Katherine found Benjamin Adams in his office rummaging through a pile of paperwork. He glanced up when she quietly entered the room and frowned. "You look like hell, Katherine", he said bluntly, motioning to the chair beside him.

"I feel like it Ben. It’s been a rough day."

"You’re not sleeping much are you?" he asked. She sadly shook her head no.

"You need to get some rest, Katherine. Would you take some sleeping pills if I gave them to you?" He said as he rolled his chair over to hers and took her small delicate hands in his.

Katherine was staring at the floor, trying to come up with the right words. "Thank you, Ben, but that is not why I’m here. We need to talk", she said quietly as he caressed the palm of her hands with his thumbs.

Instead of answering, he leaned forward took her face in his hands and kissed her firmly.

Katherine’s eyes flew open wide in surprise and she pulled away. It was as if an entirely different person was standing before her, one that felt so dark and angry it terrified her. "Don’t!" she pleaded. "Please don’t do this again!" She rose from her chair to flee the room but he caught her and pushed her up against the wall, pinning her hands up above her head as he kissed her again, his body pressed against his.

"I want you, baby. I’ve always wanted you. But you would never let me near you!" he growled. "And you want it too! I felt it in that song you sang at Joe’s the other night. Just give me a chance!" His lips attacked her again and his free hand roughly cupped one her small breasts as Katherine’s eyes started to glow with a fierce anger and her automatic reactions began to take over. Lifting one leg she brought it down as hard as she could right on the top of his foot, feeling a satisifying crunch as some of the bones broke. Doc Adams yelped and let go of her hands giving her the time to slam the palm of her hand in an upward motion on the bottom of his nose. He yelled at her furiously, blood streaming down his face from a now broken nose, and made a grab for her again. She twisted around out his grasp and kicked him hard on the inside of his knee, hyperextending it to the side. She then hooked his other leg with one of her own and shoved him hard onto the floor.

"How dare you!" she yelled at him in English along with a string of loud Gaelic curses, her eyes flashing fire. She then proceeded to chew him out royally in about twelve different languages, telling him in no uncertain terms that he was to never, ever touch her again! He lay sprawled on the floor, staring open mouthed at his little friend’s fury.

When she was done yelling at him, Katherine fell to her knees on the floor beside him. She reached out and took his face in her hands and softly asked him a question. "Ben, look at me. Would you rather be considered my dear friend? Or would you like to join the ranks of those who have caused me nothing but pain?" With that she opened the door to her memories and broadcasted them directly into his mind. His face turned deathly white as he saw clearly the long lines of men, both mortal and immortal, who had brought her much pain and misery over the years as he relived in a few seconds all the atrocities that they had done to her.

Jumping up to her feet, she turned on her heels and stomped out of the room, scattering a curious crowd who had been trying to hear what was going on behind the closed doors. Retrieving her guitar she left the hospital without a backwards glance and started down the road that led her to Crystal’s house.