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Finally, Alec is introduced, as promised
Chapter 5: IDs
Renfro smiled at the turnout. Everyone made it back. Any other trained soldier would have killed someone to leave absolutely no trace. "I should have expected," she said coldly, "She's been out too long. Too many human ties have made her weak. Tell me the tracer is still with her."
A soldier stepped up, appearing to be the leader of the small group who all had bruises except himself. He was extremely good looking- dirty blonde hair, stunning green eyes, and built like a true soldier. "452 must have known, I followed the trace to about 2.4 miles east of where it had been attached, with no sign of her around."
Renfro looked down, disappointed, "Well, I didn't think we'd get that lucky. I'm amazed you all are here, though. How long did you all last with her before being overtaken?" She didn't give them a chance to respond, though, "Never mind that. It's really not important." She turned to the leader. "You managed to ID her?"
"It was definitely 452," he answered.
Renfro's eyes lit up. She had been waiting for this! How many other X5s had they collected searching for this one! And only this soldier before her would be able to ID her without physical contact. "Good work, 494," she spoke with delight.
However, instead of leaving, he stood there, looking slightly uneasy. "Permission to speak," he asked.
Renfro looked annoyed. They weren't supposed to think beyond their mission. "Go ahead, make it quick, we'll need to move immediately on this."
"452 did nothing to help her own escape."
Renfro glared, confused, "What do you mean? You're telling me you all just let her get away?"
He went on, "There was another X5, I believe. His abilities seemed that of one, however, he didn't have a bar-code."
"Did you get a description?"
"Just that it was a male. I was too focused on ID-ing 452."
Renfro nodded, "Very well. It looks like we may be getting two for one. I'll inform the rest of this new discovery."
Back in his cell, 494 couldn't get the image out of his head. Seeing 452 seemed to have woken up something in his DNA. He couldn't stop thinking about her, trying to figure out how he knew her. Renfro told him he was randomly selected out of a bunch of X5s to ID her, but he didn't think so. Something clicked at the sight of her. He knew it was her, even before he saw the bar-code. It was like she was inside of him, like they'd already met.
He sighed and tossed up a rock he'd grabbed on his way back in, trying to decide what to do.
After a bit, he caught the rock and held it there, not tossing it back up this time. He knew what he wanted to do. He had to see her again, to figure out how he knew her. He'd have to escape.