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AUTHORS NOTES: I´d just like to say thanks for the reviews and all. I´m going to be correcting the grammar mistakes on the other chapters soon so thanks for telling be about them. From now on I must ask for a little patience however cause college starts in a week and we all now how hectic life gets when that happens, still I´m trying my best to finish this before that happens. Thanks again and please keep reading and commenting!
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Eames decided that the fact that what little light they had had gone meant it was already night. This meant only two things to her, they had been there at least eight or nine hours and someone had to have of noticed their absence by now. She´d given up on banging on the door a while ago and had been silent ever since, it wasn´t easy since the dark was pressing on her, sometimes she even found it hard to breath, of course that was probably from being hit by a broomstick, she thought. She tried to take a deep breath but it hurt too much, the pain shooting up to her neck. She tried concentrating on something else, she could hear breathing, the person closest to her had to be Agent Scully, her breathing was calm and steady but she doubted the agent was asleep, unless she´d passed out. It wouldn´t be surprising.
Eames couldn´t actually believe it when they first struck the FBI agent, but then she was hit herself and that made it so much more easier to come to terms with it. She´d been so angry she hadn´t even noticed the awful pain until much later, when she stopped hitting the door and sat down. She was getting really desperate, and desperate was not something that suited Alexandra Eames. She rubbed her eyes and leaned back, pressing her back against the wall. It was cool and damp, but Eames had stopped caring about dampness a long time ago, and it being cool felt good, it helped to keep her awake. The events of the day where starting to set in and her body was starting to give in. She felt herself nodding off, she couldn´t fall asleep, she had no excuse to do so, she had to stay awake. The three women had given up on conversation a while back, instead, Eames leaned her head back, and started replaying the entire case in her head.
After Katya had been confronted by Goren, her outbreak and the sudden involvment of a cult in the case, Eames was just about ready to give up, hand the case to the fed´s and call it a day. Her partner had a different opinion. After the "little scene" in the cells, Goren was even more determined to prove his point. Eames understood it, she even applauded it to some degree, but she had to admit to herself that if an old case file existed which seemed to pertain to this new case, maybe they should just let the FBI take over. She never said it aloud, but it did come up as a fleeting thought for a second or two as she walked over to her desk, following Goren´s lead.
Goren had been livid to say the least. It was actually a rarity to see Robert Goren so wound up. He simply sat down on his desk, turned the computer on and started typing furiously, Eames knew he was looking for something that could serve as a lead, or at least a start, as to his theory. Eames decided that she would take her chances with her partner, maybe Agent Mulder had a point with the whole cult thing, a very, very, very small one, but she knew Goren. She did not know Agent Mulder, and Goren was almost always right. Eames noticed neither of the agents followed them, she looked back, they where obviously arguing about something, but Eames was beyond the point of caring, as long as they did not get in her way. She sat down, picked up the phone and dialed the number to the hospital, she knew her partner was probably looking for some sort of records on the girl, Eames would do the same, when someone finally picked up, she started on the long search for any medical records on Katya Hovens.
The search for Katya´s records took so long simply because there seemed to be no records to be found, which was certanly an oddity. No person could have no records, but both Eames and Goren started to slowly accept it as a possibility after what seemed like endless hours both on the phone and online. The only proof that she even existed seemed to be what they already had: a birth certificate of her daughter, a marriage certificate and the only other two things they could find on her, adoption papers and her chart from the night her daughter was born. There was no way they could be sure the adoption papers where hers, because the child mentioned there was Katalina Sonns, adopted by Peter and Margaret Sonns. However they found themselves unable to verify if Katalina was Katya because they found out that both Mr. and Mrs. Sonns had apparently vanished from the earth right after adopting the girl. It was still the closest thing to a lead, so they decided to take their chances and assume Katalina Sonns was now Katya Hovens.
Eames had lost track of time, the last thing she really remembered was Agent Scully coming up to her and handing her her card, telling her she and Agent Mulder had to go over the old FBI file and that if anything happened to please call. Eames had watched Scully walk away wondering what a person like her was doing with someone like Mulder. Eames was about to call Agent Scully to see if they´d learned anything when Goren suddenly dropped whatever he´d been reading and leaned back on his chair. He took a deep breath and stared at the ceiling for some time. Eames decided not to call the agents just yet, she reached over and took what her partner had been reading, it was the birthcertificate and medical chart of the night Kaia Hovens was born. Goren still didn´t move so Eames read them...again. It was the third time she did when Goren suddenly got up and leaned on his desk, then simply started talking.
