#Q going to go back to the Continuum crying and prononcing humanity as guilty

[yourbuerokrat2]

Ooooh, I have this high school AU where Q is still a Q but goes by Quinn and Jean-Luc is the captain of the football team! Do you think you could do a lunch room scene with them where things get a little flirty? 👀👀👀

Fun fact about Picard: He actually was quite a jock and sportsman in his youth and Academy years so for him to be the captain of the football team is not something entirely unthinkable in an AU and he was also a flirt in his youth.

Surprisingly enough even the Q used to be 'young' once. They don't and never had something like an aging process but when they first came to existence there was a certain immaturity and lack of knowledge and understanding that was typical for the yet inexperienced. Most Qs tended to gain the experience and understanding by observing, understanding that they as Q were different and more powerful than nearly everyone else in the universe. Preferring to eep to themselves for the most part.

Q however was different. He did not so much want to observe the species around them than to interact with them. The first.. interactions of a new Q and the species that have the misfortune to meet them did not go well and Q found out that he did not really like breaking his toys. He found out that he liked simply not understanding his toys even less. So, by what to the human would be the age of ten but vastly, vastly older in Q years, q tried to actually communicate with the other species but that did not work out as planned since they all reacted the same when they saw him in his actual form and being worshipped and feared did lose his touch after a while.

To keep their more chaotic and potentially dangerous youngest sibling from causing too much destruction and disorder because of his ever growing boredom and disssatisfaction, the eldest Qs devised a plan to give him a more.. permanent distraction.

Give him a task and make it seem important. First, there was the question as to what task would be fitting, something important but not important enough that failure would end up catastrophic. How about looking in the future and see what species provides somewhat of a danger to the order of the universe in the long run. A species that would actually fit Qs current need of play and distraction.

Humanity was the one species they came up with. There had of course been others, but many of the alternatives could prove to have a rather influence on Q and humans, in the end, seemed harmless enough of one.

So, the task was to get an understanding of a species that could pose a threat to the universe as a whole. This was not entirely true, but it would be true enough for Q.

Now that the place and the task was clear, for a species like the Q there was also the question of when 'when'. Human history was a rather violent one after all and they would need to put Q someplace and sometime where he would not be able to change the course of the species overtly much.

The 24th century seemed promising enough. Now what time and place exactly? Considering Qs current age and maturity a 'high school' wold be best but which one?

One Q brought up that since they were already planning the Trial for Humanity as Qs little pet project for the future they might as well choose the Defendant now. Someone that actually had a chance of winning and who would be able to hold Qs attention.

Going through various prominent figures of this time period they came to the conclusion that some of them would get along too well or too badly with Q and then they came across Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Incorruptible, always professional, stick-up-his-you-know Captain Picard who could proof to be just the stable rock Q would need.

Captain Picard however wasn't always like this as they found out. Oh well, the Continuum was sure that even in his less than ideal years he would be able to proof to be enough of an entertainment to Q as was currently necessary.

Telling Q that he was needed to go through high school for a couple of years as a human (yes Q a few of your powers will temporarily be taken away but not all) in France.

And.. so at the equivalent age of 15 Q entered high school with a fake, self-made 'family' (because the rest of the Continuum did not really want to be an active part of this). Q was.. utterly bored during lessons. Which was understandable considering even with his lack of maturity he still had to dumben down significantly to even talk to these organics. Quinn, as he decided to call himself, had therefore become a strange bland of trouble maker and star student. Always excelling at everything except for sports while also putting zero effort in his attitude and homework.

There was always something that would go mysteriously wrong around Q whenever the entity was getting too bored or simply felt that an authority figure was getting too comfortable with the idea that Q actually listens to them.

Needless to say, Q was also known not to be the most social of students. Not because he was introverted, far from it. It was his confidence, a confidence that has long since reached the border over to arrogance, that made him a bit unbareable to others except for those who hoped he could provide some help.

There was however one other person whose ego was able to rival even that of Quinn. 'Johnny', whose actually name was Jean-Luc Picard, was the captain of the football team. A star student in everything including sports, a bit hot-headed and a potential trouble maker but it all was within boundaries. Because 'Johnny' wanted to join the Academy and he knew that he needed a good recommondation and marks to reach that particular goa. If nothing to say about training. But all that did not seem to bother the young french man all that much, very sure that he would not only be able to join the Academy, against his fathers expressed wishes, but that eh would also exceed there too and even become a Captain of a starship.

Johnny was also by the time he reached his 18th birthday quite the flirt and although there was a preference for women he was also not all that adverse otherwise.

Years later, when Q would once again be used to be entirely a Q and no longer having a human body that had such horrible things like hormones, Q would blame his behavior entirely on his human body. When he met Picard later, only a few centuries later for Picard but years upon years and millenia later for Q, the entity would call it destiny.

Because Picard proved to be the distraction that the Continuum wanted him to be.

Football games were watched, some flirty cheerleaders routine went bad out of inexplainable reasons and Q somehow always found a way to make himself the center of attenion, including Picards, whenever he wanted to be. Which with the passage of time became more and more often.

It all came to a head in a lunch room, not that Q really ate or even pretended to eat. He was only recently even visiting this horrible room if only to get himself a place at a certain table. Q knew for a fact that today there would at least be two places free at Picards table due to a strong cold and a broken leg respectively.

Q was.. nervous as he went with his food that he did not for one second entertain of actually eating towards Picards table. There were other people there as well, but Q did not really.. care at all about of their names or existence.

Not even bothering to ask wether he even was allowed to sit down, Q simply took the spot opposite to Picards as his own.

The other members at the table looked towards their captain, who was strangely amused by Qs actions.

'I have been wondering when you would do this' was Johnnys greeting to Quinn.

This was and would be for a long time the only time that anyone managed to surprise a Q.

'Because I have been noticing how much you want me to notice you', Johnny said as he leaned forwards towards Q with a charming half-smile.

Jean-Luc Picard just single handedly threw plan A and B of an inexperienced but still self-proclaimed all-knowing being somewhow at the same age as him but also so much older than even earth itself proverbially out of a window,

There were a lot of things, many more suave and clever sounding alternatives, but what actually left Qs mouth was

'And have I succeeded`?' mimicking the human by also moving forwards pushing aside his lunch so there was not much between them aside from the table.

'Enough so that I have left a spot open for you at this table for weeks now even though you never show up here.'

'Why did you never approach me?'

The charming smile of Johnnys turned self-assured and almost arrogant in its confidence. For once, Q did not dislike someone that should be lesser than him expressing such feelings of almost superiority in front of him.

Did not dislike it at all.

'When people want me they come to me, Quinn. Not the other way around.'

'And what do you do when you want someone?'

'I leave them a spot at my table and hope for them to get the hint. And when do they do arrive, I ask them out. So, how about this friday at eight?'

Q, thanks to this strange human body, actually blushed.

'Where to?'

'It's a surprise but trust me. I never disappoint.'