AN: Sorry for the delay guys, life got hectic... But I'm really not kidding I ABSOLUTELY NEED feed back on a SEQUEL because writing these is work, work

I don't mind but I'm not gonna throw at myself if you guys aren't gonna read it. This will be the second to last chapter :) -kittiesgalore101

Previously on Clockwork Stopped Ticking

"You two can't just go alone"

"We'll be fine"

"You two are okay?" Lillian confirmed, and for Gabriel and Riley, knowing their girls were okay was the best feeling they've had in a while.

"Yeah, Yeah, we're fine. Bella's kinda mad 'cause I tackled her to the groud as we leaped out the door though," Quinn laughed and coughed.

"Q, sattelite shows to figures running west of the house," Gabriel informed.

"Let's go," she pointed west to her sister as they took of in a sprint.

"Federal Agents! On the ground, hands behind your head!" the sisters yelled once they caught up to Mei Chen and her anonymus acomplice.

"You have the right to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you," Quinn began to read them their rights as Bella spoke into her earpeice.

"We've got them," she stepped aside and said quietly.

"Any ID on her acomplice?" Lillian asked.

"Yeah, his name is Amos Pembroke, he's got one big criminal record including-"

"We know exactly who he is, he should be in Guantanamo Bay to this day," Lillian said in a hostile voice.

"Actually, no he shouldn't," Jameson awkwardly contradicted. "His 4 million dollar bail was paid by the one and only bank account left by Jin Cong after someone killed him," he nodded towards Lillian.

"I had very good reason to shoot that man."

"Okay, we can talk about that later. Who is this guy?" Bella demanded.

"He was basically Nelson after he left and before he came back," Gabriel explained the easy way.

"Which means?" Bella wanted a straight answer.

"He worked at here for about 2 years, from the begining, he then turned to the aide of the Chinese government with that whole ordeal," Riley gave her the straight answer she was looking for.

"So he knows us?"

"Probably, but don't identify yourselves. There's a backup team that will meet you there to take them off your hands," Lillian told her.

"We told you we didn't need backup," Bella sighed.

"Relax, it's the international prison transport people," she explained.


"Well that was fun," Quinn said as her and Bella got on the plane and continued to brush the dust out of their hair.

"Yeah, that's one kind of sisterly bonding," Bella responded sarcasticly.

"Let's see if I actually learned how to work this thing," Quinn sat down at the desk in front of giant computer monitors and attempted to call C-Doc.

"I'm pretty sure it's this username," Bella and Quinn's bickering came up on the C-Doc montiers.

"You found us," Gabriel turned to face the screen.

"Oh, hi, Dad!" Bella smiled amd waved goofily.

"Hey yourself," he responded and nodded to Riley as if there was some important matter.

"Everything okay?" Quinn noticed their behaivor.

"We have an answer to Bella's question yesterday," Riley began.

"I ask alot of questions, anything specific?"

"Well, when you asked about the whole window thing," Riley continued.

"Oh," Bella felt slightly guilty for hitting a soft subject.

The girls were continuesly astounded at how much their parents had gone through as they heard the story of their father's first love.

"So how was the office today?" Quinn went back to normal conversation. "Has Kori come in yet?"

"No, she called a couple hours ago. Her case won, she went out to 'celebrate'," Riley explained with a smile.

"Oh gosh," Quinn laughed. "I really hope she doesn't have another panic attack," Kori had a thing about drunk people, and usually freaked out whenever the two went to a restruant that had a bar.

"She sounded just fine. So how far out are you?" Gabriel asked.

"We've got like another 5 hours before we land, and I'm gonna go sleep for the first time in about a day and a half so ta ta for now!" Bella quickly dissapeared from screen view.

"You know we're really proud of you, right?" Riley sincerely told Quinn.

"What for?"

"Well, first you drop out of your dream of graduating from the Police Academey to protect your little sister who has a microchip in her brain because of a genentic mutation she got fom your dad who met your mom because she protects him and you were born while we were supposed to be dead after being fugitives. That's not exactly a normal past," Riley explained to her.

