Ok two updates in just under a week, aren't you all privileged and can everyone please stop complaining about the chapter length? Here's what I want you all to do, open up a document and type out over 2000 words for a chapter, I never put up a chapter under 1000 words and 2000 is about my average but it's tough work!!

Thanks for reviewing though!

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Previously in Things Have Changed

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Still and silent Lando said nothing, he kept his lips and eyes closed as Kai advanced on him and his team mate, upon seeing this Kai smirked and continued towards his victim "There's nothing that he can tell me that will make me relent nothing at all."

He had just lit up the blowtorch and was heading for Kendall when…

"SHE'S ALIVE!"

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And Now

Silence.

Not even Kendall's gasps of pain continued after his declaration.

No one knew what to say or do, they just stood staring at the scene in front of them as though frozen place.

Finally Kai snapped back into reality, dropping his tools of torture he grabbed Kendall by the collar of his shirt with one hand and pulling his other hand back punched the man across the jaw

"LIAR!" He yelled placing both hands around Kendall's throat and tightening his hold "How can you even begin to try…"

"He's not lying"

The voice was soft and female, not letting go of his victim Kai looked over his shoulder to find Millie standing behind him. She looked nervous her eyes filled with apprehension as she stood ready to talk. Kai stared at her incredulously his hands loosening a little but not enough to ease Kendall's pain.

"At least, I don't think he is…, let him go. Please!"

Turning back to glare at his victim Kai took intense pleasure in the fact that the man was turning an odd shade of blue.

"Please Kai" Millie begged desperately "I really do think he's telling the truth. If you let him go I'll explain it to you."

With a grunt of disgust Kai nodded and finally let go of the choking Kendall "If he doesn't tell us what we want to know, I will kill him" Kai muttered standing away from the dark haired young man.

Unsurprisingly Kendall was unable to speak after his treatment but it looked as though Lando was close to opening up so Millie moved towards him.

"Tell me Lando, who owned the boat that you dragged Hilary onto after you both went over the cliff?" Silence "How long was it before you were dropped off at the house opposite Mrs Masefield's?" still more silence, Tala moved forward threateningly but Millie merely held up a hand indicating that he shouldn't interfere "When did you get the word to kill Dr Kroeger?"

Eyes wide Lando stared at Millie, after a few seconds he smiled and nodded approvingly "How long did it take you to work out that she was alive?"

"Not long" Millie admitted

"It was the post mortem wasn't it?" Lando asked seeming more and more amused as the time ticked by "Boris knew that was a loose end, I guess we killed old Kroeger before you found anything out"

"Yeah, that was a part of it, of course I first got suspicious when Horatio paid off the crematorium so that they would burn Hilary's body early" Millie nodded a familiar feeling of revulsion rising up in her throat as she thought of the poor man who's only crime was doing his job. "I actually found him, Dr Kroeger, you did a good job, he really looked like he had killed himself."

"I'm proud of my work" Lando laughed "you know I should have figured out that you were going to be a problem, you distracted Kendall, you were smart enough to hack into the Tatibana Inc files… Brady told us about it… and now this. If you weren't here Kai wouldn't have believed what Kendall just said, he would've choked the life out of him, killed me and that would have been it. I should've gotten rid of you long ago."

"And anyone with any sense would have gotten rid of you but that's not the point, want to know what I know?"

"Please, I think you've got an avid audience behind you as well."

Millie turned to find that he was correct, everyone, with the exception of Mariah, stood staring at her in complete disbelief.

"Millie what's going on?" Max asked quietly Millie sighed and moved closer to the group of Hilary's friends. Picking up her bag she pulled out the copy of the report that Kai had given her and then began to explain.

"After Hilary's death there were too many unanswered questions, so much didn't make sense, so eventually I went to Kai and asked for a copy of the autopsy report. There's no mention in the report of the scar on her arm, the one she got when she was shot. At first I thought that they might have just left that out, that's why I went to see the guy who did the autopsy, to ask him about it."

"And?"

