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How The Other Side Kills Part 1

Phoebe awoke slowly, seeing the numbers of her digital clock, which read four fifty one. The door that led to the nursery was open slightly, and had a faint glow coming from it, and unless she was mistaken, she could hear humming from the other room, like electricity. She immediately realised what it was and jumped out of the bed and walked briskly into the nursery to see Connor with his electric shield up, he was whimpering and Gabriel Ashlocke stood over him! Without saying a word, Phoebe fired a psionic blast at the super mutant, but it passed through him harmlessly and hit the wall, he smirked at her.

'Can't hurt what isn't there,' he murmured, fading away.

Phoebe diffused the mental energy still floating above her and rushed to her son, who had now went into full-blown crying. Brennan appeared at the door, rubbing his eyes and groaning, but when he saw the look on Phoebe's face and way she was holding her son so close, he woke up instantaneously.

'What's wrong? You look as if you've seen a ghost!'

Phoebe closed her eyes and put Connor so he could see over her shoulder, she held the back of his head gently, but firmly, 'You have no idea how close you are,' she whispered.

'Another apparition?' Brennan walked up to her and caressed her arm.

She nodded vigorously, 'Yeah, except Connor sensed it this time. Brennan, if he had hurt him…'

'Hey, he didn't and he can't. He's just doing this to scare you,'

'Yeah, well, it's working,'

They stood in the noise of Connor's screaming for a minute, 'What's he feeling?' Brennan asked, knowing that his fiancé had empathically connected with their son as soon as she had picked him up.

'He's not scared. He's just upset and confused, you know, he sensed a threat yet he couldn't see it.' She bobbed up and down slightly, giving the baby a little movement, which helped him clam down.

'Look, why don't you go back to bed and get some sleep? I'm his father, I'm just as qualified to look after him as you are,' he smiled, 'I won't let anything happen to him, I promise,'

Phoebe smiled back, 'I know you won't,' she carefully handed her child to his father, 'You should get some sleep too, we're both tired,' she leaned up and kissed him, before returning to the bedroom.


A weary Shalimar shuffled into the kitchen, her eye mask still on. Phoebe gave her a wide eyed look, wondering how she could see where she was going with her blindfold of a sleeping aid, Phoebe was even more surprised when Shal poured herself a cup of coffee without even hesitating.

'How do you do that?' Phoebe asked.

Shalimar smiled, 'The joys of being a feral… Although getting woke up four times a night by a crying baby can make you curse your enhanced hearing,'

The psionic rolled her eyes, 'Tell me about it. One time was serious though, my imaginary friend came after Connor last night,'

Shal whipped the sleeping mask over her head, 'He tried to get to Connor?'

'Yeah. He couldn't though, he's still just an astral projection at the end of the day, but…' she wrapped her hands around her coffee mug even more, 'It still doesn't stop him scaring me and my son half to death,'

The feral moved closer, 'We'll get him. I promise,'

Phoebe smiled weakly, 'Thanks.'

Lexa groaned as she walked slowly into kitchen, keeping her eyes closed as she felt her way around, not nearly being as graceful as Shalimar had been.

'Rough night?' Phoebe asked with a grimace, she only got a moan in response.

'Okay, all I need is my coffee and I'll be ready,' she gave a weary eyed answer and went back to her room with a coffee in hand, slamming the door on her way.

'It's amazing. I haven't been hear for over two years and she's still not a morning person!' Shal grinned as her feral hearing picked up the sound of Lexa flopping back into bed.

'Well, that's what she gets for staying up till five in the morning. Why was she up so late anyway?'

'I have no idea. Lexa's sleeping patterns are wilder than my own,'


'Are you sure you want to do this?'

'Absolutely. I haven't been out on the field for ages, I need some practice!'

'Yeah Lex, and we'll be here in case she's a bit rusty!'

Phoebe, Lexa, and Shal walked into the scrap metal lot. Lexa had felt severely left out when her team-mates had levitated and jumped over the barbed wire fence, while she had to make her own path by cutting a whole out of the fence with her powers.

The three of them spread out cautiously, looking for the contact that supposedly had information on what the latest plans of the Strand were, since they had had no leads so far as to what they were planning.

'Pheebs, what are you getting?' Shalimar asked, looking over her surroundings with golden eyes.

'Hmm… Nothing. Actually we're the only people within a mile radius,' The psionic narrowed her eyes; using her powers to track down the person they were looking for.

