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Interval 2

They Deserve To Die

It was all a dream...Yet it seemed so real

He was running down a hall, he had with him pistols, and behind him, the Specters of his mothers fears. Unlike the Nightmares, they were more easy to kill, but came in the numbers.

He turned around, and began to gun them down. He was shooing what was left of his 36 bullets that his pistols held. As He threw the weapons away when they began to click empty, he switched to his standard F.E.A.R. sub machine-gun.

He began to shoot viciously, the monsters would not stop until they have finished that which they were tasked with, and that was to bring back there mistress's child. She wanted him home. After all this time, she still wanted to have him in 'The Family' the family built upon by an obsessive revenge lusting spirit that would not rest, and a brother who was obedient to his mothers command, and who carried a craving for long pig. Or human meat as to how the expression goes. As well as the mysterious child that he did not know. Behind them all, was the man who was the father. The cursed father, doomed to follow his wife's every commandment due to his fear of her.

Point Man will never allow himself to follow under them.

"My baby..."

He heard her whisper into his mind. Why is it that she follows him? Why must he be haunted? Why can't he be left out of this cursed bloodline?

"Come home..."

He would love to yell at her and shout no, but he can't. For he was afraid of her.

"Soon...soon you will come into my arms and be mine...you are and always will be my baby..."

Point Man's eyes shot up, he was sweating, and he was still in the dark. His heart hadn't beat that hard before in a long, long time. Damn those visions, damn those hallucinations...damn that hospital where he was born, and taken from his mother. Damn Armacham...damn Harlan...damn Fettle. Damn mother.

Why must he had been born? Was Armacham so intent on having their psychic commander, that they would force a young girl into giving birth to two monsters? For what reason was he left alive after all things went to shit at the Origins Facility where Paxton went on a killing spree at a young age? Armacham put Point Man away for more experimentation, and more suffering? Why not just let him die?

But all of that meant little, for what mattered now was what was happening in the present. Being here in the future and trying to find a way to survive.

Point Man knew not of where he was, but he was in a big space city or someplace, the ship parked at some high above platform, and he was put into custody by three unfriendly looking men. If he wasn't cuffed, and if he could he would break out and kill all these people here. Some woman with a camera was trying to get a bit of footage of him with a little flying robot, but some guards brushed her off. Point Man wondered if the United States still even existed, or if WW 3 struck, and wiped out the planet forcing everyone to become a bunch of Martians and moon people.

After a bit of walking, Point Man was now going down a narrow hallway, and was being taken to a cell. He was the only one in the cell the guards had locked him into. They didn't even un-cuff him, which proved how much he scared them. One of the reptilian looking creatures said something about him beating Shepard, and her crew. Some of the guards chuckled to that statement, and others were silent. Some even said that he looked like a drunk and bum. They even said other hurtful things, their words offended him. When he gets out, he will show them what kind of bum he is. He will show them just what kind of damage he can really do. And then they will all be sorry, they will all cower before him.

But this will all have to take time, he was quick and deadly yes. But even so these guys were armed with perhaps the latest of all weapons in the...galaxy. He could put it that way. Who knew what these...aliens could do. So in all good time, Point Man will wait for the proper moment to make his strike.


One hour later:

As Shepard exited the cab door as she walked back to the front entrance where C-Sec was monitoring incoming and outgoing occupants, she stopped to rethink what Anderson and the Council members had said.

They wanted Shepard to take her cargo aka the Ghost Soldier to Alliance military base on Earth. Apparently Admiral Hackett was to handle the Ghost Soldier once she brought the man to the admirals vessel. But what kept bubbling up in Shepard's mind was who was the Ghost Soldier? He was a mystery that she wanted to crack. So far the man stayed silent and never even made a mummer when she tried to talk to him.

Which is why she had brought Liara aboard her ship. The asari was already in debt for Shepard with helping her take on the Shadow Broker. The least the blue female could do was crack the surface of the man and see what made him tick. Samara would do it, but in truth Shepard actually wanted to have the other asari aboard.

Shepard was happy however, that Liara was aboard the Normandy, she had got picked up as they passed the Shadow Broker lair. Liara owed her and Shepard owed her just as much. The two were practically like sisters almost. Shepard the tough brave hero of the council and survivor of a Thresher Maul attack and Liara the nerdy not so shy no more woman that Shepard always wanted around due to their friendship. Friends to the end.

