After just a few seconds, I really started to break down. When these men would fight among each other I would avoid them. They got nasty, sometimes, one will come out with bruising and wounds. Their fights were like two dogs fighting, and I had just jumped in. If I was still a hellhound, it would not be that bad. I was human now, they might hit me, and I was too weak and fragile to hit back. I no longer had fangs or claws. In this panic and mindset, I ran for the Russian, so I could get the door behind him. He held out his arm but I dove under it. Running blindly down many hallways and rooms, I didn't slow down to see where I was going, or where I was at. I was running to avoid the fight.

I came across a staircase, I went down about 15 steps before falling down the 5. I toubled and hit my head on something. My hip was japed in by a sharp object and was hit by the ground. My body felt instant pain from fall. It hurt so bad I couldn't even get up. I also must have hit myself real hard in the head, my eyesight was getting blurry. I saw feet step next to me, as I prayed the men did not see my fall.

"Are you alright?" A quiet voice came. The feet turned into a man as he kneeled down to me. Though I could barely see him, I knew it was the quiet man the others would often call Takeo. He sat me up and checked out my head. My eyesight got sharper and I could see again. His hands felt around my head. When he found no wounds he took out a little rag and rubbed off the little amount of blood that ran down my face. He then stared at me. Our eyes were locked.

"Thank you. For helping me."

"You are honorable to survive a fall like that."

"I only fell down a few steps. But then again. I hit my head multiple times. So I guess you're right."

"Well, well. Who is your new friend Takeo?" The voice of the monster broke the awkward moment we had. Though I hated the monster, he might have saved me from something I wasn't planning on.

"Doctor. Please. I only know first aid. She fell down the stairs."

"Well, she is in heels. She must have been the one running as well." He looked like he had just woke up. But remembering what 'Dempsey' said, he must have. He walked over and got close to me. I was going to move but it hurt whenever I moved something.

"She hit her head, but I found no wound."

"She is lucky then." He was so close, his words stopped me from thinking. He looked up at me. I shivered.

"What is your name?"

"My name is-" Wait. I had a new body. The monster did not recognize me. None of them did. So what was the point of saying my real name?

"My name is Addine." A name I made up by throwing some letters together real quick in my head.

"Addine?"

"Yes, Addine. My name is Addine. I'm German, much like you."

"Oh, German? Do you have a husband that works for the mi-"

"No, I had a brother." Dr. Maxis became my brother. After this lie. "I recognized the uniform." Though I hated the doctor, we seemed connected, almost like I could tell what he was thinking.

"Ah. Tell me, do you feel any pain? And what section of the-"

"I'm not sure, about my brother. I haven't spoke to him in years for different reasons. And I'm not really feeling any pain at all." I tried to push myself up only to let myself fall back down, in pain.

"No pain?"

"A little in my shoulder." That wasn't a lie. I had massive pain in my shoulder. The lie was it wasn't only my shoulder. My hip that had been stabbed by something was hurting more than anything.

"Doctor, her, hip. It's bleeding." Takeo said, he was shaking, as if he never saw blood before. The monster looked at my hip.

"Oh my…." When he say the blood he had a weird look in his eye. "That's a lot of blood, but then again, how long is the glass in your hip?"

"I don't know, I don't think I would, I was too busy falling."

"Oh, sorry. Okay, well, I'm going to have to get it out."

"Well, great. I'm sure even Takeo could know that." He glared at me. I insulted him. What? He did turn me into a beast at one point of time.

"I'll try to make it as painful, I mean, least painful as possible." He touched the glass shard and I already felt pain. He really was going to make it as painful as possible. He put his other hand around it, touching me. Now, I was in pain, and had chills down my spine. Takeo turned around, as if this was going to kill him. I took a deep breath as I felt the glass be jerk around inside me. I screamed. I thought Takeo was going to faint.

"I must go Richtofen. This brings back, horrible, memories…..of childhood." He took off without a response. I tried to regroup before Richtofen the monster, pulled and tugged on it again.

"Well, now seice he is gone." He took off his tie and wraps it around my mouth so I couldn't talk and my screams would be muffled. I struggled to get lose, but it was no use. He took a hold of the glass again, I took a hold of his arm. He chuckled and tugged on the shard. Sending pain all over, I tighten my grip to make him lose his. He wasn't expecting me to squeeze that tightly. Maybe, I wasn't as weak as I thought I was. I still screamed though, it still hurt.

"It looks like half of it is out. I'm not sure though, it feels like there is some kind of hook, making it get more damage the more I pull it." I tried to tell him something, but I couldn't with the damn tie in my mouth. I heard footsteps, Richtofen didn't notice. That could be useful. He took the glass shard again and tugged on it. I scream and clawed into his arm again. The footsteps got load and came closer faster. Then over the top the stairs was Dempsey. Sign of relief, for me, Richtofen got tense. I looked at him with my puppy dog eyes. Richtofen let go of the glass and stood.

"Dempsey."

"WHAT THE HELL MAN? YOU STABBED HERE WITH A SHARD OF GLASS?" Dempsey took steps down the stairs close to me. His voice was full of anger to make me worried about my actions. I might have just started another fight. If Dempsey and the Russian fought, they don't look like they did though.

"No." Richtofen was somehow comfortable. As if knowing Dempsey was mad, everything was okay. But then, when Dempsey wasn't mad, or happy that he hit something, then there was a problem. He knelt down to me, he placed his hand on my head.

