Title: The Secrets Are Pats Hold

Rating: R

Disclaimer: Roses are red violets are blue I don't own so please don't sue

Authors Note: There will be a couple of flashbacks in this chapter they will be in italic please review
flames accepted. Well on with the show.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chapter 5~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Tess that is your name isn't it?" Lydecker looked down at the small girl. They where in a small grey
room with one overhead light. The girl was bound and her cheeks are red and swollen from where she
was gagged. She lay in a hospital bed. Her wrists and ankles where bleeding from the tightness.

"What do you want?" Tess said trying to sound brave but failing miserably.

"You know one of my children. I also believe you know where the rest of them are."
"So what if I do." Tess was getting even more freaked he started circling the bed.
"I know what you are Tess."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"You're not from around here are you? I know the FBI would love to have you. I can give you
insurance. Reassurance if you will that they will leave you and your little friends alone."

"Why should I trust you?"
He went behind her and grabbed her head. He leaned in close. "Simple I can pry the information from
your little head." He paused and tightened hid grip so that his fingers where white. "I will get it through
hours of torture and then I will turn you over to the feds. Oh what a reward they'll give me for a thing
like you. And even better once I find my kids I'll turn over the rest of the aliens. What protection I'll get
then."
"If you could get off so great then why are you bothering to even make a deal with me."
He released his hold on her head and walked around the table so that he was facing her.

"Because I don't like the feds. I'm not a bad guy Tess I just want my children back. Please Tess let me
get my family back and I'll do everything in my power to protect yours."

"If I do that I'll be betraying my friends."
"What do any of you really know about Maria. Did you ever wonder why she never told anyone?"

"Because she was scared she didn't want to be found."
"Oh my dear Tess Maria is not like me or like your people. She's not a person Tess she's a solider.
Her purpose in life is to kill. Did you know she has killed that her brothers and sisters are all
murderers."

"She only did that because of you she's not like that anymore." He laughed a little and shook his head.

"Oh poor child she did it because it's in her genetics her DNA. She was born and raised to kill. It
doesn't matter if she is with us or not she is a murderer a killer. She has kill and will continue to kill.
Cases of her older sibling show mental problems they snap Tess they go insane and they kill. Max
knows that first hand she had to kill her own brother because he became a mass murderer. Did she tell
you that? Huh did she fill you in on that. No she didn't because they think that it is just one or two of
them that has this problem. They think they couldn't snap but they will they all will."

"Maria wouldn't kill she's not that kind of person I don't believe you."
Lydecker went to the door and a solider handed him a folder. "I think you should see this."

He opened a folder to reveal pictures he put them straight in front of Tess's face. The picture where
ones of Maria and other children with guns with blood stains all over them staining their skin. It showed
the bodies of those killed. In the last picture it showed Maria's hand out reached with a gun in her hand
and a person an old man falling backward a hole in his neck. His blood was all over Maria turning her
golden hair red. It ran down her face it covered her clothing. He shut the folder and looked at Tess.

"She will snap and even if she doesn't she will kill. If she hurts one of your friends or even a complete
stranger do you want that responsibility. Do you want to take the risk?"

"I'll tell where they are"


********************************************

"Maria are you in here?"
"Hey Brian. Yeah I'm in here." Maria at in the window sill in a upstair room of the crashdown.

"Hey we are discussing the plan again. Why are you in here all alone?"
"Tess might be dead or worse. Why to protect me to protect us. What does she even know about us.
What do any of them know about us?"
"It doesn't matter what they know about are pasts they know us know isn't that enough?"
"No it's not Brian it can't be. They could tell her show her anything and she wouldn't understand. She'll
think we're monsters and she'd be right."

"Maria what would they show her to make her think we're monsters."

"The people we killed just because we where told to."
"Maria he was a criminal he had it coming to him."
"That's not it. That's not it at all Brian I didn't know that then."
"Maria you where so distraught after that you cried every night. You never let yourself get over that
have you. You fell guilty for killing him.."

"No that's not it Brian I didn't feel guilty for killing him. I cried every night because I liked it. I LIKED
IT Brian it was like a rush. I enjoyed it when I pulled the trigger I didn't feel bad at all I was HAPPY. I
never have felt guilty don't you get it I'm exactly what they want me to be. I'm a solider a killer and I
like it."

"God 'Ria you where raised to feel that way you have animal DNA in you animal instincts. You're not a
monster they are they did this to you."

"He haunt me every night you know I remember every detail. Like it was happening right now."

*FLASHBACK*

Manticore solider where passing out manila folders to each of the X-6 kids.
"Study each of your own pictures carefully remember there face to every detail. You will all be
placed in the forest find you subject and terminate them. Move out."

