Hi everyone!

I'm not stopping up to write a huge author note here so I'll be quick. Too busy again for anything. Plus my sister and I have been looking after mum as she was in hospital not long ago having a huge ass kidney stone removed. She's much better now though which is great. :)

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So we're nearing the end soon. Next few chapters will be fairly long I think. And let me just mention now that I'm working on the epilogue/prologue to a sequel I'm planning. I may continue to write it a bit then post it after the final chapter just to test the water and see what you all think. :D

That's it for now folks. I need to catch up on my beauty sleep. XD

Thanks again! PEACE!

-Deeny xxxxx


'Hey Cat, can you do me a favour and go out back and bring in some more ice? We're getting low.'

'Sure thing boss. Do we need anything else while I'm there?'

'Yeah bring through a box of the cheese Doritos and err, a new bottle of Smirnoff.'

'Okay, won't be a minute.'

Cat made her way out from behind the bar and through the now gathering crowds of people who had come in out to the store room just past the managers office. Tonight was proving to be another busy one; the evidence showing itself as she flipped the door down on the industrial ice making machine that stood on the far wall of the store room surrounded by crates of bottled beers and spirits.

'Ugh is this thing even working properly?' Caterina mumbled to herself as she stood looking at the practically empty machine with a large bucket under her arm. She rested the bucket on the machines door and carefully placed her left hand on the freezing unit on the inside. Caterina's right hand had started to frost up and after quickly glancing over her shoulder to check that nobody was outside the store room; Caterina concentrated her energy in to forming ice cubes which fell from her fingers in to the machines storage bin almost half filling it.

The freezing unit was starting to struggle as Caterina drained the energy from it. She then hovered her right hand over the metal bucket and filled it with dozens upon dozens of ice cubes which pinged and clanged against the buckets metal surface. Cat decided she had made enough for now and removed her left hand from the unit before it totally gave out, at least they had enough ice for the time being and it would give the machine a chance to recover from her draining its energy and have the chance to catch up on making more.

Caterina soon found herself back behind the bar serving customers after she returned with the ice and the Vodka and Doritos her boss had requested. The place was getting pretty busy now and Caterina couldn't wait for her break in a little while. She crouched down behind the bar to pick up a few clean glasses off the shelf for her next order of vodka and soda water and straight bourbon. As she straightened up again and began pouring some ice in to both of the glasses; she noticed that there were red and blue flashing lights coming from the street outside the entrance and for some reason, the crowds of people gathering at the bar had started to part. Three men all wearing riot gear were advancing toward the bar and two of them quickly made their way through behind; grabbing hold of Caterina's arms and forcefully twisting them behind her back.

'HEY WHAT THE FUCK?!' Caterina screamed over the loudness of the music being played in the bar and the dozens of people chatting away. One of the men instructed the two who had a hold of Caterina to bring her arms to her front where he then latched on a large metal device that seemed like an ultra-heavy-duty set of handcuffs. Caterina was in shock after she had forcefully been restrained by these three random men who had appeared from nowhere with a full-house of customers and her workmates looking on in just as much shock as she was. She tried using her powers but nothing happened. It was almost like the big heavy handcuffs were blocking her powers, nothing would come out.

Caterina didn't even get any rights read to her. These guys knew she was a Conduit and were treating her like one. They shoved her about and dragged her through the bar like a convict. Caterina just knew that somebody had tipped off the authorities, she had obviously been careless. Right then she would have face-palmed herself but she didn't fancy doing that; the huge restraints she had on her hands would have knocked her head off if she tried.


Everything had come full circle for Caterina and everything would now be coming to an end. From that very day years ago when she had been contained, through to the day she was transported to the facility in Seattle, all the way through the experiments that had been done on her and her eventual release by Delsin. The two conduits sat looking over the twinkling Seattle city horizon; the sun having set long ago. So much had happened in such a short time; the good and the bad. The good being meeting Delsin and him freeing her from the D.U.P. The bad being all of the death that hung around, namely her brother and Reggie.

But right now she was looking forward to finishing it all and going home with Delsin. The two were sat side by side on the edge of a high building overlooking the huge tower that Augustine had occupied. The place was swarming with DUPE soldiers and high voltage electric fences encircled the building all the way up to the top.

'There, that's the power transformer.' Delsin said as he pointed at a machine on top of the roof of a lower building that was plastered with warning signs. 'If we shut that off, it should make getting up that tower a lot easier.'

'Are we just gonna go and do it then?' Caterina asked. 'I mean we could sit here all night if we wanted to.'

'You're right. No time like the present I guess.' Delsin replied. 'We're gonna have to get rid of loads of soldiers.'

'Sounds like fun.' Caterina smirked as she rolled her eyes then looked at Delsin. 'If you got my back, I got yours.'

'Of course I got your back.' Delsin said to Cat as he reached over and took her hand, lightly laying a kiss on her knuckles. She giggled at bit at him as he stood and helped her up.

'You really are quite a soppy romantic type, aren't you Delsin.'

'I can be.' He grinned back.

The couple stayed quiet for a moment as they both shyly smiled at each other. Until they were interrupted but another one of Augustine's ultra-loud tannoy announcements.

'Oh for God sakes let's go shut that stupid bloody woman up.' Caterina huffed.

'Agreed.' Said Delsin. 'Let's end this.'

The two conduits nodded at each other, signalling that they were ready to shut the power off to the tower and begin their ascent. Delsin and Caterina jumped off the building to the one below, hand in hand.