Prelude: The Simple Meeting

"Kayta..." Simon Gruber whispered as he lay in his bed. It had been some years since the events with the ever popular John McClaine. A man who had taken so much from one person.

"I am not a monster...though I work for them.." Said Simon just before he went to sit up on his bed. He looked off towards his window and looked out to the shining sun of that day. The wounds of his past seemed to shine just as bright.

Burns where on most of his body, leg broken, arm broken. Each healed to almost perfection, the scars though would never fade. The migraines only increasing from then on.

The blond German reached off near him on his night stand and grabbed a bottle. He soon opened a bottle of pain killers. Then took out two and popped them into his mouth.

"Mien Gott, vhen vill sis pain go avay.." Simon whispered faintly to himself.

"Out, get out!" A man yelled as a young woman in her work uniform was tossed out of the restaurant.

"What are you talking about she started it Mike!" A dark haired woman yelled back at the man who gave the woman her purse then some money out of his pocket.

"Get out of here, don't come back around here your fired!" The big man yelled before he headed back into the diner and shut the door.

The young woman stood there standing right where she was place. She looked inside the place tears whelming a bit in her eyes.

After a moment she turned and just started to walk away from the place, unsure what was now a head of her.

Simon Peter Gruber got dressed into one of his nicest suits. He looked to himself in the mirror and smiled as he stood there in his apartment. Besides as few scars to his face he looked almost like his normal self.

His dirty blond hair cut short as he always wore it, his blue eyes so clear. "Almost back zoo normal.." Simon said before he placed on a pair of sun glasses and turned to grabbed his wallet and few, before he left out of the place.

The dark haired waitress from before was sitting on a bus stop staring down at the ground. She had walked for some time then decided to sit down and finally cry. It was becoming to much for her, every time she tried so hard to keep herself in a sable job she wound up getting fired over her stupidity.

Simon was stepping out of his apartment building when he heard the sound of the woman's distress. At first he looked to her and was about to just walk off by like every other was, it wasn't until her stopped and listened to her talking to herself.

"There you go Raven, you lost another job because you have to start a fight with everyone. Why can't you keep your mouth shut and just let it all go. It doesn't matter if they don't care just let it happen!"

A smile played across Simon's face before he turned around. He pulled his shades off before he went over to her and sat down. Putting his shades in his pocket of the blazer he wore he looked to the young girl.

"Now vhy is ah young voman like your self crying?" Simon asked the girl before she looked to him. He noticed right away she was beautiful. Her eyes matched her dark hair.

"I got fired from the diner I was working at.." She answered him and Simon Smirked.

"Prezzy girl like you verking for a cafe? America so strange" Said Simon. "Vhy vere you vorking zere my dear?" He asked her.

"No one else will hire me, I don't have much experience in anything else." The woman answered.

Simon grinned then took on hand and placed it on her knee. "You ahe in luck, I ahm hiring.." He told her though she was confused and pushed his hand off her.

"What are you hiring for?" She asked.

Simon sat back and thought for a moment then gave a nod. "I need ah personal ahssistant..." He answered. "You don't need much eperience, I vill zeach you vhat I needs you zoo know."

The brunette looked to him unsure then raised a brow. "What's the pay?" She then asked.

"I vill pay you as I can, but vill start vith zree hundred a veek.." Said Simon and he could she was girl was thinking on it.

"Okay Mr. German Stranger...I don't have much else so I may take you up.." The woman said and he smirked.

"I am no stranger. I am Simon and you vill soon know zoo do when 'Simon Says'." Simon said before he chuckled.

The woman laughed and gave Simon her hand. "Well Simon, I am Raven Thomas." Simon took the woman's hand then gently kissed it.

"Nice zoo meet you Ms. Thomas." Simon gently said before their meeting seemed to faded into the sun set of that day.

Chapter One: Kayta Reborn/My Dark Angel

"No!" Simon yelled as he held the woman under him down. His pelvis pressed into her torso, legs on both sides of her, his hands holding both of hers down above her head.

"Vhat have I zold you about never letten your guard down.."

A short hair woman lay under him calm as she looked up to the man. "I didn't think you'd jump me, I was only getting a drink of water.." She said to him a faint smile on her lips.

Simon smiled down to her before he leaned down and stole a kiss. "I vasn't going zoo, but you looked so prezzy." He smirked before he went to stand. "I just had to jump you."

He started to walk from her and Raven jumped up the ran at him and jumped on his back. Simon gasped then growled and grabbed her. Raven wasn't as strong as Simon even after all the training. He swung her around and pushed her against a wall. "I don't zink you vant antsa round vith me.." Simon shot hard at her.

"Maybe I'm up for one game.." Raven said to him and Simon smiled. "Simon Says?" He asked her. Raven smirked as Simon had his hand lose on her waist, simply skimming her body with his hand instead of holding her down like he had been.

"You like that game too much.." She said to him as she staid calm. Simon grinned. "Oh course I do, iz my game." He answered her before he took both her hands and placed them above her head.

"Simon says.." Simon looked to her and smiled. "Stand still." Raven took in a slow breath as Simon stepped back and he pulled out and opened a knife. Her brown eyes staid open and on his just before he moved quickly and sliced straight up her shirt.

