Chapter 1

Delphine lie's awkwardly against the bumper of the white BMW, cold and soaked in her own blood. She can feel her body pulsating, as it tries desperately to heal itself from the foreign body that has entered her abdomen. With every tap of her pulse she knows she is growing closer to the end. Shallow breaths are all she can manage through the pain.

She hears the hollowing echo of feet walking away from her. She had not been shocked to see who her assailant was. Her only regret was that she hadn't acted when she had first suspected there was something not right. As a car door opens and closes followed closely by the roar of an awakening engine, Delphine struggles to keep her eyes from completely closing.

The car speeds off and makes Delphine shudder with expectant fate of being finished off by the wheels of the speeding getaway vehicle. All alone Delphine's body is growing colder and she is resisting the urge to reach for her phone, which is in her coat pocket. Her mind scrambles as to who she would call. If she calls Cosima and die's Cosima will not only blame herself for her death but stop fighting for the cause. Phoning Sarah is just as bad as that is another sure fire way of alerting Cosima. Delphine reaches for her phone and struggling to see the names in her call list she presses for siri and calls out Scott's name. As the phone begins it's dial tone Delphine drops the phone to the ground losing more energy and blood.

'Hello? Delphine?'

'Scott, Help...'

'Delphine? Are you ok? Where are you?'

'Dyad...Car...Park...Hurry...No...Cosima!'

'But...'

'No!'

'I'll be there in five minutes.' The line goes dead.

Delphine put her scientific hat on to distract herself. She began thinking of what was happening to her body. Though she only got as far as thinking about the bullet and she brought up a mouthful of blood. She is slowly drifting away. Her eyes feel like lead weights are pressing down on them like after a night with Cosima. When all she wants to do is lie awake until the younger girl falls asleep in her arms.

Delphine begins to cry thinking about the love of her life. How she will never get to take Cosima out on a date, tell her how she truly feels. That she wants nothing more than for them both to run away and hide together with her sisters in some remote country and just live once this is all over. Delphine thinks of the last words she spoke to Cosima... 'Give your sisters all my love!'

'Cosima!' Delphine gasps as the pain grips her. 'Cosima!' Delphine's eyes close briefly and open. She see's the outline of two bodies rushing towards her. Her eyes close again. Delphine opens them and is presented with the tear filled eyes of the only person she didn't want to see.

'What happened...Delphine...baby hang on!' Cosima is pulling frantically at her jacket to cover Delphine. A car is screeching up the ramps to get to their floor. 'Hold on baby, Mrs s and Sarah are coming...stay with me.'

Scott is tending to her wound as Cosima grips onto Delphine's hand and rubbing her hand over her silky smooth hair.

'She's lost a lot of blood.' Scott says worriedly.

'Save her!' Cosima barks through tears.

Delphine is crying now shaking her head and muttering. Cosima lowers her head to listen to what she is saying.

'Not like this, please God don't let her see me die...' Cosima turns her head and gazes into the deep pools of Delphine's eyes. She's floating in and out of consciousness.

The car grinds to a halt and Sarah and Mrs S jump out.

'What the Fuck! Is she?' Sarah asks without thinking.

'No...she's not dead...we need to get her to a hospital.' Mrs S and Sarah jump into action and prep Delphine for moving.

'Grab her bag!' Mrs S shouts. 'Scott take her car and burn it...they will be looking for her car when they can't find her body...'

Mrs S after getting Delphine into the car begins to run Cosima's jacket covered in her blood across the ground to where the car sits.

'What the hell are you doing? She needs the hospital now!' Sarah yells.

'We need to make it look like she did it herself.'

'They will tell by the cameras.' Mrs S runs back to the still running car and drives off. Watching Scott pull Delphine's car out of the spot.

'Do you really think the camera's will be turned on in that car park after a planned assassination? That would allow Dyad to be collecting evidence against themselves.' Sarah shut her mouth and turned to the back seat to see Cosima hunched over the limp body of her lover.

'Please Delphine stay with me...I love you...I'm sorry...Don't you dare leave me...I came back for you!' Cosima is kissing the top of Delphine's head hoping that her kisses can will Delphine to hold on till they get to the hospital.

Mrs S slams on the breaks at the entrance to A&E.

'Sarah get them out and seen too.'

'What are you going to do?'

'We have been followed. Go now.'

Sarah struggles with Cosima to lift Delphine out of the car. Luckily there was a vacant wheelchair sitting near by the entrance. Cosima and Sarah run into A&E leaving Mrs S who had parked the car and crawled out into the bushes. She needed to see what this per suer looked like before she could act.

Scott had successfully ditched the car and set it alight. As he made his way to the nearest bus stop he thought about how he never signed up to be apart of all of this madness. Though it was the only meaningful thing in his life at the moment and throughout his career. He began comparing himself to the greats who suffered for their professions. As he boards the bus he knows he is too deeply involved now. The woman who's attempted murder went completely wrong tonight called his personal cell phone. If anyone was to dig into any history they could easily peg him as a disgruntled employee and that it was motive to kill her.

At the hospital Sarah pace's the OR as she await's news on Delphine. The doctors declined Cosima's request to be present during the operation which has left Cosima speechless. The always bright and chirpy clone, who is the brains and logical thinker out of them all is muted. Sarah is freaked out by this as she runs her finger over the trigger of the pistol in her jacket pocket. Cosima examines her jacket and thinks of how less than two hours before Delphine was kissing and holding her whilst she wore it. And for it then to become her deathbed blanket.

'What if she dies Sarah?'

'What does that mean? She is not going to die!' Sarah knew what Cosima meant. She was pretty much telling her that she was giving up the fight to survive if Delphine dies. 'Don't you dare throw away what we are doing if anything happens to her. She has given her life so that you can live. Can't you see that! She called to see you before it, her final act of love. And what you are going to throw that back into her grave and dive in after her? This is much bigger than you or I. Think about Ciara! Think about all the other clones out there that are suffering.'

'I'm suffering...I feel like I can't breathe. I never knew just how much I loved her. I know I feel something for Shay but not on this level. If she dies what have I to live for?'

'Avenging her death if it happens. Do you want others who have been helping us to go the same way? That's what will happen if you do not calm down and think like brainy Cosima and not love struck Cosima. We have all made sacrifices for the cause. Delphine made hers twice over!'

'What does that mean?' Cosima asks wiping at her face with her sleeve.

'It means, och damn it. She told me to swear I would not tell you!'

'Tell me what?'

'Tell you that she was scared that you were going to leave her. She was scared how deeply in love she was with you that if anything was to happen to you that she could not carry on helping the rest of us. That's why she chose to distance herself from you for a while. She wanted to find the cure and then finally in some big romantic gesture you both would live happily ever after. Her sacrifice was her love for you. And now possibly her life.'

Cosima stares at Sarah who's hard outer exterior weakens to a worried frown.

'I hate to admit it. But I kinda like the bitch now. I can see she does love you.'

'She loves us.'

'No, she loves you.'

The doctor comes out of the theatre and both Sarah and Cosima are on their feet.