YAY! We hit the 10 CHAPTER mark! Okay, this chapter is MUCH longer than the other. Hope you enjoy it!
Sarah groaned and opened her eyes, but closed them again against the bright light. She thought she heard voices in the back. The last thing she remembered was talking with Melina in her office, and then...nothing. She strained to recognize the voices. One sounded familiar. Melina! The voice was Melina. And the other? It sounded vaguely familiar, but she couldn't remember. She opened her eyes again as they adjusted to the bright light. Upon seeing her awake, Melina frowned and the other person walked out of the room before Sarah could see who it was. Melina followed the other person out, leaving Sarah alone in the bright room.
Jenny stepped into the office where Becker and Lester were waiting for her.
"What's going on, what's happened?" Words spilled from her mouth, trying to find some reason to explain Sarah's sudden departure. Becker was silent but slipped her the note that Sarah had written to her. Jenny widened her eyes at what was wrote. This couldn't possibly be Sarah, unless her feelings magically changed overnight.
"A head start?" Jenny repeated in disbelief.
"We have to find her!" Becker stood up quickly.
"Now just hold on soldier boy, we need to do this in an orderly fashion." Lester finally spoke.
Becker tensed up even more, if possible, when he was called the nickname he specifically told Danny not to call him. He guessed Lester never knew about the nickname.
"Yes, there has to be more to this than what there appears to be." Jenny replied as Becker sat back down unwillingly.
"Are you saying it could be the spy?" Lester asked her.
"It's very possible."
"So what do we do?" Becker said.
"I...I don't know." Jenny hung her head as a tear slipped down. She didn't know if she could handle someone else disappearing. Already she missed Abby, Connor and Danny so much, not to mention Stephen and Nick who were already dead...
Sarah looked around the bright room, completely lost. It took a while for her eyes to adjust, but when they did, she found herself in a cell like room. She was surrounded by three cement walls and one wall that had iron bars, freshly polished and looked very hard to break. There were no windows in this room and a big, bright light hung from the ceiling.
"Well it seems as if you woke up," said a voice.
Sarah turned towards the voice and saw Melina standing in front of the iron bars, her arms crossed in front of her chest and her fiery red hair hanging loose on her back.
"What's going on?" asked Sarah. "Why have you taken me?"
"You don't need to know that," said Melina. She was fiddling with something in her hands. Sarah recognized it as an AHD.
"Why do you have an AHD?"
Melina sighed and walked closer to the iron bars.
"This," she said showing Sarah the device, "is an AHD, but also has the data that can control and operate my very own AHD, ADD, AND ASD, along with some other info that I might need later on."
Sarah's eyes got real big. She got it now.
"So, you're the spy."
Melina chuckled.
"You catch on fast Page, no wonder you go for the quick ones."
"What do you mean?" asked Sarah, very confused at what Melina was getting at.
"Oh don't play dumb Page I see the looks you give a certain Captain at work."
Sarah could feel her face heating up, so she hung her head and let her long, black hair cover her features.
"So all the flirting with the Captain was just to get information. You don't really fancy him?"
"No," said Melina. "I was assigned to get close to him. I wasn't too excited at first, thinking he wasn't anything to be amazed about but once I saw him I found it a good assignment in three ways. One, I get good pay for hanging with a super mega hot god. Two, I get payed to make him fall for me which leads me to three, I get to watch you suffer, as I take away the one thing that you want, but will never get. Why? Because you were too afraid to even bring up the subject. The Captain has no feelings for you. To him, you're just a friend. A regular, friend who he likes in a non romantic way of any..."
"Would you just SHUT UP!" yelled Sarah lifting her head in fury. She got up from the ground and walked up as close to Melina's face as possible. "I know, he probably doesn't have any feelings for me! I've known for a while now, but I still like to keep hoping. So, save yourself the lecture and the world oxygen and SHUT UP!"
Becker, Lester and Jenny were all standing around the ADD, trying to decide how to find Sarah.
"Let's track her mobile," said Becker. "I know that's what we've done before, like when I was working for Johnson and was trying to track Danny, Connor, Abby, and…Sarah."
Becker remembered that day. It pained him to point that gun at her, her expression slashed his heart in half; betrayal, worried, hurt, loath. Jenny seemed shocked at what the captain said.
"What are you talking about Becker?" she asked.
"It's a long story," he said, as he looked up Sarah's mobile and let the computer locate it.
The computer found Sarah's mobile. It was in a place that only Lester recognized.
"The Forest of Dean," he whispered.
"Didn't the anomaly close there a while back?" asked Jenny.
"It did," said Lester, "and it's never come back, not that I know of."
"So, do you think she's there?" asked Becker.
"Why are you asking me? I'm just in charge of the facility!"
"I don't think she's there," said Jenny, "the person could have dumped her mobile anywhere, if they were smart."
"We should probably go there though," said Becker. "It could be a clue to where she could be."
"I agree," said Jenny.
"Alright then," said Lester, "if all goes well, all my workers in this time period will come back safe. If not, then I'll have a lot of paperwork to look at and fill out."
"We'll be safe James," said Jenny, "promise."
"Good, Becker, take a dozen soldiers with you and Jenny. Call me whenever you can for updates."
The two nodded and Lester walked back to his office. Jenny looked over and noticed Becker very tense and nervous looking.
"She'll be okay Becker," said Jenny. "Don't worry."
Becker nodded.
"I hope so." Jenny patted his shoulder and left him to prepare to go.
Sarah had given up trying to figure out where she was being held. So she instead tried to figure out who Melina was really working for.
"So..." Sarah started, watching Melina punch buttons on her ADD/ASD/AHD.
Melina looked up from her work and glared at Sarah from across the room.
"What do you want?" She spat out.
"Well, obviously, I'm not here just because you 'value our friendship' so I have to be here for a reason, part of a plan so intricate and diabolical even you couldn't think up," the raven haired woman insulted the redhead.
Melina started shaking in anger and her cheeks started to match her hair.
"You want to know what's going on? Fine! You'll regret it." Melina held up a communicator to her mouth. "Yes, she wants to see you. Only if it's not too much of an issue."
Suddenly the door to the cell room slammed open. Sarah gasped as the last woman she ever expected to see walked in through the doors.
"Helen Cutter!"
*GASP!* Helen Cutter has returned! Yes, I don't like it either. So, what did you think? Please REVIEW! They make me happy as well as Katy.