" A beautiful and sexy woman is not the most dangerous of all.

Try messing with an independent one and you will know.

Why history always remembers the glory of those women who broke the odds."

- Suzan gill

                ....

       5 years earlier...

Few hours after Rose left the bar.

It was a chilly night and I was sleeping outside a closed shop. With my knees touching my chest. Hugging myself.

Homeless.

The feeling was nothing new. But today I don't know why it hurted more. Maybe because of how he treated me? How he  made me stand there like a fool....asking me to dance.

How did things even come to this?

How can I let my guards down and let a man get such audacity to treat me like this?

It was my fault.

I was so stupid to think he was actually a nice person.

Nice my foot! That devil.

My thoughts get interrupted by a distant scream of a women and my mind goes blank. Getting up I look around to gulp.

What was that?

It was almost 3 o clock at night.

Who was here?

What if a person is in trouble? I shouldn't-

" Nooo.. please... don't do it! Please!I beg...leave me!"

" Come here you bitc*!"

I gulp. The voices. They were not very distant. Just around the alley. Should I help?

But mom always told to never interfere in others business.

Plus what can I do?

" Please someone help pleaseeeee!"

I close my eyes and place my palms on my ears. Sliding down to sit back down in the dark.

Just mind your business Rose.

Don't get into trouble.

They will kill you and no one will even know you are dead.There is no one who will even go search for you.

I tried my best to ignore. Trust me.

I wished to be evil at that time. To be inhuman and just let it be.

But my damned conscience.

It wouldn't just shut it.

" Please....ahh...nooooooo!!!"

A soul piercing scream echoes in the silent hallway and I get up, cursing under my breath.

Don't go. Don't.

The logical side of my brain warned me but my heart. It forced me to proceed.

Reaching the alley ,I gulp taking in the scene.

5 men.

There were 5 of them and just one women.

Her clothes torn. Ripped and their hands all over her. Surrounding her they were trying to force her.

And I clench my fist.

Anything but this.

" Please...ahh please.."

She had given up hope. Her thrashing has stopped and she was just laid there, letting them do whatever they wanted.

Tears streamed down her face, ruining her maskara.

Her clutch laying at a distance. Opened and looted.

" Just shut up"

One of them says muffling her scream and I clench my fist. Ready to let my presence known.

I know I was commiting a mistake.

I was literally trading myself for her.

If they did this to her, they would also do it to me.

But I can't get away with my conscience.

I was stupid. Too stupid for this damned world.

" Let her go"

Was all I say. And suddenly their laughters and jokes seize as they turn to look at me.

Their eyes run over my body. Excitement dancing in them. And I only step closer.

Clenching my fist.

" Look who we have here?"

"Are you here to join us little girl?"

Another says and they chuckle. While I only clench my fists more tighten. Repeating my last sentence more loudly this time.

" I said let her go!!"

The girl gets the oppertunity to move back now that the focus has shifted from her. Her eyes look at me with hope and I feel my insides tremble.

I was literally shaking from the inside.

This is messed up. There is no escape from this now.

" Really? Why would we do that? "

" Because I have called the police and they will be here any second. If you want to live another day? Fuc* off!"

I lie. I didn't even think of calling them. But how did it matter.

The threat would have worked on anyone. Right?

Wrong. It didn't.

They instead looked at each other and chuckled. Mocking me to step closer to me.

I stand my ground.

Looking into the girls eyes. Nodding at her and she got the signal. Now that they were focussed on me, she could easily run.

" Hmm she is not that bad actually. What's say boys?"

" She is better. "

While they were busy running their ugly eyes on me, the girl enters into a sprint. And one of them curses.

" The bitch is running! Get her  dammit!"

One of them tries to run after her when I pull him back. Rush of adrenaline in my body ,made me a crazy bitch. The very imagination of the vulgar thoughts of these men made my blood running.

" Take it ! You bastard!"

Kicking him between the legs with all might. I stumble myself to only catch my balance at the last moment . The man falls down , groaning and I felt proud of myself. But it was short lived.

A harsh grip grabs my scalp and next I know my face is slammed on the wall. And everything goes blank for me.

" Fuc*ing wh*re"

He curses. Leaving my body and I fall down as a heap. My vision distorted and mind numb.

I try to get up. The pavement blurred when I see 5 pair of shoes surrounding me.

" You love being oversmart huh? Because of you she escaped. Now you will pay with you body bitc*"

Pain...mind numbing soul shuddering pain hits me. Never had I ever felt a pain like this before.

