The man was wearing a black shirt with black pants held up by a belt around his waist that contained a gun. A Seeker.

Instinctively Gabriella jumped back. Her hip landed on the metal guardrail. She lost her balance and fell off the bed. As she fell she felt something tear away from her arm painfully. She crashed onto the floor in a heap. Gabriella wanted to stand up and run away, but her arms could barely hold her weight when she pushed herself up off the floor. And when she tried stand her legs gave out beneath her and she crashed to the floor again, her chin painfully colliding with the tile. Immediatly after a several hands where lifting her into a sitting position, murmuring that everything was alright, and stroking her hair. The only one she really noticed though was Harness Light. He had sandy blond hair, light sky blue eyes, and a handsome face. Gabriella could not place why, but something about him immediately caused her to decide that he was particularly gentle and compassionate. He lifted Gabriella into his arms and carried her over to the bed where he set her down gently and pulled the covers up over her legs.

Gabriella looked over at the Seeker; he had moved to the corner as far away from Gabriella as he could be while still being in the room, probably to make her feel safer. He watched her with concern. But none of this eased Gabriella mind. Instead it enraged her. It was his fault she was like this, that she was here! He and every other seeker, no parasite, had taken everything away from her. He was nothing more than a hypocritical monster! What was worse she had meet him before, and it was his fault that she had been separated from her father. Gabriella hated the Seeker more than she hated anyone in her entire life. It scared her how much she hated him.

Gabriella was shocked when she felt a sting on her arm. Harness Light was pressing a piece of gauze onto her arm and bandaging it. "You ripped your IV out of your arm when you fell," he explained. "I'll have to put in the other arm to ensure you stay hydrated. Are you alright?"

Gabriella ignored the question. She was still boiling with rage. "Why did you bother keeping me alive when you're just going to kill me anyway?" she snapped at him.

Harness Light looked horrified. "Nobody is going to harm you," he assured Gabriella.

"No, not my body. That's worth something to you. But my soul, well that's meaningless." she spat at him.

The healer recoiled from her. He opened and closed his mouth several times before saying shakily, "I assure you that was not my intention." He coughed a little before saying, "I'll bring you some tomato soap and crackers. I think you should try eating something, so you can gain your weight back." Harness Light would not look at her. Despite this Gabriella thought his eyes looked a little watery. A wave a guilt washed over Gabriella. For a moment she almost apologized. But she held herself back. He and every parasite stole everything from me, she told herself. She glanced around the room, it was empty. The other healers had probably gone back to work, since they had only been staring at her like she was a monkey in a cage. Only the Seeker remained. His gaze was now icy and Gabriella was sure it was because of what she said to Harness Light.

Harness Light quickly placed the IV in her other arm. Gabriella stared up at the ceiling while he did it. Chanting in her head that it was his fault she'd lost everything.

When he was finished he turned to the Seeker. "Sunrise you should go outside to make her more comfortable."

"I can't," the Seeker replied. "I have orders from my superior to stay in the room and watch her."

"Do think she is going to run away?" Harness Light asked sarcastically.

"No but my opinion doesn't matter. You'll have to talk to Hank when he stops by today."

Harness Light sighed. He headed to the door but patted the Seeker on his shoulder before leaving.

There was an awkward moment of silence before the Seeker sat down in a chair in the corner of a room. "If you had seen Harness Light work to keep you alive you wouldn't have been able to yell at him just now," the Seeker said coldly. "Not that I expect a human to show compassion but..."

Gabriella, who was exhausted had been drifting to sleep but immediately became wide awake when she heard him call her compassionless.

"How dare you," she snarled. "I saved your life, and you have the audacity to call me compassionless! After I saved your life when you had shot one of my brothers, and captured the other, as well as my father." She shrieked. The Seeker was stunned not only by what Gabriella said but how strong her voice was when before she had been so weak. "I risked my life," she continued, "To save yours! You a Seeker whose profession it is to hunt down humans. I risked being captured by the Seekers! Don't you dare accuse me of being compassionless!"

"You are the child who saved my life?" he asked.

