a/n this is set two weeks prior to the first two chapters. hope you enjoy and please REVIEW. :D -S.B.S


Chapter Three:

Rescuer

Mack was talking to Jamie and some of the guys when he walked in. Jason had just returned from a mission and needed to shower before he met with the others to hear what Mack found out. It was obviously something serious if Mack waited for Jason to get there. He walked to his 'brothers' and Jamie with a stiff walk. His knee was still sore from the hit it took in the field. He didn't feel any real pain, rarely did. That was why he was so good in the field. He could be in a hot zone and completely drown out the rest of the world. He thought only of the mission and his task at hand. He didn't feel the pain of a bullet or a hit right away like many others. Hell once he wasn't even aware of the bullet hole in him until he was on the helicopter and one of his men got the medical kit and started working on his shoulder.

Jason walked over to Mack with a grim smile across his face. He just got back from what was supposed to be a two day friendly mission; it turned into a two week heavy fire mission pretty quickly. All he wanted to do was sleep and he wasn't going to pretend anything else and Mack could just get over it. Jason noticed that almost their entire team was there. Mack with Jamie under his arm talking to Gideon, their elite sniper, Kane with Rose talking about their son, Sebastian, to Paul, and Javier and Ethan standing close by but back a little discussing something. They all looked over at Jason when he walked toward them and Ethan and Javier came over to the others. He nodded to them all and stood waiting for Mack to say whatever was so important.

"There is someone out there who has a file on Whitney, a file with very incriminating evidence." Mack stated the information very blatantly and calmly, watching the reactions of his men and the two women. Everyone starred for a moment. It was Javier who spoke first. "Who is it and what do they have on him that all of the other GhostWalkers don't?"

Javier was one of their most lethal men. You would never know it though. He always was in the shadows watching, but never being seen. He had the ability to blend into his surroundings and appear as an innocent teenager. He was a huge asset for the team when they were forced into urban warfare. He could walk right up to a group of teens and talk as if he had known them forever. Many people underestimated him because he looked so young. It was a mistake, a big one. Javier was also one of the most loyal guys Jason knew. He would die for a member of their family in a heartbeat; more importantly, he would kill for them.

"Don't know who. Don't know exactly what either" Mack answered honestly.

"Then what is it we do know Top?" Jason spoke with a gruff tone. He wasn't in the mood for games and just wanted to know what the hell was going on. Mack glared at him for a moment but then looked down. It was only the second time Jason had seen Mack hesitate, the first was when he found Jamie again. "Look guys we have been fighting Whitney for a while now, so have the other three GhostWalker teams. We all know his sick experiments in the breeding program and know he has to be stopped." Rose winced slightly at the mention of the doctor's breeding program. She knew all too well of his program to make the perfect super soldier, she was forced into it. Mack continued on after a quick, apologetic glance at Kane and Rose.

"We will take whatever information comes our way concerning Whitney. Dr. Lily Whitney-Miller contacted me with the information that someone had managed to somehow get passed Whitney's security files and hack his personal computer. Apparently they took something that Whitney has no desire of ever being seen. Lily said she can tell the doc is mad by the way he is typing his daily notes. She says none of his previous notes have ever had so much emotion, other than pure ego and pride. He is rattled that someone was able to get this information".

Jason knew of Dr. Lily Whitney-Miller, he respected her. She was the only girl who was actually raised by Whitney himself. She grew up her entire life believing the doctor was her real dad. It wasn't until she met Ryland Miller and his team, that she began to find out who the doctor really was. As she dug deeper into his past she uncovered his secret experiments on the girls and chose to help all the GhostWalkers defeat the man who deceived her for her entire life. She was now married to Ryland and they had a son, Daniel.

"So how do we get this information?" Rose asked calmly.

"Lily, Flame, and I have been tracking things on the computers and think we might have narrowed it down to a woman in LA", Jamie offered, "It was difficult because we really didn't know what we were looking for and Whitney has so many firewalls and back doors that we couldn't, and still don't, understand how someone was able to actually take information from him that was sealed so well. I mean we have been able to follow him by using his own wires. Dahlia and Flame were able to turn his own system against him so we can see into his hard drive. We can only see what he opens though, and there is no way we can actually take any of that information and turn it into hard paper copies. It is just not possible; how she managed to do it I can't even imagine. She literally hacked into his system and completely overruled any firewall he had in place and…"

"Jamie please, stop. You going on about this computer stuff and I already have a massive headache. What exactly does it all mean?" Jason loved Jamie but she had a tendency to ramble when it came to the technology side of things. He had know Jamie since he was a kid and she has always been too smart for own good. She graduated high school at age eight, probably the smartest person Jason has ever met.

"Sorry, I am just so fascinated by it all that I got carried away. What it means it that somewhere in LA there is a woman who is in serious danger. Whitney has as much of his resources he can spare on the hunt for her. He still is focused on his mission to create his perfect super soldier of course, but for the first time he is actually worried about something besides that".

"Is she a GhostWalker as well?" Gideon asked. Gideon was their elite sniper. He was called Eagle for a reason. There just wasn't a shot he couldn't hit. He could shoot the wings of a fly in motion. He was just that good. He waited with curiosity in his eyes for Jamie's answer. "Someone able to get through Whitney's security like you said she did would have to be one of us".

