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'Ah Caterina, Delsin. It's so good to see you again.'

Caterina and Delsin were shown in to a large meeting room situated on the second level of the Conduit Rights League offices in Seattle. The CRL had two whole floors right at the top of one of the tallest office blocks in the city. The views were staggering up there, but Cat and Delsin weren't there to admire the view.

'It's been too long Stacy.' Caterina replied.

Stacy Pine was the founder of the Conduit Rights League. She was a slender woman of about five foot seven in height, with fair skin and browny-auburn hair that she always had tied up. She was always smartly dressed but never gave off that intimidating business woman vibe. Stacy founded the CRL after her younger sister who was an active Conduit was taken in by the D.U.P. Her entire family was tested by the D.U.P. and most of them checked out to be Conduit gene positive. After her sister's incarceration; Stacy and her family were not allowed to visit at all. Stacy's sister had essentially been locked away forever. And to top it all off the D.U.P. monitored Stacy and her family in case any of them turned active.

The Conduit Rights League was formed soon after by Stacy with the help from several political figureheads, business owners and scientific researchers from across the US in order to help active Conduits and their families deal with the sudden stigma thrust upon them. As many Conduits were subsequently rounded up and incarcerated; this left many families without a part of their lives. Many had lost a person who brought in a pay-check to their household, or even their young sons or daughters. Needless to say, these families were going through difficult times and the CRL were always there to help out financially, legally and emotionally.

'I'll cut to the chase then.' Stacy started. 'The board members and I have been discussing about taking the CRL forward now that we're actually getting somewhere with changes in laws and legislations. What we wanted to ask you both was if you would like to be our spokespersons?'

'Spokes… persons?' Delsin quizzed.

'Yeah for any functions or interviews we may have on the west coast. I try to do what I can and Jason Nakazawa the manager of our New York office covers the east coast.' Stacy replied. 'Jason and I are human though, we really would like some more Conduits on our PR team.'

It went quiet in the meeting room as Delsin and Cat looked at each other slightly puzzled until Cat eventually spoke up.

'Can I ask Stacy, why us?'

'People like you two. With the coverage of what happened in Seattle with the D.U.P. and what you both did in getting rid of them, Conduits weren't the only ones happy to be free from them. You're pretty popular with the normal too.'

An hour later, Delsin and Caterina found themselves sat in an Italian restaurant just a few blocks down the road from the CRL offices, having an early dinner before they set off back home. Both of them were still fairly taken back by Stacy's offer. She said they could take the time they needed to think it over and decided what they wanted to do. They said they would come and visit her again as she was going to be in Seattle for the next few weeks.

'So we'd be doing some public speaking, TV appearances, commercials and photo shoots for advertising. I think that's everything Stacy mentioned.' Delsin said as he twirled some spaghetti round his fork.

'What do you think of it then?' Caterina asked him in reply, eager to know what he thought of their situation.

'I can see you being on TV and in magazines; you'd be great at it.' Delsin smiled.

'And you think you wouldn't?' Caterina scoffed and grinned as she sipped at a glass of iced water. 'Handsome young man like you, having all the girls fawning over you.'

'I only want one girl fawning over me and I'm looking right at her.' Delsin smirked then laid his hand on top of Caterina's.

'Ooh smooth.' Caterina cackled as she turned her hand over and clasped Delsin's gently. They both laughed a little bit before they carried on eating and talking about what Stacy had proposed to them.

'And what about the other thing she mentioned, the Conduit Camp?' Delsin continued. Caterina smiled almost instantly after he had said it.

'I think that it's a great idea, we should do it.'

'I knew you'd say that.'

Caterina laid her fork down on her plate as she finished chewing on some of her mushroom ravioli.

'I do though! There's been an increase in new active Conduits over the past few years who are children. It's not an easy thing to go through especially when you're young and there's a shit-tonne of other things going on when you're that age too.'

'So you'd definitely join in with the camp thing?'

'A chance to help young Conduits out with their abilities and meeting others like them? Absolutely.'

Delsin had always admired Catarina's passion and enthusiasm especially when kids were involved. She was always great with the children of his tribe and he imagined that she'd be brilliant with Conduit children too. Delsin could understand why she was so great with kids, it was almost like she was going through her own childhood again. Caterina had explained to him that she never really got the chance to be a regular kid what with all the studying and training she did, but she became a Conduit at a young age too and had to grow up quickly after what happened in New Marais.

'Do they have summer camps in the UK?' Delsin asked Caterina.

'Nope, it's not the done thing back home. Most of the time if a family could afford it, they'd all go on holiday together instead of shipping the kids off to camp for Lord knows how long.'

'So what did you do during the summer months?'

'I trained whenever I could. Sometimes mum would take us abroad for a week or two if she could afford it. Niko was always happy to stay at home though and go out playing with his friends.'

Delsin went quiet for a few moments as he contemplated asking the question he had circling around in his head.

'Do you ever want to go back, to England I mean?'

Caterina looked up and bit her lip in thought before she answered.

'For a visit maybe. I dunno, there's not much there for me anymore. Well, there is dad I suppose but his wife would probably go ape shit if she knew I was a Conduit. If they're still together that is, I don't know.'

'Well if you ever did decide to go back…'

'Don't worry Delsin. I'd take you around and show you the sights.' Caterina smiled. 'I know what you were gonna ask, of course you'd be coming with me you silly bugger.'

Delsin had to laugh at Caterina. He considered himself lucky that he had her. Cat kept him on the straight and narrow. He liked to think that he had matured a bit because of her. Catarina had matured a bit too and had come along leaps and bounds from the psychotic, mute piece of madness she used to be that had tried killing him on a few occasions. Delsin had indeed grown up some and accepted that he had responsibilities now; bills to pay, earning money from something he really enjoyed and a girlfriend he absolutely adored. Delsin was sure that if Reggie was around, then he would be extra proud of his kid brother now.

'Del, what are we having for desert? There's so much on this menu, help me out here 'cause I want everything. I. WANT. IT. ALL.'

Caterina though; still ate like she didn't know when her next meal was coming.