A/N: This is definitely one of the chapters I totally had to rewrite. Enjoy!

Italics signal thoughts, and bold italics signal telepathic conversations.

Chapter five: Discoveries

Sarane Moreau paced impatiently around the room while waiting for Kay's call. Just then someone knocked on her door. She ran to position herself behind her desk and asked the person to come in. Her dear friend Jenna Hughes entered her office, a look of terror on her face. Sarane, however, didn't notice because she was reading a report. As Jen called for her attention, Sarane lifted her head slightly and motioned for Jen to sit.

As Jen started telling her about Katharine's injuries, Sarane's eyes widened and she shook her head. Katharine may be one of the agency's greatest agents, but she was going to get herself killed one of these days, taking on every hard mission and putting herself in danger. She was just a kid, but the superiors apparently thought she was invincible because of her mutations. Still, her thoughts roamed off to Gwen, Anna and Ben. Were they all right? Where were they?

Suddenly Marius appeared before her eyes. He looked at her apologetically, and sat down to wait for his turn. As soon as he sat, Sarane's office phone rang. It was her boss, Jerry Davis. She put him on speakerphone, gritting her teeth at his bad timing. "Miss Moreau, I have news for you. Six members from your team have been declared disappeared. Due to large abduction of members, your unit will be deactivated until further notice. If recovered, you would immediately recommence. If you do not succeed in the retrieval, you will be permanently shut down."

Sarane looked at Marius and saw his face contort into pure fury. How dare Davis treat them like objects?That was one of the few things that she and Marius had always agreed on.Jenna was talking again, but Sarane's thoughts were roaming off to the one time, fifteen years ago, when she and Marius had been together. It had been a happy time; one of those tender loves that developed into passion. They'd been young; Sarane had been 17 and Marius, 21. After some time, Marius was overwhelmed by cowardice, since Hunter Moreau wasn't a man who would like knowing that his trusted employee was gallivanting around with his only daughter.

It was only a short time after Marius had left that Sarane found out she was pregnant. Before she could tell anyone, her father died of a heart attack and she was left to take care of her mother. After her pregnancy ended, Sarane was torn by Ginny, her mother, into naming her daughter a Moreau or a Holden…

She shook back to the present by Jenna tugging at her arm. From the look of her face, Jen had been asking her a question. "I'm sorry, you were saying?"

"I was asking about your girl."

"Oh, she's fine. Big and beautiful."

"I can only imagine how hard it has been for the two of you without her father."

"It has." Sarane looked flustered, especially when Marius raised his eyebrows questioningly. Oh , damn, please don't ask, please don't say anything.

"Well, I'm sure you have important stuff to tend to, so I'll be leaving you." Jenna got up and so did Marius, opening the door for her, who looked surprised to see him again so soon. Then he sat in front of Sarane.

"I have a couple of questions to ask you, but first, let's get the business over with. John Nathan Townsend and his old working partner, Viviane Leighton, are behind the disappearances. I'm worried about them andI'm hoping Kay will recover soon. As for assembling a team, Christina Blake, Jocelyn Woods and Adlai Morris have already offered."

"We'll need a squadron leader."

"Ryan Melhriam. There can be no one else."

"Kay won't like it."

"Neither do we."

"Nice point."

"That's settled, then." Sarane nodded nervously. "So, you have a daughter."

"Yes, Marina Leigh."

"How old is she?"

"Fourteen, just like Kay."

"I didn't know you had married."

"I haven't."

"So…" He was cut off mid-sentence by the appearance of a young woman. She had turquoise eyes and fiery red hair. She couldn't be older than sixteen.She ran over to Sarane's desk, shaking. Sarane got up immediately and walked over to her, and held her. Just then Marius noticed the girl's right hand was bleeding from a very deep cut. Agent Davis appeared at the door and beckoned for Sarane to join him. Sarane looked at the girl, who had recovered her composure. Marius placed his hand on Sarane's shoulder and nodded. "I'll take care of her wound. You go to talk to Davis, okay?"

She smiled at him gratefully, tipping her head as to study him better. "Thank you, Marius." The girl's eyes widened slightly at the mention of his name. And as he led her to a chair and looked for a first aid kit, his feral senses picked up her quiet scrutiny of him. She has to be a feral, he thought, her eyes are on me gently, but trained as I am I can still feel them. Also, she's nervous. I wonder why?

He moved over to her and started to clean the cut gently. She winced at his touch and he apologized. As he looked it over, he ran his fingers over it in a gently caress and healed it partially, so there was only a superficial cut left. "I'm afraid I'm not powerful enough to completely heal it, but it should be better now." She nodded admiringly at him as he bandaged her hand and returned it to her with a smile. "I had no idea I was so interesting."

She blushed at his comment, she hadn't realized he knew. "I…"

"Don't apologize. I find it rather flattering. I'm Marius, by the way. Marius Holden."

She smiled appreciatively. "I know who you are. I'm Marina. Marina Leigh…"

"Moreau." He finished for her.

"No", shecorrected firmly. "Holden."

His eyes widened as hers watered and she had to avert her gaze. He reached out to touch her hair and framed her beautiful face with her hand. She bit her lip trying to stop herself from crying, but ended up making it bleed instead, and the tears ran across her face anyway. He pushed his thumb against her lip to stop the bleeding, and placed his other hand hesitantly on her shoulder. As the bleeding ceased, he removed his hand and was about to remove the other one when she stopped him, placing her hand over his. They looked into each other's eyes and embraced each other.

Marina smiled against his chest, he was so tall she could barely reach his shoulder. She was tall herself, almost as tall as her mother, and stood proudly against her handsome father as she felt his arms around her for the first time. Marius held Marina closely, reveling in the joy it gave him to know he had a daughter, fruit of the only time he'd loved someone. He embraced her delicately, his emotions spinning in his head. He pulled away softly and examined her. She had his porcelain complexion, her grandmother's hair and Hunter Moreau's brilliant eyes. And Sarane's blush, he noticed as he saw the heat spread warmly from her neck to her cheeks. He traced his index finger across her cheekbones, they were every bit as chiseled as his mother's had been.

Sarane pushed the door open to find Marina and Marius still in each other's arms, and knew that Marina had told him. She stood there hesitantly but Marina and Marius' feral senses picked her presence up. Marius smiled fondly at Marina, noticing. "You're a feral."

She nodded. "Feline feral. Mom said I got it from you."

Sarane spoke, finally. "That and the teleportation."

Marius looked surprised. "You're a psionic hybrid, too?"

Sarane answered for Marina. "Yeah, Rina may not look it, but she's a lot like you."

Marius was about to inquire Sarane, but decided to postpone it. "I have some work to do. But I was wondering if I could drop by later and maybe spend some time with Marina, get to know her."

"I would like that," stated Marina timidly, looking at her mother.

Sarane only smiled at Marina's respect of her opinion. "That would be great, you could go out for a while and maybe drop her off home. You should see her bedroom, I'll remind you a lot of your own and Gwen's."

"Speaking of which, I'd better go see ifAdam knows anything yet. See you later?"

Marina nodded, turning back to him and impulsively pecking him on the cheek before doing the same to her mother and teleporting away. Marius touched his cheek with a smile at her impulsive gesture before blowing Sarane a kiss and departing, leaving her to her conscience.

A/N: You have to agree; this is nothing like the original chapter. My muse insists it's better this way. I'm going to trust her, at least this once.