"Mr. and Mrs. Sonns, we know they dropped off the map as soon as they adopted Katya...that would explain why she had no records, why the first thing we know of her is the marriage certificate..we also know from Mr. and Mrs. Hovens that Sean and Katya moved into her family´s house when they first found out she was pregnant, and then they moved back in when their child was almost two years old. Since they lived with her family it´s safe to assume not many records would show up..when they moved to Mr. and Mrs. Hoven´s house...that still gives us about four years but there are no records on either Katya or their daughter...seems odd, a child that doesn´t get hurt? Or...sick?"
Eames knew where Goren was going with this, she was already back on the phone before he could get a word out, "Maybe they had a private doctor. A friend of the family, one who conviniently kept no records on them."
It didn´t take long to find him. Dr. Pierce, he´d been a friend of Margaret Sonns´ father. He hadn´t heard from the Sonns in nearly 13 years, but he hadn´t lost contact with their daughter Katya. He said Katya herself had never been brought to him, and that she never came after she left her parents home as a patient, he did however, say that she had brought him her daughter Kaia several times, for colds and fevers and such things. The way he said it, Eames knew he was lying, he knew more than he was letting on. It seemed to Goren and Eames they were finally getting a lead. The feeling of accomplishment was crushed when Dr. Pierce informed them that he couldn´t actually meet with them because he was leaving in the moring and would not be back for two weeks. It did not help matters when Goren´s phone rang and it was none other than Agent Mulder.
The conversation didn´t take very long and all they found out was that Mulder and Scully had learned nothing that helped their investigation. Goren very briefly and very dryly told Agent Mulder what they´d found out, he didn´t really seem to even listen to him and Eames saw her partner roll his eyes more than once at the phone. She tried to hide a smile by looking down at her desk, she almost felt guilty for it, but then again, the irony was too good. If there was one thing Eames had learned in the last twelve hours was that Agent Mulder was insane, but no more than Goren, at a more dangerous and annoying level sure, but the similarities were there. At first she couldn´t really believe it, but it seemed to Eames that Agent Mulder was as dedicated to his job as Goren was to his. Her train of thought was interrupted as Goren slammed down the phone. He took a very deep breath and looked up at Eames.
"They haven´t found anything..well nothing useful anyway." Eames simply looked back, he finally gave in and continued, "they checked their...file...they´re having difficulties carrying the whole "cult thing" to this case. They did do a little background checking on the girl, Katya, they could find no records either. Agent Mulder...", Eames caught the little tone in Goren´s voice as he said this, "thinks this is due to Katya´s ...nature." He didn´t continue after that, and Eames could take a hint. She figured that was right about the point where Goren slammed the phone. He said nothing more and she didn´t press it. She went back to her own desk and her own papers, Goren didn´t move for a while, Eames could feel him looking at her but knew that he was probably trying to figure the case out in his mind. After several minutes he finally looked back down at his own desk.
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Katya had been thrown into shock by the FBI agents. What was shocking was not the fact that there were other healers, she knew there were others, what she found so unbelievable was that there were other people in her situation. She had spent so many years in that awful place, sometimes the only thing that kept her going was that she had convinced herself that there couldn´t possibly be other people as evil as the ones she lived with. She didn´t know this had already happened, 1985...that was two years before she was adopted. She tried to remember if there was anything ever mentioned, anything they ever told her. She was considered just an object, one who had no right to even think, as a result she was usually not in the room for all the important conversations, but she had her sources. Her brother for one, plus she was always pretty good at hiding and sneaking out, she smiled a little. Hiding and sneaking out was what had led her to meet Sean.
She looked out beyond the bars, Agent Mulder and Scully were long gone. They´d argued briefly but not loud enough for Katya to overhear, and she was tired of intruding on their minds. Such complicated minds, and besides, Katya hated having to do that, she felt it was something like what was done to her. She streched her neck a bit, catching a glimpse of Det. Eames´ back, she couldn´t quite see her partner. She regretted shouting those things at him, she didn´t really mean them. The detectives looked busy, Katya assumed they were looking for something on her. It wasn´t going to be easy, she never got sick, ever. She was never outside the property where she was raised, and she never went to any public or private school. She´d been home schooled, some of the finest teachers money could buy, maybe she was no better than an animal, but she needed to fool the outside world. She rolled her eyes, she could do nothing but be annoyed at this point.
