Thanks again for your reviews…a few notes about the story with your reviews and what I was thinking as I wrote parts of this fic. When I finish this story I'll immediately start on another and I know you'll like it. This story will have 9 missions but I'm not sure how many chapters that will be and at the end I may consider extra missions with other characters like the actual game does, along with profiles on each character not that's really necessary, but just for complete finish.
Spider-bear: Yeah Terrence does look a bit like Kano now but that really wasn't my intention… but it is a bit what's he's like I suppose.
Cristalina: Sorry I had to kill Natasha… in previous chapters I tried to make it seem that she was not the device lab technician in Perfect Dark.
Now the story continues…
Jonathan headed into the tower. A few dataDyne troops greeted him with gun fire but Jonathan shot them down rather easily. He then noticed a few hostages with two guards by them and Jonathan shot them both and the hostages ran out.
"Thank you so much" One of them said.
"How many groups are there?" Jonathan asked. He knew he would have to try save the hostages before going after Terrence.
"2 other groups. From what I heard both are on this floor" the guy replied
Jonathan ran off and found another group fairly quickly again covered by two guards but both of them saw him and shot weakening his shield a little but they didn't try to kill the hostages but Jonathan was more aggressive then he usually was and took them down. The second group ran as well and it didn't take Jonathan long to find the third group only covered by one guard who was easily shot and taken down. The hostages gave their thanks, Jonathan only nodded. No sign of Terrence, chances are he was hiding on the top floor.
He headed to the lift and thought for a moment… maybe that was what Terrence wanted. On the other hand there was the stairs but climbing 60 plus floors would be very exhausting and he would be in no condition to fight. He didn't want to think about it so he headed into the lift using a scanning device to check for tripwires, none. The lift got to the top fairly fast and Jonathan exited looking around, and there he was. Jonathan drew his Magnum.
"Well I see your skills are still strong" Terrance said
Jonathan didn't reply as fired the Magnum but Terrance dodged the shot.
"No chat? Ah well… I guess your anger makes it easier to kill you" Terrance said and he fired a shot back and Jonathan went backwards around the top floor of the circular tower but Terrance turned around and fired once more and it landed on Jonathan's shield.
"Come on don't take too long to die…" Terrance said mockingly
Jonathan fired and missed as Terrance rolled but then Jonathan did something that Terrence would never have expected. Jonathan in a rage ran up to Terrance and kicked his weapon out of his hands as it smashed the glass and fell out the window.
"Get on the ground NOW!" Jonathan shouted pointed his Magnum at close range to Terrence's head.
This time it was Terrence's turn to stay silent. Jonathan was about to pull the trigger to kill him when a thought crossed his mind.
"You can kill me but our plan will succeed" Terrance said after a bit of silence
"If trash talking was a sport you'd win a gold medal" Jonathan replied as he hit Terrance with the Magnum hard on the non metal side of his face. He felt to the ground and held his face and Jonathan kicked him to turn him over. He then grabbed him and walked him over to the window.
"This time I will actually make sure you are dead" Jonathan said as he fired his Magnum at close range to Terrance's head letting him go as he fell out the window.
Jonathan gave another deep sigh, he'd have actually go down and check he is dead, however just as he was about to do so his radio came in.
"Jonathan? From our recent reconnaissance there is a bomb in here. A bomb of the Skedar variant, Elvis is with Sean at the moment but see if you can find it. It should be on the top levels as the explosion is aimed downwards for maximum effect the idea is to get this building and buildings around to topple creating an almost domino like effect" Carrington said
"Okay, but how do I defuse it?" Jonathan asked
"Find it first, then I'll let Elvis know. I don't actually know" Carrington said
Jonathan looked underneath tables and chairs really fast but it didn't take him long to hear the slight beeping sound. He lifted up the table and sure enough the bomb was there.
