"Just...don't be afraid of your own shadow..."

"He is a rather intelligent being.... he was learning to understand different words through emergency protocol pamphlets...remarkable it was to see, considering how wild he is."

"Realised the danger you were in, saved you and your friends and escorted you back to a safe location...that being the lovely abode of a cold and dark cavern."

"Hybrids that explore the human world will want to adapt to their human side, and they will seek out a GCMOP...to...learn from them..."

"LE-001 seeks to have you as his mate."

*knock knock knock*

My eyelids slowly roll open with the echo of a knocking on the bathroom door, I was enveloped in hot water and bubbles, my muscles were loosened in a pure state of relaxation, so much so that it seemed by awareness slipped away and I was loosing myself within it.

"Miss (L/N) may I come in, I have a fresh set of clothes for you." Melissa's voice muffled from the other side of the bathroom.

"Oh uhm, yes come in." I say rather awkwardly considering I was previously spacing out. Melissa promptly walks into the wide luxurious bathroom and shuts the door soon after her. The light moving blonde glided over the white marble flooring and places down a set of clothes upon the dark oak washstands, and retrieved a warmed towel before coming to my side and placing upon a small side table.

Melissa took a few steps back and rested her arms behind her back. "I apologise to rush your bathing, Master Levine was keen on renewing your bandages as soon as possible." She steps over to the other end of the bath, reaches in and quickly unplugs the drain. "He made it clear he didn't want you to gain any sort of infection." She says with a smile before turning away from the bathtub, it took an awkwardly long amount of time for me to realise she was waiting for me to cover myself up.

So I raised myself gently from the soapy waters and wrapped the towel from the table around my body, as I did so, I caught my naked body in the mirror to see the swelling of the bruises around my shallow cuts had gone down as the colour was yellowing.

Melissa turned back around and covered myself up to step out of the bathtub as the drain began to gurgle and screech. She made her way back to the stand where she gestured towards the neat pile of clothes with a elegant long hand.

"Hopefully you are satisfied with what friends have picked out for you." She says with a kind smile.

Melissa bowed her head and began to walk back out to the hall. "Thank you." I call after her, she glances at me once more with a grim and bittersweet smile upon her lips. There was something conflicting her feelings, and she seemed like she struggled to say something. 

"I...hope you aren't afraid of LE-001..." My heart clenched up with the reminder of leopard Hybrid and those intense yellow eyes that pulled into the darkness around them. Melissa gave another pained smile, then spoke to me with a comforting tone. "Although we don't know where he is, I'm confident he's doing everything he can to keep you safe as we are." Melissa's thoughts trail off into silence. She briefly bowed before me then before isolating me within the grand bathroom, leaving me to linger on her words.

How does she know about it? weren't all the maids and butlers called away from the dining room Dr Levine told us the truth?

I release a heavy and tired sigh and looked at the set that Kina and Asher had chosen for me. Luckily enough, is was a simple white shirt, comfortable dark grey turtleneck sweater and white-washed high-waist jeans with a pair of black boots.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I had the itching feeling that they could have taken advantage of this situation. I smile as the thought passes and reach out for the clothes, smoothing out my thumbs on the turtleneck's soft woollen fabric.

Before I was about to dry myself off and put the ensemble on, The dirty bloodstained bandages were splayed out on the washstand and it unexpectedly got my heart racing...knowing that it was LE-001 that wrapped those around my skin...

"Bandages...I have bandages..."

"...he even learned how to patch you up...albeit not that well..."

I place my hand to my chest, feeling my heart swell and flutter with an indescribable emotion that had me feeling light on me toes. 

He saved me.

But there was something I couldn't help but think was missing in all of this, something that tied everything together and made the series of events so much simpler to understand. Soon my mind was racing back to that cavern, and how Stanley came to me so I could find my way out.

"Who are you? you shouldn't be in here!"

I grinned to know think how coincidental our two meetings were...but then...it was so coincidental. I ran back over the details of last nights meeting with him, and something stuck out to me...the first aid journal. I knew I remember seeing that purple identification sticker somewhere before, it was just so on the tip of my tongue. But why was it... Oh.

"(Y/N), you sure like to read from the collection. By the time you are done working here, you would have read all of them. Then I test your memory ah. Here, take this one, I know you like the classics."

Miss Lelita's library...

It didn't even click with me before but now it makes sense!... Memories truly are strange things.