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. Oh and I forgot that Dr. Aaliyah Satou is a character that belongs to Namiko Ai, she and I go way back.

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 9

Snake Eyes approached Sarah not long after they all had returned from a mission. He wanted to know what she thought about Jane. Something wasn't quite right about the girl he had trained. She was calmer but not showing any emotion at all anymore. Almost like Sarah did when she was around most of the others. She had started to finally open up now that Sakura had basically blown up at Ripcord a few days before.

Sarah was busy trying to go through her filing system at that moment. Nothing was in order after the computer had gotten a virus making her get a new one. That was just typical, she always seemed to get a virus doing the most mundane thing (this time it was listening to her sister's music online) but not when she was hacking into another server. Grumpily Sarah finally punched in a few more keystrokes and then shoved herself away from her desk only to have her chair run into something. A pair of hands settled on her shoulders and she looked up sheepishly to see Snake Eyes above her. "Oh hello?" She was worried that he might have been angry at her for things that had happened earlier. Scarlett sure was.

'I need your help with something.'

Sarah raised an eyebrow then swiveled her chair around so she wasn't looking backwards and up at him, just up. "What can I help you with?"

She heard him take a breath. Almost hesitant, that wasn't like him. 'Something isn't right with your sister."

Closing her eyes, Sarah felt her heart stop. "So you noticed too huh?"

'Yes,'

"What do you want to do about it?"

'Go find and bring Jana.'

"That means talking to Abernathy…and he's in a bad mood today."

…

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" General Abernathy exclaimed. "There is no way I am letting that traitor into the Pit just so you two can prove that there is something wrong with my niece!"

Sarah flinched a little then stood up. "Uncle, you and I both know that Jane isn't acting right."

"Maybe she's actually grown up."

Puffing her chest out, Sarah about yelled back at him: "Clayton Abernathy, that is not my sister and I am personally requesting that you give Snake Eyes and myself permission to bring her best friend her to prove it."

Snake Eyes had never seen Sarah like that. Even when they broke off their relationship, she had never been angry. Sad, surely she had been sad, but not angry. The only time he had seen her close to this stage of anger was when he tried to hide his injuries from her.

Through clenched teeth Abernathy said: "Fine, but the official story is that we have recruited her as a consultant. She's still not on my 'good to work with' listing all right?"

Sarah smiled and leaned over the desk to hug her uncle. "Watch after Sakura for me?"

"All right, but don't be surprised if she's bouncing off the walls when you come back."

Nothing could be worse than Sakura bouncing off the walls. Sarah shivered at the thought of her ticking off all the military officers because her 'grandfather' gave her lots of sugar and caffeine. "That's fine; just know your men will kill you."

Grinning Abernathy asked: "Why on Sam Hill would they kill their superior officer?"

Snake Eyes gently motioned that they needed to get going if they were to find Jana before it was too late.

"All right, I will see you and Sakura when we get back ok?" Sarah leaned over the table again but this time she kissed her uncle's cheek. "Don't let Sakura into the bombs though…or anything that goes boom."

The General shivered at the joke, wondering if maybe the girl was far more dangerous than she or Sarah let on to be.

…

Sarah noticed Scarlett watching her from the corner of her eye. Finally getting up the nerve she walked towards the older woman and held out a hand. "I'm sorry, look I want to take back all those things I said."

That was a shock towards Scarlett. She had worried that the woman wanted her dead. "It's fine Sarah…I understand." She pulled Sarah into her arms and rubbed her back like she had when they were both younger. It seemed, to Scarlett, like a life time ago when she had held Sarah like this. They had formed a sister like bond while Jane was busy.

Sarah debated about hugging Scarlett back but she noticed that Snake Eyes was looking at both of them. She wrapped her arms around Scarlett then pulled away enough to look the woman in the eyes. "Well, here goes nothing right? Oh, and make sure the General doesn't cause too much trouble with making Sakura hyper?"

Shaking her head, Scarlett felt like laughing. "Of course, I think I might teach her some hand to hand stuff so she works off the energy."

"Good luck!" they both said to each other as Sarah followed Snake Eyes to the Coyote.

Snake Eyes shook his head and rolled his eyes behind his visor. This was going to be interesting seeing how Jana reacted to them being there.

A/N: Not much else to Sarah is there? Hates fighting, hates being angry and cannot stand betrayal...much like Jane huh? well except fighting and being angry. r&r please!