Emma went running past us, soon followed by the Doctor. The man she had called Artie glared at Claudia and left through a door motioning for Myka and Pete to follow him. Pete looked back over his shoulder wanting it seemed to follow Emma instead. Claudia looked unsure of herself, she walked from the desk to the window and back again several times, at last she fell into the desk chair and spun.
"Not that I don't love an awkward silence…. How do you guys know Marie?" she asked as she continued to spin.
"You just got yelled at and all you can do is ask how we know her?" I questioned, confused.
Claudia stopped spinning and looked up towards me, "She rarely ever speaks about where she came from. Sometimes she speaks in that weird language." I nodded as I recalled her yelling weird words. "I can decipher ancient Egyptian language, but not that?" she pressed a couple of buttons on the keyboard and a large 'T' flashed on the computer screen. "That's what you get when you try to open her file and its unhackable…. I knew her before I hacked into this place, she helped find a way to save my brother, for a long time she was the only family I had."
Rory cleared his throat, "I'm sure she has her reasons."
Claudia jumped up and started to walk towards the door, "Well I'm going to find out, I have a secret weapon."
We arrived at a bed and breakfast, Claudia ran up the stairs past a door with a large lock, and then stopped at a door at the end of the hall. She knocked three times and took a step back, the door swung open and out stepped a man with a shaved head and blue eyes. "Guys this is Steve Jinx, the human lie detector. And now we sneak into Marie's room." She pushed past us and headed towards the door with the large lock.
"Claudia, not to sound rude, I'm sure you smart and all but how do you plan to open that without a key?" I asked.
"Not rude at all." Rory mumbled under his breath, earning him an elbow in the rib. "Ow!"
"I watched her open it before, you don't need a key." She fell to her knees and pulled a pin off her jacket; she brought the pin close to the lock and pushed it through a small hole. The front of the lock lifted up, inside it was a tiny screen and keyboard. Claudia typed 'Theta made me.' The door instantly swung open.
My eyes landed on the desk which was full of picture frames. I walked forward ignoring Rory's questions and sat myself down at the desk slowly looking through the pictures. There was one of 'Marie' with a man in a blue trench coat holding up martini glasses full of a blue liquid. One of Marie and another guy with a glasses, he was also in a trench coat, they were making kissy faces at the camera. A man in leather jacket with his arms around a blonde girl and Marie, she was sticking her tongue out at the camera. There were tons of them most of them with Marie and some with a ginger girl who had the same eyes as her. One photo had two suns and a person's siloute. I was about to stand up when I noticed a picture frame laying face down. Looking down at the picture inside of it, and I gasped.
"Are you alright?" Claudia asked edging closer, but I lifted my hand and stopping her.
I turned the frame towards Rory gesturing for him to take a look. "What? It's just a group photo." Rory pointed out trying to edge away. I shook my head and pointed to the people in the middle of the group. "Ok, its Marie and… Canton. But how?"
Claudia seemed done with being out of the loop because she took the frame from us. "Guys it's just a picture from a Christmas party. One of the few times we could actually get Valda to hang with us."
"Who?" Rory looked more confused than he was a second ago.
Claudia turned the frame back towards us and tapped on Canton. "Benedict Valda, he's… he was a Regent and… really close to Marie."
She set the picture down amongst the rest as Steve came running through the door. "We have to get to the Warehouse, there's been a ping."
