At the MI9 Hospital
"What was that for?" Tom asked.
"I'm sorry Tom, I just lost it," Dan replied.
"Let's just get some ice for my face and get the girls out of here."
Dan nodded his head in agreement.
Back at the base
"Thanks," said Tom gladly accepting the icepack.
"The girls are in the spare cells, honestly there aren't many left; you know with the whole Annabel and Jacob thing," Dan said.
"Yeah, Frank what is going to happen to Annabel and Jacob?" Tom asked curiously.
"I still don't know, but I'm hoping that I can reason with Stella and let them go back to their everyday lives," Frank responded.
"Yeah, I hope so," Tom said.
"Tom, you said that the chemical was in the air, right?" Dan asked.
"Yeah," Tom replied.
"Well then if we were all in the hospital and were all breathing in the air, why where the girls the only ones to be affected?"
"Something tells me that it won't be long until the effects start on us."
"What do you mean?" Dan asked with only looks of curiosity and concern.
"We were all breathing in the air, it will affect us both."
Dan sighed, "Did we actually accomplish anything from the mission?"
"We discovered why the distress signal was sent and why the inmates were how they were," Tom replied.
Dan half nodded half shook his head in a slightly confused agreement, still really deciding if that was actually the real objective of the mission.
"I'm going to go check on Neish," Tom announced after a moment of pondering.
Dan thought about this and then said that he was going to see how Keri was fairing.
He walked towards her cell wondering if she was actually worth talking to, although maybe just seeing her could ease his longing for the feel of his lips on hers. He approached her cell door and was surprisingly nervous I mean this was Neish for heaven's sake, but then again this wasn't the same Neish he had met three years ago. This one had been altered by KORPS and that was just another reason for Tom to hate the Crime Minister and KORPS.
I scanned my thumb on the panel outside her cell which gained me access inside
and to the shell of what used to be Aneisha. She sat in the corner of the room on the bed, the sheets curled up and wrapped around her knees. With her chest in her knees she looked so vulnerable, none of that confidence that she once had was at all reflected in her current state. She looked up for a split second when I walked in before looking back down and attempting to curl herself into a smaller ball- if that was even possible.
"Neish," Tom said.
She didn't move a muscle.
"Neish, it's me it's Tom."
She looked up "Tom, what are you doing here?"
"I was just checking on you, to see if you were getting any better."
"It's nice that you are concerned about me- " she trailed off picking at a frayed edge of the sheets.
"Of course I'm worried about you."
"Why? It's not like we know each other. You only just met me a few hours ago at the hospital before," Aneisha said.
This just confused Tom, "How come you know my name then, if we only met a few hours ago, how do you know it?" Tom queried.
"When the other boy apologised for punching you in the face he said your name was Tom," she answered simply.
"Do you remember anything before the hospital?" Tom asked.
"Nothing," Aneisha answered.
Tom got up and left without any other words until Aneisha spoke.
"Did they send you in to question me?"
"Did who?" Tom asked clearly confused.
"Your superiors, CIA, NSA, MI9, they sent you in here to question me didn't they?"
"Something like that," he replied before walking out.
Things hadn't been going any better with Dan.
"No look your name isn't J45K3R1 it's Keri, that's not a tattoo off your name," Dan said trying so hard to hold onto the remains of his temper.
"It's not going to rub of Keri, rubbing it with the sheets is only going to give you carpet burn."
"So, you know in Fairytales how when just from a magical kiss from the prince will make everything okay again? Do you think that it would work in our scenario?" Keri asked.
"Well, no. It only works in Fairytales, where there's magic and magical prince's if notice the last part in the word fairytales being tales meaning stories and 'not true'," Dan explained.
"But it might work, ye have little faith," Keri said getting up from the chair where she had been sitting and moving over to Dan, "but, what harm is there in trying it."
"Yeah, Keri whatever, if there was even a chance that it might work we still have the issue of finding a magic prince. It's not like we can just jump into a Fairytale and bring one back to reality-" Dan had more to say but Keri would never hear it because he was broken off by Keri pressing her lips against his. At first this took Dan by surprise but he warmed into it and tangled his hands through her hair until something slapped him awake and he pushed Keri away from him.
"And I think I've found my Prince," Keri said. Dan rolled his eyes.
"YOU'RE CRAZY!" he shouted exasperated as he walked out of the cell and back into the main section of HQ.
When he turned the corner he saw Tom and Frank looking at him expectantly.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing," Tom replied, "so I assume things didn't go to well with Keri."
"You could say that, so nothing from Aneisha I take it?"
"Not really, she doesn't remember me or you or the fact that she is a spy, but the weird thing is I think she remembers her spy training," Tom said as Frank's phone started ringing. Frank answered it and went into another room but the boys could still hear his conversation.
"Yes, okay. I'll be right up, Mr F," Frank said slightly flustered hanging up and coming back out, "I'll be back, there's a gas leak in the canteen. You two stay here and look after the girls."
Once Frank had gone Tom asked Dan, "So, what happened with Keri?"
"She's REALLY lost it she starts going on about Fairytales and magical princes and then she- I don't know- she just kissed me," Dan said stuttering, confused through the last part.
"Wow," Tom said astonished, "she really has lost it."
Dan widened his eyes and asked sarcastically, "Really? Which part gave it away, the Fairytale nonsense or the part where she kissed me?"
"Both," Tom said before turning around to a beeping computer. It was a video link from Stella.
"Dan, come here it's a video conference from Stella," when no reply came he called again, "Dan? Mate, Frank told us to stay here," he decided to leave it and answered Stella's video call whilst putting it onto the larger screen. Stella's face appeared on the screen.
"Hi Stella," Tom said.
"Hello, Where is Frank, I can't get hold of him?" Stella asked.
"Mr Flatley called, apparently there's a gas leak in the canteen that needs fixing."
"That still doesn't explain why he isn't answering his phone. I'll look into that later, in the meanwhile mission report."
"Well we discovered that all of the patients had been affected by a gas that was in the air which made them go crazy. But the thing is we found out that there was gas in the air after it had affected Keri and Aneisha. They are currently sitting in two of the remaining cells slowly losing their minds," Tom said not looking forward to the next word said.
"You mean you are down two team members and have to figure out how to get them back?"
"Yes."
A yell of a mix between anger and sorrow pierced the air.
"And unless there's a three headed monster capable of getting Dan to make that noise whilst tearing his head off I take it that we've lost him too."
Stella did not respond to this instead she sighed and said, "when Frank gets back can you tell him to call me?"
"Yes," Tom replied as Stella ended the call.
Tom slumped down in a chair in despair. He'd already lost Neish and Keri but he'd hoped that Dan would've lasted longer. He was about to go and start searching for Dan when the lift doors opened to reveal Frank.
Tom looked up from the desk and said, "Stella said she wants you to call her and... we've lost Dan, he's gone."
"Okay, I'll call Stella once we find Dan," Frank replied.
A/N- I know a lot of you wanted me to have some more Toneisha and I promise you that there will be but as you can see it is a little bit difficult with the plot and Aneisha's current state for Toneisha currently, but I promise there will be.
Thank you for voting on my poll it is greatly appreciated.
And also I have started writing the sequel to 'Never Judge A Book by its Cover' and it should be up shortrly