A/N: The moment you have all been waiting for...lol...I finally have it. There may be a few mistakes but please work with me as my compter and disk are having really bad days and don't want to work for me. So I have the next chapter finally...I hope you all enjoy and I'll try and have the next chapter up very soon:)

Electricgurl

Chapter 2: The prisoner

Darien felt more bile rise in his throat there was nothing to throw up." How?" He asked taking a deep breath. "Why? Claire." He said looking up his eyes full of fear met hers, which was filled with the same fear.

Swallowing hardly she spoke up. "I think it's time to talk to Aruand." Darien nodded and got up following Claire out of the lab down to the holding areas. She swiped her card and the door beeped open. The pair of them walked in to be greeted by two heavily armed guard's, one man the other female. They wore heat-detecting glasses. Darien waved and walked threw quick silvering just his eyes he looked around for his most hated enemy. He quickly found him. He was against the far facing them.

"Darien, it's so nice to finally see you again."

"Wish I could say the same. You Swiss-" Darien said biting back the rest of his remark. After all he need his help. Darien placed a smile on his face and turned to face Claire. "Can we please make this fast." She shivered as she looked at the empty eye sockets.

"You might not want to use that much quicksilver. Here put these on." She said passing him a pair of glasses. He let the QS drop from his eyes and put the glasses on. It took him a few seconds to get use to become accustomed to the change of views put then he clearly saw the outline of Aruand, Claire and the two guards.

"This is different." He muttered to himself.

"What did you say." Claire asked.

"Nothing, never mind." He moved towards the cell and glared in at De Fern.

"What do you want?" the captive asked.

"It's not what we want but what you have to do." Claire informed him.

"What?" he asked.

Claire motioned for the one guards to come forward and unlock his cell. The couple walked in Darien slightly in front of Claire to protect her.

"We need information on what could be done if the gland began to get a tolerance to the counteragent." Claire said.

Aruand laughed. "You think I would help him." He said pointing at Darien. Darien growled and took a step forward. Claire grabbed his arm.

"Don't it won't get us anywhere." She said.

"It will make me feel better." Darien told her breaking her grip he stalked up to him. Before Aruand could do anything Darien hit him in the face with a right hook. Aruand fell and Darien began to hop around holding his hand. "Damn it that hurt."

"Here lets see it." She said taking his hand in hers she looked over his hand. " You broke a few bones in your hand."

"Excuse me what about the poor injured prisoner?" Asked Aruand.

"Shut up." They both said at the same time.

"You'll need to get this fixed. Come with me." Claire said

"What about me, huh?"  Came a voice.

"What about you?" Darien asked.

"I need medical help." Claire laughed.

"Once you solve the QS problem I will look you over." And with that the two left the 'prison'.

They went back to the keep and while Darien sat in the demented dentist chair Claire grabbed splints for his fingers and gauze for the cuts. Walking back to her patient she frowned. His hand was already getting swollen. She rushed but and grabbed the coldest thing she could find which just happen to be a half frozen ice packet. "Here put this on your hand." She said throwing to him. He caught it with his good hand and placed it carefully on. Hissing in pain he pulled it off. She pulled it from his rip and pushed it back on.

"Damn Claire it hurts." He yelled at her.

"Don't you yell at me. You should have thought of this before you got in a fist fight with Aruand." She yelled back. They were a few feet apart. When Darien grabbed Claire and kissed her. She pulled away. "Don't you kiss me!" Then she kissed him.

Darien didn't know what to think. One minute they were fighting the next they were kissing. But it feels so right. He broke the kiss. "Claire we have to think about this."

"Think about what?"

"This." He said pointing to the two of them.

"I have."

"And." He encouraged.

"I think we should be more."

"As…"

"A couple." She said. He smiled and nodded his head.

"Yes?"

"Yes." He told her. As he pulled her into a hug.

She smiled. "What were we fighting about?" They both laughed.

"All I know is that my hand hurts worst then ever." It was red and swollen blood had begun to form scabs. One of his fingers were at odd angles. Claire pulled up a chair. Sitting down beside him she kissed his fingers lightly he hissed even with that.

"Okay this might hurt a bit." Claire told him grabbing his fingers. "On three…One." She pulled his finger back into place he screamed as the pain coursed through his hand. Just like fire it went down his arm.

"What happen to two and three?"

"They disappeared." She said. Covering his mouth with her own, as he began to speak up. He kissed her deeper. Just then the door to the keep opened and Bobby and Alex ran in.

"What's wron---" Alex asked trailing off finding them in one another's arms. "Opps. Guess not." She said. Darien and Claire broke apart.

"Hey guys what's up?" Darien asked.

"We heard someone scream we thought you were in trouble so we came to see." Alex explained. Bobby just stood near the door staring at them.

"Bobby you okay?" Claire asked.

His face moved into a frown then back to normal. "Yea keppie I'm fine. Well what are you guys doing?"

"Claire is fixing my hand." Darien said showing them his hand. "I beat up the evil Swiss-Miss-Mother-"

"Darien!" Claire exclaimed.

