Sam twitched. He was waking up.

He shouldn't be waking up.

Amp lifted her head, and frowned. She must have misjudged the amount of sedatives in his system, or maybe the timing.

Time. She was running out of time. She couldn't afford to dally any longer.

Straightening up, she moved one hand from over his heart to the side of his head, covering his ear. Because of his height, she had to lean over him to reach, digging her nails into his skin to keep her balance.

She had to split her efforts between the shockwaves she was trying to send through his body, and masking any noises he would make as a result. Couldn't have the neighbors interrupting her fun.....

She increased the intensity of the vibrations. Beneath her hand she felt a satisfying lurch from his heart. A couple more shocks like that, and it would give out altogether.

A predatory smile appeared on her mouth, and her nails dug in harder.

Sam felt a sharp pain in his chest as he was waking up, his eyes opened slowly to Amanda onto of him with a look of excitement. Sam opened his mouth, “Was this because I fell asleep?” but to Sam’s surprise no sound was coming from his mouth, all he could here was a sharp ringing as his heart skipped another beat. Sam looked to her face in confusion and fear, he had no idea what was going on but it needed to stop.

Unfortunately Sam’s powers were already a step ahead of him, ice started to form around the room as feet began to form near Amanda, ‘don’t hurt her just make the pain stop!’ thought Sam as two of his large golems appeared. Sam might have been calm and against fighting with women but the minions of Sam were different, he remembered the saying a bear protecting her cub, and Sam was the cub while the minions were mama bear.

Sam tried talking to Amanda telling her to stop but it was no use his voice could not be heard so he stopped. All he could do was use force, but he couldn’t bring himself to hitting her no matter how much he wanted to. Sam’s eyes welled up with tears as another jolt of pain filled his heart; it felt like his heart was breaking.

Sam watched as the two of the fully formed minions latched onto Amanda’s arms and pulled her away slightly from Sam so he could catch his breath. Sam placed his hand on his bleed chest over his heart, “Amanda…” breathing heavily “what are you doing?”

Sam convulsed again, and his eyes opened. “Was this because I fell asleep?” Though the actual sounds were masked, Amp was an expert lip reader. She simply grinned wider in response to his expression.

She felt a cold hand grasp her arm.

<"No!"> Amp yelled at herself as she was pulled back. She struggled, coming out her trance a bit to see the two creatures holding her back. Sam was confused, and scared, but his 'pets' were not so easily fooled. She'd lost the element of surprise.

“Amanda… what are you doing?”

The animalistic smirk returned. She attempted to blow him a kiss, before dropping the sound masking, to allow him to hear her words.

"Serving dessert."

She send two sonic shockwaves through her arms into her captors, shattering the grips that restrained her. She didn't wait to see if the blast destroyed the creatures or not; she had to get to the source. She jumped at Sam, hands aimed to grab his shoulders. A concussive blast preceded her, and would hit like a brick wall before she landed unless he moved. And she was counting on him still being drugged enough to be sluggish.

"Serving dessert."

Sam didn’t know how to respond to the situations when Amanda somehow shattered the arms of the golems he sent to hold her back, what’s more surprising was they actually listened to him when he told them not to hurt her. ‘What the hell was that’ thought Sam as he saw the ice shatter into a million tiny pieces.

Sam almost could read her movements as she lunged at him but for some reason he couldn’t move, his brain was working but his body wasn’t. ‘What the hell did she do to me and why is she doing this?’ Sam tried to move as she lunged herself at him but his body didn’t respond, only his feet and hands were moving the legs and arms were still stiff. Thinking Sam came up with two things, one was the reason why he was so sluggish, he most have been poisoned or drugged that was the only way this could happen. The second thing Sam came up with was how he could protect himself while he couldn’t move; concentrating Sam formed another golem that acted as a stonewall protecting him from her. “Amanda, Stop it please, why are you doing this?” Sam started to tear as he tried quickly to regain control over his body.

Another giant ice sculpture formed between Amp and Sam. With the concussive force going before her, the creature never touched her. Instead the ice creature took the blow and was thrown backwards, over Sam, and into the wall. Amp herself sort of bounced from the hit, tumbling in the opposite direction.

“Amanda, Stop it please, why are you doing this?”

Pulling herself into a crouch, she smirked at the tall man. He could barely move, it seemed. Somehow, she found this more enjoyable than simply killing him in his sleep. Seeing his expression, and the tears, simply egged her on.

