Summary: Lucy helps Desmond escape Abstergo, but soon realizes how bad the experiments Vidic performed on Desmond with the Animus and Subject 16's memories have affected her new friend.

There will be a DesmondxLuxy pairing and maybe some ShaunxRebecca. Who knows. We will see where this goes first.

I'll try to keep it as clean as possible, but this will be rated M. If there is anything that is factually wrong with my game facts or something I have written in general, please let me know so I can correct it. I look forward to reviews and love constructive criticism!!!

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Abstergo 2012

Adrenaline coursed through every inch of her body as she made her way towards the Animus room. The doors slid open; a sigh of relief escaped from her lips when she saw the room was free of Abstergo employees. She would have to be quick. If the y found out what she had done…it would ruin everything.

She walked with her eyes fixed on the door separating Desmond from the Animus room. As soon as she input the code on the locking keypad, the door slid open making a wisping sound. Before she could even make a second or third step inside the room, a hand forcefully grabbed her right shoulder and threw her against the wall to the left of the door. Naturally, all that adrenaline turned into panic until she saw the man pinning her to the wall was Desmond.

"Desmond! It's me, Loo…" The cold sensation of something sharp on her neck prompted her to stop talking.

Desmond's face was cold and hard, and his eyes were empty; it was like she wasn't even looking into the eyes of her new friend. He pressed harder on her neck with the makeshift knife he had constructed from a piece of broken mirror. Lucy whimpered as she felt the glass pierce her skin.

"Desmond stop, please!" she pleaded.

Suddenly, it was like a switch flicked on in those empty eyes staring madly at her. Desmond's expression, or lack thereof, turned into one of confusion and remorse. "Shit." He released the pressure on the knife on Lucy's neck, dropping it immediately. He ran both of his hands over his head like a madman as he backed away from her. "I'm so sorry."

"Desmond, what the hell did they do to you?" She knew damn good and well what they did; she simply asked the question out of reflex. Vidic wanted to see what would happen if Desmond was fully synched with Subject 16. As a side effect from the prolonged exposure to not only the Animus but the psyche of 16 as well, Desmond was suffering from something along the lines of dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities).

"The Animus, they put me…they made me…"

"I know, Desmond." Lucy placed her right hand over the cut on her neck and her left hand on Desmond's right shoulder as she interrupted him. "Look, I'm going to get us both out of here, but you are going to have to do what I say when I say it." Lucy gave him a concerned, questioning look as she waited for his response.

"OK, just tell me what I need to do."

"Follow me."

The two walked out of Desmond's room into the Animus room. When Desmond saw Lucy was walking towards the Animus, he abruptly stopped, a look of fear taking over his face.

"Desmond, I need you to get in the Animus for just a few minutes. Please. We are short on time and…"

"NO! I'm not getting in that fucking thing again." He started retreating back towards his room.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I promise. You just have to trust me. Please."

Even though he was terrified of the Animus now, Desmond found a comforting trust in Lucy's deep blue eyes, a deep blue that reminded him of the first time he saw the calm ocean when he escaped "the farm."

He nodded a 'yes' and hesitantly walked towards that cold table-bed he hated so much. Once he was on top of the Animus, he lied down, and Lucy placed her right hand on his left leg.

"This will only take a minute," she reassured him.

Once the sliding desktop screen passed over Desmond's head, he saw his name and "Subject 16" on the screen and immediately began to squirm nervously. Lucy placed her hand on Desmond's leg once again to let him know it was OK. Then he saw a name he had never seen before pop up under his and 16's.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

The sliding desktop quickly slid from in front of Desmond's face back into the Animus.

"OK Desmond, we don't have much time to get out of here. We need to go now!"

"Where are we going?" he asked.

"Don't worry about that right now. Just follow close behind me and stay quiet."

They walked out the only entrance/exit of the Animus room into the hall outside. The hall was nothing like the Animus room. The walls and floor were mostly concrete, and the ceiling was gray with bright lights five feet or so away form each other.

"Stay quiet. A security booth is nearby." Lucy hugged the wall right outside the booth's entrance as carefully peeked inside. Desmond saw her hand slide towards her lower back, and then come back up with a taser gun firmly in her grasp. She quickly spun inside the entrance nailing the two guards in the back with the gun. They were taken by surprise and were never aware of what had happened.

An impressed smirk gleamed from Desmond's face, but Lucy didn't notice. And he didn't say anything either. She did say to be quiet.

They continued down the hall, stopping occasionally at intersections, watching for any of Abstergo's faithfully employees. "This way." Lucy hung a right at the next intersection and Desmond followed.

The emergency stairs would be the best exit.

Lucy was becoming anxious because of Desmond's silence.

Was he slipping again? Or was he just obeying orders. Since when does Desmond ever listen to anything I say?

As they approached the emergency stairs, they had to come to a screeching halt as they saw four guards blocking the door.

"There's the prisoner and the traitor!" one guard shouted. "After them!"

The duo quickly spun around and ran in the opposite direction towards the elevator. One of the guards knew exactly where they were headed and ordered any open elevators to be closed and shut down immediately. The elevator Lucy was after started closing shut as they were about 20 feet from the entrance.

"Jump inside!" she yelled back at Desmond. The two jumped inside the elevator just in time for the doors to close on the guards. Then the lights went out inside the elevator.

Lucy, still sitting on the elevator floor, looked up at Desmond and asked, "No comments about the lack of elevator music?"

"I assumed you wanted the elevator to keep quiet too." He tried to look as serious as he could, but a smile erupted on his face instead. Lucy just rolled her eyes as Desmond helped her up. "So how we get outta this non-functional elevator?"

"You know how elevators have emergency hatches on the top of elevator? Well Abstergo thought it would be nice to have some on the floor as well." She pulled away some loose carpet from on of the back corners revealing a small hatch. "Hope you aren't afraid of heights."

She lowered herself through the small hole grabbing the cable extending from the bottom of the elevator. Desmond followed after her. They went down about a floor and a half and stopped. "What gives?" Desmond asked.

"There is a ladder here. You'll have to jump to grab hold of it though."

"Great."

After Lucy hopped onto the ladder, Desmond prepared to do the same. Luckily, his legs were long enough to stretch towards one of the reams. They climbed down to the bottom of the shaft, got off the ladder, and opened an unlocked service entry door. They were on the parking garage level now.

Desmond assumed they would be pulling a Grand Theft Auto, but to his surprise, they passed up every single car in sight. "What are we doing?" Desmond asked, but Lucy couldn't answer because a swarm of guards came out of two of the side doors.

"Shit!" Lucy exclaimed. Desmond was shocked to hear her use that word because he never heard her use profane language before. He was simply going to turn around and run away, but Lucy had other plans.

She walked up to the guard closest to her and dodged a swing from his baton, kicked him in the balls, kneed him in the face, and stole his baton. She then countered an attack from another guard and his baton with her new weapon, threw a punch into his ear, and then beat his head with her baton.

"Are you just going stand there or are you going to help me?!"

Desmond immediately tackled a guard that was sneaking up behind Lucy, who had another guard in a head lock.

Together, they tagged teamed the rest of the guards, and then ran out the parking garage entrance/exit. Desmond noticed Lucy was running towards a blue Sedan parked across the street from the garage. Lucy pulled out some car keys, unlocked the Sedan, and ordered Desmond inside the car.

Ahhh, the smell of sweet freedom. And a new car! But whose car was it?