Inspirational quote: Always say yes to new adventures.

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Dr Kozak had just entered the exam room, trying to take Kieran's test away from him despite the fact that Kieran was practically sleeping on it.

"Kieran...." He grunted, trying to at least get hold of his test without potentially ripping it into two.

"Kieran..." Dr Kozak tapped him continuously. "Kieran, you okay.."

He kept on tapping him, which was when Kieran didn't reply at all.

"Don't tell me you've fake died again or fallen into another coma, kid..."

He kept on tapping Kieran, where Kieran woke up and practically yelled in his face, which was when Dr Kozak accidentally on purpose threw water at him.

"Uptown Funk you up!"

Dr Kozak was confused. He knew the song, although he just didn't know why the heck Kieran would have just said that right now.

"Uptown funk me up?" He looked at Kieran in absolute bewilderment for a very long time, raising an eyebrow at him. "Kieran are you feeling okay?"

He kept on placing his hand on Kieran to check his temperature like he did Lauriel.

"You don't need medical treatment or something? Have you secretly gone back in time to see Bruno Mars?"

Kieran then rubbed his eyes frantically, then stopped to see Dr Kozak there again.

"What? Dr Kozak? What are you doing here?"

Boy had Dr Kozak heard those words millions of times before. It was like no one had ever wanted him anywhere anymore.

"Test's over, kid," Kozak told him, tapping on his table gently. "That's why I'm here. Duh. Use your brain."

And at having hearing that, Kieran stopped to look at his test, frowned and then screamed.

"Crud! I didn't finish the test."

Dr Kozak seemed kind of aggravated by now but tried very hard not to let it show.

Well, except the frown. The frown practically gave everything away.

"Seriously? And you had extra time because of your dyslexia? You're kidding me, Kieran. Please tell me you're joking about this."

"I'm not. I just got to question 198 before you came. There are only three questions left. I must have fallen asleep or something."

Kieran was writing for a while, scribbling mainly, Dr Kozak watching him jealously because his handwriting was so freaking neat but then Dr Kozak unexpectedly drummed his fingers on the table.

"Kieran," he whispered, Kieran didn't hear him though. "Kieran, listen."

And so Kieran did, and he looked up and dropped his pen to see Dr Kozak staring at him, not taking his eyes off of Kieran's.

Dr Kozak then looked at the test again, then at Kieran.

"Look.. I'm not really supposed to be doing this...."

Kieran didn't reply, just patiently waited for Dr Kozak to finish his sentence.

"....but I'm going to tell you the last answers to the test. That one there is seventeen," he pointed to question 198, Kieran scribbling it down.

"Question 199 is trapezium," he watched Kieran do the same thing by writing it down. "And 200 is the opposite of polydactyly is oligodactyly, which is when you have less than five fingers and/or toes."

Kieran wrote it down instantly, mainly rushing it, and as he was doing that, he couldn't help but think to himself, forgetting the fact completely that Dr Kozak was right there and could totally read his mind.

Awesome... I'm going to ask him if he can tell me the rest of the answers to the test.

Dr Kozak shot Kieran a look that practically answered everything.

"Yeah... Don't even think about it, kid. Give me your test, you were meant to finish the test of justice twenty two minutes ago."

And at having doing that, Kieran gave Kozak his test where they suddenly left the room, but as they were leaving, Kieran could hear the sound of a camera.

He looked at Dr Kozak, Dr Kozak doing the same back and grinning, and once Kieran found out what he was doing, he frowned promptly.

"Stop taking pictures of my handwriting!" Kieran urged. "It's not that neat, honestly."

"Oh shut up, your handwriting is like the neatest thing in the world. Stop talking."

Dr Kozak and Kieran were about to leave the room for real until Kieran saw a dead, or sleeping girl at desk four eight six, and so therefore had to tell Dr Kozak about it.

"Erm, Sir.. I'm not sure about this, but I'm pretty sure that that girl over there is dead."

Dr Kozak scoffed at him, yawned because he was so tired, and then rolled his eyes in disbelief at Kieran.

"I highly doubt it. She's probably just sleeping. Ignore her."

But Kieran wasn't convinced. He came closer to the girl on desk four eight six and tapped her continuously.