"Found it sir… according this it has 4 minutes" Jonathan said
"I'll try contact Elvis" Carrington said
Jonathan waited about 5 seconds
"Hey Jonathan" Elvis said
"Hi, got any ideas how to defuse this Skedar bomb?" Jonathan asked
"Alright, simply unscrew the top and then shoot inside it, that's all there is to it" Elvis said
"Are you nuts!" Jonathan said out of instinct
"Trust me, it took us years to work out how to defuse Skedar bombs" Elvis replied
Jonathan did as he was told, he closed his eyes before pulling the trigger and he did and the timer stopped.
"Phew… I'm glad that worked" Jonathan said then gave a deep sigh.
"Yes…" Elvis picked up that Jonathan was upset about losing Natasha.
He headed back down the stairs and the mayhem seemed to have stopped, he spotted Sean coming towards him, he had an awful mark on his forehead and it was bleeding. He was wearing jacket that was black with a bit of blue.
"You alright?" Sean asked as he wiped blood from his forehead.
"I hope so… I've just got one thing to do" Jonathan said looking for Terrence, and he found him lying dead on the ground not far away.
"Nice job" Sean said
Jonathan pulled out a grenade.
A/N: As you requested Cristalina, and do not worry he will NEVER come back again.
He stuffed it into Terrance's mouth pulled the pin and backed away as Jonathan and Sean watched it explode. They watched for a while until the flames became weaker. Jonathan and Sean then went over to where Natasha's dead body was. Jonathan touched her lovingly on the cheek and kissed her.
"I'll miss you… so much" Jonathan said
They went back to the hotel room and got Elvis and went on the plane taking Natasha's body with them. Shock filled the Carrington Institute when news spread that Natasha was killed. They saw the ring on Natasha's finger and Jonathan knew it was no use denying that he was going to marry her.
About 3 days later Jonathan was still upset but he was beginning to accept it, there was no use mopping about it although he missed her a lot. He meets up with Sean in the cafeteria.
"Hi Sean" Jonathan said. He was trying to be friendly, however Sean could tell Jonathan was still upset.
"Hey Jonathan… you alright?" Sean asked
"I'll be fine. That mark still looks painful" Jonathan said pointing to the mark on Sean's forehead it had stopped bleeding of course, but it would take almost a month to completely heal. Jonathan also noticed Sean had a similar mark on his right arm but he couldn't see it before.
"It's alright though, comes with the job" Sean replied
"What did you exactly do?" Jonathan asked
"I went into to the station. The Prime Minister was captured by two Skedar, I shot one of them the other one looked at me and that was enough of a distraction to let the PM get away. The other one transformed into what Elvis called the Skedar Prince, we fought and that's how I got these marks, I didn't notice the one on my arm until later but at least I did kill him" Sean said
"Interesting" Jonathan said
He wondered how Sean got into the Institute so young, however he didn't want to ask Sean that and he wondered if it had anything on the profiles. After Jonathan finished eating he went up to the information section known as "Hacker Central".
"Hi Jonathan" Grimshaw said, without a single joke and in a somewhat sincere tone. It was almost off putting.
"Hi" Jonathan replied as he as sat down on a chair and put in his clearance level which allowed him to see more detailed profiles as some involved information about the Maians and the Skedar which only people with the correct level of clearance could see. He started typing into the computer looking up Sean's profile. Soon enough it came up.
Name: Sean Lomberson
Age: 19 years, 3 months.
Hmm, but how did in get in at that age. Jonathan thought to himself
Gender: Male
Race: Human/Australian
Training grade: A
An A, hmm he must be talented. Jonathan continued to scroll down.
Information: Sean is the youngest person to be accepted to the Carrington Institute and he will probably hold onto that record forever. His parents are former agents Maria and Adrian Lomberson who were killed by a Skedar attack. Daniel Carrington himself arrived at the scene later and Sean came with Carrington and grew up around the Institute. As a result he started his training quite young but despite this he did very well.
Sean is highly knowledge about Maian and Skedar politics as he talks to the Maians when Carrington is busy with work. His weapon of choice is the Falcon 2 (scope). The unique thing about this weapon is it was the first ever created and it wasn't issued to agents until recently. Sean's parents were killed while guarding this weapon from the Skedar, due to the fact it had Maian technology installed into it and the Skedar wanted to prove a connection between us and the Maians.
