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Chapter 2

Peyton carried the bleeding body of the woman into his lab. At the same time wondering on how on earth did a woman got into his tunnel and why. He found only a nametag on her, and the name it said was Kathleen Hal, and to his great surprise another doctor like him, although it doesn't exactly say on what field of medicine she's been specializing on.

Once he arrived on the lab, he quickly lay Kathleen down and started administrating on her injuries. He tore her shirt out and studied the injury, the bleeding was caused by a bullet wound on the stomach that is the only major wound she's got, after he got the bullet out of her body, he started stitching it and then focused on the other light wounds. Apparently she must've hit her head on something cause there's wound there, and a nasty flesh wound on her shoulder too. His protectiveness is surfacing although he doesn't know why, he's a doctor and helping people in need is what he does but the caring one in him died long ago, or so he keeps telling himself.

It seems whoever she was; she was running away from someone with a gun who wants her dead. He almost laughs at the notion that there is a group out there who wants doctors dead because in the past someone did try to kill him.

When he started to clean her up, he noticed how beautiful she was, with the silky raven hair, from her angelic features, asleep she almost looks like an innocent child, from her small nose, to her sensual lips. She has soft curves and her smooth almost translucent skin in color, although bluish at the time because of the bruises she received. He's protectiveness is growing more intense by the minute and it is turning into anger at whoever harmed this woman before him. He's emotion's was starting to act up again, he can't help to have another one of his hallucinations when his treating his patient, he might do something to harm her. It's a good thing that he has been improving in reining his mood swings; otherwise he might do something he'll regret later, like kissing this woman before her. Now where the hell did that though came from! Instead of thinking about it Peyton just focused on fixing his patient up.

He was almost finish in cleaning her up, when she stirred and moaned from the pain she's feeling, very briefly she opened her eyes and he was startled to see hazy blue eyes looking at him, for a moment he considered if he should asked her who she really was instead of how she is feeling at the moment. But before he could utter a word, her lids closed again and fell into a deep sleep.

"You have been underground way too long, Peyton." Peyton said shaking his head to himself.

That girl is dangerous to him. Peyt thought to himself. She might be sent to infiltrate him and still his life's work or something but he really doesn't know for sure and he doesn't want to care and be involve, the thing is once he helped her and took her to his lab, he is already involve. What to do, the only thing to do is to send her back wherever is that. Once she's okay he's going to bring her up to the surface, away from his work and from his emotions. Because this girl before him is getting to the wall he erected around his emotions, he never felt like this before not even with Julie, and he knows that he still loves her even though he knew that they couldn't be together. The worst part is that Kathleen wasn't even conscious at the moment but she can already bring out his protective side and wake up the man he once been, the one who died when they took his whole life from him, because to him he's no longer Peyton Westlake but the Darkman.





To be continued…