The only sound heard at Sanctuary Was the sound of Jesse's fingers typing on the keyboard. He worked best with the peace and quiet he was provided with when he was the only one there. He searched through records written by the Dominion looking for something that would help him find out who was the traitor. He searched through the files and found nothing that would help him. He did his best to hack into their e-mail files but the Dominion's codes were too good for him to hack. "Oh well." he sighed to himself. Jesse looked everywhere he could for any information concerning the four people provided by the Dominion, but he found nothing. The Dominion must have completely wiped them off the face of the planet. "So Brennan was right. It was the right move to go out and search their homes." Jesse said out loud. It was a bad habit he had formed from being alone at Sanctuary all those times. Since there was no one around to hear him, he could talk out loud. The problem was that he might accidentally talk out loud when he wasn't alone and insult someone. Discouraged, Jesse contacted the others to see if they found anything.
"Hey Lexa, where are you? Have you found anything?"
"We searched Sandra's house," Lexa began, "but we didn't find anything. But the door to her house was unlocked, which is very abnormal for a Dominion employee. I think someone got to her house before us.Later onshe came home. Don't worry, she didn't notice us; she's dead. Brennan and I searched her car and found a note from someone else who didn't sign it saying that they found a buyer for the disc."
"So she was a traitor, but she wasn't working alone." Jesse concluded.
"Exactly. We need to find out if she was killed by her partners in crime, if it was the buyer, or both. All we know is that there were at least two people that killed her."
Jesse started to hack into satellite images to see if he could see Sandra associating with others or even being killed. "Alright, I haven't found anything yet, but I will contact you once I find something."
Shalimar waited in the Helix for Brennan and Lexa to return. She was back in her regular clothes since she would be staying in the Helix. She had heard the conversation between Jesse and Lexa through the Helix's communication system which was connected to their comm-links. She regretted backing down so soon when she and Lexa were in a standoff to decide who should go with Brennan and who should stay behind. She could have been with him for those two hours searching the house and car instead of sitting in the Helix for two hours bored out of her mind. Maybe she would have been able to smell something they couldn't smell that could have been a huge clue. She hated the new way everything worked now. Someone, almost always Jesse, would stay at Sanctuary, one person, almost never Brennan, would stay in the Helix, and either her or Lexa would go with Brennan to do whatever needed to be done. She missed the old way, when Adam was there to stay at Sanctuary and three people could be out on a mission.
Shalimar's moping was abruptly ended when Lexa's voice was heard in her comm-link.
"Shalimar, we're coming back now. We have the note to see if maybe there are some traces of DNA belonging to her partner."
"Okay, I'm starting up the Helix now." Shalimar started up the Helix, and a few minutes later Lexa and Brennan returned. Shalimar got out of the pilot seat and was replaced by Lexa. She steered the Helix up and through the sky.
Brennan took his black shirt off and put it back in the storage compartment. He looked for his other shirt, but it wasn't where he had left it. Shalimar moved it to give her a few more seconds to stare. It worked better than she anticipated. It took Brennan almost a full minute of shirtless searching for him to find his other shirt and put it on.
"Shal, this isn't where I left it, is it?" he asked.
Shalimar quickly thought up a lie. "It fell on the floor; I just picked it up and put it there." Brennan believed her.
After Brennan, Lexa, and Shalimar arrived at Sanctuary, a DNA test was run on the note. After a brief scan, they discovered that there were two samples that did not belong to Brennan, or Lexa, the only people who touched it besides that fourth person and Sandra. It was assumed that one of the two unknowns was Sandra, since she was the recipient of the note. Lexa opened a communication with her Dominion contact.
"We're in the middle of a DNA scan that might tell us something. We need the DNA information of all four suspects." She said. Her contact agreed and terminated the connection.
"Lexa, we're done with the scan; why did you say we're in the middle of one?" Jesse asked.
"If I had said that we found DNA samples, they would have demanded them, and we would have no idea who's behind this." Lexa said. "I don't know about all of you, but I want to know what's going on at the Dominion."
"You know," Brennan remarked, "I always suspected that everything at the Dominion wasn't as perfect as they say it is. I had a feeling that we'd be doing something like this for them sooner or later."
Shalimar nodded. "Especially now that we're their little task force whenever they feel that something must be done."
The computer beeped. Jesse looked over at the message sent from the Dominion. It was the DNA information they needed. Jesse ran a comparison on the computer to match all the provided information with the two unknown samples.
"This probably will take a long time." Jesse said as he looked at the clock, which read 3:18 AM. "We should get some sleep, and hopefully it will be close to done if not done in the morning." Everyone reluctantly agreed and left the computers to compare the DNA.
