"Rounding the last corner the project phoenix group came into sight, four cougars were sniffing around the dead bodies, while the rest of the group were arguing on how the guards died. Interrupting them mid argument I said "I did it! Now if you don't want to be blown up with this building I would suggest you get out of here!"

"What about the prisoners?"

"Their already outside, so shoo! Get out of here would ya!"

"Don't tell us what to do!"

Stifling the urge to slap the silly blonde twit, who I was seriously running out of patients with, I said "for the love of...fine! Leave, stay I don't care but I'm setting my charges and if your not out when I'm ready to blow this place sky high, it is your own fault!" With that I turned and started puling out the plastic explosives that I kept tucked away in the pouches at my waist.

Turning I found the group still standing there. Huffing I tugged up the sleeve of my top and pressed firmly against the wolf tattoo on my arm. With a distorted ripple the wolf pulled itself free of my arm, growing in size as it did. Landing with a soft patter of paws she looked up at me with large amber eyes, smiling I pulled a bundle of charges from my waist and handed them to the wolf. "Could you set these out for me?"

I got a confirming bark and then she scooped up the charges and trotted of, after giving the skin walkers curious sniff. It was rather comical, she was about twice the size of the cougars.

"Holy shit!" Blinking I turned to face the group and saw that two of the cougars had vanished, a quick check revealed they were in the two nearby rooms, presumably changing back.

"What?" I addressed my comment at the whole group even though I was pretty sure it was Haley who had spoken.

"That...your tattoo...it...I don't..what the hell?"

Snorting at Cory's oh so imaginative way of expressing his confusion I said "yeah, that was Hel my little helper"

"Jeez you don't do things by half measures do you?"

"Nope!" Smirking I continued to set out charges.

It took me a while but when I finally had all the charges set I made my way out of the building, pleased to see Clay and Eleanore waiting outside, eyeing Hel curiously. The project phoenix kids all went to huddle together, probably trying to work out how I was going to light the charges as I hadn't set any fuses. Fighting the grin that wanted to escape I scanned the building to make sure everyone was out, pleased when I found the building was empty I started gather dark energy.

Shadows seemed to be drawn to me, gathering around me as I pulled as much power to myself as I could. Once I was satisfied I had enough I sent out long tendrils of power to the charges, and as soon as they touched the plastic explosives the charges detonated, bringing the whole building down in a rumbling shower of dust and debris.

Dusting my hands off I offered my arm to Hel, who huffed and jumped back onto my skin, shifting about until she was comfortable I smiled at the warm feeling that emanated from her. Turning my attention back to the large groups of people behind me I started with the few prisoners who had stayed, carefully handing out small packs that would help them set up new identities including recommendations to forgers who would be able to set them up with the correct papers. Five minutes later everyone had a brief explanation and my number so they could call me if they had any questions. Waving goodbye to the last of the prisoners I finally turned my attention to the last remaining people, including the phoenix group, the genesis group and the two werewolves.

Huffing I said "if you want to talk you can come to my hotel but I wouldn't advise hanging around here any more, someone is going to investigate the explosion sooner or later so I'm getting out of here."

Whipping around I spluttered slightly when I got a face full of red hairs, shoving the ruby strands out of my mouth I stalked off, ignoring the sounds the sound of footsteps that told me at least some of them were following me, as well as their laughter at my fumble with my hair.

Scowling darkly I slammed the door to my hotel room open and stalked inside, I had got some odd looks from people for the skin tight black jeans and the matching turtle neck sweater as well as the pouches at my waist. Unfastening the belt I dumped it on the back of the couch in the suit and made my way over to the mini bar. Grumbling about the crap stock I flopped down onto the edge of my bed and said "so what do you all desperately want to know?"

"Who are you?"

The question came from Derek who was looking beyond pissed that he had to wait this long to get answers it probably didn't help that he was stuck sharing such a small space with two other werewolves on top of waiting for answers. "I go by Styx these days"

"What are you?"

Sam looked far to interested for my tastes but shrugging sightly I said "well I'm not really sure, I'm pretty sure I started off a necromancer but after what they did to me? Your guess is probably as good as mine. I think I might have some witch in me, maybe something else, don't really know, don't really care. Just so long as I can use my powers to destroy them, thats all that matters to me.

"Uh okay. Um, what about where did you come from?"

"Here, there, everywhere really, didn't stay still long enough to give you a definite answer." Which was true even before I went on the run with project genesis.

She looked like she was going to ask another question but Daniel cut in, "I have a question for your group," his words were aimed at the project genesis group. "I want to know how you could ditch one of your own group members!"

Tori scowled and said "she was a prissy little rich bitch, and she almost got us caught more times than I can count. She went crying back to daddy after we left."

Eyes narrowed I said "oh? You know that do you? Did you go and check on her?"

