hey gang i'm back again. this chapter eight.

DF N NW Fan: As always ur review was great to  read. Yes i know the stuff with Gavin and Galen is confusing. Gavin was her brother from her previous life in the other world. Her adoptive brother if u like. Galen as i have said is her twin. I know its confusing stick with me all will become clear soon...(winks)

Kunegunda: i'm pleased u love it coz i love writing it!

Not Too Late For Love

Chapter Eight: Can't Say Her Name

Nilsson came round first and found the Safe Hose in disarray. The force of the attack had knocked out most of the agents. It had been stupid not to expect it and now they were paying the price.

His head hurt from where he had been hit with Snakewood. Damn that stuff to hell and back. He tried to sit up and found that his hands and feet were tied with Bast. The cord made from the inside of tree bark.

Shit! He would never get out of this. But his pain went deeper than that. He could feel pain that he was sure wasn't his.

Hell he just wanted to sleep...HELL! His eyes flew open "Thierry!" His thoughts screamed "Galen, Keller" their minds were weak. Thierry was the worst. He had been hit hard.

Somehow in his panic he managed to break free. One hand came lose. Then with that leverage he freed himself. He would never know how and the bleeding in his wrist was sentiment to the fact he was injured. But he didn't care.

He'd sent his thoughts out and she wasn't here. He refused to believe what his own senses that he had trained through years of being in Daybreak told him. He tore through the safe house waking and freeing agents.

Then he called for the others who were at the manor. He heard the bikes and the cars gun up as he was seeing to the injured and his mood was ice by then.

Jez, Morgead, Delos, Maggie, Quinn and Rashel tore in and took in the devastation "Where is she?" Thierry asked walking up behind Nilsson. "They got her Thierry. I let them get her." Nilsson said, "Why didn't I see this coming?" He said turning to face his boss.

"I should have known something would happen. They wouldn't just leave them! Those seven agents were part of their hard core of resistance. Oh goddess if anything happens to her..."

"Why should you care?" Galen demanded, "I told you all not to let her go in there on her own but did you listen to me. I swear Thierry if you don't find my sister..." He chocked on the last sentence and broke down.

Keller went to hug him her own eyes swimming. This was affecting them all in ways none of them had thought possible. But Nilsson thought he would go insane

Damn it! This was his entire fault! Now Kaitlin was missing. He knew she was in pain and it broke his heart that he couldn't help her. It was profound pain. He nearly cried out with it. Damn it! Where was she?

Kaitlin where are you? He thought frantically. He walked over to the wall and punched it. "Why are you so bothered?" Galen said again. His voice was waterlogged. Nilsson knew the pain of loosing his sister all over again was nearly too much to bear.

"Galen!" Keller said, "We all miss her. Don't be cruel." "No why should he be bothered? She was only a charge to him and he lost her. He lost my baby sister!"

"Nilsson you haven't told them have you?" Rashel said quietly. Nilsson shook his head he couldn't say anything. He didn't trust his voice. Oh goddess he missed her so much.

He'd stake himself if anything happened it her.

"Told us what?" Thierry said sharply. Rashel looked at him and he nodded "I can't talk right now Rashel you tell him." He said telepathically. "If I say her name I'll break down."

She nodded and turned to her boss. "Aurora and Nilsson are soulmates."

Dead silence followed this statement. "So you see Galen." Quinn said quietly "He has every right to be upset because he loves Kaitlin as much as you love Keller."

"Nilsson can you feel her through your link?" Jez asked thinking of the time Morgead had pulled her back from death.

"I can but they're somewhere that blocks it. They have wards up. And they're hurting her." how he got the sentence out of his throat he would never know. "But she lives. That's all I have."

"GODDESS WHERE IS SHE? WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO HER?" He exploded "I'LL KILL THEM!"

"We need to find her." Poppy said coming in through the doorway. "It will be difficult because everyone of them escaped from us. How could this happen?"

"It happened because we underestimated how important they were." Thierry said. "A mistake that has cost us dearly because we've now lost all that we had to do with the break in."

"Excuse me!" Galen said. "I can't believe this! Who cares about a damn break in! They have my sister! My sister the Princess of the First House and the Fourth Wild Power."

"They don't know she's your twin Galen." Nilsson said quietly. They all spun to face him. "What?" James said, "Of course they do. That's why she's missing." "It isn't actually." Nilsson said "Until Kaitlin stupidly told him so Gavin Drake didn't even know she was the Fourth Wild Power. They've taken her because they were related to her and think her an agent with Daybreak."

"How can you know this?" Maggie said faintly. "Because we're soulmates. Maggie you can't tell me you can't hear what Delos thinks sometimes." She blushed as Delos looked at her.

Bingo.

"We have to find her." Thierry said as Hannah came flying in the door. "Oh Goddess I've just heard. I came as soon as I could." "Have we any idea where they are?" She asked quietly.

Everyone shook their heads.

Then Nilsson remembered something you came through the portal? "They've taken her back to the realm they were in before." he said dreamily.

"WHAT!" Galen screamed, "It's the logical place." Nilsson said the knot in his stomach growing the more he thought it through. "That's why the cord is so thin. Why I can't trace her and why I can feel wards. The portal is warded!"

"Of course she'll have no power there!" Thierry said the full horror hitting him first. "And because she told Gavin that she had come through that way they'll have known she'd have been able to pass through with them" Nilsson said grimly.

"We must find the entrance before we lose our only link with her." Thierry said. "Nilsson I want to know exactly where you found her."

There was no answer. They had all been focused on the plan and hadn't realised that Nilsson was no longer there.

He'd gone.

Ok quite a short chapter here but as we speak i am already writing nine. Be pateint with me i promise i'll have it done by the end of the weekend