Inspirational quote: Real people are never perfect and perfect people are never real.

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Well, Dr Kozak was supposed to die but he didn't actually die. Nobody knew this of course, for everybody in the room thought that he was actually dead.

Arista's clone had watched Victor and Alastair pretty much throw her father across the room, so she couldn't really help but to aggravatingly scream at them.

"You. Killed. My. Father?" Arista's clone had cried helplessly, with a really exasperating look on her face. She was mainly talking to Alastair however Victor had replied for her.

"Arista. He's not dead."

Arista's clone seemed really unconvinced at the moment. She came up closer to Alastair's face, screaming at him and stepping on his feet.

"And how the hell am I supposed to believe you?"

Alastair had had enough. He came up closer to her, strangling her and placing a hand around her mouth, squeezing it so that she couldn't talk.

"Listen, idiot," he started. "Your father is not dead. Although you will be dead in a minute if you don't stop winding me up!"

And as Alastair had yelled the phrase winding me up, he pointed a yellow gun to Arista's clone's head.

Kieran and Esperanza were watching everything happen, hiding behind the trophy cupboard.

"Esperanza..." Kieran whispered, continuously tapping her. "Esperanza. Look. Arista needs help."

Esperanza and Kieran basically watched it as Alastair was about to kill Arista's clone, both of them still not really doing anything.

Anastasia didn't reply straight away. She was mainly staring at Dr Kozak, who was still somehow alive however he was just lying there, unconscious, with blood all over his body.

She was about to say something but then changed her mind once Kieran had beaten her to it.

"Esperanza... Oh my god, Esperanza !"

"What?" She demanded back, slightly staring at Kieran spitefully.

"We've only got a minute left to get that trophy. I'm not joking. Otherwise we fail this mission. And Dr Kozak said you die if you don't ace the mission."

Esperanza screamed immediately, before replying.

"Okay. You get Kozak, I help Arista."

Kieran nodded as both him and Esperanza slyly headed out of behind the cupboard. Neither of them had barely even made a step before they both heard a gunshot sound going on in the background.

Kieran and Esperanza gasped once they realised what had happened.

Alastair had killed Arista's clone, and she was dead.

"You just murdered Arista!" Kieran and Esperanza shouted, looking at Alastair quite angrily.

"Yes..." He agreed, smiling complacently to himself, before pointing the gun at both of them. "You guys are up next."

He was about to shoot them but then Victor stepped in front of him, just standing there casually and nonchalantly.

"If you want to get Diana's trophy then you'll have to go through me first," he ordered.

"And me." Alastair added, moving from behind Victor, trying to make himself visible again.

"Yes. But mainly me," Victor corrected him, shooting Alastair a look of death.

Esperanza looked at Kieran, Kieran doing the same thing back, then he stopped once he saw something.

He was really considering doing this but then changed his mind, then changed it again.

"Okay."

And with saying that, Kieran pointed something at Victor's chest, and the next minute, Victor was dead.

It was a gun.

And Kieran had just deliberately ended Victor's life.

Esperanza gasped and then laughed when she found out what Kieran had just done.

"You just killed Victor!"

"I know," Kieran replied, grinning. "And it felt good. Doctor Kozak must have influenced me or something because I've never killed anyone before and he totally has."

He had killed (innocent) lives too many times before, that was for sure.

Oh yeah. Except from the fact that Victor wasn't innocent. He was guilty... of pretty much everything.

Luckily, time was going really slowly for them, although Kieran knew that they didn't have much time left once he saw Dr Kozak's phone flashing red.

"We've only got thirty seconds left to get that trophy, Esperanza, and I'm not joking. I just saw the keys to Diana's trophy cupboard in Alastair's tuxedo pocket. You try and get that, and I help Dr Kozak. No time for talking. We need to separate and go!"

Esperanza didn't say anything and Kieran departed from her, Esperanza fighting with Alastair and Kieran helping Dr Kozak.

Kieran genuinely couldn't find him at first, but then saw him lying down, not doing anything on the floor behind the sofa.

He knelt down cautiously, shaking Dr Kozak continuously but nothing really happened.

Kieran: *shakes Dr Kozak frantically* Dr Kozak... Dr Kozak!

Dr Kozak didn't say anything. He muttered something and then coughed, but no real words actually came out of his mouth.

Dr K opened his eyes slowly, to see Kieran staring at him anxiously. Kieran couldn't have been more relieved.

Kieran: *yells triumphantly* Doctor Kozak! *hugs him, Dr Kozak is confused* Thank God you're alive!

Dr Kozak: *has a coughing misfit, says this as though he's completely lost his voice* I really feel like I've cheated death right now... Not going to lie kid.

Kieran: You okay?

Dr Kozak: *says this quite angrily* Well what do you think, Kieran? Do I look okay to you? I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart.... More than once.

Dr Kozak didn't say anything major after that. Kieran then removed Dr Kozak's rainbow coloured sunglasses, then silently screamed to himself.

Kieran: Okay... Okay! *puts sunglasses back on Dr Kozak's face once he realises that he's got a black and purple swollen eye* You are not okay!

Dr Kozak: *can't talk properly, coughs again* Kieran... Kid... I need to tell you something.

Kieran: *eyes widen* Sure. What is it?

Dr Kozak did not hesitate to say his next sentence. Although when he said it, Kieran nearly wanted to cry.

Dr Kozak: *says this through tears* I'm about to die, Kieran.

Kieran was in tears right now, no joke.

Kieran: No! You can't die, Dr Kozak!

