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Caterina grumbled slightly as she woke. She could feel the coldness in the bed beside her as Delsin wasn't there emitting his usual almost furnace like body heat. Caterina did however hear the stairs creaking and the light sound of footsteps in the bedroom.

'Good morning.'

It was Delsin. He had been downstairs and had brought back two mugs of coffee with him, one of which he gave to Caterina as she sat up in bed. Delsin put his mug down on his bedside table and climbed back in to bed where Cat leaned over and kissed him.

'Good morning to you.'

The two Conduits snuggled up together and planned their day out as they drank their coffee.

'So what you up to today?' Delsin asked Caterina as she sipped at her coffee.

'Nothing much I guess. I've got some stuff to frame, that's about it. You've got stuff to frame too huh?' Cat replied.

'Yeah a few things, then I gotta send them off.'

'Y'know we never get any work done when we're both working in the studio together.' Caterina chuckled.

'That's what makes it fun!' Delsin exclaimed.

'Oh remind me I've gotta ring the CRL later on and see what they want.'

'Will do. We going for our walk shortly?' Delsin asked Caterina. Better ask her first before he threw a coat on her and dragged her outside again.

'Hmm I was hoping we'd decided after I make breakfast or something.'

'What are you making?' Delsin blurted out. If there was one thing that would stop him from going for their daily walk, then it was Caterina's breakfasts.

'Um, toffee and blueberry pancakes. We haven't had them in a while.' Caterina answered as she sipped more of her coffee and then rested the mug on her bedside table.

A while later, Delsin and Caterina had eventually made it downstairs after finishing their coffees and finally managing to prise themselves apart from each other. Caterina often laughed to herself about this; she and Delsin were inseparable nearly ninety-nine percent of the time and they were also quite sickening to boot. They were either always holding hands or cuddling each other, sneaking kisses and making eyes at each other.

A lot of people in Delsin's tribe had noticed this and sometimes mocked him for it but he really didn't care. He was head over heels for Cat and she was with him too. Even everybody in the tribe adored Caterina, she got on well with everyone and was more than willing to help out if she was needed. Sometimes she would go and help out Betty with her paperwork over at the cannery and a few times a month she would even tag along on picnics that some of the adults did for the kids of the tribe. She would sit and draw with them and tell them stories for a while. Even the kids loved her. Delsin was happy that after the past few months, Caterina was fitting in really well considering that she was an outsider.

The young Conduit couple were quite happy with their lifestyle after what had happened in Seattle, even though they did miss a bit of the danger. Everything had settled down in the world fairly quick after the D.U.P. were shown the door. Co-habitation between Conduits and humans was going as smoothly as it could possibly go, of course there were people on both sides who weren't all for it; but most of the time everybody just got on. That all kicked off after the arrest and trial of both Doctor Maynard and Agent Jones who were soon brought in after all of the stuff Caterina's brother had gathered had gone viral.

It had all happened so quickly. Mere weeks after leaving Seattle; Caterina was contacted after the arrest of Maynard and Jones and soon found herself in court as the main witness, what with her being the sole survivor of Doctor Maynard's experiments. The trial was short, too short considering how serious it was. Doctor Maynard was given several life sentences for illegal human experimentation and crimes against humanity. Caterina was happy that he was being sent down and was happy that the judge said that Maynard's wrongdoings were not just against humans, but Conduits too and it would be unfair just saying that it was only his wicked acts against humans that earned him his sentence. Turned out that the Judge's youngest son was in fact a Conduit. Agent Jones however was sentenced for something much simpler; Murder.

It was a start for Conduits though. Many laws had been bent to accommodate Conduits seeing as they were now living alongside humans. Conduits who had severely broken the law after the fiasco in Seattle were handled by the military using technology the D.U.P. used to supress their powers. The Military were supposed to take over anyway after the D.U.P. were disbanded, so it made sense in letting them handle it. It had to work for the time being until something more permanent was arranged.

Knowing that all of that was now in the past even though it only happened a little while ago; it made Caterina think even more about what the Conduit Rights League wanted her for. Sure she had worked with them briefly during the trial but she couldn't understand what they wanted of her now.

'Jesus Delsin put some pancakes on your syrup.' Caterina cackled at Delsin as she watched him pour far too much maple syrup on his stack of pancakes from a dizzy height. He just laughed a bit then handed Caterina the jug of syrup before he dove in to his pancakes. Caterina drizzled a little bit of the maple syrup on to her own pancakes and scraped a small knob of butter on top before she started eating. She had to admit they were pretty good and it was obvious that Delsin was enjoying his as he was already halfway through the stack.

'Oh, here's that letter. Don't forget to call them.' Delsin said to Cat as he pushed the letter she received from the CRL toward her on the kitchen table.

'I might as well call them now then before I forget.' Said Cat. She reached over to her handbag which was on the kitchen worktop behind her and pulled out her phone. She punched in the number that was on the letter and waited a moment for somebody to pick up.

'Oh, yes good morning it's Caterina Mikkola. I received a letter from you regarding a meeting?'

Delsin finished the rest of his pancakes as he listened to Caterina on the phone. He thought about stealing on of the pancakes she had left on her own plate but she still had her fork in her right hand and he wasn't about to try anything soon.

'Yeah I think we can manage tomorrow afternoon, that's no problem. Yes. Yes, thank you. We look forward to seeing you then. Goodbye.'

'So what did they want?' Delsin asked. He never got to steal one of Cat's pancakes as she dove straight back in as soon as she hung up the call.

'Oh Stacy's in town and she wanted to meet up with us, something about a proposition. The meeting's at three tomorrow afternoon.'

'Did they say what?'

'Nope.' Caterina grumbled. 'Exciting though don'tcha think?'

'I suppose so, we'll see what happens tomorrow huh?' Delsin smiled. He stood from the table and picked up his breakfast plate then picked up Caterina's just as she finished and put them in the dishwasher.

'We going out for our walk now?' Caterina asked Delsin who was stood behind her with his hands on her shoulders.

'Sure thing. Just let me get my stuff.'

'Hey don't forget your camera like you did the other day.'Caterina called after Delsin, he had ran upstairs to get his coat.

Cat had already wandered over to the front door and sorted herself out with the new lighter coat she had bought and her outdoor boots. Whilst she was waiting for Delsin; Caterina flicked through her Facebook news feed to find that some of her friends and things she was following had posted links to articles and pictures of the Humans First attacks that had happened yesterday. According to some of the posts, two more of the attacks had been claimed by Humans First, bringing the total to five attacks nationwide. Caterina knew it was just a matter of time before the remaining two were claimed by them. She just shook her head in disgust.