***Graphic Violence - Reader Discretion Advised***

The second my eyes opened in the real world, my senses were assaulted by bright lights and sirens blaring throughout the room. I took a moment to take in my surroundings, realizing I was in a clean room, strapped to a bed, much like I had been in the mental construct the Doctor had tried to trap me in. Scientists in suits beat on the doors to the room, trying in futility to open them and get to me so they could presumably knock me out again. I looked towards the large glass window in front of me into a room with computer equipment and even more scientists just in time to see a door slide closed. I had no doubt the mysterious "doctor" was the one who had just walked through it but I didn't have time to chase him down. I needed to find Kai and get out of there before it was too late.

I broke the restraints around my hands and feet and pushed myself off the medical table. There were cords and tubes connected all over my body that took precious seconds to undo. I could only hold the doors closed for so long before my powers got away from me. But I only needed a few more moments.

A hissing sound from above caught my attention. Time was up. They were going to try to knock me out again. I closed my eyes and focused my breathing, expanding my powers out beyond my body to try and locate Kai. I got the sense he was somewhere below me, but there was too much metal and electrical equipment between us for me to get a solid read on him or his condition. I could only hope he was alive.

With a deep breath, I stood and walked toward the left side of the room where scientists huddled together, working on the door scanner that I'd fried. The computer screens still showed "system failure" but I didn't know how much longer I had before they got their systems back online. With a cleansing breath, I drew on the energy in the room, then shoved it outwards.

All the glass around me shattered and everything fell silent for a single heartbeat before the equipment rebooted. The scientists that had been trying to get in were suddenly shoved backwards, clutching their heads under the force of my attack. I reached out and lifted them high in the air, letting them fall hard on the floor. Once they were knocked out, I leapt over them and ran down the hall toward where I thought Kai was being held.

Nobody challenged me in the hallway. They clutched their clipboards and tablets to their chests, pressing themselves against walls or ducking back into rooms when I passed. Which was fine with me. I didn't want to hurt anyone I didn't have to and the less people I had to fight, the quicker I could find Kai and get the fuck out of that place. Just being there made me uncomfortable in ways only my hidden memory could understand.

I rounded a corner and slid to a stop in front of a bank of elevators. Checking behind me, I didn't see anyone following me but I knew it would be all too easy for my captors to trap me in one and remembered Bangtan's rules about indefensible spaces. With a groan, I took the hall to my left and found the door for the stairs.

As I ran, I started to get a better grip on where I thought Kai was. I let my powers take over and just followed the pull in my chest, hoping against hope that I would continue to be unopposed. But that hope was quickly crushed when I burst through a door three flights down and came to a skidding halt in front of six men with guns raised. In the front was Ravn, wearing the same wicked smile I'd seen on him just before he took over my mind.

My internal shields were up the second I realized who was in front of me, but I didn't know how much it was going to help because Ravn was strong. And he was well trained. I had no doubt that his men were, too.

"Did you really think we would be so stupid to let you just walk right up and take him?"

My eyes darted between Ravn and the men standing behind him in a "v" formation. Their stares didn't deviate from me and their muscles were tense, their fingers ready and eager to squeeze their triggers. I sighed and straightened, shrugging like I didn't have a care in the worlds.

"When no one followed me, I dared to dream."

Ravn's laughter was malicious. "Why fight needlessly when we knew where you were going?"

"Plus," a blond man with an incredibly deep voice said to Ravn's right, "watching you lose all hope when you saw us was rather satisfying."

"Well, I hate to burst your bubble but I have somewhere else to be."

Before I could even flinch, the corner of Ravn's lips quirked up into a smirk. All six men opened fire. Pain unlike anything I'd ever experienced exploded in my chest as their bullets tore through sinew and bone. My vision turned red as blood burst out from my body, painting everything around me. My body convulsed, suspended in mid air before my legs gave out and I collapsed to the floor. Ravn held up his fist and the gunfire stopped.

I lay on the floor, my breaths coming out in short gasps but doing no good. I couldn't get air in my body and even if I could, my lungs were too destroyed to hold it. My vision was trying to glaze over, but it was by sheer hatred that I was able to focus on Ravn as he walked up to me, slung his rifle over his shoulder, and crouched down. I couldn't move away as he reached out and brushed hair from my eyes.

"Such a waste. I can see what Bangtan likes so much about you. So strong and such a will to live. Maybe when the Doctor is through with you, I'll come find you again."

"Over my dead body," I rasped.

Ravn chuckled. "You mean like now?"

I sneered up at him. "I'm not dead yet, bastard." Though my body was destroyed, my power was not. And Yoongi's serum was working just fine. Ravn's eyes widened a split second before I pushed out, picking him up and slamming him against the far wall. His men recovered from their shock quickly, lifting their guns back to their eyes and firing off the rest of the rounds in their magazines, but this time I was ready.

