Whew! I've done my exams! On to the chapter!

This chapter will move forward a bit further about Daniel Cross's past. A little glimpse of the Assassins as well.

Rainey

You don't even know what to do, or what not to do. Daniel. You are just like an empty puppet. Had you not met Rainey you were to be another orphan who suffers from starvation and hunger, a weakling who can't defend himself, a toy twisted by the fate. But now everything seems fine now.

He just walked and walked. In the morning a new day had just begun. Daniel woke up without the memory of the dream he dreamt last night.

"Daniel?" A flash of images flew across his eyes.

What was that? An illusion?

"You should be careful, doctor." Daniel held his head in his arms. "The subject is vulnerable. You shouldn't inflict too much scars on him."

That's a woman's voice. Daniel blinked when a sudden flash of white dazzling light blind his eyes. When he could see things again he was in a rather large room with several machines and several people in white coat.

Who…are they?

He was in that room again.

"No. Scar is exactly what we want." A man's voice, sounded so eerily familiar. Daniel swore he knew this voice. "I don't want to miss any interesting details."

Details? What details?

"But doctor…" the woman protested. "I don't think…"

"He's a gift, an amazing gift. Let's open and see it."

A triangle shaped symbol was glistering in his sight. It looks so creepy under its metallic glint as if the object was from the coldest place. The spine chilling sensation crept into his bones as he shivered.

It was the triangle symbol he could see anywhere, especially on medicine boxes and bottles. What's wrong with that symbol?

Right. It was the global company Abstergo. Now he remembered. The global industry, Abstergo, the cooperation that raise him yet ruin him, the lair where filled with global conspiracies, the castle for the Templars.

He didn't knew how he did know this much. The war between the Assassins and Templars just never ends. He thought he was an Assassin but what did he do? He killed the one he had been looking for years when most his colleagues of his thought the Mentor was just an image, a legend. He knew he couldn't return to the Assassins' even if he wanted to. He had committed a crime which is so grave that no one would forgive him.

No. The woman who emerged from nowhere claimed herself as an Assassin. She brought him to the hideout and revealed that Daniel was one as well.

It must be a mistake. He had never the thoughts to harm anyone, let alone the movements! What's wrong with him?

He knew he didn't commit the murder on purpose, he didn't do it hot-headed, he didn't even loathe the Mentor, why did he do this? At that time he lost the control of his own body. Like another consciousness had

Daniel breathed and relieved as he slid down the solid wall. Fate, you must be toying with me…

Daniel wobbled to a bar. Before entering he hid the hidden blade he had worn since he met the Mentor. Sitting on the seat and ordering a drink, he intended to sink himself in the numbness of the alcohol.

However, the sharpness of spirit sent shivers to Daniel's nerves, like thousand pins had stung deeply into his skin. He couldn't stand it. With his mouth wide open, he poured the whole glass of liquid into his throat and ran out of the bar.

He just ran and ran and ran. But the illusions from the past haunted him like forever.

"Rainey…"He muttered, before drowning into the river of fragments of memories.

It had been one year since Daniel met Rainey. They helped each other and lived a placid life.

They were close friends. To Daniel, Rainey was his first friend and the first one who he fully trusts. The life on the streets wasn't easy, but they managed to be optimistic.

One day, Rainey and Daniel sat by the river. Together they watched the clear blue sky and the snow white clouds, imagining

"You know…" Rainey started slowly, "It was so good to have your company for the whole year. I'd like to say you almost pass the

"You are not loud, you are not impulsive, and you are not lazy." Rainey paused and looked at the boy beside her.

"And I like that kind of people…"

Daniel froze. No one had said that to him. No one. Is she implying she liked him?

"And I like that kind of people…"

Really? He asked to himself. Since his started to remember things no one had shown any care to him. During the years he trapped in the unknown damned machine, he was just a mere test subject. Apart from being catch in clutches and being tested, no one see more value in him. That was all he could remember. His memory starts with these horrible experiences in the testaments.

"Really?" He said, half thinking aloud and half inquiring for reassurance.

A faint flush tanned Rainey's face as she popped him in the ribs. "Er…"

He stared at her in the eyes, waiting patiently yet did not expect for a reply. He enjoyed the very moment of fleeting in time and eternal in his mind. Maybe it would be a turning point for him, maybe he could throw any these twisted and unclear past, maybe he could start a whole new life.

Or maybe, he could finally have a friend.

Daniel felt his breath stopped. The sound of wind disappeared. The heart rate of his accelerated. The sound of his heart beat pounded hard in his chest.

Rainey opened her mouth.

Daniel felted the whole world stopped.

The aura changed immediately. Like chocolate ball had filled every single second within, so mellow and so sweet.

"Yes."

Now the images and flashes ended. Daniel slide down the solid wall by the street and breathed in relief.

Daniel didn't felt anything but the lingering happiness and relief, the sense of calm that he had forgotten for a long time. He didn't know why he was reliving this memory of his, yet he grasped onto it, holding tightly. The fear, the confusion, all that had fallen with him seemed was seemingly gone like the dust was blown away by the dust. The corner of his lip twitched upwards.

He felt warmth and joy.

He always desired to enjoy the feelings of solace, and now was as good a time as any.

Notes

All right this chapter is over 1K. Sorry for not updating for two months. Hope I didn't make Daniel OOC.

The description "Like chocolate ball had filled every single second within" was originally from a French book named "Tobie Lolness". Quite touching for me.

As you know the time of the story is set after Daniel killed the Mentor and before the Purge. The main part would be Daniel's inner conflict and memories.

Any ideas want to share? PM me!