Gem's eyes fluttered and then opened. She was back in Jacob's infirmary and aching as if she did a thousand push-ups suddenly without a warm-up. There was no one in the room and she wondered why. It wasn't like the doctor was dead, right?

Then it all came back to her in flashes. Her killing someone like Gage, torturing then slaying Archie, bifuricating Ethan, slaying Jacob and Mikhail and ... almost killing Daniel. It wasn't her fault, she had been possessed. But whose arms' were it that raised the weapon? Who smiled when the blood bathed her like in a baptism? Who felt the thrill of seeing someone die before her? It was her, after all wasn't she also the one who pulled the trigger at her own mother?

"No..." Gem whispered. She couldn't have but she did. Her knees weakened with guilt and slowly she sank to the ground and wept. Tears she had kept from spilling were now cascading like a waterfall. She covered her face with her hands and sobbed.

That was how Daniel found her. Gem was in some corner, huddled like some creature ashamed to show itself to the light.

"Oy, Gem. Eat up. I brought up breakfast."

"Why am I here?" Gem asked without lifting her head.

"Well you were possessed by HHH and you massacred almost everyone but me and the Pyros. The Admin brought you to the hospital but the doctors there said you were just in a really deep sleep."

"And I'm here? Mr. Sharpe, need I tell you I am a killer? I ought to be in jail."

"Well, I killed people also but I am not in jail."

"Yes but you were paid by m ... Administrator and I killed all her employees."

The door creaked open and Jacob appeared just like he did in a normal day, no cuts or bruises or even the signs of any injury she caused him. "As a doctor, I must insist you must eat Gem."

Gem took one look at him and then fainted. Daniel caught her just in time fromletting her head meet the floor.

"My point exactly, people should never miss their meals."

"Doc, she just fainted because she thought she killed you and you're back to haunt her."

Gem woke up again and found herself next to some sort of generator. Like an animal next to an unfamiliar object, she backed away from it warily.

"Hey." Gem turned to that annoying voice that she thought she would never hear again. Ethan was grinning at her and she backed away like a reversing car.

"Yo, Gem's awake."

The whole group surrounded her with no signs of injury. Gem was sure she was in hell with some sort of illusion except it seemed so real. She edged away from them as far as possible. She looked for some way to get out. To escape from this place of madness. But hell never had exit doors.

It was the Spy who approached her at first, doing it as gently as possible as to not scare her.

"Gem, we're all alive."

"But I killed you, I didn't mean to but I killed you. Are you going to do the same to me?" Gem asked.

"We knew you were possessed. Daniel even vouched that you cried when you came to."

Gem looked away. "So why are you all still alive then?"

Before Spy could reply, Ethan was on him and beating him dead with a metal baseball bat.

It was a clean kill, not much blood was spilled when the Spy fell except a few drops of blood fell on her when he had already fallen which made it impossible to happen. Gem had been looking at Spy's body when she felt it and looked up at Ethan when her body was still registering shock. Ethan was looking at her with eyes glazed over and a blade poking out of his chest.

"What in God's –"

"Now Gem, wait for it," Spy said with a slight smile.

A few seconds later, Ethan was shooting as he charged at Spy who promptly killed him with a well timed stab.

"What just happened?" Gem asked, obviously disturbed.

"You see that machine next to you?" Spy asked her.

Gem looked at it. "I've never seen anything like it. However I presume this is the reason for all of your revival?"

"Correct, Gem." It wasn't from the mercs but Gem knew who the voice came from.

"Ma'am," Gem said deferentially.

"Yes, Gem," The Administrator said," I would like to know how you got into a dangerous place without transportation."

Gem tossed a discreet glance at Archie and sighed. "It was my fault Ma'am, I was curious to how these soldiers of fortune were working for their money and decided to see for myself. They had actually told me what they did for a living but I have always wondered why they are still alive despite the danger in their field of work."

"Men, I would like a private word with Gem. Out. Now."

Everyone cleared out but Spy lingered and left as the last.

"Gem, the truth."

"Curiosity killed the cat, Aunt."

"Gem, don't use that term with me if you work for me. You are an employee and I am the employer."

"Let's set this aside, aunt. For now at least, I am sorry I worried you, that time I entered was a life or death situation with me. Had I known that there was a machine that could bring me back to life I wouldn't have left this place."

"Gem, it doesn't work that way. Your DNA isn't registered to the machine, you would have really died."

Gem froze as she let the fact sink in and then breathed deeply. How close she had been to losing her life!

"Look Gem, we will discuss this when you're better. As for that man, there are signs that he may be here in America."

Gem's hands clenched and were forcefully relaxed.