Sorry it took so long! But lets just say some really big events got in the way and I could not do anything about them since they were kinda important. But anyway! I'm back haha, hope you like this chap. ~Themyscira

RxR

Chapter 2: That Girl Has Secrets

~London, England~ 5:42 am

The entire group of people within the warehouse building were currently screaming any type of profanity at the information one of the members had received.

"Rose are you kidding me?" the closest person to her so happened to be the one who opened the door for her yesterday, Bailey was furious at the notion of this information.

"Bailey, it's family I have to be there!" Rose only begged at the group of people who all seemed to have made up their minds.

"A family reunion? In New York City? Have you forgotten that your family so happens to be apart of an organization bent on killing all of us?" the room echoed her question.

Rose only sighed and rubbed her face, images of the van still plagued her mind and what had happened to Connor. Most of the other people in the room were older and knew loss, but Rose had met Connor before all of this, and now he was gone. All of them were experiencing the troubled nature of being hunted down and killed by this organization.

"No, not all of them, Bailey, it's just... Him and my..." sighing her friend only grabbed her shoulders and shook her violently.

"Your family will kill you!" some of the older adults how now started laughing at Bailey's persistence.

"Bailey, she is right, most of them will just cause media attention, but only the two we know of are apart of that destructive notion," an old man stood up and tapped his cane on the ground.

"I will allow her to go to New York, it's her family, but I go with a warning, we have no safe houses and people to protect you there, Rose, you are on your own," with this the girl stood up and stretched her back.

"Thank you," walking forward she gives the old man a big hug and Bailey was the next, each of the members gave the girl a hug before dispersing and talking amongst themselves.

"The plane is yours to take," the old man walked with her to a room that she had recently spent the night in.

"Thanks again, I don't know how they will react, they haven't seen me in what? Eight years? They all think you are dead and I just... I just don't know how Dad will react," the old man could only take in a deep breath and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Everything happens for a reason," he patted her shoulder and left, but turning around she called for him.

"Oh and grandpa!" he only raised and eye brow and stopped in his place.

"See you later," it was soft but he only laughed and he vanished around the corner, inside the bare walled room, Rose saw a bag had been given to her along with clothing and identification credentials. Along with the clothes she wore there were plenty in there for spending a month in New York, and a family reunion.

"I wonder what he'll do..." her mind flashed to an image of the bionic man that she had yelled at earlier that night and it only sent shivers down her spine.

"He will do nothing if I'm there," quickly zipping up the bag she hauled it out and ran to the nearest car in the warehouse. This would be the tricky part, most likely he was outside and waiting for her but it was also early enough in the morning to be completely obscured.

"Rose wait!" running after her was Bailey, huffing the blonde took a minute to catch her breath before presenting her with a set of dog tags.

"What are these?" Rose saw a tinge of discoloration in the metal and Bailey only rolled her eyes.

"These were Connor's, we found them last night after you went to sleep and we went back to the sight of the crash, there was no trace of any body parts found and I wanted to give this to you for hope, Rose, he's still out there!" this brightened but also darkened the redhead's mood and she hugged her blonde friend.

"I'll miss you Bailey," her friend laughed and opened the driver's side door of the Jeep she had chosen.

"It's not like you are going to die, I'll see you later," Rose smiled and got into the vehicle before closing the door. Her friends words irked her for some reason, that there was the slightest possibility of dying in America that sent fear into her system.

~Beverly Hills, California ~7:42pm

"Sammy, you are still totally creeping us out," the redhead mentioned was still staring at the picture in her hands. The girl in the photo was not looking at the camera but more importantly on the man with her, a tall male with blonde hair.

"Come on sam, who is it," Clover was near begging with the anxiety after hearing the furious screech from the redhead earlier. After Jerry had sent them back to the penthouse the girls had remained silent for most of the day. But only when Sam picked up the file again did she shudder and finally catch her two best friends attention.

"She... Well... She's technically my cousin," this frustrated the blonde.

"You're kidding me? Sammy she's literally your twin, come on like I'm so gonna buy that," this only made the redhead rub her forehead.

"Clover it's hard to explain... My mom was her mom's twin sister, so it's kinda possible for us to look alike," the room went dead silent.

"Wait, the aunt you said had died... She was your mom's twin?" Alex was now standing with Clover, both with a look of pure shock on their face.

"Why is this news to you? People have twins and they grow up and have kids themselves," she slapped the file down and got up from the chair only to be pushed back by Clover. The angry glare on the blonde's face startled Sam and soon Alex had joined in on the glaring session.

