Kit sat beside Robyn on a bench in the safe house gardens. All around them flower beds were loaded with colourful and sweet scented flowers their filling the air. Robyn's lack of interest in the flowers spread all around her like a blanket of colour worried Kit. She would normally have bent down and smelt their enticing scents; she would have touched their silken petals and gazed upon their shining colours. Instead of doing what she loved, instead of being the lively girl he'd fallen so madly in love with that he'd fling himself from the highest mountain if it made her happy was just sitting as still as a statue. She'd neither looked at nor spoken to him since he'd arrived.

Through the silence surrounding him in the garden a song broke through the speakers, it was a song he sang along to in an effort to save his love.

If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand

Stay with me
Stay with me

In the silence of your room
In the darkness of your dream
You must only think of me
There can be no in-between
When your pride is on the floor
I'll make you beg for more

Stay with me
Stay with me

Lost in a world between sanity and madness Robyn rested deep within her own mind tortured by the deafening thoughts of those around her. She was the only outlet for the thoughts of those trapped in the unbreakable grip of insanity. Hers were the only ears that could hear their tortured cries for help while hers went unheeded. Unable to express her own thoughts and utter her own cries for help she was trapped in her own mind, a mind that was falling apart as fast as those that had come here before her and there was nothing she could do to halt its decay.

Hearing something deep within the recesses of her consciousness she followed it. She followed it to a place she had been before. Passing through a door of a building nestled in a dark alleyway out of the sight of prying eyes she entered a shop. A voice sounded at the back of the shop and disregarding any caution she felt she walked through an open partition screen and into a dusty living room.

"I wondered how long it would take you to come here." A voice said as if from nowhere.

Robyn looked for the source of the voice, after a few moments her eyes fell on a man standing in a shadowed corner of the room. This man had a hole in the forehead of his mask that she could see through.

Ignoring the hole in the man's forehead Robyn spoke, "You've put your mask back on I see."

"Yes. Unfortunately your friend with the gun ruined it for me but I shall just have to get my revenge at some stage. I'm so glad you came back by the way, we weren't properly introduced before. My name is Mordayne."

"Mordayne. Head of the Watchers, head of the Guards, practically a Judge."

"I act more in the capacity of a representative of the Judges than anything else. One does need a certain amount of individuality to command, what should I call it?" Mordayne looked away as he searched for a word, "That's it! An army."

"Your army hasn't done a very good job, for a start they've been concentrating on me and me only for a long time when they'd be better off searching for the only woman that slipped the leash and has been making you look like a fool."

Mordayne growled, "Do not mock me! I didn't bring you here! You came here! I thought you might have noticed that we've left you alone for at least two months but if you wish me to continue in my quest to rid this world and the next of you all you have to do is ask and I shall be more than happy to oblige!"

"You'd be better off using your breath to threaten Lily."

"You'd be better of saving your breath for the run back to where you belong, you're going to have."

"Why would I run back?"

"Because I'm going to have you escorted there."

Robyn watched in utter horror as from behind Mordayne two dogs, she knew instantly to be Snatch and Cuddles, emerged growling. Backing up instinctively she knew that if she made one wrong move she'd be ripped to shreds. Without further invitation from either the dogs or Mordayne she turned on her heel and ran through the partition screen and back into the shop.

With the dogs hot on her tail she threw open the door of the shop and out into the alleyway. Not knowing which direction to go in she ran as fast as her legs would allow her.

You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe
Back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day
In your own world

Because when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries
In your own world
Only time will tell
If you can break the spell
Back in your own world

Words sounded in Robyn's ears and filled them until she thought they would explode under the pressure within them. Running with leaden legs she followed the voice, the voice she knew was leading her home. She could feel she was almost there when one of the dogs let out a tremendous howl and pounced on her.

Kit held Robyn as she struggled against him screaming. He repeated her name over and over until finally her eyes snapped open and she silenced. After what seemed like the most terrifying few minutes of his life recognition appeared in her wild eyes as they stared at him. Tears began to pool in the sky blue depths and he held her as she cried. His eyes filled with their own tears when she wrapped her arms around him also and held him as tightly as she could.

No matter what she said he wouldn't allow her to stay here a moment longer, he was taking her home.

A.N – The song running through the chapter is 'Stay' by Shakespeare's sister.