Margarite walks into a section of the bunker set up as a medical facility and grabs two black cases before bring them to the table and setting them down. She looks through it hands moving as Simone watches her. "Why did they build the barracks and everything around them?"

"They're used by the patrols." Warning bells begin to ring in Rasmus' head and he steps back. Remembering the last time he'd felt like this years ago, when he was nine, and he'd woken up in a bag with Donna crying over him after Simone had left him in the park alone so she could go out with her friends.


Flashback

He couldn't help it as he bounced foot to foot in the ever universal pee-pee dance as he waited for the only bathroom stall that worked. He didn't like peeing in front of anybody so he always used the stall if he couldn't hold it 'til he got home. Simone had been gone a long time and he was getting hungry too but he'd already eaten the sandwich and chips she put in his backpack. And all three of the water bottles so he couldn't hold it anymore. He really, really tried to too but it was ok Simone should be back from the movies soon anyways.

" -'Scuse me." He says as the man came out. He rushes inside and did his business with a sigh. It's as he's flushing the toilet he realizes he never heard the water from the sink go on, little bells go off in his mind. His brows wrinkles as he thinks about why he has that empty feeling in his tummy that he really doesn't like. Suddenly his nose scrunches up. Ewww! He didn't wash his hands, there's pee-pee germs on the door now! He looks at the stall door and wraps his little hand in toilet paper before opening it. He walks around the stall to the sink before he feels a pinch at the back of his neck and everything goes dark.


"How could you just leave him alone Simone?" Bella-Donna asked in a panicked tone. She just couldn't believe what Simone had told her. "What if something happens to him?"

"Nothing is going to happen to him Donna! I told him to stay at the park and not to leave the playground besides it's only been like 4 or 5 hours. He's fine." She replied in frustration.

"F-? How do you know he's fine? He's 9 Simone! When you or your mother tell him to clean his room does he actually do it? Because if I remember last time I slept over and you told him to do so, he threw his stuff under the bed or into the closet! So how do you know that he won't walk off?" She yells as she looks around the park. "Rasmus?" She calls for him as she looks for reddish blonde curls.

"He's probably just messing around Donna." She tells her friend, ignoring her own rising panic.

"What was he wearing?"

"Wearing? I . . . I don't know. Maybe jeans or shorts?"

"God damnit Simone!" Donna's eyes scan the park. Where are you, Rasmus? She feels her magic tug slightly and her eyes move until she catches sight of a man with a large bag after exiting the men's room. Her magic tugs and tugs. "Rasmus?" She doesn't even realize when she begins to move and then she's running as Simone yells at her. "Stop. Stop!" The man turns back only for a moment but runs as he catches sight of her. "Stop him!" Donna yells as her magic rises and fuses with her voice, compelling all who could hear her to act.

Get him! Stop! Come back here!

People around the park scream and move in action until he is caught after one woman jumps onto him, tackling him to the ground. The bag dropping to the ground with a heavy thud. Donna rushes forward and opens the duffel bag as she ignores the growing crowd and Simone running towards her. "Rasmus. Rasmus wake up." She says and reaches her hand out to brush against his cheek, lightly tapping it as she sends a gentle zing of magic that acts as an rennervate.

"Donna?" Rasmus says in a sleepy voice rubbing his eyes. "Why are you crying?" She pulls him into her arms and hugs him tightly.

"Oh, god." Simone says as she stands a few steps away.

Flashback Ends


Back at the Old Farm

She laughed as she watched Ida smack the back of Patrick's head after he suggesting stealing what was here while the doctor was out. Her father made a joke about waiting until he was at least outside the room when she noticed it. Panic but mostly worry was slowly building in her except it wasn't her own and as Martin was right in front of her smiling it clearly wasn't his either. She concentrated on it the feel, the pull. "Rasmus." She whispers and Martin turns back to her.

"Belle? Did you say something?" Martin looked down towards where she sat against the wall.

"It's Rasmus. I can feel him Martin, something's wrong." She whispers to him. "I think Rasmus and Simone are in trouble." A magical alarm rings through both their minds but ends quickly signaling that someone had gotten close to Blue but kept moving. His eyes widen before narrowing and the smile slides off his face.

"Time to go! Patrick, Ida find Rasmus and Simone! Lea help Phillip get his things together. Jean, Beatrice see if there's anything we could use. We need to move, now!"

"Martin? Bella-Donna?" Philip asked in worry.


The Doctor's/Strangers' Bunker

"The strangers? What were the strangers doing here?" Simone looks back at the entrance, "Division 45?"

"Yes." Margarite responds from where she stands not once looking up. "What about it?"

"Simone." Rasmus looks toward his sister, a warning in his voice.

