Day 29

We left the room and walked down the hall

Her gun was still in her hand. There was a slight tear in her eye, but she tried to hold it back, and blinked to wash it away. “You have a serious problem,” I told her. She stopped walking and turned around with the gun in her hand. I didn’t care that she had a gun in her hand; it wasn’t any sort of intimidating, because I knew she wouldn’t shoot me. She would just try and seem like she was the dominant one, which she was, but not now. She wasn’t capable of it. I reached for her hand with the gun and she pulled back. I looked at her and reached again and ripped it out of her hand. “Stop,” I said and I continued to walk to our room. I was hoping she would follow me, which she did, so that was good. I stopped right before my room and pointed my finger for Kay to go in. I watched her walk in front of me into the room. She went in the room and stood in the middle of it and I walked in and leaned against the wall next to the door. I looked at her with her head down, and then she dropped to her knees and started crying. I got a little nervous because I never seen her cry before, and I could only imagine what she was crying about. “I can’t fucking do this. I really can’t do this. Not now. I really don’t need this right now. She was supposed to be there for me,” she said, breaking down. I went over to her and sat down next to her. She was pounding her fist to the ground and saying, “I can’t do this,” over and over again. 

To be continued...

Day 28

Riggs was still lying on the floor

While the rest of us tried and cleaned up the mess. I was back down to floor level now, sitting next to the unconscious Kay. We decided to leave her there incase anything else happened, we would all be right here to help. I sat and thought about how Bentley knew I was a Lieutenant. That information was only in confidential files back at my old place. I just had a profile on file here. I saw CC talking to Leeha and Sato, and the Chief. Then Sato waved for me to come down there. When I got down there, I saw Riggs still lying in the same spot I left her. “I found some interference between Bentley and some other unknown signal. I’m not sure what it is, but I have a hunch. And my hunch is it’s coming from Kay,” she told us. “I’ve never seen this before, but I’ve heard legends of it. It’s when a mobile suit and a human have a very close relationship, that it actually feeds off of the brain waves the human gives off, and they almost kind of sync together. Except this syncing is synced with brain waves, and electrical waves. And we need to figure out where they’re coming from.” I didn’t want to hear anymore at the moment so I walked away to Riggs. “You okay?” She looked at me and said, “So if that was a subconscious order from Kay, does that mean she subconsciously wants to kill me?” I said, “Everything is not very clear right now. We don’t really know what’s going on, so when we do, I’ll let you know. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she wants you dead. After all, you did kill her inside and I quote her,” I told her. She looked at me then said, “Okay but then why did he take the order from you? And not me when I’m in command when Kayvroni is incapable?” Again, I shrugged my shoulders and said, “I have no idea.” She got up, brushed herself off and left. I looked up to see Kay was standing, leaning over the scalpel railing. She had a confused look on her face, and then she went towards the stairs. She walked over to Leeha and Sato, so I made my way over to them.

     “What the hell happened over here?” she asked. We all looked at her blankly and Ringo shouted from behind, “You don’t remember?” She looked at him, then back at us and said, “No…? What did I do?” “Long story short, Bentley took over and almost killed Riggs, he destroyed the place, and said he was taking subconscious commands from you. And he only listened to Allison. Any of this sounds familiar?” Sato asked. All she said was, “That sounds like a problem,” and looked up at Bentley. “I just got over the most awful headache. Thank god,” she stated. “Well I would hope so, you just had a huge fit,” I told her. “Did I?” “You have a lot of explaining to do,” Sato said and walked the other way.

