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Edited: 24.01.2014.
Season One - Episode One: Institute Liverpool.
Climbing out of her black Audi A5 Coupe, Rachel Colbrook smiled as she spotted her fiancé waiting for her; in the fifteen years since her mother's disappearance and the now twenty-one year old brunette had grown into a beautiful young woman.
After the disappearance of her mother, Rachel's father had moved the family all the way to Glasgow where they lived for the next twelve years until the brunette left for university and was recruited for a secret government agency.
"Good morning beautiful," Matthew Jones said as he gave Rachel a quick kiss making her smile at him as she pulled away; they had been together for four years now and she had never been this happy.
The brunette was wearing a black lace trim cami and black straight leg jeans paired with black heel ankle boots; she knew that it made her blend in a little more when it came to her job if she wore as much black as much as possible.
"Morning," Rachel chimed as she shouldered her black punch-out satchel as she allowed him to lead her to the door on the Empire Theatre that lead to the base of their secret operations.
The brunette remember the first time she had walked through that door and into the mystery that was Institute, she had been the first of the new team to arrive since Tristan had only just been promoted to his position and he had wanted only the best of the best working for him.
Rachel and Matthew walked the short distance down the secret passage that led to the extensive and high tech base; however just as they were about to enter a voice called out to the couple.
"Rach," Ryan Stevens cried making her smile and turn to look at her best friend, Matthew groaned as the blonde man came into view and hugged the brunette closely while he pulled at tongue at him.
"Come on you three! Liverpool's not going to be able to protect itself from the evils of the world if we can't get into the office," a woman called as she approached the gathered group, it seemed the norm in the morning for them to all gather like this when there wasn't any emergencies of a night for them to deal with.
The three members of Institute looked around at Sara Simmons who stood grinning behind them; she laughed as Ryan bounced over and hugged her knowing that there was no better job in the world than this.
"Well we can't have that now can we," Ryan said before linking arms with his two friends and entering the Institute base, where they could see Evan Young waiting for them; he rolled his eyes at the rest of the team arrived, he knew that they were all going to be like this after the boring week that they'd had.
"Morning Evan," they called as they entered making Evan nod at them but he didn't speak; Tristan was stood next to him and watched the other members of his team disappear off into their offices before he called Matthew over to him.
"Is everything okay, Tristan?" he asked as his boss tried to brighten his smile but he couldn't do it since he knew what was coming; Matthew didn't know what it was he could tell that it was something serious.
Rachel sighed as she sat at her desk, a smile on her face as she looked at the pictures that decorated her office's grey walls; she then looked down at the gold diamond engagement ring as she remembered how Matthew had proposed to her during a mission where they'd been hiding from creatures in a morgue.
The brunette was so caught up in her thoughts that she jumped as the alarm bell sounded causing a deafening sound to radiate throughout the base; she grinned as she quickly pushed herself out of her chair and hurried out of her office.
Rachel headed for the central room of the base, her brown eyes seeking out the technician who was typing furiously at his computer as he tried to get an answer as to why the alarm was going off.
"What's happening Evan?" Rachel asked taking on an air of authority making Tristan smile and Matthew take a deep breath, he knew that he was going to have to be the one to tell her and he wasn't going to like it when he told her what their boss had told him; they were meant to be getting married the next year coming.
"We have a strange energy signature coming from the Mersey River," Evan said while Sara started to pass out their weapons making the others grin in excitement, it had been too long since their last mission and they were all dying for some action.
"Okay standard routine we check out what's causing it and bring it in," Ryan said while they made their way down towards the black standard SUV, he glanced back at Matthew who was holding the car keys knowing that this was going to be interesting; there was a reason that he wasn't allowed to usual drive.
Rachel slipped in her ear-piece as she climbed into the passenger side of the SUV while Matthew sat in the driver's seat before they speed out of the Institute garage and off on their search to find out what was going on.
"Should I take the left on to Netherfield or right onto the main road?" Matthew asked while Rachel rolled her eyes before noticing Matthew was turning onto Netherfield, she glared at him wondering why he was taking them the long way; she cursed her fiancé when it came to his driving.
Arriving at the Albert Docks, the team quickly divided up into pairs and headed off in search of what had set the detector off; they knew that whatever it was had to be big since there was no way that they could miss it.
"So when are you going to start planning your wedding?" Ryan asked as he looked at Rachel as they walked through the docks, it was common knowledge that the couple were meant to be getting married next year but apart from that there was no other detail. The blonde couldn't help but worry his friend planned to elope without having a big day, he knew what Matthews was like and the casual shrug of the brunette's shoulders told him everything that he needed to know.
"I honestly have no idea," Rachel replied she looked back the way they had come, she couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched and it was starting to unsettle her; she didn't like it when she didn't know what was going on.
"We're being watched," the brunette stated making Ryan snort but he didn't stop walking down the dock, he knew that she often had feelings like this and that was made her a good agent; but she wasn't right all the time and he doubted that this was one of them.
"Sure, we are" Ryan called back to her as he continued while Rachel stayed where she was, her eyes picked up on something that was moving in the distance before she felt something smack her over the back of her head making the world go dark around her.
"Ryan don't move or let Rachel out of your sight, Sara's been taken and I'm on my way toward you both," Matthew said over the earpiece making the blonde stop and look back at him, he swallowed as he realised that the brunette was no longer behind him and had disappeared without a trace.
Ryan swallowed hard knowing that this was going to cause trouble, he heard Matthew's curse as the blonde carefully explained that Rachel had also done a disappearing act.
