Taylor felt the anger rise from deep inside his soul. The rage was building in waves, each wave greater than the one before. He wanted to talk with this little girl, but knew normal speech was beyond him right now.

All he could say was "Excuse me," and spun on his heel, intent on finding Levi and choking the life out of him.

He stormed into the security office and roared at Sullivan, "Where's Levi?"

Stepping out of the men's room, Levi took one look at Taylor and yelled something in Hebrew.

From out of nowhere a gorilla appeared and put Taylor in a bear hug. Taylor broke out in a sweat as he struggled and called Levi every name under the sun. He managed to break loose once and then found the hold back in place.

Then he heard Sullivan's voice, "Let him go and leave him the fuck alone or I will splatter your guts all over this office. "

Taylor sighed in relief, while Levi backed up. They looked at each other warily.

Levi began, " I owe you an apology. I did not mean for you to find out like that. " then he looked at Sullivan and the gorilla,

" both of you take a break. We need privacy. "

The door closed and Levi turned the lock before returning to his seat.

"You better have a really good explanation, Levi. Really good, or ..."

"Stop. No more threats. Let me explain. Shelly is Ukranian. Her mother was born after Chernobly and had some remarkable powers. So, when her child was born, she was seized by military scientists. They were convinced they could make her the ultimate weapon. A child appearing so innocent and harmless, but trained to deal out death without a second thought.

Shelly can heal through her psychic gifts. She can also harm. She can manipulate objects. She can sense danger. She has total recall. Anything she has seen or heard, she can repeat it verbatum. Her mother was a Jew. Her father a Russian soldier long dead. We decided to remove her from the Ukraine and bring her to Israel.

Originally, the plan was to place her with a family and try to 'untrain' her. We quickly discovered she was basically incapable of interacting with people in a normal way.

She is only happy at her keyboard or protecting someone. She doesn't make small talk and is not interested in learning.

Psychological evaluations show she sees herself as a freak of nature, ugly and unworthy of love. We are trying very hard to change that but haven't been able to find anyone she could relate to. We have placed her with other children with similar gifts and she immediately becomes defensive and quite frankly dangerous. "

"So what the hell is she doing here?"

"She made friends with Barney in a chat room. "

"What the fuck?"

"Those are the exact words your 'brother' used when we told him. "

"You got to be shitting me?"

Levi shook his head no with a grin. "She flirted with him. Barney was looking for a way into Schneiderman's firewall and she provided it.

As soon as she found out Schneiderman was involved she began to worry about Barney. It's the most honest emotion we have ever seen from her. She is quite capable of protecting him. "

"Come on, Levi. She is a child. Who is going to protect her?"

"Taylor, remember what I said, she can heal and she can harm? She is capable of killing someone with a touch. Seriously. She could grab your ankle and stop your heart. We have told her repeatedly that she is never to use this so called talent, unless her very life is in jeopardy. We have told her that even if she is protecting someone, she can not use it. She is eleven years old, raised among scientists and soldiers. She has been in Israel 3 years and has never used it or talked about it voluntarily. I have seen how her eyes shine with happiness when she and Barney talk. She will protect him with every bit of her ability, never doubt it. "

"What's going to happen to her?"

Levi looked down, "I don't know my friend; I really don't know. Let us pray some day she can find happiness. "

Taylor let out another long sigh, "Shit. Now I have to explain this to the boss. "