'Yeah, well… You might not be able to sense the life, but I can smell the death,'

'Okay, I'm starting to feel left out! I can't sense anything!' Lexa joked.

'If you want to smell the tang of blood and the stench of rotting flesh, be my guest.' The feral grinned, while Lexa just grimaced,

'No thanks,'

'Okay, I'll go this way, you guys go to the left and right,' Phoebe walked forward while the Lexa went to the right and Shal went to the left, 'Just holler if you get anything,'

Phoebe walked through the rows of rusting cars, looking for anything that might look out of the ordinary. Her psychic sense was picking up nothing and after hearing about what Shal had sensed, she was beginning to form some suspicions. She was suddenly hit with a cluster of thoughts that were surrounding her from all angles; Strand members lunged out from every space possible surrounding her. Phoebe smiled and took a fighting stance.

'That's right boys, this bitch is back!' she spat, levitating and kicking both of the Links that had ran at her from opposite sides. She quickly sought out her friends psychically to make sure they were at a safe enough distance, once she was sure they were safe, she concentrated and released a powerful wave of psychic energy, blasting all of the Links back into the rusting wreckage and leaving Phoebe to smile proudly to herself.


Shalimar was defeating her opponents with a series of amazing martial arts moves which only her kind would be able to perform without being geared up with equipment! An energy ball came at her; she jumped into the air and spun, dodging a barrage of lightning, fire, and any other thing that the Links could throw at her.

'Die, witch!' a man shouted before putting his hands together and releasing a concussive wave at the feral. Shal landed back on the ground and jumped backwards at an amazing speed and height, then using her strength to push one of the rusting cars onto a cluster of members, who narrowly dodged it by one of them stalling the tumbling vehicle with a telekinetic gesture.

'Clever!' Shal taunted, before baring her pearly whites and leaping towards a woman that had threw acid at her. The woman was unconscious before she had even hit the ground, as the feral had delivered a series of lethal punches in fast succession.


Lexa released another dazzle, blinding the gunners temporarily and throwing out a couple of lasers to match, but it wasn't working as they were wearing a suit that was repellent to her powers. Another barrage of bullets hit the rusting hood of a car that Lexa was hiding behind, the sharp pinging sound of bullets pounding the metal irritated her more than hurt her. She decided to take a chance and turned invisible, running out to the men and taking them out with martial arts. One of the gunmen clicked a switch on his weapon; his sight scope changed and showed up the heat on Lexa's body. He fired at her leg, shooting her ankle and making her fall to the ground, losing her cloak of invisibility in the process. She grimaced in pain and gritted her teeth, holding her ankle in pain as the masked attacker moved towards her and ripped off his mask, reveal Gabriel Ashlocke!

'What's the matter? No witty retort?' he grinned and grabbed her arm.

'Phoebe! Shal!' she shouted into the air, hoping her friends would come to her aid. The super mutant cursed and took his hand across her face before fading out. Phoebe and Shalimar came around the bend just in time to see their friend fade from view.


Jesse was typing furiously on the computer, trying to track Lexa's comlink. Andy wasn't having any luck sensing her so they were taking the technical approach. Brennan walked in with his hands in his back pockets, standing next to Jesse and looking at the screen.

'Had any luck yet?' he asked, sitting down at the other computer.

'Nope. How's my godson?' Jesse asked as he raised a coffee mug to his lips.

'I just put him down for a nap,' Brennan replied and waved the baby monitor at his friend, Jesse smiled, 'What?'

'Shouldn't the roles be reversed? Us being out in the battle while the woman folk look after the children?'

Brennan laughed, 'Well, in case you haven't noticed, we're not the kind of family that you see on the sides of cereal boxes, and I'm not going to neglect raising my son because of society's ideals,'

Jesse raised his eyebrows, 'Okay, first of all, I was joking. And second of all, that has to be the most intelligent and non sexist thing you have ever said!'

'Well, you weren't the only one who got an education!' he grinned.

Phoebe and Shalimarwalked in from the hangar, both with stormy looks on their faces and obviously in the middle of an argument about what had happened.

'We shouldn't have let her go alone. She couldn't sense her enemies coming like we could,' Phoebe.

'Lex is a big girl. She doesn't need a psychic radar or heightened senses to stay alive,' Shal retorted.

