Author's Note: Okay. It's official. I hate school. It's keeping me away from my beloved fanfiction. Everyday and even on the weekends I have home work! Isn't that just torture. (Argh!) I feel like sueing the school for child cruelty.

Anyway, on with the story.

Chapter 7: A look into the Darkness

Keith POV

I hated to leave the kid like this.

I walked down the hall, my mind racing with thoughts and consumed by a river of emotions.

I started to have second thoughts. Was it right to take him off of the force just because he was infected. It wasn't like Daniel asked to have haggarium inside of him.

'I hate you! I hate you all!'

Those words echoed through my head, confirming that I had done the right thing. Daniel was unstable. No. He is unstable. The way he looked and acted, screamed that there was something definently wrong with him.

'What are you trying to say?'

The question sent a chill down my spine. He sounded so dangerous when he said that. Pure venom seeped out with those words. His question didn't sound like a question, but it was more of a dare. A dare to see if I had the guts to tell him what I had to say.

'Oh, don't you worry. I won't take it the hard way. But then again.. I might not have a choise.'

Daniel sounded as if he belonged in an asylum. Something had no doubt snapped inside of him. He had gone crazy and the haggarium was to blame. It made a person reckless and unstable. And if there was enough inside of you, the haggarium could control you.

"This is bad", said Pidge studying a sample of Daniel's blood.

I looked up from my station, my attention fully on Pidge. "What is it", I half asked and half demanded?

"His blood", he said slightly taken aback, "isn't there."

My eyes narrowed. "What do you mean it isn't there?"

Pidge looked hesitant for a moment. I could tell that he was deciding whether to tell me or not. He sighed. "When I took a blood sample from Daniel, it wasn't red like it should have been, but it was purple. At first I thought it was just because of the infection, but I was wrong." He paused. "Daniel's blood is all haggarium."

"And that's not all", said Vince walking out of the copy room. He held a long piece of paper that could only be the test results. "His haggarium is off the charts, and is highly unstable. I don't think that there's anything we can do."

"But your powers", I said. "It could wipe out all of the haggarium in his body."

Vince shook his head. "I can't. If Daniel's blood and DNA is really one hundred percent haggarium, then I can't cure him if all it's going to do is kill him."

"Then what can we do", I asked?

They shrugged. "The only thing we can do", replied Pidge. "Is hope for the best."

I grimaced at the memory. There really wasn't anything we could do for him.

"Keith."

I turned around at the sound of Allura's voice. She had a concerned expression on her face.

"How did it go", she asked softly?

I sighed. "As best as it could go, I guess."

She gave me a small smile. "Just give him some time", she said. "Daniel will soon realize that we're only trying to help him."

"I don't know about that", I said looking away.

"Why? What's wrong", Allura inquired?

"You should have seen him", I said barely in a whisper.

"Something happened, didn't it", she said slowly?

I nodded. "Daniel said and did things that he normally wouldn't do."

"Like what", she gently urged?

"He threw stuff at me", I said. "He screamed and shouted and said something that I never thought would come out of his mouth."

I stopped talking, as my mind went back to what happened.

I had never seen anyone as angry and in pain as him. Normally, I would feel sorry for someone like that, but Daniel had a really put me at unease. It gave me a bad vibe.

"What did he say?"

I glanced back at her. "He said that he hated us."

Allura was quiet after that. I didn't blame her for the silence either, because I was just as shocked when I heard it come from the boy's lips.

'I hate you all!'

Something just wasn't right when he said that. His words were just so filled with hostility, that it gave me the feeling of distrust towards him.

My eyes widened. All of my feelings towards Daniel described only one thing.

"Allura", I said. "Do you remember telling me that you had a feeling that a darkness was coming?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Yes. What about it?"

I took a deep breath. It was now or never.

"I think that Daniel is the darkness."

Daniel POV

I rocked back and forth, clutching my knees against my chest. I guess this was a nervous reaction now. Whenever I thought about my infection, I started to rock. It made me feel like I was a crazy person with mental issues.

I shuddered. The haggarium felt so wierd running through me. One minute it will feel normal and then the next it will feel like something is vibrating in me.

My mind wondered to the plan. The plan that would fool everyone.

I chuckled.

It was perfect. Almost too perfect. No one would know it hit them. No one would know that the brash-minded, troublesome, yet good Daniel had a dark heart. And it was true on so many levels. I was used to getting what I wanted no matter what I had to do to get it. I either had to be a sweet little boy, or the devil himself to get what I wanted and needed. And this time I had to be the devil.

But it wasn't me who did it. Nope. It was the haggrium's fault.

I laughed and I sounded just like a mad man.

Soon. Soon, my plan will be put into action. And no one can stop me.

It's a short chapter, I know but my slow updates will gradually have longer chapters.

P.S The Fight Within will be updated soon!

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