Lissa opens her eyes with a start and when she goes to sit up to better catch her breath a pair of hands forces her down. She feels like she's on a boat, moving around. Nothing feels steady.
"Easy, stay still." Barney's voice tells her. There's a strict sound to his voice and worry on his face.
Her headaches and her whole body feels sore. There is a fogginess in her mind that she can only assume is from pain medication. "What?" She begins to ask. Memories are blurry and don't add up. She glances around her, finding herself to be in one of the SUV's Tool had waiting for them, that explains the feeling of moving.
"Lissa do you remember what happened?" Yin asks her as he leans over her, coming into her line of vision. His tone is much softer than Barney's. It's the type of tone that comes from a man who raised kids, many kids.
"Reardon committed suicide." Lissa answers, it's the last memory she has that isn't foggy like a dream, "Did we get anything to find Billy?"
The question enrages Barney who lets out a frustrated yell. "Don't ask about him." He shouts and shoves something into her line of vision. It dangles from his hand and she can't see it clearly, "You see that bullet? That bullet is the exact band he uses. The letter L is carved into it Lissa. He shot you! That son of a bitch shot you and the only thing that saved your life was this damn necklace."
Lissa makes out the object dangling in Barney's hand; it's her compass necklace, the gift from Billy. Close to the center of the necklace is one of the brass and silver blended bullets she recognizes from loading weapons with Billy. The necklace saved her life, Billy saved her life. But all that clarity is gone when she fully processes Barney's words. .you. .her. "You're wrong!" Lissa screams, the action causes her chest to ache, "You're wrong!" she screams again at Barney and tries to sit up in the bench seat.
"I warned you Barney!" Lee shouts, Lissa can only assume he's driving.
As she lunges out to grab the necklace from Barney, there's a sharp prick in her neck. She turns her head just to see Yin pulling back an empty syringe with an apologetic look on his face. Things go blurry and her body goes slack, the last thing she sees is Yin leaning over her as he eases her lie back in the seat.
When Lissa opens her eyes again, she's back in her room at Toll's safe house. She can tell because Remy and Colt are asleep near her. Her chest still aches, but her vision is less foggy. She feels like she's been out cold for hours.
"You're awake." Maggie says from the corner of the room. Lissa can make her out in the dim light from a lamp on the vanity. She was sitting there reading a book, which she closes before making her way to Lissa's side. "How are you feeling?"
"Is it true?" Lissa asks Maggie, feeling tears in her eyes.
Sadness creeps onto Maggie's face and Lissa knows it is before Maggie answers, "I found surveillance footage of him and an unknown man entering a building three doors down from Reardon's apartment. Based on the sniper nest location and the bullet, it was Billy."
Lissa pulls down the collar of the loose fitting t-shirt someone, most likely Maggie, changed her into. In the center of her chest, just where the compass pendant rested is a large bruise. In the center of it is a cut, sealed with two stiches. While the bullet was slowed by the compass, it sent cut through her skin. She rests a hand over her chest and finds herself letting out a scream. It's not one of fear or frustration, it's of pure agony. The man she was going to marry just days ago tried to kill her.
The scream startles Remy and Colt, who dart up from the bed looking around for an intruder. It also attracts the attention of Barney and Lee who run into the room.
"Lissa." Barney begins, there's a look of pity and apology on his face. He looks to Maggie, "She knows?"
"I don't think I could forget the way you told me." Lissa snaps at Barney. Suddenly there's nothing but anger coursing through her veins. Not just coursing, but burning. She can't stand the sight of any of them at all, she feels like this is the closest to hate she'll feel for anyone on her team. She laughs at the thought of team. Billy was on that team and he was a liar. Who's to say they all aren't the same. "Get out." She shouts at them.
"Lissa, I'm sorry, I." Barney begins to apologize, "I just saw you shot and I couldn't stand it."
"Get out." Lissa shouts again.
Maggie puts a hand on Lissa's shoulder, "Please Lissa, I know you're angry. But you need to take a breath, you need to relax."
"Go to hell!" Lissa shouts and pushes Maggie off the bed. A stunned look forms on the woman's face as she looks up to Lissa from the floor. The action makes her chest hurt, but she pays no mind to it as she gets to her feet. "Get out now, all of you!" She screams at Barney and Lee, "I don't want to talk; I don't want to take a breath. I don't want to calm down! It hurts to talk, it hurts to breathe. So leave me alone."
"Listen to her." Lee says putting a hand on Barney's shoulder. With that Barney and Maggie leave the room with Lee following behind. Once the door is shut, it's like the boiling of her blood out of anger reduces just a bit. Sobs shake her so hard she has to sit down as the hysterical crying takes over. Colt's quick to her side, licking at her face trying to make her smile.
"He tried to kill me." Lissa cries to Colt, burying her face in the dog's fur.