'Shal, they had a plan. They knew we would split up, they knew to send gunners after Lexa, they even knew how to get around her invisibility!' she turned to Jesse, 'How did we fight Links while Lexa had to fight commando's?'

'Well… Like you said, they had a plan and their objective must have been to take Lexa from the beginning. Heat seeking guns would have easily took her down while a feral with vision like Shal's wouldn't have been able to compete with the speed of Lexa's powers even if they could see her body heat.' Adam walked in with Andy at his side, holding a touch screen console in his hand.

'How's the search going?'

'Not good. We're getting nothing both magically and technically,' Jesse replied.

'Okay, well, let the girls take over. I need you two to go pick up a friend of mine, her name is Cassandra Hughes,'

'Oh, I'm sorry,' Phoebe butted in sarcastically, 'Will this friend betray us or be dead like the last two?'

'Phoebe!' Andy scolded her.

'No! We bring in his precious deflective mutant, I almost lose my child, we go to meet his informant, and we lose Lexa. What's next, huh? Maybe we should all lose a limb!' she stormed off towards the nursery, taking off her brown suede jacket in the process and viciously throwing it to the ground while the others exchanged worried glances.


Lexa was thrown to the floor in her cell, the metal clanged loudly as the door was closed and locked. The two men looked down at her with smug grins on their faces. She spat some of blood out of her mouth and struggled to stand up, thanks to her injured ankle.

'You think putting me in a cage can stop me?' she taunted, disappearing in a burst of light in an attempt to flash out of her prison, but the bars glowed a yellow colour as she disappeared and she reappeared, stumbling to the floor from the impact. The Links chuckled at her before leaving the room and letting Gabriel Ashlocke in.

'I trust everything is to your liking Miss Pierce?' he taunted.

She looked around her cell, 'You're not one for clutter, I'll give you that. Three stars at best, four if you get me a mag, some coffee and my whitelighter, that bullet wound's a real bitch,' she looked down at her ankle.

Gabriel just smiled, 'Sorry, although your other friends will be joining you soon. That is after I make The Child Of Storms my child,' he grinned.

Lexa gave him a confused expression, 'The Child Of Storms?…' her eyes widened, 'You stay away from my godson!' she threw a laser at the bars, which just absorbed the searing light.

He grinned again, 'Whadda ya say? Four stars now?' he laughed and walked out the room, opening and closing the door with telekinesis.

'How about some room service!' Lexa shouted in a vain attempt to get his attention.

'God… Seven years and you still haven't learned to keep your mouth shut!' a voice from the adjoining cell said under a blanket.

'Hmm… I didn't know blankets could talk, why don't you come out and show me those baby blues?'

The person threw their blanket off and Lexa gasped in shock, then regained her composure, 'Well, well, well, Riley Morgan as I live and breath, I never thought I'd see you again,'

Riley smiled, although it was more of a grimace, 'The feelings mutual, believe me,' he put a hand through his messy black hair. Lexa had known Riley from back when she worked for the GSA, they had worked together on assignments almost all the time and had become war buddies, they weren't friends, but they had trusted each other at one point.

'I can't believe you were stupid enough to get captured!' he grinned again.

'Coming from the person who looks like he hasn't had a shower in a week, not to mention a shave. What's the matter? Your deal with the Dominion gone sour?'

'Damn right it has! Especially since you and Mutant X buddies took them down two years ago!'

It was Lexa's turn to smile, 'We did the whole world a favour, trust me,'

'Oh really? Rumours were saying that you had actually put down your roots in Adam's rock,'

'You shouldn't believe everything you here,' she replied, sitting down and leaning on the wall, 'So tell me, why haven't you escaped yet? Someone with your powers could level this back wall in a second,' she clicked her fingers.

'Well, I've just been waiting for an accomplice to occupy that jail cell, you interested?' he raised his eyebrow.

Lexa nodded slowly, 'Just like old times…'


Phoebe stood over her sleeping son peacefully, watching his little chest move up and down in time with his breathing. She was careful not to make a sound as she watched him; there was something about being there with him that calmed her down somehow. She heard the shuffling of Brennan's feet as he came up behind her and put his arms around her waist while leaning his head on her shoulder.

'You wanna tell what all that was about?' he whispered in her ear.

Phoebe closed her eyes and sighed, 'It's just… Ashlocke has really got me spooked, Bren. I was scared when he tried to take Connor, that fear never went away, and now this whole thing with Lexa has just magnified everything and I'm scared that we won't be able to defeat him,' He kissed her cheek and held on to her tighter, she frowned and turned around, 'Where's my confidence speech?' she smiled at him.

