There was a reason this chapter took so long to write, since I started writing Total Drama Villains this chapter had been in my head and I've been trying to get it perfect. Please enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 10

Duncan's POV

There are many rules when you work a job, more so, when you work a job in law enforcement, even more when people you love work in it too.

I learnt all these rules over the time I've worked here. Some of them are easy to realise, like, hold your ground, some were learnt the hard way, know your strength.

The last rule I learnt in this job was to keep living.

This is how I learnt that rule, but for me to tell you that, I have to go though how some of the rules lead me to it.

The first rule I learnt, don't be surprised.

"You're going back to work…today?"

Courtney turned and gave me a dirty glare, as though I didn't trust her judgment, "Yeah Duncan, Williams has demanded that I return due to the head of RAW; America coming to see us." Courtney told me, today we were wearing corporate clothes, Courtney had actually convinced me to wear a tie. It felt like a noose. "We have to make a good impression, this man is demanding, critical, judgmental, you have no idea what it is like to be around a person like that."

I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, I have no idea." Courtney gave me the stink eye while I gave her a winning smile. I pointed an accusing finger at Courtney, "Wait a second, isn't this the first time he is coming to see this part of the company since we started? How do you know him?" Courtney nibbled her lips and I stopped her walking by taking a step in front of her, "He's related to you, isn't he? Jesus, how far back does your family go in this company?"

"Generations." She said simply, ducking past me and patting her hair down, coming to the door. "Courtney Williams, ID S285." She passed through and the guard let her through, he then looked at me.

"Duncan Samson, I, uh, forgot my number." Courtney opened the door again with her arms crossed and glaring at me. I walked past the guards and followed her into the room, this was the meeting room, you know, big round table, swinging chairs and loads of screens showing images of maps, data, graphs and loads of other stuff. Harold was already there and Courtney's mother, Elizabeth and Courtney's father, Charles Williams was already there. "'Sup." I said, nodding my head. Courtney dragged me to stand near her family and Harold.

"Ew, who had garlic for lunch." Harold asked.

"I going to punch you in the throat." Courtney threatened Harold before the door opened again. Every stood at attention. "Good evening sir."

I snapped my eyes to the door to a salt and peppered haired old man in a suit who looked at us with disdain. "Evening, this meeting is for just me and the head of this organization but he has….insisted that I meet with you first." What a dick.

One by one, each member of the room went up to him, shook his hand and introduced themselves with an impressive résumé. "Harold McGrady, currently studying for my PHD in science, Junior head of the spy division in RAW; New York."

Courtney walked up and shook his hand, "Mr Williams, I am Courtney Williams, I am also currently studying for my PHD, my law degree, I am one of many great field agents and I am 8th generation in this company. This is my partner, Duncan Samson." Courtney introduced me, I shook the old guys hand.

"Took some chemistry in high school."

"Are you not completing some sort of secondary skill Mr Samson?" he asked me.

I shook my head, "Who needs to when you're an elemental in this funny world."

"This." The old dude said, turning to Williams, "is the elemental my granddaughter is meant to be with? How can they carry on a successful line? You have disappointed me Charles."

"Excuse me?" Courtney shot at him, totally going angry girl, the same one I fell in love with. "First of all, I'm not even 18 yet, too early to even think about that! And second, Duncan is one of the bravest men I have ever seen, he is strong and loves me. And I don't know why you are on a high horse when you lost your power when the dinosaurs were around."

Courtney's grandfather sneered at her, "You hot-headed little girl, how dare you speak to me like this, I am your elder, your heritage, it is because of me that you are here today! But why should I worry, you have failed."

"Failed what?" Courtney asked, taking a step back.

"Please sir." Williams said, stepping in front of Courtney and me, blocking us from view, "we will discuss that later, I will clear you on the current information on the experiments." He turned to Courtney, "Please take your mother and your team mates and leave." He told her, then taking his father into a different room, clearly more private.

Elizabeth laughed and went over to comfort Courtney, "He has always been like that dear. But he does usually say good things about you, I'm afraid to say, he's from that time period." She said, inkling her head. "He does love you and your father loves you, just that…..the news he got today hasn't made him a happy man."

"What news was that mom?" Courtney asked.

