"You're Chloe Donovan?" Jo asked incredulously.

"Wait a sec," Carter said, putting his hands on his hips, "If you're Chloe, than who is Jania?"

Chloe blinked and looked distant. "Jania is...well, she is me, I guess. I don't really know." She frowned, "I guess I'm used to it because I've lived with it my whole life, but it almost feels like I'm two people in one body."

"Like the opposite of Janus," Jo offered, "instead of one person with two faces-"

"Right, I feel like two people with one face!" Chloe finished. She looked around. "Wait, I was-is this Eureka, Oregon?"

"As a matter of fact," Carter replied, "It is."

Chloe's face lit up, "Really? I actually made it? I never thought I could." Her smile dimmed as she gazed around the cell. "Umm, why am I locked up?"

Jo moved forward, gazing at her through the bars, "Because Jania caused a lot of trouble when she was loose."

Carter still couldn't fathom how on earth Jania and Chloe could be the same person. "Chloe, would you mind telling me what Jania is, exactly?"

Chloe pondered, "I think it must be some sort of brain implant or something, because the weirdest thing about it is I have all these memories, but I feel like I saw them through someone else's eyes, yet I know they are mine, almost as if I am conscious in two contexts, the context of Chloe, and the context of Jania."

"Was there anything unique about Jania? Did you have some sort of handicap?" Jo inquired, fully aware that the object of their assignment, Chloe aside, was to find out as much about this mysterious entity as possible.

"Handicap?" Chloe repeated, "no."

"Then why the implant?"

Chloe shrugged casually, "I would assume it was a cranial enhancer or something, because I distinctly remember being the only ten-year-old in my class-"

Carter tried to reassure her, "Well, that's not abnormal-"

"-at Harvard," Chloe finished.

Carter gaped audibly, "What?"

Jo grinned, imagining what it would be like to be so much smarter than everyone, years ahead of the wisest people, but Chloe read her face and shook her head.

"It's not as wonderful as you might think, Deputy," she remarked sadly, "Jania-it was hard being Jania. Living the mental functions of a super-genius, I discovered that the implant knew everything-and nothing."

Carter frowned, "Come again?"

Chloe explained, "While Jania seemed to fly through tests, essays, exams, and algorithms and all the 'ometries' and 'ologies' and 'isms' with perfect ease, she-I-had no capacity to relate to people." Chloe blushed, "I assume you've experienced Jania's manner of social interaction already, otherwise you wouldn't mistrust me so much to lock me in a cell and watch me so close."

Carter agreed, "Yeah, I guess you could say that."

Chloe bit her lip, "At first, mom and dad allowed me to be Chloe at home and Jania at school without letting anyone know that Jania was an implant. They even made sure that Jania was not even connected to our family, naming me after the head scientist who performed the operation. I was Jania Masterson, student extraordinaire."

"So you know about Dr. Masterson?" Jo asked, still behaving like the whole thing was an information acquisition.

Chloe scowled, "Only vaguely. He never talked to me at all, only to everyone around me. It was as if I was some sort of AI machine he was in charge of activating and periodically testing. I remember having to do-oh, all sorts of things! Neurological tests, physical tests, academic tests, psychological evaluations, the works." Chloe frowned and rubbed her forehead, and Jo immediately thought of Zane; perhaps the two were related after all. "The only thing is, when Jania is active, it's almost like the me-that-is-Chloe is pushed to the background. As Chloe, I am only a girl of average intelligence. I'm guessing that's why Mom and Dad decided to permanently activate Jania, shortly after I got into Harvard. Without her, there was no way I could have finished."

"Do you remember what your field of study was?" Jo asked, astonished by the tale, but wondering if the subject Jania studied had anything to do with the reason behind the project.

Chloe shook her head, obviously pained by the recollection for some reason, "That's just it; I know what she saw and where she went, but there is no way I can comprehend everything she did, at least, not with my Chloe-intelligence. I have vague memories of everything she saw and experienced, but I don't remember having control over my actions, I mean, Jania could be her own person, with my memories, just like I can be myself with hers."