When Shepard mentioned the task at hand, Liara was willingly accepting. Shepard was happy about that part, and she wanted to see Liara work her magic. She wondered what it looked like, for one's mind to wander into another persons person's mind, what would they see on the other side?

Shepard was about to get her answers. She counted on Liara, and she was a good friend to open up to besides Kelly of course. Shepard wondered how tragic it must have been for Liara to have to actually fight her own mother, what did it even feel to kill ones one's own family, Shepard hopes to never find out.

But she knew that Liara would never forget the experience, and even after all what Benezia had. committed. She atoned for her sins. Shepard guessed that she wanted to go out as a some what somewhat good person with the intel she gave to them. Liara must have been heart shattered to have seen her own mother die from her own hands.

Spilling the blood of family was something that would could never be washed away. That is something that one always remembers. Kane and Able bullshit that Shepard never wants to nor ever will experience.


Captains Quarters:

Liara sat down in Shepard's quarters. She was happy to be somewhat back on the Normandy, she had to leave her duties as the Shadow Broker, and had to help Shepard with this one thing. Liara owed it to her, she did help her with her own little problem, and she was a good friend, Hell the two were almost like family. She was looking at the variety of fish, she wondered how they can get along all bundled inside that din? She guessed it was like the Normandy's crew. Except with the crew there were conflicts, and in the fish din there were only little bubbles coming from their mouths.

Shepard wanted her to connect to the mind of some man who was able to topple her over and the rest of the crew. Liara could hardly believe, until she saw the others, and the body of the one called Zaeed. His head was utterly demolished. Just who was this man? What knowledge did he hold in his mind? Liara was about to find out. Besides she was a woman of information, melding her mind with this man would provide a lot of information. Like the old saying goes, knowledge is power.

Melding with this man would give all the information Shepard wanted, and interrogating him was of no use. C-Sec already tried that. This man was stubborn like a storm, you can ask of it to leave, but all you would get is thunder and more rain.

Shepard walked into the room, and Liara turned to greet her. Strange, she got caught up with the fish that she was not paying attention. "It is a pleasure being here Shepard."

"You know, I always liked your company Liara. You're a friend, and you helped out during our hunt for Saren. And now, here we are on the hunt for answers." Shepard said. She smiled with a kindness. She wondered what Liara would see, she wanted to just take the asari now and hastily read the man's mind, she had to know who he was. How was he so fast and what hidden nature was underneath that cold stare? What was the man's agenda.

"I am sure you did not just come here to greet me Shepard, I you and I both know that you only brought me here so that I can use my asari abilities of melding on your newly acquired cargo. For one I know this because some of your crewmen told me that he does not wish to speak, and who else in the galaxy is like a second sister to you?" Liara said with a smiling gesture to her friend.

"I guess we can skip the boring details and get to the point as to why I brought you aboard then. This guy, he carriers the kind of stare that we humans would say...one of grimness." Shepard smiled shyly, she didn't want to admit how stupid that sounded, but that was the truth. The Ghost Soldier carried a kind of dark aura. Ghost Soldier being the only nickname that seemed fitting for the moment with the one who killer Zaeed.

"Shall we go then?" Liara asked getting straight to the point as if this was a business matter, and Shepard silently thanked God that the asari offered to move things along. "Let's not waste anymore time then we already have." And like that, Shepard lead Liara out of her quarters, and the two were soon on their way to see the Ghost Soldier.


Cargo bay:

Point Man was just sitting around, the ship had not taken off yet, but he knew that he would soon be on his way to another prison. This was ridicules; he would should have escaped now, and blasted away these...things. He knew not what to call the giant reptilian men, and the long-necked black-eyed creatures, or the blue women, or the lizard creatures with the weird bodies and fingers. He was very upset, and he wished he could break free from these bindings. He just wanted out of here so badly. He wants to get back home...but what was home? What place was home to him? All he knew was the battle field, and he knew nowhere else. Who was his family? His real family, not the psychotic one he had back then. Was it Jin and Betters as well as Jankowski and Holiday as well as The Third?

Speaking of The Third, he wondered if Jin raised em' well. Did she and his youngest sibling share a nice life? Point Man hated forcing Jin with the task of mothering his younger sibling, but he had no choice, he was the only soldier who could hold off Armacham while she and the other civilians ran away aboard their plane. Did they even make it to tell the government about the affair? He hopes so; Armacham deserves to pay what happened. Them and their greed, they deserved to... he stopped right there. He was sounding like his mother, or worse... his brother.