Jonathan finished reading Sean's profile. It answered a lot of questions and it seemed that Sean must have had a tough life, although he never seemed to show it since when he saw him around the institute he almost always seemed to be in a cheerful mood with others and Jonathan could tell Sean was being careful with him, but recently he has become cheerful with Jonathan too. Later Carrington came to Jonathan in the hall.
"Jonathan can I speak to you for a moment?" Carrington asked
"Okay" Jonathan said.
"Listen… just so you know I am not going to attend Natasha's funeral" Carrington said
"Oh why not?" Jonathan asked slightly surprised, until he realised it was really none of his business "Oh sorry, you don't have to tell me" Jonathan said recovering himself
"No, it's a fair question. Well Natasha may or may not have told you this but when she first joined here, her parents didn't quite agree even though they were separated. As a result they don't really like to see me at all. It's not pleasant and they are her parents. You are very welcome to go of course, but I don't think anybody else from the Institute is going." Carrington said
"I'll think about it" Jonathan said as he exited the room.
He headed to the firing range and found Sean and Joanna blasting the targets.
"Oh hi Jonathan" Joanna said putting down her Falcon 2.
"How are you going?" Sean asked also putting down his Falcon 2.
"I'm alright, good to see you again Jo" Jonathan said
"Yes, Mr. Carrington said I could return if I wished but my training wouldn't actually start. I envy you Sean; you were able to start my age. I can't wait" Joanna said
"Yeah but I think my training grade suffered because I started too soon, although it is still very good" Sean replied
"Also Sean almost lived at the institute, you as I understand Joanna are still leading a busy life" Jonathan said. Sean gave Jonathan a puzzled look wondering how he knew that, until Sean reminded himself of the computer profiles in "Hacker Central"
"Yes I guess I am still busy" Joanna said after a silence
"Anyway Jonathan, you mind if we talk for a minute" Sean said
Jonathan nodded as Joanna took a CMP50 and started practicing.
They walked just outside the firing range and walked away from the door so nobody could hear them.
"I see you looked up my profile" Sean said
"Yes. You didn't mind did you" Jonathan said
"No, if I did I wouldn't allow information to be place on your level but what's it say?" Sean asked even though he knew the answer.
"It told me about what happened when you were younger and how come you were trained at your age. It also told me you are 19 years of age which I already knew and you are Australian and obviously Human" Jonathan said "Oh and you got an A grade well done" Jonathan said
"Thanks. I know I shouldn't really bring it up… but… oh never mind" Sean said and started to walk away
"No spit it out. If it's about Natasha I can take it" Jonathan said. He tried to be brave and show that he could get over it, he wasn't quite sure whether he was over it or not.
"Well… are you going to Natasha's funeral? I heard a lot of people here aren't going because her parents have issues with Carrington and the Institute. Sean was about continue but Jonathan interrupted
"I think I should go. I guess I'll take the heat, she's worth much more then that to me" Jonathan said
"Well, if you do go, I won't let you take it alone. I'll go with you" Sean replied
"Thanks" Jonathan said. Even though he didn't know Sean very well he knew him better then anybody that would be attending, not only that he also knew how it felt to lose a loved one.
Natasha's funeral took place a week later. Jonathan and Sean attended the funeral in typical black suits and white shirts. It was a cold, rainy day, almost identical to the day that she died. Her parents weren't even looking at each other and were as far apart as they could be and Jonathan only knew they were Natasha's parents because of one of the photos he saw. The service wasn't a very long one as there wasn't many speeches and word got around who Jonathan and Sean were but nobody there knew that the ring on Natasha's finger was actually an engagement ring.
When they were burying her most of them had left, Natasha's relatives were giving looks at Jonathan and Sean, almost as if it was their fault that she died. They both tried to ignore them as they sheltered themselves from the rain with their umbrellas, she was buried and everybody walked away except for Jonathan and Sean.
