The Long Forgotten Sibling

Chapter 7

Kate was driving a Sanctuary car on the way back from the airport when Elizabeth though of something. "Why is there so much security around the UK Sanctuary? You guys said that it was a reasearch lab."

Will and Kate froze and looked at each other in alarm before Will answered her question. "As it's a research lab we are doing some important research that we don't want our rivals to get their hands on."

"Still doesn't explain the paper work."

"The paperwork is mainly the other research lab reports, budgeting and equipment requests. Maybe the odd breakthrough if we're lucky. It mostly goes to our boss as she's the head of the whole network but sometimes when she gets too much she unloads to us."

Elizabeth looked at Will like he wasn't telling the truth at all.

"And the filing," Kate added. "There is so much filing."

They sat in silence until Kate spoke up. "Oh yeah, Will, Vlad is here. He did one of his appearance acts yesterday evening."

Will groaned at the news he had just been given.

"Who is he and why is his presence so bad?" Elizabeth asked catching onto Will's annoyance.

"Vlad, aka Nikola what-ever-his-surname-is, is an old friend of our boss." Kate answered for Will. "He tends to annoy anyone and everyone in the Sanctuary."

"And is a thorn in our boss's side. Has been since they met as far as we are concerned," Will added to Kate's comment.

"Oh," Elizabeth said in a small voice.

The ride to Old City Sanctuary was quiet until they got to the gates.

"Is this the place?" Elizabeth asked looking up at the building in front of her. It wasn't what she expected but she had grown accustomed to that by now. It was smaller than the UK Sanctuary but she expected it extended underground.

"Well let's just hope Henry hasn't changed the codes on us," Kate muttered as she leans out of the rolled down car window to punch a code into the keypad. The gates slowly swung open and Kate let out a sigh before driving in.

The inside of the Old City Sanctuary was much more majestic than the UK Sanctuary. There was a large entrance hall with a staircase leading up to a mezzanine with corridors and doors everywhere. The entrance hall had a warm feeling to it compared to the UK Sanctuary which was, by far, much older than this one.

"Will. Before you go anywhere the boss wants to see you," Kate said grabbing Will's arm.

"If you bump into her say I will go to her office after I grab a cup of coffee," Will replied. "Oh and can you give Elizabeth a tour unless she wants to see her as well."

"Nope. Just you. And at the minute I have a feeling she is having a go at Vlad for destroying a piece of equipment. That or a part of the systems again."

"Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. Knowing her it's probably paperwork she wants to give me." After that Will walked off.

"Right now for the tour," Kate said turning to Elizabeth.

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"And this is Henry's lab," Kate said as they walked into Henry's lab meeting an argument between Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla and Henry Foss.

"Dude, you fried the circuit!" Henry exclaimed. "Not to mention melted my tablet in to process."

"Well next time, Tiny Tim, don't plug you tablet in and leave it unmanned for hours at a time." Nikola argued back.