Author's Note: So, I found time between SOL's to write this chapter! It's a longer than the last chapter, and after my SOL's I promise I'll work on making every chapter long like this one and the last one! Also, hopefully, I can find the time to update again next week, too, but I have two SOL's instead of one, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything associated with BTR or the show. I only own the plot, Winter, and any other OC's in the story.

One other thing: I had a lot of fun writing Kendall's part this chapter, so hopefully you all like it just as much as I do! Be aware, though, Kendall's true colors will be revealed this chapter. No more mister nice guy this chapter. You've been warned!

So, here's Chapter 6! Enjoy!

Chapter 6

Winter didn't get any sleep at all that night. She was constantly tossing and turning, replaying Kendall's words in her head over and over again, "Determined to make you mine," like they were lyrics to one of those catchy songs on the radio that a person couldn't get out of their head for days to come after hearing it. She couldn't figure out why the words even had her on edge, though. Winter was with Ryan, and even if she wasn't she didn't like Kendall even the slightest bit, right?

Winter looked over at the clock on her nightstand and saw that it was 2:30 am. Sighing frustratedly, she kicked the covers off herself and forced herself out of bed. Winter made her way out of her room and into the kitchen and grabbed a flavored water out of the fridge. Making her way into the living room she threw herself down onto the couch face first. All she wanted right now was to be able to sleep, but she couldn't because of the previous nights events. It still baffled her as to why she really went and warned Kendall about Blayne's plans. But, unfortunately she didn't have even the slightest idea.

Just as Winter slowly started drifting off to sleep, she heard the door knob leading into the apartment begin to raddle. Getting quickly annoyed at the raddling sound Winter got off of the couch and went to open the door. The sight she saw when she opened the door was somewhat of a surprise to her. Stepping out of the way without a single word Winter watched as her brother, bloodied and bruised, walked into the apartment with a limp.

After closing and locking the door Winter turned and walked through the foyer door, following Blayne into the kitchen where he went over to the sink to wash the blood off of his hands. Winter's eyes widened as she watched the blood come off of Blayne's hands and flow down the drain. She could see that Blayne had busted open his knuckles, but she knew that there was no way that all of that blood was all his. She couldn't help, but wonder who elses blood was on her brother's hand. To say that she was scared to ask him, though, was an understatement.

Winter opened her mouth to speak, but closed it when she heard her brother's voice.

As if he had sensed she was about to speak with his back still turned to her, Blayne hissed through clenched teeth, "They were ready for us." He turned off the sink faucet and turned around. His eyes were as black as cole caused by his anger. "He said that he has someone on the inside now," Blayne looking Winter dead in her eyes.

Winter gulped and bit her tongue as hard as she could in hopes that the pain would hide her guilt. "Someone on the inside?" Winter asked playing it off as if she was just as surprised as she knew Blayne must have been when Kendall first told him.

"Yes," Blayne answered simply.

"Oh wow! That's unexpected," Winter said breaking eye contact with her brother. Since when did she become Kendall's 'someone on the inside?' Last time she checked she hated him and he knew damn well that she did.

"I'm going to find out who it is, and when I do..." Blayne started to say in a very threatening tone before pausing for a moment. "Well, you can already guess the rest," Blayne finished causing Winter to turn ghostly pail.

Blayne noticed this and raised an eyebrow, letting go of his anger for now, and asked, "Are you okay, Winter?"

Winter quickly nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," she answered, lying straight through her teeth. No, no she truly wasn't fine. She was scared to death now. Surely, if Blayne ever found out that she was the one who informed Kendall about Blayne's plan to lead a surprise attack on him he wouldn't actually do anything to harm her. She was his sister after all, and you just don't hurt family for any reason at all. "Umm, well, I'm going to go and try to get some sleep. I'll see you in the afternoon," Winter said quickly before running to her bedroom.

Blayne watched suspiciously as his sister ran to her bedroom, slamming the door shut behind her. He wondered what had gotten into her all of a sudden. She never acted like this. He knew his sister well enough to know that she was hiding something from him. By the way she acted around him lately he was sure that whatever she was hiding from him was something he wouldn't like. He didn't know what exactly she was hiding from him, but he did know that it wouldn't be long until he found out.

~BTR~

That afternoon Winter woke up around 12:00 like she usually did. After another hour or so of twisting and turning she'd finally gotten to sleep around 4:30ish. Everything went down like it usually did every afternoon when she woke up until she checked her phone. Winter had planned on calling Ryan to see if he wanted to do something with her today, but since she was still half asleep and only half awake she went to her contacts, so that she wouldn't have to dial his actual number.

Her plans changed, though, when she scrolled down and came across a name and number that she herself did not put into her phone. In all caps Winter read the name Kendall on her contacts list. Winter's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. When did Kendall's phone number get programmed into her phone? Better yet, how did it get programmed into her phone? Also, if his phone number was programmed into her phone, then wouldn't that mean that he probably had her number now, too?