"You okay?" Sean asked after everybody left
"I will be" Jonathan replied as he put down a bunch of flowers. "You know I never even gave her flowers…" Jonathan said. There was a long silence
"Come on, I'll shout you a drink" Sean said breaking the silence and Jonathan nodded
They came to a place Jonathan knew and ordered drinks. Jonathan had some beer but Sean didn't drink alcoholic stuff and had some soft drink. Although there were a few people around making noise, so whatever they said couldn't be overheard. Jonathan undid his tie as he spoke to Sean.
"Thanks again for coming…" Jonathan said
"It's alright" Sean replied
"I'm glad Daniel didn't show. Who knows what would have happened, if looks could kill" Jonathan started…
"Ignore them, they are stupid. Although if anything it was my fault for not being fast enough" Sean said
"No, I should have made sure Terrance was dead for the first time. You couldn't have done much to stop it." Jonathan replied
"It's no good blaming yourself for something you can't control. Take my word for it" Sean said
"I'll take that advice when you do" Jonathan replied
"Okay, let's admit that there was nothing neither of us could have done. It wasn't your fault and I guess you are right, I don't think I could have done much" Sean said "Say it, there is nothing you could have done" Sean said in a half demanded but also gentle tone.
"Very well. There is nothing I could have done" Jonathan said. "That was very insightful…"
"Yeah, I got a bit of counselling when my parents died, that's what I was told to repeat over and over again and I got over it. Sure of course it haunts me ever now and then, but that's only because I'm human" Sean replied.
Jonathan nodded in agreement as both finished up and left back for the Institute to check quickly if there was anything new. They went inside and check up with Carrington but he wasn't there. They checked the firing range and found Foster.
"Hi guys, how are you goin?" Foster asked
"Alright I guess. Do you know where Carrington is?" Jonathan asked
"Yup, he's in the sims training room with Jenny" Foster replied
Jenny was the expert when it came to creating simulations and she had even created human like simulants. Carrington was chatting with her.
"Excellent work, these are great" Carrington said watching the simulants attempt to move and attack each other.
"Maybe we should place bets on them" Jenny laughed as one of them knocked the other out
"Haha. That's an idea I'll give some thought. Ah Jonathan, Sean how did it go?" Carrington asked
"Well for a funeral aside from the looks and the weather it went alright" Jonathan said
"Got any news for either of us?" Sean asked
"As a matter of a fact I do don't worry it's not an assignment… come this way" Carrington said leading them up to his office…
Spider-bear: Yeah Terrence does look a bit like Kano now but that really wasn't my intention… but it is a bit what's he's like I suppose.
Cristalina: Sorry I had to kill Natasha… in previous chapters I tried to make it seem that she was not the device lab technician in Perfect Dark.
Now the story continues…
Jonathan headed into the tower. A few dataDyne troops greeted him with gun fire but Jonathan shot them down rather easily. He then noticed a few hostages with two guards by them and Jonathan shot them both and the hostages ran out.
"Thank you so much" One of them said.
"How many groups are there?" Jonathan asked. He knew he would have to try save the hostages before going after Terrence.
"2 other groups. From what I heard both are on this floor" the guy replied
Jonathan ran off and found another group fairly quickly again covered by two guards but both of them saw him and shot weakening his shield a little but they didn't try to kill the hostages but Jonathan was more aggressive then he usually was and took them down. The second group ran as well and it didn't take Jonathan long to find the third group only covered by one guard who was easily shot and taken down. The hostages gave their thanks, Jonathan only nodded. No sign of Terrence, chances are he was hiding on the top floor.
He headed to the lift and thought for a moment… maybe that was what Terrence wanted. On the other hand there was the stairs but climbing 60 plus floors would be very exhausting and he would be in no condition to fight. He didn't want to think about it so he headed into the lift using a scanning device to check for tripwires, none. The lift got to the top fairly fast and Jonathan exited looking around, and there he was. Jonathan drew his Magnum.
"Well I see your skills are still strong" Terrance said
Jonathan didn't reply as fired the Magnum but Terrance dodged the shot.
"No chat? Ah well… I guess your anger makes it easier to kill you" Terrance said and he fired a shot back and Jonathan went backwards around the top floor of the circular tower but Terrance turned around and fired once more and it landed on Jonathan's shield.