"I'm afraid I can't say, but I will tell you when you are older. Now go off, I'm sure you have a mission." She kissed Courtney on the head and pushed Courtney towards the door, Elizabeth took hold of my shoulder and leant down to whisper in my ear, "Duncan, please keep an eye on her, you know how she gets."

"Don't worry about a thing Mrs Williams, I will never let a thing happen to Courtney."

We left, Courtney grasping my hand and I holding it tight in return. What were they talking about exactly?

OooO

The second rule in this job, support your team.

I was on another mission and guess what, Courtney was here…..I bet you're wondering if that is a good or bad thing….I can't say.

I enjoy the fact she is out and about again, I don't like the fact she is out and in my face again.

Courtney, although I love her, is one of those girls who just needs to be right all of the time. And I feel like she only puts up with me because she has too, and I think the only reason I put up with her is because I would lose my job otherwise. That's not true, just, somehow along the way in our first year together I just couldn't imagine it was someone who didn't challenge me, when Courtney is in a jealous rage she used to accuse me of wanting Gwen or someone like that because I was like them therefore I would get along with her better. But although they might be fun to hang with, it gets boring fast.

I never told Courtney that and Courtney still gets suspicious so she tries to better me, make me more like her so I will enjoy hanging out with her more. It gets fucking annoying.

Although I love her, I won't change. And that annoys Courtney the most. She's perfect in almost every single way…I'm not.

That's another rule, Don't change who you are.

Courtney was staring at me, hissing things like I should try and be more polite and to try and follow the RAW rules as Harold was keeping an eye out for activities that might lead us to a new student to send to school. The difference between these kids and our recruitment to Glison Academy was that it's done slowly, introducing ourselves, telling a student about the school (not giving her a choice of attending or not) and we are on our way.

The reason that we do this is because kids will gain powers around 13 to 15, age of, you know, puberty and stuff. Some sort of chemical reaction in our bodies or whatever. Of course, we have had kids much younger than that and those kids are hard to come by, usually they have siblings who have powers or parents, but it's all to do with genetics, just like puberty. Anyway, that's why Harold, Courtney and I were all recruited, we are a few kids willing to join with powers. You see, powers are not only rare in people, but for powers to last past 30 years old was a damn miracle. People who are more likely to keep their powers are those with physical proof of their power (like Bridgette) or gain their powers really early or really late, like everyone in our class at school. Although, that doesn't mean you will keep powers, you are just more likely, the doctors at RAW have told us that Bridgette, Courtney and I are most likely to keep our powers because we are so strong, Harold is most likely going to lose his power which is why he is getting a back up career.

"Got a visual on a potential at 4 o'clock" Harold told us, using his eyes as binoculars while Courtney and I sat in the back of the van looking at the video surveillance of our subject, some young girl.

"That's not 4 o'clock." Courtney told him with a yawn.

"Well," Harold said, turning to face us, pointing to the right "it is if you are facing the front of the van."

"But you aren't facing the front of the van, you're facing that way, that's 12 o'clock," pointing right, where Harold was looking out, "so she's at 2 o'clock."

"SHE'S OVER THERE OKAY!" I yelled at them. I then started to imitate someone with red hair in this van "Oh, she's over there, we gotta make it all spy terms because I'm a ginger nerd."

"Mock me if you must Burn-" Harold started.

"Oh I must." I shot back. "You guys" I said, pointing to them both. "Are idiots, why can't you guys just be simple and say 'hey, that chick we're following…she's over there!' but no, you have to make things overly complicated like usual." Harold slumped in his chair and Courtney fell back in her position. We were silent for a while, but Courtney's heavy breathing alerted me that she was either, pissed or crying.

I turned to Courtney and saw her rubbing her head, heaving breaths. "Man up Princess." I snapped at her, irritated from before. But she didn't try anything back, not a punch to the gut or the kiwis, not even an insult. I really looked at Courtney and saw her eyes were pure white, frozen, this was not normal when she wasn't in her ice form, I put my arm around Courtney protectively and lowered my face to hers. "Courtney, what's up?"

"I…don't know." She whispered, "I feel strange."

"Call it in Alberta." I shot at Harold, "We are going home! Something's wrong."

"Burn, no!" Courtney told me, "If you mess up another mission because of me my father will kill you, resurrect you, then kill you again." But she hissed in pain when I touched her bare skin, I removed my hand from hers and saw a deep red burn mark, steam pouring out then suddenly freezing over.

