Lauren walks out of Amy's room, leaving her sound asleep before joining Karma in the other room, "Well, operation 'awakening warmonger's conscience' was a bust!" she admits, dropping herself on a nearby chair. "What's wrong with you?" her eyes follow Karma's pacing back and forth, "Stop pacing so much, you're going to make me nervous."

Karma stops and turns to face Lauren. With a much determined stance, she responds, "I want to end everything Lauren. I can't do this anymore."

"What do you mean?" Lauren frowns.

"I do want to clear my name and take down Mrs. Cooper but at what cost? I can't make Amy suffer like this. I can't stand seeing her cry so much. This whole thing that happened with her dad...Lauren, we went too far..."

"I know but I'm sorry. I can't end this."

"Well, I'm out. Tomorrow, I'm telling Amy everything."

"Fine. Go ahead. But everything that we've been through so far will all be for nothing."

"Amy mourned my death. She was believable. What's the reason to keep everything a secret to her now. She'll be a good ally if she knows what's going on."

"It's not that easy. Amy's behavior is key to the success of our plan. Once she knows that you're alive, she'll no longer be depressed. Amy has always been an open book when it comes to matters of the heart. We need her depressed. We need her to act as any heartbroken lover would. Without the faking being even if just a tad bit, apparent. I'm not risking anything. I've already risked enough by letting her live with you and now, I am seeing the consequences."

Unconsciously, Amy's hand reaches out to the small appearing figure within what seems to be a far distance. Bright lights were shaping the small black frame of a woman. She seems to be walking towards a kneeled-down Amy with hands lengthens forth to attempt to grasp at the shape. Her eyes were squinting in order to minimize the bright lights heavy rays. She tries to get up on her feet but she couldn't find the will or the strength. The figure keeps walking, and walking until it appears clear. A white-dressed maiden fair appears right before her eyes. "KARMA!" she screams.

Felix hears the screams from the bedroom and immediately heads there, "Amy!" he calls out to the trembling woman on the bed. He finds Amy fidgeting underneath her sheets and damped with sweat. She mumbles the girls' name, calling out to her while her hands keep reaching out. "Karma," she mumbles, "Karma,"

"Amy, listen to me…" taking a seat on the edge of the bed, Felix says, rocking her back and forth in his arms, "I'm here pookie. I'm here."

"I'm cold," Amy trembles from underneath his hold. "I'm cold…" she says, "Karma…"

Felix tighten his arms around her, "Lauren, can you please bring me some more sheets?" she yells loud enough, hoping Lauren will hear her.

Lauren appears a few seconds later with a glass of water in hand and sheets in the other, "How is she?" she says, taking a place right next to Amy on the bed. "Is she awake now?"

"No," Felix shakes his head. He then places the other sets of sheets right on top of Amy, tucking her in. "she's still dreaming apparently." Felix shakes the girl in his hand in an attempt to wake her up, "Amy! Amy! Wake up!" she begs, "Please, wake up baby. It's only a dream." She says.

"Karma..." she mumbles lowly.

Felix gives Lauren a reproachful look then watches the girl once again. She looked so frail and hopeless. "Are you alright?"

Amy slowly battles her eyes open, awakening to what sound like a familiar voice. At first, everything seems blurry and for that one minute, she thought she was being held by Karma. It's the familiarity and the comfortableness with which she soothes right within the arms of that person…she loves being held like this. She hears faint echo of her name being called out. She attempts to open her eyes. She slowly loses the blurry vision and now everything seems clear. In that heartbeat moment, she expected to see…

"Felix?"

"Are you alright?"

Amy shakes her head, "No, I'm not alright. I'm shaking."

"Just relax. And let me take care of you." Felix takes the glass of water from Lauren's hands, "here," she says, "drink this. You're probably dehydrated. Your throat is dry."

Amy coughs a few times before taking that glass of water and drink the water, "What's happening? My head hurts." She takes a hold of her head in her hands.

