Summary: Pure seduction was something she was never good at... but he was, and their little game was to his advantage as he used it against her. She was his little pawn, a puppet, until she broke from her strings and played his own advantage as hers. Sequel to Halo's Inferno.

YOU MUST READ "HALO'S INFERNO" first. It's not long.

"Jerry! You have to believe me!"

"Sam, the guard SAW you knock them out!"

"I never knocked them out! Why would I knock them out?"

Shit. She thought as she realized they found out the truth from the horrible night. She had betrayed WOOHP then, and she was doing so now by lying to them about it.

Play it off. Play it cool.

"Sam. I'm sorry to say this. I really am. I have a hard time believing it myself. We have analyzed the guard and we didn't believe him and assumed it to be the light until a few other guards said they could have sworn they saw a girl with long red hair knocking other guards out."

Play it off.

"Jerry it wasn't me!"

Play it cool.

"Sam--"

"Jerry, how do you know it wasn't a, a clone or something?"

Play it off.

"We don't--"

"Then why are you saying I did it! I didn't! What if they're all in this together?"

Play it cool.

By now, Sam was terrified and looked as if she was about to hyperventilate.

"Sam, calm down--"

Anger filled her senses.

Play it off.

"Jerry I thought you trusted me! What happened? Just because a few guards saw someone who looked like me? I... you want an alibi Jerry? I'll give you an alibi! Clover and Alex KNOW I was at home--"

"Sam I don't believe it--"

"I was studying. Do you know I have a Calculus test tomorrow? I do! You should know!"

Play it cool.

"SAM! I don't believe them. Listen to me... yes calm down. Okay good."

It worked.

"Listen. I just wanted to warn you. They might be wary but I will tell them to be on the lookout for someone else. Okay?"

It worked.

Sam nodded, taking a deep breath. "Yes. Thank you... and sorry for... before."

"It's fine."

Oh my gosh it freakin worked.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk", she muttered under her breath at the sight of his capture. Her friends had left to retrieve Jerry, but she had stayed here, willing to watch over the villain they had captured so many times before, only for him to escape.

"I see you got caught, again." She smirked, her voiced laced with humor. She stared at his tied up form, moving up to his face where he was glaring at her intently.

He had planned something and he got caught. Jerry had called them for a mission after her wonderful acting skills were put into play. Well... she wasn't being arrogant, but it was true. Jerry had believed her, thankfully, and now, she simply had to catch him again and prove herself innocent.

"You know..." He stared straight into her eyes. "I will get out again. It's not like I haven't before. Hm, WOOHP really should try and upgrade their security system, because I seem to get out no matter what they do... seems like your efforts to catching me are useless. You should let me go now you know... just like you did last time."

A glare was placed on her face as she walked closer to him. "Listen", she said, bent down to make sure her face was next to his. "I don't know what you did, but you tricked me--"

"I did no such thing." His eyes danced with laughter as he trapped the poor girl. "You simply listened. And then you had to go lie to your friends--"

"Hey! It was the truth okay! There was no way I let you out on purpose!"

A smirk graced his handsome face, a thought which Sam wanted to puke at, and he spoke again. "Of course you did. You may not want to admit it Samantha... but you let me out."

Silence overcame them as she glared at his smirking face, laughing at her on the inside. She quickly looked around for her friends before grabbing Scam's collar and hauling him up.

"Listen to me." She whispered to his face, trying to get her message sent before her friends came back with Jerry. If they found her like this, they wouldn't believe her anymore. "I don't know what you did. I don't know why I did what I did that night. But if you use that against me, I swear I'll--"

"What?" He taunted, breaking out of his bonds and grabbing her by the shoulders, bringing her closer. "What can you possibly do except get in trouble again?"

She was in shock that he got out of his bonds. She struggled against him, but stopped when he spoke again.

"It's best you listen to me now, before your friends come back."

She stayed silent.

"Your friends already suspect you of helping me, no matter how much you lie to them, there's always going to be a hint of doubt."

She stayed silent, knowing he was right.

"There were witnesses, no matter how impressively you knocked out those guards, you're already done the deed..."

His eyes glinted with malice, signaling Sam to look away.

But she found she couldn't.

She was trapped in his alluring web again, the same web made with deceit and lies, and she found she didn't want to escape.

