Authors note whatsit: Here we go guys, the first chapter of Losing Toby...Are you excited? I know I am! Haha, not really. Okay same rules, there are no rules! Keep commenting and that is an order (not, only comment if you guys want to)... but please do comment and stuff. If I muck up a character tell me please..as I have not yet read Deadlock I'm kinda disregarding almost everything that happens in it...also I can't really write Franz and Nigel so their in Hawaii or something. So yeah, here we go...GEROMINO!

Otto woke up to Wing shaking his shoulder.

"Are you okay Otto?" Wings worried face stared at him, "You were shouting in your dream."

Slowly the dream began to come back to Otto, and he realised that it wasn't a dream. It had actually happened. Otto stared at his friend trying to process what he just saw but only one thing was clear and looking at his friend he jumped out of bed and started to throw some clothes on, all the while yelling at H. I. V. E. mind let them out and wake Nero.

"Otto," Wing said looking a little worried, "Are you okay?"

Otto stared at him and said as he sprinted out the cell in the direction of Nero's office "Get the girls, somethings has happened to Toby and Julia is on her way here now."

Then the alarms started. They ran into the two girls about halfway to the office, no, I mean they ran into them...

"What's going on?" Laura asked, she looked panicked.

Otto gestured for Wing to explain as he was trying to catch his breath.

"Otto had a dream and he thinks that Julia is coming to H.I.V.E." Wing explained as they continued towards Nero's office. The girls stared at Otto as though he had grown a second head.

"You had a dream, thought Julia was coming here and set off the alarms waking us up?" Shelby said, sounding very annoyed.

"Well, no the alarm was H.I.V.E..mind, I asked him to keep everyone in their rooms..." Otto replied, by this time they had reached Nero's office where Raven was waiting, glaring at them.

"I thought you had something to do withy this." She said, "Explain."

"It would be easier if Nero was here as well." Otto mumbled. Raven stalked through the door and into the office gesturing them to follow her. Nero was sitting at his desk, looking very annoyed.

"Mr Malpense, would you like to explain what just happened?" he asked.

"It was a dream but it wasn't really a dream, I mean it was happening or it's happened." Otto explained getting confused.

"Maybe you should tell us this dream then?" Nero asked. Otto nodded and began.

20 minutes ago:Singapore Base(Toby's place)

Julia Mercer knew something was wrong before she landed, she knew something was wrong more than a country away. She couldn't explain it, well she could but it had to many big words for her liking. The second her foot made contact with the ground outside of the base, Toby's house she corrected herself mentally, she became terrified. Not something that happened often to her. She couldn't feel the link between her and Toby, it was there but it was blocked.

She walked into the small house carefully, it was a mess. Chairs were overturned, vases were broke. the t.v. was gone. It was a very carefully staged robbery, she should know she had done hundreds of them in her life. With increasing terror she walked over to where the trap door was. It had been wrenched open. She was trembling as she climbed down the ladder to the floor beneath. The floor covered in blood. She also knew, the same way she knew that something was wrong, that almost none of it was Toby's.

"That's how you do it." she muttered leaning over a mans body, "Why couldn't you have done this when I was showing you how to do it?"

With rapidly climbing dread she made her way throughout the rooms. She knew Toby wasn't dead but she had to check. Sunlight glinted off something under a table, leaning down she picked it up. It was a knife, not just any knife. Her first knife. She slowly sunk to the ground and began to cry.

Suddenly she felt someone else, looking up she saw a ghost image of Otto Malpense. She stood up supporting herself against the wall and glared at him.

"Tell Raven that I am coming to H.I.V.E, Toby," her voice caught, "Toby's disappeared and get out of my head!" This last part she screamed, then for just a few seconds she let him feel what she was feeling. The despair of losing your link, it would be too much for anyone to handle. But Julia Mercer wasn't just anyone and Toby wasn't dead. She looked up at the sky, it was nearly dawn.

"I will find you," she said, "and they will pay."

Then Otto woke up to Wing shaking his shoulder.