It was worst than falling down from a 20 storey building and dying.

It was worse than death.

They were kicking me from all the directions. My ribs, my stomach, my thighs. They didn't leave any place.

Making sure to break my limbs.

And I just laid there immobile. Too broken to do anything.

Tears were streaming down my eyes. A strange beeping sound hitting my head.

So much for saving others.

I just wished that girl escaped and reached somewhere safe.

Atleast my death wouldn't go waste then.

I had accepted my fate then. I was ready to die.

But no way was I ready for what they had planned.

" Pick her up!"

I feel myself getting hauled up to be pushed back on the bonett of a car and before I could realise what was happening. A blade slides through my chest, making a scream to leave my lips.

" Ahhhhhhh!!"

They weren't done yet. They were just beginning. Ripping apart my clothes, cold winds hit my body and the realisation of what was going to happen hits me like a truck.

I was ready to die.

But not this.... anything but this.

" Damn man."

One of them lifts his hand to touch my chest and trust me, I don't know how the lost will returns in my body.

The madness...the zeal to kill...the desire for their blood returned.

It was then that my belief on humanity lifted forever. It was then I Rose Waters died and took a rebirth.

Why me?

First my parents...then Rain...now this?

Why did the heaven hate me so much?

So much for being a good girl all my life. It would have been better if I would have been a sinner instead.

Atleast there were no regrets.

There was no Victor to save me , no knight in shining armour. No hero in real life.

It was just me.

And I knew I had to be a hero for myself.

A person can do anything if they have the will.

" You bitch!"

On realising. I was resisting. The person slapped me and call me insane. I smiled. Opening my swollen eyes to bite my own blood on my lip.

The person looked taken back.

" That's al-l bastard? Tr-y aga-in.."

Fear. I saw it flash in his eyes for a second. And I started laughing.

The men strep back from me. Looking at each other.

" Have we got a lunatic? The bitch looks sick"

" Why does it matter?"

They talk amongst themselves. And I breathe heavily. Trying to look at their faces. Imprinting their faces in my mind.

If I live tonight. They all will die tomorrow.

That's my promise to myself.

" Just get it over with man! Just fuc* her!"

My hands are pinned above my head as one of  them starts kissing my neck. I stare up at the stars.

His hands drift lower to my skirt.

And I just close my eyes. Letting the tears to fall freely. Whispering to the heaven above for the deed I was going to commit.

" I am sorry. But you made me do this."

' Bang'

The person on top of me slides down to fall down on the ground,dead. Blood pooled within seconds between his legs and I just stare at the pistol held in my hand, that I pulled out from his pocket.

" Shit! What the hell!"

The other 4 men looked at me in shock. Not daring to take a step towards me when my lifeless eyes looked up at them.

Moving my head to a side. I cracked my neck, not even recognising myself.

" Who-se nex-t?"

I ask lifting up the piston and then turn around to run when I shoot without another thought.

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

4 dead bodies fall down one after one. Followed by deadly silence and I just slide down the car to sit on the ground.

Staring at the dead man's body near my feet.

I just keep looking.

Mind. Lost. Broken. Afraid. And on top of that...dead from the inside.

I didn't run. I didn't say anything.

Few minutes later. I hear few cars stopping beside. Men step out from it.

But I don't even look up.

They starts examining the bodies. They starts talking. Cleaning the mess.

While I just sat there.

I expected to be put behind bars. To be hanged and killed. Yet destiny had some other plans.

" Boss? What to do about the girl?"

I heard a person speaks. In reply to which a heavy voice answers.

" I will take care of her."

And then I don't know how many minutes later. I felt a warm soft touch on my chin. And it's pushed up slightly. To have my brown eyes meet a pair of soft blue ones.

" Are you good?"

I couldn't speak. I couldn't explain. But it seemed all of that didn't mattered to him.

The stranger removes his cost to place it around my shoulders. His hands hold my face in his palms and he nods at me.

His next words surprising me.

" Don't worry you are safe now. "

" No one will hurt you."

And I believed his words. I don't know why. He could get me hanged for all I knew but at that moment.

My mind and body couldn't take it anymore.

I was tired of fighting, heartbreaks,betrayals, inhumanity....and life in totality.

And that's when I surrendered to darkness in the arms of the stranger.

His last words echoed in my mind for next few seconds.

" I think we found the one we were looking for."