As soon as we arrived back in Loveland city, I went back to my mission. With the new information we got in New York, I now know that Black Swan has indeed big benefactors. That explains how they manage to have that control room and set up that hacker meeting. Not to mention, in those pictures of seventeen years ago, those types of equipment they used were good quality, if not better. So, I must be ready for whatever is to come. Because something tells me, there will be another strike. Strike for Producer lady. This however made me think. Why her? Why target a producer of a small company? If it is to silence her like her father, why not do it as they did before? No, it's something else.

"I don't know if you'll believe me or not, but I saw it in a dream."

Could it be... that she is Evolver too? With evol of sights? That must be the reason why she was kidnapped in the first place seventeen years ago. Why else would Black Swan kidnapped her? But why target her? If it is to capture all those who were taken back then, why haven't they tried to capture Victor and any other who was taken as well? No, it seems it's all about her. Once again, Why? What exactly happened back then? I try to think and think, but so far there are only theories. Some were reasonable and some just too stupid to be true. Argh! It's so frustrating!

I was laying on the bed when Victor came to my room, which was a mess of papers and red lines. Just a quick look and he asks. "Did your mind explode?"

"You can say that," I answered.

"How about lunch break?" he suggests.

A few minutes later, we are eating food Victor made. Or that's what I tried. It's not that I didn't like it, he always makes delicious food, but I was still thinking about Black Swan and its next move.

Like knowing what I was thinking, Victor decided to tell something "I was asked to one program."

"You mean talk show interview? That's not unusual. Isn't it normal to..."

"No, it's some sort of "escape room" game show."

I looked while at him before I started to laugh. Him, Victor Li, the famous businessman in a game show? I stopped laughing until I took a deep breath. "I take you refused."

"Of course I did."

"Good. No offense, but you would solve it too quickly that viewers would get bored."

"I was requested by HBS."

I remained quiet. HBS? I already learned that HBS was on the list of Black Swan's benefactor/investments. If they are asking Victor, then...

"You don't think...?" I asked.

"I'm not sure yet. I have been asked many times already. It seems they asked "Miracle entertainment" to work with them and she has asked me as well."

I was more shocked now. They are asking the producer lady to ask Victor? Why all this feels like a setup. The big question is set up to whom?

"Which is why I could use your help." This made me return back to reality. "I plan to accept the offer, but I need you to investigate them before and during the show."

"That is if there is any show." I pointed out.

"In case this would turn out to be a trap, you know what to do, got it?" Victor cleared.

"Crystal"

On the next day, Victor accepted the producer lady's request to appear on the show. I can imagine her face by realizing that Victor had refused the request so far just to test her. Well, I know I would be angry, but he has a point. Requesting visitors to the show would be difficult.

But meanwhile, I learned the location of the set and got there in the nighttime, just before the show would begin. It looks like an old office building. But something tells me it's only a cover. I climbed up to the roof and found an air vent system. Luckily, it was big enough for me to get in. As soon as I got in, I started to crawl all over the building. Since I was once again in my "power" form I managed to sense the layout of the building. There were many cells and labs... wait a minute! This feels like Deja vu. Are they... trying to copy the interior like seventeen years ago? But why? That's when I started to remember what happened back then with Kiro. Those pictures. They showed on the screen. So, she would see them.

"You mean PTSD?"

Are...are they trying to reawaken her memory from that time? But once again comes the question; why?

I checked by my heat sense that there are only security cameras, but not any other cameras. That's not right. How else people would see how...? That when it hit me. This is not a game show. This is Black Swan's setup.