She still hadn´t been charged with anything, and yet she was apparently forgotten in that little cell. Katya thought it was just as well. She hadn´t been able to help Sean, she couldn´t help Kaia now, she could do nothing. The best she could hope for was Kaia would never be directly involved and Sean would eventually recover. She felt a sudden rush of desperation fill her as she realized what would probably happen. She would get sent to jail, or found by her "family" and be taken back. She should of left Sean alone, she shouldn´t of gone to see him, it was what they had agreed. Sean´s grandparents had kept up their part of the bargain and had not asked about him at the hospital, Katya had broken hers. She should of stayed away, found Kaia and hid with her, until it was safe. She cursed at herself, ever since the accident she seemed to only be able to make mistakes. She looked down at her hands, she remembered the accident...
It had been late, they´d all been out celebrating, Sean and Katya, had been able to find a place to live. It had been four years since she had left her childhood home, they hadn´t been found but she figured they must of given up on her by now. She would of probably been replaced by now, another child. She still winced at the thought of that, but she couldn´t go back there, the best she could hope for was that the next child didn´t suffer as much as she had. She´d convinced herself they were reasonably safe and could afford to move out of Mr. and Mrs. Hoven´s very isolated home. Kaia would be able to go to normal school, she had already been enrolled and she couldn´t be happier about going. Sean had gotten a fairly decent job as had Katya. It all seemed so perfect that night.
They´d gone out to dinner and come back late, near midnight. Mr. Hovens had been driving, he always did, but this time his wife decided to ride in the back, because Mr. Hovens wanted to talk to Katya about what they´d need and all that. Katya had nearly dismissed the man´s words, but she knew she shouldn´t, they had risked their lives when they took her and Kaia in afterall. Mr. Hovens was just getting to the part about how if anything suspicious happened, they should come back immediately, that there was no sense in taking any risks, when it happened. There was something on the road, maybe a dog or deer or something..Katya never saw what it was, all she knew was that she suddenly found herself smashed against the dashboard. The impact should of nearly killed her, but of course it didn´t, Katya didn´t get hurt so easily, it didn´t even really hurt, she just felt a bit dizzy, a small cut on her forhead was all the evidence she´d even been in an accident.
The first thing she´d noticed was the smashed windshield. She streched her neck and saw Sean lying in front of the car. There was blood everywhere, and for a moment she panicked. She then remembered the rest of the people in the car. She looked behind her, the car had smashed against a tree on the driver´s side, Kaia was badly hurt, she had probably hit both the seat in front of her and the window which was smashed, glass had fallen over her, and she was not moving. Mr. and Mrs. Hovens were hurt, but not nearly as bad, they were both conscious. It was as if someone had turned a switch inside Katya´s head, she heard and felt nothing. She reached in the back and managed to get Kaia out, she carried her to the side of the road and then dragged Sean next to her. He was badly cut all over and he was barely awake. Katya went to help Mr. and Mrs. Hovens out of the car, once they were lying next to it she went back to Sean. He was still awake, but Kaia was barely breathing, with whatever strength he had left he´d only told Katya to take care of Kaia. It was then she realized she was faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Save Sean or save Kaia. It only took one look from Sean and Katya knew what she had to do. She laid her hands on Kaia and concentrated the hardest she ever had before in her life.
It took about ten minutes, but suddenly Kaia opened her eyes, as if waking up after sleeping for a long time. She rubbed her eyes, but didn´t say anything. Katya had managed to heal even most of the cuts and bruises. She knew she had no time to waste after that, she turned to Sean and did the same. Only it didn´t work, Sean was already unconscious, already dying. Katya concentrated and concentrated, until her entire body hurt and she felt like she would pass out. She finally gave up, Sean was not waking up, she´d managed to help, she knew. With one last word of encouragment from Mr. Hovens, she took Kaia and ran back to find a phone. What little help she gave Sean might not be enough, she had to get an ambulance. Kaia still said nothing, she simply allowed herself to be carried. Katya felt exhausted, everything hurt and she couldn´t breath properly, but there was only one thought going through her head as she got closer and closer to the end of the desolate road, she couldn´t let Sean die. She had to get help.
When she finally did, she realized she couldn´t go back before the ambulance got there, she couldn´t be placed in the accident, questions would start to come up. She did not need the attention, especially since she knew how well connected her former family was. She couldn´t let Kaia be involved either. She felt panic rising again, she needed to do something. Hide Kaia, that was the first step, then she had to see Sean and Mr. and Mrs. Hovens. It seemed like the start of a good plan. Just as the sirens of an ambulance had gone by she remembered she was already dialing the number of the only person she had ever known from the outside: Dr. Pierce. He could hide Kaia, he´d always been there before, and he´d never told anyone about her or someone would of already showed up to take Katya. She wasn´t entirely convinced she should trust him with something as important as the life of her daughter, but she felt like she had no choice.
