"I don't want to divorce." Con blinked and chuckled under his breath, "I'm sorry, what?" Janette simply sat up in her seat and stared at him more boldly. "I don't want to leave you. I want us to keep on staying together." The laughter that bubbled up in Con's throat had a dangerous edge to it and he leaned forward a bit to look at who was speaking to more clearly. It was Janette alright. Janette Argon, the same lady that had set him up for sexual assault and thrown him into some prison to live the rest of his days as a convict. The former him would have been unable to cope with living in that place, at most he would have gotten a life sentence because his mother-in-law would have certainly pulled some strings to keep him there. Derek Aer would have died in that place, and his wife had been ready to let that happen, so why the hell was she saying no to a divorce then? Had it not always been her plan to get rid of him? Janette looked at the smirk on the face of the man in fron

"So this thing is connected to your mind now dad?" Xavier nodded and looked at the intricate pattern on his cane. "It's now directly linked to my brain and programmed to carry out whatever task I want it to." Lisa looked incredulous and a bit stunned at the same time. They were still in his office and they had spent a good amount of time in here by now, but Lisa didn't seem satisfied with her thirst for knowledge yet and he had to indulge her. She still wanted to know what the box had been made of, and what he had done to make it unfold and merge onto his cane like that. He was also sure that she would want to know what the design meant, but all of this would be better explained outside. He had a lot running through his mind. Lisa on the other hand too had something else running through her mind. The pattern looked so pretty, like flowers in full bloom. "Let's go outside Lisa. I'm tired of standing in here." Lisa nodded and watched as the pattern pulsed with each clack he

Jake woke up again and this time he was ready for the onslaught of light that assailed his optical lens. His eyes burned with the intensity of the light he was staring into but it only lasted for a moment. His vision adjusted to the lighting of the room the next moment and his surroundings came into better focus. He was still in the room, with the whitewashed walls and the sterilized surroundings. He already knew something had been done to him, some sort of surgery or something. He also had illegal organ harvesting cots scattered around the whole of Glover city so the fear of that being what had happened to him was well rooted in his mind. He didn't want to believe that he had fallen prey to organ harvesters himself, they usually didn't keep their victims alive after the extractions and he didn't want to believe they would keep him alive. It would be better if they killed him off, he would do it himself if he found out what happened to him was indeed an organ harvesting. He had

Con looked up, nodded his head, and went back to what he was doing. "You're not listening to me Con. I want to leave." Con sighed and stopped trying to break through the firewall. There was still too much for him to do in terms of cracking the codes, and Aubrey sounded pissed and annoyed. He didn't want her to feel like he wasn't listening to her, he was, but he wished he wasn't. She was saying something he did not like and honestly he did not want to hear it right now. "Xavier is going through a tough time now Aubrey. I don't think this is the time for this." Aubrey could feel her whole world outlook crashing right in front of her. Did she just hear that well? '"I'm not saying it because I don't care about Xavier, I'm saying it so we can clear this out together. I can't stay here if it'll affect you and Jane." Con could feel the need to tell her that he and Jane didn't really have anything serious going on right now, but he was more gentlemanly than that Aubrey VanDamne and

"If she can get that, then....." Clay didn't have to finish his words for Xavier to begin nodding his head. "That's right. If Lisa is to gain mastery over her digital construct, then she can go there any minute she is in fatal danger. Her memories and mannerisms can be downloaded into a robot or something, as long as the technology is available. It's almost like she has a backup for her brain now." Xavier could hear the excitement in his own voice and he had to remind himself to calm down. What he was explaining to them was something that no one would expect them to digest easily. If he was the one, he would have also not been able to digest it that easily too. But this was his daughter they were talking about. Lisa was his little treasure, the fact she was the one experiencing this made it a whole lot easier to explain to others. To get to the point that he was now able to explain this situation to others meant he had analyzed it thoroughly himself and he knew the inner working