Just wondering... would anyone actually sue me if I didn't put a disclaimer? I mean, really. It not like I'm making money off these things. But anyway; I don't own.
"Where?" was Ziva's first question.
"A hospital. Matt Parkman, Mohinder Suresh, Molly Walker."
Tony looked up. "I was just with Suresh. He was talking about someone named Molly."
Neviah nodded. "Yes."
"They escaped. There were two other with them, though."
Neviah nodded again. "Yes."
Tony waited to see if she would say more. She didn't. "Should we be looking for them also?"
"No." Neviah paused, then decided to elaborate. "Tracey left them to go on her own. Daphne will be dead."
Ziva looked up. "How will we convince Matt to come with us when Daphne has just died?"
Neviah shrugged. "Not my job. I see things, don't write the scripts." She said, then walked away, and the man went with her, turning his head to look apologetically at them.
"Well she's a ray of sunshine." Tony said when she was out of earshot.
"You would be that way, also, if you spent nearly every second seeing horrible, terrifying images that you cannot stop and gave up your sight for them."Ziva sighed. "But that is not the problem at hand. We need to get to Washington, and soon."
Tony looked at her questioningly. "Where are we?"
Ziva shrugged. "I am not sure, exactly. For all I know, were on another planet. I teleported here."
Tony looked at her for several long minutes. "How long have you had these powers? I mean, you don't seem even slightly bothered by the fact that we could be on Venus."
Ziva laughed. "We are not on Venus, Tony. But, I understand. I suppose... I said, once, that in Mossad, they taught us to be open to things you cannot understand. I suppose this counts. There are hundreds of people out in the world, right now, thinking they are alone with these, these abilities. Thinking they are freaks, or evil. And if we do not find them before Danko does, they will be attacked, and they will... they will fight back. We are trying to keep them from becoming killers."
"Huh. So how are we going to get to Parkman and Suresh?"
"I'll take you." A man said from behind Tony. He turned.
"Carlos. That is very generous." Ziva said, smiling.
"And how will Carlos get us off Venus?" Tony said.
"Were not on Venus..." Carlos pointed out, his brow furrowed.
"Tony is joking." Ziva said, then turned to him. "Carlos is fast. He can get us where we need to go."
Line, line, line. Is that word sounding weird to anyone else?
"I'm so sorry, Matt." Mohinder said.
"Matt? Are you okay?" Molly asked.
"Not really." Matt answered, and Molly hugged him. Matt wrapped his arm that wasn't holding Daphne's hand around her, pulling the girl he thought of his daughter close.
"Hey! This is them!" a voice came from the hall.
Three people walked into the room. Mohinder recognized one from building 26, and attacked, throwing him against the wall.
"Suresh!" Ziva said sharply, moving into his way so he hit her.
He automatically fell onto the ground, groaning in pain.
"We are not with them. Tony was there, but he is not with them. He wants to help.
"Does he have an ability?" Mohinder asked, looking up as the pain faded.
"No. But neither did you until you used yourself as a guinea pig." Carlos pointed out.
Mohinder glared at him.
"This is not the problem. We need to leave, Danko is coming." Ziva said, helping Tony up.
"I'm not leaving." Matt said.
"You stay, you die." Ziva said.
"I don't care."
"Matt?" Molly asked quietly.
"Molly, you go with these people. They're good, they'll help you."
"Matt, you have to come with us. You can't stay here and die." Mohinder told him.
"Mohinder. The woman I loved just died. She is... was... my soul mate. I can't... I just can't."
Just then a girl walked past the doorway.
"Adusia. What are you doing here?" Carlos called out, sticking his head in the doorway.
Adusia stuck her head into the room.
"It's a hospital. What do you think I'm doing? I'm collecting." She said, then looked at Daphne. "Whats wrong with her?"
"She's dead." Carlos explained.
"Okay. Anyone else here special?" she asked casually, as she walked over to the window.
"Everyone except Ziva's friend."
"Hmm. I assume you don't want Danko to get you, so you might want to run. Now."
Carlos, Ziva, and Mohinder all ran to the window. On the ground, Danko's team was gearing up.
"We need to leave. Now." Ziva said quickly. "Come on Matt."
"No." Was his answer.
"He's not gonna leave without her?" Adusia asked.
"Nope."
"He important?"
"Yes."
Adusia sighed, then walked over to Daphne. "You're gonna want to let go." She said, then took off the elbow high leather gloves she was wearing, and put a hand to Daphne's forehead, her own head bowed in concentration.
And then her hand slowly started turning jet black, and it moved up her arm, slowly, but surly, towards her heart.
And then the monitor started beeping again.
"Daphne-" Matt started, and went to grab her hand, but Mohinder held him back, heeding Adusia's words.
The black slowly faded away again, but Adusia did not take her hand away. Instead, she concentrated harder, and her hand began to turn sickly green.
Daphne's eye began to flutter open.
"Matt?" she called out weakly.
"I'm right here, Daphne. I'm right here, don't worry." Matt told her.
As soon as the green faded from Adusia's arm, she let go, gasping for air, looking like she was the dead one. She sat down, and pulled the gloved back on, looking more alive every second.
Matt shot to Daphne, stroking her hair. "You're alright, you're alright."
"I'm... dead." She started.
"No, not anymore. Some can read minds, some can go fast, I pull peoples death out of them, and whatever caused it." Adusia said, getting up and going to the window. "And we should really get going, or those people are going to put a few more bullets in you, and I can only do that once. So try not to die again."
"I can't carry all these people, and it'll take too long to make trips." Carlos said, looking around.
"I have a car outside. We can take that." Adusia said, running out of the room, and coming back with clothes. "Here, put these on." She handed them to Daphne.
"Whose...?" Daphne asked.
"They aren't gonna miss them."
"You have a car?" Tony asked. She didn't look old enough to drive.
"Yes, now come on!"
As soon as Daphne was dressed, their strange little group ran through the hospital, following Adusia.
A girl who could bring people back from the dead; a ex-cop who could read your mind, and control it; a scientist who had injected himself with powers; a man and a woman that could move faster than sound; a former Massod agent who could make you feel her pain; a little girl that could find anyone, anywhere; and Tony, who had nothing, except a understanding that he was now in too deep to resist.
Well, he was going to resist, but not them- no. Not these people, he could see that they weren't terrorists. Crazy, maybe, and they sure hand the potential to destroy the world, but they weren't the ones who needed to be resisted.
They were the resistance.
And now Tony was too.