He sighed, 'If you can't believe in everything that we've done in the past year and a half, nothing I say can change your mind,' she scowled, 'Look, you want to protect Connor, don't you?' she nodded immediately, 'And you want to help protect our friends, right?' Phoebe nodded again, 'Okay then, just think of those desires and you'll do great,'

Phoebe smiled at him; she was reminded of the pep talks that Leo would give her and he sisters before a big battle. She moved closer to him and put her arms behind his back, inviting him into a hug, Brennan reciprocated and rubbed her back and kissed her head. She gulped and pulled away.

'C'mon, you need to go and pick up Adam's friend. Shal and I will stay here and find Lexa,' she hit his chest and he walked away, leaving Phoebe to watch over the slumbering child in the crib.


Gabriel walked into his room with a smirk on his face, he had just came from Lexa's jail cell and had enjoyed feeling the rage and fear that emitted from her. His second in command was waiting for him.

'Is everyone ready?' the psychotic mutant asked, his lackey merely nodded, 'Good, we'll move on my command,'

'Where will we be going, Gabriel?'

Ashlocke and looked out of his window, 'We're going to Sanctuary,'


Brennan clicked some switches that were above him in the Helix, 'Okay, I'm bringing her down,' he took control again and guided the jet down onto the roof of a hospital. Andy had come with them in case things got rough with this mutant, he would be here to heal them in case they were injured, like the last two times they had went to a contact.

'What do you think of all this?' Jesse asked him.

'I don't know man… Let's just get this girl and get back, I'm really not in the mood for any more surprises,' the molecular nodded in agreement.

'Alright Andy, what you getting?' Brennan pressed a button and opened the hatch to let everyone out.

'Yeah, I'm getting someone, although it might not be the person we're looking for,' he warned.

'Let's go then!' the three of them walked out of the jet.


Lexa stared at the wall of her prison while listening to Riley whistle a tune, they had been sitting in there for three hours now and no one had came to see them yet. She had tried every way of contacting Mutant X, her comlink, calling for Andy, even using the Finding Light spell that would guide her friends to her, but the globe of light fizzled out as soon as it reached the metal bars of the cell.

She lost her temper, 'Stop whistling that damn tune!' she kicked the bars in frustration, then gasping in pain after forgetting about her shot ankle.

'Relax. I see you're still as tightly wound as ever,' he replied.

She was about to respond, when the door to the room swung open and Ashlocke walked with a little girl. She was very pale and looked as if she hadn't eaten in days, her hair was jet black and run down just past her shoulders and her eyes were about the same colour. Which repulsed the light molecular in the cell.

'Oh my God…' she breathed.

'Oh, you like her?' Gabriel rested his hand in the little girls head, 'This is Aniaka, she's one of our up and coming Links,'

'What the hell did you do to her?'

'I just made her a little more obedient, you'd be amazed how much a child screams after witnessing her mothers murder,'

'You son of a-,' she didn't finish her sentence as she launched a laser at the metal bars, in a futile attempt to escape. Gabriel laughed at her,

'Aw… C'mon Lexa, Aniaka just wants to play with you,' he took his hand off her head and the small child walked over to the cell. Lexa knelt down so she was at eye level with the kid, and she was surprised when the little girl hit her with a psionic blast, making her head jerk back.

'Oh, did I forget to mention Aniaka's a telempath? Now you're going to tell me everything I want to know,'

'In your dreams!' Lexa spat

He laughed, 'We'll see about that. Where is Sanctuary?'

Before she could respond with 'Drop dead,' her body and mind betrayed and started to explain everything about her home! Access codes, entry points, everything! After the interrogation was over, the only thing Lexa could think of was…

'Oh crap,'


The guys looked around the dark room with flashlights and Andy's orbs lighting a path, the hospital used the top floor for storing supplies so they wouldn't be disturbed unless there was a sudden need for surgery gowns. They had had no luck so far, although Andy was positive the person was close.

'You got anything, Jess?' Brennan inquired, shining his flashlight into yet another corner.

'Nothing, zip, nada, zilch,' he responded with a bored tone in his voice.

Brennan was suddenly overcome with a feeling like he was floating, he shook it off and tried to start walking again, the only problem was the ground was three feet below his feet, he was hovering above the floor some how! He looked around, seeing that Andy and Jesse were in the same position.

