FINALLY. I'm sorry it's so short...I had it written and tucked away in my binder, but while I was cleaning my room today, it fell out of my binder and I couldn't find it. This is half of what I had...so again, I divide chapters. But whatever. I'm going to re-title these chapters with their own numbers...like I said, I don't know what made me think I'd ever finish this in under ten chapters. XD

Anyway, enjoy~! I'll try to update sooner this next time D:

"I hope you have a damn good explanation for this, Kagamine!" Luka shouted. Len hadn't even finished walking into the room before she unleashed her tongue and all the infuriated words on it. It took all of Len's willpower to keep his mouth shut while she tore him up one side and down the other before moving on to berate Rin as well, despite how quickly it brought his blood to a boil.

Soon, Luka ran out of insults and obscenities to throw at him for his 'indescretion' and simply stood in front of him, face flushed red as a cherry, eyes filled with fury, and though Len would never have said it aloud, she looked more like a furious schoolgirl than a general. She had obviously been asleep, and in her haste, she hadn't brushed her hair, her uniform coat was buttoned incorrectly, and a pair of slippers the color of her hair took the place of her usual heels. She was an unfortunately amusing sight in such dire circumstances.

"If you'll permit me to speak with her, I'm sure I can explain everything," he replied calmly. His composure only enfuriating Luka more.

"You'll have five minutes. Get your ass in there," she growled, stepping aside and pointing down the cell block's center hallway. Len wasted no time brushing past her and hurrying down the hallway. Rin's new cell was marked by several guards – the same ones he'd caught halfway through abusing her before, he grudgingly noted. Upon pushing past them, he saw Rin balled up in the corner, hands and feet bound. She looked up when he looked in, tears streaming freely down her cheeks and a mixture of anger and saddened frustration in her eyes.

Len walked toward her and knelt down beside her, eyes widening when she drew her knees tighter to her chest and hid her face in her knees.

"I know what happened," he murmured. "Will you tell me why you did it?"

Rin shook her head, face still hidden.

"Why not?"

Rin looked up at him like a guilty child, nodding at Luka and the guards behind him. Len followed her gaze and nodded. "Don't worry. They won't tell anyone."

"I don't trust anyone except you. I'm not saying anything as long as they're in here and the door is open," she replied coldy.

"Karaku – "

"I won't say another word until it's just you." With that, Rin turned her head away from him and refused to look back. Rubbing the back of his head in frustration, Len stood and shuffled back to the entrance of her cell. Luka crossed her arms and drummed her fingers on her arms, her left foot tapping in irritation.

"Well, at least she trusts ONE of us enough to talk," she grumbled. Len shrugged.

"I know how stubborn she can be. If you don't let her have one-on-one time with me, she'll never have a chance to explain herself.

"She doesn't need to explain herself! I'm a hairs' breadth away from having her shot right this second!"

Len's eyes widened before he could reconstruct the wall he'd put up to hide his love for Rin, and in turn he stepped forward, eyes flashing.

"We're soldiers, not savages," he growled. Luka didn't even blink in the face of Len's disrespect.

"Maybe not, but she is. She hasn't given us a shred of information on Hatsune Miku in the two months we've had her now! What do you hope to accomplish by keeping her alive? Didn't you say when you enlisted that your goal was to obliterate the evil in the world?" Len's anger turned to confusion, and Luka cut him off as he opened his mouth to speak.

"If that's the case, then I'm here to tell you that evil is sitting in that corner!" she shouted, pointing past him at Rin. Len's blood boiled and he clenched his fists, fighting to keep himself from pushing her arm down.

"She isn't evil," he replied as coolly as he could manage. "She's no more evil than you or me. She needs to be treated like a human being, not an animal. Hatsune treated her like a dog. That's why she's like that."

"I don't recall you ever going to school for psychology, Kagamine," Luka hissed. "The fact is that she killed one of us, and the deal was that she be sedated and supervised or she would be back in here. So why don't you leave the social bullshit for someone who cares?" Len felt his jaw unhinge before he could stop it.

"So if you want answers, wave death in her face, and refuse to let her give them, what difference is there between her and a martyr?" he cried.

"A martyr dies for a cause," Luka replied, turning on her heel and walking away. "She has no purpose." She lifted a hand to the soldiers flanking her. "Get him out of here."

Nodding, the soldiers turned back to Len and seized him. Without a second's hesitation, Len fought back, handing a fist in one soldier's face and his knee in the other's stomach. He heard Rin scream his name as pain suddenly flooded his neck, then his chest before his entire body went numb. His legs failed him and he heard himself hitting the floor more than he actually felt it, his vision blurring, shifting, and eventually darkening as his eyes fell on Kaito, who slipped a handgun back into his lab coat, staining it with Len's spilled blood.

Bastard. Traitor. So much for how much you claimed to feel for me, huh? It's on once I get up, idiot…

With those final sentiments, Len slipped into darkness, cursing Kaito all the while.