She saw the mental gamer enter the room she was hiding in but she just stood there, calm and smiling. That caught him off guard. He was used to everybody either running from him or trying to kill him. She wasn't doing either. She looked as if she wanted to speak but she didn't move. Not when he approached her, gun pointing directly at her forehead. Not even when he pressed it to her temple. She was just smiling at him, waiting for him to calm down so she could speak.

'I'm gonna kill ya, you bitch!' – he sounded almost irritated at her not paying attention to his treats. Alisha realised that she should probably play along, so she let a bit of her fear show while at the same time very, very slowly raising her hand to meet his. He backed off a bit, looking confused.

'Wat'ya tryin'to do? You ain't getting out a here alive, you hear me?'

'I was just wondering…' – Alisha started, thinking carefully what she wanted to say, 'if you might consider… you know, going out with me if I told you who the undercover cop was…'

From the way he looked at her she knew she had hit the right button. Mentioning that she knew who the traitor was bought her time and she decided to take her chances. She moved very carefully a step closer to him. She lifted her left hand, keeping it wide open so that he could see she wasn't holding anything. 'I just want to touch you', she said, doing her best to sound seductive and honest at the same time.

A second later she knew she had won. The guy was on top of her, screaming how he wanted to shag her brains out, put his cock in her mouth and have her sing lullabies while sucking him deep throat. His gun was a couple of meters away and he now looked fairly harmless. Alisha never thought she would say something like that about a guy who was trying to rape her. But she knew Future Simon was on his way, maybe already there and she just needed to give him time. Maybe he had seen all of that and was still recovering from the shock of how clever she really was. Or maybe he was enjoying watching her in the arms of some other man. He had told her once that he liked it when she was jealous. Maybe this wasn't the only thing he liked about her…

Whatever the reason, Future Simon was taking his time and Alisha had already started panicking again when suddenly there was a gunshot and the mental fell silently on top of her. There was a whole on his left temple, so perfect Alisha couldn't get her eyes off it. It reminded her of the new guy they had met the day before, Oly. He had received the same treatment. It seemed so long ago…

For a couple of long seconds Alisha couldn't quite put the pieces together. And then she saw him, appearing out of thin air, kneeling beside her, reaching to touch her, to make sure she was all right… and then backing off, suddenly remembering that she was still untouchable. It was Simon but it wasn't the Simon she had expected. Alisha felt she was falling in some kind of trance but she couldn't fight it. 'It's over, you are safe.' Simon was telling her. His words soothed her and she let herself sleep.