"Oh yeah? If she's not dead, then..." He pushed her to the floor, where she fell and remained there, not picking herself up. "How comes she's unresponsive?"

Dr Kozak freaked out a little bit once he saw what Kieran had done to her.

"Okay she's dead. Worst case scenario, she committed suicide. I believe you. Let's go."

And as they were about to head for the door, Kieran turned his body fully to the dead girl, staring at her.

"What? So are you just going to leave her dead body like that? What kind of doctor are you? I bet your diploma is fake."

Dr Kozak shot Kieran a really maleficent look of death. He didn't reply to Kieran's question of course. He was just standing there with his phone, typing something out to what seemed like it, Agent Sylvester.

"I'll have my cousin Agent Sylvester come pick her up and take her to the mortuary where the dead bodies are kept. Look, he's coming. Act natural. I've already got him thinking I'm crazy enough."

You are, Kieran thought, which was where Dr Kozak shot him yet another maleficent look of death.

Just then agent Sylvester arrived so nobody had said anything else.

"There's a dead girl in the Test of Justice room. Go pick her up and dispose of her dead body in the mortuary," Dr Kozak commanded.

"Got it," Agent Sylvester replied, nodding, as both Kozak and Kieran watched him enter the room and come back out again.

"Jesus. She's heavy. Even for a dead person. Which mortuary do you want me to take her? There's like seventy here."

Dr Kozak didn't reply, just typing away on his phone, the person who he was currently texting unknown.

By the looks of it, he was smiling, so he was presumably texting his so called wife Agent Astera.

Unless he was cheating on her? Seemed kind of likely.

He wasn't.

Dr Kozak then stopped and looked up at Agent Sylvester again once Dr Kozak figured out that his cousin still had more to say.

"Do you want me to take her to the ground floor mortuary?" He questioned again, annoyed.

"No. The ground floor one is full. Take her to the perilous obstacle test one."

"Reversed or..."

"No. The normal one." He then put his phone away once realising that it was about to die. Agent Sylvester then left with the dead girl, making Dr Kozak and Kieran leave for real.

*****
The same polystyrene wasp incident happened the next morning as well. Dr Kozak claimed it to be Kieran's "alarm", but Kieran just saw it as a threat.

"Okay, how many times will you wake me up like that?" Kieran shouted fully at him now.

"Last time. Promise. After today, I swear, I will buy you a real, normal alarm."

Kieran didn't believe him, and showed Dr Kozak that he didn't believe him via his facial expression.

"I bet you're lying," he sneered at him.

"Do I look like I'm lying?" Dr Kozak asked him, a little bit frustrated and agitated by all of this. "Come on. We need to go. Your third and final test is about to start. Hope you're ready."

Dr Kozak made it so that Kieran left before him, mainly because he had to lock up his room.

Within five seconds, they were at the third test, and they had arrived there so quickly mainly because for once, the test was on the same floor as Kieran's room.

"Why's it called 'The Knife that Killed Me'?"

"Can't say," Dr Kozak muttered almost right away. "Surprise test. Can't tell you anything. Except there's going to be someone in there that's going to attempt to kill you."

Kieran gulped, then deeply thought something.
It's probably going to be ironic.

Dr Kozak stared at Kieran blankly for a while.
"Why do you think it's going to be ironic?" he wanted to know.

"Crud. I forgot you can read my mind-"

"Most people do," Dr Kozak interrupted, nodding in agreement. "But why do you think that this test is going to be ironic?"

Kieran sighed, Dr Kozak looking at him for even longer than before.

"It's just. The tests that don't have the word kill in them, the people or insects or animals in the test still try to kill you anyway. And this test that does have the word kill in it, everything is just going to be some sort of set up or some crazy trick or something," Kieran told him.

Dr Kozak just froze, as in, looked like he was completely paralysed.

He remained like that for a while, and when Kieran waved his right hand in front of Dr Kozak's face, he didn't say or do anything, just kind of twitched, and that was it, really.

"Uh... Dr Kozak?" Kieran trailed off, looking at the doctor still. "You...okay?"