Dr. Pierce had agreed to take Kaia. He said he could take her to some friends he had, she would be safe there. Katya had sighed, feeling some of the panic leaving her body. She had given Dr. Pierce the adress she was at and he´d shown up ten minutes later, he gave Katya a ride to the closest hospital where they probably had taken Sean, and took Kaia. Sean and his grandparents had already been brought in. She briefly thanked Sean´s bad habit of never carrying a wallet, she gave his name but asked everything about him be kept secret. She must´ve of looked desperate because the nurses agreed without saying anything. Since Sean was still being looked at, she went to find his grandparents. It wasn´t as bad as it could´ve of been. Mr. Hovens had a broken leg and Mrs. Hovens was bleeding internally, she was already on her way to the OR. Katya had only minutes to talk to Mr. Hovens, they agreed she and Kaia would hide until everyone was fine, and that Mr. and Mrs. Hovens would not ask about Sean. She was done talking to Mr. Hovens when one of Sean´s nurses found Katya and asked her to come along.
Sean was being moved up to ICU. The doctors had found nothing wrong with him but he was simply not awake. Once up on the ward they would run more tests, but it did not look good. He was in good health, not even a bruise from the accident, but he simply was not responding. Katya felt like the world was falling down on top of her, it was her fault. She hadn´t been able to help Sean, she´d only gone halfway there and had healed his body, but his mind was still lost somewhere. It was the first time that she cried that night. The nurse tried to comfort her, Katya only said she wanted Sean put in the Private Care Ward, a very expensive move, but she couldn´t afford to be found. She filled out the forms and left the hospital. After the shock of realizing what had happened, it was as if she´d gone numb. It was how she felt ever since. It was as if she couldn´t react to anything, all she could do was what she´d agreed.
That was until she found the message from the NYPD on the answering machine, asking about the accident. She´d panicked and without even consulting Sean´s grandparents, she took off to the police station. She´d come up with the pretty inadequate story of being Sean´s sister on the way over, and she figured saying he´d disappeared six years ago might just fool them. She also knew that not giving them a name was a stupid move, but she didn´t know what else to do. It was the very next day that she started going to see Sean. She had called Dr. Pierce every day but he didn´t know much about Kaia except that she was fine, he told her he wasn´t going to contact his friends until absolutely necessary, and that she should do the same. She remembered simply standing beside Sean´s bed, staring at him, playing the accident over and over in her head. She´d gone through so much and they´d both risked everything and survived and now they found themselves torn appart by a random accident. She´d been thinking about that when Agent Scully first walked into Sean´s room. Katya had specified herself that no one was to visit Sean, she´d even had to sneak in, so she hid as soon as she heard the door.
At first she wondered if it wasn´t someone who´d walked into the room by mistake, after all, the rooms didn´t have names, only initials. She still didn´t come out and then she saw Agent Scully start looking for Sean´s chart. It wasn´t there, it was never there. It was kept by the nurses, so that no one could see it except the approved people. When her cell phone rang, Katya new it was her only chance to get away. She didn´t stop to try and find out who this woman was, she only got one sense from her: she was looking for something, for someone. Katya panicked, she knew her adoptive parents were very well connected and had a lot of money to throw around. If they´d somehow found out about the accident, they could´ve send someone to find her, to take her. In retrospect she shouldn´t of moved, but at that moment she was alone, and if she was taken back, no one would ever know what had happened to her. She ran and thought she might have a chance of getting away when she reached the lobby, she still thought she would of, if Det. Goren´s body hadn´t gotten in the way of her escape.
She looked back out the door. Both detectives were still at their desks. Katya didn´t know much about this sort of situation, but she knew she couldn´t be kept for long without being charged with something, let go, or given a lawyer. Despite all of this, she also knew that she would be left here as long as possible. Agents Mulder and Scully needed to find something to support their theories as did Detectives Eames and Goren. She started worrying about how smart they really were, they didn´t need to be very much to start finding things out, like Dr. Pierce. She started biting her nails and pacing the room, she was getting restless and she did not like the idea of them finding Kaia and bringing her into this whole mess. She was also starting to worry about Mr. and Mrs. Hovens, they should be out of the hospital soon, and when they got out, she wondered, would they help her, or would they simply leave it alone for the sake of Kaia? Katya wasn´t really sure which one she preffered.