     Riggs was sitting in the corner of the couch, and Takuya was spread out on the other side of it. Leeha was standing over the railing were the ramp was and Ringo and Takashi were playing video games as usual. I was sitting on the other end of the couch watching Sato pour some coffee. CC was sitting on the railing next to Leeha chatting up a storm. Then Kay came through the double doors and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her. “Yes?” she said to her audience. No one responded and everyone continued what they were doing. She walked over to Ringo and Takashi and asked if she could get third player on the game. Of course they agreed, so now you have three screaming children fighting over a video game. Takashi had to go to the bathroom, so they paused the game. When he got back, they were just talking smack about who was going to loose. Then Riggs bumped in and said, “Why did Bentley listen Allison and not me? You were incapable of taking control therefore I was next in line. So how the hell did that work?” Everyone turned to her, then looked at Kay for an answer everyone was dying to know. Kay turned around and looked at Riggs. “That was his direct order. If I was incapable, he would take orders from Allison.” We all stared at her then turned our attention to Riggs. “When did that happen?” “I told him directly.” “You fucking told him to switch second commanders and make it Allison instead of me?” “Yes, because I feel you’re not capable of giving him the right orders.” “Are you fucking kidding me Kay?” “You left me to die. Twice. You don’t deserve command over him when I can’t. And Al is my partner now, not you.” Our heads kept going back and forth every time one of them would open their mouths. Riggs sat there and thought of the next thing to say. “Well, how the hell did he know Al was a Lieutenant? None of us knew that. It wasn’t in any records. It wasn’t on the profile. That information wasn’t anywhere to be found.” “That’s for me and Allison to know. That’s none of your concern.” I budded in, “But I don’t know either.” Kay turned to me and said, “You will.” She turned back to Riggs and said, “Is there a problem with this?” Riggs looked baffled and said, “The fuck there is a problem with this! You didn’t even tell me! What if something really wrong would happen and I gave him orders and he didn’t listen then we all die? Huh? What then?” “That wouldn’t happen, because Al has a brain; and she would try to do everything she could so that wouldn’t happen. When you gave him orders and he didn’t listen to you, Al gave him orders not knowing any of this and Bent listened to her. She has common sense. I’m beginning to think you’re lacking in that department. Or maybe you have to much stuff up your ass.” “This is unreal. I almost died. His fist came flying in my direction. Luckily he didn’t hit me-“ “Yeah, because Al pushed you out of the way. Common sense. She doesn’t like you, but she saved you. That’s what team members do. You left me behind twice; what makes you think I would ever let you have control over Bentley ever again? And not someone I trust my life with?” I was kind of flattered and everyone seemed taken back. “You haven’t even known her for a year!” “But the trust is still there Rachel! You don’t fucking get it!” Sato came in and said, “Major, Bentley’s fist purposely went for Rachel. You were subconsciously controlling him.” She looked at Sato, confused and said, “What?” “You have no recollection of anything that happened? You saw none of that felt none of it?” She seemed a little nervous but didn’t really show it, but I felt it. “We think you’re synced-“ he tried to say but Riggs wouldn’t let him have the satisfaction without tearing her apart first. She got up right in her face and said, “Fuck you Kayvroni.” Still focused on what Sato just said, she turned to her and said, “You had your chance.” Riggs looked at her and bit her lip. She turned around and walked to the coffee table and took a pot and threw it at Kay. Kay wasn’t even looking but her hand rose up in the air and caught it. She chucked it right back at her and it hit her shoulder. I heard Sato tell CC to go to the holding area and watch if Bentley does anything. She snuck out of the room and ran down the hall. Riggs got mad and leaped over the railing and tackle Kay. But Kay wouldn’t have any of this anymore, I think she was almost to the breaking point, and took her fist and landed it right in her chin; again. Her head snapped back and she fell to the ground. Kay took out her gun and pointed it right at her. “I’m not playing your games anymore. I don’t care what you think, I don’t care how or what you feel, I do not care anymore. Leave me alone or I’ll have no hesitation to wipe you off the face of the Earth. You brought me to a breaking point, and I’m in no mood for your shit anymore,” she said. I looked closely and it looked like she almost had a tear in her eye. “Kay, common. Put it down,” I said. I think she really stood there and deeply thought about pulling that trigger. Riggs stood up in front of the gun and moved back a tiny bit. I walked over to Kay slowly and stood next to her. “Put it down,” I whispered to her. I saw her finger tugging lightly on the trigger. “Kay…” I saw a flash of red in her eyes and then she put then gun down. I tried to take it out of her hand but she wouldn’t let go of her grip. I put my hand on her back and we went to turn around and walk out of the room to get her away from Riggs. Right when we reached the door, she turned around, pointed her gun and shot it at Riggs all in a matter of two seconds. It whizzed right by her left temple and landed in the wall. She flinched. Kay turned around and left the room.