Tori glared at me "we didn't need to, she is a weak unless thing and so it was obvious that without us she would go crawling back to daddy dearest!"

Snorting I said "well that explains why your mistaken then, I met her about a year back. Blond hair blue eyes right? I think she said her name was Chloe, sweet girl if a little jumpy." By the surprised looks on their faces I knew that I described the old me in enough detail they would believe I had met this girl, "But yeah I met her in New York. She was quite the feisty thing, knocked me on my ass when I approached her in a dark ally. Eventually I explained I was keeping tabs on all the escapees and helping where I could, but she didn't want my help and I could see why, she was doing just fine. She even helped me out with taking down the local lab and freeing their prisoners. So suffice to say, I don't think she went crying back to 'daddy dearest'."

"Seriously Chloe did that!?" I nodded at Simon and he seemed to deflate slightly and shot an irritated look at Derek, "I told you, she would get better and that we didn't need to ditch her, just encourage her a bit."

Derek sneered "yeah well to late now isn't it."

"Yeah much too late, seeing as how I heard she died not long ago."

"What?! How? Why?" Simon was looking more than a little distressed.

Shrugging I said "she decided she was going to take down a lab all on her own, would have been fine too if one of the guards hadn't set of a self destruct just before she was about to blow the place up. Twice the charges, twice the boom. She got caught in the blast and didn't make it."

"How do you know this?"

"I told you I've been keeping track of all the escapees, how do you think I could manage that if I couldn't even tell when one of them dies in a huge explosion that half the country heard about?"

"Oh, how do you keep track of everyone?" This quiet comment came from Maya, and I was surprised by the sadness in her voice.

"Trade secret. Now was there something else you wanted or can I have some peace and quiet now?"

Everyone grumbled but eventually looked to be leaving when my phone started ringing, I had to fight not to groan when everyone paused in their attempt at leaving to stare at me. Scowling I lifted the phone and answered in clipped tones, "yes?"

"Miss Grim?"

"Yes?" I was getting annoyed now what the hell did these people want? I swear if it was a telemarketing company they were next on my blow up list.

"This is Mr. St cloud, I do believe you have been running around blowing up my labs. I would quite like to know why!"

"St cloud! Why the hell should I tell you anything?!"

"Well if you wish to see your farther again..."

"My farther?!"

"Yes a Mr. Saunders I believe..."

"You bastard, you want to know why I'm destroying your labs?! Well you just answered you own question, you use shitty means to get what you want done. Like threatening family members! How the hell did you even find out who I was anyway?!"

"Ah well simple detective reasoning really, we like to keep an eye on our run away experiments of course. So when the group split off and you disappeared and then barely a few months later we have a giant thorn in our sides going by 'Grim' with ugly overpowered necromancer abilities. It really wasn't that big a jump to assume it was you behind the attacks, Chloe."

"What do you want? I won't ask again!"

"We want you to come in, all of you and in return we will release your farther."

"If you hurt him blown up labs will be the least of your worries, I may just get it into my head to see just how far my reach is and how good I am at finding a specific person and then you may find your self spontaneously dropping dead!"

I tuned out his reply instead using his voice to lock on to a direction for his soul and started trying to pull it towards me, it was hard this far away but I could already feel some give in his soul. Panicked shouting not he other end of the phone drew my attention "STOP! STOP! STOP! If you kill me your farther dies!"

Easing my grip on his soul I felt it slide back into place properly and then said "if he so much as has a paper cut when I get there, we are going to have some real problems!" Hanging up I scribbled down eh vague address I got from feeling his location out via his soul, he was about to get a surprise visitor.

Facing the gaggle of people in my living room I said "right could you all please leave I need to pack up and check out because..."

"You need to go save your dad, we heard."

"Uh, just how much did you hear?"

"Just your side of the conversation, his side was mostly muffled buzzing."

"Oh okay. Well bye then." Waving at them I turned and started picking up any supplies I had left lying around, which wasn't much as I didn't want to risk house keeping coming in and finding a pipe bomb on the floor and freaking out. That I had learnt the hard way and was why New York still thought I was a terrorist.

"We're coming with you!"

Turning to face the two werewolves I said "don't you two have pups to be getting back to?"

"They are perfectly safe for the moment and we want to pay you back for helping us, so we are coming one way or another."

Growling I resigned myself to having the werewolves around, "we're coming too!"

"And us!"

Snarling I said "great you're all coming, fan-fucking-tastic!"

AN: I am so sorry for taking so long to update this I just completely ran out of inspiration for this and then I reread the books and I just felt that spark again, so hear is the new chapter. Hopefully it won't be so long next time but no guarantees, I now have four other fics I'm working on all at the same time as well as some unpublished ideas that have tickled my fancy. S let me know how you thought this was, read and review, cheers!

-SL xxxx