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Danica had her back to a wall with her hands up and a young man, maybe twenty, had a gun pointed at her. She was shaking and choking back tears. His face was red and he had a look of pure anger as he looked around the room.

"You make one more move and I'll shoot her." He screamed." Put your guns down." He ordered at Mary and Marshall, who could do nothing but comply.

"He would never-" Danica started to say until he cut her off.

"You have no idea what I'm capable of Danica." He growled.

"He's right Danica." Annie said calmly. "He's done this before."

"You know who the hell this is?" Mary asked.

"He's my cousin." Danica whispered. "Alexander."

"You made contact with him, didn't you?" Marshall sighed.

"I'm so sorry." She whimpered. "But this has to be a mistake. Alexander, please tell them this is a mistake!"

"Do you ever shut up?" He asked. "This is no mistake. Thinking you were ever loyal to our family was a mistake."

"I had to do what was right." She whispered. "You feel the same way. Don't you Alexander?"

"He has a gun pointed to your head. I don't think you two are on the same page." Mary told her.

"No, you are all wrong! He loves me. He would never do anything to me" She cried. "You love me don't you, Alexander?"

"Danica listen to me." Mary said sternly.

"Don't listen to her." Alexander shouted back. For a few moments there were Mary and Alexander's voices trying to yell over each other until a voice broke through.

"He killed Peter!" Annie suddenly shouted. Silence suddenly filled the room as Danica shook her head.

"No, no, no." Danica repeated. "He would never do that."

"It's true." Alexander shrugged. "He was no good for you."

"Can someone fill us in please?" Marshall asked.

"You tell them Danica. Tell them about the boy you loved." Annie said calmly. Tears poured down Danica's face.

"He was so good to me. We had to meet in secret because Uncle didn't want me dating, but I had to be with him." Her voice was coming out in choked sobs. "I loved him. He was sweet, funny, smart-"

"And a damn Russian!" Alexander yelled pushing the gun closer into Danica's face. The two began to yell back in forth in rushed Czech even Annie couldn't understand.

"Ty parchante!"

"Zrádce!"

"Bezcenný kus smetí!"

"What the hell are they saying Annie?" Jai asked.

"I don't know." Annie replied shaking her head. "They're talking too fast. The bits and pieces I'm getting aren't exactly nice though."

"You two need to calm down." Jai told them.

"You knew about him? How did you know he was Russian?" Danica asked. "No one was supposed to know."

"Uncle always told me to keep an eye out for you. He told me that I was your protector. I saw you sneak out one night and I followed you." He snarled. "I asked around about him until I finally got it out of someone that he was a Russian. A Russian hiding in our country, the country his people tried to destroy. Of all the boys you could have had Danica. I knew you were too good for him!"

"So you killed him?" Danica shrieked.

"I sent him a message from your phone telling him you wanted to meet. Before I shot him I told him he was nothing, and that his family, his heritage, and country were all filth and trash. He wasn't worthy to date any Novak, let alone one that was going to take over an empire like ours."

"Did he… did he suffer?" Danica whispered.

"It only took a few minutes." He shrugged. "He kept saying skřivan, skřivan."

"Lark was his pet name for me. He wanted me to be free." Danica whispered. "Please Alexander, let me finally be free."

"You were free Danica." Alexander said with a softer tone. "You were free with our family."

"Alexander, you know that isn't true." Danica told him sternly.

"And you would have been free with him?" Alexander asked. "You would have been free with a person who's family oppressed our?"

"Exactly Alexander, his family did that." Danica told him with anger in her voice. "He wasn't even born when the war ended! We weren't born! For how long is our family going to let that past haunt us?"

"They did terrible things to our people." He told her.

"You're right, they did very bad things." Danica said with softness back in her voice. "But Alexander, we have to let that go. Our family can't go on until the end of time being angry at people who no longer have control over us. We're free Alexander, we're all free. We just have to decide what to do with that freedom." Alexander looked around the room nervously and unsure what to do.

"You don't want to hurt your cousin Alexander." Marshall said calmly.

"He's right." Annie said nodding her head. "You didn't bring any back up. If you really wanted to kill her you would have made sure someone would have been there to stop us from coming in."

"Uncle told me to kill you." Alexander whispered. "He said I would take over."

"There's nothing to take over. It's all gone and we can all start fresh." Danica said softly. "I need you to put down the gun." Alexander shook his head as he started to cry.

"I can't, I can't." He repeated.

"Ukázat světu, jak je možné postavit za to, co je správné. Nenechte se ovládat ještě. Být muž, který chcete být." Danica whispered softly and with that he dropped his gun and fell to the floor. Annie stepped forward but Mary shook her head. Danica was on the floor holding her cousin in her arms as he sobbed.

"Máte zdarma, máte zdarma." Danica repeated as she stroked his hair.

"What's she saying?" Marshall asked.

"You're free." Annie whispered as she looked at the two clinging to each other.