Prologue II
He opened the door to the car and waited for the two to get in. The feral stood watching him untrustingly, making no move towards the car. Sighing, Adam left the door, stepping away from the car. She continued to watch him until she was happy he was too far away to pose any threat. Satisfied she turned and sat her charge in the seat, glancing back once more before helping her settle into the safety belt, careful to avoid the wound in her side. Checking Adam once more she shut the door, nodding her silent acknowledgement and circling the car to the other side to get in herself.
When she was settled Adam got into the driver's seat and started the engine. Turning in his seat he spoke to the two.
"I need to put a visual cloak on you, to keep the location of Sanctuary safe. Can I do that?" The psionic frowned, opening her eyes to meet Adam's.
"It covers our eyes?"
"In a way yes, it's temporary and it won't hurt." She nodded, turning to the feral. There was a moment's silence while they shared something, the feral nodding or shaking her head in response to unheard questions. Fear was close to the surface when they had finished but she turned to Adam and nodded once briefly, holding out her hand for the devices. He obliged, handing her the two circular disks. She examined them carefully and the looked back at Adam a question in her eyes.
"They go here." He explained, tapping his temple. The feral nodded again, leaning over and brushing away a strand of hair and placing the device on the psionic's temple. She looked to Adam for conformation that she'd done it correctly and then, taking a tight grip on her friend's hand, the placed the second device on her own temple.
A moment of panic crossed her face as her eyes opened, a milky white layer covering her own brown eyes, before she quashed the emotion. Moving across the seat, she put herself in as much contact as she could be with the psionic who placed a soft kiss on her head before relaxing back into the seat, clearly exhausted. If it were possible she looked paler now than she had before and Adam turned his attention to getting the two to Sanctuary as soon as possible.
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They were more than half way to Sanctuary when Adam heard the commotion in the back. The psionic was quietly hushing the feral as she tried to break out of her hold. The psionic's injury was being pulled dangerously and Adam could see the pain in her eyes, knowing that in her weakened condition she was not able to hold the struggling feral. He pulled over quickly.
"The visual cloak, I have to take it off her." The psionic spoke, her voice gravely from lack of use but her powers out of reach with the cloak obscuring her eyes.
"Of course." Adam answered immediately, reaching out to remove the device but beaten to it was the telepath who quickly removed her own cloak as well.
Her eyes were feral as the cloak's effects disappeared, and the feral was sobbing quietly, seemingly unable to focus on her surroundings. Adam was beginning to wondering if perhaps the cloak had affected her more seriously when her feral eyes faded and she met the psionic's blue eyes, muttering a heavily lisped 'sorry' under her breath. Slowly her breathing came back under control, only the occasional coughing sob escaping her.
Adam watched as the psionic held the feral and wondered if he'd overestimated the feral's age. With tears on her cheeks and fear in her eyes she looked so very much younger then the blond whose arms wrapped around her.
"What happened?" He asked quietly when the two had settled. Blue eyes met his and an image formed before his eyes. It was the feral, but younger, bound and shackled to a table in a clinically clean room empty of all but her and the table she lay on. The feral blinked rapidly, obviously unaccustomed to the bright light that lit the scene. Small whimpers were the only sound she made. The image faded and was replaced with blue eyes once more.
"They kept her in the dark, so dark there wasn't even enough light for her feral eyes to see. They did sound tests on her, testing her feral hearing. They kept her in absolute silence and then barraged her with noises until they found one that broke her. Now she hears nothing. When they realised what they'd done to her, they changed her over to the vision tests, days in darkness with complete sensory deprivation and days where they spent hours bombarding her with light.
"In the dark she still has waking dreams of that place, though it has been years since we escaped from there." She glanced back at the feral who was now curled up on the seat, shaking violently. Adam turned away.
"She's not going to see anything from down there." He told the blond. "Can you put your cloak back on and we'll get you both to Sanctuary as quickly as possible." She nodded her consent, placing the device back on her temple and moving closer to the shaking feral.
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If you want more I need story lines. I have the next couple of chapters, introducing the two to Sanctuary and Jesse and Brennan and a little more history, but from then on I'm stuck. Help!