I don't own Blindspot or any of these amazing characters…
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Good morning! I just wanted to let everyone know that for whatever reason the website won't let me respond to my reviews. I hope that's all that's wrong with it! Anyhoo, I wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to give me feedback. I have gotten so much inspiration from them that this story wouldn't be the same without all of you. Thanks for the encouragement and the wonderful ideas. It makes me sentimental. See, it's not just Jeller that does that! Lol. :)
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Jane woke up slowly. They were staying in a safe house and she couldn't help but notice the irony. She'd started out this life in a safe house and now Kurt was in one with her.
Today was the day of the Gala. It was also the day that Ivan was going to run the test to see if the cure worked. She knew that Kurt was worried. She was worried, but the truth is she felt much better. Her energy had returned, her headaches had gone and her appetite was back. In fact she was hungry now. She smiled a little. Kurt had helped her use all her energy last night. She needed to refuel.
"Keep smiling like that," Kurt warned her, his voice husky, "We'll never make it out of this bed."
"Promise?" Jane scooted up until she was leaning over him. Closing the last little distance between them she kissed him. It started out chaste until he began to actively participate.
She was breathless when they drew apart and he had that sexy look on his face she loved. Then the phone began to ring.
"Grrrr," Jane growled.
Kurt reached for the phone impatiently.
"Weller," He answered.
"I was able to get a second invite to the Gala," Patterson told him.
"We'll be right in," Kurt assured her.
Jane's hand dipped low and her eyebrows went up as Kurt ended the call.
"Right in?" She asked him.
"Right after this," Kurt grinned up at her, flipping her onto her back and leaning over her.
Jane's laugh turned into a moan.
"Sounds good," She agreed breathlessly.
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"If you didn't stop for breakfast," Rich complained watching them walk toward them eating takeout, "What took you so long?"
Jane looked away and Kurt glared at him.
"Oh," Rich looked between the two of them in speculation.
"Focus," Patterson warned him.
"Right," Rich shook his head, "Patterson has a second invite. It's for two people."
"She knows us," Jane reminded them, "Kurt and I interviewed her before we went to South Africa."
"I think Rich and I should go," Patterson explained.
"She has to know who you are," Ivan protested, "It's too dangerous."
"Says the man pretending to be her dead lover," Patterson snipped.
"Okay…" Rich was looking between Patterson and Ivan with exasperation.
"I won't even remotely look like myself," Patterson insisted, "And they don't know Rich at all."
"That hurts," Rich placed his hand over his heart, "But she's right."
Reade was watching them with a concerned expression, "Okay, you can go, but if she even looks at you twice, you're out of there."
"Patterson," Ivan warned her.
"What's going on?" Jane demanded
Patterson didn't say anything and Ivan looked torn.
"What aren't you telling us?" Kurt knew there was something.
"I think Blake might have been trained at my orphanage," Ivan admitted, "She wasn't kept with the rest of us, but they used the best students they had to train her. They never came back."
"That's not good," It was Rich that stated the obvious.
"So Roman wasn't the first," Jane realized.
"No," Ivan denied, "If it was her, he was far from the first."
"How do we find out for sure?" Jane asked Patterson.
"I've been checking what little records we found. If it was her, she was already being protected by Crawford's billions, because there's no record." Patterson explained.
"This changes everything," Reade insisted.
"No."
"No." Ivan and Jane spoke together.
"This makes her 1000 times more dangerous." Reade insisted.
"She doesn't know that we're onto her," Jane insisted.
"She killed the other children." Kurt reminded her, "By Ivan's own admission, their best students couldn't take her."
"She never tried Ivan, or me," Jane insisted. "I'm not a child anymore. Sheppard was hard, she made me hard. I won't lose."
"We aren't going to find out," Kurt insisted.
"I'm just saying I don't think Patterson and Rich should go," Ivan insisted.
"I'm going," Patterson was not letting Ivan and Tasha face Blake without backup.
"I could go either way," Rich told them, "Go…don't go…I'm good."