"How the hell did I turn out so normal?" Quinn laughed hard.

"I have no idea," Gabriel said as he and Riley laughed along.

"Hey, do you know if they're bringing Mei Chen and the other guy to holding before transport back to GitMo?"

"Um, yeah, pretty sure that's the plan. Why?" Gabriel answered curiously.

"Just wondering," Quinn lied, she had other plans in mind...

Almost seven hours later, Quinn flashed her badge as she walked into a holding cell at CyberCom. "Hi," she said awkwardly to Mei Chen who stood in front of her wearing an orange jumpsuit.

"Is there a reason you're here?" Mei Chen was in no mood to talk to the woman who just put her behind bars for the rest of her life.

"Just wanted to ask you something," Quinn leaned against the cold metal bars.

"Ask away."

"Why?" Quinn asked sincerely.

"Why what?" Mei was still unwilling to answer a simple off the books question.

"Actually, let me rephrase that: how? Listen, I'm not like the rest of this agency, hell, the rest of the intelligence community. I don't see you as bad at heart. I want to know how you ended up an assassin for hire with a chip in your head, doing unimaginable things at the command of your government," Quinn pleaded with her to open up.

"How? How is that I was contacted by my government telling that I carry a gene nessisary to create a version of the most powerful weapon on earth. They told me that they'd kill the people closest to me. When I was young, my dad was killing during a millitary training operation gone wrong, my older sister wanted to honor him by also joing the service and was killed in almost identical circumstances about 10 years after that," she finally opened up.

"Look, I don't know what you were taught, but I was taught from an early age that there will always be bad in the world and it will affect us all at a certain part in time. But that doesn't make it okay to be the bad, I mean seriously, you kidnapped a woman and her baby daughter just to steal some codes," Quinn was slowly getting more harsh.

"Listen, yes I was ordered to get those codes at any cost, but do you want to know what really happend that day?" Mei got defensive.

"Shoot."

"I found a way into Agent Jameson's house, after I had the perfect time to get his family, I did. But after I brought them to that warehouse, I explained to Melissa everything I'm telling you. There was no torturing, no tying up, I just seemed to get on her good side and we actually had a pretty decent conversation, not to mention that little Bailey is by far the cutest thing I've seen in years," Mei admitted.

"I know, she's adorable!" Quinn got quickly back on point. "That was an incredibly humane thing to do, even the part where you told her to act scared when we found her. But that can't make up for all the terrible things you've done in the past, all the lives you took. If there's one thing that goes around our family the most, it's something that Dr. Cassidy told my dad decades ago, 'The chip will always exceed your human abilities, but we can never let it exceed your humanity'."

"It's kind of hard to keep that morale when you have some of the most powerful people in the country breathing down your neck every second of everyday."

"I know that, but just hear me out. You didn't have a chance to turn your life around then, but you do now. In prison or not, make the best of the time you have left, enjoy Cuba, come to The Lord, join a prison group. Well, actually, don't get involved with terrorists, but you know what I mean, you can turn your life around, you're free from them now," Quinn reassured her with empathy in her eyes.

"I've been trying to turn my life around for the past 20 years, and I don't know if it's even possible," Mei seemed pesimistic about Quinn's outlook.

"The only thing that's impossible is impossibility, and of course staying awake for 40 hours straight, which I've done so I'm gonna leave now," Quinn managed to make them both laugh softly.

"Hey, before you go, I just want to say thank you, it kind of felt good to know that someone in this country doesn't think of me as a heartless assassin," Mei looked at the ground as she show the first bit of kindness she had in a while.

"Anytime, have fun in Cuba!" Quinn walked out with a smile on her face. Because she realized that life is better if you try to find the good in people, if all we ever look at is the evil of our human sinful nature, then we'd never get anywhere in life. But the best people are revealed when you look past the surface and into what's truly in their hearts.

AN: Favorite line anyone?