SITUATION: Repair Bay, Pride of Phlegethon; Waldorff, Clan Occupational Zone 2 September 3055 Elizabeth hit the release

on the restraints and rose from the Mech chair. She was drenched in sweat, her cooling suit only barely countering the effects of the cockpit heat. She handed her neurohelmet off to the waiting technician and climbed down gantry to the Mech bay floor. She looked up at her Masakari and shook her head. She could barely recognize the Mech it had suffered so much damage. The Clans were getting more and more difficult to raid, they were learning from her and her unit and the repair bill was showing it. She let out a long sigh and tried to stretch her cramped muscles. At least the won and at least the got something more then salvage to show for it. Eleven personnel from various Inner Sphere units including four from her own were liberated. Over the last two years she has tracked down and rescued one hundred and forty three Inner Sphere prisoners captured during the Clan invasion. Most were relegated to menial tasks but a select few were indoctrinated into the Clan war machine. Those Bondsmen as they are called were the most difficult to understand. They seemingly denounced their Inner Sphere origins and have identified with the captors to the point of serving them willingly in their military. Her medical personnel have likened the incidents as a form of Stockholm syndrome, but that doesnt make it any less gut wrenching. Men and women whose loyalty she would have never questioned before started to give her doubts now. Elizabeth nodded absently to the technician as he informed her on the repair time for her Mech. She turned and left the repair bay and headed for her quarters. In two weeks she would be back on the Hellraisers base on Kookens and back with her children. She hoped David would be back from his raid with his unit the Northwind Highlanders as well. She missed them all dearly. Elizabeth stepped off the Dropship to see Sharon Manes with her twins. A smile grew on her face and she raced to her kids to smother them in a hug. Teary eyed she looked up from her children to Sharon. I hope they werent any trouble Sharon, says Elizabeth. Well Mitchell was a handful but Emily helped me keep her brother out of trouble, didnt you Emi? replies Sharon. Emily nodded with a smile. A shadow is cast over Elizabeth and her children. When she looks up and sees David standing there. She gets up and gives him a long and passionate kiss. Happy to see you too Beth, says David. I missed you so much David, replies Elizabeth. Well thats easily fixed Beth, says David with a playful smirk. I told you David, Id say yes once I was finished with the task at hand, replies Elizabeth. By the look on your face you were successful again, says David. Yes, we rescued four more Hellraisers. That leaves only three more, replies Elizabeth. Enough of that now, let me take my soon to be fianc and my soon to be kids out for dinner tonight to celebrate, says David as he leans in to kiss Elizabeth again. I love you, replies Elizabeth as she kisses him passionately back. Personal Journal of Major Elizabeth Hines, 3054

SITUATION: Senior Technician Quarters, Pride of Phlegethon; Kookens Pleasure Pit, Border of the Clan Occupational Zone 20 October 3052 Vickers sat staring at his noteputer. His hand gripped the mouse and the cursor hung on the send button. Vickers glanced over the contents of the file once more. Wolfnet File: 790145-IMC5D-10/20/52 Date: 10/20/52 Reporting Agent: 350600360 Section: IMC5D-Red Security Level: Eyes Only Continued monitoring of the subjects; here are the relevant medical files, awaiting further instructions. C:\ElizabethHines\TransvaginalOocyteRetrieval\Cameron-Jacob\ C:\HellraiserMedical\Cameron\Subject\Hines\IntracytoplasmicSpermInjection\HinesUnknown. C:\HellraiserMedical\Cameron\Hines\EmbryoTransfer\ C:\WolfnetMedical\Subject\Hines\IntracytoplasmicSpermInjection\Cameron-Kerensky\ He stared at screen for several minutes more before clicking the send button. The screen flared to life working its predetermined processes of connecting to Wolfnet and then the complex process of erasing the data sent and IP's used. For added measure Vickers placed a small box on top of the noteputer and flipped its switch. The .1 Tesla scale magnet device began rewriting the data into garbage permanently. For the first time he felt as if he had done something unforgivable, something so debased that a part of his soul was lost. He shook his head to clear the guilt from his mind. If there was to be a successor to the fallen Star League who better then the child of a union between the Cameron and Kerensky blood line and who better then Elizabeth Hines to raise him. -Wolfnet Archive, Outreach 3067; Liberated by Manei Domini Unit, Opacus Venatori.