"How is this happening?" Courtney whimpered, Harold started up the van and it screeched down the high way, Courtney melting in my hand but freezing in the other. "I was meant to get better."

"I know babe, I know." I comforted her, but I was wondering the same thing. Williams promised she would be perfect by now, but for weeks, she had been getting worse, ever since she got to RAW.

I truly believe my girlfriend is gonna die.

OooO

Courtney was being taken care of; she was in her hospital room having all the medical stuff taken care of her as I went off to investigate on her spiralling health.

Williams was the first person I had in mind.

"What did you guys do to her?" I yelled at him.

He calmly turned around and spoke as though I was a child. "What are you talking about agent Burn? Agent Frostbite is merely going through her final stage in her development."

"Yeah, no shit, but isn't there a way, oh I don't know, TO STOP HER MELTING!" I started to pace in front of him, my hands becoming inflamed, "what's the prescription doc? Huh? What are you going to do when she melts completely?"

Williams just stared at me, "You don't know what kind of doctor I am, do you?"

"Is that really the question at the moment! Fix her! Now!"

"Duncan, we have found a way to stop this. I have to warn you it's highly experimental but it should mean that Courtney will be fully developed and nothing should happen to her any more." Williams glared at me, both of us the same height, I with power, him with none. "But without cooperation nothing can be done. So if you LEAVE and go back to work, which you are paid for, then the doctors can get started!"

"No way! That is my girlfriend and your daughter up in that room and I know you don't care anymore but I care about her."

"You are on my last nerves boy!" Williams spat at me. "She is my daughter! How dare you accuse me of not loving her."

"Screw you old man! Fix her and I'll apologise, don't and I will burn this place to the ground. You with it!"

The forth rule. Stare them down.

Williams blinked heavily and I glared at him before asking him something, I've known for awhile that Courtney and I were purposely placed together at the school….but why? Williams said it was because we both just used our powers around the same time….Harold told me different. He says that we have different numbers for a reason, Courtney 285 and me 286….something was up that they weren't telling me.

"Williams, why? I am literally asking you why you have ruined my entire life! I'm fire, she's ice, we are meant to be enemies, why did you make us a team? We are not compatible, when she is near fire, she melts, when I'm near water, I put out." I took another step forward and hissed at him, "Why did I fall in love with her? Why did you let it happen?"

Williams glared at me, "I have no idea what you are talking about Burn, you and my daughter were simply so powerful that we have classified you in your own category. Now please, so my daughter's health will improve, leave. Or better yet, go back to your family because I am sick of your attitude, the only reason you are still here is because of my daughter and your raw power."

I glared at Williams, the insult of sending me back to my family was a real one, he knew I hated them. "I am sorry sir." I grumbled, looking at him in the eye, "I will return to Courtney so you may carry on."

Williams smirked as I stalked off to find Courtney. Last time I saw her she was being carted off towards the medical centre, I felt my heart plummet at that moment. She was melting slightly, drips of her body soaking into the bed when I saw her last. I finally found the right room, so I barged right in. Courtney shrieked with fright, knocking over a glass of water. "What if I wasn't decent?" she yelled at me, freezing up.

"You never are." I told her back, Courtney shook her head and unfroze herself, that has been happening a lot lately, a self defence mechanism she had picked up some how. "Why so jumpy, I've already seen you naked."

"Thanks for reminding that I lost my virginity to you." She told me, setting the glass down and dabbing at the water with some tissues.

I snorted and went over to her, and careful not to touch her skin, I pushed back her hair and looked at our matching 'tattoos', the little mark that Courtney had on the back of her neck. "This little mark says other wise, it says we were always meant to do it princess."

"Such a romantic." She replied sarcastically, pushing me away but smiling. "I should be right as rain tomorrow morning. We should be getting back to missions in no time."

"And I thought you were going to say something fun babe. Courtney, why…why would you ever choose to do this? This career. I mean-"

"I know what you mean Duncan, and I've wanted to do this since I was nine. Be an important person to the world. Save people. Just like my father."

"Wow." I muttered, "I think when I was nine I wanted to be a dinosaur. Uptight from a young age."

"Shut up!" she shot, she then looked at me with those big eyes, "Duncan, how come I've never met any of your family?"

