A The Assignments Story There was only one thing to draw him to her, OK, maybe because she was blond, cute, looked like a model and acted like a slave, had something to do with it. He really just wanted to help her.
Frank, Alex and Gina join in at Ch. 2, Boris, Katya et. al. are now 'friends' in Ch. 3.
Now there is a 'real' team behind him, now the Evans and Vincent 'thing' can be 'taken care of'. Even more as everyone gets into the act, as a team, eventually.
In the future the world is no longer the one we know. Small districts are spread across the planet's surface with many having to find their own sources of power. One such district has a method but it need volunteers for the program and they get those volunteers any way they need.
"Independence Day", "War of the Worlds", "Alien", "The Thing". Why do aliens have to be so damn horrible? What if they were benevolent? What if they wanted to help the Human race? Well they might still abduct some of us. What would that be like?
Ariel ("A") hated her name, and she didn't fit in at high school. Parentless, her grandmother, Lucy, raised her. A convinced Lucy to date Claudia, but disaster struck when Claudia's ex spirited her daughter to TX, leaving only Ben, her son. A and Lucy supported Claudia & Ben, found them a lawyer, and become their lovers. A intervened in an attempted rape, thwarted by the store clerk, a retired marine. After their junior prom, Ben was kidnapped, with A to the rescue.