'What the hell is going on?' Jesse yelped.

'Does it look like I know?' Andy shouted.

A woman came out from the darkness, she had blonde hair down to her shoulders and her blue eyes glinted in the beam from the flashlight. She looked up to them with a steely glare and narrowed her eyes slightly.

'You Adam's people?' she asked with a young voice, she looked about twenty-nine.

'Let me guess, you're a telekinetic?' Jesse asked her as his legs flailed in the air.

'Wow, someone knows his mutations!' she said with a fake impressed tone, 'Answer my question of I'll bring you down on your heads,'

'Yeah, Adam sent us to pick you up,' Brennan answered before she carried out her threat.

'Where's your proof?' she scowled with a suspicious look.

Jesse took his comlink off of his finger and threw it at her, 'Here's your proof,'

She picked it up and compared it to a ring on her own finger, she laughed, 'I can't remember the last time I actually used mine…' Cassy whispered to herself. The three men suddenly fell to the ground unharmed, just with their ego's bruised.

Jesse caught his ring as she threw it back to him, 'You were in Mutant X?'

'A long time ago. Where have you got the Helix?'

'On the roof,'

They stood there for a minute, 'What are you boys waiting for? An order? Let's go!' the three men quickly jumped into action, cursing under their breath.


'Okay, this is stupid!' Phoebe slammed her fist down on the keyboard, 'We can't contact her through any frequency, and even my powers are jammed every time I try to contact her!'

Shal looked up from the computer on the side of the desk, 'You're not a very patient person, are you?'

'Not when one of my friends lives are at stake,' they went back to typing until a loud thundering blast rocked the entire place, making all the lights flicker and the computers go off.

'What the hell was that!' Phoebe exclaimed, quickly typing on the keyboard to bring up the surveillance footage. She gasped in horror when she saw Strand members pounding the main door with the their powers, with Gabriel Ashlocke standing behind them, releasing energy blasts.

'Okay people, we have a Strand assault on our hands!' she announced, 'Connor!' she ran to the nursery while Shalimar ran to the lab to alert Adam.

Adam was punching a series of codes onto his touch screen console; the alarm began to sound as the Links broke through the first layer of enchanted security. Shal scanned the screen and saw the Links repeating the process on the next iron door.

'Shal I need you to lock down the hangar, the garage, even the walk in entrance, anything they could use as a way to get in, I want closed!' he yelled over the din of the alarm and the attacks smashing off the cliff and shaking it to its core. Phoebe walked in, holding Connor tightly to her chest before handing him over to Adam hesitantly.

'His shield will protect you, but I want you to protect him if we…' she trailed off.

Shalimar pulled at her arm slightly, 'C'mon, you get the hangar and walk in entrance, I'll get the garage and the tunnels,' Phoebe nodded in response and ran out of the lab after her friend.

'I'll keep you posted by comlink!' Adam shouted after them.

Phoebe ran towards the way to the hangar, reaching it's entrance and punching in the lock down code, the magicked gate down from the ceiling with a hiss and covered the space that would allow anyone in.

'Andy!' she shouted, he didn't come, Phoebe guessed that Ashlocke had already cut all communications with his powers, 'Adam! I need you shut down the outside hangar door! All the computers out here are down!' she shouted, cursing at the sizzling computer in the main area of Sanctuary.

'Okay Phoebe, how are you doing Shalimar?' he worked quickly and heard the humming of the large mechanical doors that on the outside of the cliff, closing down.

Shalimar finally stopped spraying the fire extinguisher and looked to see if the fire was out, it had taken her a lot of courage to fight the blaze, as her mutation gave her a natural fear of fire, 'The tunnel door circuitry's fried! I can't initiate the lock down!'

'What about the garage?'

'It's been closed down! But I can hear people coming up through the tunnels!'

'Okay, the hangar and walk in entrance are closed!' Phoebe came into their conversation.

'Alright, Phoebe I need you help Shal defend the tunnel door! I'll try and shut it down from here!' Adam shouted, he had now gone back to the keyboard as he had Connor in his left arm.

'Okay!' she screeched into her comlink, running towards the feral's direction.

The two witches stood at the edge of the tunnel, even Phoebe could now hear the footsteps of the approaching enemy. Most of their home was now unorganised and small fires were sprouting from the computers that were overheating. Phoebe took a deep breath and turned to her friend.

