Part 4

Rowen woke up and felt each and every broken bone in his body.  His mind flashed back to what she had done to him and a shutter ran threw his body.  She had taken every thing from him and left him nothing.

Nothing at all.

He was worthless as far as he was concerned.

Trash.

Nothing more than trash.

The only thing he deserved now was Jenny, other than that he was trash.

Trash to be thrown away when one was done with it.

"Oh you're awake." A nurse said.

He jumped and felt the pain in his ribs.

"Oh don't move." She told him and he did as she said.

Rowen sighed and fell into a light sleep.

*

He was faced with Kayura again.  As she smiled at him her face suddenly turned into that of Jenny.

As he stared at her he realized she was looking at something.  Turning his head he was suddenly aware of the Strata armor on his body.  Jenny was looking at the other Ronins.

"No!" Rowen screamed.

Ryo glanced at him, as did the others and they came toward him as quickly as their armors would allow.

"You need to go!" Rowen shouted.

"Why?" Sage asked concern for his best friend in his eyes.

"She's going to hurt you." Rowen shouted.

"What do you mean, Rowen dear?"  Jenny asked, and the form of Kayura warped completely into Jenny.  She sashayed over to Rowen and placed her hand on his chest plate.

"Please leave them alone." He begged.

"Rowen we're fine." Cye said.

"Rowen what ever could I do to them?" Jenny asked.

"Please…"

"Hmm the way you're begging… no." Jenny said and smiled.  She licked her lips in a feral, hungry way.

"Run." Rowen told his friends.

"Why? I can take her." Kento said and tried to grab Jenny.

She suddenly grabbed Kento's hand and threw the Hardrock bearer to the ground.  Chains formed around Kento and chained his arms to his body and his legs together.

"Look lady-" Ryo started, but Rowen cut him off.

"Just run.  Get the hell out of here!"

"But what about Kento?" Cye asked.

"I'll get him." Rowen told them.

Ryo, Sage, and Cye took off, away from Jenny.  However more than once they glanced back.

"Rowen that was a bad thing to do." Jenny told him and grabbed his guest plate.

Suddenly his armor started to melt around her hand and it burnt him.  Rowen yelped in pain and closed his eyes.

**

Opening his eyes he found a nurse looking at him.

"A dream.  It was all a dream…"

**

*in Japan*

In each of their bead the Ronins woke up as one and all screamed 'Rowen'.

Mia, who had been awake heard them cry out and decided maybe it was time to check on the Strata bearer.

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blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
so I don't know what's real and what's not
always confusing the thoughts in my head
so I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again

so go on and scream
scream at me I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe I can't keep going under

-Evanescence 'Going Under' CD: Fallen

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A/N: I realize this is short but it's a small look into Rowen's mind.  Also I just started my second year of college, I'll try to make the next chapters longer.

There's going to be a songfic done for this fic, however the may not be posted on FF.N, if you want me to let you know when I write the songfic leave note and your e-mail in your review.

Can you guess what college I'm at?  If you said VCU your right!