Brand New Lives – 04
‘Will it hurt?’ Katie asked. ‘The teleporting-‘
‘Will it hurt?’ Katie asked. ‘The teleporting-‘
Stormy Note: So I’m going to go through the scratch I have for IOI, and upload the pieces that are closest to being done – it won’t make it a proper and full book, but it’s something while this hiatus is going on. Note for this chapter: Once they got the kid back to the Agency, […]
The coffee shop was small, and as far as Stef could tell, entirely human. ‘The medical is almost finished,’ she said, reading the update stream in her HUD. ‘Jonesy has booked the Tech conference room to go over what we know, and discuss next steps.’ Ryan lifted his coffee. ‘We can head back whenever you […]
Stef had her nose pushed to the window of the observation window that looked down on the surgical suite – though no surgery was taking place. Below, Ryan observed as he walked around the curved path towards his daughter, the Parkers were going through a complete medical workup with Austin Reilly. In other parts of […]
Ryan looked around the waiting room – it was an affectation that most Directors had. It was an affectation that even Reynolds had bowed to.
Ryan was careful to ignore the looks of some of his recruits as the pirate followed him back to his office. The stares weren’t impolite, just…incredulous. The sight was strange, to be sure, but in the Agency, strange sights were to be expected. Hook, for his part, said nothing to exacerbate the situation – he […]
Ryan looked to his office door. There had been a knock. His HUD told him it was Stef outside – and she had knocked, instead of shifting in – a sign to be a little worried for her. She went through strange cycles of this – on good days, she would shift straight in, on […]
Stef shuffled nervously back and forth across the Hyde lobby. Ryan had told her when he would be shifting in, and even worldwide shifting didn’t take more than a few seconds, but it had felt nice to be early. It gave her the appearance of being organised – even if he loved her for who […]
The spare chair was already waiting for her. Stef slid into the leather chair – the first piece of furniture she’d ever sat on in the Agency. The first constant of her new life.
The walk past the other dorm rooms was normal – the same looks, the same people looking right past him. Curt, for once, was grateful how much the other Field recruits hated him. If any of them had given a damn, they would have been able to tell something was wrong. Or…they would know what […]