It was then that Winter remembered that she had dropped her phone that night in the alley when she and Ryan had encountered Kendall toether for the first time. How could she have not found this out sooner? She had to of known that Kendall would've done something since he had her phone. It was practically his nature to do something like this. If Winter only would've had some common sense she would've checked her entire phone after getting it back. But, she didn't.

Not even bothering to make her bed, Winter put on her jogging outfit and sneakers, and picked up her Ipod from the dresser in her closet, hanging it around her neck. Then she made her way out to the kitchen where she was met by Ali.

"Afternoon, Winter," Ali said with a slight smile. "Coffee?" she asked holding out the cup she had in her hand.

Winter shook her head no, and answered, "No thanks. I'll just stop at Starbucks after my jog."

"Alright, then," Ali said placing the cup on the counter while she got the milk out of the fridge. "So, how are you doing?" she asked looking at her best friend.

Winter raised an eyebrow while asking her own question, "Why would you ask me that?"

Ali shut the fridge door after putting the milk away and turned towards Winter. "Surely, I'm not the only one of us who has noticed your sudden changes in attitude and questionable actions for the past two weeks or so," she said in a questioning tone.

Winter shook her head and lied, "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Everything's fine with me."

Ali didn't reply for a few seconds. "You know you're lucky you're such a good liar. If you weren't then I'd be able to tell if you were lying or telling the truth right now," she wfinally spoke up.

Winter smiled to herself and silently thanked her dad for being in the army for the first 10 years of her life and teaching her how to be such a good liar. "Don't worry, Ali. I'm fine. I promise," Winter assured her best friend with yet another great lie.

"I'll take your word for it," Ali said with a sigh knowing fully well that she'd never be able to find out whether Winter was really lying or not on her own.

"Well, I'm off for my jog," Winter smiled briefly giving Ali a half hug before running out of the apartment giving Ali no chance of saying something else.

~BTR~

To Winter's surprise, instead of turning right to go to the beach where Winter usually took her "wake me up" jog she turned left heading for the south side territory. She didn't know what had pushed her to head that way, but whatever it was was strong enough to make her not want to turn back. Winter felt that maybe it was her instinct taking her over. If it was, then why now of all times?

Quite honestly, Winter wasn't even sure if she wanted to know. She had this unexplainable feeling in her gut that something wasn't right. What wasn't right? She had no clue, but the closer she got to the boundary line the worse the feeling in the pit of her stomach got. It was as if someone were pressing something into her stomach with all their might and failing only to press even harder than before.

Something was truly wrong. As much as Winter didn't want to admit it to herself she knew it to be the truth. Seeing as if it only got worse as she approached the boundary line she figured it had something to with Kendall and his gang. Little did she know she was more correct than she'd ever been in her life. It's just such a shame that it wasn't something she'd be okay with even the slightest bit.

After jogging for about twenty minutes Winter found herself right around the corner from the boundary line. She stopped jogging to catch her breathe. Once she collected her breath she started walking, and just before she turned the corner she stopped dead in her tracks. Winter heard yelling and gasp after gasp of pain coming from numerous guys. She was scared to turn the corner because of what she might see going on.

Winter almost turned around and went back home since she didn't really feel like getting involved in whatever the hell was going on. But, then she heard a familiar voice and decided against it. Winter swallowed the lump in her throat and suddenly felt sick to her stomach as she peered around the corner. She knew as soon as she heard thevoice that Kendall and his gang had probably lured a few of Blayne's gang members to the boundary line and jumped them.

"Blayne will get you for this, Knight!" the voice Winter knew fully well belonged to 19 year old, Matt Sawyer, hissed.

"I'm looking forward to it," she heard Kendall laugh just before a gasp tore from Matt's throat as he was grabbed on both sides of his neck and Winter watched in horror as Kendall snapped his neck, throwing his dead, limp body to the ground as if it were nothing.

Winter jumped and bit her lower lip really hard to stop herself from crying out, but it didn't help as a loud cry forced itself from her throat. "Oh god!" she exclaimed not caring who heard knowing that Kendall and the others had probably already heard her cry out.

All of a sudden, Winter lost her balance and fell forward. As soon as she did that she felt Kendall and his whole gang turn their attentions to her. She quickly stood up doing her best to keep herself from crying the tears that were just begging to fall down her face. Winter locked eyes with Kendall's and for the first time since she'd actually met him in person she could see the evil in his eyes.

Winter broke the gaze and quickly surveyed the ground only to find that Kendall and his gang had also gotten to Dominic "Dom" Forbes, Zander Carlson, and Nicholas "Nick" Pierce. She wasn't sure if the three of them were dead, and quite frankly she was scared to find out. Slowly her eyes drifted to where Kendall had thrown Matt's lifeless body. Just as her eyes landed on Matt she quickly tore them away and without sparing another look at Kendall and his gang, Winter turned and bolted down the sidewalk.

It wasn't long until she heard footsteps behind her. As much as Winter wanted to look behind her and see who was coming after her she knew it wouldn't be wise to do so. Winter had seen almost every horror movie there was in the world. Therefore; she knew that whenever a victim is running from the psycho murderer looking behind them to see who or where the person coming after them was never turned out for the best.