"You are hangover from the party that mother threw yesterday night." Lauren affirms, getting off the bed to stand at the foot of it, "you drank a lot."

"Yes." Felix says, "You were pretty drunk. I found you unconscious in your mother's bedroom. I had to carry you."

"Yes, but not without our mom's insisting queries." Lauren informs, "By the way, mother is furious. She's coming by to see us later."

"I can't remember anything from last night." Amy frowns annoyingly at an amused Lauren standing in front of the both of them, "That witch is coming down here?"

"Hey, she's still our mother." Lauren warns, "So, respect…"

Amy rolls her eyes, leaning her head further within Felix's embrace, "I know. But that woman messed up my life in more ways than one…" Amy resigns, "and I let her. Like an idiot, I let her ruin my life and now, look at me. I lost the only woman I've ever loved. It's my fault."

Felix looks up at a heartbroken Lauren, "Nothing happening right now is your fault Amy. Nothing is your fault." She remembers what Amy had to go through last night at the party before falling unconscious. "Nothing is your fault."

Amy then recalls the unfortunate event of last night, with a sad tone, she says, "Tell me if I'm crazy but I could have sworn I saw my dad and Karma last night." She remembers, "They spoke to me."

"They were probably just illusions. I mean, you were pretty drunk." Lauren panics and takes back her sit next to Amy on the bed, "Don't torture yourself remembering anything."

Amy breaks off from Felix's hold, "No, no, I swear. I know I wasn't dreaming this. It was so real. I can see it clearly. I saw my dad and he said…" she stops, walking around the room, facing away from the two. "He told me…" her voice sully breaks as she recollects the bad memories that came flooding back, "he told me that the plane didn't kill him…" she sobs before turning back around, "and that I did."

"Amy," Lauren says, walking towards her sister to grab her in her arms. "You don't have to remember anything."

"You have no idea how much that hurt me Lauren. I felt so empty and cold and alone. I couldn't breathe for a minute. I swear I could not stand the feeling." She starts crying on Lauren's shoulders, "I killed my dad. Just as I thought. You don't know how long this has been on my conscience." She lifts her head up to look within Lauren's eyes, "Our mother's right. I killed him. I killed my father."

Lauren could not bear the guilt. Karma might think she's taking things too far but she doesn't feel like she is. But then again, it's all for the greater good. She doubts greatly that Amy will forgive her once she finds out about everything. But once this is all over, they are guaranteed the freedom and the justice that they've all craved for.

"Have patience Amy. Everything will be alright." Lauren could only say these few words of comfort but to Amy, they were not enough. She needed something more. She needed someone. Not that Lauren is not being helpful in comforting her but for some weird reasons, she wanted to go back within the scrawny man's arms.

"I need to be alone." Amy breaks away from Lauren's hold and steps back. "I need to think."

Lauren nods agreeably, "Alright. We'll be outside if you need anything from us ok." And then she walks out of the room, followed by a very distraught Felix.

In the living room

"I can't do this anymore Lauren," Karma mentions, "I'll surely lose my mind if we don't find a way to recover my name without having to hurt Amy."

Lauren paces to the kitchen and lean on the countertop, assimilating the situation within which Amy stands. There's no way that they will back up now especially not now since they've put Amy's mental state jeopardy. Lauren recognizes that maybe the whole hologram dilemma was a bit harsh. It seems like it was a good idea at the time. She had hoped that maybe Mrs. Cooper would somehow grasp the idea that she would be going crazy. She won't use the holograms anymore. The idea was for them to make their appearance an occurring habit until she admits to all of her wrongdoings because of guilt and fear. Instead, Amy gets caught in between this web of deceit and cruelty. She has to come up with something else.

"I'm going to think of something else. We need to have a get-together." Lauren heads towards Felix's room, "I'll go grab your laptop. Make sure Amy is not listening to us." She says and Felix goes to check on a sleeping Amy in the room.