AUTHORS NOTES: I´d just like to say thanks for the reviews and all. I´m going to be correcting the grammar mistakes on the other chapters soon so thanks for telling be about them. From now on I must ask for a little patience however cause college starts in a week and we all now how hectic life gets when that happens, still I´m trying my best to finish this before that happens. Thanks again and please keep reading and commenting!
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Eames decided that the fact that what little light they had had gone meant it was already night. This meant only two things to her, they had been there at least eight or nine hours and someone had to have of noticed their absence by now. She´d given up on banging on the door a while ago and had been silent ever since, it wasn´t easy since the dark was pressing on her, sometimes she even found it hard to breath, of course that was probably from being hit by a broomstick, she thought. She tried to take a deep breath but it hurt too much, the pain shooting up to her neck. She tried concentrating on something else, she could hear breathing, the person closest to her had to be Agent Scully, her breathing was calm and steady but she doubted the agent was asleep, unless she´d passed out. It wouldn´t be surprising.
Eames couldn´t actually believe it when they first struck the FBI agent, but then she was hit herself and that made it so much more easier to come to terms with it. She´d been so angry she hadn´t even noticed the awful pain until much later, when she stopped hitting the door and sat down. She was getting really desperate, and desperate was not something that suited Alexandra Eames. She rubbed her eyes and leaned back, pressing her back against the wall. It was cool and damp, but Eames had stopped caring about dampness a long time ago, and it being cool felt good, it helped to keep her awake. The events of the day where starting to set in and her body was starting to give in. She felt herself nodding off, she couldn´t fall asleep, she had no excuse to do so, she had to stay awake. The three women had given up on conversation a while back, instead, Eames leaned her head back, and started replaying the entire case in her head.
After Katya had been confronted by Goren, her outbreak and the sudden involvment of a cult in the case, Eames was just about ready to give up, hand the case to the fed´s and call it a day. Her partner had a different opinion. After the "little scene" in the cells, Goren was even more determined to prove his point. Eames understood it, she even applauded it to some degree, but she had to admit to herself that if an old case file existed which seemed to pertain to this new case, maybe they should just let the FBI take over. She never said it aloud, but it did come up as a fleeting thought for a second or two as she walked over to her desk, following Goren´s lead.
Goren had been livid to say the least. It was actually a rarity to see Robert Goren so wound up. He simply sat down on his desk, turned the computer on and started typing furiously, Eames knew he was looking for something that could serve as a lead, or at least a start, as to his theory. Eames decided that she would take her chances with her partner, maybe Agent Mulder had a point with the whole cult thing, a very, very, very small one, but she knew Goren. She did not know Agent Mulder, and Goren was almost always right. Eames noticed neither of the agents followed them, she looked back, they where obviously arguing about something, but Eames was beyond the point of caring, as long as they did not get in her way. She sat down, picked up the phone and dialed the number to the hospital, she knew her partner was probably looking for some sort of records on the girl, Eames would do the same, when someone finally picked up, she started on the long search for any medical records on Katya Hovens.
The search for Katya´s records took so long simply because there seemed to be no records to be found, which was certanly an oddity. No person could have no records, but both Eames and Goren started to slowly accept it as a possibility after what seemed like endless hours both on the phone and online. The only proof that she even existed seemed to be what they already had: a birth certificate of her daughter, a marriage certificate and the only other two things they could find on her, adoption papers and her chart from the night her daughter was born. There was no way they could be sure the adoption papers where hers, because the child mentioned there was Katalina Sonns, adopted by Peter and Margaret Sonns. However they found themselves unable to verify if Katalina was Katya because they found out that both Mr. and Mrs. Sonns had apparently vanished from the earth right after adopting the girl. It was still the closest thing to a lead, so they decided to take their chances and assume Katalina Sonns was now Katya Hovens.
Eames had lost track of time, the last thing she really remembered was Agent Scully coming up to her and handing her her card, telling her she and Agent Mulder had to go over the old FBI file and that if anything happened to please call. Eames had watched Scully walk away wondering what a person like her was doing with someone like Mulder. Eames was about to call Agent Scully to see if they´d learned anything when Goren suddenly dropped whatever he´d been reading and leaned back on his chair. He took a deep breath and stared at the ceiling for some time. Eames decided not to call the agents just yet, she reached over and took what her partner had been reading, it was the birthcertificate and medical chart of the night Kaia Hovens was born. Goren still didn´t move so Eames read them...again. It was the third time she did when Goren suddenly got up and leaned on his desk, then simply started talking.
