AIHtE4

Disclamer: Fourth Verse same as the first.

Over Come

Willow stood on the rooftop of one of Sunnydale's resdencale buildings. In her mind she was plotting and planning the next five moves. she needed to find Xander and Buffy. she didn't know what happened to her. What ever It was she was now stronger, faster, and knew things the would make any SEAL proud. she just hoped that Buffy hadn't died and that this was the TPBs' sick version of a joke.

When she started to get the familiar shakes and tiny trimmers In her body she was both relieved and disappointed. being the new Slayer would mean that Buffy had died. she didn't want Buffy to die, she was the first girl friend she'd had outside of the weird orphanages In New Mexico and Montana that her parents would take her to during the Summers. she stayed with the kids while her parents worked all hours.

The place was like a SEAL boot camp for kids. When she got there she was always given a new buzz cut and put In with the other kids. No one had names only numbers, even me. X5-598 or 598 for short. Late at night we would all whisper and lesson for sounds of the keepers. she would tell them about life out side. The basics of kid life all the rules every kid knows the things they knew nothing about. As soon as they found out that she had a name they wanted names to.

during the day we were put thru grueling training courses and training classes. The best classes were the long and even short strategy classes. The teachers the you ALWAYS had to call sir would often talk about how It was so bad that 598 was redundant. That maybe when she was older with more training they could place her Into one of the open branches. That they hoped my twin 599 was at lest half as good as 598 was. One of the scientist had said they thought the redundancy was something to do with the female trait that 599 didn't Inherent.

The Sirs and Lab Coats all talked about everything and anything as If we weren't there of that we had no Idea what they were talking about, we being all of the kids here. There were already toddlers In classes, training them thought the use of play to build up the hand eye reaction times and simple orders. Willow loved this class working with the babies. That was also when the Sirs would talk with the Lab Coats would liked to gloat.

That was how she found out that even though the testing proved she was redundant to this program the viable DNA In my Embryo was to valuable to be put Into the wash. So they let someone In the program use the embryo. She died when she was two. Ira and Sheila were a cover for her so she wouldn't be taken and alert the outside world of there assets. They even lied about her real age.

The reason it was so easy to fall into being called 598 all the time was because all these men called her 598 for the first three years of her life.

Her whole life was based on a lie. Ira and Sheila moved to Sunnydale to be near the Death Valley project and changed her age. Something they were able to pull off because of the subliminal testing and movies they show all the kids from almost near birth. Ira and Sheila lied and doubled her age.

All because with the subliminal learning that they taught all the kids with all the other things like tracking... Tracking.

Willow cleared her head and then popped two Tylenol sized Triptaphan pills to take care of the shakes. Quickly downing them with Ommy Joyce's coco while still looking for any of the four people who could help. Smiling when she spotted one. Then set off towards one of her targets, hopping from one close roof to another.

TBC?