April 30, 2013

Mr. Fergal sir,

Attached to this note is a document that we have recovered while looking into the Fairlie 216 case, as you requested. This document was expertly hidden behind a ceiling light in Interrogation Room 3—the same room you booked to question Fairlie 216 four years ago.

Er, sir, I hope you don't mind me saying that you should remember to take long, calming breaths. The contents of the following documents may, ah, cause deep stress…

- W

I have a confession to make:

My real name isn't Jess Lockhart. Jess Lockhart never existed. Until now.

I was a prisoner. Trapped inside a Compound that used me as a lab rat. Tested, injected, and experimented on. I longed to be free, to fly as wildly as the birds that soared carelessly outside my prison cell. All those years of hoping, dreaming…planning—they paid off. Now I am one of the few who has ever escaped the Compound and the Program. And I won't be the last. Whoever that girl was, the mad little girl they locked inside, is irrelevant. Because she is gone. I made sure she left no other traces. I made sure she never existed at all. Try to find her.

You won't.

I was Fairlie 216.

Now, I am Jess Lockhart. She has no past, but she has a future. She'll fix whatever mistakes the Program has ever made. She'll right every wrong you did to people like her. She'll bring down both the Compound and Program to rubble. And she won't do it alone. But for now, she'll wait. She'll watch. Try to catch her.

You can't.

I can see the future—I can see every step, every move you'll make, before you will. I escaped. I beat you once. And you can bet I'll beat you again. Think you stand a chance?

Tough luck, bud.

I leave you with the only data you'll ever have of Fairlie 216, as a reminder. So you remember that four years ago today, I escaped the Compound and marked the beginning of the end of the Program. Oh and Mr. Fergal—I know you're reading this—congratulations on your new position. MF, Head of the Program? Wow. And sorry about your arm. It wasn't my fault, you were kind of in my way.

I'll be seeing you soon, Mr. Fergal.

Never yours,

[Sender's name has been censored]

A/N: I kind of don't know what I'm doing. But I've just been inspired by Vesper by Jeff Sampson and Mara Dyer...so this came out. This is also how I deal with not being able to read Dark Passage yet even if it's been forever since it came out. Review is heavily appreciated! I want to know what you guys think about this.