"She went back to sleep." Felix says as he finds Lauren setting up the webcam and calling both Reagan and Liam. "Why are you making this group call now?"

"We need a new plan. Obviously I don't intend to follow with plan A." Lauren informs, "I don't want to put Amy's mental state in danger any further. This set her back greatly."

"You actually have a heart." Karma retorts, "What an amazing discovery."

"Listen, I should have taken into account the collateral damages before even going along with it. It just seems like a good idea at the time."

"Yes, but not perfect."

"Nothing is perfect anyway." Lauren returns, "in any case, we have to come up with something else. We have to find a way to get close to Mrs. Cooper."

Both Liam and Reagan pops up on the screen, "Yellow!" they said in unison.

"Hey guys, we need to come up with a new plan."

Reagan sighs, "From what we've heard, everything went to shit."

"Yes." Karma breaks in, "Amy went to the room instead of Mrs. Cooper and heard everything."

"Ouch!" Liam grimaces. "That's can't be good."

"Anyway, we have to come up with something new."

Reagan speaks up, "We were thinking the same Liam and I. Back at the warehouse, we've been trying to get your team to pull up some background info on your mother."

"She's not my mother." Lauren intervenes, "Step-mother, to be exact."

"Whatever," Reagan shrugs, "Anyways, they couldn't pull up anything. Your step-mother has a strong security software. It's hard for any of the IT team to access any of her information. She's practically untouchable."

"Damn it." Karma spat, "What do we do now? Someone has to infiltrate within her circles to get close to her. None of us can though. She knows all of us."

"Or maybe," Liam finds a turn to pitch in, "that doesn't have to be a problem…"

Lauren frowns, "What do you mean?"

"I'm saying," Liam starts to explain, "it should be someone she knows, someone she trusts. Otherwise, if it's a stranger, it'll take longer and way much more work for any of us. She has to know that person already. I'm suggesting we focus on finding someone in her circles whom has a grudge already. It's a corrupt world. Not everyone is a friend."

"Yes," Karma agrees, "she's a powerful woman, the head of our financial system. Her corporations alone bring in the largest revenue to our capital market."

Lauren reflects a while, "You're right. She must have a lot of enemies waiting for her to fail."

"Like us…" Reagan adds.

"Who should that person be? How do we approach that person? And how do we even trust that person enough so that they don't go all 'double agent' on us?" Karma rhetorically asks, "This won't be easy."

"Reagan, Liam…" Lauren starts.

"Yes." They answer in unison.

"Get the team to find out on the people that are seen with mother the most. I want them to pull up a dossier on each of them with background information and their connection to my step-mother."

"I'll get them on it." Reagan says, "We should be able to find something."

"Yes." Lauren says, "otherwise…."

The door knocks suddenly, taking them both by surprise. Lauren immediately ends the call while Karma goes to see who it could be. She looks through the peephole to find Mrs. Cooper and another person standing right next to her. Karma immediately recognized the woman. She's the lady with whom Amy interacted with the night before. How could she forget the one possible woman who will manage to restore Amy's broken heart? There's no doubt about it. She opens the door and steps aside to let them both in.

"Mrs. Cooper," she bows her head slightly, "And Miss…?"

The woman stretches out a firm hand, "I'm Tracey von Burns. Nice to meet you, Felix…? I presume."

Karma nods, "Yes. Felix. It's a pleasure." She takes the hand in hers and shakes it shortly before releasing. "I'm assuming, Mrs. Cooper, you are here to see your daughter."

"Quite right my dear," Mrs. Cooper says, "but also, you."

"Me?" Felix frowns, "for what?"

"I'm here because I'm more than very dissatisfied with your services. I had hoped that my daughter would be making progress but instead, she's becoming an alcoholic. What kind of treatment is my daughter following?" Mrs. Cooper asks, though it sounded more like an angry statement, "my daughter should be over her nervous breakdown by now."

