A/N: Oh my gosh you guys! Thanks for the reviews! Every single one made me smile :) I never expected this many already! :) Anyway, this is a really long chapter, it just kept going on and on and I couldn't find a decent place to stop it, so here it is, enjoy!

References: There is a pretty short reference to radiation signatures from Power Hungry, but I use them in a different way.

Chapter 3: Discovery

Olivia was growing more and more frustrated by the minute.

She had thoroughly read through every single paper there was on Brianna Orlbreck, yet she couldn't find a single thing about any drug study. Sighing, she instead turned to the other stack of files, all documents on recent drug studies conducted at Harvard. Deciding to start with looking at the overview, she skimmed all of the names of each study. Not finding anything out of the ordinary, she was about to move on when she noticed something in parentheses at the bottom of the page. Squinting closely at the small font, she could barely make out what it read, "One study, not included in the above list, was conducted by Excelsior Drugs on campus." Quickly setting down the paper, she took the stack of files, looking through all of them. She was looking for a file that read "Excelsior Drugs" on it, she had noticed that each of the studies on the list had their own file, but after searching through the entire stack, she didn't find anything.

Finally losing her patience, Olivia took out her phone to call Nina Sharp at Massive Dynamic, when Peter walked in. He was carrying two cups of coffee, and set one down in front of Olivia. Putting her phone back in her pocket, she smiled, "Thanks."

Peter just laughed, his blue eyes glowing, "Your welcome, did you find anything?"

Olivia sighed, "Yes and no," picking up the list of drug studies, she showed him the small font at the bottom of the page, "I found this, it says something about a company called Excelsior Drugs conducting a drug study at Harvard, but there wasn't a file on it. I was about to call Nina Sharp to see if she could find something for me."

He nodded, "Yeah, she would find something." Turning the cup of coffee in his hands, he leant back in the chair, "Walter might be onto something too."

Interested, Olivia looked up, "What did he find?"

"Well he seems to believe that Brianna Orlbreck didn't simply disappear. He thinks she might have essentially 'teleported' to a different location, he believes that the exact same radiation would be emitted from the place that she reappeared, so right now he is working on finding the radiation 'signature', he calls it."

"What makes him think that she 'teleported'?" Olivia asked. She had a hard time wrapping her head around what he had just said, was it really possible to teleport? Not that the idea would be so far-fetched compared to other things she had seen...

"Well apparently the type of radiation is almost the exact same as the radiation from tests he conducted in the '90's having to do with breaking apart the bodies molecules and combining them again in a different location. It seems like he knows more than he should with this case," Peter said quietly, looking at the ground, "I really hope he doesn't have anything to do with this one too..."

"Peter..." Olivia said softly, looking at him. She understood why he was worried, in fact, she was worried too, but it wouldn't help if she admitted that, "I'm sure we'll figure this out like we do every other time. Just because the event happened near the lab doesn't mean anything. Harvard is a famous school, and a student from there would be a good target."

"That doesn't explain how he knows about the radiation signatures." he muttered, still staring at the ground. He knew she was probably right, but that didn't stop him from worrying. Walter had something to do with their cases way more often than Peter would have liked, but nothing from this case pointed to it having to do with him.

Olivia could tell by his posture that he had internally given in to her argument, he was just denying it, "Walter knows almost everything when it comes to these cases, it shouldn't be that much of a surprise if he knows about this one too."

Looking back up, Peter smiled softly, Olivia noticed that his eyes had changed from a stormy grey back to deep blue. Peter cleared his throat, noticing her odd stare, making Olivia blush and turn away. He just grinned, "I guess you have a point. Thanks." Swiveling in his chair slightly, he set down his coffee on Olivia's desk and picked up the file she was looking at, "You sure there was nothing in here about Excelsior Drugs?"

Setting down her coffee as well, Olivia nodded, "Trust me, I triple checked. There isn't a single thing in there." With a sigh she leaned her elbows onto the desk and started rubbing small circles around her temples. She was starting to get a head ache.

Peter noticed her discomfort, "You ok?" he asked, sounding genuinely concerned.

"I'm-"

"Fine. Yeah, sure you are." he said sarcastically, "Look, you've been sitting in here for three hours," getting up from his chair, he tilted his head toward the lab, "come on, let's go see if Walter has anything yet."

