"How did Alice become an agent if you were so against it?" I asked, breaking the silence between me and Mrs. Frederic.

Mrs. Frederic stood before me and stopped walking. We were in the middle of a park in Univille as Mrs. Frederic had something to show me.

"The Regents approved the request," she stated after awhile. "Could I really go behind them and say no?"

"You did multiple times before."

"She has a talent."

"A talent for killing people," I argued back. "Or putting them in a coma."

"That was H.G."

"Only because of that girl," I replied.

It was a back and forth argument with neither of us having the winning side. There was nothing she could have apparently done as Jane Latimer helped convince everyone else to allow Myka and Pete to use the Janus Coin. With Alice's memories gone, Myka and Pete didn't really have to plant images of fake memories into the girl as she was so young anyway. At only five years old, they didn't spend much time on the past. Instead, they apparently only focused on the future, training her to do the job that they were doing then. They were agents and they played her life forward to take their place. I didn't really know how to take that, but something in my mind told me that they may have actually cared for her, but it was just a feeling. Maybe they couldn't get past the fact that she was a murderer like I knew. Either that or she charmed her way out of it, but I seriously doubted it because of the use of the Janus Coin.

When Mrs. Frederic sat down on one of the wooden park benches and motioned for me to join her, I did so. I went out earlier and got a hair cut like she suggested and I no longer looked scruffy. I couldn't believe how much of my hair actually grew over the past fifteen years. I had a beard that reached the middle of my stomach. If I trimmed it and dyed it white, children might have started calling me Santa Clause. I hated that thought.

"There," Mrs. Frederic said, pointing in the direction of the road across from us. When I looked in that direction, I saw Mrs. Frederic was pointing at two women. They were pretty, yes, but extremely young. I looked away and glared at her. "Look again."

When I looked again, I noticed one of the women looked familiar. Her short, red hair was slicked back with gel and she had on a type of dress jacket which was a burgundy color. It matched her hair color and skin tone rather well. A blue shirt peeked from the top of the jacket and was complimented with black slacks. The thing that stood out the most was the tennis shoes poking out from the bell bottoms. She looked… I couldn't even describe her just like I couldn't describe her years ago.

"Claudia," her name came out in a whisper. Mrs. Frederic only nodded in response. "But, I don't remember the other woman."

"That woman is your target," Mrs. Frederic began. "Alice."

The younger blonde woman had hair that fell in ringlets down to her waist wearing plain jeans and a black t-shirt. From all the way over here, I could tell her brown eyes lit up while she laughed at something Claudia had said. This made me angry. Claudia was laughing and joking around with this girl when she was like a daughter to me. If anything I would have expected her to stick by my side through all of this, but apparently not. She abandoned me just like everyone else. She was gone just like Myka and Pete were.

I watched as the two women walked along the road until they disappeared from my sight. I was sure that if anyone caught me, they would think I was looking for… Well, something that could probably get me locked up in jail. They use to be family, all except for the blonde and now we never would be again. Fifteen long years were spent replaying what I thought was my death only to find myself mixed in this alternate world.

That was it. Multiple times the agents had come in contact with an artifact that had thrown them into a world completely different than the real one. Is that not what happened to me? It had to be. Why else would Claudia be walking away into the evening with a murderess? I had to find the artifact and there was only one place to go. I had to get into the Warehouse.