Day 27

I found Kay sitting on the couch

In our room, rubbing her eyes. “What’s going on with you?” I asked her. “I have no idea Al.” She seemed irritated. “Are you feeling better?” She shook her head and said, “No. Where is everyone?” I debated whether I should tell her or not because I didn’t want to set her off. “They’re floating around,” I decided to tell her. She took her hand off of her eyes and looked at me. “Where is everyone?” she asked again in a serious tone, knowing I was keeping information from her. I looked at her with a blank face and said, “Looking for your deleted file.” She looked at me and turned back putting her hands on her eyes again. An almost smirk came across her face, but she stopped herself. I expected her to say something sarcastic but she didn’t this time. “What’s going on Kay?” I asked her, seeing if I can get an answer out of her. “Until you know, I’ll know. And until I found out, then you won’t know,” she responded in riddles. I don’t even think she comprehended what she was saying anymore. She was completely out of it. I was almost scared we were gunna loose her completely if we didn’t figure it out. Everyone made if seem like it was so much worse. Right now she was tolerable, but I wasn’t sure for how much longer. I saw her get up and walk out of the room. “Where ya goin?” I asked her. She turned around and said, “What are you writing book?” and walked out of the room. I thought to myself about what she said in the beginning; about how she wasn’t going to be nice sometimes when things were rough, but not to take it personally. Maybe she knew this was going to happen. Maybe I caught her at the right time.

     I walked down to see how Ringo and them were doing with the mobile suits. I saw Kay on the opposite side of the room leaning on the scalpel railing looking at Bentley. I walked over to Ringo and asked him where CC was. “She’s trying to interfere with waves on the premises if there is any with WD to see where they’re coming from. Riggs is looking up firewalls to see if there are any disturbances in the area. So far we got nothing.” “You know Kay is over there watching you guys right? Or she’s watching Bentley, either or.” He turned around and looked up. He saw Kay standing there looking back at him. “Hey sport! How ya feelin?” he asked her. She put a thumbs up and jumped down from the scalpel and walked towards us. You could see that something was wrong; how she held herself, but none of us knew what it was. “I’ll live. You guys worry too much,” and she waved her hand like nothing was wrong. She kept eyeballing Bentley. “Where’s Riggs?” she asked. “She’s around. Don’t exactly know where but she’s here somewhere,” Ringo responded. Riggs came out of the blue and walked up to us. “I heard my name?” She looked over at Kay and asked her how she was feeling. She nodded her head and said, “Ok.” “I try to be nice and I get a one word answer,” Riggs mumbled. “Please Rachel. I heard you call me a fucking disaster. So your concern for me does not touch me in any way,” Kay said. We all stood there thinking, how she heard Riggs, she wasn’t even in the room. “Stay away from him. He’ll kill you,” and she pointed to Bentley. “I’m gunna kill you,” Riggs shot back. Kay opened her mouth to say something but shut her eyes like she was in pain. She held her head again and said, “Funny one,” and left. “She doesn’t look too good. You think she’ll be okay?” Ringo asked me. “I have no idea. But from what I’ve learned about her so far, I think she’ll make it. Eventually, she’ll be fine.”

Nothing seemed to change in her state

She seemed the same for the next couple days. The usual headache, the usual attitude, it was all just the usual. Her and Riggs have been getting into fights more frequently, which is probably triggering something inside that brain of hers. But we wouldn’t know until we found out. She seemed to be training as often as she could, when she didn’t have a headache. I happened to walk in on her while she was training. She looked like she stopped for a breather and was kneeling on the ground. But I got up close to her, and it wasn’t what I thought it was. She was gripping the ground with her nailed embedded in the floor. Her back was arched over and her head was leaning on the floor. She tried to get up but fell right back down. I snuck up behind her and was going to attempt to put a needle in before it got any worse. But I guess she sensed me and told me not to do it, she wanted to figure out how much she could take. She was shaking like she was getting electrocuted. I looked closer and her eyes were glowing red. I sat in front of her, watching her, making sure everything would turn out okay. “You can’t do this Kay. Let me help you, please. You’re killing yourself,” I told her. But she wouldn’t have it. “I’m beating this…” she said. She managed to get on her own two feet and stood there for a couple minutes, fighting the violent vibrations. Then she collapsed. Out of nowhere, I heard a huge crash, and then the alarm went off. “Security breach in mobile suit holding area. Security breach in mobile suit holding area.” I couldn’t possibly imagine what it was. Somehow though, Kay managed to get to her feet again. “Common,” she said. She stumbled her way down the hall, and then managed to run. We ran into the holding area to see Bentley struggling to get the holding chains off of him. His eyes were also glowing red. Everyone was yelling orders to get everything back into order, but Bentley was especially stubborn at the moment. Sato came running in and saw what was happening. Riggs spotted Kay and started yelling at her. “Kay! Fucking make this machine stop!” But Kay could barely keep her composure. She fell back with her arms swinging trying to grab onto something. The next thing you know, Bentley’s fist comes crashing into the wall at full speed, and then he fell backwards. “I’m getting huge interference!” shouted CC. Leeha ran over to Kay and knelt down next to her to see if she was okay. “She’s unconscious,” I told her. I lifted up her eyelids to see if her eyes were rolled in the back of her head, but they were still glowing red. I turned around to see Bentley getting up. “Bentley, this is Lieutenant Rachel Riggs. I order you to have your previous commands ceased and to return to standby mode,” Riggs said. I turned to Leeha and asked her why Riggs was ordering Bentley around. “A while back, we came to an agreement if anything happened to Kay, Riggs would take over custody and command of Bentley. We programmed him to listen to her if she was incapable of giving orders.” I turned around to see if Bentley listened, but he wanted no part of it. “I think something is wrong with him,” I said. His fist came crashing into the floor then his foot came smashing into the wall. The alarm was still going off and there was no way of stopping it. “Bentley, that is a direct order!” shouted Riggs. Bentley’s head moved and his eyes seemed to focus on Riggs. I had a feeling something very bad was going to happen. I got up and leaped over the scalpel and ran towards Riggs. “Riggs! Move out of his way!” I yelled to her. She looked at me and at that second, Bentley’s fist came flying in her direction. “Sweet Jesus!” I heard Ringo scream. I got to Riggs right in time to push her away from the impact. “GO!” I told her. While his fist was still in the ground, I jumped up on it and ran up his arm up to his control panel. “CC! Come up here!” I yelled to her. She maneuvered her way up Bentley without getting hit. I was in his eyesight, so he would focus on me. “See if you can intercept what’s going on and make it stop,” I told her. She shook her head and went into the control panel. “Bentley, why are you doing this…” I mumbled under my breath. I guess he heard me somehow and responded, “I am carrying out mere subconscious actions of the Major. I am only following commands Lieutenant Warsfield.” We all stopped what we were doing and looked at him. “Her subconscious is my control. But I will carry out your orders as you please Lieutenant,” he said. His eyes flashed and went blank. He walked back to his usual stance were he would stay and went back into standby mode. CC came up from the cockpit and said, “I didn’t know you were a Lieutenant?” I stared blankly at the opposite wall and said, “I didn’t think anybody would.”