Felix agrees, "I know ma'am but she is making progress. I can assure you that she has even if it is slowly. Little by little she's recovering her strength and will to live."

"If it doesn't bother you, I'd like to see how Amy is doing." Tracey says, looking at Felix and waiting for permission, "May I?"

"Why? She's sleeping right now." Felix attacks, rather with a subtle hint of guard and jealousy.

"I'm sure it's no problem. She'll let me know how she is without having me check for myself. You and I have a pending discussion." Mrs. Cooper adds. "Where is Lauren?'

"Right here mother," Lauren walks out of Amy's room. "How are you? I didn't expect you to be here so soon."

"Well, I was passing by and decided to come over. Is that a problem?"

"No. none at all." Lauren walks over to kiss her mother, "I'm just surprised that's all."

"Well, Tracey, why don't you go and check on Amy for me?"

"Yes ma'am." The lady smiles kindly to both Lauren and Felix before leaving them all in the living room to go check on the girl sleeping in the room.

"Why is your assistant here?" Lauren asks as Tracey disappears behind the door.

"Concern yourself with matters that are only of interest to you." Mrs. Cooper answers, "so, I need to talk to you both in regards to my future plans for Amy." She drops her handbag on the sofa and takes a sit, making herself comfortable and then invited both Felix and Lauren to do the same, "Sit!"

Lauren and Felix both look at each other thinking that any plans that Mrs. Cooper has in store cannot be good.

In the bedroom

Tracey walks within Amy's bedroom, to find her sound asleep, "What's happening to you?" she slowly walks around her to stand right next to her head. She reaches to brush away a fallen thread from her. she gently caresses her jawline, looking down at her lovingly, with envy and a passion which she's hidden for years. "if only you knew who I was. If only I could tell you the truth. If only you could remember me."

Amy shifts a little bit, sensing that someone might be next to her, she opens her eyes and jumps up, "you're the lady from the airport. What are you doing in my room?" Amy incredulously looks up at the woman, "where is Lauren?"

"I see that you're surprised to see me." She raises her eyebrows at Amy, "Lauren is outside with Felix. They are talking with your mother."

Amy mindlessly shrugs, "not that care whether my mother is here or not but what are they talking about?"

Tracey shrugs "Who else if not…" she points down at her until she touches Amy's nose, "you?"

"I guess," Amy says, shaking of the lady's pointed finger off her nose. She looks up at the strange woman and wonders why she'd be here. It's not like she's relevant to anything happening to her right now. "Why are you even here?"

"I came to see you."

"Why?"

"Because…"

"Why? It can't be because of the little time we've acquainted and now you supposedly care for my well-being."

"Why can't it not?"

"Because the world would be a better place, if everyone was as kind and caring like you."

She says nothing.

"Why are you here? You're not answering me."

"I came here because I wanted to see you."

"Well, you saw me." she briefly lifts her head to point to her closed door, "Now you can see yourself to the door."

"I'm not leaving." She flatly says.

"Excuse me?"

"Yes, I'm not leaving."

"And may I know why not?"

"Not before you tell me what's going on with you. Your whole family is worried. Your mother is worried about you. She's the one who sent me here."

"So you didn't come here on your own then."

"No."

"Are you worried about me?" Amy thinks for a moment realizing how ridiculous and stupid she was for even asking, "Never mind. Don't answer that." she quickly follows.

"I was." Tracey answers, "I am."

A deathly silence then ensued.

"Who exactly are you for mom to even send you to check on me?"

"I'm her trusted assistant."

"I've never seen you before."

"I've worked overseas for her." Tracey says. "That's why you don't know me. I represent you mother's organizations overseas. I'm her main president."

"What's your name again?"

She stretches out her hand, "I'm Tracey. Tracey von Burns. Nice to finally meet you Amy Raudenfeld-Cooper."