Come What May

Chapter One: Who Watches the Watcher?

He didn't know her name, but there was something so familiar about her. He had been brought in for some new testing when suddenly she was there. At first her appearance had seemed subtle and slight; almost ghost like, but after about two months of this she seemed to be everywhere. She didn't speak much to anyone, not the other doctors or tecnitions, she just seemed to watch, everything. She watched as they did his lab work, his weapons training and even his sleep sessions that were continuously monitored. Sure he should have been creped out by it but then again he was constantly being watched. Instead he found that her watching him, oddly... comforting.

It wasn't so much that he was being watched it was the way she watched. The other scientists seem to view him as a project or a lab rat. Very cut and dry not meeting his eyes. She however always seemed to look right at him, with a kindness he thought long gone. There was something about her that he knew he should know but couldn't quiet remember about her and her sharp blue eyes shown with intelligence and empathy. Someone by rights and orders he need to steer clear off but just couldn't seem to. They had warned him to emotionally detach from anyone so he always kept his thoughts to himself and made sure he was never caught looking at her. She was a puzzle he intended to figure out and they would not take that away from him.

When he first heard he speak it was a soft quiet voice with a slight Irish accent. She seemed shy and always in the back of the crowd. Once he passed a conference room and he noticed her sitting in there with a lap top, notebooks and files spewed around her. She seemed to be deep in thought and was staring at a fixed point on the wall. At that moment she seemed to sense him watching her because she blinked several times and looked at him blushing slightly. He had wished at that moment he had spoken to her but one of the doctors escorting him urged him on. As he was walking away he heard some call her name "Lily" like a flower. It suited her he thought as he slightly smiled and continued on.