Helen sat at her bedside looking over the file she had compiled on the young woman. She was presumably from Kansas, lived on her own, had an older brother who was killed in a car accident, and she was also a lying, thieving, conniving little brat. She'd thought of worse words then brat, but her temper was slowly waning over the latest incident. Still looking back on all she had done to get to this point, it made Helen's blood boil. Then there was the issue of the email drafts that were being used to secretly communicate with someone. Her mother, Helen laughed harshly. Who was it? Did they want her to inject herself with the blood? If so, she really did feel sorry for Jeci, and if not then she wondered if the curly haired woman wasn't more misguided then she thought possible.

She debated creating her own email draft while Jeci was sleeping just a few feet away in the infirmary bed. She could keep her from checking the messages, for a while at least. She'd already given her a dose of morphine after the last seizure to help control the incredible amount of pain she was in. Despite her anger, Helen wondered if it wasn't more then the blood changing Jeci. The blood was pure, pulled straight from the bat. The antibodies from the abnormal reacting with human antibodies alone could kill her. She sighed and focused back on what to do about the emails. She could set up a meeting, tell the other person she had the goods. She looked up as Will stepped into the room.

"There's a problem."

Helen raised her brow and waited for him to continue.

"We have to go to Japan: Suki has gone crazy. Dr. Lee just called, the flight leaves in two hours."

Blue eyes traversed over Jeci's body as she watched the slow rise and fall of her chest. "They absolutely need me?"

"Yes." Will caught the look of reticence and hesitation.

"Would you get my old friend, then? I'll need to update him on Jeci's condition." She waited as Will nodded and left the room. Helen set the tablet aside and cupped a hand around Jeci's cheek. "I was really hoping to speak with you, but I suppose it will have to wait."

Helen waited for Biggie outside the room Jeci was in and let him know what she was thinking about her medical condition. "I want you to keep a close eye on her and if anything changes at all, I want to be notified immediately."

Biggie nodded before she hurried off to pack a bag and take off for the other side of the world.

The room was spinning and she couldn't make out where she was. Everything was white and blaring into her corneas. Jeci rubbed her eyes harshly and moaned until she was able to finally make out shapes and figures around her. "Where is everybody?" Jeci looked around the room finally feeling something approaching human.

"They got called away." Biggie grunted. He wasn't sure he liked this kid at all, and to her that's exactly what she was, a kid. It took a lot to earn his trust, sometimes even more than it did to earn Helen's.

"Another bat?" She lifted a brow, her interest in whatever had taken the others away was far from enthusiastic and it caused him to feel sorry for her. Almost.

"Lizard."

"A lizard?" Jeci's brows raised as she looked at him, trying to discern whether he was making a joke or telling the truth.

"What they do…"

"Never mind." She shook her head already knowing he was going to tell her it was confidential. "I don't want to know." She looked at the covered tray sitting over to the side. "If that's your special breakfast, I'll pass."

"Peanut butter and jelly."

"I can do that." She reached for it and Biggie brought it closer. Pulling off the lid, Jeci took a small bite as she watched him. "You don't like me."

"I don't know you."

Her eyes crinkled at the corners in a smile. "I like anyone who tells me the truth. Can I get my tablet back?"

Biggie's head turned to the side and he regarded her carefully. Pointing at the plate, he spoke, "Eat your food." Grunting, he left the room. He moved into Helen's office and started the video call to her, knowing she was off the plane and at the Tokyo Sanctuary. As her face appeared on the screen, he spoke without preamble, "She wants a tablet."

"Give her one."

"I don't trust her."

"It's my decision. I have the password, I'll know to look soon." She gave him a quick smile. "Be kind to her, old friend, I think we can learn much from her."

"Still don't like her."

Helen shook her head and ended the call without saying goodbye.

"See," Jeci smiled slightly when he came back with a tablet in hand. "I knew I'd grow on you."

He looked at the partially eaten sandwich. "Eat first."

"I did eat." She looked at the plate, four bites was eating.

"All of it."

"I don't really like this kind of peanut butter." She made a face as she pried the top of the sandwich off. "I don't like crunchy things in my peanut butter, I'm always afraid it's a dead bug or something."

"You're afraid of bugs?" He shook his head in disbelief.

"Only of eating dead ones." She shrugged slightly already feeling better than when she'd first awoken.

"Fine, what do you want?" He grumbled.

"The tablet?" She was hopeful.

"I meant to eat." He sighed and held the tablet out to her.

She grinned, but her lips quickly pressed into a thin line as she thought about what had just happened. The tall hairy guy didn't seem like he'd be that easy of a push over, and she had never been able to do anything like that without touching a person before. "Do you have any ham? I like ham, and dill pickles on the side."

Biggie grunted at her a few times before leaving the room with heavy feet scuffling on the floor. He shouldn't have given her the tablet without making her eat first. If only Helen knew.