Dr Kozak: *has lost his voice fully* Kid... I've been punched really hard in the face twice today, by my sister and my sister in law. Victor and Alastair just threw me across the room just now, and I banged my head unto the floor. I've lost my voice. My head is nearly bleeding. My whole body is nearly bleeding, Kieran. My eyes are sore. I'm in pain. My life is a mess. I've lost like 10% of blood today, Kieran. And I've become colourblind again.

Kieran cried his heart out, along with Dr Kozak as well, but Kieran didn't say anything.

Dr Kozak: *has really lost his voice now and can't move* Plus why are you being so nice to me? I've mistreated you, kid. Been treating you like dirt and that you don't really exist.

Kieran: Yes, I know that, but you had a perfectly good reason why. And you've apologised, so it's fine.

Dr Kozak just coughed, not really saying anything.

Kieran: You can't die, Dr Kozak. Please.

Dr Kozak: Why though?

Kieran: Because I look up to you.

Dr Kozak was a bit surprised when he heard that. He was also confused and slightly upset as well.

Dr Kozak: You look up to me?

Kieran: *nods vigorously* Yes!

Dr Kozak: Why though? I'm a terrible person. I'm a bad influence to you and other people. I'm irresponsible. I'm disrespectful. I'm a back stabbing hypocrite. Maybe my grandmother was right after all, you know...

Kieran: So what? I still really think you're an amazing person. You have amazing super powers. You're nice... Sometimes. When you want to be, anyway. And even if you're a serial killer, you killed all the people you killed for a logical reason.

Dr Kozak: Kid. I get irritated easily. I have a short attention span. I'm a terrible listener.

Kieran: *is staring non stop at him in the eyes, Dr Kozak is doing the same thing through his rainbow coloured sunglasses* We all have flaws, Dr Kozak.

Dr Kozak: But I have too many flaws, Kieran.

Kieran was pouring with tears as he hugged Dr Kozak, Dr Kozak shrugging and hugging him back reluctantly.

Kieran then stopped hugging him when Dr Kozak's phone beeped.

He stared at it in disbelief.

Kieran: *is staring at Dr Kozak's phone still (because it's the only phone that's above 70% and has a timer), even as he says this* Uh oh.

Dr Kozak: *stares at Kieran blankly, then frowns* What?

Kieran: *looks at Dr Kozak's phone and then at the actual Dr Kozak* We've only got seventeen seconds.

Dr Kozak: *slightly perplexed* Seventeen seconds until what?

Kieran: *shakes Dr Kozak frantically then stops when Kozak tells him to* Seventeen seconds until we all fail this mission and die!

Dr Kozak: Wasn't it thirty seconds like a minute ago?

Kieran: It was. I froze the timer.

Dr Kozak: Wait. You could do that?

Kieran nodded vigorously before saying anything else.

Kieran: Yes.

Dr Kozak: *is slightly annoyed* Then why didn't you do it before?!

Kieran: Because I can only do it once.

Dr Kozak: Oh.

Kieran didn't say anything. There was no reply.

Dr Kozak: *plays with purple yoyo he magically finds on the floor* By the way where's Esperanza?

Kieran: She's fighting Alastair over there... *used hands to indicate where she is*

Dr Kozak didn't say anything though. He was just watching Esperanza silently, extremely worried yet really angry over what she was doing.

She was on Alastair's back trying to snatch the key from him with the remaining "seventeen" seconds left that they still had to complete the mission.

Dr Kozak: *is still pretty much staring at Esperanza and Alastair when he says this* I'm really annoyed.

Kieran: *stares at him blankly* Why?

Dr Kozak: Why didn't you help her?!

Kieran: What? So you just wanted me to leave you here, where you could have died?

Dr Kozak didn't say anything. Just looked at Kieran hard in the eye for two milliseconds then looked away.

Dr Kozak: Fine. You have a point. *looks at Esperanza again, becoming more annoyed over what she's doing * Esperanza could kinda really use some help though. Crud, she's crying.

Kieran: *confused* No she's not.

Dr Kozak: Yes she is. Alastair's pretty much beating her up. I can't let this happen. I have to do something, Kieran.

Kieran: Okay so what's the plan? We still have "seventeen" seconds left although not for long.

Once again, Dr Kozak didn't say anything. At the corner of his eye was something orange, Dr Kozak just staring at it.

When Kieran wasn't properly looking he picked it up, although stayed where he was. Kieran then realised what he was about to do, asked Dr Kozak if he was going to do it, Dr Kozak just winking at him in return.

Dr Kozak: *yells* Hey! Alastair!

Alastair had nearly banged Esperanza unto the floor, staring at Dr Kozak, who stood up hiding the orange iridescent gun from him. Only Kieran saw it.

Alastair: What, Demetrius?

Dr Kozak was confused. So was Kieran.

Kieran: *whispering to Dr Kozak* How does he know your first name?

Dr Kozak: Don't know. Diana must have told him I'm assuming. Before she died.

Kieran didn't reply. There was no reply.

Dr Kozak: Hey! Alastair!

Alastair: *really annoyed* What?

Dr Kozak didn't say anything. This was because he shot Alastair via Diana's orange gun from her black wardrobe of multicoloured guns, Dr Kozak then grinning to himself complacently.

Kieran was surprised.

"Whoa... Really nice shot, Dr Kozak."

Dr Kozak just stared at him, then smiled. Then under his breath, he turned to Kieran, silently muttering the words:

"Thanks Kieran."

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Moral of chapter: Good characters aren't always good and bad characters aren't always bad.