"Mr. and Mrs. Sonns, we know they dropped off the map as soon as they adopted Katya...that would explain why she had no records, why the first thing we know of her is the marriage certificate..we also know from Mr. and Mrs. Hovens that Sean and Katya moved into her family´s house when they first found out she was pregnant, and then they moved back in when their child was almost two years old. Since they lived with her family it´s safe to assume not many records would show up..when they moved to Mr. and Mrs. Hoven´s house...that still gives us about four years but there are no records on either Katya or their daughter...seems odd, a child that doesn´t get hurt? Or...sick?"
Eames knew where Goren was going with this, she was already back on the phone before he could get a word out, "Maybe they had a private doctor. A friend of the family, one who conviniently kept no records on them."
It didn´t take long to find him. Dr. Pierce, he´d been a friend of Margaret Sonns´ father. He hadn´t heard from the Sonns in nearly 13 years, but he hadn´t lost contact with their daughter Katya. He said Katya herself had never been brought to him, and that she never came after she left her parents home as a patient, he did however, say that she had brought him her daughter Kaia several times, for colds and fevers and such things. The way he said it, Eames knew he was lying, he knew more than he was letting on. It seemed to Goren and Eames they were finally getting a lead. The feeling of accomplishment was crushed when Dr. Pierce informed them that he couldn´t actually meet with them because he was leaving in the moring and would not be back for two weeks. It did not help matters when Goren´s phone rang and it was none other than Agent Mulder.
The conversation didn´t take very long and all they found out was that Mulder and Scully had learned nothing that helped their investigation. Goren very briefly and very dryly told Agent Mulder what they´d found out, he didn´t really seem to even listen to him and Eames saw her partner roll his eyes more than once at the phone. She tried to hide a smile by looking down at her desk, she almost felt guilty for it, but then again, the irony was too good. If there was one thing Eames had learned in the last twelve hours was that Agent Mulder was insane, but no more than Goren, at a more dangerous and annoying level sure, but the similarities were there. At first she couldn´t really believe it, but it seemed to Eames that Agent Mulder was as dedicated to his job as Goren was to his. Her train of thought was interrupted as Goren slammed down the phone. He took a very deep breath and looked up at Eames.
"They haven´t found anything..well nothing useful anyway." Eames simply looked back, he finally gave in and continued, "they checked their...file...they´re having difficulties carrying the whole "cult thing" to this case. They did do a little background checking on the girl, Katya, they could find no records either. Agent Mulder...", Eames caught the little tone in Goren´s voice as he said this, "thinks this is due to Katya´s ...nature." He didn´t continue after that, and Eames could take a hint. She figured that was right about the point where Goren slammed the phone. He said nothing more and she didn´t press it. She went back to her own desk and her own papers, Goren didn´t move for a while, Eames could feel him looking at her but knew that he was probably trying to figure the case out in his mind. After several minutes he finally looked back down at his own desk.
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Katya had been thrown into shock by the FBI agents. What was shocking was not the fact that there were other healers, she knew there were others, what she found so unbelievable was that there were other people in her situation. She had spent so many years in that awful place, sometimes the only thing that kept her going was that she had convinced herself that there couldn´t possibly be other people as evil as the ones she lived with. She didn´t know this had already happened, 1985...that was two years before she was adopted. She tried to remember if there was anything ever mentioned, anything they ever told her. She was considered just an object, one who had no right to even think, as a result she was usually not in the room for all the important conversations, but she had her sources. Her brother for one, plus she was always pretty good at hiding and sneaking out, she smiled a little. Hiding and sneaking out was what had led her to meet Sean.
She looked out beyond the bars, Agent Mulder and Scully were long gone. They´d argued briefly but not loud enough for Katya to overhear, and she was tired of intruding on their minds. Such complicated minds, and besides, Katya hated having to do that, she felt it was something like what was done to her. She streched her neck a bit, catching a glimpse of Det. Eames´ back, she couldn´t quite see her partner. She regretted shouting those things at him, she didn´t really mean them. The detectives looked busy, Katya assumed they were looking for something on her. It wasn´t going to be easy, she never got sick, ever. She was never outside the property where she was raised, and she never went to any public or private school. She´d been home schooled, some of the finest teachers money could buy, maybe she was no better than an animal, but she needed to fool the outside world. She rolled her eyes, she could do nothing but be annoyed at this point.
