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Lightning in a Bottle

Chapter 85: Tailspin, Pt 2

"That seemed like a waste," Ruby said, as they finished talking to the officer from that night. The Officer didn't remember much about the truck, except that it was a little suspicious to be in the area on off hours. The sanitation worker had given him some line about a sick kid putting him behind, but Killian didn't buy that at all. The Officer had given him a warning to move on and he did, so he had let it go. They had a description of the man, but there wasn't much to go on.

"There has to be more to it…this guy was up to something and might be the missing link in finding Fiona Black," he said.

"Maybe…but if she was military, then don't you think they know or are covering up for their own reasons? I mean…classified is classified," Ruby warned.

"No…her daughter deserves answers. I don't care what her mother might have been into," he insisted. She sighed.

"Okay…what now, lead detective?" she asked.

"We have the truck number now. Time to track it down," he replied.

"That's not a connection our researchers have made yet," Vance said, as Regina looked very nervous. They had to tell David soon about the Major's death and how it also

occurred on that night.

"What's the working theory on how it teleported itself and aged seven years?" David asked.

"Everyone under this roof has a theory; none they can agree on," Vance replied.

"It has to do with my calling of the plane exploding that things are somehow going back to how they're supposed to be?" David asked.

"It crossed my mind. But why on that date? What does it really have to do with your friend Neal living and those meth dealers dying?" Vance asked. David winced.

"Maybe because they returned too…eighty four days after they went into the water," David replied. Vance looked at him incredulously.

"There's another group of returnees and you didn't think to tell me?" he asked. Regina gave him a look and he softened his stance. It wasn't like they had told David about the

Major yet.

"You haven't exactly been easy to get in touch with," David pointed out.

"In any event, this can't be a coincidence. What do you think, Regina?" he asked, but she was lost in her thoughts.

"Regina?" he asked again.

"Hmm?" she asked. He raised an eyebrow.

"You okay?" he asked

"Yeah. Yeah, it's just a lot to process," she replied, as another person in a white lab coat walked in. A doctor they all recognized.

"Whale?" Regina asked in disbelief.

"Ah…Dr. Mills, nice to see you again," he said.

"You're working for the NSA now?" she asked, side-eyeing Vance, who shrugged.

"He was already here when I came in," he offered.

"Yep, I was recruited…and not exactly in a way that gave me much choice," he replied.

"What are you working on?" she questioned.

"It's classified, but since you're here, it's in line with your DNA mutation study, but 828 focused," he answered. She huffed.

"They used you to replicate my work!" she said, clearly infuriated.

"It wasn't my idea. I was literally abducted. They didn't even want me to know where I was until I'd been cleared. Glad you're here though. I could use some help," he replied,

as David pulled Vance aside.

"I need to see the tailfin…and I'd rather not have an audience in case the same thing happens like it did in Cuba. I'll be in a lab with that guy poking at me," David said,

irritably and referring to Whale.

"That won't happen," Vance assured him. David sighed.

"Besides…lightning rarely strikes twice. Even for you," he assured him, as he approached the tailfin. He looked at his hand and slowly touched the tailfin. This time…nothing.

No glow, no surge of electricity, no being flung back. Nothing. He looked a bit puzzled at that. He was sure that was what the Calling was telling him to do.

"Why were you so convinced you had to touch the tailfin again?" Vance questioned.

"I'm not sure anymore," David answered. He really wished Margaret was there right now.

The events that happened for Neal and Emma following their meeting with the coach and rebuttal with Pete were like a whirlwind. Pete continuously denied that he had sold drugs to his teammate and in an interesting twist, he made the accusations that it was the coach who was making him deal. He wanted out after his teammate died, but the coach beat him to a bloody pulp and threatened to kill him. Emma was skeptical, but Neal's newfound abilities were telling him that Pete was telling the truth.

Emma begged Pete to tell them where Kory and Jace were, but he refused.

"You felt what he was feeling, didn't you?" Emma asked, as they exited the station.

"Yeah…it was so raw. The coach is dirty, Em…I can feel it," Neal replied.

"Yeah…I think this isn't about guilt. The Callings want a drug dealer off the streets," Emma said, as her eyes widened.

"What is it?" he asked.

"If Pete is having the Callings about the clock, then what do you think the chances are that Jace and Kory are having the same one?" she asked. He sighed, as they started

walking fast for the car.

"From what I know about the Callings…pretty damn good. You think Jace is going after the coach?" he asked.

"If Jace makes the connection…yeah, the dude has no restraint," she replied, as she put the car in gear and they sped off, after she radioed Ruby to meet them there.

"You're seeing the clock too?" Kory asked, as he and Jace showed up at the coach's house at the same time.

