A/N - I have so many ideas for this story. It's just hard to find the time, or the energy, to type them up. I hope you like this story, please leave me a little review if you do, or if you have anything you would like me to improve on. ~ R.

Alison kept running, kept pumping her arms and legs furiously to get away from Beth, who was now only a few feet behind her.
"Alison stop running away from me!" Beth shouted, hardly out of breath but desperately trying to stop the other girl so that they could talk about this - about what they were. Beth had been a track star all through high school, and the constant physical review at the Police Academy made sure she wasn't exactly slow, but she had to admit that Alison was holding her own - quite literally giving her a run for her money.
"I said 'GET AWAY FROM ME'" Alison repeated, unsure of how she was going to outrun the other woman, sure that she was now within fingertip's reach.
"Please stop, I'm not going to hurt you." Beth assured her, picking up her pace a little, she could hear Alison's breaths becoming labored and she looked back for a second, only clocking now how far they had run. Two sets of heavy footprints dotted their way across the sand, almost identical with each other. It had been almost a mile, full speed along the beach. Surely Alison had to give up eventually. "I just want to talk about what we are to each other, Alison please stop." The other woman ignored Beth and carried on running. It was mere moments when she felt another body slamming into hers and forcing her to the ground. Beth and Alison lay together in a heap, breathing heavily and sand practically everywhere. Alison struggled for a while under Beth, before she stopped resisting, and looked up to meet the other woman.

Her breath was taken away as soon as she locked eyes with Beth. Although she was basically looking at herself, Beth was almost a clone of her, she saw so much more than what looked back at her in a mirror. Beth had a small scar just behind her ear, and her eyes were harsher than her own. Alison felt her heart speed up a little, and this time it wasn't because of the running. She shook her head to rid it of any other thoughts she might have, focusing solely on getting Beth off of her, and leaving.
"Can we start again?" Beth asked earnestly? Lifting a hand to brush the fallen hair behind an ear. She was actually straddling Alison now, but she had to direct her mind towards explaining herself. "I'm Elizabeth Childs, but everyone calls me Beth." She smiled at Alison as she spoke, and extended her arm to shake with the other girl.
"Alison Hendrix... Charmed I'm sure." She answered sarcastically rolling her eyes. "Could you please get off me now?" She asked impatiently, crossing her arms beneath Beth.
"Yeah. Sorry about that."
"It's fine." Alison answered with a curt nod, brushing the sand off of her clothes. "Now, are you going to tell me what the H-E-L-L is going on?"
"Okay..." Beth paused for a moment, thinking of how she was going to explain this. "but you might want to go and sit down somewhere first." Alison nodded, and they began the walk back to her car in complete silence. It took them around 10 minutes at the pace they chose, and soon they were sitting in the front of Alison's car.
"So, what's going on? Who are you?"
"I'm... we are..." Beth fumbled, unable to begin to express the severity of this. How could she come barging into Alison's life with news like this? But it had to be done, didn't it? "We are part of an illegal cloning operation called Project Leda." She managed to get it all out, taking a deep breath as she finished her sentence. Alison laughed. She just blatantly looked Beth in the eye and laughed. How could she not? She'd just been told she was a clone. Beth must be crazy

"You're mad." Alison answered through her laughter. Beth turned to her solemnly and stared at her in the eye. Alison's laughter subsided slightly, but she still thought Beth must be crazy.
"I'm telling you the truth, Alison." The other woman promised, her gaze sincere. There was a sudden silence between them as Alison realized that Beth was telling her the truth. How could they be clones? Even the thought of it sounded like a plot of some TV show, it couldn't be real life. Surely not.
"Oh." Was all Alison could muster up. "Clones?" She asked quietly. "How many?" Beth placed her hand over Alison's protectively, and the Police woman's gaze softened considerably.
"So far, I've counted 5, including myself and you." She whispered, her thumb rubbing small circles on the back of Alison's hand. "I'm sorry you had to find out like this, but I thought you had a right to know." Alison turned to Beth and smiled, her eyes squinting slightly.
"Thank you, Beth." She was honestly grateful that she knew. Tonight really had been a whirlwind, but Beth was right, she did have the right to know.
"Don't mention it." Beth answered, blushing slightly but never releasing Alison's hand. Beth had met 2 other clones; one in San Francisco, a scientist called Cosima, and a hacker in York who called herself M.K. Beth could remember being astounded at how different they both were from herself, but she had not found either of them as breath taking as Alison. There was something about the other girl that made Beth's temperature raise, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. She thought, perhaps, she found herself attracted to the other woman, but surely she couldn't be. That would be the same as being attracted to herself, and Beth wasn't anywhere near infatuated with herself - she was no stranger to her own flaws.

"Do you want to go somewhere?" Alison asked, finally breaking the silence that had settled over the car. "Only, my room mate is using our dorm for some... Adult activities, and I'm starving."
"Yeah, that would be really nice actually." Beth smiled, her hand moving, only to intertwine with that of the other girl.