Recon

His head peeked in the window of the door where she was located. The wolf on the floor was asleep now and he knew it by the soft rise and fall of her silver-streaked red furred body. The knob squeaked slightly as he turned it to go into the room, to see if it was for real or if it was his imagination. Her head moved.

The wolf's muzzle twisted towards the door, but she didn't move.

He froze; breaths coming in short, gasps as he eased his way into the concrete room. Nothing he could do with his powers would stop her if she decided to attack in this form. The wolf shifted on the floor, her head swerved around to watch his every movement as he stepped in and shut the door firmly. The lock clicked into place.

"I know that's you in that body, Miss Shield. It's amazing that you even hid this from me as long as you have." She snorted her amusement.

Her wolf body moved so that she was laying flat on her belly, two paws in front of her and her head was raised to watch his every move. A small growl escaped her throat when he edged nearer to where she sat in the middle of the floor.

"Please, Quartz, I won't hurt you." Another snort. "It's true, Quartz. I'm all by myself here in the house- just me and you. My guard are gone. Most likely to watch the strippers at the local bar, but I can assure you that none other than me saw you transform and it will stay that way- a secret- unless you tell them."

He shook his head, mystified. "I wondered how you were so strong the past couple of years. I never once imagined this as the reason."

She lifted herself off the floor and moved to the bed.

"I'm sure you don't know me from a brick in the wall, but I used to work for your uncle Jet Shield until he fired me for keeping tabs on you." He watched her head tip to the side and smiled. "Confused? Yeah, I'll bet you are. I've been watching you for a long, long time, Quartz. I've dreamt of you, dreamt of holding you in my arms as a lover."

Her dark blue eyes narrowed in her wolf's face making her seem so much more intimidating. He moved toward her slowly in small, calculated steps. She growled.

"This would be so much easier if you just shifted back into your human form." Another growl, deep and menacing, escaped from her. "Alright, that's fine if you don't want to. But, please, I'm simply wondering how your fur feels. May I... touch you?"

A snort. She moved her head to look away from him. Maybe he's insane... oh well. This new information is gunna be good for my brother to have. His hands running through her dark fur surprised her at how good they felt.

"I should be afraid of you, sweetling, but it's so hard to be in fear of someone that you love with all your heart." She groaned in her mind, her body was reacting again to the things that he was saying to her in that oh-so-gentle voice of his.

He continued to run his hands through the silky fur. She moaned, pressing her head to his hand when he scratched behind her silver-tipped ears.

"Change back for me, Quartz?" His voice was husky, full of his need for her. She growled. Was it so hard fo him to understand that she wasn't interested in a sociopath kidnaper? Was he that blind to the obvious?

Of course he was. There was more information that he'd given her. The strip joint, the forest, the number of his guard... these were all things that he'd given her without knowing it. Things that would help her brother and the Pack find her. She sniffed the air.

Yes, she was right. He smelled like spring water and wildflowers so he must have gone outside within the last two hours. Underneath those two scents, though, was another. Smoke and cedar. She closed her eyes as he got up to leave the room, locking the door securely behind himself.

Penumbra was quiet with the exception of her pounding heart. The meeting place appeared in front of her and she grinned at the two standing in her midst.

"What is it? Are you safe? Have they hurt you, Sister?"

She waived off his questions, turning instead to the other man. "Alpha Jeremy, I beg of you to accept myself and my brother into your Pack."

"It will be done, little one." Jeremy answered lightly. "To other business then?"

"Yes, where I am, I cannot see. They got me locked up in a cement room with a two foot thick steel, dead bolted door. No window except fo a little barred square in the east wall."

Jeremy took interest in the information. "They knew what you were?"

"No, but the head one had a good look at me in wolf form. Bastard told me he was keeping tabs on me when he worked for Uncle Jet, that's why he was fired."

"I'll get the guys to do a back check on the last five years of terminations and see if they can narrow that down."

"Good, Blaze and Garnet are there. There's a strip joint around here somewhere- in the town I'm guessing."

Jeremy smiled. "He must not know about your Dreamer abilities."

Quartz returned the smile, "nope. The main guy is an idiot. He smells like spring water and wildflowers so there's a river and a forest cause I can smell the Fir and Evergreens outside, but there's traces of Cedar and smoke on him as well."

"This is quite a lot of information, young one." Jeremy said softly. "You seem to be in good mind. How are you?"

"Going crazy in an ten by ten cement cell." Quartz grumbled.

"Don't worry, Sister, we're coming for you." Silver murmured as he hugged his sibling tight. "Go now, I can feel the sun rising on your side."

Peace, Brother, and stay safe."

The Dream world faded from view as Jeremy and Silver woke from their meditation at the same time. Clayton held out a big glass of water to the young teen wolf, backing off slightly so the younger could breathe.

Jeremy got up and went to the phone in the hallway. Silver, though, knew that the Alpha was just giving him time to process all that Quartz had said to him. Dark blue eyes looked into Clayton's lighter blue.

"They have her in a ten by ten cement cell with only a small barred-up window for air."

Clayton ran a hand through his golden hair. "She must be going insane."

"Getting there. Quartz is really, really good at holding on to her sanity and not letting bad situations get the best of her." Silver tried a smile, but it ended up looking like a grimace. "I miss my sister, Clayton. I need her back."

"It's killing you, ain't it? Did she say anything else?"

"A forest, a river, and a town that has a strip joint."

"A strip joint?"

"That's what he told her. He doesn't know that she can talk to me in meditative mode." Elena walked into the living room followed by the other two Shield teens. "Hey, guys. I need a favor."

"Oh no! Run away, G-man, it's work!"

"Can it, dumbass." Garnet said smacking his twin. He turned to Silver, sympathy in his bright green eyes. "What do you need, cousin?"

"A record of any employee of your dad's that was let go for spying on me and Quartz in the last five years."

"Blaze, laptop is in my bag in the car- go get to work on that."

Blaze mock-saluted his brother "yes, Sir, right away!" and bolted from the house. Silver smirked at Garnet.

"They have a cage downstairs." Clayton smirked at the two in awe as Silver spoke.

"I'm not sure if bars will hold him."

"Duct tape?"

"Tried and failed. Tie, gag, and then lock him up?" Garnet asked lightly.

"That might work."

"Might need some help though. Think Clayton or Nick would be interested?"

"No, not Nick. Clayton, yes- he finds your brother as annoying as we do, but not Nick."

Elena gave the cousins a look of shock as they burst into fits of laughter. "What the hell?"

"They must be discussing how to get rid of me for a few hours." Blaze said this as though it was commonplace for the other two to do. "You should hear them when they're plotting to crash a party- hilarious."

"This is normal?"

"Completely. Now I've got work to do, wanna help?" Elena laughed once before sitting down next to the teen and hacking into the company files that they needed.

I wonder if they should do that to Blaze? seems like something Clay would pitch in on too, don't it? LOL! READ AND REVIEW! TTYL