"Wesley...it hurts so much..." she muttered in between sobs.

"I know Em's I know," he whispered stroking her head.

"I-I can't breath...." she sobbed her head on his chest.

"I'm right here, I'm right here."

"Just make it stop, please just make it stop...." she whispered. "Please Wesley make it stop." she cried.

"It's going to be ok Em's I promise." yet on the inside he wished he could stop the pain for her. God he wished it so bad

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"Ok, look B-ball ain't that hard little cousin," said Charles Gunn to Nicholas Wood.

"Yeh, the ball in the hoop, just because I wasn't raised in the streets Gunn doesn't mean I don't know how to play." he said rolling his eyes and throwing the ball which missed the hoop completely.

"Bend your knee's more," said a voice. Both turned to see William Lukas Wyndam Pryce standing there.

"Luke...." whispered Nick. "Luke!" he cried a smile growing on his face as he ran over and gave his old best friend a hug. "Holy Crap! I haven't seen you in like 7 years!"

"Well technically a month."

"Not counting the time you tried to kill everyone," he said winking. Luke smiled, Nick when they where younger always made him laugh. Emma was always the outgoing one, Rj, or Nick as he is now called was the brain of every operation they did. William was the one that sort of linked them. Neither would of given each other a second glance without him. Nick was like an animal, when not in his habitat is shy and skittish. Yet when he is comfortable he is quite outgoing.

"RJ...have you seen Emma?"

"Yeh...you hear about Liz?"

"Yeh...she isn't a stone any more...she's.... losing it."

"Uuh Little cousin?" said Gunn walking over.

"Oh yeh, Gunn this is one of my best friends, he knows Emma."

"Your Charles Gunn?" asked Luke. He had heard of him from his brother. "Small world." he thought to himself.

"Yeh, look, I haven't seen my cousin in years and we sort of -" suddenly his cell phone rang. "Hello...yeh.... ok.... crap ok I'm on my way." He turned to the two boys. "Look here's some money," he said taking out his wallet. "I have a major case that could totally break up the firm in half if I don't handle." he didn't seem so sure about what to take out of his wallet. "Look here, just take it." He said giving it to both of them and running out of the park. Both boys looked at each other a smile on their face

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"I'm back!" said Luke entering the apartment.

"Wow, Luke nice place. Nice to see my cousin isn't the only one making the big cash around here."

"Yeh, Wes-" yet he stopped as he saw Emma sleeping, in Wesley's arms, both probably tired out from crying. Or it least Emma had. Luke grinned and winked at Nick as they both nodded and crept over and shook Emma gently. She fluttered open her eye's and she smiled yet Luke put a hand over her mouth and Nick put a finger to his lips.

"Shhh" whispered Nick. She nodded smiling and got off of Wesley. She went outside of the apartment closing the door quietly.

"Nick!" she cried. He, Faith, and his older brother all lived in Cleveland and they rarely saw each other. Especially in the last month. He hadn't even seen Liz because he remained in Cleveland when only Robin went to England. She was in fact supposed to go to Cleveland that weekend to see him, yet she died. She hugged him tightly.

"Look Emma we don't have a lot of time because Pryce could wake up any minute." said Nick.

"We have money," said Luke.

"Lots"

"And we're sort of 17...." said Nick grinning.

"And we decided to do something well...normal." grinned Luke.

"Great! Shopping!" said Emma linking both boys' arms, and pulled the two reluctant boys down the hall both having horrified looks upon their faces.

"Wesley...." whispered a warm voice. He turned to see Elizabeth Wattson standing there. Then he saw something else...he saw himself. "You know what it is." she whispered. He saw himself, eyes closed, in trapped within a dark crystal. He could barely even see himself.

"I can't Liz...if I do-"

"You can't stop fighting me can you?" she asked him.

"Liz it's just...I-I"

"I know, " she sighed. But she merely stepped inch's away from his face and cupped his cheek. "But sometimes the strongest thing to do, is to act weak." and with that she kissed him passionately. And pulled away, and smiled. "I love you, remember that." and with that Wesley nodded and punched the crystal's holding himself hard. Zigzags of light came from the now cracking crystal. Until suddenly it shattered, and Wesley awoke from his dream. It hurt...god it hurt so much. He ran to the bathroom and vomited and was just to shock to do anything after that.

Over the years Wesley had been through a lot of pain. He had taught himself to ignore most of it. Yet with this piece of information so painful he blocked it off completely. Totally numbing him to everything. Yet now he could feel the pain...Liz...or he creating the image of Liz must have realized it...must have made him let himself free so he could feel. And at the moment Wesley was regretting doing it.

"Sergeant!" yelled a voice. Jennifer Hooks looked up from some paper work she had to do to see one of her soldier's standing there. "It's a message, from General Word," he said standing up straight.

"Well spit it out solider!" she snapped. And he made eye contact with her, which was not part of the standards. Yet he cocked his head slightly. "He said to tell you that, Lynx is dead." The young solider watched as his sergeant's face turned white.

"You are dismissed," she mumbled. He nodded and marched out of her office. "If Lynx is dead".... she opened up her desk to show a newspaper clipping of another murder. "Lion is dead..." and then she took out one more newspaper clipping "and Janguarer is dead...then...." she took out a picture from her desk. A picture of her and 2 guys. "Then it's only a matter of time before we are." in the picture it showed her and two other guys, in formal Royal Marine uniforms yet was their graduation from like boot-camp as American's would say. She stood in the center of the two, looking much younger then she does now. The one on the right was the most handsome out of the two boys. He had hair jet black, yet it buzzed cut, and yet amazing piercing blue eyes. He had a large smile on his face. He was so young, about 18 or so. "Grizzly, Viper, and Wolf" were written on a sort of gold plate that was on the frame. "Grizzly.... Jonathan." she whispered. "Viper.... Me." she hesitated when she came to wolf. "Wolf...Matthew Pryce...Wesley Matthew Wyndam Pryce."

Wesley was an ex-British marine, and now something is out thier killing everything that he would of once considered his family.

"Ok, how do I look?" asked Luke coming from the dressing room. Emma had forced him to get some better cloths, because his brother and he had no fashion taste. He came out in "formal wear" which was a pair of black dress pance. A white oxford tops few buttons undone, and a black dress coat. Over all he looked like a young "James Bond".

"As you British would say it, "bloody dashing." grinned Emma leaning back in the chair. "Time for you to come on out Nick."

"I can't believe you are making me do this! We're not even here to by me cloths" he exclaimed. "Emma, you are so lucky I love you so much," he mumbled exciting the dressing room wearing something similar to Luke.

"You look fine, now come on we still have shopping to do." she squealed getting up.

"Don't you miss the times you thought she was a boy?" asked Nick shaking his head and going back in to the dressing room. Yet Luke's eyes were opened wide because he realized something. He didn't miss the times when he thought she was a boy because...he shook the thought from his head and went back to change.

"Jenn?" said a voice as he entered her office to see empty vodka bottle's everywhere and Jennifer taking another shoot. Jonathan Word ran to her side catching her, as she was about to fall to the ground.

"This thing...it's after out secret.... it's after what we know.... and I'd rather die then give that away," she muttered.

"It's ok Jenn you don't have to die."

"Why not?" she whispered.

"Because we are going to regroup."

"You mean-"

"Yeh, it's about time we had a reunion...let's go find Wolf." And as he was once called "Grizzly" picked Jenn or "Viper" up and took her to his car to drive her home. Not today, yet tomorrow. Tomorrow they will see their old marine buddy if he wasn't dead yet.