"Come on don't take too long to die…" Terrance said mockingly
Jonathan fired and missed as Terrance rolled but then Jonathan did something that Terrence would never have expected. Jonathan in a rage ran up to Terrance and kicked his weapon out of his hands as it smashed the glass and fell out the window.
"Get on the ground NOW!" Jonathan shouted pointed his Magnum at close range to Terrence's head.
This time it was Terrence's turn to stay silent. Jonathan was about to pull the trigger to kill him when a thought crossed his mind.
"You can kill me but our plan will succeed" Terrance said after a bit of silence
"If trash talking was a sport you'd win a gold medal" Jonathan replied as he hit Terrance with the Magnum hard on the non metal side of his face. He felt to the ground and held his face and Jonathan kicked him to turn him over. He then grabbed him and walked him over to the window.
"This time I will actually make sure you are dead" Jonathan said as he fired his Magnum at close range to Terrance's head letting him go as he fell out the window.
Jonathan gave another deep sigh, he'd have actually go down and check he is dead, however just as he was about to do so his radio came in.
"Jonathan? From our recent reconnaissance there is a bomb in here. A bomb of the Skedar variant, Elvis is with Sean at the moment but see if you can find it. It should be on the top levels as the explosion is aimed downwards for maximum effect the idea is to get this building and buildings around to topple creating an almost domino like effect" Carrington said
"Okay, but how do I defuse it?" Jonathan asked
"Find it first, then I'll let Elvis know. I don't actually know" Carrington said
Jonathan looked underneath tables and chairs really fast but it didn't take him long to hear the slight beeping sound. He lifted up the table and sure enough the bomb was there.
"Found it sir… according this it has 4 minutes" Jonathan said
"I'll try contact Elvis" Carrington said
Jonathan waited about 5 seconds
"Hey Jonathan" Elvis said
"Hi, got any ideas how to defuse this Skedar bomb?" Jonathan asked
"Alright, simply unscrew the top and then shoot inside it, that's all there is to it" Elvis said
"Are you nuts!" Jonathan said out of instinct
"Trust me, it took us years to work out how to defuse Skedar bombs" Elvis replied
Jonathan did as he was told, he closed his eyes before pulling the trigger and he did and the timer stopped.
"Phew… I'm glad that worked" Jonathan said then gave a deep sigh.
"Yes…" Elvis picked up that Jonathan was upset about losing Natasha.
He headed back down the stairs and the mayhem seemed to have stopped, he spotted Sean coming towards him, he had an awful mark on his forehead and it was bleeding. He was wearing jacket that was black with a bit of blue.
"You alright?" Sean asked as he wiped blood from his forehead.
"I hope so… I've just got one thing to do" Jonathan said looking for Terrence, and he found him lying dead on the ground not far away.
"Nice job" Sean said
Jonathan pulled out a grenade.
A/N: As you requested Cristalina, and do not worry he will NEVER come back again.
He stuffed it into Terrance's mouth pulled the pin and backed away as Jonathan and Sean watched it explode. They watched for a while until the flames became weaker. Jonathan and Sean then went over to where Natasha's dead body was. Jonathan touched her lovingly on the cheek and kissed her.
"I'll miss you… so much" Jonathan said
They went back to the hotel room and got Elvis and went on the plane taking Natasha's body with them. Shock filled the Carrington Institute when news spread that Natasha was killed. They saw the ring on Natasha's finger and Jonathan knew it was no use denying that he was going to marry her.
About 3 days later Jonathan was still upset but he was beginning to accept it, there was no use mopping about it although he missed her a lot. He meets up with Sean in the cafeteria.
"Hi Sean" Jonathan said. He was trying to be friendly, however Sean could tell Jonathan was still upset.
"Hey Jonathan… you alright?" Sean asked
"I'll be fine. That mark still looks painful" Jonathan said pointing to the mark on Sean's forehead it had stopped bleeding of course, but it would take almost a month to completely heal. Jonathan also noticed Sean had a similar mark on his right arm but he couldn't see it before.
