Note: Now I give you the rest of Dinah's past with the Kaze, hope you enjoy. About the italics thing, I don't know why they didn't show up, but oh well I guess; that part that really made no sense in the rest of the story where it's talkin about almost touching, that was the dream. I've got some bad news, in a few days I'll be leaving to Canada for about a month, and while I'm there I won't have any access to fanfic.net, which also means no updates for that time, sorry. I'll see if I can get in another update besides this one, but I dun know.

Disclaimer: They're not mine, never were, except for my past life where I did. No not really, that was a lie to make me feel better. I know, I know; go stand in the corner.

The first month had been easy enough, she was a low level operative as of then, all of her stuff had been moved to the bunker where all the Kaze stayed. She bunked with three other people, no one important though, so she was never able to get any reliable information from them. It was a little difficult having them around, she couldn't let them see her medicine because that would lead to question, so she had to sneak into the bathroom to use it, and then sneak it all back out so that her roomies wouldn't find anything. Her patience held through all of it, knowing that she would eventually get to the top, with her abilities it was easy enough. Already she had started to make a reputation for herself, that she was tough as nails and did not enjoy being touched; thankfully, the Kaze uniforms didn't expose too much skin. The uniforms consisted of green camouflage pants, black tops (Dinah opted for the long sleeved turtle neck most of the time), and army boots, Dinah made a little addition to hers though, a pair of black gloves.

So far the Kaze had found several different targets, none of which Dinah had been privileged to know about. For every death the Kaze caused her determination to stop them grew stronger, and her thoughts of Helena and Barbara increased; memories of those two kept her strong in several instances. Every night she reported to Tek, in the bathroom usually, trying to keep quiet so that nobody would over hear her 'betrayal'.

The next month she was still working small jobs, it seemed that no one had taken any real interest in her abilities yet, what none of them knew was how much she was holding back. From then on she decided to try a little harder, maybe then she could get more of a rep, and be able to move up the chain. A lucky break finally came when she was assigned to help construct the bomb for the Kaze's next target. Finally she had been able to get some information, and the bomb was stopped before it could detonate, and kill, who knows how many people in Kyoto.

For the third month, things were starting to look up, the work she did on the failed bombing earned her a space higher up in the ranks. She was given a change of rooms and still had three roommates, but it was a larger, and more comfortable room. Here she was able to get much more substantial gossip, which led to two more bombs being stopped, a victory that Dinah was proud to have. She was now on regular assignments, usually involving bombs, but some were to take messages to Saio. He always seemed so happy to see her, and she really couldn't figure out why, but there was no need to mess with a good thing; if Saio liked her, then she may as well use that to her advantage. Often after receiving the messages, he would either have a phone conversation right in front of her, or move into his side office for a few moments. The latter, always left her with enough time to root around for clues.

On the fourth month, her lucky break really came though, she had been called to Saio's office, and expected that she was to deliver a message as was usual; that didn't happen. When she had walked into his office he slapped her with a big, fat promotion. Apparently he had seen her work, observing her a few times when she was busy, and he liked what he saw. Dinah supposed that her earlier performance months ago when she was first joining didn't hurt any either. Now she was one of the higher ups, part of his special group within the Kaze, his right hand men known as the Youkai. The group consisted of the strongest, fastest, and smartest of all the Kaze. It seemed that one of the operatives had been deemed unreliable, and had to be disposed of, which left an opening among the group. Saio had thought that Dinah would make the perfect new addition. All of this was one month ago.

Currently she was headed to the Youkai's meeting room, Saio had a special job that he wanted done and didn't trust the regular Kaze to meet his expectations. It wasn't without reason, several of their bombings had been stopped lately, and this one seemed too important for that. As she walked into the room she noticed all the other members were already there. In the center of the room was a plain, rectangular steel table, with eleven chairs surrounding it; one at the head, five down one side, and five down the other, Dinah's chair was on the lower left corner. She took her seat and awaited the briefing.

