By the time it took to hear the recordings which were in the equipment, it felt like hours had passed when only mere moments did.

Then the aura shattered from gloomy as Chris broke into a set of choking noises as he entered the parking lot wheezing from breath, did Felicia's mind break back into the present.

She wanted to ask who Christa was, instead she held back from seeing his condition.

A few bullets in him, his black turtleneck all wet and oiled up from various fluids and the glass shards stuck in his hair.

Yet he looked like his body could go a few more rounds without escalation of his wounds. With that in mind, the Huntress bit back her words which could even burst into the bubble of his privacy.

With the added benefit of it being on the very first day, it felt like a bad way to end this.

The sky wasn't doing them any favour in a way but Chris shot a wary look at the device in his interns hands but blinked away.

" Yo." The Phaze waved at her with his usual smile he borrowed from his brothers.

" What happened in there?"

He shook his head, biting his upper lip, feeling the part where he accidentally tripped and bit himself seeping blood and the sweet taste of it.

" Guts and glory. Guns and bruises. The regular." The man mumbled as he went to hand over the firearm and clicked his tongue in annoyance, searching for his keys as he remembered he gave it to her.

He had a low alcohol tolerance. In simpler terms, he was sobern't.

But in the very next moment of pity from Felicia, he took the firearm to disassemble in seconds, moving to the dumpster and sliding over the ground and almost falling in.

" F*ck" With that, he moved over and crashed on the bike, nearly tipping that over.

" God I shouldn't have drunk that much...f*cking hell. Intern. You're driving."

" Are you oka-"

" DO YOU THINK I COULD HAVE KILLED THAT MANY IF I WAS?! DRIVE YA NEWBIE!"

The woman narrowed her eyes before complying to his request, almost tempted to call a taxi back to the Dias.

But after the speech he was giving, she considered it wouldn't be in their best interests to be back yet.

The huntress palmed the key tighter as she gave the vehicle life and put on the matte black helmet and throttled it.

The metal horse whirred to a start as Chris, grumbling to why she would have to take a different route than usual to avoid suspicions from anyone who may tail them got on and held onto the back guard.

" Up up and away!" Chris did a clicking noise, likely mimicking rising a real stallion, only covered in metal and used it's two ears instead of a rein.

And not to mention he was backseat driving a horse.

*****

Felicia Jäger took the route that passed through the overpass Issaring to head into Bogenhausen but once the skies thundered with rage, echoing through her helmet, the enraged lady decided to make haste and shifted the gears up and accelerated a bit more.

Only to be stopped by the Phaze.

" Intern. Want to hear a fun fact? We're being followed." Uttering in a calm tone, startling Felicia as the balance on the vehicle faltered for a moment, regaining it after almost turning back. The only reason she held back was in hopes that her partner had some sort of plan to follow.

Instead, he just pointed straight to the mirror from which the hunters made out a blue heavy-duty GMC which was, sure enough trailing them.

" A GMC? Why that one?" Chris gave out a small, " The what?" and bit his teeth in embarrassment, telling it her was the white sedan beside that, not considering the displaced image that she would see.

She just picked the more intimidating one out of the two.

But yet once again, it was clear that it was also following in the path they did behind, even the weaving through the barely present traffic.

" Cut right to the next exit. Let's go for a walk in the park." Letting in on this information, the drivers behind them followed their respective targets as they sloped down to the land of the Englischer Garten ( English Garden ).

Surrounded by lush green on both sides which bounced off her dress, the huntress drove past the Beer house and when they found themselves driving closer to the other side, Chris instructed her to take a left to the narrow path to take them off their trail.

The bike came to a halt near a, as Felicia awaited the glorious plan the Phaze had to escape this perilous situation they were in but all he gave was a, " Do what I say and we might make this out alive" with a deep voice to try and win her confidence over.

" And he doesn't even say make it out unscathed or even in one piece. God-F*CKIN LORD HE'S RUBBING OFF ON ME!" She gave out a squeal of horror as she witnessed firsthand what the three at the Dias were so afraid of.

And then came an afterthought of someone who was concerned about the one other person who might have just fallen for this.

" Oh my God Claire, what has he done to you to get you like that?"

Pity.

The woman who had just witnessed the most insane man in her life gaped within her head gear as Chris retaliated with a resounding statement in the middle of a chase.

" NO! THAT'S MY LINE! CLAIRE HAS BEEN LIKE THAT SINCE EUGE-" He snapped mid-sentence, succumbing to his memories.

" Where do we go from here?"

And as the vehicles both came up behind them, the lady whose attire mimicked the lands she intruded into, looked back and saw one question.

The heart ridden face of his which was beaming with anything other than sorrow ebbed it out.

With one reply to the driver.

" Just...go."

And go she did, straight forward into the premises of the park, following his exact orders.

" Why is that GMC still on our tail...?"

Ignoring it, she did what he said.

Right to the one where their plan got a bit confusing as they found themselves drowning at the river flowing through.

*****

The sound of manhood at its peak woke her up. The stench of sweat and the faint smell of beer clogged her throat, allowing her to wake up as she started to sneeze.

Her eyes looked for the man and there he was, Chris Canner chugging down a glass the size of someone's whole foot down with a satisfied burp which honestly, drove her into a conclusion that either he had certain words like 'Euge' that triggered him or he was bipolar in the brains.

A bit...cuckoo. Which didn't need an explanation but the only possible conclusion the huntress pulled from the recent hours and the recorder was that someone who meant a lot to him was hurt. And that was why he let's loose the way he does.