Olivia nodded, there was no point with arguing anyway, Peter would drag her out of the office if he had too, "Okay, fine." Getting up from her chair as well, she followed him into the lab. Approaching the desk Walter was working on, she could see Astrid off to the side, furiously typing away at the computer.

"Hey, Walter, have you found the signature yet?" Peter asked, as Walter fiddled around with a ballpoint pen. He didn't seem to have heard him, so Peter tried again, "Walter!"

Startled, Walter dropped the pen back onto the desk and looked up, "Oh, hello you two! I didn't see you there, did you want something?" Picking up the pen again, he continued to fiddle with it.

Beginning to get annoyed, Peter took a deep breath but was interrupted by Astrid, "Yes, he found a signature, I'm currently programming all the country's satellites to recognize the signature." she paused, "Assuming of course, that she is even on the planet."

Olivia nodded, looking over at Peter as he took the pen away from Walter and motioned for him to listen, "Then what? Will the satellites be able to tell us exactly where she is?"

"Well... yes and no. The satellites will only tell us where she reappeared, not where her actual location is. If she is still conscious, she will have probably moved." Astrid shrugged, "It'll help a lot though, it will seriously narrow down the possibilities. Since the satellites are just scanning the surface of the earth for the signature, it should only be a couple of minutes until we get something, if anything."

"Okay, that's good. I'll wait." She was about to head back to her office when she remembered something. Turning to Walter, she asked, "Walter, is it possible that this 'ability' of sorts that the victim has could be the result of a drug study or trial?"

Thinking for a minute, Walter slowly nodded his head, "Yes, yes, I believe so. Under these circumstances, the drugs would not necessarily need to have been given from an early age. I'd say that the victim has had these drugs in her system for at least eight months."

Peter thought for a moment on what Walter had just said. It was currently May. Eight months ago would be September, the start of the school year for some students. Turning to Olivia, he voiced his thoughts, "If that's the case, then she would have been dosed for the first time during September..."

"...which means that she was dosed during the school year." Olivia finished, catching up to his thoughts fairly quickly. That explained the drug study her boyfriend was talking about, now she really needed to get some information on Excelsior Drugs. She was about to head down to Massive Dynamic herself, when Astrid looked up from the computer.

"We've got something," typing a few more things into the computer, she continued, "the signature appeared again in Montana."

Olivia was fairly surprised, "Montana? She went all the way from Boston to Montana?"

"You haven't even heard the best part," Astrid continued, "According to the satellites, she is pretty much in the middle of Flathead National Park, over one hundred miles from Helena"

"Okay," Peter said optimistically, seeing that Olivia was not too happy about the victims location, "That can be good, it means she can't be too far from the radiation signature, it shouldn't take too long to find her."

Olivia sighed, she knew it was more complicated than that, "I'll have to call Broyles and get permission. We'll probably have to form a small team to search for her too." remembering she needed to stop at Massive Dynamic, she added, "I have to go talk to Nina Sharp, I'll call Broyles on my way there." With that, she walked out the door, dialing Broyles' number.

After Olivia left, Peter turned to Astrid, knowing she had endured most of the day babysitting again, "You can go take a break, I can handle Walter from here."

Smiling gratefully at him, Astrid stood and collected some files, "Thank you Peter, I won't be long, I'll probably just grab something to eat." As she walked passed, she added, "You might want to get packed for Montana, I can pretty much guarantee your going."

Groaning, Peter knew Astrid was right. He also knew that he would not be bringing Walter along. Bringing him across the country was bad enough, but to a large forest with no one within at least fifty miles? Definitely not happening. "Hey Walter!" he called across the lab to where Walter was milking Gene, "How 'bout we go grab something to eat too? Your pick!"

Getting up excitedly from his stool, he clapped his hands, "Oh, I have been craving Chinese food for quite some time now," he said, "I especially love the use of chop sticks, it took me many months to master the art of using them, but after a bit, I finally got it!"

"Right," Peter said, smiling, "Chinese it is." He then walked out the door, with Walter hot on his heels.

From down the hall, hidden in a sea of students, Agent Jason Saunders watched as Peter and Walter exited the lab, Peter locking the door behind him. Once he was sure they weren't coming back, he casually walked up to the lab doors and looked around him to see if anyone was watching. All of the students just passed right by him, either not noticing or caring that an FBI agent was in their school. Satisfied that he had gone unnoticed, he quickly picked the lock and slipped inside the lab.

