Begin flashback- November 5 1996 – 7:00 AM

Elisa couldn't help but yawn as she pushed her apartment door closed behind her and locked it. "Another busy night" she grumbled as she emptied her pockets onto the counter and stored her her sidearm in it's case.

Feeling something brush her leg Elisa looked down to see her cat, Cagney, looking up at her expectantly. Smiling she dug out a can of food and dumped it in the cats bowl. "There you go Cagney" Elisa muttered idly scratching the cat behind the ears before she went and sat down to watch some TV before going to bed.

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Elisa was jarred awake a couple hors later when Cagney jumped on her. Feeling about on the floor for the remote Elisa switched off the TV. "Must have dozed off" she muttered, "didn't even take off my jacket". Shooing the cat off of her Elisa started toward the bedroom.

What she didn't notice was the shape crouched on the ledge outside looking down into the apartment. "She's headed out of the main area" whispered the figure, "proceed on my mark". The figure heard three separate acknowledgement beeps over the com set. "Proceed, number three" whispered the figure once Elisa had passed through the door.

The figure watched as the apartment door wiggled and then creped open. Another person slipped in and closed the door behind him before retrieving Elisa's sidearm and slipping it into a pack he had slung around his shoulders.

"Phase one complete, move in for the capture" whispered the figure on the ledge. He waited a beat for the acknowledgement beeps before prying the window open and dropping in.

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Elisa paused when she heard a soft thud from the other room. Frowning she turned around and crept back to the door. Peering out she saw two men moving toward her and she quickly backed away only to run into something. Reacting instinctively she reched over her shoulder and heaved. The one who had been sneaking up behind her let out a surprised yelp as Elisa heaved her up and over sending the other woman crashing to the ground.

Any thought of stealth abandoned Elisa spun around to make a dash for the window. Instead she ran into a fourth intruder, this one, however, had a tranquilizer gun aimed at her. The gun made a hissing sound as the dart flew and embedded itself in Elisa's shoulder.

Yanking the dart out Elisa could already feel the sedative taking effect. She lunged at the man who had shot her hoping to knock him aside and escape but instead she was forced to her knees by two pairs of hands. The man who had come through the living room window paced around in front of Elisa and drew a needle, no doubt filled with more sedative. "You have a lot of nerve tyring to kidnap me in broad daylight" slurred Elisa.

"Not really" drawled the man with the needle as he jammed it in Elisa's neck and pushed the plunger, "Everyone but you is at work, and besides during the day your 'friends' can't help you". Elisa vaguely registered the man ordering the others to cover their tracks before she drifted into unconsciousness.

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November 5 1996 – 1:30 PM

Elisa woke up to find herself strapped down to some sort of table. "What…" she groaned before remembering what had happened. Now fully awake she struggled against her restraints.

"Ah Miss Maza" drawled a familiar voice in a thick British accent, "so good of you to rejoin the waking world, however brief the experience will be".

Craning her neck Elisa spotted a man in a lad coat wheeling a cart covered in various an assortments of vials, needles, and other medical equipment. "Sevarius" she snarled, "why am I not surprised?"

"So rude" drawled Sevarius as he came to a halt next to Elisa and picked up one of the vials and a needle, "and after I've been ever so hospitable".

"Well your hospitality stinks" snarled Elisa.

"Why Miss Maza you wound me" said Sevarius in a fake hurt voice as he injected her with the contents of the vial.

Elisa gritted her teeth in pain, whatever Sevarius had just injected her with felt like it was burning her from the inside out. "Let me up and I'll 'wound you' with more then just words".

"I don't think so my dear" said Sevarius nonchalantly as he signaled a pair of guards waiting outside the room. The guards marched forward and undid the restraints. When they did Elisa tried to jump to her feet but instead the guards grabbed her under each arm and dragged her over to a small platform at the end of the room.

"Someone will come for me Sevarius" she snarled before the guards fastened something over her nose and mouth and tossed her onto the platform. Elisa was up as soon as she landed but before she could move another inch a Plexiglas tube slid out of the floor around her effectively trapping her.

"I think not my dear" Sevarius drawled as he pulled a switch on a nearby console causing the chamber to begin to fill with a sickly green fluid, "you see this lab is a recent development of mine. By the time anyone discovers it I will be finished with you. You've been a thorn in my side for far to long, it's about time you were of some use".

End Flashback

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Well quite a bit shorter then chapter one, but then I said it would be. And it looks like I decided to have the cat show up early. Anyway enjoy.

Side note. This would have been up yesterday but I've been having upload issues and I just now found a way to overcome them.