Day 26

When we got back to base

Kay was quite and just went to her room. The Chief met us in the lounge and we all sat down and talked. “Well, what happened?” the Chief asked us. “The doctors told us electrical waves were interfering with her brain waves,” Sato said. “Which means she could possibly have a brain chip still installed in her from previous whatever. We asked her personally in her room at the hospital after she was escorted back, because she escaped, you know how she is, but she said she doesn’t know. So this could be a problem. We have to monitor her closely and I want tests run on everything that is installed in Bentley. That means Ringo and Riggs, get a move on-“ “I can go too if you want. I’m specialized in mobile suit program installations and ballistics, and computers, and all that’s electronical,” CC said. “Good. Well now we know where we could place you later on. So that’s that. Allison, keep a close eye on Kayvroni and the actions she has with Bentley. This is a serious matter,” explained Sato. “Very well. Sato I want you to do a full background check or Kayvroni. Go as far back as you can. Allison, go with him,” the Chief ordered. “Yes Chief,” we said. “Well, how serious is it?” Riggs said, probably pretending to care. “Remember how serious it was last time? Worse. She could die. The doctors wouldn’t even tell us she could die. But we knew, and he agreed,” Leeha said. “Fucking disaster…” she muttered. “This is serious Rachel. Shut the fuck up and go do what you were ordered to do. Because if we don’t figure this out, you’re probably going to be a number one target when she has an outbreak,” shouted Leeha. Riggs already got up and was half way out of the room before Leeha was done speaking. Everyone went about their business and we were going to try and help Kay as much as we could.

