I'm a saint in sinner's eyes.

"Whatever you're doing, keep it up," Vaas told her, grabbing onto her and leaning down so he could whisper in her ear. "Don't trust anyone." He had already reiterated this to Alli a thousand times the night previously. She nodded in understanding and hastily made her way out of the stone room, before the Rakyat lost their patience. Allison was afraid that any frustrations they may have, they'd take it out of Vaas and not her. With a quiet explanation from him last night, Vaas explained that Citra and her people believed that Allison was carrying some sort of divine being in her womb.

"Follow me," the man who had fetched her for Citra asked and Alli followed him silently. She looked back to Vaas as she walked away, watching him lean up against the stone doorway with five Rakyat warriors sitting outside, their weapons in their laps and slung over their shoulders.

Alli turned back and was led outside, the sun a shock to her green eyes compared to the torches that lit the inside of the temple. She shielded her face from the light and continued to follow the man who had come to collect her. They ended the short journey in a small courtyard with a long and shallow stone pond. Citra was knelt in one end while two women bathed her. Two more rushed forward and grabbed onto Alli's hands. The man left with his eyes averted to the ground while Alli was pulled forward.

"I trust you slept well," she heard Citra and looked over to her as the women ushered her to the pond, stripping her where she stood as they reached the edge. She grabbed protectively onto the green gem around her neck, refusing to take the piece of jewelry off.

"Yes," Alli answered shortly, not bothering to fight against the women as they led her into the water. She lowered to her knees instead and allowed them to wash off the dried blood painted on her skin that had been hidden under Vaas' shirt.

"What did my brother tell you?" Citra asked her casually, opening her eyes as she did and the intense viridescent met Alli's hazel. She was silent to the question, blinking to try and rid herself of the intensity of Citra's gaze, despite how calm her words were. "Did he tell you about why he left? Or did he tell you about me?"

The cold water stung at Alli's skin and she tried to ignore the strange hands on her body. "He avoids talking about you as much as possible," Alli answered her. Vaas had only opened up that one time in the basement. She wasn't sure if he was telling the truth then, but after meeting Citra, Alli was sure of his blunt honesty.

"Vaas has avoided things his whole life," Citra commented and closed her eyes again. "He was fighting me the whole way, even as a child."

"Fighting you?" Alli asked her and she watched Citra smile.

"It's his destiny to become a warrior and leader of the Rakyat," Citra responded, moments later the women washing her helped her to her feet and led her out of the water to dress her. "He was stolen away by Hoyt and his own agenda," Citra continued. "I lost my brother to that monster such a long time ago..."

Alli watched the two women dress Citra, while allowing the two others to wash her religiously and coat her in a sickly-sweet smelling oil.

"He left me, the tribe, his birth-right," Citra explained, watching the women bathe Alli, leaving the teenager feeling as exposed and embarrassed as the night previous. "Hoyt Volker lured him away with money, drugs... He became a monster but he's still my brother," Alli met Citra's eyes, trying not to look sheepish and afraid.

The women pulled her out of the water then and wrapped the sheer cloth back around her didn't replace the shirt however, giving her instead a halter top that left most of her chest and, importantly, her stomach exposed.

"Your child," Citra continued, watching the women mark up Allison's stomach with clay, "He has brought Vaas back to me."

She had lost count of how many days she had been kept Citra's prisoner. She listened to Vaas and trusted no one while managing to keep up her act. She stayed by Citra's side and never questioned her. She partook in the odd rituals and worship the Rakyat gave her and never questioned any of it. Being outside for most of the day brought her skin back to a healthy tan and the food she was given was slowly putting weight back on her thin frame. She always ate more than she cared for, the worry always present in her mind that the natives would eventually see that her stomach wasn't growing fuller.

While Allison had been essentially brought back to life, Vaas was hardly ever allowed outside that stone room in the temple where they slept. He never complained to her, but she saw what was happening to him. He wasn't healing as fast as he should have from the knife wound, he was growing paler, and he was losing weight almost as fast as she was gaining it. Vaas would get cold sweats and shake, he could hardly keep food down, and Alli hadn't made up her mind if he was sick from the wound in his chest or from the withdrawal from his previous life and all his drugs.

Her thoughts were always on Vaas and his state made Alli's heart ache. It was normal on nights like this, with the Rakyat and their strange tribal celebrations that had begun since she had arrived, for her mind to drift off to Vaas while she watched blindly, sitting on the ground next to Citra's throne. Her thoughts were only pulled back to reality when a few men rushed past her and hastily whispered to Citra in their native tongue. It was a language Alli had been trying to recognize and understand but the speech eluded her.

Citra stood up suddenly with their words and she left her seat, quickly following them, and Alli was left confused and alone. Nobody else dancing wildly around the fire or eating the night's meal seemed to care. A slow fear, something she had nearly forgotten, began to cloud her heart and her mind was back to the only thing that mattered; Vaas.

