Two months passed since Tiger Lily met Isabella. She was smiling much more and her icy heart had melted. She was doing paperwork in her office until she heard the door bust open. She looked up, seeing Chase all panicked. 'did something happen?' she thought as she stood up from her spot. "What happened, Chase?" She asked, folding her arms across her chest. Chase looked at her and thought how to explain to her. "Tiger Lily, you know Isabella, correct?" He asked as her eyes widened and she nodded. "Yes? What about her?" She asked, tilting her head. Chase sighed as he told her about Isabella.

"She is in the hospital from being assaulted by Arthur Maybird and-" more than one ACME agent covered their ears and yelped at the loud screech from Tiger Lily, the ones who hadn't recoiled as violently being treated to the rare sight of pure horror and panic on their fellow agents face.

"WHAT!?!" She shrieked as she ran out of the building to her house to get out of her black bodysuit and into a cream colored sweater, a pair of blue jeans and her favorite pair of black pump heels. She tied her hair into a braid along with a white gold necklace with a dark red ruby shaped like a heart along with in-laid emeralds, diamonds, and Aquamarine to form a second heart. She grabbed her red quilted purse with a pearl camilla clasp and drove to the hospital. Once she arrived, she immediately ran to the front desk, holding up her acme ID. "ACME agent Mariam Burman. I'm here to see the victim: Isabella." She said as she was given Isabella's room number. She went to the elevator and pressed the button with the number 5. She felt the elevator going up and that gave her plenty of time to think.

What happened during the attack? What was Isabella doing when the attack occured? And more importantly.. why wasn't she there?! Isabella was her girlfriend for f**k's sake! More thoughts swam in her head until she heard the familiar ding of the elevator and it's doors slid open. She walked out of the elevator and stood in the 5th corridor. She looked at the slip of paper the lady at the front desk gave her. 'Isabella is in room number 509.' she thought as she walked through the corridor, her pumps clicking against the smooth tiles. She got to the door of room 509 and mentally prepared herself for what she was about to see. She opened the door and let out an audible gasp.

Laying on the bed was her Isabella but she looked horrible! Bruises and lacerations were on her face, arms and legs.. there was a huge bruise on her collarbone and a cut ran across her forehead, a black eye was visible on her left eye, and there were scrapes on her legs, joining the lacerations. Mariam stood there, warm honey brown eyes meeting Isabella's chocolate ones. A whirlwind of emotions stirred inside of her but one emotion was certainly there: rage. Rage that her dear Isabella was hurt like this, Rage at the person who hurt her and more importantly, Rage at herself for not preventing the attack. She placed her purse on the counter and slowly walked towards Isabella's bed.

"Izzy? It's me, Mariam. Are you ok? I mean.. with all things considered?" She said, sitting down in a chair. Isabella's head turned towards Mariam as she sadly smiled. "Mari.. he attacked me so he could get to you.. he said he was your Ex.. he somehow found out about our relationship.." Mariam shook with anger. She was now angry. Tonight, she would make a call to a certain cousin to deal with him. It wouldn't be hard, her cousin hated people like him. "I wouldn't worry about him. He'll be dealt with accordingly." She told her, frowning at the mark at her collarbone. She still wanted to know how that bruise got there, since there wasn't any sign of SA on her from what she could see. "W-what do you mean?" Asked Isabella as Mariam smiled. "Don't worry about, Izzy. You just focus on recovering, ok?" Mariam said.

"Ok, Mari.." Mariam pecked her forehead gently as not to reopen the cut across it. "What happened when the attack occured? You don't have to tell me." She said as Isabella sighed and began to tell her story, from when she left her house to go on a nighttime walk, when Arthur confronted her, and to when he attacked her. Mariam was quiet as she listened. "Izzy, to me it sounds like he had been following us when he got out of prison." She finally said after processing the information. "Thank you for telling me this, Izzy. I'll take care of it." She added before standing up. She grabbed her purse and was about to leave before Isabella stopped her. "What are you going to do?" She asked just as Mariam's hand stopped at the doorknob.

The Sri Lankan agent smirked and looked at her through the corner of her eye. "Don't worry about it, Izzy." She said before leaving and went to the doctor who was attending to Isabella. "She will be ok in a few days. Luckily, the cuts aren't too deep and the bruises will heal, but we will need to check her incase the person who did this to her violated her internally." Said the woman as Mariam nodded. "I understand." She left the hospital to her house to make a phone call to her cousin. She picked up the white handset of her phone and dialed a number. It took 2 ring before her cousin picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Raven. It's me, Mariam." 

"Hi, Cousin! Are you.. ok?"

"No, I'm not ok! My own Girlfriend, Isabella was attacked by my Ex and is in the hospital because of him!"

"What!? I thought they arrested him for shooting Aunt Aanya and Cousin Mohan!"

"I did to, but he was let out after serving his time. So.. will you help me?"

"Sure thing!"

The two cousins hung up after making their plans. Mariam sighed before taking a box out from under her bed. She opened up the box via the lid and took out a sari.

The sari was a dark yet beautiful shade of Egyptian blue, with big sapphires adorning the silk and patterns of waves. 'i think it's time Water Lily made a comeback.' she thought. Night fell and she put on the Sari. After carefully hiding her face, she jumped out the window. She landed perfectly on the ground, and went to the meeting place where she spotted a girl wearing a dark purple kimono with prints of plums and peacocks, dark black hair, rich and deep blue eyes and fair skin. Her name was Raven and she was the half-Japanese cousin of Mariam.

The two women walked to where Arthur lived and broke in, via the backdoor. Mariam knew the neighbors weren't home, so they were free to do as they pleased with him. They immediately found him and started scaring the daylights out of him until he promised to turn himself in. The women then left the scene. Mariam was happy that she avenged her girlfriend. Nobody was allowed to come near Isabella without her say so. That night, Mariam made a promise to herself.

She would never ever let Isabella get hurt like that ever again.