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". Here's Amethyst's story,

Synapse: Amethyst had been captured by Cobra nearly one year ago and now she was finding herself imprisoned by another. This man is using her, keeping her hidden, and now he expects more from her. Now she wants out.

G. I. Joe

The Amethyst Stone

Chapter 8

Dyslexia, she was impaired with Dyslexia. How could I have not noticed that? She functioned like most adult women, even spoke several languages. "How bad is your disability?"

"Just reading, everything else I can do and function with normally…although on occasion I mix up right and left." She tried to joke with Storm Shadow, but he wasn't laughing. "Look I know it must be hard for you to understand but it doesn't impede my capabilities as a fighter. I just can't read without scrambling things up."

Storm Shadow leaned against the counter and thought. She can't possibly be dyslexic; she's too good at what she does. If she was dyslexic, why did the military even let her join? He shook his head and locked eyes with her. "What would you like to eat?"

"Rice and curry Chicken." She mumbled while turning away from him.

His eyes wandered to the last symbol on her back. That was the last symbol she had received. He could see it because her shirt wasn't quite long enough to cover in the back.

"And I want to see my father." She yelled over her shoulder before disappearing back into her room. Finally Storm Shadow had had enough of her. He hit the counter as hard as he could. The woman was so infuriating that half the time he wanted to kill her. But what about the other half of the time? His mind pondered.

…

Amethyst lay on her bed when she heard the front door bang open. She was startled and wide awake from her half slumber. Pondering about her captor she thought: What's the cranky ninja doing now? Starting to sit up Amethyst noticed her bedroom door opening. She was going ot flop back onto her back when she saw a hand wrap around the edge of the door. That hand was too big to be the Ninja's. And the nautical star tattoo was similar to Sgt. Henderson's tattoo.

The person slowly walked out and Amethyst screamed at the top of her lungs. She was hoping that Storm Shadow was still around and still conscious.

"Hello Jana."

…

Storm Shadow drove his motorcycle into the parking lot of his little home and noticed that the front door had been flung open. He looked around to see a Cobra vehicle parked across the street. He hated the look of this. Slowly he got off his motorcycle, forgetting the food he had just bought, and went inside. There was no one nearby, and there were screams coming from upstairs. He grabbed one of the bokken, lined on the wall of his dojo, and started up the stairs. The sight of a large man holding Amethyst in mid-air startled Storm Shadow.

Shocked that Sgt. Henderson was still alive had caused Amethyst to become frightened, but him grabbing her and promising that he was going to kill her was enough to drive her to sheer panic. Her hands tried to free herself from his grip. She lashed her nails out at him and knew she was drawing blood, but Henderson wasn't giving in.

Henderson was holding his former teammate by her neck, much like he had held Jane some time ago. Now he was about to kill Jana too. Something flashed in his mind and he dropped her. "Jana, what-what's going on?"

By the time Jana recovered enough to respond Henderson was lying on the ground unconscious. Amethyst stared at the body of her friend, former band member, and former teammate. Finally she locked eyes with Storm Shadow as he knelt down to bind the man's hands together. Part of her reaction was to help bind Henderson and part of her wanted to stop Storm Shadow.

"Help me get him outside." Storm Shadow ordered. By the time he looked up at Jana he noticed that she was standing up. The look in her eyes said that she was void of anything at that moment. Not even a slap across the face would snap her back to reality. He got up and grabbed hold of both of her shoulders and shook her once, twice, three times until she managed to make eye contact. "Do you want to die today?"

"Yes," she whispered. "I want to be dead; I want everyone to be dead. We all died!" Her voice ended in a scream that reminded Storm Shadow of Jinx. Her hand's wrapped around her throat and she spoke softly again saying: "Cap was the only one who was left…that I knew of."

Storm Shadow had heard her speaking, through her delirium of poisoned blood, about members of her team. Cap had been one of the two leaders of the team. "Cobra has him too…you and your team were experimented on."

"What?"

"That's all I know," Storm Shadow knelt down again and finished tying up Henderson.

"Ok, this is going to sound weird, but could I try something?" Amethyst knelt down beside him. "Keep him tied up until I tell you otherwise."

Storm Shadow nodded his head. It was best if he started trusting this woman right now. She was possibly the only person who didn't want to kill him at that point. "All right, what are you going to do?"

"Hypnotize the poor sucker."

A/N: once again Henderson get's the crap beat out of him. poor guy he's just got a mean creator doesn't he? anyway r&r please