"Didn't you just hear? He's dead, apparently he hung himself" Millie put a hand over her stomach as she told them this bit "It was horrible"

"It still doesn't prove anything" Kai told her but inside he was beginning to get hopeful, he couldn't help it, after so long without any hope of happiness ever again he was letting this little blonde girl tell him anything she could.

"I know it doesn't prove anything but I think he was killed to keep him quiet and there's more… Kai…" Millie looked directly at him "the autopsy report definitely says that she was virgo intacto"

"Um…..what's that?" Tyson asked

"It's a medical term, it basically means that the Hilary we cremated was a virgin"

"What?" Kai stood and grabbed the report from her hands "but that's impossible!"

Unable to stop herself Millie grinned "Yeah that's what I suspected!"

"Hold Up" Rays eyes flashed angrily "you and Hilary?"

"Not now Ray" Mariah sighed as she took his hand "you can go all hypocritically big brother-ish when Millie tells you the rest"

"It's simple" Millie told them still looking at Kai "if the girl we cremated was a virgin then she wasn't Hilary!"

"But I saw her" Kai told them sadly his whole face pained "I couldn't have been mistaken"

"You could have been tricked though, Kenny do you remember that file we found in Tatibana Incs secret files"

"Which one?"

"The Dolly files"

"The dolly fi…..? Wait you mean the cloning report?" Kenny asked "but that never worked, the clones would die within minutes, an hour was the longest any of them lasted."

"Exactly, but the time of death was always a bit odd as well." Millie told him seriously "Look they still have that cloning facility, if they had a sample of Hilary's DNA they could clone her a body, get a set up where Hilary would die and then…"

"Then present the dead clone" Kenny agreed "as the real Hilary"

"Getting the real Hilary away from us and being sure we'd never look for her, guys….she's out there somewhere." Tyson whispered completely stunned by this announcement. "Wait!" Turning to face the two men tied to the chairs he frowned before asking "You had my little nephew with you, what were you planning to do with him if Hilary hadn't saved him?"

"Who? The Kid?" Lando asked smiling "well I would have thought that was obvious, he's have been let go, he'd have had a fifty, fifty chance of survival same as…"

Tyson didn't let the man finish as his fist connected painfully with Lando's jaw effectively silencing him. Swearing angrily Tyson pulled his fist back again and punched at Lando again only this time there was so much power behind the punch the entire chair was rocked by it and Lando fell chair and all to the side.

"Your lucky" Tyson hissed angrily "You're lucky you might still be of some use to us, if you weren't" he knelt next to Lando smirking "I'd kill you, who knows, once this is all over I might still do that."

Standing Tyson walked back to the group nursing his fist, looking around he was surprised by the approving looks he was getting from the Blitzkrieg Boys.

"What I don't get is why" asking the question that had been bothering him since all this began, Tala spoke before anyone else could start, "Hilary is no beyblader she's never going to be the perfect blader and that's what they've been working on for years…. Right?"

"Ah yes" Mariah nodded "but they didn't want to train her, they needed her to help create the perfect blader. That's where Brooklyn comes into it all!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kai asked in a deadly serious tone "What do they expect Hilary and Brooklyn to do"

"No!" Mariah shook her head understanding where Kai's mind was going "That's not what I meant… although I'm not sure if that would be better or worse than what's planned. Kai… Brooklyn's your cousin"

"What?" there was real shock as everyone stared at Mariah, Kai looked completely disbelieving.

"That's not all" Mariah scratched her head as she thought about what to say next "Brooklyn's also Hilary's… he's her half brother"

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The house in America was very unlike the one in Russia, Hilary preferred it.

She had been entranced with the way they had travelled to this country, the flight had been private and she and Sammy had practically glued their faces to the windows during take off and landing. The plane was large and she had played with Sammy for half of the journey flying good old Buzz Light-year around just like they were. The meals had been delicious and as they were the only ones on the plane there was no one else to worry about so they could be as noisy or silly as they wanted.

Hilary wondered if she had ever flown before but her grandfather had put ear plugs in and fallen asleep soon after the flight began and her aunt and uncle didn't know. She had sat for a while just listening to the sounds and feeling the movement of the plane trying to work through the blankness of her mind but she had soon been interrupted. Sammy had wanted to play and she was more than willing to. As much as she loved the kid though she had to admit the flight had been a bit too much for her.

