Inspirational quote: When people hate on you, don't feel bad! It's because you've got something that they want and they're probably jealous of you.

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"Security lockdown mode deactivated."

As soon as Dr Kozak and Kieran had heard that, Dr Kozak had sighed with relief despite the fact the Kieran was just downright confused.

"Security lockdown mode deactivated?" Kieran repeated via the computer. "What the hell does that mean?"

Dr Kozak sighed as he span his chair back to face Kieran again via the computer.

"Kieran, you know you ask me some very stupid questions sometimes. It means security lockdown mode deactivated," Dr Kozak replied unhelpfully.

"It also means that we don't have to rhyme anymore! Thank god that that's over!"

Kieran didn't say anything because Dr Kozak's computer had pretty much done all of the talking for him.

"Actually Dr Kozak and Kieran," Sarica had told them. "There's something that I need to tell you guys."

No one said anything.

"Suckers! You didn't really have to rhyme to survive! Yeah, there was a trespasser trying to get into the headquarters, but I just did all of rhyming to survive thing to set you guys up. But nevertheless great rhyming! You and Kieran don't die, well done."

Dr Kozak's face fell as he became annoyed immediately.

"We didn't have to rhyme to survive then!" Dr Kozak echoed for everyone to hear.

"No, this was all a scheme. You didn't have have to anything to survive. You can't die in Security Lockdown Mode anyway. It's kinda against the rules to do so. Keep up."

Dr Kozak swore at his computer who just told him that killing mode was activated, putting another laser beam towards Dr Kozak's direction making him swear once again.

Sarica laughed even though nothing from Dr Kozak's point of view was funny but he didn't say anything as he turned back to Kieran again.

"Anyway, Kieran. What's up? What's the problem?"

"What's the problem?!" He argued back. "Didn't I just explain everything to you through a godforsaken rhyme?!"

Dr Kozak just blinked at him once in return.

"Wait. Sorry. That sentence came out of my mouth wrong. I meant, I know the problem. But what events led to the problem, making you think you killed Esperanza?"

Kieran sighed.

"There's a barbed wired fence just opposite DIE ANNA INCORPORATED. Esperanza told me to give her a leg up, so I did, and well, she fell off of the fence accidentally, landing on the floor. And as if that wasn't punishment enough, I did the same thing but gave myself a leg up- way easier said than done- and I kind of came landing on top of her. She's not breathing. I've tried everything. So yeah, Esperanza might be dead. I'm sorry."

Dr Kozak didn't say or do anything, just kind of frowned, then jabbed a pencil through his skin, then looked back at Kieran and put his middle finger up at him in annoyance.

"Just why Esperanza?" Dr Kozak whispered to Kieran. "Why would you kill Esperanza? Out of all people in here, why murder the person whose birthday it is today?"

"It was an accident. Jeez. Calm down," Kieran whispered back, watching Dr Kozak's daughter in the background get something, seemed like sellotape.

"Yes, I know. I never said I didn't believe you," Dr Kozak snarled back. "Anyway. Esperanza can't die. I'd be in huge trouble if she did."

Kieran just raised an eyebrow at him in return, looking perplexed the whole way throughout their conversation.

"Why would you be in trouble if I'm the reason that Esperanza might have died in the first place?"

Dr Kozak sighed to himself in absolute stress before saying anything else.

"Because. People will think that I'm irresponsible. People will think that I'm not trustworthy enough to look after you guys during the mission, and-"

But Dr Kozak didn't finish his sentence because just there and then, he came falling down on the floor unexpectedly, his spinning chair with him.

Dr Kozak collapsed.

"Dr Kozak?" Kieran whispered, sounding really anxious all of a sudden. "What the hell? Dr Kozak?!"

Dr Kozak didn't reply- it was hard to tell whether he was dead or not.

"Oh my god!"

Just then Dr Kozak's daughter (who Kieran still didn't know was his daughter) Agent Arista came into the scene, shrieking once she found out what had happened to him.

"Hey. I heard everything. What just happened?"

"Dr Kozak just fainted!"

Agent Arista rushed over to her father instantaneously as soon as she heard that.

She checked his pulse rate, everything that someone would do if they found out that someone had just fainted.

"Is he alright?" Kieran wanted to know via the computer.

"Yes!" Agent Arista replied, raising Dr Kozak's left hand up. "Yes, he's breathing."

Thank God...

She tried getting her father to wake up in which he did but didn't really have any idea on what was currently going on.

"Dr Kozak?" Arista stared at him longingly. "Oh, Dr Kozak!"

She hugged him really quickly, Dr Kozak not doing anything back in return except to look at her confusingly.

She didn't want to call him dad as that would have been kind of informal. Dr Kozak had a strange tendency to force everyone to be formal to him, even Astera.

