Disclaimer: I do not own G. I. Joe nor any of the characters except my own Oc's of Lt. Col. Jane Abernathy "Demon Rose" (or Emily Rose), Sgt. Jake Henderson "Pile-Driver", Corporal First Class Jana Ling "Amethyst", and Col. Roger Stevenson "Cap".

Synapse: Jane was part of a covert op known as the Demon Unit, but Cobra killed all of the members except her. Soon after the Joe's were cleared her Uncle started up the elite force and now she's a part of it all. Now Jane is brought into a world where people can come back from the dead.

The Demon Rose

G. I. Joe: Renegades

Chapter 24

After a week of being back, Jane was given her first mission with the Joe's. The team was just Scarlett, Ripcord, Duke, Tunnel Rat, Roadblock, and Snake Eyes. However Flint managed to get Dr. Satou on the team because he feared Jane was going to get hurt bad enough that Tunnel Rat couldn't help her. Jane kept saying that she didn't need a baby sitter but Fling insisted. Right at that moment, Jane was lying on a couch in the rec room. More like she was lying on top of an exhausted Flint on top of the couch. They had been watching TV but he had finally passed out.

Watching him sleep was fun for her. She could torment him a little while he slept and he would wake up saying he had strange dreams. At the moment though, Jane couldn't think of anything to torment the man she had spent so much of her free time with. They were dating, but neither had said 'I love you'. Jane's team, the Alpha team as they were nicknamed, knew but no one else did. At least, as far as either of them knew.

Snake Eyes walked into the rec room, knowing full well that his 'little shadow' was following him again. His eyes wandered to the couch and saw Jane and Flint together. He fought the sudden urge to roll his eyes at her. But as he walked further into the room he heard Sakura squeal and the sudden yelps and umphs of Jane and Flint.

"Ja-Ja," Sakura said while hugging her aunts back.

"Snake Eyes," Jane mumbled while turning her head to look at the black clad ninja. "I think I'm going to punch the living daylights out of you."

Flint chuckled to himself and waited for Jane and the little girl to get off of him. Once they were off he stood up and stretched.

'At least it was me who found you two and no one who would tell Abernathy.' Snake Eyes retorted to her quickly.

"I don't care…next time don't sick your Sukoshi kage iafter me."

Snake Eyes shrugged and motioned to Sakura to follow him. The little girl trotted to his side and they walked together.

"Is it just me or—" Flint broke off and looked at Jane.

"I don't think he could be…but then again," having paused Jane broke into laughter that caused Snake Eyes to glance back at her. "Why didn't I see it earlier? Four years, I have known that Sukoshi kage for four years, and I only now get it!"

'Don't say it!' He signed quickly at Jane before pulling something out of the cupboard for the girl to eat. 'She doesn't know yet.'

Sakura looked between her aunt and her current babysitter. "I don't know what?"

"It's nothing sweetie, top secret things you know." Jane said while giving Snake Eyes a glare that could rival her sisters. "Now run along with Sensei."

Sakura took what Snake Eyes was handing her then followed him again.

"Did your sister really have a relationship with Snake Eyes?" Flint asked while putting a hand on Jane's shoulder.

"I don't really know. I suspected that they did, but I never pried enough."

Dr. Satou had been sent to grab Jane, Snake Eyes and the others of the team so that they could gather in the motor pool. It was her first in field mission since the tragedy of her brothers. Nothing was certain at that point how this was going to play out. The fact that Lt. Faireborn had personally asked her to go on the mission alarmed her. Is Jane really that bad of a klutz? She thought as she approached Snake Eyes and the little girl. "Oh hello Snake Eyes, you're to meet your team down in Motor pool…I have to go get Jane right now."

"What's going on?" Sakura asked while looking up at Snake Eyes.

'I'm going on a mission.' Snake Eyes answered causing the girl to wrap her arms around his legs.

"I don't want you to." She pleaded while looking up at him.

Snake Eyes patted the girl on the head and looked at Dr. Satou. 'Could you also escort her to her mother?'

Dr. Satou nodded her head and held her hand out to the girl and patiently stood there while the girl struggled to move towards her. The girl didn't want to be separated from Snake Eyes, and it was really obvious. Walking into the rec room Dr. Satou noticed that Jane and Flint were playing pool.

Jane hadn't played pool since she was a little girl and she was currently loosing against her boyfriend. The thought of the word made her giddy as a school girl. She was herself once more, the girl who had grown up not knowing how to fight. The girl who had known little violence except the harsh words with her uncle. And she had Flint to thank for it. However, she was afraid to say a little three word sentence because of how much pain she had gone through in her life. Afraid of betrayal, Jane would never say those words.

Flint heard the rec room door open and he glanced over to see Dr. Satou and Sakura standing there. "Jane, I think it's time for your mission."

Jane nodded her head, put the pool stick down and started to follow Dr. Satou and her niece. This was going to be one long mission.

i Sukoshi kage: Little Shadow

A/N: If you have not read The Amethyst Stone or The Logical Listener, i suggest you start. Things are going to get a bit hairy from here on out! Characters are going to be introduced, history of one character is going to be said in this story and i don't feel like having poor sarah explain it to her sister. any ways r&r. toodles!