But that was her in a sleepy manner as she began to sneeze again as she remembered what happened.

The fall, the freezing surface of the water breaking form against their bodies as they started to sink. The feeling of fear as she saw her dress pinned to the clutch. The force of water forcing it's way down her throat, starting to drown her.

But that was all that happened as she shivered at the though that had a chance of happening after that since she was alive.

" He dare not..."

Felicia looked down and saw that she was shivering not only from her thoughts but also from her dress still being completely drenched, head to toe.

He didn't even bother to put a towel over her or get her awake.

" Prost, ihr Bastarde!" A group of guys clashed their massive jugs of beer and there was an oddity of a small glass of wine in those which broke, ending with utter defeat in the man's face as he left the room with a devastated look, after he slammed his pay of two Euros on the counter.

" Alright I'm heading out. My girl's up. Thanks for the treat, pal." The Phaze gave out a lie as he strutted towards Felicia and held out his hand. And by extension of some instinct, she took it.

He acted way too friendly as he had just suggested the idea they were together and breaking someone's trust at the time didn't see the right thing to do then.

" Aww, yes darling. Thank you sir, for your kind gestures towards this dumbo." The man before the counter burst into laughter, as if he found the most amusing thing in the world, clearly put before him. He grabbed the glass one of the men slid across the table and cleaned it with his rag, dipping it in water occasionally.

" You're gonna get along well with him, Ms. Jäger. I'll let the Dias know you two are not a disaster...yet." Placing the glass down, the man swiveled himself and bent down, picking up a shotgun and threw it to Felicia. He winked at her as he resumed with the work he had at hand.

" A welcome present, Ms. Jäger. These woods, if you can even call it...aren't very friendly." She took to examining the weapon, finding it to be a double barrel shotgun with a strap consisting 8 bullets and two in the chamber itself.

" Thah-thank you. Thank you for your gifts and for letting us stay here." Said a very confused lass as she stormed out of the bar as Chris began bursting into laughter, following her out.

" Wassup darlin? Been roughly the fancy day innit?" Imitating a British accent while simultaneously walking like a penguin, Chris barged out to catch up-to her and ended up laughing to the point her started wheezing and had to slouch over to stop himself from fainting.

When he did so, he noticed a very quick haze brush past his hair.

" Du-did you just...?" Feeling a shiver up his spine, the Phaze looked up to see the huntress holding the shotgun like a bat as he hastily took a few steps back in that same position, like a crab.

" Dare mock me again, this is gonna end up with your name on a gravestone."

*****

Chris Canner never felt this scared in years. The last time he felt a volume of fear this high, it was when Suzuha Toretsu was getting married.

The highest being during a certain kid's delivery.  He couldn't tell if his heart was shooting out of the sky or not but it felt like it was. And when the call came during his usual raids of the Wölfe, he was more than a certain level of elated. To the point he left it to his partner to clean up the whole gang.

The Phaze just let the poor fellow to deal with waves of bullets just so he could talk to the mother of the girl.

" Well, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna move my hand for a week. What's that sound?" Nakarugi  Matsuki started to talk as his voice slowed down, knowing well what was happening but was afraid to admit it. The father of a newborn child looked at Suzuha, exhausted and out of energy and then shivered looking at his arm, seeing it almost turn purple from the pressure which was put on him trying to calm her down.

Her gorilla grip was so hard, he stuffed a rag in his mouth to avoid crying out in pain.

" Eh don't mind it. Put her on, will ya?" A smile played on Chris's lips as he closed his eyes and wiped the tear that came down, even if this wasn't much of importance to him as it was to the Matsuki's. He rubbed his eyes with his thumb and middle fingers, holding onto his face as a childish laughter came out naturally.

" She's...knocked out. What can I say? You guys really leave me hanging when I want to get you two some love the most. You're coming back when? Give me a rough date and I'll try to keep my meetings clean." Matsuki took his hand and took to scratching his stubble which grew after years of applying hair growth oil and getting professional advice. In short, it was never going to be shaved.

" Meetings? Nakarugi Matsuki is getting pretty popular. By the way, how's Amane? Is she do-" He began to start but sounded distracted. Yelling at Eugene Matnàr for being an incompetent loser and not being able to keep himself alive for a few moments, he passed the phone onto his incompetent loser partner.

" TALK." Chris commanded, putting the phone on his hand and went to casually murder a whole dozen of what he likes to call, 'Knock off Mafia'.

" Hello? Is this his girlfriend? HEY! This is a friend of his! We're playing a co-op game and he's what you call a pro player. Don't mind the sound it's...its...immersive...? Yeah, that." Which made way for a very awkward conversation where either end had to pretend they didn't know what was going on when they really didn't.

*****

" What are you doing? Are you spacing out? Chris?" Chris snapped out of his thoughts. He looked around confused to see himself in a forest when he was fully armed and in middle of firing at the Wolves.

" What happened? Don't take it that serious. I didn't mean to offend you if that's what happened." Felicia worded out an apology as Chris bit his lower lip as he realized he blanked out to the past, something he had happen to him about a decade ago. Looking at the woman who was still very much drenched and cold in front of him, he decided that it would be better that she had a change of attire as they were staying the night in the park.

" Well, here's to us." Mumbling to himself, Chris Canner took a surprised huntress by his hands and dragged her back into the lodge to let her stay the night there as he had a change of heart, leaving her in a comfy bed while he had his own job to finish.

*****