As Point Man just sat there in the dark, he looked up to see the crimson haired woman with another woman, or more like a giant sized smurf. Point Man didn't blink but he did raise and eyebrow. She was almost like the other smurf lady with the glowing Jedi like powers.

"I don't know who you are, I believe you don't know me, for some reason you refuse to talk, so that is why my friend here will be looking into your head and she will be able to tell me all that I need to know about you."

Point Man could not believe what the Crimson Head was saying; she was saying that the blue lady could look into people's heads? Maybe they can help him after this? Maybe not, either way Point Man agreed with this idea.

"Good. My name is Shepard, this here is Liara." As Shepard said this, Liara stepped forward to the man, and he stood. "Go ahead and work your womanly touch." Shepard teased and Liara ignored her.

As Liara locked eyes with Point Man, she slowly placed her hands to his face.

Point Man stared into the blue woman's compelling eyes, he was having second thoughts but something inside told him it would be alright. Would this woman freak out though, will she have a seizure off of seeing all the things he had been through? Or would everything be alright? It was hard to say for nothing was ever alright with him. It was always risks and chance. You toss the coin hoping for heads and only rarely does it ever land on the spot you want.

Liara began to meld her mind into his, she began to see what he had seen. Her eyes go black, and the man goes a little wide-eyed. He had never seen this before, and Liara could not blame him, there was much he probably didn't know about. But soon enough, she will know his secrets. How bad can it be for him to not even say anything or to cause him to act violently towards Shepard and kill one of her own team members.

Point Man felt like he was cold all over, images began to flash before him, small and random fragments, but then...from the beginning, to the very point of now.

As Point Man stared of into her black marble eyes, he felt his heart race with a kind of fear of the unknown. His line of thought was then broken as the blue woman before him then said something that seemed odd to him.

"Embrace Eternity."

And like that, Point Man felt like he was thrown out of his own body and hovering into a empty void of thoughts and visions.


First there was nothing but blackness, and then out of the dark a child was crying and howling at the top of its lungs.

Through the eyes of this man, of this 'Ghost Soldier' she could see him being picked up from the womb and come face to face with a man with glasses and dark hair.

"Where are you taking him?" Came a echoing female voice. Liara could not see her, but she could see through the eyes of the infant.

"You will be a god among man." He says as he then looks to a few others.

"Take her back to the fault." He orders as he then take the child away from his mother. Liara just watched as the memory changed and a foggy haze washes over taking the asari elsewhere.

There were two boys in a room. The two small preteen children were playing with small toy guns, the one with the bucket over his head fell to the ground to pretend to be dead as did the other boy who seemed to be the oldest. As the scene progressed, the image faded out and it now showed the two children sitting down idle by as a man walks into the room with what appeared to be a clipboard in his hands. The boy with a bandage over his head was clearly the boy who was previously wearing a bucket over his head. The other one child seemed to just sit down and keep his head low.

The man carried the boy with the bandage out of the room, leaving the other child be alone in solemness. Again like before, the image hazed away, and Liara this time could see the oldest boy in a boxing ring sparring with a full grown soldier. Liara could only stare at the image. She could not swallow the fact that a boy of the Ghost Soldier's age was going to actually fight a fully grown man.

"Faster!"

Liara turned to see the man with the glasses gesture for the soldier to make the first move. The grunt soldier did as he was ordered and he swung for the child. Liara was just about to turn her eyes when she saw the child quickly duck under the mans fist, and deliver a punch to the man's face.

Liara then watched as the child countered a swing from the grunt, and then do a parry of fist at the man. But just as the child seemed like he was doing well, the man managed to stick a hit on the side of the boys head and then landed a swing at the child's check throwing him to the floor. Liara then looked to the man with the glasses as well as the suit, he carried an expression of fury and grabbed a bucket from the corner. He marched to the child who was getting up from the blows and swung the bucket at the child.

"Show me you have worth!" The man shouted as he began to beat the child with the bucket. Being sure to show zero tolerance with failure to meet potential. Liara could only watch in shock as she saw the man continue to hit the child. Liara closed her eyes and turned her head away from the image. She had seen some awful tings in her travel, but to see a child go through that was just horrible.

