Hello everyone - first of all I'm sorry it took me so long to update, The thing is I'm not getting any reviews on my story and truth be told it's making me a little nervous. Call it my obsessive need for approval of whatever but when I see that one of my stories isn't getting any reactions I usually start to rethink the whole thing - I go over it over and over again, I try to rewrite the whole thing, I add scenes and remove them again and so on.

So if anyone out there is reading this story PLEASE REVIEW! Even if you don't have anything good to say - even if all you have is criticism - I'd still like to hear it! The sad truth is that if I see a story isn't getting any reactions I usually just get tiered of it and leave it unfinished…

And now, on with the story…

Part 4

"Ok, so this is what I got so far" Nina Jarvis came into Diana and Tom's office and perched on the corner of Diana's desk "I was on the phone half the night and most of the morning. A friend of mine at the Boston PD says that they've been asking the FBI for help on the Serial killer case for weeks now and all they've been getting is excuses - then last week someone mentions that a 4400 is involved and all of the sudden the FBI swoops in and completely takes over the case"

"Damnit" Diana cursed and shook her head.

"From what I got, it's more than the serial killer they're after" Jarvis continued giving them the bad news "Remember that guy? The Baseball player? Well, this girl, she's hot commodity for the feds - her ability could make their job a lot easier…"

"And her life a lot harder…" Tom concluded

"I also doubt it's a coincidence that the FBI is all of the sudden so interested in what we do here - I think it has a lot to do with the rumors about Collier being back. As to the Morgan case - I got them to hold off on taking her in, for the time being, but I had to promise them that we'll let one of their agents tag along - observe anything to do with this case"

"The last time they sent over a guy to "tag along" with us he ended up shooting my son" Tom protested.

"There's more" Jarvis warned, her face grim "The man heading up this investigation, pulling all the strings - I know him. His name is William Parker, he's a division director for the FBI. He's ruthless, ambitious and he has his eyes set on Washington - preferably the big white house in the middle of it. Curiously enough, and you're gonna love this part… he was a good friend of Dennis Rayland"

"What?"

"You've got to be kidding me!"

Tom and Diana were on their feet instantly

"He was part of Firewall?" Tom asked, referring to the wretched program that nearly cost them the lives of all the 4400.

"Not as far as anyone knows" Jarvis shook her head "But I know the guy and I'm willing to bet that even if he wasn't a part of it he at least knew about it"

"Excuse me…" a voice from the doorway startled them and they all turned around to see a young man in an expensive suit standing at the doorway "I'm looking for Director Jarvis, agent Baldwin or agent Skoris?"

"And you are?" Tom asked suspiciously, already guessing the answer.

"I'm Special agent Stevens, from the FBI, I've been assigned to you on the Alexandra Morgan case…"

Lilly walked into the apartment still reviewing the file she had in her hands. Another sick person seeking Shawn's help. Even since word got out on how Shawn cured all the 4400 at the quarantine center the foundation has been especially swamped with requests for Shawn's help. It seems like people from all around the world were trying to get in to see the guy.

She was so engrossed in the file that it took her a moment to register her surroundings but when she finally did she gasped in shock. The usually neat apartment was now a huge mess. There were books and newspapers scattered all over the place, both TV sets were turned on to different channels, the radio was on at full volume. In the middle of it all was Isabelle, sitting there with both TV remotes in her hand, flipping channels at full speed.

"Isabelle? What the hell is going on here?" she tried to keep her voice clam and wished once again that Richard was here instead of off traveling, talking to people around the country on behalf of the center.

"Oh, hi Lilly" Isabelle said sheepishly, as usual using Lilly's first name instead of referring to her as Mom, which drove Lilly crazy. "I'm sorry for the mess, I'm just trying to catch up on a few things"

"Catch up?" Lilly turned off the radio and started closing books and placing things back in their place "Catching up on what?"

"I don't know… the last 15 years…"

Lilly sighed, her anger and frustration draining from her body, and sank into a chair next to her daughter. With all the weirdness of the situation she sometimes forgot to think about what it might be for Isabelle, all of the sudden growing up like that, being 18 but with no memories any normal 18 year old has. She was about to try and talk to Isabelle about it, thinking of what exactly to say to her when the girl simply shrugged and got to her feet, heading for her room.

"Oh, by the way, Shawn was here, he left you a note…" She called out just before closing the door to her room. A few seconds later Lilly could here the radio being turned on at full volume inside the girl's room

"Where's Diana and Tom?"

"Marco" Jarvis greeted the guy who just ran into her office and tried to suppress a small smile "You look like you've been running!"

Marco placed his hands on his knees for a moment, trying to catch his breath and making a mental note that he should really look into signing up for a gym - it was pretty embarrassing panting like this in-front of his boss just because he ran all the way up here from his office downstairs.

"I was scanning the police frequencies" he finally managed to say "I cam across something interesting, A black and white on the late night shift broke up a fight in an ally around dawn - some punks beat up a street bum. The police had to call in an ambulance to take the guy to the hospital"

"And?" Jarvis said impatiently.

"When the officers got back to the station the saw the bulletin we put out about John Doe AKA the newly resurrected Jordan Collier. They claim that this is the guy the sent over to the hospital"

Jarvis was on her feet instantly "So Collier is at the hospital? Which one?"

"Actually no!" Marco replied "I called. They stitched him up and sent him out, but I'm thinking maybe he'll go back to that ally again…?"

"It's a long shot, but it's worth a try" Jarvis nodded "I just don't understand what this is doing living in the street like that? He's a multimillionaire for god's sake! Why doesn't he just go back to the 4400 center?" Jarvis sighed in frustration, already picking up the phone to call Tom and Diana with the information.

"The guy just came back from the dead" Marco shrugged "I think it's a pretty safe bet he's more that a little confused…"