Authiors Note: Sorry it took so long to get this up guys. I've been busy with school assessments all week and part of last week, and tonight I had problems uploading the chaptes but here they are for you. I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 37

We had flown pretty fast away from the motel, incase police were bought onto the scene. We didn't want to be around to answer questions. Dean flew at the head of the flock, Laura up next to him with the device we stole to find the escapees. I felt a pang of jealousy she was flying next to Dean instead of me. It seemed they were growing stronger. the pangs of jealousy that is. Did I feel something other than a physical attraction to Laura? I don't know, but the more time I spend with her, the more confused I am and the stronger the beast inside me gets. For now I can control it, but I don't know what would happen if I lose control.

We stopped to have a small feed since we hadn't had any breakfast since we left the motel. Cass started up the fire and cooked the food. It looked like she was trying to make up for what happened earlier. I sat across from Laura at the fire, watching her through the flames letting the light play on her face and I realized my emotions went far deeper than just physical attraction. I was watching for her smile, you know, the one that could light up a room. I watched her hair spill around her shoulders, framing her face. I watched her sapphire blue eyes, but made sure she didn't see me watching.

"Nathan?" Cass asked sitting down beside me.

"Sorry," I replied, "Did you say something?"

"I said your attracted to her," Cass replied, "aren't you? I can tell by the way you watch her. You seem lost in your thoughts."

"Yeah," I said, "I'm attracted to her in many ways that just one. But it's so confusing the way she just seems unaware of it."

"Get her something she likes," Cass replied, "Trust me, I'm a girl, I should know. Leave a note, telling her something; let her guess who it is."

"Won't work," I replied, "Dean's also attracted to her. What if it goes wrong?"

"Only one way to figure it out," Cass replied, "right?"

She got up off the ground and began to collect more firewood to cook our lunch banquet. I can't believe I was actually listening to her, but it was an idea anyway. I began to focus on the darkness in the shade, seeing how far I could spread out, seeing if I could locate Keira. The information she had was what could free us, or condemn us. We had to find her first. The darkness spread out, but the light weakened it, fractured it. I could sense it, but it was distorted because of the light. Suddenly it was like hitting a brick wall. The darkness just stopped it couldn't go any further. It was like it had reached it limit. Nathan withdrew it back to him and let out a sigh.

"What's wrong?" Laura asked me from across the fire, "you got anything?"

"Nothing," I replied, "My darkness can only go a certain distance from me before it can go no further. Wherever Keira is, it's outside my range. Laura can you remember the detail of the dream, anything that might give away her location?"

"Wherever it is," Laura replied, "I have never been there. I don't recognize the forest, the mountains nothing."

"We need to find her," Dean replied, "And soon. Is there anything you can use? Anything at all?"

"Enough!" I ordered, "Dean she's already answered that. Leave her alone."

I was growing irritated each hour since Laura had mentioned it. Dean and Laura had filled me in on the basic outline of the information. Only what they knew. I'll put it in terms like this. If Keira is caught, we wouldn't be around anymore. Please take a ticket and step into line. Death is now taking number thirteen. If we managed to save her, we could be free, no more running, no more fighting. We could just live.

"There might be one more way," I replied, "Dean; can you relay her memories of the dream through yourself to me? Can you create a bridge between her mind and mine?"

Chapter 38

"I'm not letting you in there," Laura said, "You're not getting inside my mind. I have stuff no-one is to know up there."

"And you think we don't?" I replied. "Laura, the connection works both ways. Like a door. I can enter your mind, you can enter mine. All I'll be doing is getting the images from the dream. If you want, you can use the knowledge I got from school to learn, but we stay out of anything private. If someone wanders in there, imagine a door shutting."

"And how do you know so much about that?" Dean asked, "You aren't telepathic."

"No I'm not," I replied, "But I have to do similar things to stop from being driven insane by the constant noise I get from being aware of the darkness. So I learn a few tricks. Why do you think it's gotten so hard to read my mind Dean? You didn't think I stopped thinking, did you? Now all I want is an answer, can you make a bridge?"

"Theoretically," Dean replied, "Yes, I can make a bridge between minds. Actually doing it? This would be the first attempt. I can try, but I don't know what to expect."

"Laura," I said turning to her, "Do you trust me enough now? Are you willing to do this?"

"Yeah," She replied, "Lets get this over with. The less tampering with my mind, the better."

"Focus on the dream," Dean said, "I'll pick up on the images and pass them onto Nathan."

Laura nodded then closed her eyes. First there was nothing, and then I felt the thoughts first, like white noise, at the back of my head. They grew stronger and eventually I got a stream of thoughts rushing through my head. I ignored most of them and focused on the images, some disappeared when I tried to see and I guessed those were private. I felt a presence I my mind, sifting through the information I had learnt.

Soon I found the dream and began to concentrate on the images, picking up information on the location it was. This would be out of date, but it could give us a starting point. I froze an image. I could see in the distance, as they are taking off, a city. A large city I checked the locations of the mountains, the forest, the direction of the ocean. Then I broke contact at the same time Laura did.

"She was near Washington DC," We both exclaimed at once.

"She was attacked about thirty mules from the outer limits of Washington," I said, "If we hurry, we could track the Erasers, or perhaps might be able to locate Keira."

"But what of the other experiments," Dean said, "We need to help them. We can't just leave them."

"No we can't." I replied, "But Keira also has a chip in her arm. All experiments do. That's how they keep finding her."

"But we can't leave the other escapees," Dean argued again.

"If we don't rescue Keira," I argued back, "Then there is not point in freeing them. They'll all be dead. We save Keira; we keep them alive for another day."

After the argument, the cam fell silent and we put the fire out. I lay next to the fire, near the centre, close enough to guard everyone. I may have wished to sleep so I could protect Laura, but the others also needed protection, so I gave it to them as well. Eventually I fell of to sleep last as watched the starry night sky. I saw a shooting star and made a wish.