I paused, panicked, there was a reason for that….if they knew I was dating a girl this good they would tell her everything about my life…..really really REALLY bad stuff "Ah, they're dead"

"But I heard you speaking to them the other day."

"I was talking to their ghosts….I have ghost parents." I'm not the best on spot liar.

Courtney gave me a questioning look, "I want to know all about you."

"What with the sudden urge to know everything?"

Courtney shrugged "You know everything about me but I know nothing about you."

"And there's a reason for that." I nodded at her, Courtney gave me the huge puppy dog eyes and I was not falling for that again! She does this all the time, I'm not, I'm not! "Seriously though, I just don't want you to meet them until I've told you everything about my life myself. I've put off doing that though because I thought we'd never last this long." Courtney smiled sweetly before giving me a passionate kiss, making my mind sizzle.

There was a soft cough from the door, Courtney pulled away and glared at the door, "What?" she snapped, acting just like her father did before.

A sharp featured doctor spoke in soft words "Miss Williams, you have been scheduled for an experimental procedure that your father has made for you, it needs to be done as soon as possible."

"When?"

"A few hours, 6 at the most." The doctor answered, Courtney waved her away and Courtney huffed, glaring at me like it was my fault.

"Sounds fun." I sat on the chair next to her bed, "Do you know what they are going to do?"

Courtney shook her head, "Not. A. Clue." She said, accented every word with a jab of her finger into nowhere.

"Yet you still agreed to do it….I worry."

"My father recommended it, that's good enough for me." She shrugged, "Please would you stay with me during?" She said sweetly. I groaned, Courtney leaned over in her bed, giving me an eyeful of her boobs. "Please Dunky!"

"Don't call me that!" I told her, "But fine, I'll come to watch you." Mostly because I want to see what is being done to her, keep watch over her…..and boobs. I wanted to hug her but I was afraid to touch her bare skin. So I kissed her on the top of the head. "I just want to make sure you stay safe."

"I'll be fine, especially knowing you'll be waiting for me."

Courtney smiled at me, then started to talk about all the things she would be able to do once she had the ability over water. I smiled back, she was beautiful and although we fight a lot, I still loved her. She was my world, I didn't really have a family that wouldn't sell me out and all our friends were on the other side of the law.

OooO

"Get out of my sight you dirty pig!" Courtney yelled as I slammed the door shut.

"Love you too sweetheart!" I laughed to myself. Courtney was being prepped for her appointment and I peeked at her and she screamed at me to leave, so went I left for some food. It was a quick journey over to food because I couldn't think of anything else. I ran back to my room so I could change out of my mission clothes so I would be more comfortable and I looked at the time, "Shit!" I hissed, I was eating a lot longer than I thought so I whipped around and realized why we had the best agents in the country.

About 10 agents had turned up, all holding guns and pointing to me. I didn't even hear the door open.

"'Sup dudes?" then I noticed the way they cracked their knuckles. "Something's up with Courtney, right? I'm not meant to go near her?" one guard nodded and I was knocked out, the last thing I thought was I should have peeked when her top was down.

OooO

I groaned, my head hurt.

I tried to hold my head but they wouldn't move, I looked up and saw that they were both held against the wall above my head.

I was sitting in a cell that we commonly used for Power People that got out of control, it was a simple white room, bed sink, toilet and a large window for guards to watch through. I had to find out what the hell was going on. "Hey, would one of you losers explain to me what is going on?" I yelled out at no one at particular, my voice echoing off the walls, I now knew why the prisoners wanted to kill us, it fucking hurts my eyes in here.

I heard another groan near, in the opposite corner sat Harold, Great, I'm stuck in here with loser boy. "Wha? Where am I?" he asked.

"Exactly what I wanna know dude" I told him. Harold turned and saw me for the first time, his eyes wide. "Yes, I'm in here too."

He shuffled his feet a little. He looked really worried, "Oh God I should have looked." He muttered to himself. He then bit his tongue, realising that he spoke out loud.

"What?" Harold didn't look me in the eye, "Harold…what do you know? I swear to God I will not get mad."

"They got us down here because…you might want to sit down."

"I'm already sitting twerp."

"You might want to go into the whole lotus position then."

"Spit it out Alberta!"

Harold looked away then back at me with a determined stare, "They took us away because what they are going to do with Courtney."

