Ace was sitting near the window of his cell. He was playing with his pearl bracelet. The gods weren't on his side today apparently.

He got knocked out of his daydream when he heard steps coming toward the bars. He looked up and saw Ana. They stared at each other but none of them said a thing. Ace blinked and got his attention back on his bracelet.

-"I thought you didn't want to see me.", Ace spoke, his voice resonated in the dark room.

-"I'm here to have answers.", Ana said fiercely.

Ace chuckled and shook his head. He sighed and stood up. He walked toward the cold bars and planted his eyes on Ana, making her stepping back in reflex.

-"What kind of answers do you want?", Ace asked, his blue eyes never more serious.

-"The kind of answers that will help me put an end to all of these nightmares.", Ana furrowed her eyebrows.

Ace shrugged and nodded at her.

-"Why keeping me if I wasn't the one you were looking for?", she said really softly, crossing her arms around her middle, like someone was about to kick her in the guts again.

-"I don't know.", Ace shrugged.

Ana wasn't convince but went ahead.
-"Why... torturing me?", she swallowed.

-"I don't know.", Ace kept telling.

-"Why keeping me training dragons when it was obvious I couldn't?!", Ana was getting impatient.

-"I don't know.", Ace groaned, rubbing his eyes.

Ana jumped on the bars, making Ace blench.
-"These are not answers!", Ana yelled at him, "You are locked here. And we can transfer you in Outcast island jail and make you never see your dragon again.", Ana spatted.

Ace frowned and gritted his teeth.
-"Or?", Ana suddenly soften, she let go of her grip on the bars and stepped back, crossing her arms on her chest again, "You can cooperate and tell me everything you know and the reason of your acts.", Ana throw him an icy look, one that could shot you right in the heart at any blink.

Ace sighed and scratched his head.
-"Look, I'm serious when I said I didn't know. I really don't!", Ace looked very defeated, his confidence of maintaining his assurance becoming a total fail.

-"I can tell you everything. But if you don't take my word for it, then it would be kind of useless.", Ace spoke.

-"Try me.", Ana breathed.

Ace sighed one more time and opened his mouth.
-"When I entered this place, my mission wasn't to capture you or hurt you in any way. I wasn't here to actually hunt or torture anyone. I was there to collect informations. And if I could, save dragons.", Ace told.

-"Wait? Save dragons?", Ana asked confused.

-"Yes. I wasn't and still never will be a hunter. I was a spy.", Ace finally admitted.

Ana blinked.
-"I can't hurt a dragon. And I can't even hurt someone. I actually sucks at fighting.", he chuckled nervously, "I'm more the tactic and smooth guy that no one notices. And infiltrating a hunter base as the weak newby and that no one can suspect was the perfect job for me. I was only there to clean dragons's poop of just to feed prisoners. In that case, you. That's why my face is not so unfamiliar to you.", Ace smiled sadly.

Ana was listening to him intensively.
-"I needed to get infos about the boss of some hunters that were there, no matter what. But it was hard to find them cause many evil dragon's hunters boss were keeping their dragons and prisoners in this place. So bringing diner to the prisoners was the perfect work to make me look and spy around freely.", Ace explained, "When your friends broke in and found you, I think I was the first one to be relieved. Cause if you think that I actually enjoyed looking at you everyday without being able to do a single move to try to help you, you've dearly mistaken. Even if I tried, I would have killed both of us cause like I said, my fighting skills are the worst. In fact, if I was good enough, I would saved every single person in those cells.", Ace squeezed his eyes, his voice shaking.

A heavy silence took place between the two of them.

-"Why... I mean how... did you quit that job?", Ana pushed a little strand of hair behind her ear.

-"I didn't. I mean, I'm still trying to spy on hunters to find more. But if you're talking about the job I had among those hunters, well, I took the opportunity when Hiccup and your friends attacked the place. I guess they also saved me from working in this hell.", Ace joked flatly, "Even tho I'm going to be forever guilty to have left so many innocent people behind..", his voice broke.

-"What about your dragon? Where was he while you were there?", Ana asked.

-"I have other friends that works in the same domain as me. They kept him with them. There was no way I would risk Foxy's life.", Ace said more surely.

Ana bit her lip.
Was he really telling the truth? Should she trust him? It was true and all he did was feed her. He never hurt her physically. She also remembered his look in his eyes. Full of pity and how much it made her want to puke. She hated being so vulnerable but back there, she didn't care. All she wanted was to go away, be free and be in her parents's arms again.

-"I'm really sorry for what you had to go through..", Ace murmured.

Ana watched him put his hat back on his head, hiding his eyes. He turned his back to her, about to walk back to his corner.

-"You like Meg a lot don't you?", Ana blurted.

Ace froze. He turned to face her. His face changes from sorrow to confidence. He walked back to the bars and griped them hard.

-"If something happens to Meg, I don't care how bad my skills are, I'll fight.", he said to her.

Ana couldn't help but let out a scoff.

-"I'll think about it. Just don't try anything.", Ana said, about to leave.

Ace watched her walked away but something tilted into his mind.

-"Wait- Ana, is it?", Ace called.

Ana turned around and raised an eyebrow.

-"When Hiccup saved you, did he save someone else?", he asked.

-"Uh no. Why?", Ana wondered.

-"Oh. I just thought so.", Ace shrugged.

Ana looked at him weirdly then left.
Ace went back to sit on the floor and played again with the pearls on his wrist.

-"That guy probably died under Grimmel's men then."