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Part Ten

The days passed by and the students headed back to the academy. The camp they had set out to do what it was meant to. They went out to train and experience real combat. The experience may not have been what the chairman and student council had in mind, but nevertheless, it was still something that would make them stronger.

Today just so happened to be the start of a new month, as well as the day Nick and the other freshman student vice president and presidents got to use the essence pool. Once Nick settled what he had to do, he would go see Darius about it.

Nick was seated by Katherine on the bus who was staring out of the window. With her head rested against her hand.

“Katherine, you know I asked you previously what are you and you told me you’re a human. I want to ask you once more, what are you?”

Nick asked in a cold but low voice, enough for just Katherine to hear.

Katherine turned towards him and stared into his hazel eyes. It did not cross her mind that Nick would ask her again.

“I already told you.”

“I do not like it when people lie. If they wanted you, you must be something special. It would also seem that they did not know of the name ‘Katherine’ instead he called you subject number five.”

Katherine froze when she heard Nick. Her being called subject number five was what they called her, but her mother gave her a much nicer name. She was not one of their tools they could use whenever they wanted, she was her own person.

Nick read the expression on her face, from her not answering him, to the quivering of her lips. Katherine would not be able to lie to him again. This time, he was going to pay attention to her expressions.

Nick learned how to tell if a person was lying from his sensei. He was always caught up in his lies when he visited her or tried to sneak away. One day he asked her how, and she said it was better for him to learn.

Experience was always the best teacher.

“Your facial expression gives you away. Lie to me again and I might kill you myself.”

The murderous look in his eyes let Katherine know he was serious.

Nick did not understand why his sensei told him to look after Katherine, but if he was going to, he wanted to know why someone was after her.

Delirium wants her, it seems to be that she was created or brought to life in their hands. Another organization wants her dead, reason being is unknown. Nick is in the middle of something serious, and if he does not know exactly what he is dealing with he won’t be able to protect himself let alone others.

“I already told you, I am the daughter of Dania Wells and that she manipulated my genetic code. What I may have left out is that her research may have been rejected by the government, but another group found a use for it.”

“That group would be Delirium, I take it.”

Katherine gave a light nod.

“They came to her with the funds and equipment she needed to help experiment on her theory. On the outside, they act like an unofficial government agency. On the inside, they are an evil, a vile organization that has their own goals. My mother was lead astray by their vast wealth and top-notch equipment. She was blindsided in her own research to realize what was actually happening. It was not until the first experiment was a success and all her data was taken from her did she register everything.”

Katherine grabbed her arm tight, causing wrinkles to appear on her jacket.

“They used her, then tossed her aside. When she stood up against them, they captured her and used her own data on her. However, she had a safety measure in place when she is in real danger. A friend owed her a favor. That friend is your teacher Nick. She is the one that saved my mother, but it was too late for the others.”

Nick furrowed his eyebrows. Who exactly were the others she was speaking of? Nick’s sensei appeared in his mind for a moment, he wanted to know exactly how she was connected to the ‘Wells’ family. When he had time, he would find out.

“Others?”

“If I am number five, then there are four more. My mother did not birth all of them, only me. The other four came from other women. They are already under control of Delirium. Your sensei torched the lab and saved my mother, but if it is that woman. If it is that woman… she’ll be able to recreate my mother's research.

I was then raised by my mother. Live like a normal child, move from place to place, stay out of the spotlight. That was what I did, I did not want anyone to find us. However, that did not work and we were eventually found.”

Nick seemed to understand the rest. After Delirium was getting close to getting her exact location, Diana contacted his sensei once more. They must have had some sort of agreement and transferred Katherine to this academy where Nick could look after her.

He got all of that, but there was still something on his mind.

“Who were the ones that wanted you dead?”

Katherine shrugged her shoulders. She looked down with her silver eyes, she only knew of Delirium. Katherine did not have a good understanding of the other organizations, as she was in fear of only one.

“I do not know. My mother's experiments are not widely known, the only ones who should know are Delirium, my mother, your sensei, you and me. One thing is certain, once they know I'm still alive, they will be back.”

“What are you two over there whispering about?”

Matthew asked them from across the aisle. He had his body turned so his legs were in the middle of the aisle.

Nick turned to look at him.

“Trying to see if we’ll be attacked again on the ride home.”

The students on the bus heard Nick and looked at him weirdly. They recalled the moment when their bus flipped over and shivered. Did Nick think that was an ok joke to make?

“Don’t even joke about that!”

Six of the students on the bus said in unison, while the others agreed with them by nodding their head. It was not funny, they couldn’t understand why Nick brought it up when they wanted to forget it.

The bus finally arrived back at the academy, and students unloaded everything.

“Finally back. Now I can take a real bath.”

Freya said as soon as her feet touched the ground. She spun around as if she was in her own little world.

Matthew followed behind her and pinched his nose.

“I did not want to say anything… but ye-”

He was interrupted in his sentence as Freya kicked him in the leg. She had a good idea of what Matthew was going to say, and she did not want to hear it. If she did not stop him now, she would not be true to herself. That, and it would be nice to let out a bit of energy on him.

“What did you do that for!”

Matthew shouted at her as he rubbed his leg.

“You were about to say something stupid. I’m just stopping you from embarrassing yourself.”

Freya responded back.

Matthew was going to get her back for this, and he could not wait. She wanted to hit him? Freya was going to be in for a surprise.

Nick yawned, these two were going to be back at it as if nothing happened.

“I’m going to go put my luggage up, I'll meet up with you guys later.”

Nick told them as he walked off with his luggage.

Fred told him to meet him once he returned, and now he returned.