She still hadn´t been charged with anything, and yet she was apparently forgotten in that little cell. Katya thought it was just as well. She hadn´t been able to help Sean, she couldn´t help Kaia now, she could do nothing. The best she could hope for was Kaia would never be directly involved and Sean would eventually recover. She felt a sudden rush of desperation fill her as she realized what would probably happen. She would get sent to jail, or found by her "family" and be taken back. She should of left Sean alone, she shouldn´t of gone to see him, it was what they had agreed. Sean´s grandparents had kept up their part of the bargain and had not asked about him at the hospital, Katya had broken hers. She should of stayed away, found Kaia and hid with her, until it was safe. She cursed at herself, ever since the accident she seemed to only be able to make mistakes. She looked down at her hands, she remembered the accident...
It had been late, they´d all been out celebrating, Sean and Katya, had been able to find a place to live. It had been four years since she had left her childhood home, they hadn´t been found but she figured they must of given up on her by now. She would of probably been replaced by now, another child. She still winced at the thought of that, but she couldn´t go back there, the best she could hope for was that the next child didn´t suffer as much as she had. She´d convinced herself they were reasonably safe and could afford to move out of Mr. and Mrs. Hoven´s very isolated home. Kaia would be able to go to normal school, she had already been enrolled and she couldn´t be happier about going. Sean had gotten a fairly decent job as had Katya. It all seemed so perfect that night.
They´d gone out to dinner and come back late, near midnight. Mr. Hovens had been driving, he always did, but this time his wife decided to ride in the back, because Mr. Hovens wanted to talk to Katya about what they´d need and all that. Katya had nearly dismissed the man´s words, but she knew she shouldn´t, they had risked their lives when they took her and Kaia in afterall. Mr. Hovens was just getting to the part about how if anything suspicious happened, they should come back immediately, that there was no sense in taking any risks, when it happened. There was something on the road, maybe a dog or deer or something..Katya never saw what it was, all she knew was that she suddenly found herself smashed against the dashboard. The impact should of nearly killed her, but of course it didn´t, Katya didn´t get hurt so easily, it didn´t even really hurt, she just felt a bit dizzy, a small cut on her forhead was all the evidence she´d even been in an accident.
The first thing she´d noticed was the smashed windshield. She streched her neck and saw Sean lying in front of the car. There was blood everywhere, and for a moment she panicked. She then remembered the rest of the people in the car. She looked behind her, the car had smashed against a tree on the driver´s side, Kaia was badly hurt, she had probably hit both the seat in front of her and the window which was smashed, glass had fallen over her, and she was not moving. Mr. and Mrs. Hovens were hurt, but not nearly as bad, they were both conscious. It was as if someone had turned a switch inside Katya´s head, she heard and felt nothing. She reached in the back and managed to get Kaia out, she carried her to the side of the road and then dragged Sean next to her. He was badly cut all over and he was barely awake. Katya went to help Mr. and Mrs. Hovens out of the car, once they were lying next to it she went back to Sean. He was still awake, but Kaia was barely breathing, with whatever strength he had left he´d only told Katya to take care of Kaia. It was then she realized she was faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Save Sean or save Kaia. It only took one look from Sean and Katya knew what she had to do. She laid her hands on Kaia and concentrated the hardest she ever had before in her life.
It took about ten minutes, but suddenly Kaia opened her eyes, as if waking up after sleeping for a long time. She rubbed her eyes, but didn´t say anything. Katya had managed to heal even most of the cuts and bruises. She knew she had no time to waste after that, she turned to Sean and did the same. Only it didn´t work, Sean was already unconscious, already dying. Katya concentrated and concentrated, until her entire body hurt and she felt like she would pass out. She finally gave up, Sean was not waking up, she´d managed to help, she knew. With one last word of encouragment from Mr. Hovens, she took Kaia and ran back to find a phone. What little help she gave Sean might not be enough, she had to get an ambulance. Kaia still said nothing, she simply allowed herself to be carried. Katya felt exhausted, everything hurt and she couldn´t breath properly, but there was only one thought going through her head as she got closer and closer to the end of the desolate road, she couldn´t let Sean die. She had to get help.
When she finally did, she realized she couldn´t go back before the ambulance got there, she couldn´t be placed in the accident, questions would start to come up. She did not need the attention, especially since she knew how well connected her former family was. She couldn´t let Kaia be involved either. She felt panic rising again, she needed to do something. Hide Kaia, that was the first step, then she had to see Sean and Mr. and Mrs. Hovens. It seemed like the start of a good plan. Just as the sirens of an ambulance had gone by she remembered she was already dialing the number of the only person she had ever known from the outside: Dr. Pierce. He could hide Kaia, he´d always been there before, and he´d never told anyone about her or someone would of already showed up to take Katya. She wasn´t entirely convinced she should trust him with something as important as the life of her daughter, but she felt like she had no choice.
