I have met many lifeforms, but never a talking pig--or a pig who lived in a tree.

Well if you keep hanging around the Youth Center you'll catch sight of him. He's a gentle soul.

[And in Derek's opinion, he needed looking after. That was what Derek did. He took care of people, and pigs apparently. That was why he was so protective over Tessa too. And he didn't miss that sheepish look Chekov had when speaking of her. It makes Derek grin a bit.]

And now we've said hello and we're not strangers. I'm glad you know Tessa. She can always use more friends around here.

I will be here less once I am employed, but I hope to meet him.

[Talking pigs that live in trees are a novelty, even over two centuries into the future. The topic of Tessa, however, deserves some amount of seriousness.]

Has Tessa always been very lonely since you have known her?

What kind of jobs you looking for? [Because if Derek can help, he wants to. Although he only has a few areas of expertise. On the topic of Tessa, he shakes his head.]

She's made friends here and there. I think a few of them have left the City recently though. That's tough, when you're close to someone and the City sends them home. [Derek knows this all too well.]

I navigated at home, but there is nowhere to navigate to here. Engineering, maybe.

She has mentioned missing Dr. McCoy. [This is more of a guess than a statement, but] This is a difficult dimension to live in.

There's that place uh... City Solutions. They do a lot of work like that. All that technological stuff that I don't know the first thing about.

[Sure, he could work an iPad or his laptop. He could diffuse most bombs. But the inner workings of most technology outside of that? He wasn't that great with.

He nods at the other.] Yeah, him and she was real close to another guy who stayed here at the Center. Tim. He went home too just recently and I don't think she took it that well. It is pretty tough though, cause you can't be a hermit or the ticking gets to you. But then when you get close to people... there's always that possibility that they'll be gone any day.

Yes, I have been told about City Solutions. [He smiles.] It is easy to learn.

Eh. It is not so different from life that way. There is always coming and going.

[Derek chuckles a bit at that 'easy to learn' comment.] Easy to learn for some, Genius. I can look at most vehicle engines and figure them out. [He's not gonna mention that he can do the same with bombs right now. Bombs aren't really comfortable topic conversations for most.] How to fix them, how they fit together and work. But when I open up a cell phone or an iPad, it's like reading Greek to me. I'll leave that to those who know how to work that kind of magic.

[He nods briefly, picking up his water bottle and taking a sip.] Yeah, I guess you're right. Doesn't seem to be so much of it so often back home though. You know you can stick around here as long as you want, Pavel. That's what this place is for... even if you have a job. Lots of rooms for others too.

Ai, I am no cleverer than you. [Except he is, but modesty--even feigned modesty--is a virtue.] Engines are good to know. They will take you farther than most other devices.

At home, at least, people typically disappear to another place in the same dimension.

[He looks surprised that Derek would make such an offer.] What is this place for, Mr. Morgan?

A safe place for kids and teens, young adults to hang out, live at, be at... just to exist. There are no youth centers where you come from?

[That's kind of worrisome to Derek. The youth center in his neighborhood where he had been raised had played a big part in saving his life as much as it had broken a part of him through the man who had run it. It had been a double edged sword to him and this was his way of making what had been half of a nightmare into something better. This was his way to get it right, for it to be all that it should have been to himself as a child.]

[Chekov usually has answers, but he can't come up with one to this.] Perhaps there are youth centers. I would not know about them; I have never been a youth.

Never been a youth? [Alright, now Derek's confused, obviously so.] What's that mean, Pavel?

[Thank language barriers.]

Ai, I did not say it right. I have been young, but I have not been a child. [He frowns. That's not quite it either.] Physically, I have been very young, but I have always been in academies.

Academies, like going to school. Think most kids start that around the age of five or so. It's good. Starting early. They say knowledge is power.

I got this friend back home named Reid, Spencer Reid. He was a boy genius. Has a handful of doctorates and bachelors degrees and he's only in his early twenties. Pretty impressive.

Yes, like specialized schools.

[He's excited to hear about other child prodigies. It's not like they're easy to find, even in the future.] This Reid, what is his primary area of study?

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