After the flight they had moved from the private airfield through the dark evening and quiet back roads of America out to the Ranch that her grandfather owned, much like the Russian house it was isolated but there were animals and larger grounds to explore and Hilary looked forward to it.

"HILARY!!" Smiling Hilary turned back to see Sammy running towards her dressed in his pyjamas and slippers.

"Hey kid, shouldn't you be in bed?" she grinned and picked up the boy who was smiling cheekily and holding a hard plastic toy that didn't look like his usual Toy Story toy. "what have you got there?"

"My new toy, Grandfather let me have it!!"

"Lets have a look" Hilary tilted her head to one side as she stared at the purple silver and red action figure in the boy's hand "Well he looks tough"

"He is, he can…" Sammy continued to display all of his new toy's special features as Hilary carried him to his room. Once there Hilary pulled back the bedcovers and listened patiently as she placed the boy into his bed. She removed his slippers absentmindedly nodding to Sammy before pulling the covers over him and tucking him in.

Kissing the boy in the forehead she placed a hand on his toy saying "Ok now put Optimus Prime down and go to sleep."

"Ok" Sammy nodded contentedly as Hilary put the toy down on his chest of drawers "Hil? How'd you know?"

"How did I know what?" Hilary asked smiling

"That he was…" Sammy yawned loudly interrupting his question briefly "That was Optimus Prime?"

"You said so… didn't you?" Hilary asked staring at the little boy as he settled into bed

"Nope!" and with that Sammy rolled over and snuggled down under his covers.

Standing in Sammy's doorway Hilary frowned as she thought about it, Sammy might have said Optimus Prime was the toys name but she hadn't really been listening to him. Even if he had said what they toy was called she wouldn't have been able to remember…

Shaking her head Hilary closed the door behind her, in a way it might make sense that she remembered silly things like that. After all she remembered than an aeroplane was an airplane, she knew what the ocean was, she knew she was human, if all those facts were still in her psyche then surely silly things like the name of Optimus Prime would be in there somewhere.

She moved quickly through the house her face contorted in pain as she tried to make her brain remember. Her head was beginning to ache she was trying so hard to think. Deciding to avoid her family under pretence of being travel weary Hilary walked to her room and walked inside.

Everything had been unpacked for her by her grandfathers servants… now that was another thing that she didn't like, she didn't like having other people do stuff for her. She wondered if in her old life she was more used to doing things for herself.

Her old life.

She spent so long wondering about that, she didn't have many things amongst her luggage that were 'reminders' of her old life. Actually thinking about it Hilary reasoned that asides from her clothes, none of which she felt comfortable in, (did she really like all these long dresses?) she had only one thing from her old life.

Her jewellery box

Holding the jewellery box in in her hands Hilary sat on her bed and smiled. The photo of her receiving this on her birthday reminded her that she had, had a life before this blankness took over, and this box, an heirloom, an object that had belonged to her grandmother it had obviously been special to her before. She had made sure to pick up the box before she left Russia, she felt like it was a part of herself, a connection to her old life.

She turned the silver box over and studied it carefully, for some reason she felt as though there was something she should see here, something she should know.

"Hilary!" there was a knock at her door

"Come in" Looking up she smiled at her grandfather as he entered the room "Is everything ok?" she asked

"Yes but we are about to have something to eat. Do you remember? We said we'd have something at seven?"

Hilary glanced over at the clock, it was just after seven and she jumped up "Sorry Grandfather, you start I'll be down in a second." He nodded and left the room, Hilary ran to change her outfit not really wanting to sit and eat in her travelling clothes.

As she dashed around she dropped the jewellery box carelessly on the bed and didn't notice as it fell off dropping onto the carpeted floor. She left the room not seeing that the underside of the box had come loose and a compartment had opened.

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"Well whatever Agent Sanders found it's gone now" Jake cursed as he picked up a glass from the table where six places were set for a meal that obviously didn't get finished. "Damn it!"

