Okay, I'll write something now. EVEN though Moho hasn't written.
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Shannon had hard time not to go to grab Leah's arm and lead the girl out from the building. She didn't want the girl to get messed up with Mark's plans. It would only cause harm and sorrow. The woman was also confused why Leah had chosed Mark's side and not her friends'.
"Shannon... you seem troubled." Mark stated instead of giving answer to Leah's question.
"I-... I'm not in your plans." The woman said. "I do want to take down the organization but this must not be the only way."
"You are free to leave then. No one is forcing you into this." Leah said. When Mark frowned on the girl's statement she continued: "She doesn't know anything vital yet, so there shouldn't be anything she could tell forward."
"True."
"..." Shannon didn't say anything at first, just turned around and started walking towards the door of that meeting room. "Leah... you must not die. Not before Tsukiko is back."
"Don't worry... I won't." The girl smiled even though the woman couldn't see it.
Shannon walked to her car and sighed deeply as she sat down on the driver's seat. After driving a few blocks away she took her mobile phone and dialed a number she had found from the cell Leah had carried. Nero's number.
"Hello? Who's there?" Nero's voice answered.
"This is Shannon. I have some news for you."
"Go ahead. Is..." The boy paused to think. Someone probably were in the same room with him. "... she with you?"
"Not anymore. And that's one thing I wanted to tell. She kind of changed her side."
"She what? Would you explain everything? From the very begining..."
"I went to the place where you guys had been and found Leah -I mean Laela- on the floor. She told me she had just fainted after searching for some information from Tsukiko's memories. She didn't tell me what kind of information."
"And?"
"We left the building since no one else was there and she got a call. Or Tsukiko was the one who should have answered but instead Laela did. And the caller was Mark."
"..." Nero stayed quiet. Probably was thinking hard the choices for Mark to call to Tsukiko.
"I don't know what has happened between those two. Laela found out about it and decided to co-operate with him."
"WHAT!?"
"Yes, I took her to the 'Hawk-eye' and found out something else. Most likely it was Mark or his allies behind Chaos's kidnapping."
"I already know about that... But what about the girl?"
"I left the building five minutes ago, I couldn't stay there any longer. But it seems Laela has found a way to stay longer than those three days you originally mentioned. She talked something about having similar opinions with Tsukiko."
"She has always been like that... Always... This is... really bad..." Nero mumbled half aloud.
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Leah leaned back in the chair she was sitting although she couldn't really relax.
"You didn't answer to my question yet."
"Do you really need an answer?"
"Actually I don't. Are your allies some of the other gangs of States?"
"Some of them yes."
"And they are somewhere with Chaos?"
Just a nod.
"As I thought..."
"You are pretty talkative."
"I have always been."
"Different than Tsukiko."
"Is it a bad thing?"