Dar stared down at the sleeping faces of his mother and sister.
The tears he had shed had left his eyes puffy and red.
They hurt.
But still he couldn't help but watch over the two.
It had happened yet again.
He hadn't been there for her.
He couldn't help her.
He stared at his sister with guilt.
He couldn't stop what had happened to her all those years ago.
That day would forever haunt him. It was still tormenting him now.
Dar closed his eyes for just a second....but it still happened.
The sight he had witnessed......long ago.
He saw her struggling. Trying to break free of the hold Mr. Parker had trapped her in.
Her arm had reached out for him.
But he could do nothing.
He had been held down by four sweepers. He had strained his body trying to pry himself free. Trying to run to help her, to get her away from him.
Her screams still rung in his ears.
A shiver ran up his body as his flesh became riddled with goose bumps.
It had been his punishment. To watch.
He had refused to answer the questions that they had asked him. He refused to do anything for them.
He lowered his head and closed his eyes tightly as his face contorted in pain.
It was his fault.
They had brought him into the room.
'This is what happens when you disobey an order!'
Raines had explained.
He had known he would get beat....he had expected it.........but when she had been brought through the doors with Mr. Parker........he was baffled.
He had not seen her in months. They had separated them long ago......but he had worked with her in the past. But they had been apart because of the training that she had been put through.
He remembered seeing her face.
She was bruised and battered already.
Her eyes held sadness and hurt. Her eyes were watering.
He had thought that she had been beaten because of his indiscretions............he never expected what happened next.
Four sweepers came up from behind him and grabbed him. Keeping him restrained. He didn't understand what they were going to do.
That's when it happened.
Mr. Parker hit her to the ground, and began his torture.
His eyes widened and he instantly began to pull and yank away from the sweepers. But he couldn't break free.
She had begun to scream the second Mr. Parker kneeled down to her.
Dar tried to pull away from the sweepers......with all his strength. The sweepers had been taken off guard from how strong he was......but more came to help wrestle him to the floor.
Tears began to leak out of his tightly shut eyes.
She yelled for him to help her. She begged him to help her. And he could do nothing.
He opened his eyes to look at her once more.
"I'm soo sorry." He whispered out.
He sat there for another two hours......just watching them sleep.
Bobby leaned against the door jam as he watched Dar stare at Mona and Jamieson.
Jamieson had lived through horrors that Mona was just now realizing. But the scary part was Mona didn't even know a quarter of the hell Jamieson had sustained.
He watched Dar finally lean over and kiss the faces of his mother and sister. He then stood and walked towards Bobby.
Dar stopped in front of Bobby with his head down.
"Mom doesn't get it.........does she?" Dar asked Bobby.
Bobby stared at D'Artagnan for a minute.
"No.............she doesn't." Bobby answered.
Dar looked up into Bobby's eyes.
"Are you going to tell her now?" Dar asked in a quiet voice.
Bobby turned and looked at the two sleeping once more.
"Not yet.........she still needs to find things out on her own. It won't take long though." Bobby replied.
"Yeah well........mom's not exactly the one I'm worried about." Dar responded.
Bobby nodded his head.
"I know."
Dar turned and looked at mother and daughter snuggled up together.
"So how's Uncle Highchair?" Dar asked with a smirk forming on his lips.
Bobby began to laugh outright at the nickname given to Kyle all of those years ago.
Dar smiled at the sound of Bobby's laughter.
"He's good. Nathalie's coming up in a few days....so he's going to be happy. And you know what tends to happen when the two of them get together." Bobby commented.
Dar began to laugh himself as he remembered his Aunt Nat and Kyle together.
"So that's when you're going to tell her." Dar stated.
Bobby said nothing.
"Mom's gonna flip you know." Dar stated rather than asked.
"Yep. But I think it's the best way to do it." Bobby said honestly.
Dar nodded his head.
He stared at Jamieson.
"I'm worried about her." Dar said with sadness.
Bobby placed his hand on Dar's shoulder and squeezed.
