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", Sarah "Listener" Rose Abernathy, or Sakura Rose.

Synapse: Sarah, Jane's little sister of 25 years of age, has sought out safety with the Joe's at the Pit. But there's one small four year old problem, she's the only family her daughter has left alive except Abernathy and Jane. And she's expected to work in Intelligence, what's a girl to do? Snake EyesxOc.

The Logical Listener

G. I. Joe: Renegades

Chapter 6

Breaker began typing on the keyboard and noticed that Sarah was glancing at Snake Eyes and the little girl. "Go on, this could take a while." He whispered to her.

Standing up, Sarah stretched. She went over to Sakura and started to pick her up when Snake Eyes put a hand on her shoulder. "What is it?"

Snake Eyes picked Sakura up and motioned for Sarah to lead the way. He saw something run across her face. It was hard to tell if it was fear or surprise.

Sarah gulped and led the way to her and Sakura's quarters. Hopefully he wasn't onto something. What if he actually knew the truth? Would he be really mad at her to the point that he hated her? She watched him lay Sakura on the bed and he turned to look at her.

Curious he signed, 'What's wrong?'

"Nothing, I just…" Tell him the truth, part of her screamed. Just tell him the truth and get it over with before you drag it out and he wants to kill you.

He wouldn't want that, would he? She questioned herself.

Maybe, but it's still best to tell him.

'Snake Eyes, I need to tell you something.' She signed back while taking a step back. 'It's about Sakura.'

Snake Eyes stared at her, it must have been important for her to switch to ASL. Maybe she didn't want to wake Sakura up. 'I'm listening.'

Oh, dear God help me tell him. She prayed. Once Sarah had her voice she barely whispered: "She's your daughter."

Had Snake Eyes heard her right, Sakura was his daughter? I should have guessed, He thought bitterly to himself. She has the same hair color and same eyes as me. She even sneaks around a lot, how could I miss something like that? 'Why didn't you tell me?'

"I…I didn't want to. I can't explain it. Then Jane was thought dead for a while and only recently I found out she was alive. But I blamed you; I blamed you because you were on the mission with her. I knew you could protect her but you didn't. Don't you see what that does to a person?"

Oh how he wanted to speak, let her know how upset he was. 'I had a right to know.'

Her head hung down and she stared at the ground trying to imagine the hole she must be in. "I know, and I'm so sorry. If you want to take her away from me I won't stop you."

Snake Eyes saw the defeat in Sarah's pose. She had resigned to the fact that he might take Sakura away from her. The thought hadn't crossed his mind until she said it. Why would I take her away? He wanted to say to her. He still had feelings for her, but he also had feelings for Scarlett. He was torn in two.

Expecting to see him still standing there Sarah looked up to see that Snake Eyes had turned and was going to the door. "Snake Eyes, I'm sorry."

'I already forgave you.'

When the door closed Sarah slumped to the floor and began crying. There was little she wanted to do right now than keep her daughter safe and mourn the loss of her friendship to Snake Eyes. There will never be any trust between us again. She fell into herself. Self-loathing was her weakness, and she had plenty of it at that point.

Sakura woke up with a stretch and a yawn. Expecting to see her mom lying beside her she turned around. There her mother was lying on the ground, crying. Knowing that there were only a few people her mother would open up to she got off the bed and took off out of the room.

Dr. Satou, being new to the Pit, didn't expect to see a little four year old blonde girl with pigtails and black ribbons in her hair running out of one hallway and turning down another. She lifted her lab coat and took off after the girl. She noticed Snake Eyes turning and the girl run into him. The girl was hard to understand but she managed to hear that the girl's mother was crying and she was trying to find someone she called grandfather.

Snake Eyes was surprised when Sakura ran into him. It was a shock that almost made him worried he was getting old. The girl had been running, yet she moved so silently he could have seriously hurt her. He heard her mention that Sarah was crying, at first that didn't surprise him, but the fact that Sakura saw it worried him. She even mentioned that she was trying to find her grandfather (when actually Snake Eyes knew that general Abernathy was in fact her great-uncle).

Scarlett, Ripcord, Tunnel Rat, Duke, and Roadblock had been leaving the training room when they heard Sakura yelling at the top of her lungs. Scarlett was the first to run off followed by the others. When they got to where Snake Eyes was they saw that the girl was pointing in the direction of her and her mother's quarters.

"So wait the Vulcan techie that we got is going ballistic?" Ripcord asked the other Joe's.

"My mother is not a Vulcan! She is a human being with human emotions just like the rest of you, but it's people like you that make her wish she didn't have any!" Sakura screamed while going up to Ripcord and glaring up at him. "And just because I'm four doesn't mean I'm not smart. I'm plenty smart enough to put you to shame!"

Snake Eyes moved beside Sakura and put a gentle hand on her shoulder. He knew the action might not do a lot but he hoped it would calm the four year old down. This little girl was his daughter and on some level he knew she suspected the truth. He watched her face from the side and knew she was calming down finally. She was like her aunt; if she got worked up little calmed her down. But he knew that she didn't have the darker half like Jane.

"Watashi no mama o tasuke, shite kudasaii." Sakura muttered. It had been the first time Snake Eyes heard her ask for anything in Japanese.

i Watashi no mama o tasuke, shite kudasai: Help my mommy, please.

A/N: How did the little girl know japanese? that's my little secret. also anyone think that Ripcord calling Sarah a vulcan was funny? my co-writer doesnt even know i threw that into the monkey barrel. r&r please, criticism is loved, flaming is not. it just makes me angry.