Author's note: Here it is, finally! Sorry it took me so ling, but Jo can give one a headache from time to time. Thank you and enjoy!

Meg was still on the floor when she saw a shadow approaching. She looked up into Jo's red eyes, but there was no trace of any warmth. At that point she could have frozen with fire.

"What are you doing on the ground? Is this some eccentric way for you rich people to pass time? Guess cozy, expensive furniture isn't enough now days" the silver haired woman said bored.

Meg wiped her tears away and stood up, sighting long.

"So who are you?" she asked wanting to understand what passed through Jo's mind.

"As your father said, I am Jo."

"I got that…but who are you, where do you come from?"

"Around here. I was away for a while doing some training."

"What kind of training? Where?"

"Military training, some place in America you wouldn't know".

The red haired beauty pressed her lips together, concluding that, not only had her father erased all of Jo's memory, but he also implanted a new one in Jo's mind.

"Are you sure?" Meg asked.

"Of course I am sure, what kind of question is that?"

Meg approached Jo raised her head and kissed the woman. Her lips felt like marble, stiff at first, but then Jo pressed her mouth against Meg, kissed her hard, placing her palm on Meg's butt. At first she let herself be kissed almost animally by Jo, but then Meg pulled away.

"It's in vein, I thought it would help" she whispered to herself and turned to walk away, not baring the sight of Jo anymore. Not of this…Jo. But the woman caught her wrist and pulled her back.

"Wait…you kiss me and leave?"

"Yes, it was a mistake."

"A mistake? What kind of mistake is this? If this is a game, I can play games, but truly I would prefer taking you upstairs and having a little bit of fun with you. And from your kiss, I guess you wanted the same."

"Oh, you don't know how much I would like that. But not with…you. And not for a 'little time'.

"Look love" Jo smirked pulling Meg closer "I can't promise you a beautiful relationship with pink flowers and cuddling puppies, as I don't care for that, but I can promise to make you scream louder than you ever did."

"Yes, I would like to scream right now" Meg frowned and pulled away.

She ran up the stairs to her room, looked herself in there and sighted long. The fact was…she had no idea what to do next.

The next days to follow, Meg tried avoiding everyone as much as she could, pretending she had a bad flew. She went to town, lying that she was going to see a doctor. She tried contacting Sei, Kyohei, Amy, Leo, anybody. But it was all in vein, no number she dialed was still in use. She got no reply to her email, letters, postcards and started fearing her father might have arranged a sudden disappearing to all of them. But Bei Lan was much too strong and big for that, she just couldn't believe it.

"Honey, are you feeling better?" Laurent asked that night Meg finally decided to come out of her room.

"Yes, I am…"

"You have to let me check you, after all I am a doctor."

"I would rather not. But I have a question and I need you to be sincere."

"Meg, you can blame for anything you like. But not of ever lying to you. I have always answered your questions very sincere. That is, of course, if you asked me."

"I want to know how you captured Jo."

"Captured Jo?" he laughed short. "I didn't have to capture her. She walked right into the house, telling me that she will surrender if I promise to never harm you. Of course I would have never but…I gave her what she wanted."

"That's it?" Meg's eyes widened.

"Yes, simple as that" he shrugged.

Meg stood up.

"Just that you know…you harmed me more than I ever thought you could."

"That's just nonsense; I always wanted your best. You think falling in love with a synthetic life was something good for you? How can you love a robot, Meg? She doesn't have such feelings, she has only primary instincts."

"Well you see…father" she said cold "you are terrible wrong, not to mention that you are an ignorant. You created something and you never took the time to learn about it. You never took the time to try and see more in her."

"I created a killing machine, Meg! I created a life form that would have helped me later to develop just certain organs, not a somehow human being! Organs that would have helped your mother from dying!" his voice raised.

"She was already dead, you would have turn her into a zombie!"

"You're such a child…"

"No, I am not! Because you took that away from me, you turned me into a barrel of sadness and then took away the only person who had finally made me sane again. That is because all your life you cared only for your emotions and your desires! Only what you wanted mattered. You loved my mother in an egoistic way, just as you love me."

"Well, at least I love you! You just hate me!"

"I don't hate you…"Meg's voice softened. "I can't…you are my father. But, I pity you and certainly I have stopped loving you many years ago. End of story!"