     Me and Sato went into the computer room. Sato sat down in front of the wall with a huge screen and I pulled up a chair next to him. We got on and looked up Kay’s files. “Major Captain Kayvroni Washamarou, nineteen, operative for blah blah blah…” He was mumbling everything he was reading and then he attempted to go as far back as he could; but he stopped. “What?” I asked him. I looked on the screen and in big red letters it said file can not be found. “Shit. It’s not here.” He was looking around frantically through the computer files but couldn’t find what he needed. All that was there was the current profile of who she was, and nothing more. Nothing of her past, nothing of where she came from; it was like a huge mystery. “How could this be possible?” he said to himself. “Well, did anyone actually look at her past files when she got here? Or did you guys just put in a current profile and started a new one?” I asked him. “No, we’ve had to have done a background check?” He picked up the phone next to him and called for Leeha. “Leeha, did we do a background check on Kay when she first came here? - Yeah, that’s what I thought, but it’s not here- No- I don’t know, I checked all the files under her and I found nothing. It says file can not be found and then I go down the screen and it’s white- Okay, I’ll let you know.” “Well what did she say?” “She said exactly what I said. And she thinks somehow Kay deleted it. No one has checked that girl’s file for years. It’s normally always there when we need it, so she could’ve deleted it at anytime,” Sato said. He sat back and stared at the screen. We heard footsteps behind us and we turned around to see Kay was standing in the door. “How long have you been there?” I asked her. “Just got here.” “Shit! NO, what the hell is going on?!” I turned around to see Sato yelling at the computer. “It’s crashing!” The screen started blinking red, and on the screen popped up “erasing file.” We both turned around and Kay was gone. “What the hell is going on,” Sato said. “I just lost her whole file. That’s impossible. These computers are impossible to hack in to.” “Unless you know them. Or unless you’re a computer yourself,” I said. He turned to me and I think he got the idea. “I think we have a serious problem,” he said. The computer turned off it self, and by that time, Sato got up and walked through the doors. I sat there and thought for a moment and then followed him. He was in the hall looking in all directions for Kay. “She nowhere to be found.” He started walking and I followed him into the lounge. “Is Kay here?” he asked. Takuya and Leeha looked up and Leeha said, “No, why?” “Because she came into the room while we were looking up her file, and then the whole file was erased, and then the whole computer crashed, and she left right after this happened,” Sato explained. Confusing looks came across her face. “What? How is that possible?” Takuya asked. “I have no idea. But Al brought up a valid point. I said there are security systems like crazy in all of our systems and it should be impossible to get through. Then Al said not unless you’re a computer or something like that. If she has a chip, she could be aware that were looking at her files and erasing all of them. Maybe there’s something she wants to hide from us. Which I don’t understand why, we’re her family pretty much,” Sato said. “Yeah, but she has no idea what’s going on? She doesn’t even remember anything?” Takuya said. He shrugged his shoulders and left the room. “Try and pull up her files on any other computer!” he said while he walked out of the room. Takuya and Leeha left to go check to see if they can find Kay’s files. I got up and went back to my room.

Day 25

When we got to the emergency room

It wasn’t any ordinary one. I believe it was actually a part of R.A.I.S. a special medical facility specially made for operatives. There were already doctors standing in the doors waiting for us. They took Kay on the stretcher and ran through the double doors no one was aloud to go through. Sato and Leeha went up to the desk to fill out paper work, when two people came up to them. I saw them talking but I couldn’t make out what they were saying. I think they were speaking Japanese, but then they started speaking English. The two left and Leeha came towards me. “I told them to speak English so you can be filled in to about what’s going on.” “Thanks but I know Japanese.”

While we sat in the waiting area, it was like we were getting special treatment. All the doctors came up to us and talked to us, they offered us things and it just seemed like special treatment to me. “We’re well known in this hospital because of Kayvroni. Everyone knows who she is, whether they want to or not. They have no choice but to help us.” The more I sat there, the more impatient I got, and the more I thought about Riggs doing what she did. I vent to Sato and Leeha about it and all they had to say was, “That’s Rachel Riggs for you. They have history and I guess it just gets worse and worse for them.” “But she could have died! She just stood there and watched her in pain!” I bugged out. “It’s not the first time she’s done that. And it’s not the first time she’s left her like that. Except this time, I don’t know why she did it,” Leeha said. I was getting so pissed off just thinking about it. We were there for a couple of hours I think; I dozed off a lot of the time. Every time a doctor came to talk to us, Leeha would always wake me up and tell me what happened. “She’s just getting a lot of tests done, so it could take a while.”

