Chapter IX: Trying to forgive

"I'd give anything to give me to give you

Can you forget the world that you thought you knew"

"Where do you think you're going, Lene?" Michael's voice stopped Lene.

"I'm going back," Lene announced, "And this time you can't stop me".

"Are you still angry to me for what I did yesterday?" Michael wanted to know. Lene didn't answer.

21 HOURS EARLIER

At five am, the mansion was sleeping and it was still dark outside. Lene cussed silently, when the door of her room creaked loudly. But someone was awake and heard her.

"Lene, step back to your room," Michael's voice came from the darkness.

"This isn't fair Michael, I have to go back," Lene said to the darkness. But Michael just shook his head, so determined that Lene gave up and did what Michael had said. She heard Michael lock her door from the outside.

"Fine! I'll just climb out of the window!" Lene got angry and yelled to Michael.

"You can try that honey but KITT is with me in this," Michael said back behind the door.

"I should've known that," Lene hissed to the door.

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"Of course I'm angry! You humiliated me by locking me in as if I was some teenager that you've grounded!" Lene was enraged.

"It was for your own good. This all is for your own good. Can't you see that?" Michael tried to explain.

"No Michael, I don't see how it's for my own good," Lene responded and there was something else in her voice too. Not just anger.

"I'm trying to protect you but you just ignore all that I've done by going back and letting Yakuza find you easily. Can't you just forgive me and forget that world?" Michael was pleading," I love you so much Lene," he said tears in his eyes.

"I'm trying to forgive you but you're making it so hard," Lene whispered.

"Then let's forget this stupid argue. Don't go back Lene. They can't find you from here," Michael said softly.

"Too late Michael, they've already found me. I sad their assassin from my window last night," Lene told.

"KITT would've informed me if there was intruder in the mansions property," Michael was sure. Lene only shook her head, walked to the door and out of it. Michael could only watch her going.

Lene didn't get far before KITT stopped her. The car didn't said anything to Lene, just blocked her way. Lene sighed.

"KITT, move, please. You know I wouldn't go back if I could choose," she said to the car.

"Lene, please. Don't hurt Michael again. He almost didn't survived from the last time and if something would happen to you now, he would go crazy or die," KITT tried to persuade Lene.

"And I know that KITT. Believe me. I love Michael more than my life. And I love you too. That is why I have to go back. If I won't give Yakuza, what they want, they will take it from me somehow and they won't take it nicely. Their first target will be my loved ones," Lene explained, stepped one step to her left and walked away past the car.

Little after Lene had gone, Michael came out. He looked at KITT as if he was asking why KITT didn't stopped Lene.

"I'm sorry Michael. I tried but she'd made up her mind," KITT apologized. The expression on Michael's face was mixture of sadness, hurt, panic and fear and it made KITT fear for Michael's life and sanity.

"What if they kill her KITT? I can't live without her anymore," Michael only said and walked back in the mansion.