DISCLAIMER: This is a Sanctuary story/spinoff, although not entirely related to Sanctuary, I must point out that I do not own any contents of Sanctuary, every single credit goes to those who worked on Sanctuary. I do however own my own OC's.
P.I.O.R. - A Sanctuary Story
Season 1
Chapter 2: The Inner Sanctum
Charlotte had spent two days in P.I.O.R. and she still hadn't come up with the decision on if she should join H in saving Abnormals or keep quiet or have her mind wipe. For starters, it was a massive thing to join an organization she had only just spent two days knowing about. Keeping quiet was going to be a bit of a trouble, who was to say that she won't blurt out accidentally on the whereabouts of P.I.O.R. As for the mind wipe, it goes with the saying.
Charlotte didn't know what to do; she couldn't make up her mind.
She even asked her friend Taylor when she spoke to her on the phone one night, at first Taylor was a bit worried that Charlotte hadn't called her, but she reassured Taylor that she was fine.
"If you were given a chance of a lifetime what would you do?" Charlotte asked walking around her room holding a hand held phone in her hand.
Taylor who was on the other side spoke. "I'd take it." she simply said.
"Really?" Charlotte asked.
"Only if the pay was good." Taylor said. "Why do you ask?"
Charlotte nearly blurted out saying where she was and everything that happened to her. "No reason," she lied, "just wondering is all." she said. "But what if you had to decide between say three jobs and you only had to pick one, what would you do?"
"Only you can decide that Charlotte. You have to do what you think is best. You should know what's right for you, you are a bright girl. A*, A's and B's in your GCSE's, know what to do with yourself, but you don't know what to do when something so unexpected comes up like a job of a lifetime?" asked Taylor.
"You're right, but how do I choose between the three?" Charlotte asked.
"Well look at it from my point of view. Three jobs, one decision, get some opinions, then decide what you think is right." Taylor said to her over the phone.
Charlotte nodded at Taylor's comment.
"Are you planning on coming out some time over the week?" Taylor asked.
"I am not sure if that will be possible. Got some things to sort out. But I will let you know." Charlotte said to her. She said goodbye to her friend and hung up. Then she spent the remainder of her day in her room that was given to her by the organization, thinking about if she should join the organization or not.
X X X
The organization of P.I.O.R. was built underground and deep within a mountain, however built on top of that mountain and overlooking the city of Cardiff was a mansion. With the gold that Owen the Vampire and H found, they used that gold to build themselves a mansion that sat right on top of where P.I.O.R. was located. The mansion was basically the centre of operations for H and his organization.
In the mansion and among its many clean corridors and its many rooms, sat H, who was in his fairly large office, with books, and a desk, with a few globes, cases of parchments, an a computer on top of his desk.
He sat with a pair of glasses on, reading a letter from Magnus. Magnus would always send him a letter a month giving him the highlights of what had been happening to The Sanctuary over in America.
From the letter that H read, it was somewhat highly unbelievable to believe. The letter said something about Big Burtha, Hollow Earth, a man called Adam Worth, Magnus and her team being executed and being brought back to life, Magnus getting radiation poisoning and then being cured. Finding the city of Hollow Earth called Praxis.
It was a lot of information to be placed in one letter. Half of the times, H wondered if Magnus was making these things up, but he hadn't seen her for quite some time. The only chance when H would get to see Magnus would be when she would go and meet Declan who worked in another Sanctuary in London.
H put the letter aside, took of his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He heard a knock on the door. "Come in!" he called.
Coming into his study was one of his team-mates.
"Toby." greeted H.
Toby was a short thin man. He wore a t-shirt and some trousers with some trainers, it made him feel comfortable. He had dark blue eyes, and spiked gelled black hair. He was somewhat of a geek, a computer nerd; in fact, he was the most respected computer nerd in the whole organization.
"Look what I picked up on the internet." Toby said handing H a computerized tablet.
H placed his glasses back on and read from the tablet. "Good god." he said.
"The deaths of those girls, is slowly starting to become public. There is very little I can do to stop this getting to the press."
H read the story on the tablet. "Are we anywhere close to finding out who is doing this?"
Toby shook his head
"Keep an eye open." Toby acknowledged, H handed back his tablet. "If this is Abnormal related we need to put a stop to this. The only connection to this so far is that they are all girls, the ages are different, try and see if there is anything that connects these girls to each other." H asked Toby to do.
"And, exactly what is it I am looking for?" asked Toby.
"Anything. Do they go to the same Gym as each other? The same school? The same hair saloon? Are they blood donors?"
"Got it." Toby said. He quickly left H's study, leaving him alone.
X X X
Charlotte who was wandering the organization seemed to have gotten lost. She found her way into a small circular wide room with alcoves covered with glass, there was one, which was full of water. A few others with jungle features to it. And a few that were pitch black.
Charlotte walked up to one of the glass alcoves, which had water behind it. There, swimming its way up to her was some kind of water Abnormal. It was only when the creature got closer did Charlotte know what it was. Myths and legends had surrounded these types of beings. Staring back at her was a mermaid. It wasn't what she called it to be beautiful, it looked pale blue, and had large nails that looked like claws. The mermaid smiled and waved at her. Charlotte waved and smiled back.
She then went to another alcove. Inside was a jungle resemblance. Charlotte looked around and to see if she could see anything. Slithering around inside was medium sized snake which had four sets of wings on its neck and four eyes. Charlotte looked at it in the eye, suddenly it lunged at her causing her to fall to the ground hard. The snake collided with the glass and went back to its own business.
