Sloan Parker nearly passed out as harsh flouresant light flooded the room. Blinking spots away from her eyes Sloan struggled to focus.

“Well,well, the great Sloan Parker has awaken.”

Sloan froze,the voice was familiar but she couldn’t quite place it. If only her eyes would focus Once they did Sloan thought for sure they were playing tricks on her. The person standing before her couldn’t possibly be the one who had kidnapped her.

“Timmy? Is that you?”Sloan asked in a hoarse voice as she struggled to get mostiure to her throat.

A man about Sloan’s age with short red hair and bright blue eyes walked farther into the room a smile on his face,”You were the only one I allowed to call me that.”

Reality slowly dawned through college memories as Sloan straightened in her chair.

“You’re one of them.”She stated in a whisper.

As he stretched the kinks out of his back Tom glanced at the clock. It was eleven o’clock and no sign of Tate. Not that he was expecting any, Ed and Sloan were at the lab. Tom reached for the ingition deciding he needed some caffine if he was going to sit there all day in this heat.

A long shadow splashing across his hand got his attention. Tom glanced out the window and saw a car boxing him in. A limo to be precise. Straightening in his seat Tom waited. His right hand reaching for his gun in the seat next to him.

The tinted window of the limo rolled down just enough to reveal a familiar face. A woman in her mid thirties with short red hair. Attwood’s boss.

“What do you want?”Tom hissed through clenched teeth.

The woman glared at him as she lowered the window the rest of the way down,”Look,I don’t care what kind of mind games you and Lewis are playing. If you want to play both sides against one another that’s your business. But don’t you dare even think about endangering everything I’ve worked for!”

Tom stared at her in surprise,”*What* are you babbling about?”

“Its come to my attention that you’ve become a focus of an LAPD investigation,”The woman continued,”The homicide of Doctor Sloan Parker.”

Before Tom’s shocked mind could even think of a reply the woman’s window quickly retracted and the limo sped down the street.