She stood quickly from the tiger pelt she was sat upon and followed, anxiety eating at her over what might have happened to him. Alli moved quickly, making her way to the front of the temple and it wasn't until she reached the top of the steps that some of the women who always seemed waiting on her hand and foot tried to turn her back. However, Allison had already seen what had caused Citra and the two Rakyat warriors to rush off. Her heart fell out of her chest as she saw who they were pulling through the front gates.

"Batari," she could faintly hear from one women as two more tried to gently tug her backwards. She tugged free of their grasp and couldn't help but break the character she had been for over two weeks as she ran down the steps to the Rakyat warriors walking through the gates, her friends as captives. She moved past Citra without thinking and ran up to Molly.

"Let her go, let her go!" She commanded of the men who were dragging her in and she held her best friend in her arms, shocking everyone. "What are you doing?" She asked them, sounding angry instead of frightened.

"Alli?" Molly asked, not recognizing her at first through the hair and paint and tribal attire.

"Are you okay?" Alli asked, hugging her tightly and trying to ignore the bewildered look she received from the rest of her friends and the Rakyat.

The women caught up with her then, trying to pull Molly away from Alli's arms and she slowly came back to a sense of rationality, while they shouted in broken English about the welfare of her child. Molly stood back and was quickly held by either arm from the Rakyat who had captured her. The look she was giving Alli was sobering and she just stood there, as the rest of them slowly understood what Molly had.

"Alli, what the f-!" Sam had began to ask while the women still tried to drag her away, he was silenced quickly by one of the men holding him. Sierra next to him was in just as big a shock as Molly, with tears streaming down her freckled face. More men were coming in, dragging along Oliver, Daisy, and Keith.

"Allison," Citra's voice came sharp as a knife and she turned, still unmoving for the women around her, grabbing onto her stomach as if protecting the pretend child. Everything came together in that moment and Allison remembered why she should fear the woman. Not only for Vaas and herself, but because she wanted Jason's friends dead, and her friends were among them.

Alli couldn't speak, her mouth had opened but her tongue wouldn't budge. Instead she fell to her knees as Citra walked up to her, furious. The women again shrieked in protest and Alli ignored them, before Citra shouted at them for silence in her native tongue. Alli had bowed her head so low that her forehead had reached the dirt near Citra's feet and she couldn't stop from shaking. She was forcing herself back into the character Allison had made for herself, and held her stomach as it laid flat against her thighs.

"Citra," she heard Dennis' thick accent call and she felt a short burst of relief ice the hot panic she felt beneath her skin. "This is the one," he said and Alli saw someone fall next to her. She turned her head slightly and saw it was Liza who had crashed to the ground, looking to be in the worst shape out of everyone here.

"Alli?" Liza asked quietly, in shock like the rest of them. Alli rose from the ground, leaning back on her knees as Citra's anger was pulled away from her focus.

"And I have great news," Dennis continued and Citra's anger drained from her face, Alli looking back to her before she gazed up to Dennis, who seemed to ignore what was happening. "Hoyt is dead."

Alli suddenly wanted to scream. Everything had unraveled so fast and she had no idea what would happen to her and Vaas.

"Jason?" Citra asked him, her voice now filling with hope as her face softened.

"He has his brother and should arrive within two days," Dennis smiled and Citra returned it.

"Tie them up," Citra commanded of the men and they moved away with everyone but Liza. Instead Dennis grabbed her arm, twisting it so he'd earn a yelp of pain from Liza as he pulled her standing.

On the other hand, Citra had waved away the women who were so concerned over Alli and she was finally left alone. Citra herself lent her hands to help Alli up and she had no choice but to accept.

"Don't be afraid, child," Citra smiled, cupping Alli's cheeks with her soft hands. "We're on the verge of something wonderful." Her hands moved from her face to her stomach and she smiled wider before stepping away, walking back up the steps to the temple with her hips swaying in their natural way. One of the few Rakyat warriors left walked up to Alli and she allowed him to pick her up and carry her after Citra, while Dennis forced Liza along after them all.

The warrior had brought Alli to Vaas without any commands and she walked into the room, finding him half asleep on the bed that had been provided. The beard and growing hair was something Alli had become accustomed to as much as him becoming close to lethargic while he was kept in the dark room. He perked up as she moved into the room and sat up fully, seeing the tears begin to spill from her eyes as she couldn't hold herself together any longer.

"What happened?" He asked, forcing himself off the mattress with a grunt. He no longer held his hand over the place where Jason had stabbed him when he stood up or moved about the room but Alli could tell it still pained him greatly.

"Jason killed Hoyt," she answered him quietly as Vaas walked over to her, not wanting anyone outside the room to hear.

"Okay," Vaas said after the initial shock of her statement settled and he licked his dry lips, mind racing. "Okay, Alice." He reached out and moved her hair out of her face, keeping his hand on her cheek in an act of reassurance.

