Chapter Fourteen: End

Wow - thought I uploaded this one weeks ago, but I guess I didn't. Well, here's the final chapter, in case anyone was wondering why it was missing. Sorry about that. Anyway, this just wraps things up. Thanks for all the support and reviews. It means a lot.

Classified: RIMTEC "Lone Wolf" Program Final Progress Report (censored for security reasons)

1A - Bluff, Tony - survivor, graduate, codename: UNCLE SAM

Psychological Analysis: Seems very depressed following the final test, and the death of his partner at his hands (We believe that he panicked and shot without knowing who it was. Records show that Trainee 1B's gun was never fired). Subject is a likely candidate for substance abuse and suicide.

Destination: U.S.S. South Africa Corps

1B - Garcia, Gabriel - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wounds

2A - Anderson, Cynthia Annette - survivor, held for Umbrella Laboratory

2B - Bell, Brenda - survivor, held for Umbrella Laboratory

3A - Morgan, Emery Eric - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wounds

3B - Walters, David Madison - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wounds

4A - Worthington, Gregory - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wound

4B - Carson, James Edwin - survivor, graduate, codename: KOGA

Psychological Analysis: Unchanged. Subject pulled off a clean kill, verified the body, and appeared unsurprised and unemotional to discover its identity.

Destination: U.S.S. Reconnaissance Unit

5A - McDonnel, Ashlynn - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wounds

5B - Milligan, Peter Carl - survivor, graduate, codename: PIED PIPER

Psychological Analysis: In shock following the death of his partner. At first, it seemed as though Trainee 5A had the upper hand, and was going to win, but Subject snapped at the last minute and shot him. Subject is emotionally unstable, displays symptoms of PTSD, and is likely to develop sociopathic tendencies.

Destination: U.S.S. Russia Corps

6A - Greenbay, Joseph Edison - deceased, cause of death: multiple stab wounds

6B - Chang, Jack - survivor, graduate, codename: GHOST 9

Psychological Analysis: Subject is dangerously psychotic. Treat with extreme care.

Destination: U.S.S. Torture and Interrogation Squad

7A - Wittman, Jan - survivor, graduate, codename: HUNK

Psychological Analysis: Subject has been "hardened" by the program, per our expectations. With the removal of his partner, he has no need for emotions, and has locked them away as an interference with his job. Nevertheless, they are not absent, as in the case of KOGA, but merely dormant. With enough provocation, they could break free and cause plenty of trouble.

Destination: U.S.S. Reconnaissance Unit

7B - Carter, Bella Matilda - deceased, cause of death: gunshot wound ...

Tom Creed stopped typing and took a sip from his mug of cold coffee spiked with Irish Cream. Thin trails of grey drifted up from the half-smoked cigarette dangling between his lips. He hated late nights.

The five graduates of the "Lone Wolf" Program had been doped up with sleeping drugs and settling in maximum security rooms in the infirmary, where they could be closely monitored by Dr. Thomas. This was necessary particularly in the case of Milligan, who had broken down in hysterics during the graduation ceremony and had to be hauled away by force.

Well, Milligan might be good for nothing, and Bluff was almost certainly dead inside and could be counted on to do himself harm, but overall Creed was satisfied by the program results. Three of his former trainees had promising futures: Carson and Wittman with the heavily secret Reconnaissance Unit, and Chang with the Torture and Interrogation Squad, which was even more secret, but terrifying to everyone who knew about it.

Of course, he would have liked it if every team had produced a graduate, but Morgan and Walters had killed each other off in a spectacularly bloody gunfight, and Anderson and Bell had put down their weapons and come to a mutual agreement of peace. Oh well, they would do just fine as guinea pigs for the Umbrella Lab.

He had to admit, the trainee who he was most pleased with was Wittman. His strategy for bringing out the best in the boy had been risky, but it had paid off. Wittman was dangerous, perhaps even more so than Carson, because - though he appeared docile and dedicated - somewhere in the depths of his stone heart an inner fire smoldered. If he ever blew his top, it would be like Mount Vesuvius.

An ironic smile folded Creed's face. He'd never known he was such a poet. But though he waxed eloquent about the child, it was no more than truth. Wittman ... HUNK he was called now ... could only keep his bitter anger buried for so long. Eventually it would come boiling up to the surface, overflowing and spreading like a flow of lava from the mouth of the earth, and burn to cinders everything in its path.

Yes … Jan Wittman was a young man whose career Tom Creed would watch with great interest.