"You might as well do it again. Only this time, I'll help you."

Help me?

"I'll make it seem as if you had nothing to do with my escape. You tried to stop me, only to fail. This way, your friends would see that you had nothing to do with it the first time."

But that would mean...

"And in return for my help,"

He would escape.

"You let me go.

"What do you say?"

She gulped, not knowing what to do and wondering where her friends were.

"Well?" He whispered, dragging his hands down over her sides, tracing the curves of her body. His hands rested on her hips, inching her closer to his warm frame, leaving no space between them. "Hmm?" He brought his head down to the crook of her neck, breathing in her scent. "What do you say?" He whispered, hugging her tighter.

She found she had a hard time breathing.

But this means he'll be gone! And if he escapes, it'll be my fault!

"I'll knock you out, and they'll see it was never your fault."

That makes sense... and if I catch him, they'll think I let him go the next time he gets out.

"I..." She froze as he slowly dragged his lips from her neck to her cheek, breathing down on it, and then moving closer to her lips.

She found she couldn't move, nor could she stop him.

His hand moved from her waist up her back, tracing patterns on her back as he kissed the corner of her lip.

"What do", he kissed her there, and moved to the other side of her lips, "you say?"

"Fine, fine, fine!. Do what you want."

He smirked as he landed one final kiss on her lips before hitting a pressure point on her neck and knocking her out, making it seem as if it happened when she was battling him when he "escaped".

And that's how they found her, lying on the floor unconscious. "Sam!" and other expressions of concern were shouted, and it seemed as if their plan worked.

Groggily, she opened her eyes to find herself in a white room, a reoccuring beeping next to her. She took a deep breath before trying to stand up and evaluate her surroundings, but it didn't take long for one of her friends to show up and urge her to stay down.

"Are you okay Sam? Do you need anything?"

She stayed silent, figuring out that he had knocked her out from before...

Dammit, did I really go along with that?

"Yea I'm... I'm fine."

Act like you've never acted before. Convince them. Prove them wrong. Prove yourself right even though you're not.

They won't believe me anymore if they find out I've been lying...

So I'll simply have to keep lying, won't I?

"I just... I'm fine."

"Sam..." Alex sent a look to Clover who had just come in. "We're sorry for... for not believing you about... ya know. Scam."

Sam raised her head and stared at her two friends who came to sit next to her. They waited silently, hoping she would say something that would break the tension in the room.

"It's okay guys. I understand."

Joy filled the room with those five words, and soon Sam found herself suffocating from the hugs her two friends gave her. Apologies spurted from their mouths like there was no tomorrow, but Sam couldn't find it in herself to care.

It worked again.

Even with all the laughter in the room, Sam couldn't find it in herself to put on a smile that would reach her eyes. No matter what was said, no matter how many laughs were shared, there was still the feeling of doubt inside of her. Never could she not lie. Never could she tell the truth.

Never.

It frightened her, to think that she would have to be on her guard whenever this topic came up, ... no. She would have to be on her guard no matter what. She could never reveal the truth of what happened that night. She wasn't replaced by a robot, the guards weren't hallucinating, (although she would have liked them to be doing so), and she wasn't being "controlled" in the sense that someone was using a remote to control her moments.

But she was controlled wasn't she?

That night, the look in Scam's eyes were filled with... with malice, greed, horrible, horrible things...

Yet, she had been drawn to it, like a moth to a light. No control over herself, but the wanting to be controlled by him...

No. It's over now. She thought as the laughter of her friends filled her ears.

I won't have to do this again.

"Guys, I'm gonna take a nap, okay?" She sent a look of exhaustion to her two friends, and they nodded, telling her to get better and then leaving the room.

Never again.

Her eyes glanced towards the window where a pair of sea foam eyes stared back at her.

Hm, I suppose after lying to everyone else, the only other person to lie to is yourself.

YAY! Sequels are fun. :P

Um, I will... try to update Playing the Prey... eventually. And Apathetic. And The Art of the Revenge. And... I should just stop now.

This will be a story, (if you couldn't tell), and I'm planning it out chapter by chapter and will use my Spanish class to write it because I'm supposed to be "studying" for an AP test this Friday. :P

Dedications go to Valkyrie Cain for helping me SO much with the title and summary. (You should see our summary discussions... wow)

Please review!

Love,

Ivy