GEORGINA

"Gina," says Clarisse as soon as she opens the door. "What a surprise to see you here," she shows me the way inside.

Her house is quite cozy. Small, compared to ours, but big enough for the five persons that live here. We sit down in the living room face to face.

"How are you, Rayvon and the children?" I ask in an attempt to start the conversation.

"Molly just turned thirteen, she's excited experiencing her teenage years." She leaves me thinking of what I could have felt of having a child of mine and having time to be around her. I clear my throat forcing a smile and she keeps boasting. "Thomas is trying his best in college, Rayvon quite good if I am being honest and Levy, well startling everyone," she says and I nod as he mentions each of her family members.

"I can imagine," She nods a little bit uncomfortable. "What about the lawsuit?" I ask after an awkward moment of just staring at each other.

"It's paused," she says rubbing her temples. "America has been hard."

"How so?"

"A year ago, we found laboratories outside the country." She gets my full attention. "Canada, Mexico, Germany, India, China, even Australia... we get rid of them all, nevertheless we couldn't succeed with the kids. The governments disappeared them."

I never heard anything about that. Not even rumors, I thought everything was still as before. The labs continued existing worldwide in my mind, but now it seems like America is the only one still hiding.

"It has been really exhausting. Rayvon is in Washington D.C right now following reports of people that believe they have seen something there," she says and instantly I know those reports have been done by the scientists themselves. When her people are about to find something they always guide them in the wrong direction. There's nothing in Washington. "We are close," she says but the reality is the opposite.

"I have something for you," I interrupt and search for the list between the yellow folders in my bag. She takes it and putting her glasses on, she reads it. She looks just like Levy, brown hair and eyes similar to his but in contrast with his son's tan skin tone, hers is a bit lighter.

"What's this?" she asks without raising her look from the list of cities.

"The laboratories in the country." She looks at me again.

"How?" she begins to say and looks at the list once again, unable to believe in it. "Washington is not here..."

"Distractions," I explain. "The closer you think you are, the farthest you actually are... except for you according to what Madison told me."

"You?"

"The house is a lab, yes," I reply and she covers her mouth, unable to look at me.

"Why are you telling me this? It doesn't make any sense."

I tell her everything since the beginning, just as I did with Madison: my relationship with Sean, his relation to Wen, when did I start to get involved with the experiments, my relationship with Madison, Alison's liberation, and at the end, I finally explain my plan. When I finish at least an hour has gone by and my phone hasn't stop buzzing call after call from Sean and Wen which let me know they just notice none of the girls are here.

"Poor girl," is everything she says when she's done processing the situation and honestly I can't figure out if she's talking about Madison or the child. "How would you like to start?" she asks.

"I am not a lawyer," I reply. She sighs passing her hands one over the other. "I think the best thing we could do is to start with this lab and then proceed with the rest of them. After all, our child is safe for now."

"Where are they?" she asks.

"I... don't know," I say and she sighs. "And I think it's for the best."

"Gina, this will be extremely hard," she says, "there could possibly be legal implications for you. And for Madison, based on what you said there are a lot of contracts in between. There are a hundred different ways this might end."

"Thank God you are an excellent lawyer."

"I don't think you are getting what I am trying to say," she lets out a worried laugh.

"I do, I will be playing for both parts but when the time comes I will do everything to support this cause... for the kids." I take the folders out from my bag. "These are copies of some experiment reports that we practiced on this child." I walk to her and hand them over. "There are some agreements regarding Madison's situation too, just study them all and we will act when the perfect moment arrives."

"Ten kids, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Boston, New Orleans, Phoenix... too many lives," she names the list of labs that I gave to her and I nod.

"God, in what moment the world got so messed up?"

* * *

"Mrs. Wrestler," greets me Teo helping me to get out of the car.

"How's everything, Teo?" I ask waiting for the obvious reply while he walks me to the entrance.

"I could say the tide is very agitated ma'am," he replies opening the door. My blood leaves my whole body when I notice Levy's presence in the living room with my husband and Wen.

MADISON

The TV ends up being the most boring thing in the world but compared to literally being locked in a room, with a six-year-old girl, who doesn't know anything about the world. It's not that bad.

I go to the kitchen hoping to find something to eat meanwhile, I end up getting an orange. I open the knives drawer to cut it and find a note inside the drawer.

I am pretty sure you are about to eat just because you are bored, DON'T let Jessica win.

Just kidding, look in the wardrobe. I left a gift for you both.

-Levy.

I laugh at the last message my best friend left before leaving me. I go to the wardrobe and this time I find the box of my favorite game in the world along with a new note.

I really hope Alison wins.

I laugh bending down to take the box and shake it in front of Alison who is hypnotized with the news that really doesn't have anything important to tell. I don't think it's even possible to play this game with someone her age, starting with the fact that the game is designed for children older than eight. But given the situation, it's worth the try.