"Hey, you okay? What happened?" He whispered untying my mouth. Richtofen came close to him. Dempsey glared. Richtofen just smiled. Then in a blink of an eye, Dempsey raised his fist and sent Richtofen down faster than I fell. Richtofen sat up and looked at Dempsey, he was now mad as well.

"Ha!" Dempsey picked me up being very, very careful to not hurt me. Though I could, I didn't speak a word. He carried me off to the room I dashed out off blindly, the quick escape that started all this. He sat me down on the bed.

"b-but he was the doctor!"

"I know how to help you. I believe I had a war buddy who got a wooden stick in him."

"You believe?"

"Yeah. Everything is a little blurry, I can't remember anything really."

"Oh. But you think you know how to help me out?"

"It's just a thing of glass and a small wound. Richtofen wasn't that bad to was he?"

"Why do care? You say him have a hold of a shard of glass in my hip, then instantly thought he stabbed me. I fell down down the stairs and it stabbed me. Do you know what shows about your character?"

"Jezze sorry, calm down. And sorry I actually care about you."

"Whatever. Just get rid of it."

"Alright, but, it's gonna hurt."

"Richtofen already did enough damage and pain. If you are going to be gentle, I don't think it will be that bad."

"I'm debating if I want to be nice about it though."

"It's your choice. I just want it out." He mumbled something under his breath and took a hold of the glass with one hand, he set his other hand on mine. I looked down at it.

"You hold it tightly, like you were doing with Richtofen's arm, 'cept this time I won't stop and let go, until you tell me to." His voice seemed to go back as a calm voice. As if he really was going to help me, and be nice about it. I took a hold of his hand and waited, it was going to hurt, and I knew and was all right with that. Just the thought of how much it could hurt was the problem. I felt a slight pain, but it wasn't the bad at all. I looked over. He was sliding it out gently. It was coming out a lot smooth there and faster than when Richtofen was messing with it. Mostly because he was messing with it, and not trying to just slide it out. And the thing he said about the might be a hook, lies. Dempsey pulled it out with very little pain. He let go of my hand, and looked at the shard of glass.

"Damn, this is like, a good 5 or 6 inches. Are you sure it didn't get any veins or something?"

"Do I look like a doctor?"

"Well, whatever. It seems like the bleeding slowed down. Um. I'm gonna have to wrap you up. I'll get the first aid kit from Nickoli's bag. I'll be right back, stay here."

"It's not like I can really walk."

"Uh, yeah." He left, he was acting strange. What was so bad about wrapping my wound up? I could do it easily. It only took him a few minutes to come back with a bag.

"He was asleep so I just took the whole bag." He set it down on the ground and jumbled around in it, trying to find the first aid kit in the bag of vodka bottles, a random knife, and a notebook.

"Ah, here it is. The bag looks so small until you have to find something." He pulled it out and got some wipes to clean the wound. He slight rubbed it ageist my skin, I could tell, he cheeks were turning red.

"You know, if you want to, I could wrap it up. I know how to. I believe I know how to, I should say."

"Uh…..yeah. I just cleaned it for you. Umm… here." He gave me the roll of gauze tape and looked away after I took it. I started to wrap up my own wound, though it stung, it wasn't as bad as the removal of the glass when Richtofen was in charge. As I continued to dress my wound, I wanted to know why his cheeks were red.

"Look, you can't just hideaway now. Turn around, what's so wrong? And why are your cheeks red?"

"What the hell? Are you some kind of slut or something? Do you know where I would have to put my hand if I wrapped that up? I would be close to your well. You know."

"But why? It's part of normal human woman's body right? And earlier you wanted to see it you know."

"Well, I uh…." He turned around as I fished off wrapping the wound. His cheeks were even more red than before. He scratched at the back of his head.

"You what?" He came over to me and took a deep breath.

"I thought if I meet a girl that was actually alive and well. Well, I would you know. But then you come around, I believe it's my chance and I well, was gonna get laid. Thinking that was your idea of finding a guy who was alive and well. That changed when I saw you and Richtofen talking about your brother and other things."

"Wait, you were there?"

"I left when Takeo did but I-"

"So you lied to me about all of that? You knew he didn't stab me, you watched me fall down the stairs, you…you jerk!"

"Well, I'm sorry. You took off running, I followed, and I just didn't know what to do. I thought Taks would assume something if he knew I was there the hold time, I thought you would too."

"Assume what?"

"Assume that I pushed you!"

"I've had enough with people assuming things about other people!" Dempsey was mad, and I was mad. I'm not sure what it was, but I wanted to do something to him. And he wanted to do something to me. A thing called, 'a kiss'. He pressed his lips ageist mine and pinned me to the bed. I thought this was normal behavior for a human. I had seen many couples get so mad each other and then kiss. But usually, they fall in 'love' with each other first. But what if have? And I just didn't notice, or if he had fallen in 'love' with me. I wasn't sure of the human term for love. It often meant many different things. I never knew what was right, what was wrong so I went with it. Or could 'love' be this surprised feeling when he backed off.

"What the, you just, you just kissed me."

"Yeah. I'm….not sorry about that. Ummm… look, my mind is going 90 mph right now. I can't think strait and for heaven sake's your hot, I'm alone, and you…."

"I'm what?"

"You're open to it!"

"I don't ever remembering saying it was alright to kiss me. Maybe yes about the touching thing, but never a kiss." He stood strait and walked away.

"Damn it woman!" He turned to face me. "What's with you? You're crazy!" I sighed, Dempsey was mad again. I'm sure I must have confused him, but really, I was confusing myself. So even though we didn't have the same path, we both were lost.