Lucas decided to take a walk to help him calm his nerves. He tried thinking of a lesson plan for tomorrow, but all he could think of was the Island exploding.

He was too late, too late to tell her how much he loved her, to late to tell her that he understood why she didn't tell him about Adrian.

He found himself walking towards Adrian's apartment, Her apartment. At first he thought of stopping, of going back, but something pulled him towards it. He looked up at the window, her window...

As he looked up he noticed a light on. A smiled spread across his face. His bursted with energy, and ran towards the apartment. Still looking up, he saw a womanly shadow walk across the room. He ran faster.

Up the stairs he ran towards her apartment. When he got all the way up to the door he bursted through it. With that Lori turned around,

"Professor Amato, I'm, sorry, I just...the light was on and I thought."

Lucas smile faded, "silly, stupid me" he thought, "no matter how strong she is, was, she could of never survived that explosion."

~ 6 ~

The water lay still, as Data 7 swam around trying to find his sisters body...

It had only been 5 or six minutes since the explosion, and he knew she could hold her breath longer then that, he was just worried that she wasn't holding it...that she was unconscious...

Just then he saw bubbles appearing, he swam back to give whatever it was room to come up...

With a burst of energy her body emerged from the sea, gasping for air as if it were life she was clinging on to.

"Von Reichter is dead, or should be," she proclaimed to her brother. He looked at her with a serious face.

"You expect me to go down there and check?" she asked.

Data 7 nodded.

"Listen, I know we need him alive for sustenance, but he of all people couldn't still be alive."

Data 7 just kept looking at her.

"Fine, be my guest, but if I save him, and he takes over the world, you owe me a coke"

Cybersix took a gasping breath and dove far beneath the surface. Swimming farther and father down she looked for a sign of Von Richter's body; at last she found it...

As she grabbed him and pulled him towards the surface she had an overwhelming

Feelings. All her life she had wanted Von Reichter dead, but at the same time, she needed him alive to survive.

When she reached the surface she pulled him to shore. Checking for vitals she found nothing.

"No... NO! You can't be dead you miserable excuse of a man, I can't allow you to die, I hate you! I hate you!"

"Is that anyway to talk to your father?" von Reichter weakly suggested.

Cybersix dropped him to the ground.

"Creator maybe, father you never were." she replied.

"Come now Cybersix, you know you were my favourite." Von Reichter sleazily told her.

"Get up, and come with me, we need to see what we can salvage." she told him, picking him up off the shore.

"Nothing, its all gone, every last bit of it. The only thing to do now is move on."

"No, no you coward, you may be an overgrown child, but I will not allow you to choose my fate any longer, you WILL get up, you WILL keep going, I need sustenance to live, and I wont be killed or brought down by you any longer."

"The only way to get the sustenance is to make a new lab...within ten days..."

"I'm sure there are more Fixed Idea's I can kill for it."

"I'm sure, but honestly, how many before time runs out, I will need your help to make my lab, sustenance does not come easily you know, or what if...what if I found a permanent cure, all for the low, low price of your help creating my new lab?"

"Everything comes at a price Von Reichter, and your seems too good to be true."

With that she started to walk away, she needed to get to Lucas to tell him she was ok.

"You found a partner haven't you my child?" Reichter called out after her, making her stop in her tracks.

"It may be nice to see him Six, but what happens if we cannot create the sustenance soon enough, to have you ripped from him again after only ten days ago thinking you were dead, don't you think that maybe it might be best to let him think your dead till you are sure you are going to live?"

~ 6 ~

"Hi I'm Shannon Tonyato, you must be Mr Amato, see, my students told me you were the best teacher here at Meridiana high."

Lucas looked up from the papers he was grading a beautiful blonde woman stood in front of him. He sighed and thought of Cybersix, so this was the teacher that was to take Adrian's place.

"Listen, I'm new here, and I was wondering...Well if you wouldn't mind being my tour guide?"

"I'm sorry Mrs. Tonyato..."

"It's Ms. Tonyato" she interrupted.

"Ms. Tonyato, but I'm really busy here marking, maybe some other time."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't...sure some other time." she said walking out of the room.

~ 6 ~

Leaping from roof to roof she began her nightly routine of capturing and executing Fixed Idea's for sustenance.

"Don't think of them being good, their evil, evil, evil, bad, bad, bad." she stopped.

Somehow she had found her way to Meridiana high. She watched Lucas pack up his things and put on his coat, he began his nightly walk home.

She followed him silently as possible leaping from house to house, building to building. Nevertheless, she knew he could always feel her, so she had to be extra careful. A few times Lucas, out of habit would look up to see if she was following, he knew she was gone, but he never felt that way.

She watched him make it to his apartment and open the door. He went to the fridge and grabbed a soda. As he opened it, he sat down on the couch and turned on the TV.

He only had two sips before he fell asleep.

She knew how dangerous it was to let him know she was alive, but she needed to see him closer, she needed him so deeply.

She climbed lightly through her window and sat down beside him. He softly snored and breathed deeply. She brushed his hair out of eyes and looked at his face.

He looked tired, tired and unhappy, just like she felt.

She leaned in to kiss him, and softly she did, unexpectedly he responded to it.

"Cybersix?" he whispered in his sleep.

"Ssh, Lucas its just a dream." she said letting a tear slip.

~ 6 ~

Lucas awoke to the feeling of something on his face, he had just dreamt of Cybersix being there. It was so real it hurt; he touched his face to see what was there and found a tear, a tear that wasn't his.

Quickly he got up to see out the window, but all he saw was the deep blue Meridiana sky.

To be continued