She took a deep breath and walked out of the room, asking the maid where Jo was. She found the woman and Maria in the kitchen. Meg approached Jo and slapped the woman's face as hard as she could.

"Fool! I had a plan, you know! You don't always have to come to rescue me, I did have a plan. I was going to come back for you and end this once and for all!"

She raised her hand again, her eyes watering, but Jo caught it.

"Are you out of your fucking mind? What are you talking about?" Jo asked trying to keep her calm. Maria was laughing. "Don't ever hit me again, or I swear I will forget you are your father's daughter and that won't…feel nice."

"You are the biggest fool ever!" Meg shouted and left the room.

"Finally, some show I enjoyed" Maria said pleased.

"Did she do that to you too?" Jo asked angry.

"No, she was just sugar and honey with me. By the way I like Meg, so you will just keep away from her."

"And why would you like a spoiled brat?"

"Oh, I have my reasons" her eyes sparkled. "I wonder how it feels like to have someone adore you just as she adored…"Maria stopped. She laughed again and walked to the door, leaving Jo look bored after her.

"You became boring since you stopped wanting to fight me" she called after the woman.

"Just a faze…I will want to fight you again and when the time comes it will be a different kind of fight. Right now I am entertained, we will talk when I'll be bored again."

"You mean, finished with that girl?"

"Probably" Maria shrugged and left.

Meg was sending her thousand email to Sei. It was almost noon, she was hiding in the garden and the sun was burning on her white skin. She sighted and hoped for the best.

"So what is it about you that everybody is so mesmerized about?" Jo approached looking down at the woman.

"Mesmerized?" Meg asked as she tried seeing Jo's face, but because of the light she could only recognize a shadow. Jo's silhouette recalled Meg of an angel and she felt her heart soften again.

"Yes, I mean your father, Maria…even the maids, all are concentrating around you."

"Maybe I am cute" Meg tried joking.

"Well…"Jo shrugged.

"Or maybe not".

"You're beautiful enough, but I don't think it's that".

"Beautiful enough?" Meg laughed short.

"Don't play innocent with me, you know that very well" Jo said a little annoyed.

"Doesn't seem to help".

"Help you in what?"

"Have you ever loved, Jo?"

"No" she replied short.

Meg had to take a long breath in order to not burst from that sharp response.

"Well, I did. But I lost that person. I actually lost both persons I loved most. One dies, the other was taken away from me. Now I fight for that second person."

"You are wasting your time. If someone doesn't want you, then move on."

"No, I won't" Meg smiled for the first time in a long while. "Not at least until I know she receives her life back."

"You're talking in riddles to me. And I am usually not breaking my mind with things I don't care for" Jo said wanting to leave.

"Wouldn't you like to leave this place and have a life of your own?" Meg asked stopping the woman.

"On my own? Where? What?" Jo crooked her nose.

"I don't know, out there, doing whatever you like to".

"I am fine here, why change that?"

"But do you like it here?"

"What are you asking me, Meg? Why don't you just leave and find your love and stop asking me silly questions? If you want to leave then do so. Don't assume others want what you do".

"Damn it, this is getting much too complicated" Meg rubbed her forehead.

"Then drop it".

Jo walked away.

The night had fallen down when Meg returned back to the house. She wanted to go directly to her room, but her eyes stopped on a small, wooded door that went to the basement. She looked long at it and as much as she tried moving away from there, she couldn't. She approached the door and to her surprise it was opened. She went down the illuminated corridor and stopped in front of another door, a metallic, modern one. She couldn't recall that door. It was locked. Her eyes fell on a small scanning device that seemed to be destined for a hand.

"Oh father" she whispered disappointed. But then she placed her hand on the scanner and to her big surprise the door opened. She stepped inside stopping at the first door on the right. She opened it and entered the dark room, searching with her hand for the switch. She finally found it and as she pressed it she froze. The room looked the same as it did years ago. Even the sheets were the same. Crumbled and used. The cup, the robe, the slippers. Everything was lying in the same position like that same night…only her mother was missing. Meg pressed her back against the wall, feeling her mind blur, fearing not to fall to the ground. She found it hard to breathe; she covered her eyes, seeing the image of her mother in front of her. Every nightmare that was haunting her appeared in front of her and she wanted to run out, but she couldn't. She dropped to the floor and covered her head, screaming inside. She lost herself for a moment, nothing seemed real anymore.