"We'll find him again Jake" Cheryl moved forward and placed a comforting hand on her husbands arm "It's just going to take time"

"Time?" Jake asked staring at the blonde in disbelief "We wasted enough time letting him continue like we did, we could have stopped him years ago but no! Dear old Mother Hen decided that we needed to get him and all his associates. Because we waited Hilary died, years of planning and acting and I still couldn't save her."

Turning Jake gave a yell and threw the glass he held across the room smiling as it smashed on the opposite wall

"Jake, you couldn't have known what would happen, and your grandfather never wanted Hilary dead, it was a mistake on his part too. That's probably why he's decided to go underground for a while."

"I know" Jake nodded gazing around the large house that looked as though a tornado had run through it. His grandfather and his grandfathers associates had obviously been in a rush when they left this place "I'm just annoyed, the only reason MI5 knew where he was going was because he told me. If we turn up at his next destination my cover's going to be blown."

"Then we'll find a way to work around it" Cheryl comforted "If you want you can always blame the alcoholic girlfriend" she grinned teasingly as she reminded Jake of her cover story, when they had first told the story it was supposed to be a one time operation and 'Cheryl' was supposed to leave and never be seen again. Unfortunately the two agents had made the mistake of falling in love and after a secret marriage ceremony had continued to work together. Jake's conservative family had good memories and they couldn't change the story so Jake had added to his 'black sheep' image that he was still dating an alcoholic.

Jake chuckled lightly before turning and kissing the woman on her head "We'll work something out, if I blame you then they'll look into your background more and then we'll have more problems."

"Good point" Cheryl agreed before glancing around the room they were in "I guess we'd better do the fingertip search on this place"

"Mm-hm" Jake nodded "we'll let them rip it apart. Maybe they'll find something."

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"Are you sure?" Kai asked quietly as Mariah finished explaining what she had found out "Are you sure that's what they plan to do to Hilary?"

"No, but from what they want from her…" Mariah shook her head "you have no idea how wrong I wish I was."

Kai turned to look at the two men in their chairs, Kendall was still breathing with great difficulty due to the damage Kai had done to his throat and Lando was still lying on his side from when Tyson had punched him there "Is she right?"

Lando stared at them for a moment before nodding an evil smirk plastered onto his face "Yes, isn't it great? Hilary's not only alive but it's very likely she's pregnant with a little cousin for you. And that isn't even the funniest bit"

Kai stalked forward grabbing Lando by his collar and lifted him (chair and all) into the air "What's the funniest bit then?"

"She had no idea what's going on! She won't even remember you" Lando laughed maniacally as he stared into Kai's furious eyes "They wiped her memory, as far as she's concerned you don't exist! She could be told she's in love with your grandfather and for all she knows it's true, doesn't that make you pleased Kai? Imagining your little girlfriend in the throes of passion with…"

The noise that came from Kai was a mixture of anger and revulsion as he threw Lando across the room. As soon as the other man had landed and was lying on the floor his chair scattered in bits around him Kai walked forward grabbing his head and smashing it to the ground

"KAI!!" Both of his old teams ran forward at his violent actions and it actually seemed to take all eight of them pull him off.

"If he's telling the truth" Kai hissed trying to get out from under his imprisoning friends "I'm going to kill him in the worst way possible"

"I'm surprised he's still breathing" Renaldo spoke incredulously as he walked forward to check on the unconscious man "Millie call one of my men, tell them we've got two in need of patching up"

"You're going to treat them?" Tyson asked shocked as he looked at the stern older man

"Look I don't want Kai… or you, going down for murder, besides we may need them again. They may know where Boris is despite what they said"

"He's in Russia" Millie said quietly "or at least Horatio was when I last had him on the radar" Everyone turned stunned to face Millie "Did I not mention that yet?" she asked surprised

"No" Kai whispered looking dangerous

"Well it's a long story, I only really finished looking it up today, he was travelling under a pseudo name and went to a town called Tomsk"

Again there was that silence, that silence that said more than words could as everyone stared at the blonde who had, in the last hour, given them more hope and happiness than some of them thought they would ever happen again. Finally with a short muttering of "I'm getting us to Russia" Kai quickly stalked out of the room.

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