"I'm so glad that you all could make it." Saio's stare seemed almost solely directed at Dinah, "As you know we've had problems. I'm tired of my god damn bombs never getting to explode!" Saio didn't normally get angry, usually he was very pleasant, almost eerily so, but when he did get mad it reminded Dinah of a three year old throwing a tantrum. He quickly regained his composure, "I want a new bomb built, and I want it placed at Tokyo tower. You have one month to do this in, Dinah I want you working on the construction with Kaori, Misawa, Tarokichi, and Kaya. The rest of you will be the delivery team, except for you Saitoh; I want you to figure out why my bombs aren't working. Dismissed."

Everyone rose from the table and approached the elevator, Dinah and the group that she was assigned to work with, got the first lift out. Their destination was the tenth floor, the construction room, it was filled with several rooms with plated glass for testing purposes, or incase of accidents. "Let's get started already. If Saio finds, or even thinks that we've been slacking there'll be problems for us." Warned Kaori, pulling a box of tools out from a cupboard.

"Saio's an ass, he's a fucking psycho." Tarokichi complained.

"Then why don't you quit, and stop complaining?" Said Misawa.

"Yeah, I'm sure if you really wanted we could give you something to really complain about." Dinah threatened, in her mind she thought, "When will this end, I can't stand these people." Speaking out loud again she growled, "Let's just do this." They worked for hours before they finally retired for the day.

Dinah was impatient to get back to her, now private, room; the report that she could give to Tek would be great. Inside her room she quickly put on her earpiece, but in her haste, she didn't bother making sure that everything was clear. "Tek, you there?"

"Yeah, you've got something for me?"

"Yeah, the next strike, it's being taken care of personally by the Youkai." She didn't even bother to keep her voice down, as she spoke excitedly.

"The Youkai? He must be serious about this. Where is it going to be?"

"Tokyo tower. We have a month to do it in. He's getting seriously pissed now to, by the end of this I should be able to get all the evidence we need. I think he might see to this one personally, which will leave me with plenty of time to hack into the computer in his office, and download everything."

"This is good news, if all goes well, you'll be out of there in another month. This is coming to a close Dinah, and I don't want you taking any stupid risks, be careful. Don't forget that you're in a compound filled with terrorist Dinah, terrorist that kill anyone who tries to quit, or escape." A scolding, worry was evident in his voice.

"Don't worry about it, it's all under control. I think that I should sabotage it from the inside this time. What do you think?"

"It sounds like a bad idea, especially this close to the end, but I'm going to have to agree with you. If we stop it before it even leaves without Saio knowing, then we won't have to waste any effort trying to stop it." Tek answered sighing loudly, Dinah knew that the actual man hated the idea, while the part of him that was Tek, loved it.

"Well, it's settled then. I gotta go now, you have no idea how staring at circuits for five hours can kill your brain." Dinah laugh, the thought that she could leave this place and put the bad guys behind bars was wonderful.

"Don't forget to take your medicine Dinah. Good night." They both disconnected the link at the same time. Dinah took her medicine as Tek had instructed, and laid down in bed doing her best to fall asleep, a faint tickling in the back of her mind was making it difficult, but it finally faded. She never noticed the person outside of her door, peeking in through a slight crack, and listening to the entire conversation she had just held with Tek. Silently the door closed, and the figured crept off down the hall.

"Mr. Inyana, I have some news for you."

"Oh really, is it good or bad and more importantly is it important? I do have a lot of work to attend to Saitoh."

"It is most defiantly important, whether the news is good or bad is for you to decided Mr. Inyana." Saio put down the papers he had been leafing through, and folded his hands placing them on his desk; his full attention was on Saitoh. "I got Ms. Adams doing something. . .odd. There was no one in the room, yet she was speaking to someone, and telling them about the job we're about to pull. She suggested that she sabotage the bomb, and was talking about finally getting out of here. I think that she's the weasel we've been looking for."

Eyes narrowing, Saio brought up his hands and rested hi chin on them, "This really does make me sad, I had a certain fondness for her. Although, I was beginning to suspect her, all the failures were ones that she was a part of. That 's part of the reason I upgraded her to the Youkai, I knew that if one of these were to fail, it could only be her." He roe from his seat, and grabbed a file sitting on his desk passing it over to Saitoh, "This is what we were able to find on her, I can't help but wonder how much of it is true. The bomb goes out next month; I want you to keep a close eye on her until then. If she has any patterns, I want to know about them, in one month I want to see her talking to this invisible person myself. If you'll excuse me, I really do have work that is in need of my immediate attention."