          I woke up to the same thing that was happening hours before, nothing. Me and Leeha sat around in the waiting area, and Sato was just walking around. A doctor came through the doors and went over to Sato. I watched them talk for about five seconds and then Sato followed the doctor to where we were sitting. “Well, she came to, so she is now conscious in her room. She’s resting now, so you can see her in a bit. As for what happened, we are not exactly sure, but it was some sort of electrical wave interfering with her brain waves somehow. Which, as you guys should know, is not good. If this is the case, it could be a sign of a chip still installed inside of her. We could run some more tests and see what how it goes but it’s up to her. And we all know how stubborn your Major is,” he explained to us. “What’s a chip?” I asked. I knew what it was, but I knew what it was and what it did in my company. I didn’t know what it was capable of here. “A chip is something put inside of someone, specifically an operative of some sort, to collect the brain waves and replace them with other waves made from the chip. It can erase memory, change a person completely or it could be mobile suit related. In the Major’s case, it could be all three, but we mostly suspect it’s from her past and she never got it taken out or she forgot about it. It’s a big deal. That’s the best way I can describe it as of now, even though it sounds like a childish explanation, but you can go home and look them up on your own time,” the doctor said. “Well is it serious?” I asked him again. He looked at me, and then looked at Leeha and Sato, and walked away. I looked at Leeha for an answer but she wouldn’t say anything. “Sato?” He looked up and said, “She could die.” I looked at him but before I could say anything, the doors came crashing open. I could see through the doors there was a red light flashing and an alarm going off. I look at the doors and saw Kay. “Get me the fuck out of here,” she said directly to me walking towards us. The doctors and security guards started coming after her. Kay looked behind her and started to run. “NO! Go away! I’m fine! I swear!” One of the doctors grabbed her and she started struggling. “NO, NO, NO!” she screamed. “Leeha tell them I’m ok!” But all Leeha did was go up to her and give her a small needle in the arm to calm her down. Kay looked at her, but she loosened up in the grip of the doctor. “Why…” The doctor brought her back to her room and the security guards followed. She managed to look behind her and straight at me. She made a face that said, “Why are you letting them take me? Come help me out,” but there was nothing I could do. One of the doctors told us we could follow them into her room, so that’s exactly what we did.

     When we got to her room, we stood behind glass doors and watched because we couldn’t go in yet. The security guard helped the doctor plant her onto the bed and then strapped her in so she couldn’t move. Then they put some collar around her neck. “The collar is for anytime she tries to get out, it will send a shock through her body. It’s more annoying then anything, but there’s not much she can do if she’s strapped down. We apologize we have to do it this way, but you know, she’s stubborn,” a security guard told us. “It’s okay, she gets this every time she goes in the hospital,” Sato said. I guess I saw another side of her today, I don’t know if she was scared or just wanted to get out of there, but she tried to move, and she got a lot of shocks for it. We were aloud to go in and see her, so we went in and tried to calm her down. “Why the fuck am I in here!?” she was yelling. Leeha went up to her bed, leaned over her and looked her in the eyes. “Why am I here Leeha!?” She kept looking at her, and then smacked her across the face real hard. She shut her mouth and looked at Leeha. “Calm down,” she said. To my surprise, she actually calmed down a bit. “Do you have a chip in you?” she asked her. “What?” “Do you, have a chip, in your body?” Kay looked confused and looked over at me. She looked back at Leeha and said in a quite tone, “No?” Leeha turned around and sat in the chair that was in the room. “Well they think you do. And I think you do too. Do you remember anything that happened?” She stopped and thought for a bit and shook her head no. “You’ve had this problem for how many years Kay? And you still don’t know what’s going on, or you refuse to get checked, well I have news for you. The doctors said electrical waves are interfering with your brain waves. Now tell me you don’t have a chip in your brain.” I looked at Kay and her head was back on the pillow and she was staring at the ceiling. “I don’t know Leeha.” She didn’t say much after that.

Day 24

Where is CC?

Kayvroni asked over and over again where she was. “I have no idea. Why do you keep asking?” Riggs said. “You would be the only one in this room,” Kay said sarcastically. “I’m here to,” I acknowledged. She turned to me and asked me if I knew where CC was. “No, I do not. Sorry.” She stormed out of the room on the search for CC. “Someone’s mad…” Riggs mumbled under her breath. Five minutes later she came on over the loud speaker. “CC, please report to the conference room. I repeat, CC please report to the conference room.” “I wonder what’s going on?” I said to Riggs. “How the fuck am I supposed to know?” she said. “God, it’s like I try to be nice, and you’re just a stuck up ass who doesn’t even want to attempt to be liked right now,” and I got up and left. I heard her mumble god knows what but I didn’t care enough to turn around and say anything. While I was making my way towards the door, CC came flying through, ran past me and almost knocked me down. “Sorry!” she shouted. I walked out of the doors and watched her run down the hallway into the conference room. “She’s fast,” I thought to myself. I saw Sato walking down the hall and I stopped and asked him, “What’s going on?” He shrugged his shoulders and said, “No clue, but I’m sure we’ll find.” “Eh, I suppose…” I decided to sit in the hallway because I didn’t really know where else I felt like staying. Twenty minutes later, CC came out of the conference room, and she looked relieved. She found me sitting on the floor and came over to me. “Mind if I sit?” “No, not all.” She sat down next to me and we stared at the wall together. “So, is everything ok? Cause, you ran pretty fast before,” I asked her. “Oh yeah! Everything is fine. Kay was just helping me out with something.” I felt like there was more to it so I decided to try and nudge it out of her. “She seemed pretty pissed; is she okay?” She looked at me and said, “Oh yeah. She was bugging out. But she’s okay now. We got everything under control. She’s just helping me with some background checks and such that’s all.” “Huh, okay. Sounds good.” Then Kay walked out right in time to bump into Riggs. “How are your injuries?” Kay asked miserably. “Like you care,” and she walked away. Kay looked at her and said, “You’re right, I don’t,” and waked the opposite way. CC leaned over and asked me, “Do they always do this?” “Yeah, it’ll get worse too, watch.” “That’s not healthy,” she said. “I know.”