"Sorry." He said whispering the final few words under his breath. "Anyways I ended up punching him so wonderful for me I get this side effect."

"Damn, if this what you hand looks like I don't think I want to see him." Alex said, then recognizing what she said, "Well not really see him but, you know."

Darien nodded his smiling.

"Why where you down there?" Bobby asked trying to get rid of the vision of Darien and Claire kissing.

"I think you guys should sit down for this." Claire said pulling two more chairs over she placed them in front of Darien and herself. "Do you want to tell them or am I?" She asked Darien.

"About which thing."

"The QS thing first I guess." Claire said.

"Okay I really don't know what to tell you guys so I'll just spit it out." Darien said. "I've grown a tolerance to the counteragent." Bobby sat up straighter suddenly not caring that Darien was kissing the one women he had liked.

"How do you know?" He asked. Darien held up his wrist the tattoo was already three full from that morning.

"But how?" Alex questioned worried about her newfound friend.

"I don't know but right now we have bigger fish to fry. We need to find Cassandra before she causes any more trouble." Claire stated turning back to Darien's hand she placed the one finger in a splint and then disinfected the cuts on his hands. Then wrapped his hand up. "I don't know how you did this to your hand from punching someone but then again we are talking about you." Claire said.

Laughing Darien spoke up, " I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad." They smiled at each other.

Bobby cleared his throat. "Look we have to get going while you were down here doing whatever you where doing. The official filled us in." he said pointing to Alex and himself.

"Ohh what are we doing?" Darien asked.

"We are to find out as much information on Cassandra once that is done we are to find here and then bring her back here."

Darien got off the chair thanking Claire for her help he got up and walked towards the door with Bobby and Alex. Calling out as he walked threw the doorway. "See ya at home." Then he disappeared with his fellow agents.

*

It was 11:30 and Claire was still hard at work in the lab when a phone call came. "Hullo, Kepper."

"Hey Keppie what ya up to?" Came Darien's voice.

"I'm working."

"When you coming home?"

"I was just packing up." She lied. "You go to bed and I see you in the morning."

"Okay. Please hurry home I need to see you." He said then he hung up. Claire shook her head and went back to work when the phone rang again.

"DARIEN." She shouted with a giggle in her voice. She liked the distraction but she was close to something.

"Sorry guess again." Came a cold female voice.

"What do you want?" Claire hissed into the phone.

"Just for you to know how cute your boyfriend is when he's sleeping." Then she hung up. Claire hit save on her computer and pulled out her cell and car keys as she ran out the door.

As she pushed out the front door someone slipped in and down to the lab. Pulling up Claire's notes she read them over. Pulling up another file she found a live fed from what looked like a prison. It was in heat-seeking she saw an outline of what looked like Aruand. She laughed. He's exactly where he should be. Closing that window she moved on. Printing out most of the information she found. Mostly on some project called QS3900. Grabbing the papers she ran from the building and to her car and drove off.

*

Claire arrived home in record time. Running to the house she unlocked the front door and walked in with her traq gun at the ready she made a quick swipe of the bottom floor then walked up to the second level. Checking ever room but hers and Darien's she walked in to see Darien almost asleep with a philology magazine laying on his chest.  If she isn't here then she wanted me OUT OF THE LAB. She pulled out her cell phone and dialled Bobby.

"Hello." Came a women's voice.

Claire shook her head. "Is ummm, Robert there?"

"Yes one second." The phone was covered but Claire still heard the conversation.

'Bobby phone.'

'Who is it?'

'I don't know.' Then the phone was picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey Bobby it's Claire." She said in a rush.

"Is everything okay?" he asked. "Is Darien going Nuts, are you guys in trouble." Claire smiled Bobby always thought of them first. "No were fine I need you to go to the lab I think Cassandra broke in. I was just on my way and I just want more back up."

"Okay I meet you there. Anything else?"

"Yes one thing…Bobby who the girl?"

"What girl?" He asked then he hung up.  

Claire smiled. She was glad Bobby had found a girl. He deserved it. Leaving Darien on the bed Claire walked back to her car and drove back to the Agency where Bobby and Alex where both out side waiting for her.

"Hey Alex, how'd you get here so fast?"

"What do you mean?" she asked nervously.

"You leave like 30 minutes away. I was talking to Bobby 5 minutes ago so how'd you get here."

"I was ummm, on my way home when Bobby called my cell I turned around and drove right here." She said. It sounded a little to staged for Claire but then again it wasn't up to her to keep tabs on the other agents. Just Darien. And he's plenty enough.

"Well come on let's go." Bobby said walking over to the door he held it open for the two women then walked in himself. They all walked down to the Keep. As they walked in everything was the same. Claire went to her computer waking it up a pop up appeared on screen Printing Complete.

"Oh no." Claire said falling into her chair.

"What ?" Alex said walking over to see what was wrong.

"She has it."

" Has what."

"Everything."

"Claire everything what?"

"Darien, the gland, this agency. Everything." She sank deeper into the chair. "This is bad really bad."