Somewhere:
"Dante..." Lok's voice comes through Dante's ears as Dante tries to open his eyes. "Dante..."
"Lok... Is that you?" Dante spits out with something more than silva.
"Good, you are still alive." Lok huffs with relief in his voice.
"What do you mean by that?" Dante again tries to open his eyes but he is still unable too. "Why can't I open my eyes?"
"Um..." Lok hesitates to answer him. "Dante..."
"Yeah Lok."
"Your eyes are swollen shut because you were punched at least 20 times all over your body." Lok stays silent for a moment when Dante focuses on the rest of his body.
Lok is right, and Dante doesn't remember any of it. He feels his bones crack every time he moves them even just a slight movement while his head pounds against his skull. Dante tastes the other liquid in his mouth to realize that it isn't just saliva. His mouth is filled with blood from the cuts in his mouth. Dante moves slightly over to hear Lok breathing next to him.
"Are you okay Lok?" Dante wonders to his teammate.
"Yeah. She didn't beat me up as much as you. She just kept punching and kicking the heck out of you," Lok explains to Dante.
"What about the girls?" Dante asks trying to listen for Zhalia to be next to him.
"They aren't in here. I don't know where they are," Lok explains to Dante with a worried tone in his voice.
"I hope they are okay," Dante whispers to Lok.
"I hope so too," Lok agrees with Dante.
Somewhere: The girls
"Sophie..." Zhalia tries to wake up Sophie who is still asleep in her arms.
Zhalia feels the coldness coming off her body, causing Zhalia to worry even more about Sophie. She places her hands on Sophie's chest thinking only of hot objects. Fireplace. A torch. Fire. The Sun. Love... Zhalia stops for a moment when she thinks of Dante. Her heart races with the thought of Dante holding her close to his chest. She can hear his heartbeat echoing in her head like hers in her own chest. She opens her eyes to Sophie breathing almost normally and the color is returning to her face.
"Sophie..." Zhalia whispers to her friend when a door lock clicks aloud in the room.
Zhalia looks up to see Liliana standing before her in the doorway. Liliana smiles at her poor sister laying on the dirt floor in a prison. She chuckles before walking over to grab Zhalia by the hair and dragging her outside of the prison.
"Release me!" Zhalia screams to Liliana as she struggles to get out for her grip.
"I thought you want to see the rest of your team," Liliana grins at her sister's face change to shock that she is taking her to her other teammates. "Here you go."
Liliana slams Zhalia into a cement door with her headfirst. Zhalia lets out a yelp of pain before slowly getting up to look through a window on the door. Zhalia quickly turns away in fear when she sees Dante in the state that he is in.
"I was a little angry so I took it out on him," Liliana tells her sister with a smirk of delight.
"You monster..." Zhalia whispers to Liliana.
"What was that sis?"
"You Monster!" Zhalia lifts her voice up to stare at her sister, not even centimeters away from her face.
"What are you going to do sis? Liliana mocks Zhalia. "I am in control here."
"I thought that you were different from everyone here on the Organization but you are just like them," Zhalia spits back at Liliana with pain entering her chest as it feels like her lungs are no longer able to work correctly.
"Hey," Liliana smiles at Zhalia. "Don't forget that you were one of us before you betrayed Father and me."
"I found a home where I belonged," Zhalia argues back towards Liliana.
Liliana slaps Zhalia in the face with anger. "I am your sister! You belong with me! You left me here by myself! You promised that you would always be there with me!"
"I tried to come back and get you but..." "But what?" Liliana interferes with what Zhalia is trying to explain to her sister.
"I was too scared."
"What?" Liliana stares at her sister.
"I was scared."
"What were you scared for?"
Liliana stops in her tracks to hear what her sister has to say before Klaus approaches them. Zhalia closes her mouth shut when she spots Klaus in the corner in her eye. Liliana stands straight up to see her Father in the shadows listening in on their conversation.
"I don't remember agreeing to let her out of her cell," Klaus speaks with a sincere voice like a Father asking their daughter what they did wrong.
"I thought that I would show her the rest of her team," Liliana replies to Klaus with almost hesitation in her voice.
Zhalia glances at Liliana with almost thinking about something. She looks at her sister to see that she is wrong. Klaus doesn't have all of his power on her. She is slowly breaking through just like Zhalia did when she met Dante and his team.
"I am going to say it again," Klaus walks up towards Liliana and faces her. "I don't remember agreeing to let her out of her cell."
"I thought..." Klaus slaps the side of her face before she could finish her sentence. "There is no I thought."
"Yes, sir," Liliana shields her face away from Klaus as he looks down at Zhalia on the ground.
"Are you ready to join the Organization again Zhalia?" Klaus wonders to his 1st Apprentice.
"Never!" Zhalia spits in his face with as much saliva as she could.
"Fine."
Klaus slams his cane into Zhalia's face leaving his cane mark down the side of her face. Liliana stares at Klaus as she picks Zhalia up by the hair again. Klaus watches his Apprentices leaving his sight before Liliana stops in the middle of the hallway far enough for him not to see. Zhalia looks up to her sister to see them, tears in her eyes. Zhalia wants to speak or say something but she stops herself. Liliana opens Zhalia's cell down before throwing her into the room. Sophie still lays asleep on the ground waiting for someone to wake her.
"Lili..." Zhalia whispers before the door is slammed in her face by Liliana, leaving her in the darkness with Sophie by her side.