     We were all playing video games, even Sato joined us. I don’t think I really ever seen him be happy and social before, so it was kind of a surprise. Kay was sitting in the corner of the couch looking kind of uncomfortable with her hoodie and her glasses on. “You still have a headache?” Takuya asked. “Yeah, I don’t know what it is.” Then she got up and left the room. She was gone for a good ten minutes. “I wonder what she’s doing. Should someone go and check on her?” Takuya asked. Then we heard a loud crash. “Yeah, yeah I think we should go check on her,” Leeha said. So Leena, Takuya and I got up and went to go see what the crash was which would probably lead us to Kay. We went down the hallway and didn’t see any sign of her. So we turned back and went down another hallway where we heard rustling.  We heard it coming form the medical room so we turned in there to see what was going on. What we saw made our jaws drop. Kay was running around the room frantically throwing everything on the ground trying to look for something. “Where are they!?” I ran in and tried to grab her but she pushed me away. Her hoodie fell off and she shouted “Where the fuck are they!?” “Where is what Kay!? What are you looking for? What’s the matter?” Leeha said almost in a panic. Kay bent on the floor and messed around everything that fell, looking through all the medical equipment. Her sunglasses fell off her face and she looked up and said, “The needles! Where are the god dam needles?!” Her eyes were glowing red like they did yellow when Bentley’s eyes were glowing. I heard Leeha mutter “shit” under her breath, and Takuya gasping. “Takuya get Sato and your brother,” Leeha ordered. Takuya ran out of the room to go get them. “Al, do not touch her.” “WHERE ARE THEYYYY?!” Kay kept screaming. She attempted to get up, but fell down again. She grabbed onto the countertop and tried to stand up and was holding on for dear life. “Help me out here…” Her voice was getting fainter and fainter. Takuya returned with Takashi and Sato and a few others followed. They all stood, frozen, not knowing what to do. Then Kay lost grip, fell down, and grabbed her head. “Grab her!” I said. Takashi and Sato ran over to her to try and play her down on the floor. “Get Rachel!” Sato yelled. But Rachel was already standing in the doorway. “Rachel, you need to do something,” Sato said. “She’s doing it again Rach.” But she just stood there and watched with a straight face. Kay’s eyes were glowing red and she was struggling to breath. Then she tried to get up but it was almost like gravity wouldn’t let her. “Go see if Bentley’s eyes are red!” Sato commanded to whoever would take it. Ringo came in at the right time and heard it, so he ran back to go check. Blood started coming out of her nose and her whole body started to tense up and her hands started to shake. Riggs just stood there and watched. “DO SOMETHING!” I yelled at her. Ringo came back and pushed Riggs out of the way. “Bad news Sato. His eyes are just as red.” I didn’t even know what that meant but I knew it was bad. Kay started to crawl over to Riggs and looked up at her. She tried to speak but couldn’t. Riggs knelt down in front of her to take a good look, got up, and left the room. We were all shocked, and with what seemed like her last breath she said, “Leave me again Rachel… Good job…” Just then, it clicked in my head that she needed the adrenaline needles. So I ran back into my room and came back with a bunch of them. I knelt down beside her and jammed one in the arm and one in the neck and sat next to her and waited. She was breathing pretty heavy but she seemed to be stabilizing. “We need to get her to the emergency room now,” Sato said. So Takashi lifted up Kay in his arms and ran down the hall with Sato, Leena and I behind. Takuya, Ringo, and CC stayed behind to clean.