"WHAT!" I roared, making the floor shake and Harold jump "Courtney! She's in danger!" My hands lit with a powerful flame, but nothing happened to the handcuffs. "What is happening!" I yelled at Harold.

"Cool it idiot, each handcuff is made specifically for a person and their power. We have no way to escape!" Harold rolled his eyes, giving up.

But I wouldn't.

"I love Courtney...and I'll smash anyone...anything...that would keep me from her!" I pulled the handcuff as far away from the wall as I could but it wouldn't budge, "I've been a criminal for my entire life, I think I can blast my way out of a cell with my fire power." I suddenly came up with a great idea, I closed one eye and aimed my finger at the wall, melting the wall around the metal. "Almost. Got. It." I told Harold before the wall finally burned and cracked, I stopped with the fire and with a huge tug I managed to break away from the wall. "Yes. People are gonna burn!"

I ran to the window like wall and started to melt it, the guards on the other side looked at me and laughed. "Hey! Help me!" Harold yelled.

"Help yourself you idiot!" I yelled back, the glass waxy.

"I can help you! I know where Courtney is." I glared at him, "You'll never find her!" then I sighed.

"Fine, but you hold me back and I will burn you."

I grabbed hold of his chain and started to burn it, breaking it in half. I then went back to work with the glass while Harold waited in the back of the room. Suddenly Harold ran screaming towards the door with a combination of the bed sheet with a lot of metal in it, swinging it around like a slingshot.

The combination of a weak wall and heavy metal caused it to shatter. "Let's go get her." We both jumped through the glass, alarms suddenly blaring, I held my wrist with my other hand and let out a stream of flame. The guards were shooting us but the bullets kept missing us because of the heat blinding them "You should be running!" I told them calmly, lighting my hand. The men started yelling and running away, Harold picked up a gun and chucked one to me as well, I slung it on the sling on my back before we started to run.

I ran to the security room and set it alight, releasing the other prisoners, needing a distraction, I yelled into the intercom. "Run! Everyone get out!" there was yelling and screaming, things being thrown everywhere. I jumped down and found Harold again who was fighting off some guards with a Spanish dude, Chris McClain, a blonde girl and a girl with red hair and bright red eyes all wearing baggy grey suits. "Want revenge?" I asked them, they nodded, "Then follow Harold!"

Rule 5, confront your enemies.

"THIS WAY!" Harold yelled, turning left back into the main area. Agents from all areas started to run towards us, I started to flame up and set fire to anything that wasn't human or wall. These guys, I worked with them. Now they were attacking.

RAW was a labyrinth of halls, even though I had lived here for months, I still get lost. However Harold had the power to actually map the whole place in his mind, he moved left and right, shooting at knees to injure and not kill. Chris was evaporating and reappearing, skipping all the guards, the Spanish guy was shooting with a gun, the blonde was projecting an astral form and flowing through some of the guys, making them pass out, the last girl melted things with her mind while I set fires behind me so that no one could follow.

We ran into the fire escape and the red head melted the door handle, I turned to the group quickly, "First of all, I'm Duncan. This is Harold. Sound off so I know who to call too."

"Chris McClain."

"Alejandro." The Spanish dude said, cocking his gun.

"Dawn." The blonde answered in a fierce voice.

"Zoey" The red head answered, closing her eyes in shame.

"Great." Harold said, "We promise that for helping us you will get your revenge and you will be free." We ran down the stairs before Harold took out a long piece or rope. "Duncan, break me a piece of stair railing." I did as I was told, heating one of the stair railing before kicking it, breaking it. I handed it too Harold as he placed the rope between it and the rest of the stair railing. "Zoey, melt it together." she did so and we had made a quick way down flights of steps.

We heard foot steps coming from further up. "GO!" I yelled at them, Harold grabbed held of the rope and slid down followed by Zoey and Chris, while Dawn, Alejandro and I followed but not in the same way, training on the streets when I was younger, I jumped down the stairs. Zoey pointed and melting the doors as we went so that guards couldn't get past them, then we reached the ground, the 70th floor. Harold took of his hot gloves as I flipped down next to him, I looked at the door where there was a giant lock with many numbers. "Any bright ideas?" I asked, then the door slammed open and guards poured out. Harold was shooting but I concentrated on just hitting. Hand to hand combat. Just like in juvie.

