It was Mr Connors.

He was right in front of them and yet they could not do anything.

"Let go!" Nayum said with gritted teeth, trying to break open the window.

"No!" Alandria grasped his hand in time and pulled him down. "What are you crazy?!"

"Don't you want to save the boss?!"

"Of course I want to save him, but this is dangerous! There could be other people inside. We are both dead if we go in right now!" Alandria said in one breath.

Nayum was not satisfied with her answer, but he finally decided to nod as he looked away. Alandria managed to convince him to get back to the car which they did and waited for Dom and Pit to leave. A few minutes later, her fears were founded. A few black jeep came to a halt in front of the building and about ten men went inside.

"You were right...and perhaps there were more people inside before as well" Nayum whispered, his eyes on the cars.

"We need a plan. We need to leave."

"No, if I move the car they will grow suspicious. We will have to wait until there's no one in sight."

"But there is no one...." Alandria stopped dead. Someone was peeping through the upper window.

"Did they see us?"

"No, they can't see us...tinted glass" Nayum winked.

Now that was puzzling.

"But then why were we hiding...?"

"I thought it was funny, you looked very funny hiding all the time. So I copied your gestures..." Nayum chuckled.

She elbowed him and laughed along.

They then waited for another thirty minutes and went away as soon as it was safe to do so. Once they were in the lair, Alandria barged in the living room, her worried eyes looking for Zayden.

"I'll check in the kitchen" Nayum said, "You check in his room. We need to tell him about this immediately!"

As soon as she saw his room, she opened the door and looked around. Zayden...where was he? She turned around and was about to leave when she heard a squeak and a soft moan. Looking to her left, she found a pair of half opened eyes. Zayden was on the floor.

"Oh my!!!" 

The next second, the young girl was at his side, her hands trembling.

"How...? What? What happened to you..."

She tried to get him to talk, but Zayden was in a sort of trance. He was not responding even though he could see her. It was like he was....drugged.

She instantly felt his hands. His left hand was clenched in a fist. With her heart racing, Alandria opened his hand to see a small packet of pills. She snatched them and read the inscriptions on the packet. 

"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" 

He had taken Dr. Bertram's given pills again. Why did he do that? He knew those medicines had a negative effect on him. He knew Dr. Bertram was trying to kill him with those pills! Then why did he take them?

"ZAYDEN! LOOK AT ME! OH GOD....NAYUM! FERNANDO! ANYONE!"

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Zayden was now lying on the bed unconsciously. Fernando and Alandria was sitting by his sides and Nayum was looking out the window. After a few moments, Danny walked in with some medicines in his hands.

"I got it from the nearby pharmacy" he explained, "Don't worry Alandria. We got this."

He helped Zayden swallow the pills with some water. Zayden moaned and Alandria positioned his pillow properly so that he could rest better.

"I cannot understand" Alandria whispered, "He is addicted to them. That's the only explanation. He would not have touched them."

"It could be that he has been taking them behind your back." Danny suggested, "But...that's not what bothers me..."

They all looked at him curiously.

Danny leaned against the wall and said

"He didn't know those pills were deadly before so he took them. But after finding out, he did stop taking them...then the day he went to find his dad remember? With Dom and Pit? When he came back he was all mental?"

"What are you trying to say?" Nayum asked.

"Before finding out the truth, I remember he used to take the pills each time we had to go on a dangerous mission" Danny continued.

"He takes the pills when he is under stress" Alandria concluded.

"Exactly" Danny said, looking at Alandria, "But now...he was under no stress. He was free today. There was literally nothing stressful. Then why...?"

Alandria looked at Zayden's sleeping face. His eyes started opening and a smile formed on his lips when he fully opened them to see Alandria.

"Hey love..."

Alandria forced out a smile and put some of his hair strands away from his face.

What are you doing Zayden?, she thought as her heart ached.

Author Note: Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to vote.