         

Day 23

The next day everything seemed ok

I walked passed Riggs’ room to see her lying on her bed holding her head and moving her jaw. I bumped into CC and she had a puzzled look on her face. “You ok?” I asked her. She stood there for a moment in self thought and said, “Yeah, yeah, I’m fine. Thank you though.” I gave her a smile and nodded my head and continued my way down the hall. I heard her shout from down the hall, “When you first came here, everything got better in time right? Everything got cool again?” I turned around and stared at her for a bit trying to figure out what she meant. “Yeah,” I said not really knowing what else to say. She looked down then back up at me. “You better keep an eye on your Major. She’s not doing too hot,” she said. Again, I looked at her trying to figure out what she was talking about. “What are you saying?” “I’m just saying. She needs you,” and she turned the other way and walked down the hall. Confused as anything I went back to direction I was walking. I went into the lounge to find Leeha by herself making a cup of coffee. “What is CC talking about?” I asked her. I figured maybe she knew, since she knew a lot of things first. “I think the question is, what are you talking about?” “Well, I was walking over here and I passed her in the hallway and then she asked me when I got here, if everything got better, and I didn’t know what to say. So I said yeah, and then she told me the Major isn’t doing too hot. What does that even mean?” She looked at me strangely; she looked down and turned her attention to her coffee. “Yeah, well Kay isn’t really doing too hot.” I looked at her and said, “Well is anybody going to explain to me why? Or what’s going on?” She turned back around and looked at me dead in the eye. “Well, in the past, Kay has had some- troubles, I guess you can say; with herself. She’s been through a lot and it takes a toll on you, even for an adult. And to go through those things that young, I can only imagine what it’s like inside of her head. And lately she’s been acting weird with Bentley and we’re not sure why, but we think we’re going to find out really soon. And Riggs isn’t helping either. So there are a lot of factors to what’s going on. But the last time something like this happened, it wasn’t good, and she left. We all guessed the stress was too much but we know there’s more to it. Then she came back-“ “You guys asked her to come back,” I interrupted. She shook her head and said, “No, we suggested it. It was the only safe place for her. We could watch her and make sure nobody gets to her. We could help her out, give her moral support, and maybe eventually figure out what’s wrong with her. She gets explosive Allison. It’s not safe for any of us, or her for that matter, and we need to figure it out fast before something goes horrifically wrong.” I knew it was serious because no one really calls me Allison unless it’s serious. I looked at her and she had a serious look in her eyes. “She could very well kill herself if we don’t find out what’s going on.” I didn’t want to believe what she just told me, but I knew it was very possible. Looking back in my records I had of her, I knew what she’s done, I knew what she was capable of, and I knew the longer she lived and the more she grew, the greater danger she became to herself. But I didn’t know how real that was until know. “We don’t know how, or why she came through to you, but right now you seem to be her only post. Hold her up for us until we figure this out,” Leeha told me. “So what your telling me is she’s mentally unstable?” She nodded her head and said, “Exactly.” I looked at her then stormed out of the room.

     Sitting at the computer, I looked up every possible piece of information I could get on Kay. I wanted to know everything possible about her, everything she’s been through, all the missions, all her health records, everything. And the only way to do that was to go through her file, which was highly illegal unless granted access. I sat staring at the large screen trying to figure out what to do. I knew I couldn’t hack into anything; that would just be wrong. I would do it in my old days, but not now, I was a changed person. So I sat there and came to the conclusion that I would just have to ride it out and see what happens. “Gay…” I muttered to myself. “I know I’m not, but what are you?” I heard a voice behind me and turned around to see it was Takashi. “Can’t bring yourself to hack into it, can you?” I don’t know how he knew what I was trying to do but he was right. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said. “Don’t play dumb. I know you’re worried, but there’s not much we can do. We just have to wait and be prepared. Leeha told me the conversation you had. I came in right after you left and she told me to go check on you and see if you were okay.” “You guys do know that half of her problems are here right? Half of how she is, is because she’s back here right? You do know that? So why would you suggest she comes back? Why would you-“ “WE, didn’t do anything. We suggested it. She took it upon herself to come back. She wasn’t happy about it, but she did it. She knows better. In the amount of sanity she still has left, she knows better,” he interrupted me this time. “Don’t play that game with us. Don’t play the blame game. Because I guarantee you, everybody here has something to blame on everybody for the way they are. But in the end of the day, if it wasn’t for each other, we wouldn’t be here now, and we wouldn’t be who we are. We help each other. We’re humans, we make mistakes but we fix them. Together. We are a team; we act like a team. And you are a part of it now,” he said. I was almost close to tears, which I haven’t cried in so long I forgot how it feels. I took a breath and said, “I know. I know, I’m just worried, that’s all.” “You, me, and the rest of the team kid. Welcome to our lives,” and he patted my head and left.