Ta-da! Sorry for the huge delay, I had to do a bit of planning to see how the rest of this story is going to turn out.

Chapter 4- Past & Present

'Where's Tala?' Brian demanded, he was getting just slightly pissed off. Their captain was never, and he meant NEVER, late to get up. He looked across at Cloris, sipping a cup of milk, and narrowed his eyes.

'I told you, he's sleeping in, he hardly slept last night, just leave it.' Spencer told Brian. He was a bit surprised at Tala himself, but hey, captains are, after all, humans.

'Hardly slept, I bet.' Brian sneered coldly and went back to his breakfast, Cloris continued to sip her milk, while staring blankly into space.

Brian grabbed a new roll of newspaper, and almost dropped it.

'What?' Spencer demanded, tensing up.....

'The fucking Abbey, that's what!' Brian snarled at the paper, 'again! Something in that Abbey is killing all these people! It's just a kid this time, training there, totally mauled, something friggin ripped out his wind pipe!'

'What the.....' Spencer leaned over and stared at the paper, it was getting serious, two was too much to be coincidental.

'Get Tala!' Brian snapped at Cloris, who was still sitting, and staring. Cloris got up, still holding the cup of milk, and walked silently into Tala's room.

Cloris smiled silently, Tala was fast asleep, his red hair scrunched over his pillow, Cloris liked to watch people sleep, it was like a privilege, to be trusted enough to be allowed. She thought Tala looked nice when he slept......

Wake up Tala, right......

Cloris leaned in, and pressed the cold cup of milk against Tala's cheek.

'The hell-!'

'Milk?' Cloris smiled as Tala stared up at her in shock, holding his face where she shocked it with cold milk. 'I think you'll need it, if you want to hear what Brian has to say.'

'Yeah, huh, thanks for the delivery......' Tala shot Cloris a strange look and took the milk from her, and then continued to stare at her.

'Well, get out, I'm changing.' Tala finally said, Cloris thought about it, whistled, and left the room. Tala stared at her, somethings were never meant to be figured out......

'Well well sleeping beauty, looks like you finally regained consciousness.' Brian snarled when Tala sat down at the table, and shoved the paper at him, 'our case is far from over.'

'You could say that......' Tala frowned as he read the article over, someone definitely didn't like the BBA in the Abbey, who though, who is left to fight for it after Biovolt went down?

'It's rye bread, isn't it.' Cloris suddenly interrupted, gazing at her slice of bread, when the aftershock was over, Spencer checked the package.

'Apparently, yes.....'

'Great, that's all we need, a crazy bread expert woman......' Brian growled and glowered at Cloris. 'Even Ian doesn't get THIS freaky, IAN!'

'Hey, they ARE relatives.' Tala smirked as he put the paper down, 'like they say, blood's thicker than sanity.'

'Actually, I'd say it was thicker than a lot of things.' Cloris said thoughtfully, earning a round of weird looks from everybody else in the room, again.

'Anyways......' Spencer cleared his throat, 'who would do this? I mean, it's a kid!'

'Someone crazier than Boris, I bet.' Brian growled, 'that should really narrow down the suspects.'

'It wasn't a person.'

Tala turned to Cloris, she was getting that demented look again.....

'It wasn't a person,' Cloris repeated, 'you can go and check, but it wasn't a person.'

'How do you know?' Tala asked, it sounded crazy, but somehow......he believed her.

Cloris was quiet, Tala waited, and Brain sneered.

'She's crazy, of course it was a person. Moscow's too urban for some sort of wildlife!' Brian swallowed the rest of his breakfast and headed out, throwing Tala his jacket. 'Come on, let's go see what REALLY happened.'

Tala slipped on his jacket, Spencer headed out of the door with Brian and Cloris was left sitting alone.

'Well.....'

'I'm not going.' Cloris answered.

'No, you probably shouldn't see this.' Tala decided and left.

Cloris sat at the table, what are you waiting for, she asked herself, tell them! You know what happened......

But I could be wrong.

Oh? Really? Could? I don't think so.

I could.

You want to.

......Yes, I do, I want to be wrong.

Why? Can't handle the truth?

Truth......bites.

Why don't you help them? You know you can.

They already think I'm crazy......

They're in danger, and you're sitting here? Maybe you are.

But I'm not.

You COULD be.

......

Help them.

I......

It won't go away by itself, you have to believe in their abilities.

How? I've only known them for so long.

Well, then you'll have to trust the BBA for believing that they have what it take to investigate.

BBA? Hah, they can't take it! It's too powerful for them.

Not the BBA, just your cousin, and these guys.

Boy, you make them sound powerful......

Then believe me.

Cloris bit her lip, right, she needed to help Tala, and maybe, he could help her.....she stood up and grabbed her coat, and headed for the abbey.

Ok, that was it, was the Cloris talking to herself part too weird or what? Anyways, she's weird, REVIEW!