Maria looked at the man in the picture. He was 6'5 at the most and about 250 pounds he would
be easy to catch slow. Maria handed the folder back the solider. She knew her target.

It was a game she shall the target in a roll he was telling them to run and not to underestimate
us.

They had no chance. They ran. They had ten minutes to get as far as they could. She shall her
man he was heading east at 40 degrees.
One minute...two...three...four...five....six...seven....eight..nine...ten. RUN!!

Maria ran the direction she shall him go. She shall his tread marks easily. Broken branches
running in the mud. This was supposed to be difficult. He was making this to easy.

Maria got her small gun this was going to be to quick. Her heart was starting to pound in her
chest. The wind blowing around her face. She shall him straight ahead.

Her heart was pounding so hard in her chest it filled her ears.
She jumped right behind her. She aimed straight at his neck. Make it fast but so slow. Have him
chock on his own blood.

He raised his arms and screamed no trying to save hid pitiful. She aimed and shot. His blood
spattered from his neck onto her hair and face it covered her clothing. She watched him fall
backward her face reflecting in his eyes. She was smiling. The last thing he ever shall was his
murderer smiling in sheer pleasure as if in some twisted game she was playing.
She stopped grinning when she shall her face in his eyes. It scared her. Her face went into one of
pure terror she dropped the gun and fell unto her knees. She wrapped her arms around her body
the realization of what she did started to sink in.

I'm a murderer I'm the one thing I always despised. The Perfect Manticore. She suddenly felt his
blood on her body.

She felt dirty. Beyond dirty.

She wanted the blood off now. It felt like it was weighing her down like she couldn't breathe.
She tried to get it off rub it off but it stained her skin more like it was seeping into her hair her
skin her soul forever staining it. Proving and forever reminding her what she was.

A Monster.

She crawled over to the man she killed. His throat was pumping out his last blood. She could see
the torn skin tissue muscle bone that the bullet ripped through. A look of terror forever
implanted on his face. She backed away from him hitting a tree. She just watched him watched
as the grass turned red as her turned ash grey.

The seizures started then stronger then they had ever been before. Like his blood was powering
them willing her to die a painful death. She just lay there shaking knowing if they found her like
this they would kill her and dissect her.

"Maria? Maria?" She knew that voice but she couldn't process anything but the look of her
smiling face in his eyes as he was falling.

"Oh god" she shall a person in front of her. She knew her. Mary it was Mary.
"You have to stop shaking Maria ok or they'll take you to the Nomlies. She wrapped around
Maria as if to stop the tremors. "God what happened." She grabbed Maria's face and made her
look her straight in the eyes. "Maria what's wrong?"

Maria looked at Mary's face as some of the fog started clearing from her eyes "I'm a Manticore
solider.

Maria finally stopped shaking and they walked up together up there.

They didn't let them shower. Maria lay in bed with his blood covering her like it was suffocating
her she started shaking so bad her bed started moving. That got Brains attention. He would hold
her every night telling her they all killed someone. He held her so tight that the bed didn't move
and he absorbed her tremors. On night he grabbed her and kissed her one night that calmed
down her tremors.

They Made them do it again a week later. Maria had just that day gotten all of his blood of her.

They ran into the woods after their targets. Maria fell against the tree shaking violently images
of the week before her coursing through her brain her body. Her brothers and sister all went to
her and she cried over and over that she couldn't do it again not again. They ran in different
directions. That was the night they escaped.


*END OF FLASHBACK*

"I looked him up he was guilty of murder six people all sixteen year old girls"
"See you shouldn't feel guilty."
"He started the rampage after his sixteen year old daughter was raped and strangled to death. He had
two other kids I killed a father."
"You did what you had to do stop killing your self over this. I was never more scared then the nights
you had those attacks. You did that to yourself that scared me even more."
"I'm sorry. I afraid to get Tess you know I'm scared what if they take me back what if I get under an
tremors again. What if I snap and kill someone again."
"Maria to kill in self defense is as good as reason again if you kill ever again it will be for a reason not
like before. You did feel guilty for killing him you know believe what you want but you haven't done
this to yourself all these years cause you where a Manticore solider you did it because you feel bad for
what you've done. Because of that you ARE NOT a Manticore solider remember that baby
remember"

"Brian are we brother and sister or more?"
"I've seen the way the Guerin boy looked at you and you look at him. It's better if we're siblings."
"Yeah we are yeah we are."

"Guys where have you been?" Liz said peeking through the door. Everyone was behind her. Maria
stood up.
"It's time."

TO BE CONTINUED

Authors Note: That explains how she escaped. Well what do you think tell me by Reviewing please
well later days
-wiccaeyes
"