I tried to leave, but I soon found myself at a dead end. I tried to move backward before I heard noises. I tried to remain still. Was I exposed? I got my answer when bullets came behind me and were getting close. I wasn't sure if I should move or not. If I move, they would follow me and kill me. If I stay... Well, I got an answer when I bullet scratched my leg. This left me no choice. I went into a fable position so I won't get a deadly shot. Yeah, just because I can heal quickly, doesn't mean I'm immortal. If you get a serious shot, it's a serious shot. Luckily the bullets never caused any serious damage. Only a few scratches and one flesh wound in the arm. Too much pain, but enough to spill some blood to make them think I died. I figured this when the shooting stopped and it was deadly quiet. I heard them say to go and get the body. Then I heard them leave. This was my chance. As soon as they left, I moved to the lab, which I discovered a while ago. Once I figured that the lab was empty, I came out from the air vent. Luckily, my scratches have healed up so the landing went smoothly. I went to secure the door, so no one would come while I handled my flesh wound.

To make sure they won't realize I'm here, I picked two cloth pads to clean the dry blood from me, before handling anything else. Once I was done with it, I burned the pads to clear the evidence of me. Then I tried to check the time on my phone. I need to warn Victor about this, but to my misfortune, I find my phone got a bullet in it. Well, I should be grateful. If it weren't for the phone, I would have a bullet in my leg and that would have been painful. But how I gonna inform Victor now? I don't even know what time it is. What's worse, the windows I saw are just cover. I can't see if it is a day already. I had no choice but to go through the ventilation system again.

This time however I moved very slowly, so they won't hear me. But to my misfortune, I hear a familiar voice. Victor is already here and they are showing his place. I need to hurry. This time, I didn't care if they hear me. If they start to shoot, they will reveal themselves. I came just and just when I hear the cell door open. I kicked the vent door open, just when Victor stopped the time before he was locked up. As he walked away and came down.

"Why haven't you called?" he asked me. I simply showed my broken phone to him. Which sure gave him the answer. "Your hair is brown," he told me. I checked my reflection of the phone. It seems since I was clearing my wounds, I returned back to normal. And I didn't bring the lighter with me. Nuts!

Then again I heard a familiar voice. It's her. I hurried quickly to the one cell. I tried to open it, but it's locked. Victor moves me aside and starts kicking the door. At first, I didn't see the point, until I noticed the lock mechanism bend out. Since this is an old building, of course, doors are old too. As soon as the lock was off its place Victor opened the door and found the producer lady on the floor, close to crying.

"Victor..."

"Are you stupid? You're not some lost child," he said to her.

"Why are you here?" she asked as she got up. Victor explained that he too was about to be locked in until he used his evol to escape.

"What do you mean? what about the filming?" she asked him.

"This show will never be broadcast," Victor said in a serious tone.

"What?"

"I should never have accepted the offer," Victor spoke in an upsetting tone.

I understand how he feels. If I would have known about this too, I wouldn't have accepted it either. And if my phone wouldn't be broken I would have warned him.

Then alarms went on. A loud horn rang in the hallway. Victor told the producer lady that they will talk, once we get out of there. Victor holds her hand as we run into the hallway. It didn't take long before men in black suits came with their guns. Some appeared in front of us, so we had to take cover on the walls. Victor stopped the time to give us a chance to avoid bullets. However, when we passed on the corner, fireballs were coming at us. Victor protected the producer lady while I tried to grab one fireball to awaken my powers. Sadly I got none. They obviously were targeted at them. We kept running until we found one empty room. We went there just in time.

As we turned around, we realized to be in some sort of operation room. It was exactly like in the pictures we discovered with Kiro. I looked at the producer lady and I could see she was in shock.

"This place is..."

"What's wrong?" Victor asked.

"Again... This room... This building... I know them."

"You..." Victor realized in surprise.

I think my theory has come true. She was the girl he has been looking for. However, there was no time. The men started to get into the room. And even if Victor stopped the time, it didn't stop one of them. One with fire.

"An Evolver...."

So it seems. The man tried to aim at us, but Victor managed to knock him out with a couple of moves.

"I could have taken him."

"Not now, Darens." Victor lectured me.

"Darens?" the producer lady wondered, before realizing who I was, even if I didn't have red hair and a strange eye.

"Can we leave this later? When we are out of here." I suggested.

"Can you keep going?" Victor asked the producer lady. She just nodded.

