It has been four weeks now.. Four weeks of training none stop. Four weeks of tears and scars, even till now she didn't know why she was really here, everyday scientists will barge into her room running tests on her like she's some kind of alien.
Now she...
"357!!.. Focus!!", Yelled the boy from the other day.
Coughing out blood, Grace forced herself up from the floor as she held her lower abdomen and groan in pain.
"Why are you so heartless?", She asked meeting his gaze, "Can't we wait for a minute?".
001 frowned hard by her sentence, "A minute?", He questioned.
"Yes.. A minute I am not like you!!".
"You will be... Very soon".
Grace mentally rejected it... There is no way she going to be monster of killing.. NO f**KING WAY. But still she sighed in relief..
"So.... Ahhhh!!!!", She scream in pain falling down on her knees as she cried hard, "What did you do?", She looked at him afraid, he was still where he was.
So then how?
001 walked up to her and squatted down to her level, "That's how your enemy would have killed you now", He said and rose up, "You shouldn't give up easily 357...".
"That's not my name".
"It is the Slayers that marked you.... So that's your name".
Grace sighed in defeat, she wished she could go home now. She really miss home, she miss Clara and Lillian. She miss the early morning breeze, she missed everything.
"When you are ready to fight you'll get up", He turned around and started walking back to his spot.
Grace eyed his back with hate, she really hates him. She hates everything about him. Closing her eyes, she closed her eyes exhaling and inhaling heavily before get up, opening her eyes 001 was staring at her emotionless.
"You ready?", He asked placing his hands behind him.
"Yes", She replied.
Grace readied her fighting position. Over this few weeks, she manged to read some of his fighting techniques. Gathering her mind and body, she dashed towards him, delivering a heavy blow but he caught it in a intact pushing her back.
Her eyes widen in shock and complained bitterly, "There is no way you caught that!!".
"Try again. It was a good blow but try harder".
Grace frown and lunched at him again and again. Kicks, blows, she gave everything she could think of. But he still managed to stop her.
"How!?", She shouted kicking a invisible trash, "You are cheating!!"
001 remained quiet watching as Grace poured out her frustration. He liked her attacks but it was too weak and slow for him. Shaking his head, he looked up staring at a glass that was facing the training ground.
"She's improving", Zara said staring down at them.
"She haven't improved", Damon corrected smoking his cigarette, "She still needs more training".
Zara sighed and looked at him, "At least.. Try to say something positive about her. It sounds like she is the weakest and she is not", She complained, "Stop pushing her too hard Damon.. If Kate was here she wouldn't have allowed it".
"But she isn't here and that makes me Grace only family. And I can do anything that pleases me"
"Have you forgot about Kate other sibling? The mysterious one?"
Damon eyes turned dark immediately. Since the Queens abopted him, he haven't set his eyes on the other sibling. But they talked about him.
All these years he has searched... But there was no clue.
"He or she doesn't exist", He simply said.
Zara rolled her eyes and returned her focus to Grace and 001,"She has will Damon. She just need to decide on herself".
"That's why she needs a push. To be that spy I imagine".
"And you said you love Kate", She muttered.
Damon pretended not to hear her, "If she reaches the hight I want her to be she might lead the rest of the spies under me".
Zara shook her head bfoer walking out leaving him alone in the cold office.
Damon relaxed on his chair as he smoked his cigar hard remembering Kate's voice the night she wanted to leave the empire.
~~~
'Don't leave', He begged holding on to her wrist.
'Stop Damon... This is my choice not yours. Stop trying to force me to love you... I don't love you Damon. I love Alice.. And I won't leave him not even a second.. So just stop!!".
Damon still didn't leave her, his eye was pleading,'Stop please it is not safe for you and you know that'.
Kate frowned hard,'You don't decide my choice Damon'.
'Kate!!'.
Their attention shifted to Alice standing, he was panting.. The plan was set for them to leave.
'Damon', He hissed in anger walking towards them.
Damon grip on Kate wrist increases and a pained hiss escaped from her lips..
'Damon you are hurting me', She yelled.
'Let her go', Alice commanded.
'You can't leave Kate', Damon begged, 'Please there is alot of challenges out there. You won't survive out there... The Slayers will find you one day. Listen to me, there is no future out there!'.
He wanted to slap sense into her. He knew that Alice brainwashed her that's why she's doing this. That's why she is leaving for good, because once you are out without the commander permission you won't come back... Ever again.
'Kate think about this'.
'I have already made my decision. And it is final', She separated her hands as he lossened his grip, 'You can come with us Damon, you can leave his world behind, you are my brother'.
'Is that what you think I am? Your brother?'.
'But you are', She was confused, 'And you have always been my brother'.
Damon felt his heart break into many pieces. So all this time, she didn't feel anything about him.
'You don't....'
'Kate we have to leave my... We only have a small open window to leave now', Alice cut him off.
Kate ran towards Alice and turned to Damon, 'Damon please', She begged.
Damon laughed painfully, 'Leave'.
'What?'.
'I said leave!!. If it's what you want leave'.
Kate respected his decision, she left and never came back. That's when the Slayers started their hunt.
~~~
"I should have followed her", He muttered bitterly, "I should have protected her".
He stood from his to watch Grace practice.
"But since you didn't accept me.... I will turn your daughter to a monster that even if you come back from the dead you won't be able to recognise her"