Scanning the area, he noticed a cow in the corner of the large room. Groaning internally he continued to the desks. He hated cows. When he was young, one had tried to plow him over, and succeeded. Looking down at the mass of papers, he knew it would take a while to find something. Then he noticed a slip of paper near the computer. Heading over to the other desk, he picked up the paper and skimmed it over. Scrawled across it, in blue pen, was 'Victims Reappearance Location: Flathead National Forest, Montana 47.802087. -113.285522'. Smiling, he took out his own paper and rewrote the coordinates, Faber was going to like this. Turning back to the pile of papers, he left the note right where it was, seemingly untouched.

After searching through the pile, Saunders came to the conclusion that there was nothing on Olivia Dunham in any of them. He was about to try the computer when his phone rang. Cursing, he saw that it was his new boss, Broyles. Knowing he couldn't just ignore the call, he answered, "Saunders."

"Agent Saunders," Broyles said, "We have a lead on the case regarding Brianna Orlbreck. We might have found her location, Flathead National Forest, Montana. I'm forming a search party, but because of the secrecy of this case it may take a few days. For now, I'm sending you, Agent Olivia Dunham, and a civilian consultant, Peter Bishop to search. Your flight leaves tomorrow, I'll send you the details via email." he paused, awaiting a response from the agent.

Saunders couldn't believe his luck. Not only did he know where the girl was, he'd be able to get Olivia Dunham, something he knew Faber really wanted. The only problem now was this Peter Bishop guy. "With all due respect Sir, are you sure you want a civilian consultant to be searching with us? He may not be prepared."

Broyles snorted into the phone, "I have known Peter Bishop for a while now, believe me he will be fine, now I suggest you get packed and contact Agent Dunham, she isn't yet aware of who she is going with. Am I clear?"

Well that made things a little more complicated, "Yes Sir." Hanging up, he sighed. He was going to have to get Olivia Dunham with Peter Bishop in the way, but it would be fine. He had already gotten extremely lucky in being able to go search with her. Now he just needed to tell Faber. Deciding that he had already gotten enough information, he got up and headed out the lab doors, quietly shutting them behind him.

Faber was sitting at his desk, growing frustrated with his scientists. They had been researching for hours, but still couldn't tell him where Brianna was. Granted, they had the disadvantage of not being able to see the crime scene, but they were the ones who made the drugs in the first place! They, of all people, should know!

His late friend, David Robert Jones had always wanted to experiment with cortexiphan subjects, and Faber was sure that had he done the experiments, he wouldn't have failed. Not that they had failed yet, things just weren't running as smoothly as he would have hoped.

David would have been thrilled to know that he was continuing his work. Which is why Faber had to succeed, in honor of his friend. The FBI would pay for his death, he vowed. Hearing his door open, he looked up, ready to yell at whoever it was. Seeing that it was Saunders, he instead kicked his feet up onto his desk, "Have you got anything?"

Smiling, Saunders sat down on the chair in front of Faber's desk, "Oh yeah," taking out the paper with Brianna's location on it, he handed it to Faber, "That's the girls location, and, Philip Broyles has asked me to help Olivia Dunham search for her, along with one other guy."

Setting the paper down on the desk, Faber clasped his hands together, "Good work. When are you leaving to Montana?"

"Sometime tomorrow, it'll only be us three, the search party will arrive a few days later."

"Okay," Faber said, pausing for a moment to collect his thoughts, "Here's the plan, you'll go down there with them, and help search. Once in the forest you'll get Olivia Dunham. Now I'll make myself clear on this one part," he said, putting emphasis on his last sentence, "You cannot drug her in any way, no tranquilizers, not even any sleeping pills. She can't have any drugs in her system for the experiment. You also can't knock her out, she can't have a concussion."

"Can I use force if necessary?" Saunders asked, wondering how the hell he was supposed to take down an FBI agent without any tranquilizers.

"Yes, no blows to the head though. If you need to slow her down or something, you can shoot her in the leg or something, but no more, understood?"

Nodding, Saunders then asked, "Then what? I'll be over thirty miles from any civilization!" considering that he wouldn't be allowed to knock her out, she'd have a fairly easy time getting away.

"I'll have some of my men set up a camp a few miles from your location, you can contact them when you have her. You will all stay at the camp and continue searching for Brianna, once you find her you will bring both of them straight here."

"Okay, I'll call you when I get a chance." Standing up, he headed to the door then stopped, looking over his shoulder, "What about the other guy?"

"Do whatever you want with him, I don't care."

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