Jo looked at Carter, "That's why Jania was so attached to Zane! She remembered him from Chloe's memories!"

Chloe looked visibly shaken at Jo's remark. "Did..." she gasped, "Did you just say Zane? As in Zane... Donovan?" Chloe bit her lip, "He's here?" she whispered.

Jo nodded, and Chloe collapsed weakly on the bed, tears suddenly appearing in her eyes.

"He..." she choked, "he was born while I was at a special academy designed to prepare me-or rather, prepare Jania-for early entrance into Harvard. I had not been home since entering the academy, and I went straight from there to Massachusetts. The only time I ever saw him was on the computer screen, when my parents would chat with me over video. I watched him grow up till he was seven, and I was in my second year at Harvard..." Chloe paused and sobbed a bit to ease her emotions, "...then Mom and Dad said goodbye. They told me that Jania was better for me than anything a family had to offer. They said that," Chloe steeled her jaw, "but I knew it was because they realized their mistake, and they would rather abandon me and try raising a normal child in Zane than correct my condition. Jania became my 'normal' self from then on. They ended the call by activating Jania, and since no one at Harvard knew my real name, it was never deactivated..." she smiled ruefully at Carter as her tears subsided, "till now. I guess Jania got the idea to begin searching for her family once I graduated." She shook her head, "I just can't believe I'm here!"

Jo shrugged, "Well, as it turns out, Zane is pretty smart in his own right. He's the resident particle physicist at our local science research facility."

Chloe laughed, "You're kidding! Zanie, a physicist?"

Carter's cellphone rang, and as he picked it up, he chuckled and told Chloe, "I love it when you call him that. Hello, Henry," He said into the receiver.

"Jack, you won't believe what we found. Do you still have Jania?"

Carter smiled and winked at Chloe, "Yeah, we do, and as a matter of fact, we've been talking-"

"Okay, good keep her there," Henry apparently did not hear what Carter had just said, "Remember how you found her in Sector 4? Turns out, she remembered the craniograph was down there. Jack, she's messed with it."

Jo was still hunting through files about Jania. One of the folders contained a sheet of music. Jo began humming the tune, sounding out the strange words printed under the notes.

"The activation code... electrodes augment..." she hummed the rest of the tune as the words became more difficult. With a shrug, she tossed the folder aside.

Behind her, as she sung, Chloe seemed to drop instantly asleep, collapsing wearily on the bed. She shuddered violently and awoke again, with that strange, ethereal light in her eye. She immediately stood and moved silently toward the door of the cell.

"Henry," Carter was still trying to tell Henry about Chloe, but Henry was still too worried about the craniograph.

"Jack, if I can figure out what exactly she was trying to do, I can perhaps reverse it, but the algorithms she was working with are too advanced. Allison and I are on our way to my garage right now to see if we can find something that will undo the tweaking till we can return the machine to normal."

Carter burst out, "Henry! We've cracked it! The Donovans aren't scientists at all!"

Henry seemed genuinely surprised, "They aren't? Well, this is unexpected, even if it explains why we couldn't find out about them anywhere."

"Yeah, and there's more: Jo and I found the connection to Zane! She's not Jania, she's Chlo-" he turned to the cell to give a thumbs-up to Chloe... but it was empty! Carter nudged Jo and pointed to the cell.

"Oh, gadblastit!" Jo muttered. "I wasn't even watching her anymore!"

"What was that you said, Jack?" Henry asked, "You found Jania's connection to Zane?"

"Uh, Henry," Carter responded hesitantly, "did you say you and Allison were on your way to the garage?"

"Yes, I did; we're just pulling up now, why do you ask?"

"Which means that there isn't anyone besides security monitoring Sector 4 right now, is there?"

Silence on Henry's end for a very long time; then he asked, as if he already knew the answer, "Jack, did she-"

"Meet you there," Jack said quickly, and he and Jo took off for Global Dynamics right away.

Already within Global Dynamics, in the hall heading to Sector 4, a lone girl crept nearly invisible past security and cameras, humming a haunting melody to herself. She smiled. Jania had nearly completed her mission.