"Come here," I tell her turning the TV off, sitting on the floor, and in less than two seconds she's already in front of me. "Sit down," I say pointing at the spot on the floor right in front of me and she obeys. I open the box and start taking out everything that we need for the game.

"What's this?" she asks.

"A game, so we won't get bored," I tell her organizing everything and she nods.

"What is bored?" she asks with a pretty sweet voice.

"It's like a feeling you get when you are not doing anything funny or entertaining," I say organizing everything.

"Does it hurt?" she asks. I gulp.

"No, it doesn't hurt to get bored, it's just boring," I say and she nods.

"Mo-no-poly," she says reading the big letters in the center of the board and then reads the rest of it. "Look, Madison!" she says pointing with her little finger at one property: Madison Avenue.

"Wow, you found my name!" I say faking my amusement for her and she nods with a very big smile on her face, like if she had found a treasure.

"What's this?" she asks again when I give her a bunch of fake money.

"Money," I reply, organizing my bills by color against my side of the board and as any kid would do, she copies me. "With those, you can buy anything... in the game."

"How?"

"Well, you just give me the amount that sums up whatever you want to buy and I would give you what you want."

"Can I buy chocolate?" her eyes get wide open and I leave out a laugh.

"You can buy chocolate with real money, with this, no one will ever sell you anything," I tell her and she looks backs at the game, then I notice she mentioned something we never showed her. "Alison, do you know what chocolate is?" she nods smiling again.

"Daddy gives me one when I am good," she says getting my attention.

"Really?" she nods. "Does he harms you?"

"Harms?"

"Does it hurt? When daddy tells you to be good?"

"Sometimes," she says when she's done organizing her bills and then looks at me. I think I get it, in exchange for her letting them test her they give her chocolate... her life in exchange for candy and she doesn't even know.

GEORGINA

"Where the fuck where you at?" says Sean as soon as I get in. I don't think I have ever seen him this angry, he's not used to cursing. But anyway I ignore him and just walk to the living room where Levy is as paled as a ghost. How did he end up here? Where's my daughter? Where's the child?

"What's going on here?" I ask when I am next to Wen, face to face with Levy who just looks at me without knowing what to do or say.

"It seems that your daughter took the girl away, Georgina," Wen explains and I nod.

"That's exactly why I left and look for them. I noticed in the morning when I was planning on giving the nutrients to the child," I lie and Levy's look goes from me to Dr. Hoffman's.

"And you didn't think it was important enough to notify us? We have been calling you all day," Wen asks.

"I forgot to charge my phone," I lie again. "What is he doing here?" I point at Levy with my head and this time is Sean who replies.

"We found him coming back from somewhere."

"And?"

"We scanned the truck and found fingerprints from the girl in the back window, but even with the proofs, he refuses to tell us anything."

"Levy..." I begin to say and he interrupts.

"I won't say anything unless there's a lawyer present and that will only be my mother," he says and in the inside, I want to clap my hands at this guy, they won't call his mother.

"You are not with the police Mr. Blanchard," Wen warns him but there's no way they are getting him to talk without Clarisse noticing. "But if you refuse to talk we can take you to court for being an accomplice of kidnapping. We just want to know where your friend went."

"Perfect, take me there and I will reveal the location of your precious lab, I dare you," Levy attacks and I bite my tongue to keep me from laughing at the crossroad he leaves them in.

Half an hour later they don't get him to talk and began to get desperate because time keeps running and the more it runs, the more the girl could know and jeopardize their objectives.

"Sign this and you can leave," Wen says putting some papers on the table. It's a confidentiality agreement. If he signs that, later he could harm us or himself. I look at him quickly trying to get him to look me in the eyes, succeeding seconds later. I shake my head lightly to keep the rest of them to notice my movement and then I just articulate the word no in my lips.

"I won't sign any fucking paper," he says standing up dramatically throwing the papers to the floor and walking to the exit.

"Gina..." says Wen and I nod following Levy to the garden.

When we are relatively far from anyone that could hear us, we stop and Levy looks at me, still paled. Just when I am about to ask him what was exactly what happened he decides to talk. "They are fine, I was entering the city when they ambushed me," he begins to say, "the van closed right in front of me and a red car next to me let me without an exit, some people wearing black began to inspect my truck with some sort of machines and dark light. Your husband and the other man, made me enter the black van and brought me here to interrogate me."

"What did you tell them?"

"That I wouldn't talk to them without my mother's presence."

"Great, your mother knows about the situation," I say, "try not to tell her about what happened today, I assure you that you're going to be fine."

"What about Madison? Is she going to be okay?" he asks and this time I gulp, I don't know.