We kept running and running until we found the exit. However, since we spend most of the time in a dark building, getting used to the sunlight made us stop. However, it seems this wasn't over. I looked aside and found another member of black Swan who threw a fireball at us.

"Look out!"

The producer lady tried to move me or Victor aside from the fireball, but Victor was faster and moved her back while I took the fireball right to my hands. The speed and power of the fireball made me move backward and hit my head. I was a bit dizzy from the hit, but the fire already awakened my powers.

"Victor!"

I looked up to see what was going on. Victor tried to handle the one who threw the fireball, but there was another one. He threw another fireball at Victor but this time the Producer lady went between and took the hit.

I could see the shock in Victor's eyes. I was shocked too. I want to roar, but nothing came from my mouth as she fell in Victor's arms.

Both men were ready to fire once more. I ran to them, ready to protect them. I'm not gonna let them down. They fired and I was ready to take them when suddenly two black holes came out of nowhere. This surprised us until I heard Victor saying.

"I will never let you go again," he said as he holds the producer lady tightly against him, fearing he will lose her again. I never saw him like this.

More fireballs come at us but so do the black holes taking them all in, while Victor gets up, carrying the producer lady in his arms. I came close to them until we were surrounded by black holes. Then those holes merged into two big ones, which sucked both of those men until there was nothing left but us three next to the building.

"Go ahead. I handle the rest." I said to Victor.

"What do you mean?"

"Get her out of here, now," I repeated as my voice sounded different. Victor looked concerned at me, but then looked at the young woman in his arms. After seventeen years he has finally found her.

"Go to Goldman to get a new phone and he will tell where I'll be," he said before he left with the producer lady.

Five hours later, I came to the hospital. Just like Victor told me, I asked Goldman and I got a new phone. The nurse led me to the room before she went back to work.

I entered the room, where Victor looked after the producer lady, who was resting in bed.

"What happened back there?" he asked me.

"Are you talking about your evol or...?" I asked.

"You." I looked at him confused. By the look on his face, I could tell it's something serious. "You did something there. You sounded like a different person back there."

I remain silent. I realized I did the same thing back then when we found those pictures with Kiro. Kiro didn't mention I sounded different, but then again I went to handle that... another case.

"Has this happened before?" Victor asked.

"No... only once... when I... find those pictures..."

"Didn't you notice?"

"No... I was... I was so angry. I..." I tried to speak, but I didn't know what else to say. I know I was angry and I wanted to destroy everything in that building, just like I did with the control room. But I never knew I was... different.

"Does it have something to do with your powers?" Victor asked me.

"I'm not sure... maybe... I think my father does..."

Then I felt a hand on my head. I looked up and saw Victor petting my head.

"We handle this when this is over. In the meantime, try to stay calm." he said to me.

I nodded before I went to sit close to the bed where the producer lady rest.

"How is she?" I asked.

"Doctor said it's nothing serious. She is recovering and we need to wait for her to wake up"

"Okay..." I said.

"Which reminds me... did you bring what I asked?"

Yeah, when I went to Goldman, he told Victor asked for his laptop. Which I brought, along with pink flowers, which I put in a vase next to the bed.

"You can go back now."

"What about you?" I asked

"I'll stay with her."

I was going to say that he should rest too, but I then remembered what he had said before.

"I will get it back, no matter the cost"

"I will never let you go again"

He is really serious about this. Seventeen years and he finally found her. I could tell by the look in his eyes. Kind of reminds me of my father when it's about mom.

"You let me know when she wakes up," I said before I left.

It took a week before I got a text from Victor that the producer lady had woken up. I hurried quickly and I arrived just when Victor had finished talking with doctors. After that, we entered the room where she was sitting in bed. I stayed aside to listen to them.

"They said it isn't all that bad," she said.

"But it seems they need to run some tests." Victor said. "You should expect to spend at least two weeks here."

"That long?"

"You were asleep for a week. Accept it." Victor told her.

