A/N: Another chapter! I hope you enjoy it!

I woke through someone's whisper, "Deena!"

I turned around and thumped against something hard while moaning.

"Deena! Wake up!"

No!, I thought, still growled and refused to open my eyes.

"Wake up, Dee!" the voice said more urgently now. Desmond. Of course, but why was he waking me?

I slowly forced my eyes open and saw Desmond's face only a few inches away from mine, staring at me intensely to wake me up. My head shot up in shock until I realized that I had fallen asleep in Desmond's bed and relaxed again. Quickly I let my head sink back onto the pillow and sighed, "What?" I grumped.

"I'm trying to get out of this bed!" Des pleaded, but I already closed my eyes again.

"Then go," I said and just turned around and pressed my head onto the pillow.

"I was going to try not to hurt you," he threatened, but I didn't lift a finger, I didn't want to.

Suddenly I felt a heavy foot boring into my hip and a slow pain started to build up in my side. I grit my teeth and tried not to show any pain. DAMN! That hurt like hell! Although I was fighting them, but the tears were breaking out. Finally he released his stance and I exhaled deeply.

"Damn it, Desmond!" I winced and slowly sat up, searching for his face.

He was standing beside the bed, watching me ruffling my hair out of my eyes. He had crossed his arms in front of his chest as I put my feet down on the cold stone floor. I shivered shortly before staggering to my feet. As fast as they could, my feet dragged me towards the sports bag Desmond had packed for me. Unlike all the others I hadn't unpacked and just used the bag as my closet. This place was creepy and I wasn't going to let it examine my clothes.

Desmond sighed as I pulled out a fresh shirt, hoodie, pants and socks.

"You're not going to need that," he pointed at the hoodie in my hands, but I pulled it away from his sights.

"I love my hoodies," I whispered and stomped out of our room towards the washing temple. Yeah, there was a washing temple. I was glad that they had at least separated washing temples for men and women. Though madman had joked I could go into both. Ha-ha. That guy seemed really crazy. He just turned up at eating time and then vanished again, and during that time he tried continuously to get my attention. But I wasn't going to yield. No way!

I arrived at the washing temple and saw Lucy and Rebecca already getting fresh. Fortunately they didn't talk to me at all; I wasn't in the mood for a study on myself. In front of the mirror I rubbed my eyes to see better, but I regretted it immediately. My face looked sleepy and my hair was a complete mess. The once beautiful long brown hair of mine was in need of a brush, but I was in no mood for caring about my hair. Instead I just put it up into a pony tail, which looked at least acceptable. Afterwards I changed into my new set of clothes before I realized that Desmond was right. It was way too hot to wear a hoodie. I hated it when Desmond was right.

I grumped and removed my hoodie again, before jogging back into Desmond's and my room. Thankfully he wasn't there anymore and I put the hoodie back into the sports bag.

When I arrived in the eating hall something was different. Everybody seemed different. Then I realized what it was: they all had some kind of glowing shimmer around them. Great. Another day in this place and I'm definitely going insane. I shook my head, trying to make it all go away, but when I looked again, they were still glowing. Slowly I noticed that they weren't all glowing the same. Desmond was the first one I looked at more intense, he was glowing bright blue. Next to him were Lucy, Rebecca and Shaun all glowing blue too, but not as bright as Desmond. Was this glow showing me the relationships I had to different persons? It could be true, after all madman had a bright red glow around him. And it really looked blood-red. I shivered, before I took a deep breath and moved towards Desmond. They all didn't stop glowing. Why didn't they stop glowing? For god's sake! This was getting stranger every day! Why did I even go with them? Well, it was still better than spending time with Bill until they came back again. My poor head wasn't going to take all this anymore!

"Deena, you okay?" Desmond asked suddenly as I sat down next to him.

I looked up at him and stuttered, "Uh-, erm-, eh-, yeah…"

He raised one eyebrow suspiciously, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, yeah…" I said uneasily, "Of course."

"I told you it was too hot for a hoodie," he suddenly said and I was glad he dropped the topic if I was okay. I wasn't okay, that was for sure. But I couldn't tell him; at least not when everybody was listening; especially madman. Especially madman. Speaking of which, he was trying to get my attention again, but I refused to speak or listen to him today. Instead Lucy picked up an unspoken topic and I could see in the corner of my eye that he was very unsatisfied with the current situation.

"You okay, Dee?" Desmond asked worriedly as I suddenly felt his hand on my shoulder. I shook my head, before I realized what I actually did. Quickly my eyes clasped open and I turned me head to look at him.
"Yes, yes, I'm okay," his blue glow was nearly blinding me so I immediately turned my head away again and closed my eyes. Oh god, please let him believe me, please let him believe me!
"Somehow I can't believe you," he said sarcastically and I flinched. God damn it!
I turned even further away from him, "Then I can't help you."
"Deena! Look at me!" he raised his voice, but I still didn't look, "Deena!"
He tried to turn me around by my shoulder, but I fled from his grip, jumped up and ran outside the eating hall. Afraid that someone might follow, I ran into the...back garden? At least I thought it was the back garden, it led to the other side of the fortress, you could see another landscape. But I breathed hard, I was glad to be alone once again.
"Deena!" a familiar voice called from behind, but it wasn't the familiar voice. I turned around to see Lucy standing there.
"Lucy," I said surprised, but shielded my eyes instantly, because she was still shining, "I'm okay."
"I know," she said.
What? No 'tell me' or 'are you sure'? Just I know...
I slowly let my hand sink down to see her standing very far away from me, so she couldn't blind me with her glow.
"Everybody's glowing, right?" Of course. That's why she didn't ask. She knew it already.
"How do you know?"
"Since you saw the memories I thought it was only a matter of time until you would use the Eagle Vision."
"The what?" I asked confused. There was a name for that disease?
"It is a...kind of power your ancestor had...and it seems the Bleeding Effect is procceeding without the Animus."
"I-, who-, what?" I asked out of breath, panting heavily.
"I know it seems strange, but-."
"Strange? I think it is unbelievable! All this crap about Bleeding Effect and Animus and ancestors! I think I'm going to faint..."
Lucy quickly stepped closer but I held up one hand to signal her to stop, and so she did. The glow still didn't stop!
"Don't come any closer!" I nearly threatened, but she stayed calm. Incredibly calm.
"Deena, I know what we can do about the glow!"
I stopped abruptly, lowered my hand and forced myself to look at her through squinted eyes. For a change, I really wanted to listen to what she was saying.
"But you will have to go into the Animus," she said warily.
"What? No!"
"Deena, please just listen to me! Your ancestor had this...power and if you learn how he controlled it, you can control it too!"

It sounded rational, although I did not want to believe it. How did I end up in this situation? It all had started with Abstergo kidnapping me. Stupid bastards!

I had been eating peacefully during the break of my new job, when they came. They told my boss they needed to talk to me and led me outside the shop. I hadn't done anything bad, I had been a good girl all my life. And still, they took me and knocked me unconscious. The next thing I remembered was sitting in a sterile-looking room, tied to an uncomfortable bed-looking thing.

"Who says I want to control it?" I spat at her.

"Listen, Deena, I can see you are in pain!" she was starting to despair, "I just want to help you," she whispered almost inaudibly.

I sighed, "Okay, just make this glowing stop!"

"I will," she still whispered and led me inside towards her and Rebecca's room. I turned my head away from her all the time.

Next chapter is going to happen something really bad, stay tuned and please REVIEW!