Chapter two

Beep, Beep, Beep. I slowly came back to my senses; all I could hear was that stupid beeping noice which was the sound of a heart monitor. I opened my eyes but I quickly shut them again from the bright light. I opened my eyes a little again just to test out the light with my eyes; after they got use to the bright light I was able to open them all the way. I could see that I was in the sanctuary's infirmary the big guy must have taken me here when I fainted. I looked down at my arm to see that it had been cleaned and has a white bandage around it. I moved so I was sitting up with my back against the wall. I heard some movement coming from where I knew the door to the room was. 'Samantha what the hell happened to you? You just show up at the sanctuary's door covered in mud and blood then faint. You were not due back from Paris until tomorrow; Henry was going to pick you up from the airport. Why are you back early? Why didn't you tell me? I could have sent someone to come and get you.'

'Mum, it's good to see you to. I've missed you, I am back early because I managed to catch the abnormal ahead of schedule and here I am back home. I didn't tell you because I wanted to surprise you. But as soon as I got out of the airport I was shot in arm and I had to make a run for it. I had 4 men chase me most of the way home until I managed to lose them.' Mum made her way towards my bed side and sat down at the edge of my bed. I had been away at Paris for the last 2 months tracking down a rare abnormal.

'They shot you as soon as you got out of the airport? That means they must have known you were coming back early and what time your plane landed. I'll have Henry have a look at the citys CCTV and try and find some faces. You had me so worried when the Big Guy bought you in here, don't do that to me again.' She pulled me down for a hug and gave me a kiss on my forehead. I loved getting hugs of my mum, when I was younger every time I had a nightmare I would run to her room and get in the bed with her. She would always tell me she would protect me and her hugs made me feel like nothing could ever hurt me as long as she was here.

'so anything good happened while I was away?' I had been talking to mum everyday but she never told me about the stuff that had happened. Ashley and Henry would also ring and email me just to see how I was. Everything I asked them about their day they would change the subject or just say not much. I don't understand why they wouldn't tell me anything. Before mum could answer Henry came in the room.

'Magnus you may want to come see this. Hi Sam it's good to have you back. It's been boring without you here.' Mum got up off my bed, I pushed the blanket that was over me off and moved my legs to the side of the bed. I hopped off and started to look for some of my clothes to wear so I didn't have to walk around in this stupid hospital gown someone had changed me into.

'Samantha what do you think you are doing, get back in that bed and you will stay there until I get back.'

'sorry mum, there is no way I am missing this just because of a stupid bullet wound that doesn't even hurt. I want to know what has been going on here and none of you would tell me anything.' I was starting to get angry now, they never kept anything from me and I had just gone two months without them telling me shit. I am going to find out what is going on.

'Magnus maybe we should tell her, she might be able to help.' Henry stood up for me which made me happy, he was like a brother to me. When I was younger he would always help me out with homework and he even taught me some computer work which was really fun. Mum wasn't too please when he started to teach me how to hack into other computer files and stuff. Mum seemed to have given in because she walked over to a chair which had a pile of my clothes on.

'You will need to get changed then.' She gave me the pile and pushed Henry out the door so I could have some privacy while I got changed. Getting the stupid gown off hurt more than I thought it would. I don't think I pulled any of the stiches and there was no way I was telling mum about that. She would make me go straight back into that bed and stay there until my arm was fully healed. Mum must have picked out my clothes because it was my favourite outfit. I pulled on the gray skinny jeans which were easy, now for the top. It was a plain black strappy top which was good because it wouldn't rup on the bandage. I got my socks on then bent down to put on my black worn converse. They were easy to run in and I never knew when I would have to run from something so I always wore them. I walked out the door to see Henry and Mum still standing there waiting for me. We got into the elevator and mum pushed the floor to mums office. When we made it I saw a man I had never standing next to Ashley, before I had a chance to ask who he was Ashley ran up to me and pulled me into a hug. 'I should have been the one to go to Paris, I should have been the one who got shot. This was your first big mission and you get attacked when you come back.'

'Ash I wanted to go. That was my first big catch on my own and I did it well. It's not your fault some men chased me. Now who is this?' I moved my attention onto the strange man who had made his way over to me.

'Hi you must be Samantha, I have heard so much about you. I'm Will.' He held his left hand out for me to shake.

'Please call me Sam. So I finally get to meet you Will. Henry has told me a lot about you. You started the day after I left.' I shook his hand a smiled at him. Will was the only thing that Henry talked about from the sanctuary. Mum made her way over to the computers and sat down. Everyone followed. Will was standing next to her with me, Henry and Ashley standing behind them looking over their shoulders.

'we thought these reports of sudden unexplained violet behaviour among abnormals were incidents. But Henry's data analysis tells us other whys.' There was something going on with the abnormals turning violent. There had been 63 attacks in the week, all of them were against humans and 20 of them are dead. Something was going on and it's not looking good. They continued to talk about what it could be and if it was man made.

There was a knock on the door making everyone turn to see who it was. Standing there was a tall bald man who I had never seen before. Everyone else seemed to have known who he is and they didn't seem to like him very much.

'What are you doing here John?' mum asked him. she got out of her seat and walked up to him and started to lead him out of the room. I turned to Ashley and asked who this man was but she just told me that mum will answer the questions I have once she had finished talking to him. Will and Henry both made their way out of the door and down the corridor following mum and the bald man. Ashley took my hand and we followed them all down to the place where we kept some of the abnormals. Ashley walked up to mum and the man.

'What is he doing here?' she didn't seem to pleased to see him

'Please I am your farther.' That shocked the hell out of me, Mum said that both mine and Ashley's farther was dead. Why would she lie to Ashley like that?

'Then start acting like one. That does not mean kidnapping me and trying to kill me.' I had enough of this; I made my way back to the elevator and pushed the button to m floor. I made my way to my bedroom and laid down on the bed falling asleep in the matter of minutes.