A knock on the door woke me with a start. I moved so quickly I knocked Lenna's head off my shoulder in the process. She sat up, startled, while I tried to rub the sleep out of my eyes. I glanced at her before standing and heading for the door. I had no idea how long we had been sleeping, we could've been out ten minutes or hours. My bearings were still off when the door slid open, revealing Kade with his hand raised to knock again.

His eyes went me to Lenna and back. "Oh, you are awake. I, uh, figured we should have a meeting in the common room. We need to decide what our next step is."

Nodding, I heard Lenna stand up behind me. "Yeah, that's a good idea. We'll be right there."

He glanced between Lenna and I one more time before nodding his head slowly. He took a step back before turning, heading down the hall for the common room.

Lenna came up beside me and smiled, bumping my shoulder as she stepped out of the door. After a second, I smiled and followed her. I felt lighter, like a weight had been sitting on my shoulders for years and it was suddenly gone. I didn't know if she felt the same way or not, but it was nice knowing that someone knew it all. I had been keeping secrets for so long that it was both a strange and welcomed feeling.

Axon was already waiting in the common room, the box of cookies back on the table from where he had hidden them. I offered a smile before taking one.

Kade stood at the end of the table, his hands on the backrest of the chair. He looked tense, not at all how my own body felt. Dark circles were barely visible under his eyes, but they were there. I wondered if he had gotten any sleep like the rest of us. "I've been thinking about what we saw in there...we all got footage on our comm units, right? I think we should turn it in."

My brows pulled tight. Lenna met my eyes from across the table. "Turn it in? To who? The GPF are the ones behind this, Kade."

His knuckles turned white on the chair. "I know, but we have to do something. We can't just sit here."

He was right, obviously. I had been thinking the same thing the night before. But what could we do? Even if we leaked the footage to the news channels or something, the GPF would have enough influence to make it look like a sick joke or something. It wouldn't work. Kade's face grew more frustrated when I said just that.

"What do you suggest then? We have to do something."

"I agree, obviously. But we have to be really smart about this...my dad knows we're out here, trying to figure it all out. But with the whole GPF against us?" I shrugged helplessly, "I don't know what our next step is...I'm just so sorry I brought you all into this."

Axon, previously busy chomping down on cookie after cookie, sat up straighter. "You didn't bring us into anything. We went along with you on our own accord. We're in this together, TJ. Just like everything else."

As Kade voiced his agreement and Lenna nodded her head, I felt my throat get thick.

A beep from the comm system in the center of the table came through. I shrugged when Kade glanced at me. Looking at the incoming call on my wrist holo and I knew it could only be one person. "It's from Antares, it must be Zed." Kade nodded his head and I approved the call.

Zed's face appeared a few inches above the table. "Well, I see you're all still in one piece."

"More or less." Kade said, his arms crossing over his chest. "We've just been to that station we told you about...Zed, it ain't pretty."

The man's face scrunched up, "I'm sure it's not but I don't want to hear about it, if it's the same to you. I'm calling because I have something that might just interest you all."

I leaned closer to the table, my curiosity peaked. "What is it?"

"A storage compound - for CD."

Crouched low behind a line of trees, we sat through three rounds of security passes. We would only have once chance at this.

"How many people on site?"

Kade voice was low as he spoke beside Lenna. On the other side of her, I had my wrist holo showing the blue print and heat signatures of the compound. Our aim wasn't to kill a bunch of people - we just want to take the drug off the market. "Five inside, they seem to be checking the product over. Three outside doing rounds."

Nodding, Kade handed Axon the binoculars. "And the security rounds go every two minute, passing each other every sixty seconds. That means I'll have a minute to get in before the next pass." He looked over Lenna head at me, "Getting back out will be harder."

I dropped my wrist to the ground, the holo screen flickering from the impact. "What do you mean 'you'?"

He dropped from his elbows onto one shoulder, "I'm going in to plant the package, you guys will stay out here to keep an eye on everything. You can give me a heads up if I'm getting unwanted company."

He started up on his hands and knees, backing up until he was out of danger of being spotted. I watched him for a moment with my mouth hanging open before I scrambled to get up. "What? You're insane if you think you're going in there alone!"

Picking up the backpack that held the ingredients, he strapped it to his back securely. "One person going in is the easiest, we're more likely to succeed if one person does it."

"And that person has to be you?"

He paused tying the strap around his waste. Looking up, he nodded, "Yeah, it's going to be me. You're my eyes out there, don't let me down." He was sneaking around the trees before I could say anything else.

Tossing my hands in the air, I looked at Lenna and Axon who both seemed to be studying the shrubbery guarding us from view. With a groan, I dropped down the ground beside them. From our vantage point, we could see Kade make his way down the small embankment and towards the compound. Bringing up the blue print again, we could watch the red dots move around the perimeter. The closer they got the more my stomach felt like it was going to show me those cookies I had eaten earlier.

He made it to the next hiding spot - an electrical box the size of my cabin on the Phoenix - just as the security guards rounded the corners. I counted to thirty in my head as I watched them pass each other and continue on. The second they were a few paces passed Kade's hiding spot, he bolted towards the side of the building. Using a set of mag-climbers, he scaled the side of the building in seconds. Leaving plenty of time before the next guard would walk by.

I wasn't about to admit how impressed I was.

The next five minutes were the most excruciating in recent memory, and that was saying something. All we could do was watch the small holo-screen on my wrist, keeping an eye on the red dots and the single blue one. Five minutes wasn't a lot of time to get in, plant the bomb, and get back out. But if anyone could do it - I knew Kade could. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, his little blue dot started to move back from the middle of the compound to his exit. A few moments later and we watched him appear on the roof, hid just beyond the edge until the security guard passed, and began his decent over the side.

I was so busy watching him that I didn't see a new red dot on the edge of my screen. That is until a shot rang out in the silence and Kade fell off the wall like a rag doll.

A/N

I'm sorry??? D: