Disclamier: Dark Angel and all it's characters belong to James Cameron but don't deserve to belong to Fox who in their infinite blindness canceled the show. Long live fan fiction.
It was a shock to see her. Speeding out of Seattle and seeing a bike pull up next to me the same type of bike, jacket and face. She hardly need to push me off the road the shock would have done that alone. I knew that Manticore had created another like me, after all she had shot me in the forest and I had seen her dying in Manticore form some disease that even the lab techs couldn't stop. I had no idea though that there was another me out there the same age. I had no idea when I escaped that I was leaving my clone behind.
When she told me what they had done to her after I escaped I couldn't speak. I knew that Manticore had been cruel and I knew what they would do. Alec had never told me much about the six months in phy-ops after they had found out the Ben had started to kill people. What I could gather though from the things that he let slip it had been a horrendous experience. I never wanted a sister of mine to go through that even if she didn't see me as such. Sitting there knowing that White would be coming soon I was still worried almost as much for her as I was for me. She was married and in love, she had had the perfect life until White tracked her down looking for me. She had a son and a life away from Manticore, a life that had been great until I ruined it again. I wanted to ask her how she had managed it. How she had managed to find that life that we were all looking for. I wanted to know if she could rebuild an engine but was unable to cook a meal. If she had had a brother like Zach. I wanted to tell her that White was going to betray her, that there was no way he would allow a transgenic loose, especially one that was my clone.
When Logan let me free and we fought, it was so strange fighting myself and I wondered how much was I fighting her and how much was I fighting what was happening inside of me. She had been right; I was always running. I had told myself that this way the others would be safe by leaving them they would no longer be in danger. But she was right I was running to protect myself not them. I was so scared of what might happen if I said that I couldn't cope and so I ran. I had left behind my family, Logan, Original Cindy, Joshua, Alec, Sketchy and even Normal. Somehow they had become the people that I was trying to protect they were the people that I leaned on. The way that Logan loved me no matter what, how O.C. always said exactly what I needed to hear and supported me through it all; Alec and his constant wise cracks and understanding of what it was like to be form Manticore, Joshua who could always make me smile and see the positive, Sketchy's constant get rich quick schemes and gullibility and even Normal, constantly riding me about being late for work. They were my family and Sam was right I was deserting them, the way I had deserted her when I escaped. I didn't know that she even existed then, but I had known that there were others and I hadn't tried break them out as well for another ten years.
On the drive back to Terminal City I told her what we were going to do; how the exchange would take place. There was a quiet fury that she directed towards me rather than White. Her fear for her family was so strong. All she wanted was to have her life back. She had never told her husband about who she was and now she would have to. She would have to explain that he was originally a means to an end that she was to use him to gain access to restricted information. She would have to admit that she was engineered in a lab and created as a weapon. I couldn't imagine the difficulty that she would have. She had a son, not by birth but by love and she would have to explain to him that the reason he had never met her parents was that she didn't have any.
When I saw the exchange, who her husband and son looked like I couldn't help but marvel. Her husband was so similar to Logan, he had the same shaggy hair and build. Her son was scared by what had happened to him, but trustingly allowed a one of the transgenics to move him out of the line of fire. Even after we had managed the exchange and got her family back safely she still blamed me for what had happened to her and perhaps rightly. I watched her hold her son and her husband question what was happening. I like to think that I helped her in some way when I destroyed Manticore, Like Alec said if I hadn't brought it down she would have had to returned and lost her family. Before she left she seemed to forgive if not forgotten. She might not ever see me as a sister, as I see her, but at least she no longer saw me as the enemy.