"Rich," Jane's voice was exasperated.
"Let's go run the test," Ivan let the matter drop. He wanted a chance to discuss this with Patterson privately and it was obvious not the time for that.
Kurt tensed up at that suggestion.
Jane's hand found his and he held it tightly.
They followed after Ivan silently. Jane watched him take the blood. Kurt stood behind her with his hands on her shoulders. It was as though he needed to be in constant contact with her. She took comfort from his touch and she thought it was giving him comfort too.
"How long to find out if the poison is still there?" Jane asked.
"Thirty minutes," Ivan told her.
Jane didn't say anything, just nodded.
After he was done drawing blood, Ivan put the vials aside and took her hand. She met his eyes and he smiled as he squeezed.
After Ivan left, Kurt took his seat.
"You okay?" He worried.
"Yeah," Jane assured him, "You?"
"I'm scared." He admitted.
Jane looked at the man that she loved, the one that used to have trouble communicating, and fell a little more in love.
"Me too," She admitted.
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Patterson stood next to Ivan while he was testing the blood.
"I'm glad you told them," She told him.
"I'm glad you didn't," He admitted.
"You can trust me with your secrets," Patterson assured him.
"I don't want you there tonight," Ivan admitted, "Not that it's much of a secret."
"I can handle myself," Patterson insisted.
"She killed people more trained than you are," Ivan reminded her.
"Shepard and Roman both tried to kill me," Patterson told Ivan, "I'm still here."
"Roman tried to kill you?" Ivan stopped what he was doing.
"Yeah," Patterson admitted, "He sent assassins after all of us."
"Even Jane?" Ivan shook his head.
"Even Jane," Patterson agreed, "Two people for her actually."
"She still wanted to save him?" Ivan didn't sound surprised.
"Yes," Patterson admitted.
"When she loves," Ivan smiled, "She loves completely. She has such a good heart. She must have suffered so much in training."
"What about you?" Patterson asked him, "Did you suffer?"
"We all suffered," Ivan admitted. "I didn't have my siblings to protect. I thought I'd already lost everything, so it was hard, but I had nothing left to lose."
"The Scientist that helped you," Patterson asked gently, "Did he have any family? What happened when he died?"
"He didn't have any family," Ivan denied, "But I was old enough to take care of myself."
Suddenly the timer indicated the results were in.
He and Patterson shared a worried look. He reached for the results and she placed a supportive hand on his back.
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Kurt, Jane, Rich and Reade were waiting in Reade's office.
"We'll never stop trying," Reade was pacing back and forth, "If this didn't work, we'll find the right answer."
Rich was watching him, his expression as somber as it ever gets.
Jane didn't answer. She was sitting next to Kurt, holding his hand. She didn't comment on the trembling. She didn't know if it was her, or him, or both of them.
Then Ivan and Patterson were there.
Nobody asked, nobody could make themselves, but they didn't need too.
"There's no poison," Ivan said with a huge smile.
Jane was frozen. She'd hoped for a miracle, but hadn't really expected one.
Kurt felt the tension in his muscles release so suddenly he actually felt dizzy. Then he was on his feet, laughing and crying while he pulled Jane up from her chair and into his arms. He pulled her tightly against him and spun her in a circle. The second he stopped, they were surrounded by their family.
There was excited laughing, but still Jane didn't say anything.
"Are you okay?" Kurt worried looking down into her stunned face.
"I'm fine," She told him as she began to smile…"I'M FINE!"
Laughing Kurt leaned down and kissed her smiling lips.
They might not have been born family, but they were now. Their bond was undeniable, their love for each other not in question.
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Patterson was ready. Her outfit was a little risqué. She'd done it on purpose. If people were looking at her body then they weren't looking at her face. She had on a red wig and more makeup than she was used to. She looked good, but different. Not so slutty that she drew attention to herself. She was satisfied. Sexy but understated, or so she thought until Rich saw her.
"Holy alluring, Batman," Rich said staring.
"Stop," Patterson warned him.