"Yeah, I felt like I needed to come here," Jace said, as he seethed angrily.

"Bastard's run out of time. He's gotta pay," he added.

"Jace, man. We need to stop rolling like that," Kory protested.

"Why are you even here, then?" Jace shot back.

"I don't know what happened to us, but I feel like I'm drowning. I'm literally puking water.

I keep seeing things, hearing voices and I don't think doing bad things is going to help us," Kory said, but he was ignored, as Jace went toward the house, with Kory following

reluctantly.

By the time they arrived at the coach's house, they found Kory with a wound in his leg and the coach unharmed and Ruby met them there.

"What the hell happened?" Emma questioned.

"It was Jace…he came in here screaming like a total psychopath and then shot his friend!" the coach claimed.

"Jace shot you?" Ruby asked.

"Some friend you have, Kory," the coach replied.

"I was trying to stop him and got in the way," Kory said, through the pain, as Ruby wrapped his jacket around his wound.

"Where's Jace?" Emma questioned.

"He took off…he's a lunatic! They're both high as a kite…talking nonsense about some clock and how my time is up!" the coach exclaimed. Emma blew out a shaky breath.

"Sir, do you have any drugs or weapons on the premises?" she asked.

"They broke into my home, and now you're treating me like I'm the criminal?" he shouted.

"Answer the question," Ruby said sternly.

"Check the vent," Kory said in a pained response, as she did so.

"This is ridiculous. Hey! I'm the victim here," he insisted, as she recovered some small bags of white powder from the vent.

"None of those are mine. I got no idea…" he yelled.

"Yeah, I got an idea. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you…" Ruby

said, as Emma turned her attention to Kory.

"Kory, you know where Jace went?" she asked.

I'd be happy to rat him out if I knew," he said, as the ambulance arrived.

"David…what is it?" Regina asked, as she pulled him aside while Vance went to get his phone back so he could leave.

"I don't know…just a feeling. There's something they're hiding and not telling us. It's more than the plane or tailfin," he insisted.

"David…we can trust Vance," she insisted.

"Look around, Regina…this is bigger than Vance. We are just puzzle pieces to them, just like the parts of the plane. They literally want to poke and prod us like experiments. I can feel it," David insisted. She sighed.

"There's something here…something I'm supposed to see," he added, as he noticed a door.

"Cover for me," he said, as he took off, which exasperated his sister-in-law.

"David!" she hissed, but he had already slipped through the door and into a secure area where he wasn't supposed to be.

"Olive, look at this. According to the Egyptians, souls journeyed through Osiris' underworld and faced a series of challenges," Angelina explained, from the book she

was reading.

"Sort of like the callings," Olive surmised.

"Who's Osiris?" Angelina asked.

"Lord of the underworld. But before the gods gave him the job, his brother killed him," Olive explained.

"Savage," Angelina commented.

"It gets better. Osiris' wife, Isis, she basically moved heaven and earth to bring him back to life, and then had his baby," Olive continued.

"That's so romantic," Angelina said.

"Osiris survived...even though his brother was a homicidal maniac," Olive added.

"Like Pete and Jace," Angelina said quietly, as Olive's phone chimed.

"It's my Aunt Mick. They solved Pete's calling," she said. Angelina looked hopeful at that.

"It looks like he's already on his way to save himself," Olive said.

"He will. I never thought I'd find a way to save myself, and then I met all of you," Angelina replied.

"Do you have plans tonight?" Olive asked. She snorted.

"Do I look like I have plans tonight?" she joked. Olive smiled.

"Come on. Let's go," Olive said.

Vance walked back into the lab and was surprised to see that Regina was still there.

"I thought you two left," he said.

"It's my fault. The tailfin reappeared at the bottom of the ocean because I killed her," Regina said.

"That is a huge leap to make, especially when we don't…" he said, but she interrupted him.

"You saw the time stamp. The fin disappeared the moment she died," Regina insisted.

"Regina, you're a scientist. You can't mistake correlation for causation. Many impossible things happened that night," he reasoned. But she shook her head.

"Neal wasn't on 828. Neither were the criminals who kidnapped Henry. I was. I was connected to the plane. I am connected to the plane," she said.

Meanwhile, David moved about the corridors. He didn't know where he was going, but something inside him was leading him. The Callings were at work again.

"Excuse me. Sir. Sir, you can't be here," a guard that spotted him called and he quickly hurried through another door, as he raised his radio to his mouth.

"I need assistance on corridor D," he said urgently.

"You feel guilty about what happened…" Vance said.

"This isn't about my feelings, Vance. I've come to terms with the fact that I have ruined my chances of surviving the Death Date. But what if there are further ramifications?"

she questioned.

