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Lillian wakes up, the boy that was across from her is there no longer. There was something about his eyes, like she had seen him before. 

She gets up, hoping he hadn't stolen anything. It wasn't like her to sleep in the same room as a stranger. Her gun is still under her pillow, all her money is where it was last night.

Relief fills her. 

Terror says, "We know that boy."

"How?" Lillian asks. There was something about him. Like she had feelings for him, but she had forgotten.

"He was your friend, before Osiris got into studying my kind."

"Why didn't you tell my last night?" She asks, it would have been nice to not have wondered all night.

"I was tired."

Lillian rolls her eyes as she packs her things.

***

Connor slams his hands on the desk in the meeting room. The rest of the team stays back wide eyed.

"Kid, we're gonna find her." Eddie tries to comfort.

Connor pushes him against the wall madly, "How on earth are we gonna do that? Huh? She's Lillian freakin' Stark. Lily was just starting to feel safe with me. She's gone. Those terrible. disgusting people are gonna start looking for her Eddie!" He starts sobbing, "Eddie what are we gonna do, we can't find her."

Connor collapses on the ground, and Eddie bends down, "Hey, you listen to me. That girl- that woman survived two years of who-knows-what, an insane family, and an almost murder. Lily is strong, don't under estimate her. Now get your crap together. Okay?"

Connor stands up and wipes the tears off his face, "Ok."

***

"Gentleman! Today is a new dawn. Lillian Stark, known as Terror, is no longer under the super-vision of the Underground."

Everyone turns their head, "So, we will finally have our beloved Lillian?"

Alek smiles, "That indeed Mr. Cane. She's out on her own, and constantly on the move. Vulnerable."

Candice asks, "Sir, how are we going to retrieve her. With the Klyntar-Symbiote. He killed 50 of our men on our last retrieval attempt."

Alek speaks confidently, "My dear daughter, always questioning everything. We have developed a symbiote synthesizer. We now know that without each other, Lillian and the Symbiote would die. However, we cannot have it, breaking out of a cage. Our new scientist Tobias, has found a way to make it dormant."

Everyone claps for the depressed man in the back. His brow furrows. He doesn't want to make weapons to kill people, but he's bound to it now.

He fake smiles, thanking all of the praise.

"Lillian is now roaming on the coast of Virginia. Since we're so far away, it will take a few weeks to gather all of our supplies."