Disclaimers in the first part.

Spoilers: Obviously this is a sequel to 'Legends'. If you didn't like the eppi, hope you're enjoying this one. There are other spoilers in here also. Find them, if you can.

And now, back to our show... ;)

Gone Fishing 6/9

"So what is it that you're saying man?"

"When I was in the woods looking for you someone knocked me out. I saw who did it."

"Who?" Darien asked, tired of waiting.

"Arnaud."

"Arnaud? What would he be doing here?"

"I don't know, maybe he heard about `Bigfoot' too and wanted to get his hands on a quicksilver gland?" Hobbes asked and stated at the same time.

"He has his own, and God knows he can make another one."

"Not technically, you see, his has a defect. He can't unquicksilver. And he can't make a new one without a sample of yours. That is how he made his in the first place."

"I guess that makes sense, but, I can't believe that he would be behind all of this. He has to have help."

"See, I thought that same thing. But then, I came to a conclusion, maybe he isn't the only one who wants the gland. Maybe there is someone else."

"Chrysalis." They both said at the same time.

Darien looked at his partner, "Will I ever get some peace? No matter what I do, even on my freakin' vacation someone wants a piece of me. That, or they want to use me."

~*~

Arnaud woke up from a daze; he had been knocked unconscious just minutes after his run in with Hobbes. He looked around the forest; it was dark long since now and he needed to get back to the cabin he was staying in, just rows away from Darien and Hobbes'.

He stood up and put his hand to the back of his head, he felt a bump. Someone had hit him hard and fast, he never saw it coming. The latex skin was starting to fall off from all his adventures that day. Arnaud started his long walk back to civilization, hoping that he was alone the whole way there. There was something he couldn't forget. He has a quicksilver gland too.

The `Bigfoot' would know he was here. After what he had heard about what had happened on the Indian Reservation he didn't want the same thing to happen to him. He had to wonder something though. Why hadn't Chrysalis used him for bait while his was still under their `employment'?

~*~

Ann walked up to the door of Darien and Hobbes' cabin and knocked. A minute later the door opened and Darien was standing there. "Hey Ann. Come on in, sorry I didn't get the door sooner."

Ann stepped inside, "So," she said, "how are you doing?"

"I'm good. You?"

"I'm good."

"Okay, let's cut to the chase," Darien said, closing the door. "Why didn't you show up last night? And before you say you forgot let me tell you, I don't believe that. After the whole hot tub thing there is no way you forgot a meeting that you yourself called."

Ann looked at him a little confused, but then something else passed over her features, she was blushing. "Well, the truth is, my mom wanted me to come with her to the spa and I thought she'd be ready to go before you and I were supposed to meet."

"But she wasn't?"

"No. What could I have done? I couldn't just leave her alone. It was starting to get dark, and after what happened to you the night before-you know, the bear attacking you like that- I didn't want her walking back to the cabin by herself."

"So why didn't you just tell her that?"

"Because, if I told her about our meeting; she'd find out about us."

"Us?" Darien asked. "Listen Ann, you're a nice girl and all, but I am ten plus years your senior."

"I don't mind." Ann said, stepping closer to Darien. She placed her hand on his shoulder and let it linger awhile before she pulled it away. He backed up a little. "Come on Darien, you can't say you don't find me attractive."

"Well, I do, but that's not the point."

"Then what is? We can work it out, no one has to know."

Darien took another step back as she advanced, making sure he didn't gain any ground. "No one has to know what?"

Ann looked at the door as Hobbes walked in with Richard, she guess they had just gotten back from fishing. Her father was holding a string with two Rainbow Trout on it. "Umm, no one has to know that I lost my scarf the other day while I was taking a walk."

"And why don't you want anyone to know that?" Richard asked his daughter.

"Well, it's the one Grandma made me. I was going to go look for it, but after the whole incident, I didn't want to go alone."

"Oh," Richard said, "Well, I was heading back to the cabin to start cleaning these fish. Ann, you want to come with me?"

"Sure Dad." Ann said, before she walked out the door she looked at Darien, he didn't meet her gaze and she turned back to the door.

~*~

When Richard and Ann were gone Hobbes and Darien started to talk. "She's good, Hobbes. She just pulled off that lie like it was nothing."

"Yeah, but I caught it."

"You? How?"

"Don't you ever read? It is a proven fact that when someone is lying or making up a story they look to the left while they are talking to you. Yet when they are remembering they look to the right."

"Are you serious?"

"Always, my friend."

"No Hobbes, that's just not possible."

"I'm telling you the truth man. And she was looking to the left."

