This is very important. You can't miss a second.

Luisa inched backwards as Mutter drew closer.

"I don't have all day, darling." She called over to Luisa who wouldn't stop moving. Elena had picked up on Luisa's fear and finally decided to comment. "I won't bite." But that wasn't necessarily true, and Luisa knew it.

Luisa stilled her movements and hugged herself once more. "You know why I'm here." Luisa finally choked out.

Elena walked closer, now no more than a meter from Luisa. "I actually don't. My son can be very vague." In that moment Elena sounded like a normal mother, rather than Mutter- Crime Boss.

Luisa scrunched her face as she remembered Derek. Luisa unlocked her phone quickly and click transfer. Luisa was a lot of things, and sometimes she did even lie, but she wanted to keep herself to this promise. She felt bad for the boy.

"I don't understand why you called me here if all you're going to do is look at your phone." And again Elena sounded like a normal mother.

"I'm here because you killed my father and the- Rose." Luisa looked at the woman before her. "I can't have you destroy my family any more than you already have."

"The?" Mutter narrowed her eyes, her voice low and dangerous. "The what?" Mutter smiled. "What is she?" Mutter taunted.

Luisa sighed knowing she would have to say something. "The best step-mother I ever had." Luisa laughed a little. "Despite everything," Luisa gestured to Mutter, the henchmen and warehouse as a whole.

"She wasn't all that great, darling." Mutter snapped, her jealously flaring through for just a second.

"Whatever she was," Luisa fought the urge to defend Rose's honour, Luisa fought with everything she had. "She was my family. You came after her and my father." Luisa redirected the conversation. "Why?"

Mutter laughed. "Somebody's been feeding you lies, darling."

Luisa shook her head. "And I suppose you aren't a Crime Boss?"

"Oh no," Elena stepped closer, too close. "That parts true."

"So how is it a lie? Are you saying Rose and my father ran into your firing gun?" Luisa was annoyed now, she came for answers, not more vague hints and evasions of true.

"You keep saying Rose and Emilio," Mutter sighed. "Rose is still alive,"

Luisa froze, her whole body shut down for just a second. Luisa quickly pulled her face into an ugly smile and tried to cover up her hope, her love, her excitement and fear. But that couldn't be true. "There was a body. I saw it, we buried her."

Mutter shook her finger. "That's where you're wrong."

"How am I wrong?" Luisa knew she shouldn't indulge this conversation but she couldn't help herself, if there was even just the slightest chance Rose was alive she needed to know.

"She isn't dead." Mutter repeated. "She was infamous for her plastic surgery ring." Mutter stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I don't believe you." But perhaps she did, just a little. Luisa stepped back.

"It's true." Mutter stated simply.

Luisa need the conversation to move forward, she couldn't argue over Rose's life status right now. "Why did you kill my father?" Luisa questioned.

"Because he knew where Rose was, he helped her fake her own death." Mutter's tone of voice was so casual that it instilled a fear deep within Luisa.

"What?" Luisa was sure she didn't hear that right.

"When I asked him about it he denied everything. Pity I had to make an example out of him."

"You're admitting to killing my father?" Luisa felt sick and this was a lot of information to swallow.

"What are you wired?" Mutter cackled.

"You disgust me." Luisa spat her words.

"Then. Why. Did. You. Come?" Mutter stepped closer with each word. Luisa was almost forced to step back to avoid colliding bodies.

"I want you to stay away from my family." Luisa affirmed strongly as she stood her ground.

"That sort of deal doesn't come free, darling. Besides you only have Rafael left." Mutter was mocking Luisa at this point.

"Are you saying you wouldn't hurt him?" Luisa thought that was logical, he was her son after all.

"No, I'm saying that one brother isn't much family," It was cruel and cold.

"Rafael may be the only blood I have," Luisa decided not to bring Mateo into this. "But I have more family than that." Luisa had a few close friends that she considered family, but she just generally didn't want Elena coming after anyone in her life or Rafael's life.

"I can't make that promise," Mutter easily stated.

"Name your price." Luisa had a burst of confidence.

"You couldn't afford that sort of immunity in your wildest dream." Mutter claimed.

"Name it." Luisa pressed.

Mutter stepped forward towards a still Luisa and whispered something in her ear. Mutter pulled back with a smiled. "That or you could come work for me," Mutter looked pleased with herself.

"That much?" Luisa was still in a little shock. It was a lot, and she grow up in a rich family.

Mutter nodded. "That much." She confirmed. "Or work for me," Mutter added.