"You cannot jump to conclusions when there's so much we don't understand yet. Let it go. I need my team laser-focused," Vance said.

"Team?" she asked.

"These people are flying blind. We need some fresh eyes," Vance admitted.

"What about the clinic?" Regina asked.

"You have more important work to do here. Don't you want answers?" he asked, but he was interrupted before she could answer.

"Director Vance, we have a situation," a guard said. He said eyed Regina.

"Where's David?" he asked, but didn't wait for an answer and followed the guard.

"Sir! Mr Nolan, stop! Mr. Nolan!" the guard called, as he chased him into a room that was restricted access. Once he entered the room, the lights automatically went up and

what he saw inside shocked him to his core. His eyes widened, as he stood before a capsule containing the frozen body of Tisbe Taylor, the woman that had been murdered

by her own sister, Clorinda just a few days after they had returned.

"What the hell…" he uttered, as the guard and Vance caught up to him, as well as

Regina, who was now also seeing what else they were hiding.

Olive looked at herself in the mirror, as she looked at the short, silver prom dress she was wearing. She wished her Mom was here, but she knew why she couldn't be.

"This is so…" she started to say.

"Normal?" Angelina asked.

"Normal…that it's weird. Does that sound crazy?" Olive asked. Angelina smiled.

"It's exactly what you need. And a extra little accessory...from your dad," she added, as she put the corsage on Olive's wrist. She smiled.

"It's beautiful," Olive said.

"Phone, please," Angelina said, as Olive handed her the phone and she proceeded to take pictures.

"Your mom will kill me if I don't send pics," she said.

"What about you? Come on, let's take a selfie," Olive urged.

"No, this wasn't a good idea. It's your prom, it's your friends. You go have fun," Angelina said.

"What? No. You're coming with me," Olive insisted. But she shook her head.

"Going to yours won't bring my prom back. It's okay. Go have a blast for me. Okay?" Angelina asked. Olive smiled and nodded.

"It's a promise," she answered.

"Hannity will never ever again use anyone the way that he used you, Jace and Kory,"

Emma told Pete through the cell bars.

"Is Kory okay?" Pete asked.

"Your brother shot him in the leg. He lost a lot of blood, and if we hadn't gotten there in time, he might not be. But we did and he should make a full recovery," Ruby

answered.

"Now what?" Pete asked.

"That's up to you. But there are four days till your Death Date," Emma replied. He thought for a moment and then looked at her.

"I think I know how you can find Jace," he said.

"So, when were you gonna tell us you had a passenger's corpse on ice?" David questioned.

"The truth we're all after…may well hover above the edge of traditional science. Doctor, explain the results of Ms. Taylor's postmortem," he said, as an Indian woman in a white

lab coat entered with Dr. Whale.

"I'm Dr. Aria Gupta," she said. Whale smirked.

"The boss behind it all," he said, earning a look from the other doctor that made him clam up.

"You're aware that Tisbe Taylor died of a gunshot wound to the head?" she asked.

"Of course. A year and a half ago," David replied.

"However, any medical examiner who studied her corpse now would tell you that her

Injuries are consistent with those sustained in an airplane's midair explosion," Dr. Gupta said, shocking both David and Regina.

"There's more. The subject's tissues recently produced traces of a tropical algae strain unique to the Caribbean. A strain that's a genetic match with the algae on the

recovered Tailfin," she continued.

"So, the tailfin and her body are somehow reverting to being back at the bottom of the ocean. But why?" Regina questioned, clearly fascinated by these new developments.

But Vance did not let the conversation continue.

"That'll be all, Doctor. You've scientifically proven what...the calling of the exploding plane was trying to tell me. That we died on that plane. We were resurrected," David

realized.

"You're seriously not implying divine intervention, David," Vance said skeptically.

"I don't see another explanation. Do you?" David countered. Vance put his hands up.

All right, all right. All my cards are on the table. Now it's your turn," he said. David gave him an incredulous look.

"Your cards are on the table only because I found them myself," David said.

"I let you in here, didn't I? After you lied your way in," Vance accused.

"I was protecting myself. Like you taught me. It's only a matter of time before those lab coats out there figure out whose handprint was glowing on that tailfin," David said.

"They'll want to study you," Regina said.

"Not an option," David refuted.

"It's time you ask yourself the same question I faced back in Cuba. How much are you willing to sacrifice to get to the truth?" Vance asked, as he stepped away to take a call.

"Vance," he answered, once he was out of earshot.

"We've got a problem…Rogers is getting too close to the truth," Emmett, his associate, said.

"I'll handle it," Vance said, as he hung up.