"Orphans Beloved: "Helena Has Busy Day…"
Summary: Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved bits in my Buffyverse stories, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later. (actually this is lifted from my tale "Fringey" in progress but I had so much fun with the notion of Helena impersonating Rachel at Dyad as Dyad faces exposure and collapse that I couldn't resist doing an expanded, stand alone…)
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Part IV…
Level SSSB labs, Dyad Insitute…
"And who am I, Mr. Wolowitz?" Helena smiled at the little man eyeing her sternly…
Well, if so, so…I tell all, maybe this good man do God's work and find devil father and mother…And Tomas…She waited, serenely…
Maybe they let angels see auntie sometime in prison mental hospital?
"You're Dyad patent number 011A10…In short, one of the clones from this project who survived to adulthood." He eyed her. "So, if I may ask, why, Rachel?"
"Why..." she shrugged.
Wouldn't mind knowing myself, dear little friend.
"Why are you here? Why are you working with these…?" he waved a hand. "Knowing what they've done to you and your sisters…?"
"The Leekies and this place are the only family I have, I would say." Helena sighed. "If I don't have them, I am lost…Nothing…"
And yet…Even I…Even Cain Helena…Not so lost as you, dark sister…Yes…And when I die, and burn…I will still be happier than you, sad dark sister…No one may love me, except my poor Maggie and perhaps, even yet, poor Mama…
But I love…I love…Even as I burn I will love…And cherish…And you don't even have that, dark sister…
Yes…Why, Rachel…Why?
"I saw you…Back at the tanks…You were crying." He eyed her. "You don't believe in the Leekies and Dyad anymore, do you?"
"It is too late for me, sweet Mr. Wolowitz." She sighed. "You cannot save my soul now." Wan smile. "But…I would like you to believe I would like to help you, if I can trust you to save my sisters, the ones who may still have chance to live."
"That's why we're here, in part." Earnest nod. "Will you help us, Rachel? Help us save your sisters and stop these people and the people behind them?"
"If you will say nice prayer for me when I am dead, yes." She nodded, wan smile. "We should be ummn…Properly introduced…?"
"Howard Wolowitz, ma'am." He nodded.
"Rachel Duncan, sir. Very nice meeting you." She returning nod.
Phillips eyeing them from where he stood near Tall…Impatient nod to several nervous employees requesting his approval of their accessing storage areas for the government team.
Not the sanest deal I've ever attempted…But a chance to study the greatest breakthrough in this project yet? Without the Leekies' tentacles all over it?
Though nothing says I have to settle for a mere blood sample…And with Dyad soon to be no longer either a threat or a protector, Tomas may be amenable to having a partner.
I definitely will need someone on my side with this psycho…Lord, I can only imagine what she did with Duncan. And under normal circumstances I'd've put my money on that icy freak over almost anyone… But then I doubt our Helena has much patience for mind games…
Still from a scientific perspective it remains fascinating…The same mutation inducing a near ocd in Allison, suicidal depression in Beth, and a near limitless propensity for violence in Helena.
Rather a pity Sarah didn't go Helena's way…Would have been interesting to compare drugs versus religious indoctrination as a means of controlling and channeling her rage.
…..
Agent Wolowitz had taken Ms. Duncan for a private conference in the same room as she had used earlier with Phillips…Promising that his partner would keep an eye on Dr. Phillips particularly as well as the rest of the Dyad team still at hand.
"Right now we need to know exactly how many of you survived to adulthood and how many are projected to develop diseases." Wolowitz noted. "It's doubtless in the files but very carefully encoded. If we could get that information, we might be able to help some of you."
"Dr. Leekie would know…" she nodded. "Either one of them, I'm sure. Possibly Phillips though I don't think his responsibilities extend so far as to give him that sort of clearance. Tomas…Dr. Paleogolikis, his superior may have such information."
"The one who ran Helena?" Wolowitz eyed her.
"Yes."
"And not you…?"
"Mr. Wolowitz…" wan smile. "You may not believe, but if I knew I would tell you. The Leekies didn't trust even their dearest semi-daughter Rachel with everything."
"I want to believe you, Ms. Duncan." He sighed. "Of course you know, while you may receive some consideration as one of the victims…And your cooperation will be a point in your favor…I can't promise…"
She put up a hand, smiling. "I don't ask. If I wanted to escape my punishment I would not be here, Howard. May I call you such?"
"Of course."
"So you are a scientist?" shrewd look.
"I have biologic and genetic training but I'm FBI, actually." He eyed her. "Though most of our people here are NSF and FDA, plus the Canadian Ministry of Science. So you think only the Leekies and maybe Paleogolikis would be able to get the information we need?"
"To identify my living sisters and the ones who are ill, yes. And Tomas had to know…He was giving Helena her instructions. Sending her to kill the sick ones…" she looked away.
"Is that what changed your mind about Dyad?" he eyed her. "Helena being used to kill the others off for them?"
"No. To my shame, you will say…It was not killing my sisters. No, it was our angel who touched me." She smiled.
"Angel?"
"Sarah's Kira…My niece." She beamed. "When she touched me…In our records and the files…" she noted hastily… "The light came upon me at last, the true light…"
He stared…
"Sorry…Even cynical type like me has sentimental streak, Howard. But if you ask and choose to believe me, that is why I have turned from the darkness. It is too late to save me…But Kira is the light, the angel who can save the others, the innocents. You must do that…" she eyed him intently… "I see you are a good soul, Howard. You must save Kira and the innocent sisters who have done no wrong to God. Before they are made to suffer…" tense clenching of hands. "Tomas is the one who seeks her, even more than the Leekies, since he knows the truth about her and they don't…But they all must be found and stopped." She relaxed as Wolowitz watched her.
"I suppose you will say… 'Took your time, Rachel'." She smiled. "But it's not important…If I am hoping to escape, I will fail, you know that…If I am telling you the truth, I will face my punishment…What matters is that we must find these people before they escape to their powerful friends and try to rebuild…This." She waved a hand to indicate the facility. "…Hell on Earth…"
He eyed her carefully…
"Phillips knows how to reach Tomas…And maybe the Leekies." She noted. "If you could give me the chance to use him to do so…But he must believe he is safe…He won't do it from here."
"I can't sanction letting you and Phillips go, if that's what you're asking…"
"Put wire, tracker…Informer CSI stuff?" she suggested. "And I sign full confession, if you like. No deal required." She put up a hand at his hard stare.
Confession good for soul, dark sister…
"You'd do that? You'd sign a confession and wear a wire with Phillips to help us catch the Leekies and this Tomas? Without any deal?"
"I said I am believer that Truth is important…And blood is thick…" She smiled. "You want it tape or written or both?"
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