Both Zoey and Dawn screamed but ran out attacking, Alejandro glared and did the same while Chris just disappeared. I nodded at Harold and we ran out attacking, it was madness, I was fighting with all my might, hitting till my knuckles bled. Suddenly I was shot at, grazing but so close. "AAAARRRRGGGGGG!" I yelled, hitting that one guy with a flame ball. They backed off slightly but not enough, but it gave me a chance to get past, "Harold, grab hold of the others!" I told him, before hissing out hot steam, making that no one but Harold could see. I grabbed held of his shirt and followed him, but I was hit in the jaw with a gun butt. I lost grip of Harold and held my aching jaw.

"DUNCAN!" Alejandro yelled, "Come on!"

"Just go!" I yelled, hit in the back of the head while also being socked in the gut. I ran out of the steam, punching a guy who grabbed hold of me, sending him falling. I ran to Dawn who was holding open an elevator door, one that required a code, we jumped in and it was immediately silent, there was a single camera in the elevator but I punched it out while Harold took apart the elevator phone.

"What are you doing?" Chris asked.

"Making sure they don't know we're coming. He said, tweaking a wire, he then tapped the phone and listened to it, then went back to the panel. He then turned around, took out my eyebrow piercing,

"Dude! Ow!" I yelled at him, taking it out for him and handing it too him.

"Hurry up!" Zoey panicked.

"Shut up! Wait a second!" he then cleared his voice. "Attention security, we have captured the escapees, (then glancing at the numbers on the baggy shirts) 276, 286, 7495, 36479, 12387, 93861, please ready the cells and call the alert off." He then slammed the phone down and stood up.

"Good idea bro!" Chris said, slapping him on the back. Harold grinned through a smoke covered face, the door pinged open and it was silent.

Dead silence.

I found myself in a place I didn't recognise, it wasn't pristine white but it felt it, like a single piece of dirt would mess up the whole place. "What is this place?" Zoey asked.

Harold just glanced as me as he loaded his gun, "Some place that I shouldn't know." Walking out the door. However, not a single agent was in sight. We stepped out and ran down the halls before Harold stopped us. A single doctor was standing outside a large pair of metal door, "This is it."

I walked over to the doctor, "Hey, do you have clearance for this door."

"Of course" he replied, not looking up.

"Thanks." I said, before I punched him, dragging him over to the door and putting his hand up to the door clearance.

The door opened slowly, revealing the inside and we all gasped. Inside doctors were walking around, checking screens, talking to each other.

In the middle of it all Courtney was strapped to the table with a heater aimed at her.

My world slowed down, I saw the others running past me and attacking and I just stood there. Stunned.

"COURTNEY!" I yelled.

Courtney turn towards me, sweat and tears running down her face "DUNCAN!" she screamed. She gritted her teeth as she screamed out in pain. I ran for her, falling over her, kissing her face and loving every moment.

She was crying hard, "Oh thank you, thank you god, Duncan, I love you so much. Thank you!" I tried to undo her restraints but they were made of a very hard metal, I tried to heat it up to melt it but it would not work.

I leaned down and kissed Courtney on her head, "It's gonna be okay." I told her but it suddenly turned silent behind me. I slowly turned around and saw that my allies were all being held at gun point by agents. However, my problem was Williams that stood at the balcony above, pointing a gun at my head. "I should have known. You are going to kill your own daughter!" I told him calmly, "YOU MONSTER."

"I'm trying to make her better." He told me simply. "My daughter shall be the greatest agent of all time."

"Take me instead!" I said, backing up and taking hold of her hand, she dug her nails in but I loved the pain.

Williams glared at me "You don't get it, there is no instead. It's only Courtney." He then looked at his daughter with a mixture of disappointment and sadness, "She and you…you two were nothing but failed experiments."

"What?" I gasped.

"You and Courtney, you must have suspected." Williams turned and started to pace, "Duncan, for years since my grandfather was head of this company, we have been trying to perfect a human. Someone we could control, someone perfect. Courtney was conceived naturally with great heritage, planned by her grandparents before her, a controlled upbringing and a life outside should have given us a perfect daughter. You were born in a lab, DNA collected from previous fire people, given to parents that would train you right. You both failed though. Courtney is not as powerful as we thought and has too much freedom, you had the power we wanted but you are not easy to control. However, we have discovered our mistakes and will try again." He gestured to the giant heater "Although Courtney failed, my own daughter, we will still try and improve her."