Dr Kozak just stood there, and was brought back to reality again once Kieran clicked his fingers at him, again with his right hand.

"Huh? What? Yes, I'm fine," he lied, straightening the bow tie on his tuxedo shirt.

"Are you sure Dr Kozak? Because you don't look okay.."

Dr Kozak just smacked Kieran's hand irritatingly in return.

"Kid, I'm fine!" Dr Kozak hissed, checking his watch. "Look, your test is about to start."

Kieran didn't reply, just stared and stared at him.

"Why are you just standing there looking at me, go inside!"

Dr Kozak pushed Kieran into 'The Knife That Killed Me' escorting Kieran into a chair, and snapped at him to sit there until the end of the test.

It was when Dr Kozak was about to leave that Kieran called him again, much to Dr Kozak's freaking irritation.

"Dr Kozak..."

"What do you want!" He snapped, looking back at Kieran, who was a bit startled by him. Okay, wow, he was quite rude when people winded him up.

"Why do you always get so ticked off every time I say your name?"

"I don't. It's just when you say my name. Like, if you say it when I'm right next to a door, about to leave, like you do to me all the time, then that's when I get ticked off because it means I have to go back again. And I swear, if that's what you called me for, then I'm going to be really ticked off."

"No, I promise, that's not what I called you for," Kieran admitted truthfully, shaking his head vigorously.

Dr Kozak just stared at him, frowning and unconvinced.

"I was just going to ask you how long the test was, jeez."

And at having hearing that, Dr Kozak smiled, checking something on his watch again, not looking at Kieran once.

"Oh," he said, grinning complacently to himself. "Three hours."

Kieran's head exploded in disbelief after hearing that.

"What? Seriously?"

Dr Kozak just laughed his head off.

"Kidding. Five."

Kieran's mouth just made a massive O shape after hearing that. Dr Kozak stopped what he was going and mysteriously glared at him.

"...Minutes. I never make my tests that long. Jeez, Kieran. I thought you knew better."

Kieran didn't reply. He was about to say something but then stifled it once Dr Kozak yelled at him 'no more questions, Kieran, you need to start the test now and stop stalling' and then left, Kieran just watching him really silently the whole way through.

It was like Spider Mania 2 all over again. Kieran was sitting in an actual chair, not a cube this time, and was sweating uncontrollably as he was wondering how he was possibly going to get killed by a knife.

Kieran didn't even bother thinking about it.

There was timer behind Kieran that started counting down. Get this: once Kieran had muttered the words 'gee I really wish I could see the timer because I can hear it', that was when the timer moved in front of him.

Thirty seconds in, four and a half minutes left.

Like seriously?

Why was this test even called the knife that killed me? Kieran was barely doing anything.

He knew it was cliché.

Soon, Kieran found out why it was called that. A shadowy, death like feature appeared right in front of him, with a knife, their eyes ripped out, smiling impishly at him.

And once Kieran realised who it was, he freaked out immediately.

"What? Lauriel?"

But Lauriel didn't reply, of course.

She stared at Kieran like she was out to get him.

"L...L...Lauriel?" Kieran stammered, backing away from her immediately. "Now now, put that thing down. We don't want you being mean to anyone do we?"

But she didn't listen to Kieran. His blood was rushing through his veins, and he felt like he was going to just lose all of it in a few minutes.

Kieran gulped as Lauriel came closer to him.

"Lauriel... Lauriel!!"

It was too late though. She didn't listen. She took it out, and Kieran ran.

He ran as fast as his legs could carry him across the entire hallway. Lauriel had a mental illness all right.

"Come out, come out wherever you are..."

Kieran hid. He couldn't take this anymore. She was going to do it to him.

Frantically, Kieran gasped and wheezed. Hyperventilating too. His sweat was running through his face like a drop of rain through a window.

"Aha! Found you, Kieran Harper."

He wanted to scream for help. Hopefully this was all a dream. Hopefully life was all a dream, and when Kieran died, he woke up. Hopefully, just hopefully, none of this was real.....

Kieran pinched himself.
And again.

This was not a dream...

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Moral of chapter: Don't be someone you're not. Unless Dr Kozak asks you to dress in disguise as someone for The Knife That Killed Me!