Reg. POV

"What do you need help with? Is somebody hurt?" Lana asked.

"Yes. Please help him!" Kaya cried. She had stopped sobbing, but she knew it was probably obvious that she had been.

"Ok, show me the way."

Kaya led Lana down to the open grass area in front of Clifftop. Lana froze when she saw who was on the ground.

"You want me to heal Drake Merwin?" She asked, eying Kaya suspiciously.

"Yes, please."

"Why? He is a sick and twisted monster. You don't want to get involved with him."

"Too late. I'm sorry, but he is starting to die. Could you please heal him now?" Kaya asked as politely as she could. She'd noticed that Drake wasn't exactly the most loved person around the FAYZ.

"Drake is a person who needs to die. I'd be doing a crime by healing him."

"In case you haven't noticed, there aren't exactly lawsuits or prisons anymore. I... Just... please." Kaya looked down at Drake, icy fear stabbing at her chest. When she looked at Drake's blood on her hands, she shivered.

Lana pursed her lips. Her soft spot was caving in. She was starting to feel sorry for the girl.

"Please. You'll have caused his death." Kaya said, her voice cracking at the word death.

"I don't care."

"Please! Come on! Heal him." Kaya said forcefully, but only to set her emotions on anger instead of sadness. Lana sighed and slowly placed her hand on the back of Drake's head.

Kaya watched with astonishment as the blood stopped flowing from his head and the "dent" began to take full shape again. After that was finished, she worked on his spine bone, which seemed pretty messed up as well, now that Kaya looked harder.

"Thank you..." Kaya said softly, too happy for more words. Lana patted her shoulder.

"I can assure you, it won't happen again. I highly doubt he won't be killed sooner or later."

Then Lana set Drake down almost roughly and walked back inside, muttering to herself. The soldiers had gone to keep watch. Drake slowly woke.

"How the- what are we doing here? What happened to Sam? And Dekka?" Drake asked, propping himself up on his elbows. Well, one elbow and his whip hand...

"Drake..." Kaya hugged him close, tears streaming down her cheeks again, and Kaya wondered if they were from relief or joy. Drake let her hold him, surprised by her actions.

"Why are you crying?" Drake asked.

"Because I didn't want you to die. I almost thought it was over for you..."

After a while holding him, she pulled away. He was uncertain what to make of this.

"No one has ever... You idiot." Drake muttered. Kaya smiled softly.

"Thanks for saving me Drake." Kaya said, she was propping herself up next to him now.

"Anytime. Besides, I'm pretty sure you just saved mine." He said. Kaya playfully shoved him.

"But don't ever do it again! Almost dying over me. I swear!" She said, scolding him now. He was smirking.

The sun was rising. It was beautiful. Well at least in Kaya's point of view. She couldn't know what Drake was thinking.

But then both Drake and Kaya realized how tired they were, especially Drake. But Drake refused to fall asleep.

"I failed again. Over that damn Dekka this time. Caine doesn't know I failed the first time- or at least would have failed if we'd kept going - but I don't know. I wonder how Caine would feel about doing it himself for once. Even with his whole crazy thing over the Gaiaphage. He's getting slightly better though. Soon, I will run this place."

"I'm sure you will Drake. Just be patient." Kaya said, snickering a little.

"Are you mocking me?"

"No, no. I'm just saying." Kaya said smiling.

"Well you better not be. " Drake was lying relaxed on his hand behind his head. He was smirking. Kaya took the same position.

"Your head doesn't hurt at all?" Kaya asked worriedly.

"No. It's amazing the things Lana can do." Drake replied distantly. And before Kaya knew it, he was asleep.

Kaya relaxed even more and fell asleep as well, with one last glance at Drake.

Reg. POV

Kaya awoke to the sound of voices.

"You wake him up!"

"No, you wake him up!"

"You two sort this out. There is no way I am going to wake him up. I will die if I do it. Literally."

"Or he'll just whip us a million times."

"Yeah, you're right. He'll probably hurt all of us."

Kaya opened her eyes, sitting up and looking at the soldiers. Her or Drake must have rolled over in their sleep, because he was now a few feet away.

"Hey, get the girl to wake him up!" A guy whispered.

"I'm not your guinea pig! I will not experiment for you." Kaya said angrily.

"Aw, c'mon! Drake might not get as mad at you!"

"As mad at me?"

"Please! Do you want to save our lives?" The youngest soldier pleaded.

"You're over exaggerating. But fine. What's the worst that could happen?"

The boys ran away and shouted from their location:

"Okay, we'll watch from here!"

"Wussies. I hope they know how to handle a gun or they're hopeless as Drake's soldiers." Kaya noticed it was kind of early, maybe mid-afternoon.

She walked over to Drake and bent down. He looked preserved again. She looked over to the soldiers. No where in sight. She sighed.

"Drake?" Kaya shook him a little. He was having a nightmare, Kaya knew.

"Drake... Drake? Drake!" She said, shaking him more. He broke out in cold sweat and shot up again, like before. He was breathing heavily. He looked at me, and then looked away, saying nothing.

"Are you okay?" Kaya asked, knowing for sure that he wasn't.

"Uh, yeah. I'm fine. Where are my soldiers?" I rolled my eyes.

"They ran off, afraid to wake you. They are such wimps. How did they become your soldiers?" Kaya said. Drake laughed darkly.

"Their only fear is me. They're best friends, and have a pretty nice shot. And that's praise coming from me."

"Yeah, I guess that's why I chose to unfreeze them. They were all close together."

"Unfreeze?"

"Yeah. I froze time while Sam was shooting his fire sparkles at us. Then, I unfroze just those three to help get you in the car. That's how we got you here." Drake was staring at her, disbelieving.

"Why didn't you move?" He sounded almost angry now.

"Because I didn't want to leave you..." Kaya said.

"Kaya, you need to keep yourself alive! I sacrificed my life for yours. And you were just going to throw it away over me? Why? I'll probably be killed one of these days in the FAYZ. You don't have any idea what you've gotten yourself into by meeting me..." The last few parts Drake said were quiet. And the last sentence seemed more like a spoken thought.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want you to die when you had a chance of living..."

"Why? What do I matter? No one cares if I die! No one ever has." Drake shouted. Kaya was quiet for several seconds and Drake thought she wasn't going to say anything at all. He didn't care either. But then:

"You..." Kaya let out a soft sigh.

"You matter to me, Drake. I care about you. And you will not die. Not if I can help it." Kaya said, her eyes were closed, in memory of the frightening seconds she thought Drake could die, the sadness of seeing him that way. The thought of going back to life without him.

Drake was silent for a moment, wrapping his head around this.

"Thank you, Kaya." Drake said, barely even a whisper. But she heard it, pretending she didn't. She smiled widely. It was the second time he had showed her gratitude... ever.

'You're welcome Drake. And it's the complete truth. Maybe not the whole truth, but it's true.' Kaya thought. She frowned at 'whole truth'. Where did that come from?

There was something else. But she didn't know what yet. And it bugged her. A lot.