Chapter 11: The Fun Begins

"Now lets start out easy, what's my last name?" Kary froze in front of Marker's chair and stared him down. For half an hour the two looked into each others eyes, neither willing to surrender to the foe, neither willing to give up to weakness, until Marker couldn't do it any longer. He flinched and looked away. "Well that didn't take as long as expected. Shall we continue?" Kary spun around and asked again, "What the hell is my last name?"

As she walked away, Angel came up beside her and whispered "What was the point of that?" Kary backed away and answered to the whole gang.

"The point of that was to see who had the upper hand. To witness who was stronger, and to find out who would prevail. The answer; I do, I am and I will!" Kary jumped at Marker and started to play with the knife. She did little motions in the air as if cutting him, this was to mess with his mind, visualization was a major part of torture, 'you taught me that...' Kary thought as she stared into Marker's eyes.

"I...I...I don't know. It wasn't a need to know info, so I wasn't privileged to that piece of information." Marker broke down as Kary brought the knife up to his throat.

"Good, at least we're getting somewhere," Kary pulled the weapon away and began to circle his chair.

"Um, excuse me, but how does that get us anywhere? He didn't know the answer..." Fred was a bit confused, actually she was really confused. None of this made sense and it was starting to hurt her head.

"It's progress because I already knew he didn't know my last name. It wasn't in the file, so it was very secretive information - there was no way that they would have told their lap doggy. But it means that he's telling the truth, if he was trying to impress me, he would've lied and made up a name. SO now the REAL fun begins!" Kary stopped in front of Marker and started to get serious, "Okay, the only thing I want to know is - why me? Why did you choose me? Why would you pick me out of the some odd billion people on the planet?" Kary placed the knife up to Marker's temple and slowly dragged it down to his pulsating neck. "And I only want the truth."

Marker remained silent, he showed no fear of the knife, but could feel his heart racing.

"I am not planning on waiting too long, I will kill you." Kary waited ten more minutes and then freaked out. "Son of a bitch, you WILL answer me," And Kary jabbed the knife into Marker's right shoulder. The scream filled the hotel lobby and startled the gang. No one actually thought that Kary would use the knife, but once they saw the hate and anger in her eyes, no one questioned the death of the poor man in front of her.

"Bitch" he spat as the blood poured from the wound on his body.

"I swear to god you will tell me or die, look into my eyes - do you think I'm going to stop? Think of all the pain you caused me, do you think I'm gonna stop? Think of the torture and the hurt, do you think I'm going to stop? " Kary waited patiently for his answer, and when Marker looked into her eyes, he saw the fire and the thirst that he himself installed. He poisoned her and now she wanted revenge 'my god, I'm going to die!' Marker accepted his fate and remained silent.
Fed up with waiting, Kary twisted the knife and let the captive scream till he ran out of breath before she did it again.

"Now - why the hell did you chose me?"

Kary waited as Marker caught his breath and heard him whisper, "Terkel...chose... you."

Blood came from his mouth and Kary refused to stop. "Why? What gave Terkel the right to chose me?" Kary waited as Marker coughed up more blood.

Marker looked into Kary's eyes and she got the message.

"Oh my god..." Kary's words were no more than a whisper, barely audible to all of the others. She stumbled back wards and tripped into Conner.

"Kary, what is it?" Conner looked confused and couldn't understand what was upsetting his girl so much.

"Terkel...he's, he's...he's my father!" Kary couldn't stand it anymore. She had to get out, get away form all of these secrets. She bolted for the door and was out before half of the group had realized what happened.

Conner moved to follow, but Angel stopped him.
"I think she need's to be alone right now." But Conner threw Angel's arm off of him and ran after Kary.

Alone in the dark streets of L.A., the rain pouring down and soaking her to the bone, Kary could focus more on the truth she just found. 'It all makes perfect sense now, why he would never fight me, why he wouldn't give me the needle. He was ashamed; he couldn't do that to his own child. The fucking moron!' Kary had to regroup, gain her focus again.

But as she was trying to calm down, a screech came from behind her and Kary flew around to find herself being surrounded by four guys, all dressed the same and all from the Lab.

'Great, just what I need to work out some stress.' Kary released herself onto the strangers. Kick after kick to the stomach, knees and head followed by punches to the face, neck and chest. Flying around all of them and dodging most of their blows. Fueled by anger, hate and rage, Kary became blind to pain and focused solely on destroying the enemy, defeating the foe - kicking their ass!

As the fourth guy fell unconscious, Kary began to feel the pain and hurt that they had caused to her body. Unwilling to surcome to the pain, Kary turn to investigate the van that brought them, when out stepped Terkel. She froze and couldn't bring herself to move, the father she never knew, but yet had known her whole life.

"Hello Kary. What's the matter darling, didn't like what you heard. Life is full of unpleasant talk, time you were exposed to it. I did my best to shelter you, but you just had to escape, had to break lose of your safe heaven." Terkel was slowly drawing closer to Kary, forcing her to back up into the dead end alleyway.

"Safe? I was prodded and abused and mad into some kind of freak. I hardly call that a home...and I hardly call you a father. Just the thing that helped to create me." Kary still couldn't move, but the anger was starting to come back.

"My darling, it was your mother who created you. Only she could've done such a wonderful job." Kary was losing focus again. She could dimly remember her mother, just a few happy memories of them playing outside together, and then she was put into the Lab.

Terkel took his chance and struck his daughter, down she went and submitted herself to blow after blow. She finally snapped out of it when Terkel mentioned that it was time to go home. She had done enough here. He pulled out a needle and when Kary tried to move, she realized he had her pinned. Doomed, Kary felt herself giving up hope, 'Please God, just give me one more chance...I need your help.' Out of no where Terkel flew over Kary's head and landed in a small heap against the brick wall. He slowly rose and faced the creature who dared to attack him.

Conner was protectively standing between Terkel and Kary, he kicked Terkel as he made an attack to stand and sent him into the wall again, and this time he stayed down.

But as Conner was picking up Kary, four more men came from the van. Conner gave Terkel one more blow to the head "You fucker, I hope you burn in hell for this." and he jumped the four guys and ran off into the rain, with a hurt and barley conscious Kary in his arms.