"It's alright though, comes with the job" Sean replied
"What did you exactly do?" Jonathan asked
"I went into to the station. The Prime Minister was captured by two Skedar, I shot one of them the other one looked at me and that was enough of a distraction to let the PM get away. The other one transformed into what Elvis called the Skedar Prince, we fought and that's how I got these marks, I didn't notice the one on my arm until later but at least I did kill him" Sean said
"Interesting" Jonathan said
He wondered how Sean got into the Institute so young, however he didn't want to ask Sean that and he wondered if it had anything on the profiles. After Jonathan finished eating he went up to the information section known as "Hacker Central".
"Hi Jonathan" Grimshaw said, without a single joke and in a somewhat sincere tone. It was almost off putting.
"Hi" Jonathan replied as he as sat down on a chair and put in his clearance level which allowed him to see more detailed profiles as some involved information about the Maians and the Skedar which only people with the correct level of clearance could see. He started typing into the computer looking up Sean's profile. Soon enough it came up.
Name: Sean Lomberson
Age: 19 years, 3 months.
Hmm, but how did in get in at that age. Jonathan thought to himself
Gender: Male
Race: Human/Australian
Training grade: A
An A, hmm he must be talented. Jonathan continued to scroll down.
Information: Sean is the youngest person to be accepted to the Carrington Institute and he will probably hold onto that record forever. His parents are former agents Maria and Adrian Lomberson who were killed by a Skedar attack. Daniel Carrington himself arrived at the scene later and Sean came with Carrington and grew up around the Institute. As a result he started his training quite young but despite this he did very well.
Sean is highly knowledge about Maian and Skedar politics as he talks to the Maians when Carrington is busy with work. His weapon of choice is the Falcon 2 (scope). The unique thing about this weapon is it was the first ever created and it wasn't issued to agents until recently. Sean's parents were killed while guarding this weapon from the Skedar, due to the fact it had Maian technology installed into it and the Skedar wanted to prove a connection between us and the Maians.
Jonathan finished reading Sean's profile. It answered a lot of questions and it seemed that Sean must have had a tough life, although he never seemed to show it since when he saw him around the institute he almost always seemed to be in a cheerful mood with others and Jonathan could tell Sean was being careful with him, but recently he has become cheerful with Jonathan too. Later Carrington came to Jonathan in the hall.
"Jonathan can I speak to you for a moment?" Carrington asked
"Okay" Jonathan said.
"Listen… just so you know I am not going to attend Natasha's funeral" Carrington said
"Oh why not?" Jonathan asked slightly surprised, until he realised it was really none of his business "Oh sorry, you don't have to tell me" Jonathan said recovering himself
"No, it's a fair question. Well Natasha may or may not have told you this but when she first joined here, her parents didn't quite agree even though they were separated. As a result they don't really like to see me at all. It's not pleasant and they are her parents. You are very welcome to go of course, but I don't think anybody else from the Institute is going." Carrington said
"I'll think about it" Jonathan said as he exited the room.
He headed to the firing range and found Sean and Joanna blasting the targets.
"Oh hi Jonathan" Joanna said putting down her Falcon 2.
"How are you going?" Sean asked also putting down his Falcon 2.
"I'm alright, good to see you again Jo" Jonathan said
"Yes, Mr. Carrington said I could return if I wished but my training wouldn't actually start. I envy you Sean; you were able to start my age. I can't wait" Joanna said
"Yeah but I think my training grade suffered because I started too soon, although it is still very good" Sean replied
"Also Sean almost lived at the institute, you as I understand Joanna are still leading a busy life" Jonathan said. Sean gave Jonathan a puzzled look wondering how he knew that, until Sean reminded himself of the computer profiles in "Hacker Central"
"Yes I guess I am still busy" Joanna said after a silence
"Anyway Jonathan, you mind if we talk for a minute" Sean said
Jonathan nodded as Joanna took a CMP50 and started practicing.
They walked just outside the firing range and walked away from the door so nobody could hear them.
"I see you looked up my profile" Sean said
"Yes. You didn't mind did you" Jonathan said
"No, if I did I wouldn't allow information to be place on your level but what's it say?" Sean asked even though he knew the answer.