Charlotte heard some humorous laughing nearby. Walking up to her and catching her attention was a cute looking boy roughly about her age or maybe more older. His blonde hair glinting. His blue dreamy like eyes caught hers. His smile perfect, and his body features were just the right type, her type of man. (If any girl could picture their man, this would possibly be one of them)
"I see you have found The Inner Sanctum." said the man helping Charlotte to her feet. The moment her hand touched his, and sudden rush of adrenaline love ran through her, she wanted to blush, but found herself resisting his beauty. "You're new around here aren't you?"
Charlotte nodded. Then finally finding the strength to speak to this wonderful man she said, "Yes, arrived here a few weeks ago, or days. I can't really remember, you see I got knocked down by one of the staff here,"
"Let me guess: Madog?" the man asked.
"Yes, how did you know?" Charlotte asked.
"Most of the people here who join P.I.O.R. get ran over by Madog. Same happened to me." the man said looking back at alcove where the snake type creature was now slithering around in its home. "My name is Erok, by the way."
"Charlotte, Charlotte Halliday."
Erok bowed his head at her.
"The Inner Sanctum you say, what is that?" Charlotte asked.
"This is where the rarest and most sacred Abnormals come when nearing extinction. For example: the Mermaids." Erok said pointing to the tank full of water where the Mermaid who waved at Charlotte now swam happily. "Day by day their race is diminishing. P.I.O.R. helps those races in order to survive."
Charlotte was impressed. She looked back at the alcove where the snake creature lunged at her giving her a fright. "What about this one?" Charlotte asked gesturing her head towards the alcove.
"That is a Basilisk. Kills you just by looking it in the eye. Lucky for you this is just a youngling, hasn't even got the strength to kill anyone, but she does like to knock people out. Oh, and be careful of her when she spits venom, it itches as hell."
"And if she bites you?"
"Harmless." Erok said suddenly and quickly. "When they grow of certain age, their venom can kill you in less than under a minute. Their venom spits can melt you."
"What about those wing things just behind its head?" pointed Charlotte.
"Some Basilisks can…fly." said Erok. "Although it's mostly the females that can fly."
Erok showed Charlotte around the rest of The Sanctum. "Ah, now this is one wonderful Abnormal, absolutely the rarest of them all." Erok said. He placed Charlotte in front of a pitch black alcove.
Charlotte squinted but saw nothing.
A sudden massive fireball flew at her, but stopped short behind the glass. Charlotte stepped back and nearly fell over. Erok caught her just in time. The instant his skin touch Charlotte she felt safe and sound. Erok chuckled a little. He moved closer to the glass. "C'mon now, don't be shy." he said at the wall of fire behind the glass.
The entire alcove filled with fire with only the glass to protect them. Within the fire, a face merged. Charlotte's mouth hanged open. "What…the…?" her words hung in the air.
Erok smiled. "It's an Elemental. They are very rare, we found this one in the volcano Campi Flegri. It was in danger of being discovered, so H brought it here to look after it. It likes dark places for some unexplained reason. Say hello Campi."
The Elemental face that was behind the glass winked at Charlotte and smiled as it did so, and Charlotte couldn't help but wave back. "Is it kind?"
"A right old softie. Although that depends on the Elemental that you have." Erok said waving at Campi the Elemental. Campi then vanished into darkness.
Charlotte had a worried look on her face. She feared that someone or something had threw water over it or depleted its oxygen needed to burn.
"It's okay. He's just probably resting."
Erok led Charlotte around to look at more of The Inner Sanctum. "Did H design this place?"
"Oh, he designed a lot of it. Of course, he had help. The Inner Sanctum however was designed to resemble that of the same Sanctum as H calls it back at The Sanctuary in America. Magnus helped design this part of P.I.O.R. It might not be much but for a small organization, it sure does wonders."
"Small?" Charlotte frowned.
"That's what H likes to call it. You see Charlotte, P.I.O.R. is separated into two parts. There is the organization that is underground where we are right now, the home of where many Abnormals live. And then there is the main Headquarters of P.I.O.R. which is located on top of a hill, a mansion where H lives, that's where everything is run. You'd be surprised to know that we may be big, but we sure are small. It is difficult to explain." Erok said to her.
It was difficult to explain, Charlotte felt her head sting trying to figure out how a big organization could be small.
"Forgive me for asking," Erok said, "are you an Abnormal by any chance or a Human?"
Charlotte giggled at this. "I'm a Human."
"Oh, sorry, I had to ask." he said going red in the face.
"That's okay." said Charlotte. "Are you an Abnormal?"
Erok inhaled. "Believe it or not…yes." he said exhaling as he spoke. "I'm a Mood Changer. I can change the way people feel. Only problem is, they haven't found a name for my race yet."
"Are there more of your kind?" Charlotte asked interested.
"I'm the only one here at the moment, we are a new breed, I only came here because I was scared for my life, well, to be honest, that was after Madog ran me over, there are some people in this world you just can't trust."
"Yeah." Charlotte said quietly.
A silence came between them. After what seemed like a lifetime with her perfect man, which Charlotte deduced was just his Abnormal power of some kind of mood swing, Erok broke the silence. "Have you been everywhere yet in P.I.O.R.?"
Charlotte wanted to spend a little bit more time with Erok, even though he was cute, but on the plus side, she hadn't seen everything in P.I.O.R. She might as well have Erok give her a tour of the whole place, there was bound to be a few places in P.I.O.R. that held more fascinating creatures.
A/N: After a long wait, here is Chapter 2 of my Sanctuary Spin Off, P.I.O.R. Again aplogies for the really really really really really long wait.
Anywhoo, feel free to read, reviews on the other hand would be nice.
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