Jeci waited two seconds until he was gone before turning the electronic device on. Going straight for the internet and into her email, she composed a draft. Typing the words quickly, she saved it and exited everything, making sure to delete her browsing history and all cookies. Looking around after finishing her email, Jeci spotted her cell phone on the table beside her. She smiled and picked it up, knowing everything was monitored made what she was about to do that much sweeter.

Pulling up text messaging, Jeci searched for Helen's name before beginning a new text. She typed, "I'm fine, Hairy is grumpy. Oh! And I miss you!" before hitting send and tucking the phone down against her leg. She would wait for an answer, but she wouldn't expect one soon. Helen was a busy woman, and if she had to fly out unexpectedly then she most certainly was dealing with an emergency.

After she ate the sandwich, pickle and apple Biggie had brought to her, she rubbed her eyes. "Can I go back to my room?"

"No." His answer was short and abrupt.

Her head was starting to hurt and she could swear she could hear what he was thinking and it was beginning to make her brain throb. "Please?"

"I'm sorry." But he wasn't.

"Why not?" She just wanted to hear him say it out loud. He wanted to keep an eye on her, and not because of what he was about to say but because he didn't trust her.

"Because you could have another seizure, and I need you where I can take care of you." He sat down on the stool opening Nicolas Sparks' latest book which had been a present from Helen.

"Well I guess if it's because you love me and are concerned." She rolled her eyes.

Helen was waiting to hear from Will and Kate on what they found in Mumbai when she remembered she hadn't followed up on Jeci's email exchange. She pulled the web browser open and logged into the email account seeing there was one document in the draft folder. Helen assumed that because the email was still in the draft folder that it had not been read, that had seemed to be the pattern before—read and delete. Hovering the cursor over it, she clicked and quickly scanned it.

"I'm out. I can't do this anymore. Find someone else to be your lackey. I'm done, no need to contact me anymore."

Helen hit delete just as her phone beeped reminding her of a text message she'd received when she was in a teleconference call earlier. She read a message from Will requesting her assistance and replied before scanning the rest of the messages in her phone. Realizing she had never responded to Jeci's text, Helen pursed her lips. She didn't know if she should answer or not, the text was rather benign and odd, considering, but with the email she had read, perhaps Jeci was coming around to their side. Jeci wanted out of whatever agreement or deal she had entered into, which was obviously the one that had sent her down to South America. Helen typed a quick reply to Jeci's text before grabbing her bag and heading to the airport.

Jeci's phone buzzed on the night stand in her room. Her head was pounding with the different thoughts flooding through it, and she had confined herself to her room with no lights. The Big Guy came in a few times a day with food, but other than that she refused to have contact with anyone. Glaring at the phone, she read the text. "I miss you, too."

It brought a small smile to Jeci's face before she wrote back. "In an answer to what it did to me… I'm telepathic. Make the voices stop!"

With no answer, Jeci laid back in the dark and stared at the ceiling. Her mind whirled in a frenzy of what everyone was thinking about her, especially the Big Guy. He seemed to have many thoughts on her person that he did not share openly with her. It wasn't long before he was running Henry to the airport at Helen's behest and she finally had reprieve from his negative thoughts.

There was no one on her floor. How exactly she knew that there was no one there was beyond her, but Jeci knew that no one was on her floor. Twisting her body, Jeci reached into the top drawer of the night stand and pulled out the zebra print vibrator. Smiling, she shucked her jeans and undies, tugged off her shirt and bra, and gripped the lube she had also brought. This would be a wonderful way to work off the headache.

She flipped the top open to the lube and dribbled the liquid over the penis shaped head and down the shaft. Her mind wandered briefly as she wondered if there was an abnormal out there with a zebra stripped prick. She blushed: the word had popped in her mind unbidden. Having covered the battery operated penis in more than enough liquid lube to slide it in, Jeci sat the container aside and slipped a finger between her legs running it along her slightly swollen and now throbbing lips. Feeling the wetness, she realized she might could have foregone the lube altogether. She couldn't remember the last time she'd needed to get off this badly; she had been hoping the Big Guy and Henry would long leave before now.

Wishing Helen would have texted her back about her head, Jeci sighed. Helen. Her mind fought the pull that the woman had on her. Jeci bit her lip and dipped her finger into her core. She probed around for a second before adding another. Jeci's fingers pumped lightly in and out, in and out. She could feel the pull of skin and the scrape of her nails and she moved her fingertips to rub at her hard nub and reveled in the sweet and gentle waves of pleasure that it brought her.

She scoped the juices that were dripping from her onto her fingers and licked them off as she wondered what Helen tasted like. The thought caused her to blush as she realized how badly she wanted to taste the other woman at that very moment. Moving her hand upward, Jeci fisted her breast and squeezed tightly before releasing. She looked down and caught her nipple between her thumb and forefinger as it hardened. Twisting her fingers, Jeci released her hand before repeating the process. The dildo was pressed against her abdomen and when she brought her other hand up to massage her breasts, she felt her hips rise. Her heels pressed into the mattress and lifted her body higher until she grew too impatient with herself.