Meg felt she was lifted from the ground. She was still covering her head and eyes, her body stiff, but the arms around her felt familiar. She was afraid to open her eyes; she pressed her lips together and then felt she was placed on sheets.

"Meg…come to yourself" she heard Jo's low voice, but this time it sounded warm. "Your father is on his way…".

Meg tried saying something, but she couldn't. She opened her eyes and the dim light fell on Jo's tattoos, making them open like wings. And then Meg calmed, her lips smiling softly. She knew the nightmares and guilt would always remain, but she accepted them, knowing how to face the world with them. She lost her conscience falling in a deep sleep.

When Meg opened her eyes she found her father in the same room, working at a big computer. She looked around: the whole room was filled with devices that looked like a SF movie to her. She pushed the blanket away and placed her feet on the ground.

"You had a nervous breakdown, that's all" her father said in a soft tone. He was smiling, he was always smiling. "Jo told me she found you in your mother…in her room".

"Yes…what is this place?" Meg asked. "Since when…"

"It was always there, Meg. Just that you never walked beyond that room."

"You always said this was your research lab, you wouldn't let me enter".

"But today you opened the doors to it with you own hand, because you are a part of it now. This is you Meg as it is me".

"Did you create Maria and Jo here?"

"Yes…"

"Jo is approximately my age and Maria probably as well. So all this time…"

"I moved them here, when the government dropped the project. But, basically they are a little younger than you".

"So you didn't raise one child, but three".

"I raised one daughter, my child. I trained and build the other two".

"Father, how can you be so open minded and so narrow minded at the same time? Why is it that you always want to see only as far as your eye go? I mean, you are a revolutionary mind, you are genius and you act like…like a…like a heartless mind. Right, that's it. You try separating the two, after all bringing them together only harmed you. So you prefer acting like a cold, senseless person. But, come on father, you can't be only like this; I mean you raised me and I am a cry baby after all".

He looked at her surprised, she was smiling amused. Meg jumped of the bed and walked the mazes of corridors still amazed what was hidden under her house. She finally found her way out and went to Jo's room, hoping the woman was there. She knocked and entered. Jo was under the shower so she sat down on the bed and waited for the woman to come out. And she did, to Meg's relief with a towel around her. She looked surprised at the woman on her bed. Meg stood up and approached Jo, the smile on her face confident and playful.

"Can you even imagine how it feels to be loved truly, to be desired, to have someone absorb you, look at you like you are everything in this world?"

Jo remained still for a second looking intrigued at the woman.

"Yet again with the romantic sweet talk? I told you…"

"Just answer me the question" Meg said as she stood up and approached her. "Do you know how it feels to not be alone in this world?".

Silence took over the room.

"I do. And mostly I do know how it is to gift that to someone. You can't possibly understand what I mumble here, because it was taken away from you. But I won't give up, Jo. I won't"

She smiled and it seemed to Jo that light filled up the room. Meg turned and walked to the door.

"Meg…" Jo called after her. "You're blessed, you blessed yourself. You will never be empty as much as you might suffer. Your heart is too big to be emptied. But don't gift your love to emptiness".

"Why not? If something is empty it can be filled" she said with joy. "Night, Jo".

She left the room and Jo rubbed her forehead. She hit the closet with her fist, but even if angry a smile appeared in the corner of her lip.

Meg walked back to her room and bumped into Maria.

"I can't believe it that you still try. Can't you see she can't care less?" Maria asked.

"Because she can't remember."

"Oh, really? Ok, she can't. But how come she doesn't feel anything for you? Because, let's face it, love is not something your father can erase. By now Jo should have questions about you, feel something. Yet she is cold and senseless like always. I feel you are fooling yourself, Meg."

Meg arched a little.

"No, really, think of it. How come she doesn't have any feelings at all for you? Maybe Jo never loved you, maybe she thought she did or she wished she could. Has she even told you she does?"

"Some things don't need words".

"But others do. Just think of it, I wouldn't want to see you suffer for nothing".

Meg frowned and looked long at Maria. Then she entered her room. Maria grinned and walked away, just to bump into Jo behind the corner.

"Jo" Maria grinned even more.

Jo grabbed Maria by her neck. She pushed the woman to the wall.

"What was that? What are you hiding from me?"

Maria looked long at the woman, barely moving. Her lips were still grinning.

"I heard everything you said to her. What is that about me loving her?"

