The Center
12:00pm
Monday
Sydney is back in his lab. He had checked all of the numbers that he had collected over the years on all of Jared's cases. No one had heard from him. Still he waits by his phone praying that Jared will call. He needs to know that his 'son' is safe. Willy, knocking on his door, interrupts his thoughts. "Mr. Raines will be here in a few minutes. He requests your presence on the lab floor, so that you may meet your new team members." Seeing Sydney's nod he leaves. Sydney stands up and takes a deep breath, he then smoothes his shirt and puts his glasses on. With one last breath he walks out of his office and down the stairs. As he reaches the floor, Raines and a group of sweepers walk into the lab.
"These are your new team mates." With a wave of his hand the group of sweepers part and show that there are two sweepers in the center of the group. One of the sweepers is holding the girl by her arm, while the other is holding a holding the boy by both arms. The girl has a red mark on her face and the boy a split lip but they are still defiant. With a sharp twist both of teens jerk away from their captors. Raines shoots them a look before going on. "All of the information that you have gathered will be given to these two. I will be back to get them at five tonight. I want some type of result." With that he turns around and walks out leaving the to teens and Sydney in the lab.
With the sweepers gone, he gets his first look at the two teens. Catherine is a piety girl. Looking almost malnourished she probably only weighs 120-130 pounds and is about 5'5''. She looks about 17, with reddish-black hair and blue green eyes. She reminds him of some one but he just can't put his finger on whom. While the boy, David, on the other hand is around at least 6'. And while he is not rail thin there is not a hole of extra weight on him. He also notices bruises on both their arms and faces, bruises that had not been caused in the last ten minutes.
As soon as their escort has left, they rush over to each other. He gently touches her cheek while she fingers his lip. "What happened?" they both whisper to each other. Catherine answers first. "I decided to see what would happen if I disobeyed Mr. Raines's orders. A slap on the face is the worst I got. What about you?"
"I heard you yell out. So I decided to see what was going on. I took two to the stomach and a fist to the face before I saw you and stopped struggling. I know sweet thought but stupid. I just had to know that you were safe." From his tone, Syd could tell that this was not the first time that this conversation had been had. This is said with the two of them facing each other, with her right hand in his left. Her other hand was resting on his chest, while his was gently placed on her check, just lightly touching the red mark, almost as if he could make it go away just with his touch. It was a touching scene. But he knew that it needed to end, before Raines found out that there was something going on between them. He just didn't want to have to be the one that had to play the bad guy. Thankfully he was saved from that by the arrival of Sam. With him walking in the two teens split and both walk over to the table. For the next 255 minutes (that 4hr and 15min.) all the two do is work. She read everything that Jared has left for them and then some. All the while David is taking notes, Sam is reading a magazine and Sydney is pacing and occasionally answering questions that Catherine asks.