PREVIOUSLY: "Seems like we have a new serial killer in New York, let's hope the NYPD will catch whoever did this before the number of victims rises" - said the news reporter on TV.

And so, Leo went back to his room and so did Kira. Preparing for their next day to try and save the little girl who's laying on the deathbed.

On the next day Kira and Leo prepared to start their day off, they greeted Smith and Mia before having breakfast and setting off to school.

"Have you heard about that Serial Killer recently?!"

Leo shook his head and wrote in his notebook - "What Serial Killer?"

"Well, recently there has been mass murder cases, mostly bikers and gangsters around New York getting slaughtered by an unknown Serial Killer. Let's hope we don't end up encountering him or her or whatever their gender is." Kira seemed a bit worried.

"Let's hope not, if we ever end up encountering them we'll run for it, ok?" Leo smiled trying to assure her since she's having a hard time after her experience with the drunk thug who stabbed her.

On their way they passed by the alley Leo used to live in.

"Can we stop by for a minute? There's something I need to do."

"Uh, sure, I guess."

Leo unzipped his schoolbag and withdrew a brown bag, he took out some bits of his food and climbed up the ladder, trying to reach the birds' nest to put some food for them. While climbing down his right index slid on a sharp edge on the ladder which resulted in a small cut to his index.

"Oh God, are you ok? Wait let me find my Napkin!"

Leo looked down and noticed the rat which has been living with him for long in that alley before he moved to Kira's house. He still remembers how that rat usually comes by to find any food. This time the rat had a wound on his side and was dying. The rat was laying on his right side unable to move.

Leo felt bad for it, he crouched down and swept his hand on the rat's side with a sad look on his face.

Leo forgot his index was bleeding slightly but then he noticed, the wound on the rat's left side started healing with slight steam coming out of it. The rat started moving its limbs slowly as a sign of it recovering, it then made some sounds before flipping back on his four limbs and slowly limping.

Leo blinked twice and stared at his hand.

"Oh, there it is!" Kira pulled out her napkin from her bag.

"Now, show me your hand!" She extended her left hand to grab Leo's right one.

Leo extended his arm to her and she started cleaning the wound off. She then wrapped a small medical sticker around Leo's thumb.

"There, all done!" She smiled cheerfully.

Leo felt his heart bumping upon seeing her Angelic smile, he blinked twice before writing on his note - "Let's head back to school, we don't want to be late."

"Right, let's hurry!" She smiled and walked off with him.

The duo spent their usual school day before heading back home. Kira unlocked the house door and walked in along with Leo.

"Hey, mum!"

"Hi, Kira. Hi, Leo!"

Leo smiled and waved to her.

"Where's dad? He usually waits for us to force hug me?"

"Oh, you know he's late at work these days handling that Serial Killer's case, make sure not to stay out late, that means no going out in the evening, ok?"

"Yes, mum!"

Mia called Smith to find out when he's coming home since it's dinner time soon. Smith replied he's gonna be late so they could start dinner without him.

"Ok, kids, dinner time!" - shouted the mum by the stairs.

Kira knocked on Leo's room's door twice - "Leo? It's dinner time, come on!"

Leo opened his room's door, smiling to Kira. They both then headed downstairs to the table.

Meanwhile, Nyxx walked into her Corporation's building and got into the elevator, she ran her ID card onto the scanner and flipped a switch which revealed a button that said "Floor (-10)" ("-" as in Minus 10)

The elevator's door opened to the side and Nyxx walked in, she turned the lights on and walked to a cell that had a male imprisoned inside.

"Hi, Dad!" Nyxx smirked at the male.

The male looked at her and spoke in a pissed off tone under his breath while gritting his teeth - "Avril!!!!"

In the meantime, Smith was sitting in his office in the police station, checking the case files of those who got murdered.

He then asked his colleague, "Uh, what was the murder weapon again?"

"A kitchen knife, and a sharp one," Miles answered.

"Eeeeh? Who the hell uses a kitchen knife these days? So shady, Jesus!"

"I know right? But that's not all, he usually lurks in dark alleys and strikes in the dark which makes it almost impossible to notice him." Miles chuckled.

"Although I feel like I saw these two somewhere." Smith pointed to the two bikers, however, he was so sleepy he wasn't able to concentrate much.

"Beats me, it's the first time I saw them but, you know we're cops we see such faces everywhere during our patrols."

"Yup, anyway I'm done for today, I wanna head back home and hug my Kira for as long as I could before she heads to bed, oh my God I missed her so much." Smith smiled at the roof like a retard.

"Pffff, you're being overprotective."

"Fuck you, she's my Angel and I need this before she grows up, gets married and forgets about her cool daddy!!!"

"Yeah yeah, dad of the year, get outta' here!"

"Screw you, haha. Anyway, I'm out, see ya!" he pulled his coat.

Smith got in his car and decided to drive off home.

Leo meanwhile asked for Mia's permission to head to the hospital and try to see Sarah.

"Of course sweetie, let me get my coat, I'll come with you!" Mia had an exhausted look on her face.

Leo wrote on his note and showed it to her, "You look so tired. You should get some rest, I'm worried about your health. I'll just take a cap and check on her for Dr. Marcus then head back home. He asked me to and Nyxx is probably too busy to check on her which is kind of sad."

"Daww', you're so sweet, Leo, sure I guess. Just be careful, kay'?"

"I promise!"

He then got out and got into a cap, heading to the hospital, he bought a fictional storybook on his way to give it as a present to Sarah.

He showed the receptionist a note, "Good evening, I'm here to visit Sarah Marcus."

She checked her computer before replying "I'm sorry, the doctor has banned any visits to that patient, her condition is critical nowadays and any visits might affect her health."

Leo showed a sad look on his face before nodding to her and walking off. He walked down the street disappointed.

He checked the time on his phone before pocketing it again, going on his way.

At the same time, Kira wasn't in her room, where might she have gone to at this hour?

Meanwhile, the doctor was talking to a strange woman who had a British accent. His nurse was present as well.

"I can't do this, this is against all of my morals!!"

"Oh? Come on it's not the first time you kill someone for us, plus you always get your money."

"Yes but, this is a child we're talking about, she did nothing to deserve this!"

"I see, so you'd rather not do it and have your child killed instead?"

"What? What did you do?" the doctor freaked out.

"Nothing . . . YET. So you'll do things as planned, you'll inject her with this serum. The serum will spread through her veins and force her heart's muscle to stop beating. This is the serum that Marcus worked on, I managed to change the formula and the idiots produced another sample of it without knowing. You should have let Marcus inject her with it and got it over with but no you had to be the most stupid employee ever and prevented that. Now you'll get your hands dirty and do it yourself. My superiors are expecting good results and the reputation of the Nyxx Corporation to fall beneath the ground, do I make myself clear? Geez,' even the cop who was guarding her room accepted our high payment and left!"

"Come on, doctor, it's easy money and as she said, it's not the first time we do this, it's just different this time since it's a little girl but this is business after all!" said the nurse.

"See? Even your nurse agrees with me, good girl I'm starting to like you now. So, what's it gonna be, DOCTOR?"

The nurse nodded with a smirk before walking off to a room where they keep the tools to get a syringe for the doctor.

"Yes . . . ma'am." he walked to Sarah's room and opened the door. He walked in but before closing the door the electricity was shut down through the entire hospital.

SCREAMS!

It was the nurse's voice.

"Please no... AAAAAAAAAAAAAH . . . argh!"

Slich Slich Slich!

*End of Chapter 10*