Dr. Pierce had agreed to take Kaia. He said he could take her to some friends he had, she would be safe there. Katya had sighed, feeling some of the panic leaving her body. She had given Dr. Pierce the adress she was at and he´d shown up ten minutes later, he gave Katya a ride to the closest hospital where they probably had taken Sean, and took Kaia. Sean and his grandparents had already been brought in. She briefly thanked Sean´s bad habit of never carrying a wallet, she gave his name but asked everything about him be kept secret. She must´ve of looked desperate because the nurses agreed without saying anything. Since Sean was still being looked at, she went to find his grandparents. It wasn´t as bad as it could´ve of been. Mr. Hovens had a broken leg and Mrs. Hovens was bleeding internally, she was already on her way to the OR. Katya had only minutes to talk to Mr. Hovens, they agreed she and Kaia would hide until everyone was fine, and that Mr. and Mrs. Hovens would not ask about Sean. She was done talking to Mr. Hovens when one of Sean´s nurses found Katya and asked her to come along.
Sean was being moved up to ICU. The doctors had found nothing wrong with him but he was simply not awake. Once up on the ward they would run more tests, but it did not look good. He was in good health, not even a bruise from the accident, but he simply was not responding. Katya felt like the world was falling down on top of her, it was her fault. She hadn´t been able to help Sean, she´d only gone halfway there and had healed his body, but his mind was still lost somewhere. It was the first time that she cried that night. The nurse tried to comfort her, Katya only said she wanted Sean put in the Private Care Ward, a very expensive move, but she couldn´t afford to be found. She filled out the forms and left the hospital. After the shock of realizing what had happened, it was as if she´d gone numb. It was how she felt ever since. It was as if she couldn´t react to anything, all she could do was what she´d agreed.
That was until she found the message from the NYPD on the answering machine, asking about the accident. She´d panicked and without even consulting Sean´s grandparents, she took off to the police station. She´d come up with the pretty inadequate story of being Sean´s sister on the way over, and she figured saying he´d disappeared six years ago might just fool them. She also knew that not giving them a name was a stupid move, but she didn´t know what else to do. It was the very next day that she started going to see Sean. She had called Dr. Pierce every day but he didn´t know much about Kaia except that she was fine, he told her he wasn´t going to contact his friends until absolutely necessary, and that she should do the same. She remembered simply standing beside Sean´s bed, staring at him, playing the accident over and over in her head. She´d gone through so much and they´d both risked everything and survived and now they found themselves torn appart by a random accident. She´d been thinking about that when Agent Scully first walked into Sean´s room. Katya had specified herself that no one was to visit Sean, she´d even had to sneak in, so she hid as soon as she heard the door.
At first she wondered if it wasn´t someone who´d walked into the room by mistake, after all, the rooms didn´t have names, only initials. She still didn´t come out and then she saw Agent Scully start looking for Sean´s chart. It wasn´t there, it was never there. It was kept by the nurses, so that no one could see it except the approved people. When her cell phone rang, Katya new it was her only chance to get away. She didn´t stop to try and find out who this woman was, she only got one sense from her: she was looking for something, for someone. Katya panicked, she knew her adoptive parents were very well connected and had a lot of money to throw around. If they´d somehow found out about the accident, they could´ve send someone to find her, to take her. In retrospect she shouldn´t of moved, but at that moment she was alone, and if she was taken back, no one would ever know what had happened to her. She ran and thought she might have a chance of getting away when she reached the lobby, she still thought she would of, if Det. Goren´s body hadn´t gotten in the way of her escape.
She looked back out the door. Both detectives were still at their desks. Katya didn´t know much about this sort of situation, but she knew she couldn´t be kept for long without being charged with something, let go, or given a lawyer. Despite all of this, she also knew that she would be left here as long as possible. Agents Mulder and Scully needed to find something to support their theories as did Detectives Eames and Goren. She started worrying about how smart they really were, they didn´t need to be very much to start finding things out, like Dr. Pierce. She started biting her nails and pacing the room, she was getting restless and she did not like the idea of them finding Kaia and bringing her into this whole mess. She was also starting to worry about Mr. and Mrs. Hovens, they should be out of the hospital soon, and when they got out, she wondered, would they help her, or would they simply leave it alone for the sake of Kaia? Katya wasn´t really sure which one she preffered.