I think Jinx was lucky Robyn didn't just whip her butt into the next millennium, because she was asking for it. Oh well, at least Robyn can forgive and forget. Mostly...
Oh, and some SE/Robyn fluff coming up for you all :)
Surprisingly nobody took Jinx's side in the story, seeing as they knew that my blackout reactions only took into effect when my subconscious believed it was under immediate threat. I made everyone drop it though, I wasn't interested in pointing fingers. I dedicated every waking hour to finding Sabrina. Several times teams went out to capture other sightings of other Sabrina and even a few mutant inmates who were again locked up securely. Hawk was really beginning to worry. I worked with the two Sabrinas caught in Switzerland. It seemed they preferred being nice to.
So far I had gotten a rough number of other Sabrinas that had been created, the names of other clones, the reason for the economy collapse and how they did it. They did it the same way I hacked into Cobra's computers. The reason? Pure chaos. Another thing I learned.
Cobra Commander was not dead.
Since learning that there was another, possibly more than one, Commander out there, I had trouble sleeping. Not even the light switched on made it easier, in fact it just got annoying. It was a little too bright so I always had to sleep with my back turned to it.
However since the Jinx incident, Snake hasn't talked to me. I missed his company and our training sessions, though it did allow Storm and I to bond. I never realised before but Storm actually had a great sense of humour. I'm yet to make him laugh though.
On day three of my interviewing the Sabrina twins, I was struggling to sleep. Giving up, I went to the rec room. Scarlet looked up from her laptop and various other instruments of use which I struggled to decipher in my sleepy haze. "Hey." She welcomed warmly. "I thought you'd gone to bed?"
"Can't sleep." I answered.
"Nightmares?"
"The light's too bright." I answered, making her chuckle.
"I would say turn it off but that wouldn't really help you either." Shrugging I finally realised what the stuff was. She was going through security feeds. "I found a few more matches. Hawk's sent some other teams to retrieve them but other than that, we're getting nowhere."
"I'll try again tomorrow. Those girls are sure tougher than the old Sabrina." Sadly I looked away. "I hope she's alright."
"I'm sure she's fine. If Commander wants to keep making clones of her, he'll have to keep her alive to take active DNA from her." This made me perk up a little.
"Is there any way we can track them?"
"We're not dealing with signals anymore, this is a game of chess and so far, Cobra has the upper hand." I blinked.
"Yeah, you're going to have to teach me that game." Scarlet chuckled then paused, frowning before her eyebrows shot up her brow.
"Robyn! You're a genius!" I scoffed.
"Phft, tell me something I don't know." I waved my hand then frowned. "Just remind me again why I'm a genius?"
"Tracking! You could try tracking!"
"Er…I'm not actually a dog. I only have the nose of one." I reminded her. "Besides, I thought Hawk has arranged for a tracking device to be put onto the next Sabrina to get Cobra's location."
"Yes but if you can find a scent, surely you could follow it?"
"I don't know…the last place where there was definitely an original Commander is back at the warehouse. I never want to see that place again." I shuddered at the memories.
"You could follow Sabrina's scent, though, surely you would be able to find hers? I know it will be old but it's a chance. Quite possibly the only other chance we get if the tracking device doesn't pull through. Can you at least think about it?" I nodded my head, eyes closed as my chin rested in my hand. Finally falling asleep my head hit the table. Hard.
I was only half asleep so I was sort of conscious of what was going on around me but the other half of me was surrounded by shadows trying to drag me down under. I whimpered. "Snake? Can you carry her back to her room?" After a moment someone lifted me up from my chair. I twitched, trying to brush off the shadow that had tugged on my hair but my body was restricted of movement.
I began to tremble, shaking in pure blind terror as dark mechanical voices whispered in my ear. When the soft bed touched my bed and the arms disappeared, my eyes flew open and I cried out. "Don't hurt me!" I thrashed out, panicking. "Why is it dark? Where's the light?" The light suddenly flooded me and my eyes opened slightly, seeing a masked face before me. My mouth dropped open and I screamed but the hand clamped down over my mouth cutting it off. When I was quiet Snake took off his helmet then looked down at me with concern.
Panting heavily for breath I just stared up at him. "Snake?" I whispered, my voice cracking. He reached down and cupped my face, gently rubbing my cheek as I calmed down. "I thought you were angry with me for hurting Jinx." I said, slightly confused as to why he was doing this. He smiled-damn, he had a gorgeous smile-then shook his head. "I'm sorry, really I am. I never meant to hurt her that bad but she was hell bent on giving me a bout of pain. I'm so sorry." He shook his head again then pulled me up, holding me to him as I rested my head into his shoulder.
He held me securely for a long ten minutes. A ten minutes that I wanted to stretch further before he began to pull away. I wanted to grip onto him tighter, to cuddle further into him but I let him go, feeling cold now that he was gone. He stood, picked up his helmet then placed it back on his head.
"You going to tuck me in?" I teased and he laughed, pushing my hair behind my ear before turning to leave. "Wait." I bit my lip then sighed, reaching into the drawer to pull out the pearl. "Here. I don't deserve to keep this." I tossed it to him and he caught it with ninja reflexes. "Give it to a girl who does deserve it." Turning around I curled into a ball then retreated into my shell so that when the door shut behind me, the hurt only bounced off again.