The month passed quickly, and Dinah did all that she could to make sure that the bomb wouldn't work. Nobody besides Saio, and Saitoh, suspected anything about her; all of her hard work though, was about to come undone. Now was Dinah's sixth month working for The Kaze, and she hoped it would soon all be coming to an end; in fact, tonight was when it was to be delivered. That meant Saio would be going out, and that Dinah would be able to get all the evidence she needed.

"So, tonight is the night. I've got the disk ready, and in three hours all the info necessary will be downloaded onto it." Dinah smiled as she talked with Tek, it was just some last minute adjustments, and planning.

"You still need to be careful Dinah. Just because Saio's gone doesn't mean that this is going to be a walk in the park." Tek scolded her.

Saitoh had been keeping track of Dinah's habits and movements as he was instructed. Three things always seemed to be the same, in the morning she would inject herself with a blue liquid, at night she would talk to the invisible person, and immediately afterwards would inject herself with the serum again. Right now, Saio was on his way to Dinah's room with a team of five Kaze, he was prepared to catch her in the act.

"I have the guards shift memorized, it'll be no problem to get in his office, and even if I do get caught I can just say that it's official Youkai business." Saio was right outside her door now, slowly he opened it. There was no creak of the doors hinges, it was in far too good of condition for that, and there was no other noise that could've alerted her of their presence. Only one thing notified her of the presence of something, the faint tickle in her mind; unfortunately she ignored it. "This whole double agent thing will be done with soon, don't worry about me cause I can handle myself."

"From here it doesn't exactly seem that way Ms. Adams. You're a double agent, this disappoints me, you had the potential to do so much, and here you go and ruin it; very disappointing." Saio chided as he walked into the room, only a few feet away from Dinah, the Kaze team rushed in after him. They were armed with guns, and each and every barrel was aimed at Dinah. "I know what you've been up to, and now you're in our custody. Take her in." One of the men strode towards her, pulling out a pair of hand cuffs as he went, Dinah cooperated as he cuffed her hands behind her back; after all it was no fun to get shot in the head. "Take her to interrogation. I hope you have a high threshold for pain Ms. Adams." Dinah merely growled in response.

She was shoved into a chair that was inside a plain room, besides the chair there was a two way mirror, and a table complete with restraints. "See if she has an ear piece." Saio's voice sounded from speakers in the corner, the guards obeyed, and her only hope, Tek, was ripped from her ear.

"Try to be a little more gentle next time." Dinah complained just to annoy Saio.

"You will be quiet until spoken to, show her why." Another guard came up from behind her, and stuck what must have been a cattle prod into the small of her back, then pressed the button to release the electrical current. Dinah's muscles clenched in response, it was painful, but all she did was hiss through her teeth. The prod was removed, and her muscles started to relax again, which was a large relief; she glared at where she thought he might be. "Now you will answer my questions, whom do you work for?"

"Myself."

"Let me rephrase the question; who were you talking to in your room?"

"You." Came the smart-ass reply, followed by another round with the cattle prod.

"Try again Ms. Adams and think hard." Saio warned.

"Nobody." The pain came again as her response obviously wasn't good enough.

"Once more Ms. Adams."

"I won't tell you anything. I won't betray anyone ever again." This time it was a fist to the jaw, followed by one to the stomach. "Please don't let me crack. I can't rat on him, I just can't. Helena, Barbara please help me, I know I betrayed you, but lend me some strength." Dinah prayed silently, her head was already hurting from the brief contact of skin. "Please."

This continued into the next month, the bomb had failed just as Dinah had hoped, but Saio was getting angry with her. Today he would be making a personal appearance to the interrogation procedure. Poor Dinah was hurting badly by now, she was bruised, cut, burnt, was always shaking since they shocked her so much, and her head hurt worse than it ever had before, she hadn't had her medicine since the night she had been captured. Every time someone touched her, the pain flowed anew, since her clothes were torn the contact was made more and more often; the only thing that was good about it was that every time she was granted a brief amount of access to their mind, and now she was learning things. The door opened, and 'play time' began.