Luisa paused for a moment. It was almost tempting, but she would never work for the woman that killed her father and lover. Never.

"Then I guess I wasted your time." Luisa stepped down from her towering position.

"People don't waste my time." Mutter snapped. "I don't give free consultations."

"A consultation? I'm not after your services." Luisa spat, this wasn't some kind of business deal. Luisa played strong but on the inside she feared what was to come.

"My services, if you paid, would be immunity for your family." Mutter taunted. "So yes, I'd say it is a consultation."

Luisa gulped. ""This was a meeting, not a consultation." She argued poorly.

"This is most certainly not meeting. It was actually a summoning that I ever so graciously decided to answer." Mutter corrected, fire in her voice.

"Well I truly have wasted your time. Forget I was here." Before Luisa could turn to leave Mutter's booming voice stopped her.

"Why did you come, Luisa?" It was loud and terrifying, yet so sincere.

"I already told you, I want you to stay away from my family." Luisa thought that was the truth. But deep down it was because without Rose she felt numb. Luisa was hoping that this meeting would invoke some kind of feeling within her.

"So you came to threaten me?" Mutter teased. "All I want is Rose," Mutter sighed, "And clearly you don't know where she is." Mutter's faced dropped with annoyance. "I don't want your family, nor do they have anything I need."

Luisa fought the urge to argue about Rose, still not believing she was alive. "So you won't come after my family?" Luisa was a little lost, but now a little hopeful.

"For the meanwhile, no." Mutter was a business woman, her life was consumed by her work. "But god if you keep talking, I swear I kill them just for fun." Mutter's eyes were black as night.

Luisa wanted to double check that her family was safe, unless they got in Mutter's way. "So you won't-"

"It's been said." Mutter snapped as she cut Luisa off. "We've been through this. You're wasting my time, and my time is very important."

Luisa stood there, slack jaw, unsure of what to say- fear running through her veins. "Sorry," That seemed fitting.

"Never apologize to me." Mutter snapped again.

"Okay," Luisa looked at her curiously, her heart racing.

"Just do better. If you're apologizing you're aware you can do better, so just do it." Luisa found Mutter's advice oddly normal, and she supposed Mutter had a point- to some degree.

"Oh- ah, ok-"

"You're a blubbering fool!" Mutter growled. "Wasting my time for nothing." Mutter had just gotten very serious. Any sigh of negotiation and lenience gone.

"Okay," Luisa took a deep breath. "I'll leave, stop wasting your time." Luisa turned to leave, walking quickly back towards the hallway she had originally came through.

"You owe me for the time you've wasted!" Mutter called after her.

Luisa felt her stomach turning. Perhaps coming here made things worse, perhaps Rafael had been right. Luisa stopped moving but didn't dare to turn around.

"You couldn't have expected this to be a complementary visit." Mutter's voice was getting closer.

Luisa slowly turned around to face Mutter. She was outnumbered by bodies and guns. "Derek hadn't mentioned this would be a visit I had to pay for." Though technically Luisa was paying for this visit, she just wasn't paying Mutter.

"Well he isn't a good business man. Forgets the finer details." Mutter growled, stalking closer.

"So what, do you want money?" Luisa asked, fearful that the answer would be no.

"No." Mutter clapped. "I need you to do a job for me."

Luisa shook her head lightly. "I already said I wasn't going to come and work for you."

"Not what I said." Mutter tisked. "I want you to do one job for me. Then you're free to go."

"But I won't be safe." Luisa clarified.

"Well, you will be if you leave me alone after that." Mutter stated as though it was the simplest rule in the world.

Luisa screamed on the inside, she wanted a deal, a confirmation that she and her family was safe for good. She hated that she couldn't make a deal, because of course that's why she came. "What's the job?" Luisa asked curiously after a moment. She knew that if she ran out on 'payment' her life would be in danger.

"I need you to lure Rose out of hiding for me." Mutter was quick to answer.

"Rose is dead." Luisa hid her excitement well, what is Rose wasn't- what if Luisa got to see her again.

"Okay, then you'd have nothing to lose." Mutter noted.

Luisa shrugged, Mutter was right- If Rose was dead, and Luisa for the most part believed that, then she'd have nothing to lose.

"Okay," Luisa sighed. "And what actually makes you think she'd come out of hiding for a step-daughter that she barely liked?"

Mutter laughed, full heartedly. "You take me for a fool?" Mutter shook her head. "You're the only person she has ever loved."

Luisa's eyes widened. "How did you-"

"Know?" Mutter snapped. "I'm not an idiot."