"It was on the access screen when we entered the bunker." She says ignoring him. Can't he see this is important. She might know how to find our dad.

"And?" She asks turning to look at them both though her eyes focus on Simone.

"Our dad worked there!" Simone says her voice rising with every word that passes.

"Simone!" Rasmus screams at the same time and pushes his sister away after he catches sight of the metal canister in the doctor's hand releasing some sort of gas. Margarite throws it at them after pressing a button that sends the gas rushing out as she screams.

"Your father killed my children!" The gas leaves them coughing, struggling to breathe until both collapse unconscious.


"Strangers." Jean whispers beneath his breath after catching sight of the darkly clothed men heading towards them from the road and rushes out of the room he'd been searching before running into Lea and Philip. "Strangers are coming!"

"Philip, we need to go!" She zips his bag and tosses it over her shoulder. "Jean warn the others!" Lea says as she moves to help Philip.


Simone slowly comes to and finds her wrist zip-tied. When her eyes finally focus it's to find Rasmus tied down to the padded surgical table in the middle of the room as Margarite sets up the tablet's camera and checks it angle. Rasmus groans as he wakes himself after having had a larger dose of the knock out gas since he was closer to the canister.

"I don't know what you want or who you think we are but we-" Simone begins only for the doctor to interrupt.

"Did you know it was your dad that did this." Margarite says as she looks towards her.

"What are you talking about?"

"I told them it was dangerous, you can't attack nature and not expect it to strike back but they wouldn't listen. Him and Stein." Margarite removes the surgical gloves from her hands. "Philip tried to warn them too. He told them the delivery system wasn't ready. He told them it would be catastrophic if the problems it had wasn't fixed but they didn't care. We told them but they wouldn't listen." Margarite tells Simone neither realizing that Rasmus had woken and was listening to every word spoken. "He's the one who killed my children." Margarite's voice rasps out.

"My . . . my dad?" Simone questions in disbelief before shaking her head in the negative. Margarite moves to Rasmus' side and that is when Simone sees it. Margarite holds a capsule filled with some sort of amber liquid with a thin needle attached. "No. No, my dad wouldn't kill anyone."

"You have no idea what your dad is capable of." Margarite moves to find a good vein in Rasmus' neck.

"No. No." Simone grits her teeth as Rasmus does his best to lean away from the woman.

"I want him to see what I'm going to do to you. You won't get out of here." She tells Rasmus as she looks down at him struggling to free himself from the restraints before moving to press the record button. "It's going to hurt . . . but it will be over fast."

"Why are you doing this?"

"You don't know what it feels like to lose everyone you love. To be lonely yet not alone. I spent six years with Philip. I lost my husband, my children. He lost his leg and had no idea whether his daughter lived or not. Philip was all I had left except now he doesn't need me. He has his daughter and his daughter brought you, both of you, to me. Even if she doesn't know it, she's given me my reward for taking care of her father these past years. She's given me my revenge for my family's suffering."

"You can't kill us."

"You really don't know anything." Margarite says as she point the needle towards Simone.

"No matter what you may think our dad has done . . . m-me and Rasmus, we haven't done anything."

"Lie still!" She yells as Rasmus struggles harder then before as she pushes down on his shoulder.

"Your children . . . I understand." Simone says. "I know how much it hurts. Our mom's dead too." Margarite looks away from Rasmus to her for a moment and she smiles bitterly.

"Do you really think the death of a parent is anything compared to that of a child? A parent is supposed to die before their child not AFTER!" She puts the needle into Rasmus' neck and he screams in pain at the sharp sting. Two shots ring out and glass shatters as a bullet is lodged in Margarite's forehead as another goes through her throat.

"That's how we do it from now on. No more talk. Let's go." Patrick says as Ida moves forward.

"Patrick, shut up. Rasmus hold still." Ida says as she moves toward Rasmus and gently pulls the needle away from him before applying pressure. She grabs the small bit of bandage she carries with her and wraps it around his neck before removing his restraints. "That'll have to do for now. Let's get out of here. You okay to walk?" Rasmus nods holding the bandage in the spot the needle entered.

"Simone, let's go." Patrick calls to her from where he stands helping Rasmus to his feet. He never saw as she packed the needle the doctor had planned to inject Rasmus with into her bag. Simone never realized the needle's tip was wet not only with her brother's blood but the amber liquid contained within. Ida would not realize that when she removed the needle she had unknowingly pressed down on the release button before it was fully dislodged, injecting Rasmus with a small amount. All the while Rasmus was unaware of the changes happening within his body as the virus that had already bonded with him was introduced with a newer, fresher sample that was strengthening that which was already within him but lied dormant, until now.