Spreading her legs wider, Jeci picked up the dildo ignoring the lube that covered her skin and aimed the large head at her center before pushing it in. It was larger than she'd remembered, or maybe it really had been that long since she'd used it. She pushed harder and it slipped in past her opening and she felt it pop right into place, the nub of the clit stimulator rested against her.

She wasn't going to rush any more than necessary. She moved her thumb to the closest button and the toy started to vibrate both inside and against her clit. Taking a deep breath, closing her eyes, and centering her breathing, Jeci waited. She was going to concentrate on nothing but the sensations she was feeling. It worked until one of the residents started to give himself a hand job two floors down while imagining Will.

Jeci let out a groan, and pressed the same button again increasing the vibrations a level; she had to find her happy place. Twisting the vibrator slightly, she felt the electric tingle shoot up through her and she smiled inwardly before pressing the button on the opposite side that sent the head that was buried deep inside her on a rotating frenzy. She could feel it going around and around, pressing against her walls as they tightened on it. The pressure against her was wonderful, and she focused on that and nothing else as it grew in a crescendo.

After several minutes, she felt her muscles grip at the humming toy. At first they were soft and slow and then they became harder and her whole body jerked as her walls pulled on it. The sound of the toy changed in intensity as the orgasm subsided.

She had been quiet which was a feat for her; she wasn't sure how sound proof the walls were and the last thing she needed was some scaly freak thinking about what'd she'd just done. Her head felt slightly better, but she really needed something to make it stop hurting altogether. Something like silence. She pulled the toy free and rolled on her side. She needed a shower even though all she wanted was to come again and again until she passed out. She didn't really want the toy, what she wanted was Helen.

Helen was too busy to worry about Jeci's new found talent. Telepathy: she rolled the word around in her head. If Jeci really was coming over to Helen's side and if she could really trust her, that 'gift' could be a great asset to her team. Even right now, the ability would come in handy. She cleared her mind of those thoughts as Ravi entered. Jeci would just have to wait for now, there were far more pressing issues at hand. The man leaned over her shoulder as she hurried to finish her conversation with her old friend, the video camera pointed directly at his face.

"When is Henry due to arrive?"

"In two and half hours, but he's going straight to the ship."

"That's good." She nodded her head and smiled to him. "Anything else?"

Biggie let out a groan, "Not that I can't handle."

"Jeci?"

"More than you know." He gave a quick and childish wave to her and closed out the camera, turning around to see Jeci standing behind him, her face pale. "What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be down here."

"Don't chastise me… my head hurts." She pouted and gripped the back of his chair tightly.

"Well, then take something," his voice rose as he gave her the suggestion and started to shuffle her out of the Henry's lab. She really shouldn't be down there. "Boss is going to have a fit with you being here."

"Not my fault."

"I suppose it isn't." They made it to the elevator and he pressed the button. "Had any seizures?"

"Not since you let me out of the dungeon."

Biggie grunted at her, showing his disapproval for her comment. "I could have kept you there longer."

"I'm glad you didn't…" She gripped her head as she stepped into the elevator and rubbed her fingers over her temples. "Will you stop?"

"Stop what?"

"Stop with the thinking!" She screamed it out and glared at him. "I know I'm ungrateful sometimes, I know I'm a brat sometimes, I know I can be a bit of a bitch if not a full-blown one. I do NOT need to hear it twenty-four-seven from your little pea of a brain!"

Biggie stood stock still as he watched her exit the elevator and tear down the hall. Normally he would feel sorry for her, even guilty for all his negative thoughts, but right now he just felt angry. It was an anger he didn't understand, as if he was mad because someone had said or thought all those things about him. He cocked his head to the side and looked down the hall as the elevator doors closed cutting her room off from view. He reached forward and pressed the button to go down. She had a headache, maybe he could help with that.

She growled to herself as she heard a tapping at the door. "What?!"

Biggie opened the door and stepped in, he handed her two aspirin and a glass of water. "Take this."

She did as she was told without question, putting the two lightly coated pills on her tongue and gulping down half the contents of the glass before handing it back.

He took the glass and handed her a small electronic device.

"What?" She flipped it over in her hand and looked at the ear buds wondering if they'd been put in his ears. The thought sent a shiver up her back.

"It's an MP3 player, music."

"I know what it is." She cut her eyes up to him and watched his nostrils flare.

"Maybe it will help with the voices in your head." He offered quietly, although he really just wanted to box her ears in.

"What voices?"

"You told me…"

"Oh, right." She nodded. "I guess I can give it a try." She shrugged her shoulders and smiled softly. "Thanks." The little exchange, while annoying, set her at ease and she was smiling when Biggie left the room. Pressing the head phones into her ears, she turned on the device and listened as soft music began to play. It was classical and gentle, not what she would have expected from him. Jeci fell asleep listening to the soft strums of an orchestra.