She didn't answer him with works. Instead, she sent another concussion wave, this one aimed to knock him off of the couch and propel him into his icy creation that lay behind him.

Sam’s next golem was went flying and him soon after, he was getting worked up and confused, a very bad combination for someone like a history like his. But he refused to hurt her no matter what she was doing. He knew drugs were involved but why? What was the exact propose. There had to be a reason but what was it? A flashback hit him like a ton of bricks as his mind went back to one of those memories. It was two years earlier when Sam was confronted with an assassin who was hired from T.A.T. Sam of course disposed of him easily but it wasn’t before he told Sam that they had hundreds of ways of getting him back or killing him. Sam’s heart sank into his stomach, as he was getting feeling back in his body, rage was now filling every action.

Sam stood wobbly at first but stood none the less, tears of anger now falling down his face as they froze to his face or froze and broke apart once they hit the ground. Sam looked to Amanda with one last plea to stop not sure if he could get to her but he had to try, “Please Amanda stop, I-I Love you, don’t do this please!” for the first time in his life he was truly afraid of getting hurt.

Amp's smirk dissolved into a glare as Sam managed to get to his feet. In the back of her mind, she chastised herself for not waiting the extra week for the curare. Had she don't that, this would already be over.

“Please Amanda stop, I-I Love you, don’t do this please!”

Was he actually crying ice?

Amp giggled, a slightly maniacal sound. She shook her head, and straightened up.

"Sorry, Babe. No offense. But it's just a job."

She held her hands in front of her, as if cradling a basketball. A high-pitched buzzing began wailing in the air. She grinned again.

"Shame though. You're a hell of a kisser."

She thrust her hands forward, sending the sonic waves screeching toward him. The hardwood floors cracked and buckled under the attack, and anything glass shook noisily.

"Sorry, Babe. No offense. But it's just a job."

That confirmed it she was working for T.A.T. Sam’s eyes turned blue as more rage filled his body. ‘They already took my childhood from me and the second I begin to get my life back together this happens! I am going to have to kill them… all of them, I’ll just wipe them from history.’ Sam’s arms were shaking into fists as he tried to fight the urge of screaming. screaming never helps…

"Shame though. You're a hell of a kisser."

The words didn’t even reach Sam on account he was so broken up about the situation; the high-pitched boom that Amanda produced from her hands was getting closer. Sam turned his body and tried to move out of the way but it was no use he still wasn’t up to his usual stuff. Luckily the golem he landed on after Amanda shot both of them back was on his feet. The Golem happily gave his life to save the masters. Sam was forced away from the shock wave only to see one of his creations shatter into an icy dust.

Sam’s eyes continued to leak water as they formed into ice, as the room got colder he was pissed. Sam also figured out a little more about Amanda then and there, she was a mutant and she was heartless. He started walking towards her as his golems of seven filled the room. ‘Let us kill her for hurting you’ the voice of the seven was filled with anger and hatred as they spoke in his mind, ‘NO… DON”T HURT HER…’ Sam’s thoughts over powered the golems, as they stood ready to engage or kill if the master called for it.

Amp scowled as her attack hit the wrong target yet again. She couldn't be sure whether Sam was actually controlling the ice monsters, or if they were simply responding to him being in danger. Either way, they were proving an annoyance. At least they were breakable, like glass.

Oooo..... his eyes were turning blue. Somebody was ticked off. A bit of smugness marred her little scowl.

"Aww, come on, Babe. Don't take it so hard."

Goosebumps formed on her arms. She could feel the room growing colder, which likely meant Sam was growing angrier. Still she prodded the wound.

"You should be proud. Only one other man ever made it further with me than you did." Her eyes narrowed. "And he's dead."

Her breath began making little wisps of smoke in the air. He was moving toward her, albeit sluggishly, and looking rather upset. His pets had formed as well, and the apartment suddenly felt more than crowded. She backed toward the door of the apartment, crouching slightly..

"Eight to one, eh? I'm flattered."

She couldn't be sure she'd be able to reproduce her sister's hypnotic melody, and even less sure that it would affect the ice manipulator, so she put it out of her mind to try. Dropping to one knee, she thrust her right hand down, palm open. Though the attack was unseen, it was far from 'unheard'. Three high-pitch screeches traveled along the floor in straight lines, like a set of claws unfurling. Upon reaching three icy foes, the shrieks moved upward in straight lines up through the middles, aimed at shattering them from the inside out.