Simon broke there eye contact just after and smiled before he opened up the t-shirt and pushed one side open. "Look, not even a scratch.." He said before he looked to her.

"You owe me a shirt.." Raven shot at him and he smirked.

"Of course, I vill get you antsa my pet." Simon said before he reached a hand into her shirt and cupped one of her breast. "Vee can't have you running about in zhe nude." He said but Raven just smirked as she was keeping her arms above her head.

"Simon says hands to your sides.." Raven put her arms down as she was told and Simon smiled before he leaned down and began to kiss over her breast. Still in her bra that he had also managed not to cut off.

Raven closed her eyes as the man was doing so to her until another came into the training room.

"Sir.." A younger man in his uniform said and Simon stopped. He stood straight up and turned his head looking annoyed by the man already. "You bezzer have a good reason for stopping me at zis moment!" Simon said in anger with almost no accent.

"Yes Sir, we have came across a way to by pass the security code to break into the bank.." The man speaking was a flunky but one of the bright ones Simon thought. When Simon heard the man he smiled before he looked to Raven. "Simon Says, we get to vork."

Raven gave a nod before she started to walk off her shirt opened. The flunky watched her closely as she passed to head to the locker room. Simon growled and pulled out his knife again and threw it into the man's leg, right above the knee.

"Never look at vhat does not belong to you.." Simon said before he went up and pressed the knife in more before he pulled it out. The young flunking dropped to his knees as Simon started out of the room.

Friday, Morning, 8:13 am...West Regions bank, Chicago.

"Well darling I don't know what we are to do..." A flamboyant blond gentlemen sat in front of a desk in a bank. Trying to go over his business account.

The young woman sitting in front of him sighed and went to stand up. "Sir I'll try and speak with the manger but you don't seem to be showing up in our records."

The man frowned and almost pouted when she told him. "Please try something, you must find my account. It's everything I own in there." He said just before the woman smiled faintly and walked off.

"Cruddy American.." Simon said going back to his normal self as he leaned forward and placed a flash drive into the the woman's Mac computer.

"I heard that..." Raven said to Simon over the small speaker in his ear.

"Don't make me zpank you vhen you get in here." Simon said low enough only she could hear him he said threw the microphone American flag pin on his tie.

As the flash drive was in the computer his flunkies were already getting deep into the banks security system. One thing Simon like about the banks now a days. They believed they were getting more out of buying the top ranked security systems with computer interface.

How much wronger they were when with just one computer junkie (as Simon called the tech specialist) a bank robber could steal not only the accounts of the customers, but the actually money in the back as well.

"We're done.." Raven said to Simon just as the woman came back. Simon leaned over and pulled out the flashdrive letting the woman see him.

"What is that?" The bank woman asked him. Simon looked to the item in his hand then the woman. "Oh zis, zis is nossing.." Simon said in his native accent before he place the item in his pocket before pulling out a gun. "Now zis is something."

Said Simon pointing the gun at the woman. "Zell me how man people are in zis building right now and I vill not kill you."

The bank woman stood scared but gulped and went to speak. "F-five I-I think.." She said. Simon gave a nod before he went to walk from her. Raven and a few others came barging into the front door. Simon smiled to them before he pointed off to the volt and where he knew where the people would be.

The men went off as Raven went up to him. She stood in front of Simon, and Simon moved his eyes from the short hair brunette to the bank woman, who had blond hair just as him. "I zink she is cute.." Simon said looking to the woman, then to Raven.

Raven glared at Simon then pulled a knife out from behind her and went over to the woman. The blond bank woman had been turned away from them. Her eyes closed hoping if she stood still when they left she would be fine.

Though when Raven stepped over to her and stood in front of the woman she smiled. "Open your eyes.." She commanded, her knife was down at her side and when the woman opened her eyes. Raven's dark eyes met the woman's hazel and she quickly pulled her arm up before she sliced up then right across the woman's throat.

This left a slice up the woman's chest and across her neck just before she fell face first. Raven stepping back some to let the woman fall down in front of her.

Simon sighed before he went over to Raven. She had blood of her face so he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped off her face and neck. "My pet, you know I vould never zink of zouching antsa voman the vay I do you." He said then lifted her chin and made her looked into his eyes instead of on the floor at the woman.

"My darling, you I my dark angel.." Simon said to her gently. Raven smiled faintly, a weak smile as she looked into his light blue eyes.

She wanted to say something to him but before she did a man came out from the back and headed to them. "We have cleared the area and are loading the trucks as we speak." A black haired flunky said to his boss.

Simon smiled and turned to looked to the man. "Ahhh, good to know my good man. Vee vill be joining you all in ah moment." He told the man, to get him to leave them.

Just as he did Simon looked to Raven and smiled, their plan went out with out one problem. He liked when the plans did that. Though just as he was staring at Raven a migraine hit him hard and he gasped. He grasped onto his head with one hand.

His eyes still on Raven when something shifted. He stared at her only to see another. Her hair seemed to look blond, her eyes became light and soon her entire face shifted to another. Yet with the same calm blank expression.

Simon's eye lids began to fluttered and close when he started to fall back just as he whispered a name breathlessly.

"Kayta!"