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Nick took a deep breath and tried to focus on a plan, he could escape the handcuffs and get past Montague but then the abnormals were too close to the exit. He needed to either neutralize or kill them but he had neither stunner nor gun, just himself and his surroundings. It would be difficult to kill one, let alone all of them using his vampiric powers alone.

He studied them carefully, more particularly their armor. It reminded him of the armor the Sweepers wore, since the Sweepers were Cabal he figured it made sense that their body armor came from the same source so theoretically he assumed it was possible that upon death their armor would explode too which was perfect for his escape. He knew it was a long shot but it was the only plan he could think of under the circumstances.

"It's weird," Montague mused after a minute, "how you can look like both your mother and your father at the same time, I can't decide whether I should help you or kill you once I'm done with you."

"Explains why your emotions are all over the place," Nick commented truthfully, since his powers had started working again he had noticed Montague's emotions shifted rapidly all over the spectrum but then so did the abnormals, he'd never felt anything quite like it.

"Stay out of my head," barked Montague glaring at him again.

"I wish I could control my powers," Nick admitted, he did long for the control he had had when he was a child.

"It's a shame you can't," Montague agreed feeling regret as his anger disaperated instantly, "you and your twins' powers were similar to the Morrigan's, together the power was so much greater. A shame young Patricia died."

"Don't talk about my sister," Nick snarled summoming his courage, he had to try his plan the sooner the better.

"Then tell me about Freelander," Montague offered and his emotions snapped to a sense of fairness.

"A freelance Cabal operative," Nick blurted out before he could stop himself, "Mom wanted to see her."

"Why?" Montague questioned confused, "she's never met her befo-"

He was cut off as Nick made his move, he pulled his wrists apart quickly and with enough force to break the futile chain between them and in one fluid motion changed to a vampire and lashed out at Montague. The man cried out in pain as Nick slashed him across the face, which Nick was sure would scar assuming he lived long enough.

"You son of a bitch!" Montague cursed falling to his knees and clutching his face.

"It'll add to your collection," Nick sneered before turning towards the abnormals who charged at him.

Nick dodged the first few blows and kicked one of them to the ground before another grabbed his outstretched arm and flung him aside, he crashed against the pickup with his elbow smashing through the window. It gave him the perfect idea though, one of the broken shards was large enough to use as a knife.

He grabbed the shard and turned back to the abnormals, scanning for the weakest looking one and launched a kick at it causing it to fall onto the ground. It barely had time to growl before Nick stabbed it through the neck with the glass, time seemed to slow for him and everything else melted away except for the overpowering emotions of the thing he was killing.

While it wasn't entirely true that when someone died their life flashed before their eyes, it did make them think and it never ceased to amaze Nick how much information he sensed in the instant of death and what he sensed shocked him to the core. The abnormal hadn't always been that way, he had been human once before the Cabal. As he realized it was dying he regained control of himself, the mind control drugs momentarily neutralized.

Nick saw his memories of a woman, the man's wife and sensed the love he felt for her and their unborn child, a daughter the man would never see. Nick recalled their desperation for money which was why he had volunteered for the experiment, the man had been told it was to make him into a super solider, the man was promised it was only temporary and had believed the speaker, the president Nick recognized from TV. Nick felt the man's fear at the experiment as the drugs purged his humanity as much as possible and the serum that turned him into the thing he was for the Cabal's army, an army of super soldier abnormals. And there were far more of those things than Nick had originally thought, hundreds, thousands even and that was only thing the man remembered.

The man started choking as blood spewed from his mouth and tears shone from its eyes, Nick gripped its hand tightly and was grateful it offered the man some comfort. He felt the man's pain and grief that he was about to die but overwhelmingly the man felt sorrow that he'd never see his wife, never hold his baby girl. Nick felt tears leaking from his eyes as he was swept up by the man's emotions, the only comfort the man had was knowing that he was dying as himself once more.

Thank you

Nick sensed the man's last dying thought before he died, then there was nothing. All Nick felt was the empty void, emotional silence was like a loud noise which drowned out everything else for a moment. No sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no image, nothing but his own heartbeat. He felt oddly numb for just that moment before everything came rushing back.

The abnormals were screaming and trying to run for the exit, he didn't have to wonder why as the red light flashed from the man's armor indicating imminent death. He felt their erratic fear and rage, which he guessed was caused by the mind control drugs pumping through their veins. He let his grip go slack and tried to move the cogs in his mind, he should move as he had no idea if he'd survive such a close range explosion.

He started to stand but the armor exploded, he cried out in pain and screams echoed around him. Then there was nothing.