It is midnight in Piltover, Shauna Vayne stands on top of an old building on Piltover's outskirts. She was here in Piltover to track down some black magicians she had deemed a threat, but she was really here because she wanted a break from the institute, and by extension her own confused feelings.

The information she had gathered said that the men would be meeting below her in a few minutes. She just had to wait.

It was so hard, everyone else seemed to understand their feelings but she was still here, clueless. She reached up to her arm and adjusted her crossbow, tightening its fastenings. Then she took her larger crossbow off her back, setting it up on a tripod, pointing it at the street below her. Her life was so simple. She trained, she hunted, she killed, she moved on. That was her life. She began loading her large crossbow, still thinking about what to do.

Down below her she heard footsteps, her quarry had arrived. She snapped her goggles down over her eyes, the goggles, advanced Zaunite technology she had purchased… discreetly, had both the ability to read body heat and also the trace flux that was the byproduct of all magic.

As soon as she snapped the goggles down the whole street lit up, a quick scan of the area below her revealed three cloaked figures on the street fifty feet below her, she ran a quick sweep of the surrounding rooftops.

"Nothing, Nothing, N…"

Her left hand flew to her other wrist steadying her aim, the goggles showed a sharp jump in flux on a rooftop directly across from her.

"Shit"

She had no way of reaching that rooftop without compromising her only escape route. To reach the rooftop she would have to launch the rope she had been planning to use to rappel down to the street, hope it connected and then use it as a zipline across. She weighed the options, if she messed up the zipline it would alert the sorcerers below, then again, if she ignored this flash of magic and it was from an enemy…

Another flash of magic on the rooftop forced her to make a decision. She chose to investigate. Gathering the rope and attaching it to the end of the bolt loaded in her larger crossbow, she shot it, with minimal noise, over the gap between buildings the tip of the bolt landed with a satisfying thunk in the wall of the opposite building. Tying the other end off, she pulled a large pulley on a handle off her belt and swung across the gap between buildings. Climbing up on to the roof of the building, she looked around, nobody in sight. She glanced down at the group below her; they were oblivious to her. Cautiously, and with raised wristbow, she saw nothing but a slip of paper blowing across the rooftop. Walking forward slowly, never lowering her guard, she bent down to inspect the slip of paper, blank… just some loose scrap.

"BANG!" a bolt of magic exploded against the ground where she had been just a few seconds. Vayne whirled, tumbled, and fired a lose bolt at where she thought the magic had come from, it whizzed off in to the night, missing the man in the black cloak that had just appeared behind her.

"Who are you?" she asked as they circled around each other

"Like I'll tell you, why don't you JUST DIE!" he shouted as he shot another bolt, but she had already rolled out of the way.

"Quick, are we?" he taunted. Her reply was to fire another shot, this one much more precisely aimed. He conjured a shield to block it, but only just.

"Once again, who are you?" she asked

This time he chose not to respond, instead firing another bolt of jet-black magic, this time he caught her by surprise; it hit her squarely in the chest, knocking her down and back towards the edge of the roof.

Scrambling to her feet, she cast a glance down to the street below, the men had vanished.

"Looking for us?" someone asked, she whirled around, there were now four men, all in the same black robes.

"Shit"

She quickly shot at the man on the far left, before tumbling to her right at taking aim at the man on the center-left.

The first shot hit in the arm, the man fell to his knees before dissolving in a puff of black smoke.
The second shot hit perfectly in the neck, and the man collapsed in a pool of his own blood, dead before he even hit the ground.

At this point however, one of the other men launched a blast of kinetic energy at her, standing as she was, very near the edge of the building; its force was more the enough to launch her off the roof.

"I'm going to die" was all she could think of, as she fell fifty feet down to hard concrete

She hit the ground with a sickening crunch; the pain was so sharp it forced all of the air from her lungs.

Somewhere above her she heard a man shout "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" as the sky exploded to the brightness of day

"Am I dead?" was all she could think before she passed out…

Vayne opened her eyes and looked around, she was lying in a hospital bed, white sheets, white walls, white lab coats, everything was white. She was in her normal outfit, but her wristbow was missing, so were her goggles,

"Where am I?" she managed to murmur

"Piltover general hospital; critical ward" a hazy voice answered

Vayne decided to try and turn her head to look at the person who had just spoken,

"I wouldn't try to move if I were you"

Too late, Vayne felt an overwhelming stabbing sensation in her left hip, the pain was overwhelming

"ARGH!"

She saw someone in a white nurse's uniform rushing towards her, a long syringe in hand.

"Hold Still" she said stabbing the syringe in to her shoulder, immediately the pain subsided enough that she could breathe again.

"What was that?" she asked

"Extremely powerful short-short term nerve anesthetic, it stops almost all pain for about ten seconds, anything stronger then that acts as a neurotoxin"

"What happened to me?"

"Your hip is broken, you won't be able to walk without a crutch for a while, although Soraka may be able to fix it faster than we can, frankly you should have been more heavily injured then you are, Jayce says you fell about fifty feet…"

"Jayce?"

"Yes, Jayce found you and brought you here"

"And did he say why he was out and about on a rooftop in Piltover?" Her overly suspicious mind had already created numerous ways Jayce could be involved.

"No"

"Where is he?"