Luisa gasped with fear. Helping to lure out Rose didn't seem like such a good idea now. Whether Rose was dead or alive, Mutter having that information wasn't good. Luisa mouthed a faint "Oh" as that was all she could manage.

"So, you'll help me lure her out." It wasn't a question. "And we'll be even."

Luisa was scared of how sure Mutter was. What is she was right, what if she helped to lure out the love of her life only to watch her get murdered.

"No," Luisa said softly.

"No?"

"No." Luisa said a little more firmly.

"Don't test my patience."

"I won't help you murder anyone." Luisa breathed out.

"Unless you want to be killed I suggest you say yes." Mutter paused for a moment. "Though killing you would do the job, so maybe I should just shoot you."

Luisa's eyes widened with fear and her heart almost beat out of her chest.

"That's definitely the best option." Mutter nodded to herself. Mutter stalked towards Luisa and within a matter of seconds Mutter roundhouse kicked Luisa in the stomach and sent her flying across the floor.

Upon hitting the floor Luisa curled into a ball, pain spreading through her body.

"You'd be hard to work with anyway." Mutter walked over to Luisa and stood above her.

Luisa closed her eyes tightly, she couldn't watch Mutter shoot her. Rafael was right, what a stupid idea! Luisa saw pictures of her brother, her father and of course Rose flash through her mind. She was almost, in a sick and twisted way, happy that she'd now be with Rose.

Luisa found herself waiting for a long time. Luisa opened one of her eyes slowly to see why her death was being put on hold. Luisa noticed that the attention of Mutter and her henchmen was elsewhere, they we all looking out of the large garage door.

Then Luisa could hear it. The rumbling for a car. It couldn't have been police, there was no sirens. As it got closer Luisa could tell it was a motorbike. Luisa tried to see what was happening but her position on the floor meant her vision was blocked by the three large SUVs.

The motorbike then came into sight and came to a screeching halt between two of the SUVs. Clearly this person was here for a reason. As the stranger stood Luisa could see that they were a woman, she was dressed in black leather and wearing a black helmet. As she stepped off of the bike Luisa could see a knife strapped to her right calf. A gun holstered on each hip and a semi-automatic rifle hanging over her shoulder.

Guns were firing in seconds. Mutter's henchmen clearly knew this woman to be the enemy. Luisa watched as this masked stranger graciously dodge the bullets and hide behind an SUV.

The masked stranger hid behind the front wheels of one of the SUVs. Looking underneath the car she could see a few sets of legs. The masked stranger shot at each leg. The henchmen clearly dropping to the ground in pain gave the masked stranger an opening. She jumped onto the hood of the car and easily shot those three men between the eyes.

More henchmen were shooting at the masked stranger so once again she dodged the bullets. Flipping across to the hood of the next SUV and firing her semi-automatic rifle at the same time. By the time the masked stranger landed she had killed another three men. Luisa wasn't normally one for murder but god she was thankful. Even Mutter was distracted at this point.

In the middle of the masked stranger's second flip she was shot. Luisa watched her fall behind one of the SUVs and held her breath in anticipation.

Three of the remaining five henchmen slowly walked towards the SUV. Seconds later the masked stranger was jumping through the air and shooting two men between the eyes, killing them instantly. Luisa closed her eyes tightly, not wanting to watch anymore people die.

The masked stranger pulled the third henchmen flat against her body, disarming him in the process, and used him as a shield as she shot and killed the other few henchmen. She then pulled her knife from the holster on her calf and slit the throat of the remaining henchmen.

Luisa opened her eyes again and stood up when she heard Mutter step away. At first Luisa had assumed Mutter was walking towards the fight, but in actual fact she was walking away from it.

Luisa's lungs began to burn as she realized who her masked saviour was. Luisa stood, bodies at her feet, with heaving lungs and an open jaw. Faintly Luisa mouthed Rose as her masked saviour walked towards her. Under the layers of assorted weapons and black leather, Luisa could see red waves of hair that had fallen out of masked savour's helmet. It couldn't be anyone but Rose.

When Rose cocked her gun Luisa feared for a moment that Rose was pointing it at her. Luisa then had the realization that Mutter was behind her. Rose wasn't at all focused on Luisa, her full attention was on Mutter.

"You wouldn't." Mutter barked.

"I would," The voice behind the mask was low and husky. Luisa had a moment of doubt, it didn't sound like Rose, so perhaps it wasn't.

"Not your own mother." Luisa gasped, that was the confirmation she need. It was Rose. In the flesh Rose was there, and alive.