"I wonder if…if I kill you, will she learn to love me?" Maria asked.

"What?"

"What's going on here?" Laurent interrupted the two. Jo pulled away.

"Nothing, just a regular quarrel between siblings."

"Which involves chocking?"

"Well, you know us, we argue differently" Jo shrugged.

"Laurent, who would you prefer Meg would love? Me or Jo?" Maria asked surprising both Laurent and Jo.

"None of you! For crying out loud, keep away from my daughter, or I will end you both. I made you, I can end you!" he said with anger.

"Is that so?" Maria snorted approaching Laurent, making him back up. "You see, Laurent, maybe the government was right, maybe we are experiments who got out of hand. Am I right, Jo?"

The woman smirked and also approached the two.

"You played god for too long" Jo shrugged.

Maria placed her hand on the man's neck, who was by now shivering in fear.

"Don't play with poisonous toys. Didn't your mother teach you that?" Maria whispered in his ear. "I can break you with a snap of my fingers".

"Maria, you went insane" he said, his voice lowering.

"No, I am sick of you. And so is Jo".

"And what will you be without me? You don't even exist, legally!"

"That was never a problem for us. If I would be you, I would rather think of what will happen to Meg of you die."

"What has gotten into you?" he placed his palms on her hands.

"Do it already" Jo said turning around, but as she did she faced Meg. The woman's eyes had turned cold and she approached Laurent, pulling him out of Maria's grip.

"You just turned into the monsters my father believed he created" Meg said, her voice low and thick.

"Isn't this what you wanted?" Jo asked. "To escape him?"

"You suddenly know what I want?" Meg looked at the woman. "I wanted my peace and the woman I love back. But not with the price of another life, be it even my father, who lately has done nothing else than to hurt me. In the end, he is my father. Let's go"

She pulled him away, making him run as fast as he could. She pushed him in one of his cars and drove off. And she drove for long into the night, in perfect silence. Finally, Meg pulled in front of a hotel.

"I don't know what to say, Meg…" Laurent whispered. "I never expected you to come to my rescue".

"You did this to yourself. With your own hand" Meg said exiting the car. She went to the reception and booked an apartment, where she took her father.

"Now what?" he asked sitting on the couch.

"Now you explain to me what your true plan was. With Jo and Maria. And don't lie to me".

"My initial plan…you know it. I thought that by creating them I could create parts, body parts to rescue your mother. I never got the chance to it as…" he sighted. "I don't know…I wanted my own army, I wanted to have power. And I saw the beginning of it in Maria and Jo."

"Why? Why the need of this power?"

"Because I could be in control of everything!"

Meg snickered amused.

"I am after all, just a soul in pain, Meg!"

"No, you are not! A soul in pain grieves! You…control, build, you…"

"I do it my way".

"Ok. I will tell you what to do and you will, if not I swear to you I will blow up everything you have done! Tomorrow you will go to the bank and open one account for each one of them. You will give them money, an identity, a life. And you will leave them alone. You will set both free".

"And you think they will stop hunting me down?"

"I hope so".

"And then what?"

"I don't fucking care! Go to Asia, become a monk, meditate. It's not my problem" she stood up.

"And you…what about you?" he stopped her.

Meg remained silent.

"I have no idea. I truly don't. Try to get some rest" she said going into her room.

Meg didn't get too much sleep that night. She tossed in bed and by day brake was already fit. Laurent woke up and found Meg with his lawyer having a conversation.

"There you are" the man greeted Meg's father. "I understand from Meg you…well I can settle it all. I can create documents for two nonexistent persons. And I won't ask anything, the money Meg promised me is enough to shut my mouth. I will bring later the documents for you to sign".

Laurent nodded and the man left. Meg looked at him satisfied.

"I am proud of you" she said.

Her phone rang and she picked up.

"I need to see you" Jo said.

"Jo…"

"I really need to see you".

"No, Jo. Not now. In a few days then I will have something for you."

"Meg…please."

"Just trust me. I know you have no reason for it, but try. Ok?" she hang up.

She sighted.

"I called her a monster" Meg whispered.

"Meg…I am sorry" her father said.

"Well…"

"I mean I am truly sorry for what is going to happen now".

"What do you…"

Meg didn't get to finish her sentence as the door brook open, several masked men entering. They shot something at Meg and the woman lost her conscience.