Kurapika grabbed the jar of scarlet eyes and glanced at me meaningfully. Time to leave.

I nudged Brec and felt sad as I glanced at him. He was taller than me now...I had spent 8 months away from home and my younger brother was growing up. An ominous chuckle broke my musings.

I glanced at Hisoka. 'And spending time with bad company', I thought sourly.

"We need to leave the room", I loudly stated as I walked towards the door, Brec behind me.

I had always let Kurapika do whatever he wanted with the scarlet eyes, I never knew what he did and... a part of me didn't want to know.

Surprisingly, Hisoka followed and even shut the door.

The clown's sickly yellow eyes bored into mine.

"What does he do with the eyes?", Hisoka asked me.

I stared at Hisoka and said nothing.

Brec glared at Hisoka. "How do you know my sister?" He always had to be the brave one. But he was my brother.

Hisoka smirked and looked at Brec. "We met during the Hunter Exam. Where she was when you were attacked."

Bile rose in my throat because Hisoka was right. I should have been at home, helping evacuate my family.

Brec was always a hot head. So was I, as was Sabie. Well...our parents were the same way, except they were smarter about when and where they showed that flaw.

But it still surprised me when Brec's fist met Hisoka's face with a loud crack! Hisoka himself seemed shocked.

"Never make my sister feel horrible about herself again you piece of garbage!" Brec angrily shouted.

Nen flowed through me as Hisoka calmly pulled a hand up with a single card in it.

Fuck.

"I have tolerated enough disrespect from your party. I have been tested too much by ignorant neophytes." Hisoka's yellow eyes narrowed and seemed to become oily, insane.

I calmed myself and let my nen focus on where Hisoka's card would go first. I was ready to leap in front of my brother. Where was Kurapika? With his stupid fucking love: the scarlet eyes doing whatever the fuck he does. That ignoramus!

Hisoka would strike Brec first. I trained with Hisoka on Zevil Island, I knew him.

Hisoka's smile crept upwards-a sickening, slowly growing smile.

I felt his hand flick forward and without thinking, I leapt. Straight into the path of the nen infused card.

The card hit my arm and deeply sliced into it, blood. But luckily the black top I was wearing wouldn't show it.

Hisoka cackled,"As predictable as ever Avi!" as I stood by Brec, eyes wide, gasping for air. He punched me and I flew across the room.

"Fuck you!" Brec screamed at Hisoka. No! Brec! 'Get the fuck up Avi', my brain screamed at me.

I pushed myself off the ground and shot sand at Hisoka. Sand meant to kill. Nen collided with nen, but Hisoka's gift was no match for sand. Sand finds cracks, sand finds weaknesses. And in my case, sand will exploit those weaknesses.

Hisoka's card had no nen shield anymore.

Hisoka was in between Brec and I but closer to Brec.

Hisoka stopped and glanced at me thoughtfully, now ignoring Brec.

Then the sound that gave me nightmares erupted from his mouth: a giggle.

Immediately I felt sick to the stomach. Every single time I have heard that giggle has been follow by death, torture, or the combination of both. And Kurapika was still nowhere to be seen.

"Time to step", Hisoka swiped his card at me and I ducked. As I leapt at Hisoka from one side with my switchblade in my hand to cut him and the other covered in nen to block Hisoka's nen-enhanced kick, Brec tried to stab Hisoka.

Panic filled me as Brec jerked like a doll around the room, slamming into walls, ceilings. And I couldn't do anything. No. Not again, not like last time!

What could I use in the room to take down Hisoka? Why didn't I think of this earlier!?

There! A vase. Fuck it, everything's now a weapon.

I could never win with solely physical and nen strength with Hisoka.

I threw the vase at Hisoka as I lunged in his direction, switchblade out...only to meet Hisoka's hand, coming towards my temple.

"Shiiii", I began to say, but was cut off as Hisoka began to double, triple, and Brec's shouts of pain became amplified. Then, blackness.

A terrible pain in my head woke me up and I my eyes flew open and then immediately shut. Why the fuck was it so sunny? I blinked. Where was I?

A boy, he looked to be a young teenager ran towards me. "Avi", he whispered as he tried to hug me. But my hard shove at the boy's shoulder stopped him.

"Who the fuck are you and where am I?", I snarled.

The boy looked like he was about to cry.

