Chapter 4: Hidden Feelings

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Her eyes gazed down at the familiar gravestone. The words carved into the stone and the cross just above. As the flowers were lowered into place by her son she felt someone watching her. Her hands that had been resting on the large wheels gripped them and moved them so she could face the person watching her. No one was there, but she could hear a faint laugh.

"Mum?" Steve stared at his mum, knowing something was bothering her. Even know her assassination senses were still in full gear.

"Someone's been watchin us," Nina observed the bush that was shivering slightly, the winds seemed to be picking up.

"Lets go."

"Nina's never going to get better...she's too weak!" Anna smiled and picked up her striped pink and blue bag. "Lets go darling..."

Raven wasn't listening, he was staring at Nina as she carefully climbed into the limo. "Don't you want to pay respects to your father?"

Anna stopped walking and turned around to face Raven, she tried to smile but failed to. "I did...two days ago." Her words were forced out of her mouth. She smiled brightly and wrapped her amrs around Raven's neck, kissing him foundly. "Your so much better then Lee," she murmered as he kissed her back.

"Well well well, if it isn't Anna Williams and the myterious Raven,." Lee appeared out of seemingly no where and smiled his charming smile at Anna.

"Lee?" What are you doing here?" Anna's voice was shaken up and her palms started to sweat as he approched her. She let go of Raven and pushed him away. Lee was so close she could smell his fresh breath. He brushed away part of her fringe from her face and embraced her with a kiss. He finally faced Raven and smiled coldly.

"You must be Raven...I've heard words about you..."

Raven raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "What words would those be?"

"That both you and my girlfriend here took out Nina memory...and crippled her. I am impressed if I must say so."

It was completly dark outside but Nina had sensed something. Her nightmere where she was shot in the head was still fresh in her mind. Her eyes scanned the garden, but couldn't see anything. Her memories may have disapeared but her senses hadn't. She heard a rustle of leaves and without warning someone jumped out and dived at her in the wheelchair.
She was sent hurling out of the wheelchair and onto the soaking grass. The rain suddenly dawned on them both.

"Who are you?" she hissed furiously, trying to crawl back to her wheelchair, someone grabbed her hands and twisted them behind her back abruptly. She struggled under the preshue but stopped still when she felt something pierce her neck.

"I don't want to hurt you Nina." His voice spoke softly in her ear and carefully he took out a small rag and pressed it forcefully to her mouth.
Something in her head told her not to breath, she figured it was her instict. Her unknown instinct.

He put the dagger back into its holder by his side and grabbed her neck furiously. He preshurised it cruelily. "Breath!" He commanded.

She had no other choice, she held on for a few secound after taking in a deep breath but her eye sight grew blurry and suddenly she could only see blackness. She was down cold.
Instead of falling back down onto the ground thecloaked figure picked her up and silently carried her away from the safety of the garden, leaving behind the wheelchair lying on the ground with its wheels still spinning.

Raven watched Anna as she approched the body. "Sure she's out cold?"

"Positive," Raven smiled slyly at Nina's body.

Anna carefully took out a dagger from the pocket of her scarlet coat and bent down to Nina's level. She pointed it towards Nina's wrist and just as she was about to slash it she felt her sister's right hand grab her wrist.

"Who are you and what do you want!" With one single deft movement Nina flicked the dagger from Anna's hand.

"RAVEN!" Anna yelled, signaling for Raven to attack.

Nina looked up to late, she felt a heavy blow on her right shoulder. Her hand weakened its grip slightly but she refused to let go. Another blow but this time a kick to her stomach and another kick. She finally let go after five kicks only to feel a swift wrist action and the dagger stab into her wrist, narrowly missing her vains and arteries. She bit her lip to stop her from screaming out loud and looked up again to see Raven staring down at her with a grim look.
Anna smirked at her sister. She turned around and walked out of the cell, leaving Raven alone with Nina.
Raven bent down and slowly took out the dagger, blood almost splurted out of the wound.

"Why are you doing this Raven?"

"I've got no other choice..." He brought the dagger up to her cheek. "Scream!"

"I'm not gonna give you or Anna the satisfaction of hearing me in pain," Nina spoke with a stuborn tone.

He scrapped the very thin edge of the dagger along her cheek, watching as a thin line of blood appeared on her skin. "Just scream and you won't be hurt anymore."

Out of the blue Nina reached out and grabbed the dagger from Raven, she threw it aside and stared at him in the eyes. "I thought you didn't want to hurt me!"

"I said I didn't...but I will have to in the end."

"There's guilt in your eyes," Her voice was cold.

"How would you know?"

"I've seen it before," she answered simply and watched as he walked away out of the cell.

Roughly he grabbed her shoulders and pinned them onto the wall. "You don't know me!"

"I don't know who or what I was, but I know one thing, it was you and Anna who did this all to me. When I remember for certain and can walk again, I'll hunt you both down!" Nina warned.

He couldn't help but admire the black clad woman. Here she was stuck in a cell at both his and Anna's mersy yet she refused to stay quiet or beg to be freed. His finger trailed down her cheek and he pressed his lips against hers. His hands forcedher arms to her side as he kissed her deeply. He stoppedfor a moment and looked at her. Her eyes looked as though they were on fire, her fists were clenched so tight her knuckles had turned white and even more blood came out of the wound on her right wrist. Raven cautiously moved his hand so it was putting pressure on the wound. He moved his other hand and snaked it around her. She saw it as her chance to 'sweeten him up' as she put it. Her arm snaked around his neck and she forced herself to shuffel closer andcloser to him. She looked at him straight in the eyes and talked.

"Raven...please, I'll forgive you if you help me escape."

"I need more then that for reasurance, besides I may actually love you a bit but I'm not lovestruck in blindness to let you off the hook so easily. My mission was to track you down and with Anna's help I have to kill you slowly and painfully. I haven't failed a job yet..." He pressed his face close to hers, "and I don't plan to!"

He took out a pair of cuffs from his pocket and locked them onto both her wrists. "This ends now...you and Anna will fight no more.."

"So how are you two cowards going to kill me?"

"I AM NOT A COWARD!" Raven siezed her by her wrists and shook her roughly.

"If I wasn't crippled...I would take you out with one blow!" Her determination was almost unmatched against Raven. Sheforced her wrists out of his grip and slapped him roughly, a true Nina style slap.

He rubbed his hand against his cheek, feeling the now redish raw skin. "Its true what they say...your slap is better then your bite."

Nina narrowed her eyes and carefully tried her best to stand, she grabbed onto the piping of the cell and locked her feet onto the ground.

He laughed in her face tauntingly. "So you want to fight me...you want to beat me...but you can hardly stand."

Nina looked down at her feet, she felt a sharp pain rip through her right leg and screamed as she let go of the piping and fell. Only to be caught neatly by Raven. He held her in his arms for a while just looking at her face.

Writer's Note:
Ok so I haven't written and posted in a while because i am doing some english work at the moment and am quite busey but decided to get the next chapter of this posted up.