"From everything Lily and Flame have managed to gather, she is a GhostWalker, but we are unsure she is aware of that. They believe she was one of the children Whitney bought from one of the United States orphanages. They believe she is the one he called Summer, however they doubt that is what she goes by anymore".

Kane looked at his mate, and now wife, Rose. "Do you recognize the name Rose? Was she one of the girls you were with when you were a child?" Rose shook her head. "I don't ever remember there being a girl called Summer. I don't remember all of the girls' faces but I do remember the names."

"You wouldn't remember her Rose. She was never placed with you or the other girls. She was bought from the orphanage when she was only one and Whitney adopted her out, like he did some of the girls, only two years later. In all of his reports and training videos of her, she was never placed with any of the other girls. I doubt she even knows you guys exist" Jamie's voice was filled pain and Jason could tell there was more then what she was saying.

"He experimented on a one year old and then forced her into the world with no protection or barriers of the backlash when she was only three?" Kane's voice shook with disgust. All the GhostWalkers knew how difficult it was to live in the real world and keep the emotions and backlashes of their physic abilities at bay. Unless they were with an anchor or shield, or happened to be one themselves, they were bound to have severe headaches and seizers, possibly deadly ones. Jason looked at Jamie and forced her to say what she was holding back.

"What aren't you telling us Jamie? What else is there?"

Jamie looked at Jason with sad eyes. "Whitney is more sick then any of us knew", she took a deep breath and continued, "he not only experimented on a one year old and released her into the wild with little barriers at only the age of three, he purposely adopted her to a man who he knew to be very deranged when it came to children. The man was a drunk and had been known to beat women and children. It was noted in a police report that Lily found, that this man was the prime suspect in the murder case against his previous girlfriend and her five year old son. He had many assault and rape charges against him. Unfortunately, most of them were dropped because not enough evidence was available. He was only convicted once; he was sentenced to twenty years for rape of two young girls under the age of ten. Somehow he was released only four years later. Flame suspects the doctor was involved, because two months later the man adopted Summer." Jamie paused and leaned into her husband. Mack put his arm around his wife and comforted her with a kiss on the forehead. Jason had never seen Jamie so shaken. She continued with a soft voice, "There was a note in Summer's file that Lilly found. It was in Whitney's hand writing. It said, and I quote, 'Subject placed in unstable, dangerous home. Subject's adopted father told he may do what he pleases. Test to see if subject can grow even in repellent situations.'" Jamie stopped and let her last words sink in with the others. She leaned in closer to her husband. It was hard enough reading Lily's message of the doctor's notes the first time, now repeating those sick words to others was just too much. She wanted to weep for the girl.

Jason couldn't believe what Jamie just said. He knew Whitney was deranged, but this? He deliberately sought out sick and vulgar man to give a little girl to. He not only knew of the man's past but encourage him to do whatever he pleased with the girl. He felt sick and had to work to keep his demons at bay. Even with all his strength, a small growl escaped. Jamie looked at him with tear-filled eyes. He could see the she was trying to hold them back and be brave, but the thought of what Whitney did made her just as sick as it did him. Jason looked at Jamie and spoke with malice; he just couldn't contain the rage he felt inside his gut at what the doctor had done. "You guys want to send someone to find her don't you". It wasn't a question, it was a simple fact. Jamie wiped her eyes and looked at him with shock.

"Jason this girl, woman now, has been through so much. More than any of us could imagine. Unlike the rest of us, she didn't know what happened to her or why she had all these abilities. She didn't understand why the man who was supposed to be her father did such vial things to her"

"I never said that what she went through was easy, I simply stated that someone what going to have to find her; to get the information, and to protect her". Jason stared at Jamie with his mind made up; he was going to be the one to find this woman, no one else.

"Yes, someone needs to find her and bring her to a safe place within the GhostWalker's protection. But Jason, that person needs to hold compassion and patients. She doesn't know who we are or that we even exist" Jamie said with a quiet voice.

"It is me or no one. That's final". Jason wasn't budging on this. Mack looked at Jason with warning. He knew he had snapped at Jamie and she didn't deserve it, but he couldn't help himself. He wasn't sure why he felt that it had to be him, he just did. Honestly, he was exhausted and fifteen minutes ago all he wanted to do was sleep for six days strait. But now? Now all he could think about was this woman out there with a mad man hunting her.

"Maybe Jamie is right her Jas. You just got back from a grueling mission your knee isn't fully healed. Let someone else go get her" Mack spoke to his friend, fellow soldier, and brother with a hopeful tone. He knew it was useless to try and talk Jason out of something once his mind was set, but he tried; for Jamie's sake, and honestly for this unknown woman as well. Mack knew Jason better than most. He knew he had his demons and that he wasn't a gentle soul.

"No. I'm sorry Jamie; I didn't mean to snap at you; but this is my mission, no one else's. So please, just tell me the information so I can get packed and go".

Jamie gave in with a sigh, knowing Jason wouldn't budge. "Fine. But there is more you need to know. Let's start with what she goes by now. Lily thinks she gave up the name Summer as soon as she escaped from her adopted father, which was when she was eight. Lily thinks that Summer is now Sawyer Collins.