"Outside, but you can't walk yet"

"Yes I can, give me a crutch and my wristbow" she demanded

"No you can't…" But rather than let her finish, Vayne forced herself up in the bed and made to swing her legs on to the floor.

"ARGH! AHHRG! Fuck Fuck Fuck!"

This time the nurse was ready, again she stabbed her shoulder, again the pain subsided. "I told you, you can't walk yet" she chided

"Just watch me" she said, forcing herself to her feet, the painkiller was all that stopped her from passing up

"Sit down, now!" the nurse demanded

"No" Vayne was hobbling towards the exit, supporting herself on the wall, this time the nurse gave up and brought her a crutch to stand on.

"Thank you, now where is my wristbow?" she asked through gritted teeth.

"Jayce, he took it" she answered, a hint if timidness creeping in to her voice.

"Where is he?" the calm in her voice could not conceal her anger.

"Outside, in the waiting room on the left, waiting for me to call him in" the nurse answered, making it perfectly clear that she didn't want Vayne to leave.

"Fine, call him in"

The nurse, whose name Vayne did not know, left the room, leaving Vayne in the middle of the room standing on her crutch. She ran through everything she knew about Jayce, he was the second newest champion in the league, a hero in Piltover, his battle against Viktor was the stuff of legends. He didn't seem like the type to plan an ambush, and he had been the one to save her, then again, if he wanted information from her, he was in the perfect position to get it from her, she resolved not to tell him anything. Just as she decided that, the door opened and Jayce and the nurse walked in.

"Thank you Nancy, we're good." he said to the nurse, as she turned to leave

"I'll be outside if either of you need me" she smiled at Jayce and left

There was a few seconds of silence while Vayne stared at him with the look of a predator planning her next move. Finally Jayce decided to speak:

"Are you alright?" he asked

"Let's see, I just fell fifty feet off a building, you tell me?"

"I mean…"

"I am aware of what you meant, it's none of your business, why were you out on a rooftop in Piltover at midnight?"

"I was… I was…

At that moment Caitlyn burst in through the doors, her hair was ruffled and her clothes weren't on straight, she looked like she jumped out of bed and rushed here.

"What happened?" Cait asked, she had a frantic and worried look in her eyes "Jayce, what happened?"

Catching the accusing stare from Vayne, and Jayce's shocked and slightly mortified look, she ran her hands down her clothes, attempting to straighten them, it didn't work, indeed it made them even more ruffled, ignoring the mess of herself, she turned back to them, her voice now in a forced tone of serious.

"Piltover law enforcement, tell me what happened"

"Uh…" Jayce clearly had no idea how to respond.

"Yes Jayce, What were you doing on a rooftop in Piltover at MIDNIGHT!"

"Vayne, Vayne, calm down, he saved your life" Caitlyn interjected

"So what, you were just out for a midnight stroll at the same time and place I was attacked?"

"No… er… I…" Jayce was looking anywhere but at Caitlyn, and Caitlyn was looking down at the floor, her cheeks turning red.

"Jayce was just…" Caitlyn's look of embarrassment was even more pronounced now, a thought crossed Vayne's mind, were her and Jayce…

"Jayce was just coming home from one of his midnight escapades, wasn't he?"

Cait didn't say anything, but the truth was plastered all over her face.

"What's wrong Cait? Vi not good enough for you?" it was a joke, but nobody took any humor from it, indeed it served more as a barb than anything else.
The explanation that Jayce had been "Spending the evening" at Cait's made sense, the route he would take would indeed bring him to where she was. The explanation was one she was ready to accept, but there were two more things

"Where is my wristbow?" she demanded, steel in her voice, if not on her wrist.

"Here, I just wanted a look at it" Jayce fished it out of his satchel and tossed it to her.

The aim on his toss was off slightly, and with her arm on the crutch, she couldn't catch it, it fell past her on to the floor. Turning slightly, she bent down to pick up the wristbow.

"ARGHHH!" she had forgotten that the painkiller had worn off "AHH OUCH AHA FUCK ARGH!"

Nancy the nurse came rushing in to the room as she managed to pick up the wristbow, it was dented in several places, probably from the fall, and she had landed on it when she fell.

"Here, this will help" The nurse said as she handed Vayne a small glass with some purple liquid in the bottom, Not knowing what else to do, she swallowed the purple liquid, it tasted vile, but almost immediately she began to feel numb in her hip.

"That's much better, see, it will numb your pain for about half an hour" Nancy said "by then we'll be able to operate, or transfer you to Soraka's care"

Testing this new medicine, Vayne gently stood up, she felt little pain, little enough that she could walk, she turned back to Jayce.

"And my goggles, give them to me" she demanded

"I…" he started as he fished them out of his bag.

"Give them to me!"

"I just thought that maybe…"

"GIVE THEM TO ME!"

"NO! Listen to me, I thought you might give me some time to look them over, I could learn from them, help protect Piltover and everything, it's the least you could do to repay…" he was interrupted by Caitlyn walking up to him and smacking him across the face before grabbing the goggles from his hand and tossing them to Vayne, she caught this time and turned back to Jayce again

"I don't owe you anything" she snarled at him, before turning to leave.

"Wait, Come back" someone called, it took her a moment to realize this was the nurse

"I'm fine, thank you, I'll be going now" she said

"No, you can barely walk you…."

"Let her go, she'll be fine, god know she's been through worse" Cait said gently, as Vayne walked away….