"We're gonna die-"Alli whispered with a shaky voice and Vaas stopped her quickly.

"You can't do this, stop crying," he told her, moving forward to grab hold of the teenager with his other hand, and gripped her shoulders tightly, bending down to level with her height. Alli nodded and willed herself to calm down, but the panic had been swelling inside of her since she had first spotted Molly.

"Everyone is here, Vaas. They brought everyone from Dr. Earnhardt's house..." she trailed off and suddenly realized that the doctor was missing from the group.

"What about Jason?" Vaas asked her, his grip tightening. "Is he here?"

"No, he'll be here in a day or two. That's what Dennis said," Alli informed, her voice nearly monotone as she tried to calm herself down.

"Then we're fine, hermana," Vaas chuckled. "Right now we're okay. But you need to listen to me." Alli nodded and his hands went to her face, thumbs wiping the tears off of her cheeks. "These Rakyat motherfuckers are like bugs," he told her then, backing up and sitting down on the mattress. Alli followed him and sat in his lap so he could speak quietly with her. "They're like thefuckin' praying mantis bugs." Vaas wrapped his arms around Alli's waist as he explained this to her and it wasn't helping her nerves. "The men fuck the shit out of the women and then the women eat their heads."

Alli wasn't sure if he was using them as a literal metaphor or just speaking figuratively, but she understood his point. "Citra will want me to kill you."

"Right. She probably wants to kill me herself so she's not going to tell you. But they're gonna bring us up in front of everyone, okay, and they're gonna try to make us like them," Vaas continued.

"But we're gonna kill them," Alli finished and Vaas smiled at her.

"I'm their fucking chosen one, not Jason. I'm invincible, Alice," he told her and Alli's gut twisted. She hated the plan but they had no other way out. "I'll kill all these motherfuckers to keep you safe but I need your help."

"Tell me how,"Alli responded and Vaas smiled at her.

"I'm fine from here," Alli told the two women and three Rakyat warriors following her. She had a large, wooden bowl in her arms and the water inside made it heavy, but she didn't want them to hear what she had to say to her friends. Allison made her way down the steps to where the Rakyat were keeping everyone in the cages.

"Alli?" Molly noticed her first, perking up. Sam and Sierra had been asleep, leaning on each other, next to her. In a cage next to them was Daisy, Keith, and Oliver, but Liza was nowhere to be seen.

"Hey," Sierra lifted her head off of Sam's shoulder, while Sam only shot daggers at her with his eyes.

"Alli, what's going on?" Daisy clung to the bars of the second cage.

"Don't try to run, they'll shoot you," Alli said, setting the bowl down before opening both of the cages. "I brought you water. "Molly threw her arms around Alli once she was out.

"We didn't know what happened to you, we heard Vaas was dead-" Molly stopped when Alli pulled away and she saw the look her friend was giving her.

"Don't talk about Vaas," Alli told her quietly. Not wanting to upset the five Rakyat who were undoubtedly watching her like a hawk, she pushed Molly away gently and held onto her stomach as if protecting it.

"Do you know what's happening?" Sierra asked her before drinking some of the water from the bowl Alli had set down.

"Where's Liza?" Daisy asked and Alli stepped back, feeling overwhelmed. She took a breath in, composing herself and wearing the character she created like a mask.

"I thought she would be here with you guys. I'm not sure where Liza is," Alli admitted calmly. "I know that Jason killed Hoyt, he's coming back. That's why the Rakyat came for you, I think."

"Shit... Wait, that's good though, right?" Olli asked looking around the group.

"Jason is fucking insane, we're probably waiting around for him to kill us too," Keith butted in.

"Don't say that," Daisy turned to scold him.

"That guy was gone," Sierra shook her head. "He showed up the day after you and Vaas left and..." she trailed off, shaking her head.

"He was worse than Vaas," Molly agreed, causing Allison's eyebrows to push together as she frowned. Of course Jason was worse than Vaas, she felt like that should have been obvious.

Daisy folded her arms, giving a look of disapproval to the two other girls. "What about Riley?" She asked Alli then. "Jason's brother. Is he coming back as well?"

"I'm not sure, I just know that he's alive," Alli told her flatly.

"Batari!" Alli heard one of the Rakyat warriors call down to her, a word she had learned to associate with herself. The three of the five warriors with her were making their way quickly down the steps, obviously impatient.

"Get back in the cages so they don't hurt you," Alli told the others quickly and they complied reluctantly.

"Batari, time to go," one of the warriors reached her first, she held her arm up to wrap around his neck and was sequentially picked up by the Rakyat. Alli glanced over his shoulder as he turned away and began to carry her up the stairs, watching the two others lock the cages back up. She caught Molly's gaze and smiled at her, wishing she could have just explained herself without the Rakyat breathing down her neck. She wished she could have warned them about the slaughter she and Vaas had planned.