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sorts, and I’m about to have a Navy.”
    “Who hired you?” Linny asked.
    “Well, aren’t you just the inquisitor,” Tank Top laughed. “Here I thought I’d interrogate you, but you have totally flipped it around on me.”
    He pulled the trigger and put a round in Linny’s left leg. She screamed and clutched at her thigh then screamed more as the motion pulled at the wounds in her shoulder.
    “I don’t like to be interrogated,” Tank Top said, “brings up bad memories.”
    He placed his foot on her thigh and pressed down.
    “Your memories, I don’t mind bringing up,” he said as he ground down on the bullet wound. Linny’s scream built until it was only a squeak in her throat. “So, let’s start from the beginning and see what we can dredge up, shall we?”
     
    ***
     
    The B3’s engines were pushed to full capacity. Thorne and Kinsey sat on the observation deck and listened to the dull thrum of the engines far below. They watched as the ship cut through the water, slicing the waves in half as if they never existed.
    “This place we’re headed?” Kinsey asked. “What has Ballantine told you about it?”
    “Research facility,” Thorne said. “Off books.”
    “Off what books? The company’s?” Kinsey asked.
    “Yes,” Thorne replied. “Ballantine has assured me that only a couple of people know it exists and one of those people is Dr. Morganton.”
    “It isn’t a full secret,” Kinsey says, “which means others know and there could be a trail to follow.”
    “I mentioned that to Ballantine,” Thorne said. “He says we’ll worry about that when we get there.”
    “Where is this place?” Kinsey asked.
    “The middle of nowhere. Some uncharted island.”
    “Great,” Kinsey said. “Let’s hope it’s not Gilligan’s Island.”
    “With Ballantine, it’s more like the Island of Dr. Moreau.”
    Kinsey laughed and stretched in her seat. Thorne looked over at his daughter and tried to smile, but what was on his mind wouldn’t let him. He looked back out at the water.
    “What were you up to when you were deep in your addiction?” Thorne asked.
    “Daddy, you don’t want to know,” Kinsey sighed.
    “No, no, I probably don’t,” Thorne sighed with her, “but as commander of this Team, I may need to. I know you lied, cheated, and did whatever you had to in order to stay high. That’s common, I get that.”
    “You can pretty much write a script of how a junkie’s life will play out,” Kinsey said.
    “A regular junkie, yes,” Thorne responded, “but you aren’t regular, Kinsey. You are a trained Marine and were almost a trained Navy SEAL. You have skills and ways of looking at the world that very few others do.”
    Kinsey sat there silent and Thorne tore his eyes from the bright blue horizon and looked at her. He could see the fear on her face, the tension in her neck, the way she gripped the armrests of her chair.
    “Time to spill it all, Kins,” Thorne said softly, “because I think who you were, who you became back in that nightmare, has bearing on what is happening to us now.”
    “I...I don’t remember it all,” Kinsey said after a few moments. “I have dreams sometimes…”
    “I don’t think that’s true,” Thorne said. “I think you do remember what you did. Darren is under the impression you do. He mentioned something you told him a while back. It bugged him and when he told me, it bugged me.”
    “He what?” Kinsey snapped. “What the fuck did that ass tell you?”
    “Don’t blame him,” Thorne said. “You know he loves you and only wants you to be safe.”
    “Maybe,” Kinsey said.
    “Well, I’ll let you two work that out,” Thorne said dismissively, “not my deal. What is my deal is what you did while you were strung out. I need to know how you got a hold of all your drugs. Where’d you get the money to live? How’d you survive that long without being taken down?”
    “Taken down?” Kinsey asked. “You’re talking like I was part of