Whispers In the Dark The girl with blood on her hand

The girl with blood on her hand

[8:12 AM – Morning Light, Blackthorn Villa] [Siena stands alone in the villa’s vast hallway. Gold light spills through the windows. Marble beneath her feet. Silence so thick, it’s like the house is holding its breath.] [She slowly runs her fingers along a faded picture frame on the wall: Rael as a child, beside a man with cold, cruel eyes.]

Rael Moretti [ML]

(suddenly behind her) He was the first man I ever wanted dead.

Siena Hayes[ FL]

(startled) You move like a shadow. That’s not healthy

Rael Moretti [ML]

(Smirks) Neither is trusting one.

[They walk toward the kitchen. Coffee brews in silence. Rael hands her a cup. Siena studies him.]

Siena Hayes[ FL]

What happened to him?

Rael Moretti [ML]

(cold) He taught me power comes with pain. And that blood is the most expensive currency in this world.

Siena Hayes[ FL]

And you learned to trade in it.

Rael Moretti [ML]

(softly) We all trade something, Siena. Time. Morals. Souls. The only question is: what did you give up?

[Siena freezes. Her fingers tighten around the cup.]

Siena Hayes[ FL]

You think I haven’t buried things? You think because I wear white coats and fix people, I’m clean?

Rael Moretti [ML]

(gently) Tell me.

Siena Hayes[ FL]

I was 22. Still in med school. Interning at a hospital in Brooklyn. One night, a patient was wheeled in. Bleeding, screaming. Gang hit.

Rael Moretti [ML]

(watching her) And?

Siena Hayes[ FL]

I knew his face. He’d beaten my best friend. Put her in the ICU. Almost killed her. I was the only one in the room. Just me. Him. A flatline monitor. And I chose... not to bring him back.

[Silence. She looks at him — not with guilt, but with fire.]

Siena Hayes[ FL]

That was the night I realized… sometimes, saving people isn’t justice.

Rael Moretti [ML]

(after a pause) You killed a man with silence. That takes more power than pulling a trigger.

Siena Hayes[ FL]

It wasn’t power. It was survival. He’d have walked free. No trial. No consequence.

Rael Moretti [ML]

And you? How did you live with it?

Siena Hayes[ FL]

I didn’t. I just became really good at pretending.

[Their eyes meet. And for the first time, Rael doesn’t see innocence. He sees a mirror.]

Rael Moretti [ML]

(quietly) You’re not afraid of monsters, Siena. Because you became one when no one else would.

[PING — Rael’s phone buzzes. He checks it. A name flashes: Marcus Hale.]

Text from Marcus: We need to talk. She’s not who you think she is

[CUT TO — Somewhere in the city. FBI board. Siena’s old hospital files. A red-stamped report: "Suspicious Code Blue – Dismissed. No Evidence."]

TO BE CONTINUED...

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