CHAPTER 11

Delphine's breathing was become easier as the minutes rolled by. Cosima stood guard over her only leaving to go to the bathroom or when Felix dragged her out for a joint. She really didn't want to leave at all but she had to, else Felix would have taken her by force.

"So Cos, what are you going to do about Shay?" Fee asked during one of these non-negotiable joint breaks.

"Well we broke up didn't we so I am a free agent. "

"That may be my fellow queer, but what if she comes looking for answers?"

Cosima couldn't answer that. She thought back to when Fee had put her profile up on Sapphire. She had been so angry at first, but she soon got over it. It didn't help that he had made her so geeky sounding that if she even got one hit it would be a miracle. So when Shay had left a message for her she had been flabbergasted to say the least. And my god was Shay hot as….

She didn't tell Felix or Sarah straight away, she messaged Shay a bit more to see if 1 she could get to know her a bit more and 2 that she wasn't a He and that she wasn't a serial killer.

It had shocked her how well they had hit it off; she wasn't really looking for anything full on because in all her body and mind she still loved Delphine. She still held out hope that she would come back and say it had all been a big mistake. Even Cosima had wished sometimes that she hadn't made Delphine make that stupid promise about loving all the sisters. Then she would still be around.

When Cosima had finally told Fee and Sarah they had taken the mickey something terrible with her but they were happy that she was moving on.

"Get that Frenchie out of your head she will!" Sarah had teased one day.

"I don't want Delphine out of my head Sarah. She is the first person I have truly loved."

"Yeah that may be Cos, but where is she now? She is holed up with Marion bloody Bowles probably deciding which one of us to dissect first!"

"No, I know Delphine and she wouldn't sell us out she made a sworn promise."

"Like that means shit after everything that has happened."

Cosima didn't like to admit it but Sarah did have a point.

It was a couple of days after when Cosima had met up with Shay. It had gone so well. She had surprised herself when she had asked Shay back to her apartment. The sex was wow too, but she couldn't help thinking that it wasn't Delphine and that it should have been her.

Cosima zoned back in to where she was.

"I'm going back in to Delphine." She told Felix. He nodded in reply.

Sitting on the edge of the bed Cosima once again took Delphine's hand and pressed it to her face.

"My love please come back to me. I need you so much. We all need you, but me the most. You are everything to me. I would give it all up for you to come back to me."

Delphine's hand twitched in hers. Cosima smiled.

"You can hear me now? Delphine fight please. Fight to be here. Don't let them win!" Again Delphine's hand twitched in hers. Cosima couldn't stop the smile from forming. This was what she wanted so much.

'Cosima I hear you, I will fight for you until my last breath. 'Delphine's mind rambled. Just being able to let Cosima know that she was still there was all that mattered.

Donnie and Jessie parked up outside a massive house in the back end of beyond. The snow had started to fall harder.

"You wait here I will go look around." Donnie told the young man sat next to him. He got nod in reply. Donnie crept up the driveway to the front of the house. There were no lights on but when he got closer to the front door a sensor light flicked on and illuminated him for all to see. Suddenly the front door flung open and there stood a tall slim woman she must have been in her late thirties or early forties Donnie thought.

"Hello Donnie, I have been expecting you, Alison is inside….."

"You better not have done anything to my wife!" Donnie warned.

"Nothing has happened to Alison she is safe and well in her rooms. By the way let me introduce myself. I am Marion Bowles. Sarah Manning knows who I am. I am here to protect you and your family. Cal Morrison is my associate; he is trying to keep all the sisters safe."

"I know of you, Sarah told us all a little about her trip here."

"Then you will understand why it is important I keep the Leda clones safe. There is another rogue clone. We believed that it was only Helena, who worked with the proletians but there was also a Leda clone working with the Neolotionists that we didn't know about until a few days ago. Neolotion is out to gather the original genome and start the whole clone process gain, but this time to make everyone into their mould. We cannot let this happen as this will be the end of free civilisation as we know it."

Donnie looked completely lost at what Marion was telling him but he just nodded anyway.

"Let me take you to your wife. Your friend outside will not find Helena here. I have men watching the others, except Sarah she seems to have gone off the radar at the minute, which is probably a good thing."

Sarah got off the plane and met with Benjamin, he had gone ahead to get all the snow mobiles and everything else sorted for the 3 women so they had a smooth transition.

"S the mobiles have to be back by next week, they are in the name Morton, and I know how much you hate that name." Laughed Benjamin.

"Thanks Benjamin, is everything OK at the other end?" Asked S.

"Yes everything is fine. My man is there he will let me know if there are any problems before you get there." He whispers the next part to S. "Cal has gone to ground but the lady who is looking after Kira is one of ours who we can trust. Also Ferdinand has been in contact, he wants you to call him when you are safe so he can spin a tale about where you are."

"Thanks again Benjamin. It is much appreciated." The Irish woman said fondly to her friend.

"No worries S. I know you would do the same for me."

With that they parted ways. Kendal and S on one snow mobile and Sarah on the other. They knew exactly where they were going and went on their way.

Scot had left the flat a couple of hours ago. He relaxed at home, he did wonder if he was doing the right thing. He had been approached by the men outside Felix's place and offered to go into a safe house but he refused. He wanted to stay close to Cosima. While he played the love struck dork with her there was more to it than that. When Cosima had first gone to Toronto to work at DYAD he had been approached by Dr Leekie, he had asked him to become part of the Neolution team; he had been sold it so well he had agreed. It took him to Cosima. Yeah he did have feelings for her but he loved her as a friend.

When Rachel had been injured Dr Nealon had approached him and told him that it was his time to come good. Scot had thought about leaving because he couldn't betray Cosima but Nealon had made it clear that if he didn't come good on his promise to Leekie then he would be dead. It was his job to ensure that Cosima never found the cure to her illness and he had to put whatever blockade he could in the way. It was him that had led Gracie to the book, also led Shay into Cosima's life. It was him that had suggested to Rachel to send Delphine to Frankfurt; he honestly thought that she wouldn't come back.

He was now in a quandary because he had gone against his employers and saved Delphine who they had tried to kill. Now he hadn't heard anything back yet about Delphine and whether she had 'died' or not but he knew it would get to them soon that she was still alive. That he had helped save her.

He picked up his phone off the table and brought up Cosima's number. He began to write a text.

Cosima, I am so sorry but I have betrayed you in the worst possible way. I am the one responsible for all that has happened in the last few weeks. I am part of neolution. I am so sorry I do not expect you to forgive me but I hope you will understand why I did it.

A shot rings out in the darkness and hits Scot in the back of the head. As he is thrown forward his fingers slide over the send icon on his phone.