Author's Note: Well, this chapter isn't the best I've ever done. It's just one of those that help the story get moving again, nothing much is happening in it but it's necessary. Quite a bit of speech, quite a bit of thoughts and feelings on Mina's part. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I've been quite busy recently, which is why this is so late and I'm going to be quite busy for a few weeks but I'll try and keep my stories updated. I've been focusing on this one and 'The Curious Case of Drake Merwin' but if I can't find the right inspiration for them I might throw in a songfic or one-shot somewhere in the next few weeks. So, thank you all for reading my story, I hope I don't disappoint and reviews and feedback are always welcome. Thank you :)

Mina woke up to a cold, hard floor and throbbing head. Groggily, she sat up, leaning against the wall for support. It took several minutes for her to collect her thoughts and remember what exactly had happened. Caine. Drake. Mina groaned and staggered to her feet, looking out of the window to see the sky a dark shade of blue signifying the end of twilight and the begging of a new dawn. A new dawn, a new place...a new start. Mina wasn't staying. She couldn't. Caine had his chance, he had it and he blew it. She wasn't staying. She was going to pay a visit to Sam.

As Mina walked down the road leading away from Coates she didn't even spare a backward glance but bowed her head and walked as fast as she could before someone woke up and looked out of the window. I'm not one of the bad guys...am I? I can't be. I hate them. They hurt me, hurt me real bad. But...how can I be good? How can I be good when I have several bad deeds to my own name? Mina kicked a stone in anger, sending it rolling down the road in front of her. Why do I have to pick a side? Whoever invented this whole 'picking a side' thing, should be shot. I'm not good, I'm not bad...I'm nobody. I'm nobody. I have two people inside me, two different people. One good...one bad. But where am I? Where did Mina go...? Conflict. So much conflict. This was a daily battle for Mina, good against evil. Sometimes she could be nice. Like when she helped Caine with his nightmares. I don't know why I did that. I really don't. He doesn't deserve it. He never did. He was horrible to me from the very minute I knocked on that door. But I helped him...

Sometimes she could be cold and snappy. Sometimes...she could be downright heartless. But right now, Mina was scared. She couldn't keep up her fearless act, she couldn't fit in right now. Right now, Mina was nice and that meant she wanted to get away from Caine and Coates. But, when the time was right, she'd go crawling back...maybe crawling isn't the best word to use. She would go back to Coates, bolder and more hurtful than she had been. She'd go back when she'd changed, changed back into the bad person she was capable of being. She'd go back and show Caine he was wrong to mess with her, that she was more powerful. But right now, Mina just wanted to curl up and die. She wasn't thinking any of this. No, she didn't know this until later.

The sun had fully risen in the sky and Diana Ladris had a bone to pick with Caine. She was fuming and Caine wasn't getting off lightly, she wanted answers and she was going to get them. Well...if she didn't get them, she wanted to annoy Caine as much as she could before she gave up. It didn't really take her long to find him, sitting in his office. It's all he ever seemed to do now. "Caine." Said Diana, not giving away any of her anger in her tone.

"What?" Snapped Caine rudely. Big mistake.

"Caine. I'm going to give you two chances and two chances only. Tell me what you have to tell me. I'm going to find out anyway but I'd rather hear it from you." Diana smiled almost sweetly, but this is Diana we are talking about and sweet smiles aren't exactly second nature to her. Caine knew something was up.

"What? I have no idea what you're talking about." Said Caine, although he had a feeling he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"Caine. Last chance."

"I have no idea what you're talking about Diana. Care to tell me?"

"Care to tell you? Care to tell you?" Said Diana, losing it now "Caine Soren you idiot! What did you do to Mina?"

"What did you just call me?" Caine raised his eyebrows slightly, hoping Diana might take the message that he wasn't amused.

"An idiot! And don't you start shouting at me," Diana glared at Caine as he began to open his mouth to say something back "because you are an idiot. Couldn't you just stop to think before you carried out your crazy plan? Just use that head of yours for once and think. I know you can, you have before. So before you go into someone's room at night and attack them, think a little!" Caine went and stood in front of Diana and folded his arms "attacked?" he said softly "Diana, surely you don't think...?" He feigned innocence, but, of course, Diana didn't buy it.

"Blood Caine. Blood on the floor. Not a lot of it but blood doesn't appear by magic. I may not be Sherlock Holmes, Soren, but it doesn't take a genius to put two and two together. Mina is potentially dangerous and-"

"And, what?" Caine was taller than Diana, which should have given him the edge. But Diana wasn't easily intimidated and she looked Caine right back in the eye. If looks could kill... "She's gone. Gone. Just like that. If you hadn't gone and upset her, she'd still be here. I bet you she's gone to Sam now and I made it clear to you when we first met her that I didn't want her as an enemy. I still don't want her as an enemy. She's dangerous. She could kill us-"

"She's not a killer. Anyway, she'll be back. She'll want to prove herself again. She won't want to be knocked down by us." Said Caine, no longer denying the fact that he had done something.

"She could be a killer! Who are you to judge?" Then, Diana's anger simmered down a little "Yeah, and when she comes back Caine, I'm not going to stand there and stick up for you." She said spitefully "I'm not going to stand there and stop her doing whatever it is she's got in mind. Like you said, she's going to want to prove herself. I don't want to find out how she's going to do that. But you Caine," Diana smiled again and punched Caine playfully on the shoulder "have no choice." Another one of those sweet smiles and she left. Leaving Caine to stand there and doubt his actions. That girl always had a way of getting under his skin, getting into the back of his mind until he either did whatever it was she wanted or drove himself mad worrying about this or that.

You had to come and say that, didn't you Diana? Thought Caine. Of course she did. She was Diana. Caine sat back down and sighed, he already had enough on his mind as it was so, in an act of complete defeat, he thought bring it Mina. Do your worst. But he was never going to admit his thoughts to anyone and he was secretly glad a certain little mind reader wasn't around to hear them. Caine strode out of his office, his face calm as ever, his step never faltering, his smile never fading...his mind a mixture of chaos and distress.