The scene changed like how the other memories had, there was a haze and everything turned to a different location and time. Liara could see now that the boy was sitting in a room with the same cell mate he was with. There were creepy black images on the walls, and Liara could not help but feel disturbed. In the corner, she could see a morbid face with black eyes and black streams escaping the eyes. It was all like something from a horrible dream .

There was another haze and this time Liara could see that the younger boy was on top of the older one and it looked as if he was going to kill the oldest, when all of a sudden the man with the glasses came in and took the boy from his room.

A little while later, the boy is in his room and all of a sudden jumps to the sound of a red alert being activated. He immediately gets up and then tries to look out of a peak hole on the top of the door, but is unable to due to his height. So the child looks over to a desk and pulls the piece of furniture to the door so that he can look out of the room.

As he begins to peek outside, he immediately turns back around and he hops to the floor as well as pushing the desk back to its original place. As he steps back to see the man with the glasses come in, the oldest boy sees that the man is holding onto the other child. Liara watches as the man the nsets the child onto a bed that was the left. The man then turns to the other child and takes him by the arm and away from the room.

The image fazes out and Liara is left with more questions than answers. More images fly by, and Liara eventual saw that the boy who was once a captive is now a man. He was now in a conference room and standing among three others. A screen in front of him, showed a man-eating another man, and then she heard the name. "This wacko's name is Paxton Fettel." A large man said as he briefed the three. Liara could see a menacing looking male with a mask and red goggles. Without any form of doubt, she knew who he was.

The Ghost Soldier

Along the left of the Ghost Soldier's sight she could see a woman and a bald man. in the front she could see the logo of what appeared to be an acronym for a word.

F.E.A.R.

First.

Encounter.

Assault.

Recon.

As the rest of the man's memories played out, Liara eventually saw the man walking along a rooftop and as he turned a corner he met a fire extinguisher to the face rendering him unconscious.

As the Ghost Soldier slowly awoke, he could see two armed men with body armor and the same man who had hit him in the head with the fire extinguisher.

"The mans name was Charles Harbinger. Ah I remember him. But is it my memory or hers? No mater, he deserved to die. They all deserve to die."

Liara would remember those words from the one named Paxton Fettle.

as more scenes flashed before her as if it were all reel tape from a movie, Liara saw the Ghost Soldier getting blown out of an exploding building, getting chased by a armored truck, and even crashing in a helicopter with two others.

She could then see that the man who was dubbed by his peers 'Point Man' make his way into a huge building and eventually fight his way in. Liara watched as the man made his way into a secret underground lab and was able to make his way into an area known as The Vault. From there Liara heard an endless number of voices whisper at once different names and words.

Hate.

Kill.

Harlan Wade.

Alice Wade.

Becket.

Artiside.

As Liara then witnessed the F.E.A.R. units Point Man make his way down a corridor and then come to a halt. Through his eyes Liara could see the man standing within a dark and fiery Hell like world. Liara then saw the one known as Paxton Fettle standing before the Point Man. He was holding his arms behind his back and just stared directly at the Point Man.

"You still don't remember do you, who you are?"

The Point Man shot his handgun at Paxton Fettle, and Liara watched as a white blur came from nowhere and with it came these dark shadowy like creatures. The Point Man then quickly began to apply his bullets to the dark shadow like creatures.

'You don't even know your name do you? Who you are?" Paxton said, and the Point Man spun around to shoot him in the head, but like before he only vanished and a white flash blinded the Point Man as well as Liara.

More of the shadow like figures came and the Point Man dealt with them quickly.

"You and I share...the same mother." Paxton said to Point Man, and Liara could see the images of the little girl in the red dress. Alma. the little ghost child who was haunting the Point Man. The little girl who was hunting down the Ghost Soldier.

Finally, Liara could see the Ghost Soldiers gun barrel being pointed down at Paxton Fettle's face. The gun pointed right for the younger brother's head.

"I will set her free." Paxton says as the Point Man then fires his gun into his own brothers head.

Liara didn't know what to call it. It wasn't self defense. It wasn't warfare. It was murder in a way. The Ghost Soldier shot a defenseless man who was his own brother fight in the head.

For some reason Liara felt hollow, she didn't really know this man all that well, but he had gone through so much under a short amount of time. It almost reminded Liara of Shepard when she had witnessed her parents being shot dead by Batarins as well as her squad meeting a grisly end by Thresher Mauls.

