Chapter 13

When she recover her sense Fate knew that she no longer was on the base with Kaito, she could feel it in the air full of evil, her feelings were telling her that she was in danger, and most of all, she could fell him, the person who had done so much harm to Nanoha and Vivio, the one she had been chasing years before all that happened, the one responsible for her current state.

Jail Scaglietti was watching her as if she was his favorite toy, he had several plans for her, he was thinking on experimenting with her limits and on taking her to a point with no return, he was thinking on using her vital functions to finish creating his perfect creature, he was thinking on destroying her the same way she has destroyed his plans two years ago…he was thinking on making her suffer till the end.

-Well, well, Fate, it been a long time, right?

She kept quiet, she knew better that to fall into his provocations, that would only worsen the satiation, but she also knew that Scaglietti would attack directly to her heart.

-I learned about your problem, sorry for not been there to see it.

She didn't answer and Scaglietti smiled sending thousands of chills down her spine and making her wish for him to quickly finish with what he had planned for her.

-I supposed it was hard to see how your peers turned away from you, even your precious Nanoha and your little bastard Vivio, but, what could you expect? You're just an object created to replace another person, you didn't really believed that they were going to take you in count, did you?

She closed her eyes, wishing she could cover her ears, she wanted to silent Scaglietti and to silent the voices in her head that gave the reason to that monster, she couldn't believe it, she didn't want to believe it, she was a person and not a creation, that's what she had to believe.

-Surely, Alicia, the real person from whom you were created, would have been much better than you and I'm sure she'd be with Nanoha and Vivio as a family and not been hated by everyone, like you, Fate, you're just a failure that thought…

-Shut up… - whispered Fate.

Scaglietti smiled, he knew he was breaking her and that was exactly what he needed to start working, he needed to measure the force of her anger at its highest point.

-For your mother you were just a replacement of her lost daughter, for Lindy Harlaow you were a replacement for the loss of her husband years before and for Nanoha, you were a replacement until she found the right man for her.

-Shut up!

She cried in despair, because a dark part in her heart believed he was right, because she did want to hear him and know the truth, because deep down she knew that she was a replacement of which people got tired and threw away just like that.

Then she felt a hand grabbing her and something making contact with her arm. She felt how she was slowly losing her strength, how she was getting exhausted, how she was hopelessly falling sleep.

-That's it, Fate, sleep. – whispered Scaglietti.

And everything went dark.

Sasuke hadn't felt so desperate since his wife had died several years ago in an attack in order to save him.

He had several teams looking for Scaglietti's damn ship, the entire section six was investigating and using all their rescue methods in order to find Fate and save her, he knew better than to trust them, not if they wanted to take her away, but he had no other choice than to rely on them and trust that they could get her out of there alive.

Meanwhile he just watched Shamal, one of the section six doctors, working on his son and Terri, quickly measuring the seriousness of the wounds and proceeding to heal them with an elegance and efficiency that Sasuke had never seen.

The doctor left the room walking towards with calm and an expression of relief and concern.

-Commander Toshiba, your son and Fate's dog will recover favorably, they'll wake up in a few hours and you'll be able to see them, ok?

-Thank God. – sigh Sasuke.

-It seems that they didn't want to kill them, the injuries are not serious enough.

Sasuke looked at the doctor, she had a worried look as if she knew what it was all about and she didn't want to tell him, but damn it, Fate was his daughter and he was going to find out what was going on and he was going to make them pay for taking his little girl.

-Can you stay with them?

-Yes, of course.

Without saying another word to the doctor, Sasuke went on the search of the only person who could help him answer all his questions, Hayate Yagami.

Fury.

That was the only sensation that ran through Nanoha's body while she searched for Scaglietti's ship, flying through the sky of the Administered Planet #69, not even Vita, who had offered to help and Subaru, who went carried by the guilt, could understand the fury that Nanoha felt on the inside.

Because in few hours she had found Fate, she found out about her current sate, they had once again taken her away from her side and… she discovered the truth about what happened the night of the attack to her parents.

And she was innocent.

Innocent, Fate T. Harlaow, her Fate-chan, was innocent.

-Nanoha, it's getting dark, we have to go back to the base. – said Vita.

-No, absolutely not, we must find that ship.

-But Nanoha, according to what Tia told me the ship can camouflage and I don't think we'll find it at night.

She didn't want to go back, not without Fate, but they were right and for as much as she wanted she couldn't lose time blindly searching, she had to save her at any cost, she had to apologize, she had to tell her she loved her and that she would never leave her or doubt her again.

That's why she just wanted to find her.

-All right, get ready to leave first thing in the morning.

She could see it in their faces, they didn't want to leave Fate like that, but they couldn't do anything so they went back to the base tired and with no results but with a promise on their minds, one that Nanoha had engraved on her heart.

Wait for me, Fate, I'll save you, I promise.