Miles froze, eyes widening at the gun under Kay's chin. Gumshoe and Phoenix stood came around the corner, stopping just inches behind Miles. Gumshoe reached for his gun.

"The second you grab that gun, she dies." Arthright said, gripping Kay tighter. Miles looked over his shoulder and the detective moved away from the gun.

"Let her go." Miles said, giving Arthright a steely glare. "She has nothing to do with us. She wasn't involved."

"Why do you think I took her?" He asked, giving them a wicked smile. "It'll be all your fault if she dies." He paused a moment, thinking. "You know, even if you catch me, It won't change anything if I kill her. You can sit in your palace of justice and hand down the guilty decree, but she'll still be dead."

"I'm not dead yet." Kay spat, struggling against his grip. He responded by jamming the gun against her throat.

"Kay!" Miles clenched his fists and tried to hold back from running to her. "I get why you came after me, but why did you kill Dare?"

"Ah, so you knew that was me?" Arthright laughed. "I didn't think anyone would figure it out."

"It was easy when I saw the knife handle." He breathed deep and put on his usual icy demeanor. "You hired him to come after Kay, using what happened to him because of her father."

"But something happened. You killed him, and left him for us to find. But Why? Why did you kill him?" Miles gave Kay a small nod, trying to keep her calm. Then he returned his gaze to Arthright.

"Dare got a bit unstable." He said it so matter-of-factually it made Miles' skin crawl. "He wasn't going to do what I told him to do."

"What do you mean?" Gumshoe asked, clenching his teeth.

"I mean that he wasn't going to kill her. He was going to kill you." He looked straight at Edgeworth, smirking slightly.

"Me? He was going to kill me?"

"He thought that he could get away with killing you, because he knew why I wanted to kill her. After all, he wanted to hurt her." He paused and chuckled. "Guess he thought wrong."

"So you killed him and came after Kay. Hurting her to get to me."

"Exactly." He threw his head back and laughed.

"You're a coward." Arthright stopped laughing and everyone looked at Kay. She was shaking in his grasp, her teeth clenched.

"Hurting someone to get back at someone else," She continued, her voice as hard as steel. "That's low and pathetic." She looked over her shoulder at Arthright. "In the end, you have no power."

"I have no power!" He yelled. "Not the best thing to say to a person holding a gun on you!"

"Arthright! Stop!" Miles stepped forward. "This is between you and me, She has nothing to do with this!"

Arthright simply laughed and pressed on the trigger.

Miles cried out.

Gumshoe grabbed his gun and charged forward.

A shot rang out.

Maya screamed.

Blood.

Everywhere.

A/N: Hi...So, what's up. I finally have this chapter up and I'm really sorry it took so long. But I hope you like this chapter. This story is finally drawing to a close and I'm kinda sad to see it go, but I hope you all enjoy this story and look at my other stories too. As always, R&R!