The field I held up was weak, but it was enough to stop their bullets from hitting me. When their weapons clicked empty, I rolled over to my side and struggled to push myself up.

"You've apparently forgotten how hard our kind is to kill."

The men gawked at me for a moment as I stood. Then the blond one with the deep voice rushed forward. I surprised myself as I ducked his punch and the kick that followed, only to catch his outstretched leg and throw him to the ground. When I brought my own fist into his face, it had enough power behind it to crush bones. A second later, the short guy that had knocked me out in the mansion - Hwanwoong - ran forward.

Blood was still pouring from my wounds, but they were healing quickly. I dodged Hwanwoong's hits, moving around the narrow hallway as I did. Someone jumped on my back, but I quickly rolled him over my shoulder, dropping him at Hwanwoong's feet. He jumped over his fallen friend, but I rushed forward faster than he expected, catching him and throwing him against the wall beside me. I wasn't fast enough to dodge the next guy, or the knife he thrust into my back.

When I turned my gaze on him, he startled and took a half a step back. He was taller than the others with a wide mouth and broad shoulders. I reached behind me to grab the knife, pulling it out of my back and burying it in his chest in a single move. I didn't give the last two men the chance to attack, snapping their necks where they stood.

Clutching the wounds in my stomach that were still healing, I walked towards Ravn between the bodies of his men. With wide eyes filled with hatred, he pushed himself back against the wall, trying to stand though I was holding him down.

I crouched down in front of him like he had done to me. "So," I said, reaching out and turning his face up to mine, "it seems like I made a promise to repay you for what you'd done to my men."

"No matter what you do, the Doctor will fix," he growled up at me through clenched teeth.

"He'll have to find all the pieces of you first." I stood and stepped up to the door the men had been guarding, ignoring the wet splashing sound behind me. Placing my hand on the door, I only had to think to unlock it. I stepped back as it slid open, careful not to slip in Ravn.

The room inside was dark with only a single light overhead but I could clearly see Kai sitting there, chained to the wall. This Kai had obviously been tortured and my heart broke seeing him hurt so badly. I rushed to him, falling to my knees in front of him. He weakly lifted his head, his eyes taking a minute to recognize me. Shock overcame his features as he took in my blood-soaked body.

"Only most of it is mine," I joked as I started to work his hands loose from the cuffs holding his hands.

"Why did you come," he moaned as I reached under his shoulders to lift him up.

"I don't have time to go through this with you again."

"Again?"

I shook my head, reminding myself that that didn't actually happen. "Nevermind. We have to get out of here fast before they send someone else."

"Are the others with you," Kai asked as he hobbled to the door with me. He stopped just before the hallway, gulping at the bloody mess I'd left in my wake before looking back at me.

"No. I doubt they even know where I am. We're on our own."

"Morgan...I," Kai started before his voice faded away. He pushed away from me as he found his balance and grabbed my shoulders so I would face him. "I really wish you hadn't come, but since you refuse to listen to me, I want to thank you."

"I couldn't let you die for me."

"And I can't let you die for me. If it comes down to it, I need you to go without me. I don't want to live knowing you died for me."

"Now you know why I'm here," I said, looking up into his dark eyes that were ringed in red from the abuse he took on my behalf. "I--"

A gunshot rang out, cutting me off. I jerked to my right just in time to see Hwasa walking around Ravn's fallen men with a demonic glint in her eyes. Pulling up my power, I threw my hand out, shoving her back against the far wall in an effort to keep her as far away from me as possible. She slid across the floor and thumped into the wall behind her. I pressed her back hard enough to crack the drywall with her body.

"You missed, bitch," I yelled, taking a step forward.

Her lips curled up into a bloody sneer as she gasped out a pained breath. "Did I?"

Cold fear flooded my body as I turned. Kai was lying on the floor, red blossoming across his chest and mixing with the rest that was staining the white tile floor. When his eyes met mine, I knew.

Hwasa hadn't missed at all.

I'm so sorry, y'all. I've been procrastinating writing this chapter and the next one for so long. And if anyone from Oneus reads this, I'm so sorry! I promise I'm TOMOON! ILY!

Thank you so much for coming along on this ride with me. I'll be starting the third book as soon as this one is finished. But in the meantime, I've been working on changing these for mainstream publication. I've entered Bulletproof in the Watty's and will likely enter this one too once it's completed, which means I won't actually be able to publish anything unless they don't make it. But that doesn't mean I can't go ahead and prep them as if they won't make it through. So let me know what you think of the covers. I made them myself because I'm a broke ass bitch, but I don't mind if you tell me they suck.

Get your tissues ready, though. The next chapter is going to be ROUGH.