As Liara saw the Point Man come face to face with his own mother, she watched as the Point Man began to shoot at the undead woman. The bony body of Alma Wade shifted towards Point Man, but after nine shots from his pistol the woman faded away in a white flash.

My baby

Liara then watched as the Point Man was back into reality and began to quickly make his way to the surface. Was he not even shedding a tear under that mask of his? What was going on in his mind? What was he feeling?

Some how, Liara knew what he was thinking and what he was feeling. She had killed her own mother. But maybe it wasn't as bad as what he was going through. Liara was able to grow up with her mother, but Point Man was never able to really grow up with his brother or be raised by his mother.

His reunion with his mother ended with bullets and blood. Liara couldn't understand any of it. She could understand as to why he had to do what he did, but she could not understand what he was feeling on the inside. Did he feel guilty?

At the top of the surface and out of the facility, Liara could see the point Man gazing out at the sun rise. A slight moment of peace. Peace that lasted for only five seconds.

Liara watched as in the distance a huge explosion erupted and began to blow everything out of its way as it rushed to the Point Man's location. The Point Man seeming to know his fate fell to his knees and unraveled his mask. Liara felt her heart skip a beat and she walked over to the mans location. Crouching down to see his face. His beard was only but a shadow and his hair was shaved to a Mohawk but was not bald along the side. He still carried those blue eyes that seemed to stare right directly into your soul.

Point Man in the memory seemed to just stare with unblinking eyes at the explosion. Liara then turned to see the explosions powerful force blow the Point Man back. Liara unmoved by the force due to it only being only a memory. Liara turned around to see Point Man pinned to a wall. Liara then turned back around to see the explosions ash fault washing over the Point Man.

The memory then fades in a blinding light and Liara could see through the Point Man's eyes. It was blurry, but she could see a helicopter in the distance. He was not forgotten by his allies.

On board the chopper Liara could see that the Point Man was covered in dust and he was surrounded by his allies. Smog covered his face, and he said nothing even after everything he went through. How could he stay silent after all that he went through.

Liara thanked her Goddess that he survived...and so did his mother.

Unknown to the Point Man's peers, the 31 year old saw his mother quietly crawl aboard the helicopter.

And like that everything went black. Liara didn't know what happened, but for some reason it was like the Point Man just seemed to block all other things out of his mind.

Somewhere, Liara could hear a slight chuckle. She turned around, and could see nothing in the empty black.

They deserve to die, they all deserve to die.

She heard him again. Paxton Fettle. Liara could hear his voice within her own mind. It was all hysteria, the very insanity of all the things done in the course of a single night. And this bearded nameless man...he went through it all, and not one of his companions ever knew his identity. Liara herself had to agree on one thing though. She herself began to have a hate for the very company that had reduced the Point Man's family to ashes.

Liara had to admit it too, she agreed with the Ghost Soldier's mother.

"They all deserve to die."

She saw it all, and she wished she didn't. Liara in the physical realm was having a seizure. In complete shock to what she had witnessed. What she was seeing was too much for her to even bear. It was enough to have even a priest drop to the floor and shout out every prayer just to cleanse the mind.

Shepard watched in horror, and tried to pull her friend from her melding with the Ghost Soldier. As she managed to pull her away from the Ghost Soldier, Shepard shook Liara, to see if she was alright.

"Liara! Liara snap out of it!" Shepard shouted as she shook her friend, and looked back at him. As Liara's eyes flared up, she looked back at the man, and turned to Shepard's arms and cried.

"Get me out of here..." Liara pleaded silently and all Shepard could do was just hear her friends plea to leave the cargo bay away from the Ghost Soldier, away from Alma's son.

"Please..." Liara begged, and Shepard carried her friend way from the Point Man. And all he could do was watch. He hoped that Liara was alright, and he hoped that what she saw, would be able to clear up what needs to be said about him. He hopes that she didn't get too stirred up though but after seeing what she did, he already knew the answer to that.