"Okay, fine. Just for the sake of argument, I'm going to say maybe it's possible. Wouldn't she know that? Wouldn't she have tried to look to the right and pretend she was remembering?"

"Hey, to some it's not common knowledge. So what did she say to you?"

"She said that she didn't want to leave the spa because she didn't want her mom to walk home alone. She also said..."

Hobbes cut him off, "Ha! You were looking to the right!"

"Hobbes, I wasn't looking to the right."

"Were to!"

"Hobbes..."

"Just admit it Fawkesy, I'm right and you're wrong."

"Fine, whatever, but still, that seems a little corny, don't you think?"

"No, not really, actually I think it is kind of cool."

Darien looked at his partner and then started to talk again. "She says that she and I could have a relationship and no one would have to know."

"Ah, I get it!"

"What?"

"She's with Chrysalis, a spy. She wants to get you into bed and then have you tell her all your secrets or, better yet, she wants to put one of those stupid nano-bugs in you. I mean, if they would do it with Allianora, then they would try with her."

"Hobbes, do you ever listen to yourself? That is the biggest load of crap I think I have ever heard. Besides, you sound jealous."

"Jealous? Bobby Hobbes does not get jealous my friend."

"You did when Viv was getting remarried."

"That's different. She was my wife at one point. I could care less about your sex life. Besides, she's like twenty years younger then me. I could be her father."

"Yeah well, some chicks dig that."

"Yeah, well they have a problem then. That is just wrong."

Darien smiled. "So, you really think she is with Chrysalis?"

"She's under 30, she was in the woods, she has the hots for you. So, yeah."

"I guess we should talk to Heather and see if she can back up Ann's story before we make anymore assumptions."

~*~

Heather opened the door to let her visitor's in. "Have a seat." She said.

Both men did. "Mrs. Jacobs, do you mind if you ask you a few questions?"

"No, not at all, but you can just call me Heather? The `Mrs.' part makes me sound so old."

Darien smiled as Hobbes apologized and then he looked at Heather. "You were at the spa with Ann yesterday, right?"

"Of course." Heather looked at Darien and Hobbes. "Is Ann in some kind of trouble?"

"That depends on what you tell us." Darien replied.

~*~

"Okay, so I don't get it." Hobbes stated, as he and Darien headed back to the cabin. "Ann and Heather both said the same thing, but I still don't believe them. Something is very wrong."

"Maybe it is us Hobbes? Did you ever actually stop and think that maybe Ann doesn't work for Chrysalis?"

"No, because she does."

"I'm not so sure."

"C'mon Fawkes, if you can think of a better explanation then I'm all ears." Hobbes waited a few seconds and then said, "See, it makes sense. I just want to know why?" He asked as they reached their destination.

"Okay, fine." Darien said opening the cabin door. "Let's say that she does, but why is Arnaud here? He needs help to catch Bigfoot. You think it is Ann, I'm not sure who. But the real fact of the matter is, what if they don't know each other are here or that Ann is with Chrysalis?"

"What do you mean Fawkes?"

"K, Stark sent Ann to help catch their invisible `Bigfoot', right? So maybe Arnaud heard about it and came on his own? He wants power, what better way then stealing the gland from Chrysalis right under their nose? If I know anything about Arnaud, I am willing to believe that he wouldn't be able to stand being second to someone like Stark. I think he'll want to be the one to make the rules."

Hobbes gave Darien a funny look and then he sat down, drinking from a bottle of beer he had pulled out of the fridge. "Okay, I see the reasoning in your logic.

So De Freak decides to use you as bait, so does Ann. How are we going to find out what they are planning?"

"I have an idea, and I think you might like it." Darien replied with a smile.

~*~

Darien watched the pinkish red figure move along the tree line. "Bingo, I just found the pot of gold." He said into his headset.

"Okay, I copy," Hobbes' voice came from the other end. "Tell me when."

"Not yet... Not yet... Now!" Darien shouted.

Hobbes came from behind a tree and through a net over Arnaud, who was saying some very vivid words. Darien came over to the trees and smiled. "Hello Arnie, long time no see." He laughed at his little pun.

"So, tell me how this is going to work again?" Hobbes asked.

"Easy, like you said before. Arnaud needed a tissue sample of my gland to make his own. Basically, a clone."

"Oh, so Chrysalis is using you as bait because your gland is female. If yours is, then his has to be too."

"Ding, ding. Score one for Bobby Hobbes."

Arnaud looked at the two of them with a look of terror. He was just glad they couldn't see his face at the moment. He needed to think of some way to talk them out of it.

TBC...