Alejandro was yelling at Williams in Spanish before he was knocked back, Williams glared at him, "Stupid boy, you didn't think you were the only one did you?"

Alejandro swore again. "I will destroy you like you destroyed my life."

I lit my other hand on fire, Courtney's hand was melting in my hand and sniffles keeping me grounded instead of running at Williams with pure fury. "You have used me, you have used all of us! HOW DARE YOU! How many lives have you ruined? Your daughter is perfect and what you are doing is killing her!" I then turned around and shot above at the heater, blowing out two of the lights. Williams shot at my shoulder, Courtney screamed, a sudden icy feeling swept over her making my hand cold.

"Back away." Williams told me, I gripped Courtney's hand tighter.

I turned to Williams, seething "I've found plenty of things worth killing for, sex, money, my freedom but finally I've found something worth dying for" Courtney gripped my hand tighter and I growled at Williams, "You son of a Bitch!" Williams laughed, while he did I nodded at Harold.

Suddenly, all hell broke loose as the former prisoners started to hit, bite, kick, punch and yell at everything in range. I turned back to Courtney and tried to hit the strap that was holding her. "I'm gonna get you out, I'm gonna save you!"

"Watch out!" Courtney yelled, freezing herself with the last of her strength, fear making her defensive. I turned just in time to see a bullet heading towards me, it was almost as though it was slow motion, I ducked but several more followed. I thankfully missed them all but a gasp behind me stopped Williams, I turned gently to see something that made my heart run cold.

No.

No, this wasn't-it. No.

Courtney…..wasn't moving, for in the centre of her chest, was a hole and shattered ice.

"Courtney?" I asked her softly. She didn't move. "Courtney!" I yelled at her, gripping her shoulders and trying to move her, I tried to touch her, to warm her up. But she wasn't moving. "NOOO!" I screamed. Her final reeling was fear as it showed on her frozen face.

Although everyone was fighting behind me, the world was silent to me…..she was gone.

The girl I loved was dead.

I didn't protect her.

I erupted.

That's another rule, Don't hold back.

Everything was red as I hit agent and doctor alike out of the way, "RUN GUYS!" I yelled at my friends, I turned back around to look one last time before I set the entire room on fire. If Courtney couldn't survive this then no one could. "Something to remember me by." I said before I started to run, Harold took charge, yelling things to the others while I ran as fast as I could. Chris nodded and took hold of everyone, Harold grabbing the back of my shirt just in time. We landed in the garage, Harold taking me to a chopper while the others took a van. We flew out of there as fast as we could, I didn't turn back. The only thing I was living for was gone.

Harold was talking to me but I blocked him out, just…..it was too hard. I was numb. I was dead inside.

I have nothing.

OooO

When we finally arrived to where Gwen was staying, Harold just let me out and I blindly walked in the rain to the motel room door, knocking on it and waiting before Gwen opened the door. She was yelling at me, but Harold and Cody started to explain to her about our arrival. She let us in, patting me on the back, showing us the rest of the cramped room. Everyone was staring at me, but the first person to get up and come over was Bridgette.

The one so long ago who told me to get out, she was right. I should have listened to her.

I fell, I fell to the ground and just yelled at the ground, letting all my pain and misery in my yells.

No one said anything.

Finally everything had been taken out of me and I was left staring at the ground while tears made a patch in the dirty motel carpet, I felt arms wrapped around me and a comforting hand on my back, I clung onto Bridgette for dear life as I let out the tears. "She's gone." I told Bridgette as she held me closer, "She's gone." I whispered.

That's the day I learnt the final rule in my line of work, although you may lose people and it may seem hopeless you just have to keep living.

The final, and the hardest rule.

To keep living when your world has ended.

This is the saddest thing I have ever written, when I actually wrote the last part I was listening to a sad song by coincidence and I started to cry a bit, I've finally made that connection with my characters. The rules was inspired by a youtube video I saw, Avatar- 7 rules.

Alejandro will be making an appearance later this story.

Zoey and Dawn will not, I added them in because they are the only characters I can stand in TDR.

Please keep reading, I promise you, it will get better soon for everyone.

Review and make a crying little girl in Australia a bit happier.