'Shal, I have a way to keep these guys from reaching us, but I'm going to have to erase your memory afterwards, do you trust me?' Shalimar gave her a confused look then nodded, 'Okay…' she pushed her away slightly, 'Stand back!'

Phoebe began to concentrate, although this wasn't her most powerful gift, it was hard to control and master so she would need no interruptions. Thinking of the path that stood before her, she slowly channelled a spear of psychic energy into the tunnel, gradually at first, but once she had gotten used to guiding the power, it shot through the tunnel at incredible speed, hitting all of the Links members that were in the labyrinth at the time and knocking them out. The energy stopped at the outside entrance and spread across the hole, letting no one in, the same thing happened at the door where Phoebe was standing, trapping everyone within the caves. Although a normal person's sight wouldn't see it, Shal could see the air distort around the hole, making her think there was some sort of force field there.

'Wow… What did you do?' she breathed.

'It's like a psychic guided missile, no one getting in or out of those caves until I let down the shield,'

'Impressive…' a voice said, the two turned around and saw Gabriel Ashlocke standing with Connor in his arms!

Phoebe's heart began to race, 'How did you…'

'Oh, it was simple. Especially after getting rid of Adam,' he smiled at them as Connor screamed his lungs out. Phoebe ran at the super mutant, murder burning in her eyes, but Ashlocke put up his hand and she froze in mid stride, he walked over to her and whispered something in her ear, she unfroze and immediately fell asleep. Gabriel stopped her from falling with one of his arms as he carried Connor in the other.

'If you think that's gonna work on me then you've got another thing coming…' Shalimar growled, her pupils narrowing and her eyes turning yellow.

'Oh, I know my little kitty. Now!' he yelled, one of the Links threw out their hands, five small dart shaped objects flew from his hand, hitting Shalimar's leg. He gasped in pain and pulled out the darts, before falling to the floor and into a sleep.

'Grab her, we're done here,'


Brennan ran into the ruins of Sanctuary, 'Phoebe! Phoebe!' everyone jumped as one of computers sparked brightly and loudly. Andy closed his eyes and tried to see if anyone was still in the place, he could pick up something, but it was faint.

'Someone's still here, but they're on the brink,' Andy stated.

Brennan looked around before running towards the nursery, 'Connor!' he disappeared into the room.

'Who's Connor?' Cassy asked Jesse.

'His new born son,' the molecular replied.

'Okay, let's split up, I'll check the lab and the rest of you look around the other. Any questions?' Jesse and Andy shook their heads, 'Good,' Cassy walked off as the others went off in the other direction.

'You get the feeling that she likes being in control?' Jesse asked the whitelighter.

'Oh yeah,'

The lab door didn't hiss open like it usually did, so Cassy focused and the door opened on her minds command. She looked around the destroyed lab, remembering it's former glory, hearing a cough coming from the other side of the room, she used her power and the piece of debris flew off the floor and hit the wall, revealing Adam underneath it!

'You guys!' She shouted, alerting the others to her location. Brennan ran in, looking to see if his family were among anyone injured, 'Relax, it's Adam. Ashlocke must have taken the others,' Jesse and Andy ran in, Andy kneeling down and healing the genius. Adam sat up with a groan and was immediately bombarded with questions.

'Adam, what happened?'

'Where's Shal?'

'Where's Connor and Phoebe?'

Adam put up his hands, signalling for them to stop for a minute, he sighed and put his hand on his forehead, 'We need to talk,'


Mutant X, Cassy and Andy now stood in the wreckage of the main computer area, discussing what they needed to do next. None of them had thought of any good plans as of yet.

'We'll have to find them first,' Cassy stated.

'Yeah, but we can't find them through any way. How will we find them all?' Jesse asked

'Well, I don't know! But that's the first step before we start making battle plans!'

'Who put you in charge?' Brennan challenged her.

'No one, but since I'm the only one not moping I'm the most qualified!' she spat.

'Look, this is what we need…' Brennan began, 'We need a location, we need floor plans, we need potions, we need spells, we need…'

'What you need… Is me,' Everyone turned around to see who had spoken. Brennan, Jesse and Adam's jaws hit the floor when they saw Emma DeLauro leaning on the wall of the hangar door.


Well? What do you think of that? I had massive writers block with this chapter but I think I got through it!

Chapter 39 'Here Come The Water Works Part 2' will be up soon!