"What?" Rich walked all the way around her, "If you wanted to get my attention, it worked."
"Rich," Patterson warned him, "Don't make me wipe your hard drive."
"Sounds sexy," Rich teased her.
"Where's Ivan?" She asked him.
"Still in the locker room," Rich explained, "Some men take longer to put together."
Patterson turned toward the locker room. Rich watched her go with a little whistle. This was going to be fun.
She opened the door to find Ivan just reaching for his shirt. She stopped dead when she was the scars his cloths hid. One in particular made her freeze and stare. He had a wound on his abdomen in the same place the Roman had been shot.
"I'm not," He told her meeting her eyes in the mirror.
"Where'd you get that wound?" She asked him.
"Roman left me a pretty good mess," Ivan admitted, "Getting back my research wasn't the only problem I had when Roman died."
"That's not really an answer." Patterson insisted.
"I don't think we have enough time to go into detail." He reminded her.
He finished buttoning up his shirt and she walked over to him.
"You look incredible," He said with a little smile.
"Thanks," Patterson held out some cuff links, "These have a tracker and will allow us to hear you. If you need help, Rich and I will know."
"What if you're the one that needs help?" Ivan turned to face her, "How do you notify me?"
"You're going to have enough to worry about without that." Patterson reminded him, "Rich is my backup and I'm his."
"Not good enough," Ivan denied.
"Don't tell him that," Patterson straightened the tie he'd just put on.
Ivan was looking down at her when she finished.
"What?" She asked.
"There's something I've been wanting to do." He told her.
"What?" She waited.
He leaned down and the next thing she knew his lips met hers. It only lasted a second before he pulled back.
Before he could step away, her arms went around his neck. The kiss she gave him back was a little more demanding.
When she pulled away, their eyes meet and he smiled down at her, "I'm your backup."
"Got it," She assured him.
"Don't underestimate her." Ivan warned her.
"Don't underestimate me," Patterson said seriously.
"I'll remember that," Ivan smiled.
"Umm," Rich said from the door, "She's supposed to be my date."
"Do you mind?" Patterson asked him pulling away.
"I kinda do," Rich admitted, "You're pretty hot tonight."
Patterson just glared at him, but the look that Ivan shot him had Rich holding up his hands in surrender. "Forget I said anything."
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"I need to start training again," Jane told Kurt while they listened to the party from the van outside the venue.
"Don't push it," Kurt warned her.
"You heard Ivan," Jane reminded him, "Blake's another one of Crawford's creations."
"And we'll stop her, without you having to go head to head with her." Kurt insisted.
"Well, it's not just her," Jane reminded him, "She does have a hit out on me."
Kurt was getting antsy. He'd just been handed his life back when he'd found out Jane was free of the poison. Thinking about her risking herself in any way so soon was making him anxious.
"I'm not going to let anything happen to you," He told her.
"We're a team," Jane reminded him.
"We are a team," Kurt agreed.
"It's going to be okay," Jane assured him.
"There was something else we were talking about before we found out about the poison," Kurt reminded her.
Jane knew exactly what he was talking about.
"You still want a baby?" She asked him, "Even with my memories of Remi and everything that's happened?"
"Yes," Kurt didn't have to think about it.
She smiled up at him.
"Do you?" He worried.
"Yes," She admitted.
He turned and pulled her and her chair closer to him. "So when do you want to start trying?"
"My first response was now," Jane admitted, "But there is a hit out on me and Blake is dangerous. Once we take her down?"
"I don't want to wait," Kurt admitted.
"I don't' want to either," Jane confessed.
"We'll wait a little while," Kurt decided, "Let your body recover from the poison, get Blake out of the picture, then we'll expand our family."
"It's a deal," Jane agreed.
Looking down at her sparkling eyes, Kurt rubbed his nose with hers gently.
"We're in," Patterson said over Coms.
Kurt kissed Jane quickly before he let her roll away and they concentrated on the OP. Expanding their family was one thing, but keeping the family they already had alive was just as important…