"You aren't my family." Rose growled. Rose stalked past Luisa and once gaining ground on Mutter Rose bolley kicked Mutter to the ground.

Luisa knew this wasn't the time or place but she couldn't help but admire Rose's graceful movements when she fought and flipped through the air. Luisa then wondered if these were skills Rose had always had or if they were newly acquired.

"If you're going to kill me don't hide behind that mask." Mutter spat as she slowly turned on the ground, trying to pick herself up.

Rose nodded. It was the honourable thing to do. Rose placed her gun into its holster and took off her helmet. Luisa was transfixed, it was just like a movie- Everything was in slow motion, Rose's hair bounced softly over her shoulders. Rose looked like a warrior, she looked changed and somehow the same. Luisa was in awe.

Luisa watch Rose, she took in every detail, everything that had changed about Rose and everything that was somehow the same.

Rose took out her gun once more and pointed it at Mutter's head. "You come after my jobs, you come after my money, you come after my legacy- and I can forgive that. But then you came after my family. And for that you deserve the worst in death, Elena. You will die as the coward and selfish woman you are." Rose sounded fierce she sounded wounded and just about ready to cry. Luisa knew then knew, at the sound of Rose's voice cracking, that her presences hadn't gone unnoticed.

"Rose," Luisa interrupted. "Don't."

Rose held her gun towards Mutter but slowly turned to Luisa, tears rushing down her cheeks. "Lu," She smiled softly.

"If you want her to pay for what she has done don't kill her, that's the cowards way out. Turn her in." Luisa needed to be the voice of reason in this situation.

"Get your revenge, or I'll kill everyone you have ever loved." Mutter threatened.

Luisa could see the anger flash into Rose's eyes. "She knows that this is it. She either dies or rots in prison for the rest of her life. You're the one that gets to decide which, Rose." Luisa wanted all of this to be over, she couldn't stay strong for much longer.

Rose started to nod slowly, as always, Luisa was right. "Can you please see if there is any rope in those offices?" Rose asked Luisa, her voice was so soft and kind, it was gentle- the complete opposite to the voice she had been using with Mutter.

Luisa nodded, this was the better option. Luisa walked towards the offices and within a few short minutes she was able to find what she was looking for. Luisa remerged with a chair and some rope and quickly handed it to Rose. Their hands had touched briefly and Luisa had wanted to take Rose right then and there but she knew she had to wait.

Rose managed to tie Mutter to the chair and with a slimy smirk she pulled out a phone. Rose called 911 and reported multiple gun shots coming from their location. Hung up and took a deep breath because now the hard part was over.

With a large smile Rose turned to Luisa and walked towards her. The two held each other in a tight hug for quite some time. Pulling back Luisa smiled and cupped Rose's cheeks as she took in Rose's appearance once more. Her thumb tracing a new scar on Rose's jaw.

"Let me see, battle worn, scared face, bullet wound, cocky grin- spot on, as always... you look like shit." Luisa couldn't help it, banter always came easy with Rose.

"And you look as beautiful as always." Rose smiled back. "The bullet just grazed my arm, nothing too bad." Rose leant in slowly, and finally when her lips crashed against Luisa it felt like she was home. This kiss wasn't almost as magical as their first kiss, it was electric and raw, neither of them could get enough- neither of them wanted to pull away in case it was all a dream.

"Oh how sweet." Mutter's mocking words ripped them apart.

"I should have gaged her." Rose sighed with a smile as she rest her forehead against Luisa's.

"You two disgust me." Mutter groaned.

Neither Rose nor Luisa wanted to acknowledge her. They were too busy with each other. Like clockwork sirens in the distance began to blare. The police were getting closer, which meant it was time for Luisa and Rose to leave.

"We should get going." Rose mentioned softly.

"We should." Luisa agreed.

Rose picked up her helmet and lead Luisa over to her motorbike. Rose offered Luisa a spare helmet that was strapped to the back of the bike.

"Did you know I was going to be here?" Luisa asked curiously.

"I knew everything, I was always watching over you." Rose whispered softly, even she knew that wasn't enough to forgive what she did but it was a start.

"Why didn't you come for me sooner, I thought you were dead, Rose." Luisa wanted to cry, her heart ached and she was exhausted.

"I'm sorry. I had to get Mutter first. We wouldn't have been safe or free if she was always coming after me." Rose knew they would have to discuss this at length, but now wasn't really the time, and it seemed that Luisa had had the same thought. Luisa put on her helmet and sat on the bike. Rose followed suit and soon the two were riding off into the darkness of the night.