"It told me about what happened when you were younger and how come you were trained at your age. It also told me you are 19 years of age which I already knew and you are Australian and obviously Human" Jonathan said "Oh and you got an A grade well done" Jonathan said
"Thanks. I know I shouldn't really bring it up… but… oh never mind" Sean said and started to walk away
"No spit it out. If it's about Natasha I can take it" Jonathan said. He tried to be brave and show that he could get over it, he wasn't quite sure whether he was over it or not.
"Well… are you going to Natasha's funeral? I heard a lot of people here aren't going because her parents have issues with Carrington and the Institute. Sean was about continue but Jonathan interrupted
"I think I should go. I guess I'll take the heat, she's worth much more then that to me" Jonathan said
"Well, if you do go, I won't let you take it alone. I'll go with you" Sean replied
"Thanks" Jonathan said. Even though he didn't know Sean very well he knew him better then anybody that would be attending, not only that he also knew how it felt to lose a loved one.
Natasha's funeral took place a week later. Jonathan and Sean attended the funeral in typical black suits and white shirts. It was a cold, rainy day, almost identical to the day that she died. Her parents weren't even looking at each other and were as far apart as they could be and Jonathan only knew they were Natasha's parents because of one of the photos he saw. The service wasn't a very long one as there wasn't many speeches and word got around who Jonathan and Sean were but nobody there knew that the ring on Natasha's finger was actually an engagement ring.
When they were burying her most of them had left, Natasha's relatives were giving looks at Jonathan and Sean, almost as if it was their fault that she died. They both tried to ignore them as they sheltered themselves from the rain with their umbrellas, she was buried and everybody walked away except for Jonathan and Sean.
"You okay?" Sean asked after everybody left
"I will be" Jonathan replied as he put down a bunch of flowers. "You know I never even gave her flowers…" Jonathan said. There was a long silence
"Come on, I'll shout you a drink" Sean said breaking the silence and Jonathan nodded
They came to a place Jonathan knew and ordered drinks. Jonathan had some beer but Sean didn't drink alcoholic stuff and had some soft drink. Although there were a few people around making noise, so whatever they said couldn't be overheard. Jonathan undid his tie as he spoke to Sean.
"Thanks again for coming…" Jonathan said
"It's alright" Sean replied
"I'm glad Daniel didn't show. Who knows what would have happened, if looks could kill" Jonathan started…
"Ignore them, they are stupid. Although if anything it was my fault for not being fast enough" Sean said
"No, I should have made sure Terrance was dead for the first time. You couldn't have done much to stop it." Jonathan replied
"It's no good blaming yourself for something you can't control. Take my word for it" Sean said
"I'll take that advice when you do" Jonathan replied
"Okay, let's admit that there was nothing neither of us could have done. It wasn't your fault and I guess you are right, I don't think I could have done much" Sean said "Say it, there is nothing you could have done" Sean said in a half demanded but also gentle tone.
"Very well. There is nothing I could have done" Jonathan said. "That was very insightful…"
"Yeah, I got a bit of counselling when my parents died, that's what I was told to repeat over and over again and I got over it. Sure of course it haunts me ever now and then, but that's only because I'm human" Sean replied.
Jonathan nodded in agreement as both finished up and left back for the Institute to check quickly if there was anything new. They went inside and check up with Carrington but he wasn't there. They checked the firing range and found Foster.
"Hi guys, how are you goin?" Foster asked
"Alright I guess. Do you know where Carrington is?" Jonathan asked
"Yup, he's in the sims training room with Jenny" Foster replied
Jenny was the expert when it came to creating simulations and she had even created human like simulants. Carrington was chatting with her.
"Excellent work, these are great" Carrington said watching the simulants attempt to move and attack each other.
"Maybe we should place bets on them" Jenny laughed as one of them knocked the other out
"Haha. That's an idea I'll give some thought. Ah Jonathan, Sean how did it go?" Carrington asked
"Well for a funeral aside from the looks and the weather it went alright" Jonathan said
"Got any news for either of us?" Sean asked
"As a matter of a fact I do don't worry it's not an assignment… come this way" Carrington said leading them up to his office…
