This is going to be the last chapter. Hope you enjoyed it.

"Daren, I've become paranoid," Anna said as she walked into the kitchen.

"Leave the country," he suggested from his place at the sink. He was washing dishes.

"But that's how I got here. I've only learned the Japanese I know from you."

"Well how do you know she will follow you again?" Daren set another plate into the dish drainer to air-dry.

"If she's followed me this far, she will follow me wherever else I go. You don't know Nina. She'll do anything to get what she wants, no matter who stands in her way."

"So what are gonna do?" Anna hadn't gotten that far yet.

"I don't know but this isn't working." She sat down at the table.

"Maybe start by taking off work until u figure it out," Daren dried his hands with a towel and sat down next to Anna. She nodded and he handed her the phone.

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"Hello, Doctor Geppetto Boskonovich's office, how may I help you?" sounded the sweet voice that answered the telephone. It was a slightly different than the one she'd spoken to last time she called. But Julia Chang, the doctor's secretary, was always the one that Anna spoke to.

"Julia, it's Anna. Could you do me a favor and tell Doctor B. that I'm taking this week off? I need to sort a few things out."

"Yeah, sure. Um, hey, Anna, you know that I never told you to come in for work a few weeks ago, right? When you were attacked?"

"I know," Anna answered. "It was all my sister's doing. You were only a pawn in her evil plan of attempted murder."

"Well, good luck and be careful."

"I will, thanks." Anna put the receiver down against its hook. She called out to Daren from the kitchen, "I'm going to the store. Do you need anything?" When she heard his reply she walked out the door.

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Anna uneasily awoke from a drugged sleep. She opened her eyes and lifted her head to find unfamiliar surroundings. She took them in as she attempted to move. She sat in a chair with her hands bound behind her back. In her back pocket there was something poking into her and she realized that her sister hadn't bothered to search her since normally she doesn't carry a thing.

Anna noticed a glint of purple but Nina hadn't noticed her, she was faced in the other direction. She took this time to attempt to dig into her back pocket to pull out the knife. Just as she'd gotten the blade in her fingers, she heard her sister speak but not to her. Nina was on the phone.

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"Hello, Doctor Geppetto Boskonovich's office, how may I help you?"

Julia heard the voice answer hers. It was cold and vicious. "I would like to make an appointment," the voice paused before starting back up, "in the Emergency Room. This appointment will be for a hemophiliac."

"Anna.." The line went dead. "Helen, call the police and have them trace the call. I need to call Daren."

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Anna freed her hands and quietly crept up behind her sister, knife still in her hands. Putting the blade against Nina's throat and her left hand on Nina's wrists, Anna spoke into her sister's ear. "Did you forget about me?"

Nina chuckled in reply. "You wouldn't. You're just a scared little girl, Anna. You couldn't cut me if you tried. Go ahead, do it. I dare you."

Anna, not wanting to really cut her sister's throat, moved her right hand upwards, closer to Nina's face. Cutting into Nina's cheek, she winced inside at the sight of the blood but showed no emotion to her sibling.

"Not bad," Nina sounded as though there wasn't any blood or any pain. "That's one thing I'll have to give you credit for." With Anna still holding her hands, she wrapped her left leg around both of Anna's and pivoted on her right so that Anna had dropped the knife and was laying on the floor of the small interrogation room. Nina picked up her sister's pocket knife and placed it on the table behind her.

Looking at the desk, she noticed quite a few freshly-sharpened pencils in a tin canister. Suddenly an idea popped into her head. She picked up the pencils and looked over at Anna. She was using all the strength she had not to just lay on the floor waiting for death. Nina targeted Anna's left hand and threw one of the pencils in that direction. Anna gave a light scream before reaching with her right to pull it out. But right as she moved to pull the writing utensil from her hand, Nina attempted a shot at it but she missed her shot and the pencil stuck into the floor instead. Anna took this opportunity to jump up and grab her blade from the desk where Nina had put it. She stabbed it into her sibling's abdomen and went to pocket it. But just then the door burst open and policemen shoved through the doorway. "Drop your weapons! Put your hands up!"

Anna dropped her knife to the floor and raised her hands in the air. Nina, however, hadn't bothered to listen and swooped down to pick up Anna's blade. Cradling the blade in her fingers, she made ready to strike and had just come in contact with Anna's skin when a gunshot went off, sending Nina falling to the ground.

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Anna awoke a few days later in recovery room 104. Inside her head she laughed at the irony. She usually was the nurse in this section.

She looked around the room to see flowers by her bedside. Three bouquets saying about how sorry each person was. They were from Daren, Julia, and Steve. But none of them really had much to do with this though they all did somewhat play a part. Nina had called Julia and she was the one who had called the police. Julia was a smart girl, Anna had always known that. Daren had been there when she left and most likely would be there when she came back. And Steve, well, thinking of him made Anna remember what had happened.

She'd been headed for the store and was walking through the parking lot when she'd heard a set of heeled footsteps behind her. Ironically, Anna thought it was just a random stranger as it had been before. But this time she felt a hand on her mouth and arms. She'd gotten a gassed cloth put over her nose and mouth and she'd fallen into a drugged sleep.

But how could Nina have gotten away with that in broad daylight? Anna's thoughts were interrupted as a completely sane Geppetto Boskonovich walked into the room. "Ah, Williams, you're awake! Feeling better I hope?"

"Yes, thank you." Anna thought a moment about asking her next question but went against her misgivings and asked the doctor anyway. "Um, Doctor, how is my sister?"

"Nina? Oh, I'm sorry to say that she…didn't make it. She got all the way here and died a few hours afterwards. I'm very sorry." Anna only nodded.

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A few weeks after Anna had gotten home, Nina's body was sent to Ireland for burial. Anna had her things packed and was planning to move back there. After she'd said her goodbyes, Daren was taking her to the airport.

And even though Nina had tried to kill her, Anna was still going to put flowers on her grave. After all, Nina Williams was still her sister.