"Sam, you told us a couple years ago during the genetics unit in biology that your mother had no siblings, that it was just her and then you on her genealogy line, why did you lie to us?" the fact that Clover remembered the genetic unit of Biology from sophomore year of high school surprised Sam.

"Clover... I was told not to tell anybody, the way she died is... It's a reason why I don't want to go to this reunion," sighing she leaned back in the chair and rubbed her temples, looking back to the file it was hard to see the picture.

"When Jerry gave us this mission, I was shocked because I thought she was killed too, everyone, even my Uncle who you guys are probably going to meet in New York," Alex furrowed her eye brows trying to comprehend what she had just said.

"Sam, you are still making no sense, and you usually make sense," Clover could only nod in agreement and they waited for their redheaded friend to continue.

"I really can't tell you the story, all I know is that you have a mission, I'm opting out of this, she was my best friend when we were little, I'm not going to hunt her down for whatever falsified information is in this file, I trust Jerry, and you guys, but she's family," Sam then abruptly got up and walked towards the stairs.

"Sam, you can't just walk out of this mission," clover was trying to be reasonable, recently the attitude of her friend was getting stranger.

"Clover, I don't have a choice, I'm going to go start packing, you guys best do it to if you still want to go," she then walked up the stairs and out of sight.

"Clover, we should probably wait to do this mission," the brunette bit her lip and waited for Clover to walk back over to the seat she had occupied.

"Yeah, you are right, sometimes I don't know what gets into Sammy, it's like something gets under her skin and she just gets antsy," this made Alex snigger.

"Like when we kept nagging at her about James and then he went all evil on us?" Clover scowled.

"No, like how for a month after we put Scam away she was exactly like this," Alex remained silent.

"But that was years ago Clover, and didn't Jerry say he turned a new leaf? That he's like helping WOOHP out?" Clover only groaned.

"Yeah after he got some random visitor? I still don't buy it, but we have to trust Jerry on it," then her eyes shifted to the file and the picture of the girl and boy, she wanted off of the subject of Tim Scam's new "leaf".

"So, I'm guessing that this Rose person did something that's why Jerry wants her?" Alex took the file away from Clover and scanned it.

"All it says is that she's highly dangerous because of intelligence she has, what is she a spy? Could she have worked for WOOHP too?" Clover just continued to look at the photo.

"I don't think so, her clothes, they are really worn as if she's worn them a long time and they are really plain, but the way she does her hair, this girl has secrets, she knows how to show style but she's been wearing the same clothes for probably four years, and the guy, he has his arm around her almost protectively," Clover was pointing out things within the photograph to her friend.

"So? Clover I'm the sports person, I know some fashion just not all of it," she only received a groan from the blonde.

"Alex, put it together, she knows how to dress but can't, the boy is protecting her, and she is wanted by WOOHP because of intelligence, she's been on the run for a long time, something definitely happened that Sammy is not telling us," leaning back in the chair Alex looked back at the stairs.

"Well you saw her this morning when she went all 'Feel my wrath as I rain down my anger upon thee' on her Dad, maybe we can get something out of her once we are in New York, you know Sammy does love to go site seeing," Alex smiled and Clover caught on.

"You are right, maybe there we can get out of her the real story of this Rose girl," Clover put the picture back in the file and closed it.

"Great! Then lets get packing!" Alex jumped up and the two girls went back upstairs, both began to think about the story that they wish their friend would tell them.

Back in her room Sam had stopped packing and was staring at one of the pictures she had in a frame on her desk. In it stood her Mom, her and then two other people that were joking around. One was the identical match to her mother outside of the blue eyes that she possessed, and the small girl was her cousin.

"Rosie... What happened to you?" Sam kept thinking about the night her mother received a phone call and the thunder that was rocketing through the sky. The screams and then her mother's sad face and her Uncle showing up with the most devastating look on his face.

"Rosie, I thought you were dead," she set down the picture and pulled out an article that she had kept for the longest time. The title still sent chills down her spine and the face of a boy with cold eyes looked back at her.

'Son kills Mother and Sister after drastic confrontation' the title told it all, but Sam still couldn't bear to read on, she had never been able too. Not after she had learned what had happened that night from the boy himself. The one that Tim Scam helped during a random solo mission a very long five years ago.

"I think it's time I payed you another visit Tim," setting down the piece of paper Sam took out her cell phone and made a call.

"Yeah? Hey... I need to talk to you... Yes I know... But, it's about Logan. I need to know more... And I know you know more, Tim."

Those girls do have secrets.

RxR

~Themyscira