Parthenon- diamond executive suite
:: after a couple hours, Alycia had begun to drift off to sleep in an over sized chair with ottoman. the storm outside had a lulling effect but the tranquility would not last long as Haleigh decided to suddenly APPEAR like something out of a horror movie moment.::
:: Alycia gave a start as she grabbed her repulsor blaster and took definate aim, training it on Haleigh as she scrambled to her feet, kicking the ottoman out ahead of her in order to stumble her would be assailant. FAST reation time for the former DA, an indicator of her new level of physical discipline and training...but as she stood there, in her green gem toned mini robe, holding her blaster with dexterity, she quickly realized it was Haleigh and slowly lowered it.::
"what HAPPENED" to COURTESY? couldnt you have used the DOOR like anyone else?
:: Alycia turned on a soft light to provide more illumination in the lounge where they were. it was obvious the woman was a little irritated by the manner that Haleigh chose to reveal herself as she exhaled loudly , the blaster now at her side.::
You....ran the simulation AGAIN?
:: she seemed a bit taken aback but then she recovered.::
Haleigh, somethings are better left unsaid and what your asking about, is none of your business. I made a stupid mistake...i should have factored in thaat the computer would pick up on Sharon's vitals and information and react accordingly...but as i said, i was getting used to the new hardware and technology.
:: Alycia walked from where Haleigh was standing, knowing the woman would persist and follow.::
You're not going to go away, are you?
:: she said with knowing agitation. she didnt like being questioned. SHE was the one who asked the questions.::
Well, i dont feel like fighting with you and you're right...what's in the past should be LEFT there..not just between US...but in Sharon's as well. SHe has the right to live her life FREE of past trauma.
:: she was now in the kitchen, putting the kettle on the island to make some tea.::
Arklay mansion sits on a strip of mountain and forest range by the same name. It is a decent HIKE away from Sharon's cottage and the reason being...is because the mansion belonged to ..." Lord Spencer". He and one other man a controversial scientist named James Marcus, were co investors , co founders of what would become MYSTECH...in the early 1960's.
Arklay Mansion is one of the best kept secrets of the gov't....mainly because they have looked the other way for DECADES since..."the incident." to ADMIT knowledge of it wouuld mean that government had at some point KNEW the potential for danger posed by the questionable and suspicious happenings in that mountain area not to mention the fact that many people have disappeared there through the years and NONE of the original mystech lab workers, doctors and scientists have EVER been accounted for since the Mansion was seemingly abandonned.
:: looking at Haleigh for a moment.::
I want you to know that i dont appreciate you coming here like this. there are BETTER ways to communicate and if you plan on stirring this up again...you better be prepared for one hell of a backlash.
would you care for some tea?
:
repared to make the woman a cup, she continued.::
Lord Spencer was 'old money' with pockets as DEEP as his influence...His desire for privacy and anonymity rivals that of howard hughes, only the wealthy, powerfull or well connected had any idea of him and to this day, the general populace is UNAWARE of his existence. as far as most people were concerned, MALICE was the face of Mystech..and even I didnt know this back story until recently.
long story short? he invited sharon and her husband, robert kelly to the mansion for a "party" back in the early 80's...it was his intention to try to persuade Robert Kelly a wealthy stock trader and the son of a prominent family in Conneticutt, to a) invest in the company that would come to be named ...join "the family" and b) to give his son Kyle over for research. the goings on in the arklay research facility undeground were abominable...the stuff that only science fiction movies and mad criminals could think of. but they were still not quite as successfull with the development of the "T" and "G" viruses, human experimentation prooved to be disastrous and plant and animal results were varied but hardly usefull in a large scale. As you know....YOU are infected with the T virus and Kyle was a mutant....they wanted him for research. Sharon would not allow it....and...they TRAPPED them in the mansion, seperating them in various areas and levels. Robert was doomed... though he had an analytical mind and was good at solving puzzles, he starved to death while trying to figure out a way to escape the under ground maze. Through painstaking research, i later learned that Kyle was subjected to brutal experimentation..and died after prolonged exposure to the "G" virus...his body was never recovered. it was believed that his corpse was sent to the "dead factory"...the place where Mystech would frequently discard "bio hazards" and other failed biological experiments for incineration. But of them all, SHARON was able to evade and allude the shocking horrors that lay in the mansion...long enough to escape...but not without help.
You see....I had already met Sharon in college. We were friends even then. By now, i was already "up and coming' and had lots of friends and contacts. I knew that she was going to this "party" ...and she had told me she feared something would happened, so i hired someone....a mercenary with EXTENSIVE military, black ops and other strategic background to tail Sharon and her family. When we didnt hear from her for days...he went in. what he found....was ....the stuff HORROR MOVIES were made of. He rescued Sharon and they escaped....i was waiting for them on the outskirts of the Arklay Mansion...at the cottage and once there....we left together. Neither he NOR I knew, at the time, what that mansion stood for....or of its massive underground facility....OR of its many undergroung connections that reached as far as NYC. NO one knew what it would come to represent....
Sharon was devastated....and I was...at a loss. I didnt know what to do...so i used my contacts and pulled strings and had Lord Spencer assassinated. it was a simple matter of "spreading the word" and convincing his investors ...MALICE among them...that he was going to cut them OUT of the growing profits or WORSE, set THEM up for the fall if word of the murder of Robert and Kyle got out...not to mention of MysTech's other unthinkable activities, which at the time were all still very well hidden. This power vacuum made it possible for Malice and Stavros to take over to propell MysTech to the heights that YOU came to know it. The Arklay mansion was soon abandonned as growing reports of people disappearing and 'bizarre murders involving canabalism" were bring more attention to the remote mountain range I was playing a game...and had no idea how HIGH the stakes were....the connections we ALL share because of Mystech...were only just becoming clear to me...and to your famlies no doubt. we can look back and see the timeline so there's no need to go on further about that.
Sharon knew what i had done...and she was OKAY with it. She relocated back to New York and began to champion the cause of mutants at a time when it was so taboo...this allowed her to WIN her seat on the senate and dedicated her life to ENDING the threat of MysTech...and NOW you can figure out why they sent MASTER MOLD after her. She wasnt....just a random victim....they knew exactly what they were doing..
the only OTHER person who knows about this...is the man who helped rescue Sharon from Arklay....and I havent seen him...for YEARS. I paid him well and told him to keep quiet or he would forfeight his life.
:: thunder rumbles as Alycia ends the "short version" of the story....looking right at Haleigh with her hazel eyes. she basically just told haleigh that sharon's family was among the first victims of the GENESIS of the endeavor that would become the global entity known as mystech AND that after being lured to the mansion lord spencer MURDERED her husband and son. Alycia also FURTHER cemented the fact that SHE herself was far from "innocent" in the ways of covert activity as she admitted to having yet another man of power gunned down. But obviously there was a reason why Arklay had remained a secret for so long...and it looked like another caper was brewing around it.::
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