Chapter 9

Cosima took her time in cleaning Delphine. The 'operation had so far been a success, but they wouldn't know for sure until a few hours time when everything had, had a chance to calm down inside Delphine.

"I remember when I nearly coughed everything up in the lab, you were there by my side wishing me to stay with you and not leave. Well the tables have turned and I am wishing you won't leave me Delphine. I don't know what I would do without you. God it broke my heart and made me alive when you came back from Frankfurt. I honestly thought that DYAD had black bagged you. When I saw you at the door I thought I was seeing things until I had you in my arms. Everything was how it should have been. We were back together, then you told me that to keep us all safe you couldn't be with me. Oh if you could have seen my heart shatter, Delphine my heart died that day completely. I never thought that I would feel anything again." Cosima whispered as her hands moved deftly over Delphine's skin to clean away all the blood.

'Cosima, if only you could have seen me after you went back inside the apartment. My heart was broken too. The one person who I wanted to be with and I had to let you go because of the promise I made you about loving all of you. That was why I took Rachel's job so I could do just that. I thought so long and hard about it all. I knew that in order to be in your life I had to let you go from my heart. My life was so empty without you. My only thought was to get you well and to get you away from DYAD. I would follow when we had managed to do that. Then we could have been together again, no more DYAD. No more Leda and no more Castor. I watched you all the time, it sounds weird but I had to know that in whatever you did you were safe. If you were safe I knew that your sisters were too. Scot gave me updates on you. He didn't tell me everything I know that but if it wasn't for him filling in the information I received than I know I would have gone mad and maybe not even come back from Topside when I did.' Delphine's mind was screaming out.

Cosima watched Delphine's face, it had began moving as if to let her know that she was in pain. "Delphine do you need pain relief?" Asked Cosima just as a tear fell from Delphine's eye.

"Don't cry Delphine. Everything will be OK in the end. You just have to keep fighting OK?!"

Shay pulled up outside the Steam Baths, she had been to Cosima's apartment and there had been no answer. So she had decided to go to Felix place to see if she was there. She knew there had been a meal or something earlier in the night because she had text Cosima about 8pm and that's what she had told her. It was now coming on for 6am. Getting out of her bug she locked the door and made her way to the front door. Suddenly she was grabbed from behind.

"What the fu..."

"It will be so much easier if you come with me Ms Davydov."

"How the hell do you know my name?" Struggled Shay.

"We have been monitoring you for the past few weeks and it would be in your best interests to come with me. I am not here to hurt you. My boss wants to explain a few things to you. I know you had a visit from Ms Cormier earlier tonight, and I know that you want answers as much as anything. We can give you those answers and more."

Shay stopped struggling and let herself be led to the parked car at the end of the alley.

"Just one question now though? How is Cosima?"

"Ms Neihaus is fine. She has a lot to deal with right now but she is fine." Came the simplistic reply.

Shay put on her seatbelt and let herself be driven to where ever it was they were going to take her. Peering out of the rear window she spotted who she thought was Cosima coming out of the building but it wasn't it was Sarah going to meet Mrs. S.

"Hey S I am on my way now. I will be with you in half an hour. I know I took a little longer than expected. Delphine seems to be OK at the minute. I have told Cosima, Felix and Scot to call me if absolutely anything happens. Also S have you heard anything about Alison? We haven't heard from her or Donnie in a while... Nothing your end at all. Hmm mm OK I will just get Felix to keep looking and digging. Art is trying to find out who the shooter was so we know who to look out for."

Sarah stopped and looked at the retreating car in the alley.

"S we are going to get out al right aren't we? I can't have them find Kira. I am going to go because I am going to call Cal, just give him the heads up. OK."

Sarah got in Beth's Jag and made her way easily onto the main road, not much traffic this time of the morning which was always good. She would be able to see if anyone was tailing her, which she knew would be a possibility with them having the original genome in their possession and so many people wanting Kendal Malone.

Sarah used the blue tooth in her car to call Cal, he answered after a few rings.

"Hey Sarah where are you?"

"I'm just driving about, you know how it is when you can't sleep." She answered using there code that they had agreed on in case they were being listened in on.

"You haven't been drinking have you?"

"No, just water."

"Good, so when are you going to Skype me again."

"Well I was looking at maybe 12 hours from now. I'm going to go back and have a sleep and make sure everyone is OK then I will call ya."

"Cool. I miss you and can't wait for later."

"Miss you too Call. See you soon." Sarah said before she hung up. She let out a sigh as she turned the corner into S's street and pulled up outside the familiar house which held both good and bad memories.

Mark had got back to the hotel and found that Gracie wasn't there. His heart was in his mouth. He was thinking the worst. He didn't bother looking through the room properly and flew out into the street and started calling out for his wife.

"GRACIE! GRACIE! Where are you?"

No answer so her started to run up and down the street looking. He stopped suddenly when he saw what looked like a body in the alley. Fear took over his senses.

"Gracie is that you? Answer me please?" He sobbed.

"Hey get off me!" Mark flew up in shock. It was another of the Leda clones.

"Who are you and what have you done with GRACIE!" He shouted his wife's name to emphasis the point.

The woman just laughed at him and stood up. Mark got into battle mode ready to attack if needs be.

"You really must be more careful about where you try and hide, Arlington have been on the phone to me to extract you back to their care."

"I am not going back there. I have my life here, I may not have long left I want to spend it with my wife." Mark said determinedly.

"Mark the only thing you have to live for here is the other ones of me. They hold the key to everything."

"You lie."

"Mark I have no reason to lie to you when we are from the same. You are my brother and I want to keep you safe. The sisters are out for themselves. We can work together to pull them down. Mark you know more than any of them you know how to start the cloning process. You did it with Johansen. You could do it again and cure yourself in the process."

"Why should I believe you?" Mark asked.

"Because Gracie is waiting for you. She asked me to tell you to listen to your voice mail messages."

Mark took his cell phone out of his pocket and dialled up his voice mail. Sure enough there were messages from Gracie. The first few asking where he was as he had been gone for hours. The last one was the one the clone had to listen to.

"Mark, the girl who is talking to you is telling you the truth. She will bring you to me. I came to the facility willingly. They want to help us and most importantly you."

Mark listened to see if he could hear any signs of duress or fear in Gracies voice which he couldn't so he put his cell away and put his hands up.

"OK I will come with you."

The Leda clone smiled and led Mark to the van that was waiting for them on the next street. The last thing Mark heard before it went dark was the crack as something hit the back of his head.