In the com relay:

"What did you see? What was it that made you react the way you did?" Shepard asked Liara as the Asari just kept looking at him on the ground. She was spooked, something happened when she mended with the Ghost soldier. But what? The worst of this whole thing;, was that everyone was as silent as ever. No one seemed to actually be able to think of a proper thing to come from their mouths. It was killing Shepard, she didn't like what happened to one of her crew, and she didn't like having that man who killed Zaeed aboard her ship either. Shepard was sensing the fearful aura around her friend; the things that Liara had seen must have been so horrible it made her stay dead silent. With nothing left to say or to even do at the moment, Shepard got up from her seat. "Shepard where are you going?" Miranda asked her commanding officer.

"I have to check up on our boy, maybe find out exactly what happened." And with that Shepard left her crew to contemplate with what had happened. As Shepard walked across the halls of her ship, she began to make her way to the elevator. She was glade delete that the elevator systems of the new Normandy were better then than the old, seriously who would make an elevator ride for five minutes?

As Shepard hopped into the elevator after making her way through the ship, she pressed a button, and she was off on her way to pay a 'visit' with the Ghost Soldier.

Shepard stepped out of the briefing room and took a right passing through an automatic door. Walking through Mordon's lab she began to make her way to the elivator. Crossing through another automatic door, she saw Kelly working on a terminal as well as the galaxy map. Shepard would stop on by to say hello to the red head woman, but now was not the time. Shepard was going to make her way down to the cargo bay where they were keeping the Ghost Soldier. They honestly didn't know anywhere else to put him really. It was the only place at the moment. Besides he wasn't a guest, he was cargo and nothing more. He doesn't deserve the red carpet or any care do to the fact of him killing of one of Shepard's team.

Zaeed may had been drastic in the past with causing that fire in that refinery back at Vedo's Blue Suns base, but it still does not mean that the old merc should have started that fire. But in the end he was a member of her team. And Shepard takes care of her own.


11 moments later

Point Man was sitting alone again. The agony from his head was a major pain, and he could only hold the pain in. He had no choice, he was always good at keeping the pain in, and maybe hoped for one day he could open up to someone, but that person has not come. He wondered why he never pulled the cap on himself a long time ago, save the pain and misery. But then he never would have saved his youngest sibling. He never would have saved Jin and what was left of Fairport.

A door opens, and who came in, was the crimson haired woman named Shepard. She looked upset, and Point Man could understand, he should have realized that the one blue girl...Liara wouldn't be able to withstand what it was he has seen.

But as Shepard began to approach Point Man, the middle-aged man was sent into a black pit and all around, was fire. He has been here before, this place was the chaos that was conjured by his bothers own insanity. This very place which he calls his own mind. How insane was Fettle? So insane as to really change the world into something horrifying?

And then came a chuckle, one that Point Man knew...too well.

"Liked what I did to her brother?"

Paxton...

Point Man looked up to see his brother. His glowing red aura casting around him, showing the evil and wickedness of his spirit. He was grinning with that hole Point Man put in him when they last met each other.

"Oh thought you killed me now did you? Well think again." Point Man only glared at his younger brother, he didn't want to see him again and he wanted to be done dealing with his bull.

"You cannot kill what is dead my brother; you can only send it away for so long. And I must say, mother did get a sort of...kick out of allowing that girl into your head." Point Man only stared at his brother as he caught along quickly what happened.

"Mother seems to have more interest in you then she did with me...envious I should be, but I am not even if it was I who freed her, even if it was I who...killed for her." Paxton began to approach Point Man, and they were soon face to face. Blue eyes meeting menacing green. A hate fueling between the two. But one was more violent than the other.

"Mother seems to be up to something brother, I sense it, and it has to involve your little friend, the red-haired one." Point Man only stared at his brother, he didn't like where his brother was going. He didn't like what ever came out of his mouth. Nothing but mother this, and retaliation this. He was sick and vile. If only Point Man could permanently get rid of him. If only he could stay dead.

"I can only imagine what mother's plan involves. But don't worry; I am on a short leash. I am only to deliver a message. And don't worry about the blue girl. At least now you have someone to do you're talking for you since you'd prefer your sociopath ways." Paxton began to chuckle as everything faded away, and Point Man was back into reality.


AN: I thank you for reading my story. Oh and about bringing Liara into this story even after the events of Lair of The Shadow Broker, the reason I wanted to involve her in the story was because I liked her character from the first game and because she will play not necessary a big role in the story, but a needed one. Also about bringing Paxton into my story is because of plot as well as me being a fan of his character too. That, and because if your going to mention Point Man in a story, you just have to have Paxton Fettle.