Winter did her best to run faster, but the footsteps kept getting closer. After her daily afternoon jogs she figured she'd be in enough shape to be able to get away from whoever was chasing her, but apparently she was wrong. Maybe the reason she wasn't as fast as she usually was was because of the fact that she was running while in hysterics? But, even if it was it wouldn't be able to provide her any help at all.

Suddenly, Winter felt an arm wrap around her waist. She opened her mouth to scream, but a hand was slapped across her mouth before she could. The tears that she'd been trying so hard to keep inside finally broke past the barrier that was keeping them in, and they flowed down her cheeks like waterfalls. Winter snapped her eyes shut afraid to look at anything at the moment.

But, she refused to go down without a fight. Letting her instinct kick in, Winter began squirming in the person's grasp. When that didn't work, and the person's grip on her only grew tighter she decided to take another approach in hopes that it would would. With all of her strength she could muster up in her state of hysterics Winter started kicking and hitting as well as she could seeing as if she was facing away from whoever had her in their grasp.

Winter continued kicking and hitting even as she felt herself get dragged a few feet, and then she felt herself get slammed front first against what felt like a wall of some sort. Her kicking and hitting instantly stopped upon impact. As much as she didn't want to she forced herself to open her eyes and looked around only enough to confirm that she was pressed against a brick wall and that she was in an alley. Then, she snapped her eyes closed once again just as she was turned around and slammed against the hard brick wall. The only difference was that her back was pressed against the wall this time.

"Open your eyes," she heard what sounded like Kendall's voice order.

She took in a deep breath through her nose, since her mouth was still covered, swallowed the lump in her throat, and then opened her eyes only to find that the tears had blurred her vision. Slowly, Winter reached her hands up to her face and wiped both of her eyes, so that she could see clearly through the tears. Shivers ran up and down her spine as she looked into Kendall's eyes and saw that instead of their usual green color they were a dark, dark green almost black color.

"I'll take my hand off of your mouth, but don't scream or else," Kendall threatened. "Understand?"

Winter nodded frantically and looked around to see that Kendall had brought Logan, James, and Carlos with him as most likely backup since Kendall knew first hand that Winter could easily get out of hand.

Kendall stayed true to his words and took his hand off of Winter's mouth. Winter wanted so badly to scream, but she knew that Kendall was serious when he threatened her. She hated the fact that she was so vulnerable right now. The only other time she'd ever been this vulnerable was when...well that didn't matter right now. Winter decided she'd rather deal with one horrible situation at a time.

"You will not tell anyone what you just saw. Nothing at all. Not even the slightest bit of it that will make people curious. Do I make myself clear?" Kendall asked her looking dead in Winter's eyes waiting for her response.

Winter nodded not being able to form any words at the second.

"There will serious consequences if I find out you told anybody," Kendall told her being one hundred percent truthful with his words.

More tears poured down her face after Kendall's latest comment came out of his mouth.

Disregarding the sight of tears pouring off of Winter's face, Kendall asked, "What were you doing over here near the boundary line?"

Winter shrugged. She honestly didn't know. Well, aside from the fact that the pain in her gut made her come. But, if she told him that, then he'd probably think she was insane. In her own way, of course, since obviously Kendall was as insane as insane could get.

Winter yelped as she felt Kendall grab her shoulders and squeeze with immense pressure. "Don't lie to me Winter. Why were you really here?" Kendall asked again.

Winter shrugged again only to be squeezed even tighter. She yelped again trying to catch her breath. Between the pressure of his hands squeezing her shoulders and her crying that refused to stop Winter felt like she was suffocating. To make matters worse, her palms were getting sweaty.

"Oh god! Not here! Please not here!" Winter pleaded in her head. She knew this feeling all to well. She was borderline having a panic attack, and she really didn't want to have one here. "L...let g...go o...of m...me!" she exclaimed finding some strength in her voice, but only getting it out in stutters.

Kendall refused to let go of her and once again added pressure to his hold on Winter's shoulders. "Not until you tell me what you were doing here," he hissed at her.

Gasping for breath, Winter managed to get out a few more words, but to no avail, "S...ser...seriously! Ca...can't b...br...breathe."

When that didn't work Winter put both of her hands on Kendall's chest and pushed with all of her might. Winter shocked herself as well as Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos at how hard she pushed when she felt Kendall's grip on her shoulders loosen and he stumbled backwards leaving the only way for Winter to go...down. Winter fell to the dirty, solid cement of the alley gasping for air, and trying her best to recover her breath as much as she could.

"I wish you wouldn't have done that," she heard Kendall say.

Winter looked in the direction that his voice came from and saw that he was now walking her way. She didn't know what he was going to do to her, and she was afraid to find out. But, in the end it turned out that it didn't even matter. Winter felt herself quickly fall into unconsciousness because of her lack of air as well as what she had just witnessed, and she passed out before Kendall even got to her.

...So, there y'all go! What'd you all think?

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