"And who the fuck is Avi?"

"Damn", another voice cursed from the doorway. Relieved tan eyes met mine.

Those tan eyes belonged to an older male, one with light blonde hair.

"Who the fuck are you? I'm going to start killing until I figure out what's going on!"

The younger boy turned to the older one and rolled his eyes. "Well she isn't dead! I told you so! Avi wouldn't die on me, she promised!" Then he turned to me with a bright smile on his face.

I blinked. "Am I Avi?", I asked.

The boy's smile faded and he slowly nodded.

"Yes", the older male said as he walked toward me. "I am Kurapika and this is my companion, Qeb".

I nodded in boredom, feeling a bit hungry and irritated that I had no clue what was going on.

"So why am I here with you two and did you know me before", I pointed at my head,"This?"

Kurapika reached down and warmly hugged me. But he held on a tad longer and said, "I'm glad you didn't die. We are working together to destroy the scarlet eyes, the last vestiges of my people, the Kurta Clan. You agreed to help me during the Hunter Exam. And Qeb..." Kurapika trailed off to look at Qeb who simply looked at me with this sad and broken expression.

I kept staring at Kurapika's attractive face and I smiled sweetly and said,"It's nice to meet you Kurapika." Kurapika obviously had a bit of a thing for me...were we dating before this? What were we.

Qeb shifted and my eyes shot to his face.

I stared back, not sure of what to make of it. Qeb had such distinctive eyes though...they were his most prominent feature. One day Qeb would age and he would be considered attractive. But now Qeb was simply growing into his features. He had to be around thirteen to fourteen years old. Kurapika was definitely older.

Qeb swallowed nervously and hesitantly spoke, "I am a...friend...of yours, Avi. We are being tracked by the Mafia because of an incident and... now I'm going to help you."

Kurapika swung around to stare at Qeb. "You showed up with Hisoka who did", Kurapika pointed at me,"this. She cannot even recall who she is."

Qeb's face darkened with anger. "And where were you? Hisoka left us to die." Cold chills of fear and revulsion swept through me at the name, I assume it was a name, Hisoka.

He cleared his throat,"Hisoka said he would spare us because the game was incomplete without its pawns. And he left Avi and I in pools of our own blood while YOU were playing with your scarlet eyes!"

In a flash, Kurapika had put a hand on Qeb's thinner shoulder and squeezed. Hard. Anger filled me and I almost, almost got out of the bed to attack Kurapika.

Why was I enraged?

Kurapika's shoulder shook and he closed his eyes, releasing Qeb who had not backed down either.

"Avi", he snapped while staring at me,"We need food. Enough for three. We are going shopping."

But the cold edge in Kurapika's tan eyes told me he wanted to buy food with me, and not Qeb, was because he was five seconds away from attacking Qeb.

That thought caused me to feel angry...why was I so angry that Kurapika had even touched Qeb?

I shook it off and watched Kurapika walk into the hallway of our small motel room, giving me privacy. This only left..."Avi", Qeb whispered as he looked at me, eyes filling with tears.

"You can't...remember anything?"

I stared blankly at Qeb and asked,"Who am I to you? Why do you care so much?"

Qeb gently grabbed my arm and dragged me to the one mirror in this shitty motel room and pointed at it.

I walked over and saw a girl with purple hair and average green eyes.

Qeb appeared beside me in my reflection and I stared at his face and the girl...Avi...me.

"You are wearing contacts", Qeb whispered to me as he cautiously glanced at the hallway where Kurapika was waiting.

I slowly removed the contact and glanced back.

Staring back at me was a girl with one green contact covered eyes, standing next to the teenage boy, Qeb, with matching eyes. We either were related or had somehow ended up with extremely similar eyes.

"I'm your brother, Brec", Qeb said,"And Kurapika doesn't know. Don't tell him, please."

I held Qeb-Brec's gaze and nodded.

One piece to the puzzle, found.

I'm back! Sorry for the delay all, I had some challenging courses this quarter that definitely took up my spare time!

I decided to use amnesia as a method of bringing Kurapika and Avi together. As you know, sometimes characters write themselves other than what I intended and Avi...she would have never gone for Kurapika because of her knowledge of who she is and her connection to the scarlet eyes. I came to terms with that as I was editing other chapters.

As always, let me know if you see any errors. The next update will definitely be faster than this one, lol.