Gabi recognized one of them immediately. "It's Felicia! She was

supposed to replace Joanne in the field. Remember girls?" In the

excitement of the past few days, no one had noticed that Felicia had

never arrived at Dragon Fire. "Felicia, it's me, Gabi. Who's that

you've got with you?"

Felicia glanced at the girl and whispered, "Gracie-Lynn, the Mary Sue we were supposed to be protecting. She is in really bad shape."

"Shit, are you hurt? Can you walk?" asked Macabre.

"Yes, but you really need to hurry and get us out of here, Seamus is in the other room and is going to be back real soon," interjected Felicia, wincing in pain as she was moved.

"We will have you out in a second. Where is Zarya?" inquired Jacki.

"She must be in the other room with Seamus, although we didn't see who he brought in," moaned Felicia as they finished removing her from the window.

Once they had extricated Felicia and Gracie-Lynn, they were able to see the extent of their injuries. They were lucky to be alive.

"I just can't believe that Seamus would do something like this," said Colleen totally perplexed. "I know him through Zarya and it is so unlike him. Seamus was always kind and gentle. Something just isn't right."

"You may find it hard to believe but he is a monster," stated Felicia. "He grabbed me from my flat, brought me here and then proceeded to beat the shit out of me," Felicia continued hotly.

"Yes I know dear, but did he act strange?" inquired Colleen.

"You mean other than like a psychotic killer?" asked Felicia getting rather angry. "Why are you trying to justify why he did this?"

"Because I know him and it is totally out of character for him," Colleen retorted calmly.

"He was acting strange," whispered Gracie-Lynn from the ground where she lay. "He had this airy fairy kind of look about him and he mumbled to himself. He kept repeating that he had to please him and find all the beautiful woman, and look to their beauty within."

"See," complained Colleen, "Something just isn't right."

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Back inside the house, Zarya was doing everything in her power to distract Seamus' attention away from the other girls. Zarya was like that, always thinking of others before herself.

When Zarya started to wiggle on the floor, Seamus became very excited and moved his attention to Zarya, forgetting all about the women in the other room.

"Oh Zarya," he moaned, laying over her body, keen to the movements she was making, "I want to love you."