They found her walking late at night, probably home from a friends place maybe even a partners. She hadn't suspected a van was trailing behind her, even if it had been following her since her morning run.
She hadn't suspected them when the van stopped a block a head of her, taking a wide u-turn before coming to a complete stop in the dark patch between street lights.
She hadn't suspected that the sweet vanilla smell was of Sleep, and six eyes following her as she became drowsy before feeling a pair of strong hands grasp her upper arms and steer her in a different direction.
She never suspected because not even what her memory could conjure up, could have prepared her from being taken.
The sun was about to rise when he heard moment out in the hall way, shuffling of feet and a groan as someone bumped into the rock walls. Alone in the blue lantern lit hospital, he peaked his head out of the entrance.
There was shuffling before Jamie's face came into view, a bright and excited look spread all over his face as he motions for Jared and Mel to bring the new host forward. Jared could easily carried the body himself, but he recognized the look of determination on Melanie's face from the time Wanda inhabited her mind so long ago.
But the first thing he saw was shaggy blond hair, enough dents and bumps to almost classify as curly. And as they lugged her body to the cot that his weight had nearly made a significant indentation in, he looked at the facial features.
High cheek bones with lashes that were splayed across them, a slightly upturned nose and pink parted lips. Her build was one like Melanie's, tall and lean. But unlike Mel's runner physique, hers reminded him of a dancer all the lines of her body graceful.
But no one spoke as the body was laid down, as someone left to go fetch Doc, as Ian fingers traced the cryotanks metallic shell as his eyes took in the sight of the new host.
Still no one spoke as Doc took the innocent soul from the body and placed it into a different tank waiting to send it where ever Wanda would instruct them to later, as three days trickled by and there was no sign of anyone inhabiting that mind.
It was early in the morning when they opened up Wanda's tank and Ian reached inside for her, warmed her up between his palms and helped into her new host's body.
It took another day for Wanda's to come to conscious, for the grasp of the hands in his and Melanie's to make them look at her face to notice the fluttering of her eyelids, for them to begin to encourage her to wake up, to open those silver ringed eyes.
And did they open, into stormy grey eyes with a contradictory smile that soon faded and turned into a worrisome frown as she inspected Ian's face.
He didn't even care about the voice it was spoken in, but the moment he heard her worry filled voice ask him if he had been eating and sleeping, he nearly rejoiced.
But he kept calm as Jamie told the exciting story of her new host's capture, as Mel and Jared said goodnight and Doc asking questions. After awhile Doc and Jamie slowly retreated, yawning and disappearing in the inky black hallway.
He felt his heart thrum as they laid on the cot together, both bodies almost welding together to keep from falling off. Hands held between them as they whispered, gentle smiles and soft caresses to brush her hair from her forehead.
They kept their voices down even if there was no one in this wing of the caves, Doc long gone to bed hours previously. But that's all they needed, low voices and adoring looks, to stare hopelessly at each other to make up for the stolen looks lost in the fields.
But here in the hospital, in the early hours of the morning, Ian landed there staring uselessly at Wanda's new face. It was a beautiful one, one he could come to love. The dips and crinkles of when she laughs, or the deep blush that spreads like a wild fire.
But he knew that no matter what, his heart and mind was devoted to the silver ribbon that made his world revolve around her, stop and once again begin.
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