Raven walked over to the side of the lake and picked up a few flat rocks and threw one across the lake and watched it skip across the water. Then he threw another and let his thoughts solve themselves in the peacefulness of his silence.

He remembered skipping stones with his dad a long time ago.

"You know that thinking about them wont help Hiltz and me," Suddenly interrupted Reece in his head.

"Well that's your problem, not mine," answered Raven as he flung another rock and watch it bounce across the water.

"Actually it is your problem. Just kill that damn girl or something because she is no use to us anyway. What are you going to do? Blow up another base? The Guardian Force isn't hanging with Shubaltz anyway."

"I have no interest in The Guardian Force anyway, just the weasel, Van. And how do you know all this anyway? And what do you mean 'us'? Man, fuck you! Its just me and my hostage!"

"Well whatever, but we need you back now so Hiltz can beat you up for running off. So go back and kill your hostage."

"Why can't I bring her?" Raven asked.

"Do you want Hiltz and me to kill her? Then bring her. If you want to kill her yourself then do it."

"Fuck off Reese," Raven was getting annoyed with her.

"I'm giving you until dawn to kill her then we want you back straight after you've done it," she said then left.

"Shit!" Raven muttered.

Raven sighed and started walking back to the camp. Why did Raven care about what happens to her, anyway? He doesn't care about anyone or anything. The whole world seemed to be on his shoulders. Inside, it was driving him crazy.

Raven couldn't be bothered keeping on the track so he walked through to bush land until he got back to the camp. He looked around and Prachi was nowhere to be seen. His heart stopped for a second.

Raven panicked. He knew he shouldn't of left. What if shadow ate her? Or Hilts and Reese got her?

"Prachi!" Raven called.

He heard something behind him and he swung around to see her standing right behind him.

Before Prachi knew it, Raven was hugging her. He seemed pretty upset. Raven decided right there and then he cared too much about her to let anything else happen to her.

"Raven?" Prachi asked.

"Prachi… I- I love you. You mean more to me than just a hostage. Everyday you were with me I looked forward to see you wake up and hear you talk. When you were away from me I missed you and when you were with me I felt secure. I don't know how you feel about me but I'm telling you how I fell about you," Raven said, holding her out at arms length.

Prachi gazed at Raven. She didn't understand him. He was a murderer, a killer. He had wanted to use her just a week ago now he's saying he loved her. He could of shot her a million times by now but he hadn't. He cared about her enough not to kill her. That didn't seem right for Raven. He seemed to have no heart, no sense of love and he didn't seem to care about what he was destroying. He was determined to do what he had to, destroy a base, wipe out a town, to kill Van. But now he's saying that he loves her. She wasn't even sure she felt the same.

Raven stepped closer to her and pressed his on hers. Prachi's eyes grew before shutting and letting her push into the kiss. Raven had no idea what he was doing, but he and Prachi seemed to enjoy it. When he released her they could do nothing but stare at each other and let air return to their lungs.

"I love you too, Raven," she answered then pulled him into another kiss.

On a cliff overlooking Raven's camp

"Wow. I guess you've got competition, girl," said Hiltz, laughing at Reese's anger.

"Shut up Hiltz!"

"Don't burst your bubble Reese, we'll get rid of her."

"What about Raven?" Reese asked.

"We'll catch the girl, leave a note and then when rabbit comes after her we'll tell him if he doesn't do what we want him to do then we'll kill her. Simple as that."

"Well, how do we catch her? With the organoids? I told him he had till' dawn to get rid of her," Reese said.

"Ok, well, we'll take her tonight then. Okay? Just chill girl," He said.

"It's just that…"

"It's just that, what? Your not nervous, are you? Your not going to chicken out, are you?"

"No! Never! I-"

"Well shut up then," Hiltz said, looking back over to Raven.

"Were are we going to keep her?"

"There's an abandoned mine about eight miles south of here, we'll put her in there," Hiltz answered.

Notes to the general public (yep that's you!)

Hiltz calls Raven Rabbit because to Hiltz he's the hunter and Raven's the hunted. (Raven the bird is a hunter and rabbit the animal is the hunted.)