Regarding punishment, the least that could happen was that the daily personal invasions into her mind by the Praetor would cease. The worse that could... happen would be a complete mind wipe of her identity and all her memories. That terrified her more than anything she had ever faced before. What terrified her about that was her realization that she could actually become the violently murderous rogue her father had once believed she was. She hoped her father would kill her if she lost herself. "Ben! Sam!" he called out. The other two men looked up, then back down briefly before getting up to come over to the coffee area. "Cooper, this is Dr. Benjamin Girardi and Dr. Samsi Nieminen. Ben, Sam, this is Cooper James." Mr. James," they both said. Dr. Nieminen with a slight accent."Please, call me Cooper," I said offering a handshake. Both men returned it in turn. "Did you know my parents too?" Yes Cooper, and please, call me Sam," Dr. Nieminen answered in his accented English. It sounded. ”He paused for a few moments while he switched lanes to get past a couple of slow moving heavy trucks struggling up an incline.“Was it love at first sight then, on this date between you and Penny?”“No, hardly that at all. The night turned out to be a complete disaster. This date had been arranged a couple of weeks earlier but the night before we went out, my friend and her friend had just had a full-blown flaming row.” Daniel laughed, “Funny really, I cannot remember anything of what it was all. The pretty receptionist there let him know that Nick was missing, last seen heading for some vault in the downtown area. Well, if he needed to go wandering through another vault, then Juan figured that is what he was going to be doing.Juan couldn’t help but notice how good that receptionist looked. Based on the tone of her distress, he had to wonder if something was happening between her and this Nick Valentine. Not that that would make a difference to Juan. Given the chance, he was definitely.