"She'll be ok. She's survived worse." Bobby said in a whisper.
Dar's tears had trailed down his face without him taking notice.
Bobby noticed though.
"Go upstairs and get some rest. You need to. She's going to want to talk with you afterwards." Bobby assumed.
Dar turned to stare into Bobby's eyes. The silent question his eyes asked immediately caught.
"I'll watch them........don't worry." Bobby remarked.
Dar nodded his head as he turned to go upstairs.
Bobby watched Dar go up the stairs but soon turned to watch after his sister and Jamieson.
Broots had been working on his computer for hours trying to find something on D'Artagnan and Jamieson in the Donoterase Database.
So far he came up with nothing.
All that he found we're references to Projects.
He couldn't find anything involving Miss Green's children, or genetics.
As he was about to close his computer with an exasperated sigh.........he remembered overhearing Lyle telling Miss Green something.
'Like you........she doesn't like to be called by her first name................I call her Jamieson.'
Broots' eyes widened.
He quickly opened his laptop and proceeded to search for a name mentioned in the Gemini files.
That's when he saw it.
In the files a Project A was mentioned.
Quickly Broots began a search for Project A.
As the computer beeped with a find, Broots rose his arms in the air in triumph.
"YES!"
He quickly looked at the results of the find.
Oddly enough......they were DSA archives.
Broots began to download all of the information.
He got up and went in search for a snack.
He came back 30 minutes later with a soda and chips.
He saw that one of the files was downloaded and clicked for it to play as he took another chip and began to chew it.
Nothing could have prepared him for the scene in front of him.
It was Jamieson alright......and Mr. Parker was just entering the room where she was.
Broots' eyes widened. He was going to get sick if this was what he thought it was.
But as the camera panned off of Mr. Parker and onto Jamieson's face as Mr. Parker slapped her hard enough to drive her to the floor, he knew it was something worse.
Jamieson was rather young in the clip...maybe 10 or 11.
"What kind of FILTH are you?" Mr. Parker asked in a disgusted voice.
"You got blood all over your sheets. How vile are you?" Mr. Parker again said with a disgusted voice.
Jamieson looked up with tears rolling down her face.
"I...I don't know why it happened. I'm sorry....it'll never happen aga..." Jamieson had said in choking sobs. But Mr. Parker hadn't let her finish.
He had begun to kick her in her stomach.
Jamieson eyes bulged out at the amount of pain the kick caused.
"LOOK AT THE GROUND!! LOOK HOW DISGUSTING YOU ARE!!!!" He yelled as he had spotted the spots of blood underneath Jamieson's bottom.
That's when Broots understood what had happened.
Jamieson had become a woman. Broots was about to vomit as he watched Mr. Parker continued to kick the girl in the stomach as she cried out in pain. Jamieson continued to cry and scream at the pain.
Broots felt anger within him that he had never felt before. He would kill Mr. Parker.....for what he had done to Jamieson. He vowed that if Miss Green would allow it.............he would do it.
As Mr. Parker stopped beating Jamieson, as blood now came from all over her body he threw a rag down on the floor.
"Clean it up." He commanded in a strained voice.
Jamieson was crying with whimpering breaths at the pain her body was in. She was disoriented and in pain. She could hardly move.
"CLEAN IT UP!!!!" He yelled at her.
And that's when Broots began to cry for her.
Broots watched as Jamieson crawled over to the rag..............and began cleaning her own blood...............as she continued to cry and whimper.
Broots covered his mouth with his hand and held his arms to him as he cried at the scene.
"I'm sorry....it wo....it won't happen again....I swear....I swear." Jamieson had said in sobs.
Mr. Parker turned and was about to leave the room when Mr. Raines stepped into his way.
"The plan for the girl can begin in a week. She'll be in her fertile period. The plan will be put into effect." Raines said with his rough chalky voice.
And then both had left the room.
And he watched as the camera stayed on Jamieson........as she cried and sobbed......and cleaned her blood..............off of the floor.