"Lucy Evansfield?" Fred took two steps toward her then paused. Something did not seem right. Lucy was supposed to back in Pauper's Drop but she followed them here. "Why did you follow us? Why are you a spider-splicer?"

Lucy turned her back to the group and looked like she was pouting. "But Mr. Tumble," she said cutely tilting her head sideways. "I've always been a spider-splicer." Lucy's face turned haughty with a cruel smile upon her lips. "Turns out plasmids run in the family. My mother was a spider-splicer too, may she rot in hell."

Fred looked at Eleanor with a worried expression while Stanley let the grownups talk.

"But what about the clinic? Since the doctor-"

"What of the clinic," spat Lucy. "The only reason I decided to help the fool was because I knew my way around a body especially a corpse. And now I'm here for yours, Eleanor." Lucy rubbed her hooks together sending sparks flying about.

Eleanor licked her lips. Her eyes trained on Lucy's movements. Something must have happened to her. "But why do you want me?"

Lucy chuckled at Eleanor naive question. "For the same reason I made Johnson attack you. To get your ADAM!" Lucy hurled herself toward Eleanor. Eleanor dodged backward but the attack was so close that a couple strands of her hair fell to the ground.

"You turned doc into a monster?" Fred pointed his revolver and pointed it at Lucy's forehead. "Give me one good reason I shouldn't blow your brains out."

Lucy smiled then hooked Fred's forearm and stabbed his shoulder. Fred reeled in pain as Lucy's hooks cut his arm and shoulder. He dropped his weapon and fell backward.

"Yes, I plead guilty. I persuaded the good doctor to rally the troops. I gave him the little sister syringe and forced him to stab you, Eleanor. All it took was a ball of pure rage. Of course the idiot had to use it on himself but I returned the favor by dancing on his ashes."

"You bitch," Fred cried out in pain. "Because of you I almost killed Gracie."

As Fred struggled to retrieve his gun Lucy walked beside him and kicked it away. "No big boy, that was all you. I only manipulated you people and it-was-easy."

Lucy reached back to gut the man but flipped backward to avoid a boulder thrown at her.

"Yes. The power you contain is immense and I want it," Lucy said laughing at Eleanor.

Eleanor heaved from the drain of using telekinesis to hurl the boulder. She took a huge breath and hurled electricity at Lucy who evaded with ease. Lucy then threw one of her hooks at Eleanor.

Eleanor tried to catch the hook with telekinesis but missed and grabbed a wooden crate instead. She tried to dodge the hook but she could not release the crate midair or it would smash into her. As her last resort she held out her hand and let the sharp hook sink into it. Eleanor's searing pain turned to anger as she hurled the wooden box at Lucy.

Eleanor gasped in pain as she tried pulling out the hook. She heard a loud noise above her and saw that Lucy had smashed through the box Eleanor had thrown and now was only an impact collision with herself. The pain in her hand caused Eleanor to falter.

Seeing that Eleanor was in trouble, Stanley raised his gun and closed his eyes. He fired three shots hit the spider splicer with one of the three rounds. Lucy crumpled to the ground and grabbed her side in agony. The bullet had penetrated her left side. The bullet wound was a bit more than a graze but it still hurt. Lucy threw her hook at Stanley's head.

(Bang)

The hook aimed at Stanley's head suddenly changed trajectory and sunk into the wall one foot from his head. The man dropped his gun and sunk to the ground. He had seen his life flash before his eyes and found it pretty dull and despicable.

Fred lowered his revolver and sighed in relief. He walked beside Eleanor and gave her a nod. His arm was fitted with a makeshift sling but he still felt confident and pointed his weapon at Lucy.

"It's over Lucy. No more of your schemes. No more of your games. Will you let us pass or will I have another splicer's death on my hands."

Lucy growled then grimaced from the pain her side was radiating. Her lips pursed together then broke out in a horrible smile. "Another splicer's death on your hands? Are you talking about Claire? The Houdini splicer you knocked up while your wife was pregnant."

Fred's face turned white and his hand shook with unresolved. "How-how did you know about that?"

"I've known about it all along," Lucy scoffed. "You see that Houdini splicer and I were friends… well until she hooked up with you."

"I had known she was a houdinin but you two were friends?"

"More like colleagues or mutual accomplices. We were practically draining Pauper's Drop of anything valuable. Remember Mrs. Cuthbert's stolen brooch? That was Claire's doing. But then she felt the need to get off the high road and onto her high horse."

The big daddy that had been pounding on the metal hole gave up in boredom and began walking back. The big daddy growled when neither Fred nor Eleanor moved out of his way. Eleanor quickly recovered and tugged Fred out of the way. She wanted to get him to run away but he refused to budge.

"Your saying she-"

Lucy's began pouting and tears spilled from her cheeks. "She left me," she interrupted. But then her face returned to normal and she rubbed her temples. "Well, left me and a life of easy crime. But then she had to fall in bed with you, literally." Lucy then took her hooks and scratched them against the glass porthole to the bathysphere. The noise caused everybody to cover their ears and even the big daddy turned around and took a couple steps in the direction of the noise.

"It wasn't that she had fallen in love that made me angry. Noooo, what made me mad was that she thought the life we were living was trash when compared to falling in love with lowlifes like you. So I decided to let her have her love and then rip it from her heart. I waited for the little bastard to pop out."

"You mean Jonathan. You mean you waited for Jonathan to be born. But then why did she go and kill my wife? If she was so freaking happy why did she kill my wife!"

Lucy crossed her arms and laughed. Her laughter bellowed into Fred's ears and haunted the shame he hid in his soul.

"I killed her, you simpleton. Your wife died by my hands. I used the incinerate plasmid so it would appear to be Claire's doing. I even made sure your wife's burns would let her live long enough for you to arrive. I took her love from her. I took you from her. Did you ever stop to think how easy it was to capture her? It was because she was already dead inside from losing you!"

Lucy's intolerable laugh began again. "And all you have left is the constant reminder of your guilt shown through your bastard son's eyes. Have you told him yet? Maybe next time I see him I'll let him know the truth hmmm."

"That is enough," yelled Eleanor.