Ally hit the ground running, literally. Her legs were a little wobbly beneath her but she allowed her mind and body no time to register or adjust before she frantically bolted. She permitted one quick look over her right shoulder, and what she saw spiked a massive pang of undeniable, unbridled fear. Her throat thickened and eyes widened.

It wasn't the glare of blinding spotlights and torchlights searing down on her, it wasn't the group of his mindless male militiamen shouting almost howling like a pack of wolves as they swarmed out of the house and it wasn't the two snarling dogs baring their teeth, their barks echoing down the hill and bouncing back and forth between the empty spaces between the trees. No. The thing that inspired an almost incapacitating fear, that nearly made her limbs fall together in a heap, made her feel so sick that she could spew out her insides, fear that seemingly seeped into her blood and chilled her core was him. Kai.

Ally thought that she had overcome everything, she took pride in her newfound indifference; she thought she had come so far. Nothing now quaked the once endlessly shaken. She had nerves of steel and a partially hidden but forebodingly powerful darkness but somehow was reduced to that familiar quivering bundle when she looked into his menacing eyes. For she could see the evil glow, that was clear to everyone, but she could see further past into a few small glimmers that were stifled but alive and well, of a childlike vulnerability and a semblance of something almost redeemably good, she felt sorry for him. When it was just the two of them, he was so different than she could ever imagine, he was almost gentle, and his very being perplexed Ally. Undone by the hand of Kai the one man she needed to challenge above all others and she despised him for that but against an unknown will, respected him too. He was the only person she had encountered that had any power to elicit feelings from her, strong feelings. And it absolutely terrified her.

Just days before Ally has been preparing dinner, a stew for all the members, a slight smile on her face as she imagined poisoning each and every-one of them and watching them writhe in pain and terror just as Ivy had. Ally craved to feel that utter sense of control again. She had gained everyone's trust, including Kai's, so what was stopping her? She paused and remembered the bigger picture. That didn't, however, stop her from continuing her daydream. She would stand above their motionless bodies; the faint gurgling of blood as some took their last staggered sips of life. Ally bit her lip as she thought about a capsule precariously perched on the back of her tongue, one small mistake and she would be dead. She then thought about entering Kai's room; she could even visualize the look of bewilderment on his face as she strode across the room and joined his mouth with hers. Though he didn't object as he readily leaned back down into a chair and she straddled his lap. He grabbed her hips roughly and she twisted her hands in his blue hair and tilted his head back. Ally felt the pill fall from the back of her throat and Kai felt it tumble down his. They pulled apart.

Ally was gently dragging a knife through a carrot when Kai burst through the door in a wild tumult, almost making her slice her finger as she was shocked her from her daze. Kai darted around the kitchen mumbling under his breath, something about a mole, strands of blue hair covering his paranoid eyes. Ally shared a look with the mute Beverly and she went to Kai, grabbing his strained arms, he instantly relaxed to her touch, Kai craved contact. His breathing slowed and Ally grinned at him but it was only for a moment before he started to panic again, Ally pulled him away down the hall and into the bedroom, she closed the door behind them. She pushed him down to the bed and kneeled in front of him, hushed, stroked and caressed him until he stilled once more. The simple fact was that she comforted him, comfort and a type of intimacy that he wasn't accustom to. She grasped his neck with both hands and he held her shoulders and that was when she realized that Kai was crying. This terrifying man was actually crying. Ally was somewhat taken back, she had never expected that she would be the one he would lower his guard around, that she would be the one to make him as defenceless as he made her. There was something so ethereal about this corrupt connection and how vulnerable they became around each other and the warming comfort they offered each other. There was a most sick desire for each other and an inescapable pull that Ally already knew she needed but Kai was only now just realizing, adding to the reasons why Ally feared him, he held a power over her like no-one else could and he made her throw all caution and composure to the wind. She had to break of that hold for she couldn't bear to be controlled by anyone, especially Kai. She softly whipped his tears; Kai sniffled and stared intently at her with his penetrating dark eyes. Ally flinched and sucked in a breath of air when Kai quickly moved so close that their noses were touching, his hands brought up to her cheeks. The two were so absorbed in the sensation of lingering eyes, hot breath and cupped faces that they had hardly noticed Beverly standing in the doorway. When they did, however, Ally leapt away from Kai and fixed her woolly sweater. Ally looked to Beverly who glaring at her as if she was a stranger then she looked over to Kai and saw the disappointment at being disrupted in his eyes rapidly replaced with a deranged disposition. Ally knew then and there it was time for her to bail, this whole thing was bigger than her, and she needed to make her long-planned escape, the sooner being better.

She looked over her shoulder and locked eyes with him, those impossibly dark eyes like two black holes that if gazed into for too long you would be sucked in and swirled around in a endless spiral forever, his pale face illuminated by his long fluorescent blue hair and his smile. That smile, a smile that could build and destroy entire living beings. That smile that was remarkably charming but terrifying simultaneously. He didn't move, just sat and stared and smiled. Kai was screaming a message without moving, he was going to get her and this time nothing would stop what had become between them before. Ally was so unbelievably scared. So she turned and didn't look back again as she attempted to push the horrible ache that was consuming her head and the dizziness that it caused down while she bolted down the gentle slope into the wooded area quickly leaving behind that house of horrors, leaving behind Ivy's rotting corpse and leaving behind Kai.