That's when she noticed he hadn't shaved, which showed he has been with her the whole time. During their conversation turns out she got some of her memory back. She now remembered some of her past when she and Victor were kidnapped. But she still wanted to know why HBS did this. Well, it had to wait, when her stomach growled. Well, according to Victor it's normal since she was asleep a week, of course, she is hungry. While Victor went to bring her something to eat, I took the chance to talk with her.

"I guess I owe you an explanation." I started.

"No, I kinda have thought you have a twin sister who is Evolver, but I didn't know..." the producer lady said. I chuckled at that.

"My power appears when I'm close to being touched by fire or any heat. In that my hair changes the color and my left eye... well, you saw it. I saw it as a way to hide my identity when I investigated Black Swan."

"And Victor knows?"

"He found out my powers when he found me. I was already robbed and escaped from Black Swan, but I had nothing. It started to rain and I was catching a cold until I passed Souvenir. I decided to take shelter, till I passed out. Just then Victor came and witnessed my hair change color because of the fever. He took me in and after I was well, I became an LFG trainee, apprentice of the mysterious chef of Souvenir, and private detective." I told.

"Detective?"

"He will explain." I said while Victor arrived.

He made porridge for her, but she couldn't eat it herself, because of her back. So, Victor helped to feed her. After that, Victor told in a simple timeline on what has happened. How they got separated seventeen years ago, how he started to investigate who was behind the kidnapping and learn it was Black Swan till the time we discovered the connection with them and HBS. Plus, my involvement as a detective in this.

However, to whom this was made? According to Victor if it was to him, they would have done it already. So, that leaves the only possible conclusion. Producer lady. I have to agree because from what I have heard there have already been too many times she was a target. Pushing in front of the car, swapped into a dark alley, sniper, set up a meeting with Key, according to her there was also one encounter in her old high school and now this. This of course leaves up the same question which I had. Why her?

Either way, Victor told her to rest, before he asked me outside of the room to talk.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I need you to look after her." he said to me.

"That's what I have suggested all week. Look at yourself, you..."

"I'm serious about this." I knew that tone already. But I also realized something.

"You asked the doctor to keep her here for two weeks, didn't you?" I figured. He avoided looking at me, I was right. "How long was it really?"

"One week."

I groaned when I heard it. "Victor..."

"You heard what she told us, she was going to get killed."

"And we all were going to get killed back there. Do you think you would have been able to do something back then? We were in New York, remember?"

"I made a promise to myself that I will find her and when I do, I won't let go of her."

"She is a grown woman, Victor." I spoke in a serious tone as well. We both kept looking at each other creating a tense aura around us. Luckily, no one was passing by. "I will look after her just like I did before you knew her who she is, but only if you let her go properly."

"Are you threatening me?"

"No. I'm saying this because I want to support her and you're..." I said but then stopped realizing what I was going to say.

"I'm what?"

"Just forget it." I said and left.

"We're not done!"

"I am." I cleared before I took the elevator to take me to the roof. Once outside on the roof, I took a deep breath and blew it out. That was a close one. I was so close to admitting it. It was windy, so I spoke up to the wind.

"You're like a big brother I never had..."

Yeah. Since I'm firstborn in my family, I never knew how it is to have an older sibling who makes fun out of you sometimes, supports you during the bad times, and knows you like a book, when parents are out. I have always been that, with my little brother. But now...

I walked to the fence to look down. Victor told me, he did this, whenever he felt down. I can understand why. Up here, you could see how small your worries are compared to the bigger world.

Then I felt a hand on my head again and already knew who it was.

"Are you still mad at me?" Victor asked. I didn't answer.

"I know you don't want to lose her, but you have to let her choose." I told him. "Before my parents started their... "work" they got separated. My father told me he was desperately looking for mom, but when he finally found her she wanted to learn new things to help people. He didn't want her to leave him again, but he let her go. And in the end, he told me he was glad he did. Because if he hadn't, he wouldn't have learned either how to help people and they probably never would be who they are now."

"You never told your parents' occupation." Victor mentioned.

"That's something I'm not allowed to tell. Classified."

Victor chuckles at that. "Alright then."