Her left hand swung down, sending a second set of four more attacks behind the first, toward the remaining creatures. Then her right hand came across her chest, then flung outward with another sonic boom, as if tossing a frisbee. The three motions followed each other in rapid succession.

She was careful not to actually attack Sam; if she calculated right, the resultant, flying shards of ice would do the attacking for her.

"Aww, come on, Babe. Don't take it so hard."

Sam’s arms just started to shake as ice started to form in around his finger tips, ‘come on don’t lose control, just leave, she isn’t worth it.’ Sam continued to walk towards her as he ignored the logical voice in his head.

"You should be proud. Only one other man ever made it further with me than you did." "And he's dead."

“So basically I was dating a murder?” Sam spat out still a little hurt physically but mostly emotionally now. “How did I get so lucky with you.” Sarcasm rang throughout the air as e knew she was taunting him now, ‘can’t fall for it, don’t fall for it’.

"Eight to one, eh? I'm flattered."

‘She shouldn’t be…’ rang the minions voice in Sam's head. They started to pin her to the door only leaving an opening for Sam to enter, he was the one that was going to finish this not the minions.

Sam’s reaction didn’t change as tears continued to freeze halfway down his face and fall to the floor. So what she took out the three golems, so what she took out the other four, so what she was aiming at him. Sam just felt like dying he honestly was tired of running from his past, because no matte how fare he ran they seemed to be waiting for him around a corner striking when he is the happiest he could possibly be and in this case it was with Amana.

Three high-pitched sounds gave way as the ice from the fallen golems flew towards him. Sam was too sluggish to move and even if he could he wouldn’t he was Cold Steel! The ice shards broke apart into small ice crystals and then reformed around Sam’s body all but the face. “This is a bit funny actually,” said Sam wiping his tears away from his face now laughing a sad laugh, “they hired you but you thought the ice shards would harm me? Ice is kind of my thing.” The room continued to get darker and colder as Sam walked closer to Amanda as Sam activated his mist fogging the room somewhat.

“So basically I was dating a murder? How did I get so lucky with you.”

Amp sneered. "He's the one who killed me first. I just returned the favor."

The blizzard enveloped Sam, and clung to him.

“This is a bit funny actually. They hired you but you thought the ice shards would harm me? Ice is kind of my thing.”

"No kiddin'? Silly me." She glanced casually at the foggy mist. "And here I thought that only happened in the back of Momma's car. You sneaky, Frosty."

The growing mist in the room hid her smile. Ice may have been his thing, shown by the ground freezing around him. But she had the advantage of knowing much more about him, then he knew about her. For instance....

The sound of a subway rumbling by filled the frozen apartment, and the wall began to shake along with it. The windows shattered outward, as did the wall behind Amp. Using the fog as a cover, she slipped through it into the hallway.

When either the mist cleared, or he got the chance to sense through it, there would be a surprise for him, in the form of two Amps. Identical in every way and form. Both of them taunted him in the exact same voice.

"You're not the only one that can play the cloning game, ya know?" In the same motion the dopplegangers thrust their arms forward, sending another shriek-filled hit, this one aimed at the ground beneath Sam's feet.

"Tag! You're it!"

The wave was powerful enough that, if it missed its target, it would punch a hole in the floor beneath him.

"He's the one who killed me first. I just returned the favor."
"No kiddin'? Silly me." "And here I thought that only happened in the back of Momma's car. You sneaky, Frosty."

Sam continued to approach as she spat this out, honestly he didn’t care what she had to say anymore, part of him wanted to run, the other part well wanted a little payback, nothing big but a little considering his heart was now smashed to pieces. But in time it would heal and make him stronger just as the ice that was now forming a protective casing around his body.

"You're not the only one that can play the cloning game, ya know?"

Sam ran out into the hall way as he spotted it two Amanda’s ‘was she a twin?’ thought Sam as he was taken aback. He noticed that both their hands lifted as a loud sound pierced through the hallway. Sam ran and jumped towards the sound forming a slide of ice as the ground he was standing on crumbled. Sam waved his hands as a beam of ice shot to one of the girl hoping it was Amanda he was hitting; they needed to have a talk! Sam frowned thinking that the wall would most likely freeze over and possible shatter if he missed her, human bodies were easy enough to freeze but walls were a bit more difficult, it would weaken the make up of the wall.