Author: Chippewa Livingston
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Episode Two: Friends in high Places
An Unauthorized Genetics Experiment
"Get in!" Was something Nathan always wanted to yell, I could tell by the thrilled look on his face. Five minutes into the trip the look faded. "So how much trouble is my sister in?" His knuckles had gone white on the wheel. It was a question he had asked before.
"Right now she's in the clear but she's poking around." Jack said it lightly; there was no reason to alarm Nathan too much. Or get him too interested.
The truth was Asha was at the edge of a sink hole. One misstep and she'd be gone without a trace. I knew they could do it. I was one of the people they used to use for that kind of thing. "She's just getting too curious about government stuff, not a good idea these days." In the hour that we drove Nathan had more questions and most of them we really didn't know the answers to. This was the least informed I had ever been before a tactical maneuver.
When we arrived at our destination, the building appeared unremarkable at first. It was a low structure of carbon copy offices, nothing fancy. At second glance the building was boring, bizarrely boring. There was no graffiti to be seen, no broken windows but no obvious security either, which meant there was security and it was good.
Asha's transport was nowhere in sight but even an amateur would know not to park out front. No alarms were going off so she was probably still scouting out the best way in so we'd just have to do it first. Her target was on the second of three floor so it wasn't accessible to a ground level break in or entry from the roof. Our target was security. In a building that wasn't designed to impress it was probably located inconspicuously in the center, not at the front door.
At Jack's insistence, Nathan parked the car down the street at a bar. Compelling him to stay there was harder but we convinced him we'd take care of his sister.
We made our way back to the building at a quick walk. It was a march really, old habits are hard to break. As we approached the lights in office building and the structures around it flickered with one of the power interruptions that had become common. But it was too convenient and in the unsteady light I could see a figure momentarily as he- or she I suspected- moved toward a side office. 'Jack' had seen it too. "That wasn't a coincidence."
We waited a moment, no noise, no alarms. "So Asha's got friends that know what they're doing." I didn't take my eyes from the building.
"So do we find her or find her friend?"
Archive: Please ask
Disclaimer: I claim no affiliation or ownership of characters or material related to Dark Angel.
Episode Two: Friends in high Places
An Unauthorized Genetics Experiment
"Get in!" Was something Nathan always wanted to yell, I could tell by the thrilled look on his face. Five minutes into the trip the look faded. "So how much trouble is my sister in?" His knuckles had gone white on the wheel. It was a question he had asked before.
"Right now she's in the clear but she's poking around." Jack said it lightly; there was no reason to alarm Nathan too much. Or get him too interested.
The truth was Asha was at the edge of a sink hole. One misstep and she'd be gone without a trace. I knew they could do it. I was one of the people they used to use for that kind of thing. "She's just getting too curious about government stuff, not a good idea these days." In the hour that we drove Nathan had more questions and most of them we really didn't know the answers to. This was the least informed I had ever been before a tactical maneuver.
When we arrived at our destination, the building appeared unremarkable at first. It was a low structure of carbon copy offices, nothing fancy. At second glance the building was boring, bizarrely boring. There was no graffiti to be seen, no broken windows but no obvious security either, which meant there was security and it was good.
Asha's transport was nowhere in sight but even an amateur would know not to park out front. No alarms were going off so she was probably still scouting out the best way in so we'd just have to do it first. Her target was on the second of three floor so it wasn't accessible to a ground level break in or entry from the roof. Our target was security. In a building that wasn't designed to impress it was probably located inconspicuously in the center, not at the front door.
At Jack's insistence, Nathan parked the car down the street at a bar. Compelling him to stay there was harder but we convinced him we'd take care of his sister.
We made our way back to the building at a quick walk. It was a march really, old habits are hard to break. As we approached the lights in office building and the structures around it flickered with one of the power interruptions that had become common. But it was too convenient and in the unsteady light I could see a figure momentarily as he- or she I suspected- moved toward a side office. 'Jack' had seen it too. "That wasn't a coincidence."
We waited a moment, no noise, no alarms. "So Asha's got friends that know what they're doing." I didn't take my eyes from the building.
"So do we find her or find her friend?"