"Who is he?" A different guard was questioning her, normally Saio always asked the questions, but Dinah guessed that he must have been getting bored. This had already been going on for a few hours, and Saio decided to take over again.

"Listen to me Ms. Adams. I want you to tell me who you were talking to, who you really are, who you work for, and what else have you done." She spit in his face; it was too hard to form the words these days. He wiped the spit from his cheek, smearing the remnants on what was left of Dinah's shirt. Roughly, he griped her chin, she screamed in pain but her powers allowed her to gather the fact that he was leaving somewhere tonight then she lapsed into unconsciousness.

She awoke to find the room empty, and a new resolve came to her, she would escape tonight or die trying. Preparing herself for the pain, she used her telekinesis to free herself from the cuffs, they clattered to the floor, and she pitched forward; sheer determination kept her from hitting the floor. Clumsily she staggered towards the door, using her powers once more to unlock it biting down on her tongue and drawing blood so that she wouldn't make any sound. She trudged through the halls as carefully as she could, but still managed a few encounters each somehow ending with her as the victor.

There at the end of the hall, was her goal, she'd be damned if she didn't escape with her original target especially since it was now so close. The door was unlocked, and the computer was ready for hacking. Slipping the disk into the drive, she sat down and got to work, surprisingly she found the files easy to hack into so she started the download. To pass the time, she searched through his desk, finding two things that almost made her cry, the serum, and her earpiece. Unfortunately the injection gun was nowhere in sight, so she just opened the tube and drank it down feeling an immediate, but slight change. Next she put in the earpiece "Tek?" She sounded tired, and the word was a little slurred, but it was all that was necessary.

"Dinah! Dinah is that you? Are you okay?"

"Why is this working?" she slurred.

"Why is what working?"

"The Com. Could've. . .traced it."

"I know but I couldn't just leave you there, and I put up a fake tracer signal." He informed.

"I got. . . disk. Send. . .plane." She instructed.

Only moments later, the transport she had requested appeared right outside Saio's window, she ejected the disk and made her way towards it. Then she realized that there was glass standing between her, and salvation, a paperweight from Saio's desk took care of that little encumbrace. The door opened, with Kaze operatives filing in just as she managed to sit in the plane. It flew off and once more she flew into sweet oblivion.

Note: We are now traveling forward in time, back to the clock tower. You'll have to imagine the little waves that signal time travel in front of you, cause I can't make 'em.

"And that's how I got out, course it wasn't all smooth, I wound up in a coma for three months, and have been recovering since then." Dinah finished reminiscing.

All was silent for a moment, but it was broken by Helena, "I'll kill him! Point me in the right direction and I'll rip his head off his shoulders! I don't care about our no kill policy, I'll kill him!" Helena seethed as she got up pacing back and forth.

"Calm down Helena, we won't kill him, but he will be sent back to jail. Plus, you don't want to know what it's like to kill somebody, trust me on that one."

For Dinah's sake Helena flopped heavily back down onto the couch right beside Dinah. "Maybe you should let Helena and I handle this Dinah. It was a traumatic experience that took place only a few months ago." Barbara suggested.

"No, I have to face my demons sometime right? And this seems to be the best time to do just that."

"Anyone want a drink? I could use a little drink after that story." Helena asked.

"I could go for one." Dinah piped in.

"No alcohol, it's barely past nine." Helena and Dinah looked to each other, then back at Barbara; both gave the same shrug that seemed to say 'so?' "Nine in the morning. It's far too early for drinks, so sit back down." Both Dinah and Helena were sulking now.

"You know what? After that little tale, I think that we all deserve some relaxation, and to do that I think a picnic would work perfectly." Helena suggested smiling at Dinah, and winking at Barbara.

"I'll call Alfred, and we'll be gone in no time." Barbara winked back at Helena, both thinking of the last picnic they had together; if this one was anything like the last it would be the perfect thing to relax both mind and body.

Note: There you have it folks. I know I torture Dinah a lot, but I can't help it, she's just so torturable. I'm a little disappointed in this chapter, but let me know what you think. Once again, thanks for all the reviews, they keep me going. Love ya all, bye and I'll update as soon as I can.