Ryan ran a hand through his hair before he felt a gun being pressed against his head and someone ripping his earpiece from his ear; Ryan didn't get the chance to react the person with the gun smashed it against the blonde's skull causing everything to go black.
Ryan groaned as he woke up on the cold floor which he had been laying on, his arms were tied together using a cable tie and he knew that his weapon had been removed from his possession.
"Ryan?" he heard a voice ask making him jump as he opened his blue eyes and he turned to look at Sara who was sat behind him; her face was covered in bruises while her eyes were filled with tears, she was terrified and she had good reason to be.
"Sorry," Sara said softly her hands bound by rope in front of her, she didn't want to alert the people that had abducted them to what was going on; she knew that they would only turn their attention to Ryan and torture him as well. Ryan nodded weakly as he pushed himself into a seating position, he looked around wondering where they were and he knew that they needed to get out of there and quickly.
"I don't know where we are, one minute I'm following Matthew the next I'm here," Sara said as she looked down at her hands, she had never felt so useless and she didn't even want to talk about what their abductors had done to her; she swallowed as she looked at Ryan wanting nothing more than to go home.
"What happened to Rachel?" Sara asked having not seen the brunette and she knew that if Ryan had been caught then there was a chance that they had gotten their leader as well. The silence that her question was greeted with was all the answer that the brunette needed, she swallowed wondering what was going on; she knew that there was no way that they could get out of here without help.
The sound of the door unlocking made the pair look at it worried, they knew that whoever these people were they clearly weren't friendly; the sound of someone's pain filled screams reached their ears as two cloaked figures entered the room.
"These two will do," one of the cloaked people said making Ryan looked up at them angrily as he wondered why they had been brought here; he knew that they had been in bad situations before especially with all of the invasions that had occurred in the last few years.
"Who the hell are you? Why are we here?" Ryan asked while the two captors talked between themselves as if arguing about something important; the first moved forwarded and pulled back its hand back before it punched Ryan, who fell back from the force of the punch.
"Ryan," Sara cried out as she reached out to her friend causing the other cloaked figure to grab her by her hair; it chuckled as the brunette whimpered as if remembering the torture that she had felt before at its hands.
"We're going to be having a lot of fun with you two and when the boss is done with the other girlie then she'll join you," one of them sneered making Ryan and Sara share a look of horror as they realised that Rachel was the one that they had heard being tortured.
Sara opened her eyes unsure what the time was, she knew that a lot of time had passed since she had been taken and she knew that it could have been days; the brunette wasn't even sure anymore if they would be rescued.
Sara's brown eyes focused on a badly beaten Ryan, who now lay a couple of feet away from her unconscious; his form was broken and it was clear that he wouldn't be able to take another beating.
"Ryan?" she asked hoarsely moving towards the unmoving body of her friend; they hadn't seen Matthew or Rachel and the people who held the hostage had yet to do anything but beat them, since they seemed to be less than interested in them.
"Sara," Ryan croaked in response and slowly opening his swollen blue eyes as the brunette carefully moved his head onto her lap; he smiled up at her weakly as tears formed in her eyes.
"I didn't tell them anything Sara," Ryan said making Sara nod sadly as the door was thrown open and two cloaked beings stormed into the room dragging an unconscious Rachel with them.
Sara looked at her best friend then she glared at the men who were holding her, she couldn't believe that they were getting away from this; if it was the last thing that Sara did then she would get revenge for this.
The two cloaked beings dropped Rachel on the floor and chuckled as the fact that she didn't even move; it was clear that it would be a while before the brunette woke up. Sara jumped to her feet and punched one of her captors causing his mask to fall to the ground, she glared at him furious as she wondered why this was all happening; they were clearly looking for something.
"You won't get away with this," Sara spat as she moved away from the two men, she glared at him knowing that they would pay for all of this; she frowned as she watched as the other cloaked being reached for his own mark and removed it.
"That's not possible," Ryan whispered as he stared at the two beings, he knew that there was no way that this could be happening; they were both the same person and it was clear that this wasn't a twins thing.
Rachel groaned as she slowly opened her eyes and groaned making Sara and Ryan look at their friend and smile relieved that she was finally waking up; the brunette looked at them confused as she swallowed thickly.
"What happened?" she asked making her friends look at each other, Ryan looked back at Rachel as he moved to help her sit up slightly; it was clear that she was in a lot of pain and he didn't know why they had tortured her for so long. Before anyone could reply, the door swung open revealing their identical captors, who smiled upon seeing Rachel awake; they moved inside knowing that it was time to finish what they had started.
"Mistress has no use for you three anymore," one of them said making the three Institute agents freeze knowing what would happen now; they stared at the sharp knife that was being carried as the Institute SUV crashed through the back wall making their captors jump back in shock.
Matthew dived out of the driver's seat and pointed his gun at the two men, he knew that he had to act quickly before the men could do anymore damage; he was followed by a blonde that had been sent to help him climbed out of the car.
The two clones looked at him, taking a step towards Ryan and Sara; Matthew growled and pulled the trigger shooting the clone and causing him to hit the floor making his companion snarl before he pulled out his gun and aimed for Matthew to avenge his fallen friend.
"No!" Rachel screamed leaping up and pushing Matthew out of the way of the bullet which hit her; Matthew dived to Rachel's side holding her bleeding body to him muttering comforting words to her while the blonde dealt with the last clone and Ryan and Sara cried out for their friend.
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