This threw Gabriella off. He didn't recognize her?

They stared at each other for a long time. Both of them were thinking about the same moment.

Gabriella was frozen where she knelt. Her whole body shock and she was making sounds she never made before; she sounded like a wounded animal. It was so much worse than losing Mama or David. Though it shouldn't be. He at least died free... and he couldn't have felt pain. But what she was seeing was so grouisome; it was like she had been dragged into a horror movie. Gabriella wanted so badly to look away but couldn't. Even though tears blurred her vision she could still see him. The image was burned into her mind forever. It would haunt her until she died. Gabriella wanted to die then. The sooner the better. She was so tired. But she had promised Daddy; she had to go back. But she couldn't make herself stand up.

Gabriella heard noises over her own. They were deep but quite gasps of pain, and moans. Finally she turned away from him to look at the direction where the noises where coming from. She saw a man shot in bleeding in the snow. She slowly rose to her feet. There was nothing she could do for him anymore, but the man was still alive. She wondered if Daddy had put medical supplies in the knapsack he'd given her. Surely he had.

She approached the man. When Gabriella neared he heard her and turned to look at her. The sunlight shone through the sleeping trees and reflected in his eyes. They shone silver. Gabriella gasped and stopped. Seeker. She hesitated for a moment but only a moment. There was so much blood and she was sickened by all the death and violence she saw today; she didn't want to see anyone die. Not even a Seeker. She knelt down beside him in the snow. He watched her with weary eyes. He was struggling to breath. She could see the bullet hole through his shirt. She carefully lifted it up. He had been shot in the lower abdomen to the left. Gabriella quickly found the gauze and bandage wrap in the backpack. Her hands shock as she dressed his wound but she was sure that she was doing it right. Her father had taught her only days ago.

"Thank you," the seeker gasped when she was finished.

It wasn't enough though, he would need to get to hospital soon or he would die. But there nothing more she could do for him. She pulled out of the other backpack the one she had been wearing on her back a small stuffed animals, a brown shaggy dog. She had packed the backpack for the trip that she, her father, and her brothers had been planning on making that day before the seekers had come. She tucked the dog under the man's arm. A gesture of kindness more than anything. And she stayed by him stroking his hair, reasurring him that everything would be alright, and singing the songs her mother used to sing to her. But singing was hard because her voice was choked up with tears.

The Seeker, kept watching her the whole time his breathing becoming shallower and shallower. He had raven black hair, and black eyes, that looked strange with the ring of silver. His jaw was square and clean shaven and in a small way he reminded her of her step-father.

She didn't know how long she'd been sitting there. But suddenly she heard dogs barking and men's voices calling out. No one in the rebel cell had dogs except for her; Josie, and her daughter Jojo. Josie had found Gabriella a few minutes earlier, and was laying down beside the man keeping him warm. Gabriella didn't know where Jojo was, the idiot was always running off. Josie heard the noise and growled. Those men had to be seekers. Josie could recognize a parasite a mile away. Gabriella believed Josie sensed something different about them.

Gabriella looked down at the man. She was torn. If the seeker didn't receive medical attention soon he would die. But if she called the seekers over here she risked being captured, and having a parasite implanted in her head. The voices began getting quitter. One glance at the Seeker was all it toke for her to make up her mind.

"Help!" She screamed as loud as she could. The seeker jerked startled. It was obvious he never expected her to call back the other seekers.

"Help!" Gabriella screamed again. She stayed there screaming until she saw the Seekers and she was sure that they had seen her. After that she toke off running. She glanced back. Josie had backed up several feet but stood steady facing the seekers hair standing on end.

"Josie come on," Gabriella called to her dog. "Josie come!"

Josie, who had always followed Gabriella's command didn't even look back.

"Josie!" Gabriella tried on last time. But Josie refused to move. Gabriella could wait no longer, she had to run. And she left behind her companion of twelve years. Turning her thoughts to survival Gabriella tried to figure out a way to evade the seekers. She knew this forest better than them and was sure that she could hide where they couldn't find her.