"Are you okay?"

Dr Kozak wasn't entirely sure on how to answer that.

"Yeah... One question though. Why am I on the floor?" He wheezed.

Agent Arista gasped.

"You just fainted, Dr Kozak."

Dr Kozak's eye twitched.

"Crud... Have you lost your memory? Have you got amnesia?"

"No..." Dr Kozak answered uncertainly, getting back up with his spinning chair and sat back down in front of the computer again.

"And, wait. What? I fainted?"

Agent Arista nodded in agreement once she had heard that, then unexpectedly Dr Kozak fainted again but she caught him this time round.

"Oh... I think I know why. Haven't slept properly in 48 hours. That's probably why. I faint when I don't sleep for over 5 hours. And I've counted. This is the 373rd time I've fainted since I've been born so..."

Agent Arista helped him up and cautiously walked him over to his spinning chair.

"Dr Kozak. Look at you! You need to sleep."

Dr Kozak shook his head.

"No. I can't sleep, who's going to supervise Kieran and Esperanza if I did sleep? Plus I have insomnia. I punish myself by not sleeping when I do things wrong. And trust me, I've done many things wrong this past week."

Agent Arista lost it.

"You haven't slept in 48 hours, dad. You could die. Look at you." She removed his colour blindness glasses then stared straight at him.

"Your clothes are burnt completely, I'm guessing fire, your eyes are bloodshot and red , which annoys me because you have the prettiest eyes, and you look like you've just escaped the French Revolution."

Dr Kozak rolled his bloodshot eyes in disbelief.

"I still need to punish myself. I'm not good enough. I feel like I haven't really accomplished anything in life."

He stood up but stopped once his daughter, the real one, not the cloned one, placed a hand on his leg and kind of forced him to sit back down again.

"Dad, why do you do this?"

"Because I've been on drugs, Arista."

Dr Kozak said nothing else as he heard his daughter gasp at him.

"Drugs? What kind of drugs?"

"The kind of drugs that makes me kill people and regret doing it much much later, except Lauriel, I hated her with all my heart."

Dr Kozak said nothing else as he stood up to go to the back of the laboratory not really saying anything major.

"Wait. Where are you going? What are you doing? I can't see you in the dark!"

"You're not supposed to know where I'm going because it's private," Dr Kozak retorted back. "And I'm injecting myself to make me feel less sleepy and more hyperactive."

Agent Arista didn't reply as she heard Dr Kozak scream to himself really loudly like five times because injecting himself was so painful.

And well, once he came back, he looked like a normal, relatively happy Dr Kozak again.

"Oh gosh. You look like you've just resurrected from the dead."

Dr Kozak stared at his daughter spitefully.

"No offence," she added quickly.

"None taken," he lied through gritted teeth, heading back into the front of his laboratory again, into the brightness.

"Okay, now let's go and see what Kieran's been doing for," Dr Kozak stopped talking and then briefly checked his watch. "Six minutes."

"Oh, no, I can't, I still need to get my clone ready for the date," Agent Arista told him, going back to where she was before, Dr Kozak just watching her leave as he headed back to his spinning chair again.

"Kieran?" He echoed. "Kieran, kid? Are you there?"

Kieran was there, trying to get across the second fence with a probably dead Esperanza on his back, struggling.

"You alright there?" Dr Kozak asked him, smirking.

Once Kieran had saw him, he stopped what he was doing, literally dropped Esperanza's body on the floor, and grinned at him.

"Dr Kozak! Thank the Lord you're alive! I was lowkey worried sick about you!"

Dr Kozak smiled then blushed to himself.

"Yeah, so? Any news? Is Esperanza alive?"

Kieran shook his head melancholically and slowly, looking back at her.

"No. I'm really sorry. Don't think so."

Although just then, Esperanza sort of brought herself back to life, standing up and walking over to them.

"Hello? I'm right here?"

Once Kieran had heard that, he turned to face her, surprised, then kind of unpredictably hugged her.

"Why haven't you been replying to me this whole time? I thought you couldn't breathe?"

"Hello?! There was a wooden block on top of my face which I tried to get off of me had you not heard me suffer and I couldn't breathe because I think I lost my asthma pump again."

Dr Kozak was talking to his daughter about something but once he turned around and saw Esperanza, he couldn't stop jumping up and down in jubilance because she was alive and she wasn't dead.

"Anastasia! You're alive!"

Then he hugged the screen, just because he was so triumphant to see Esperanza's face again.

Boy, that girl scared him, and everyone else for that matter, like mad.

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Moral of chapter: Don't make excuses for not doing anything unless the excuse is you're dead. And if you're reading this right now then.....