So I decided to go with the Jonead follow-up for now, since I already have a good portion of it written! In the meantime, I can plan the Amian/Vesper sequel and feel more confident about it.

Extra note: Still no action, lots of romance, AU, and this chapter has several flashbacks and fill-ins since I'm jumping ahead two months. But the rest of the chapters will have more plot, I promise! :D

"Are you off the video call now with Jonah?" Dan asked, poking his head into the kitchen and eying Sinead warily.

"Yes." She smiled at her young cousin. "It's safe to come in."

"Good." Dan's relief was evident. "I don't want to hear anything that's supposed to be private - again."

Sinead grinned fully now, her mind replaying a scene from only a few days after Jonah had left for his tour, while the main group was still in Bora Bora. She was sure that was what Dan was referring to.

*Flashback*

Her phone rang then, just as they were climbing into the limo.

She didn't recognize it at first, because she wasn't familiar with the tone. It wasn't until Ned asked her if that was her phone that she looked down, confused, and saw what the screen said: "Incoming Video Call: Jonah"

"Oh, it's Jonah!" She exclaimed.

He had texted and called her a few times in the past two days, but she hadn't received a video call from him yet. She hastily answered the phone, the limo going quiet when they heard her say his name.

"Hello?" She frowned at the blank screen, had she messed it up?

But then the screen flickered, and her boyfriend's smiling face appeared.

"Hey beautiful." He said.

She noted that he looked exhausted, and wondered what the time was there.

"Hey," She replied, a little unnerved about seeing him. And him seeing her, since she was sure she was a mess. She caught her reflection in the top corner of the video - yep, her hair was frizzy, her cheeks were pink, and she looked like she just ran two back-to-back marathons without stopping.

Wincing internally and wondering if she should have ignored the call, she stated, "I don't know about beautiful; we just got through riding bikes and it was really windy outside."

"Ahh so you're all hot and sweaty too? Sexy."

She blinked, taken aback and not knowing what to say.

"She's also in the car with everyone else." Ted's dry voice sounded out. "Hi Jonah."

Instead of looking embarrassed, the celebrity laughed, his face still relaxed. "Hey Ted. Yo, if you're gonna come to London to beat me up can you please bring your sister with you?"

Sinead groaned as everyone laughed, "I'm tempted to hang up on you." She threatened.

"Don't do that." He said quickly. "I'm sorry for teasing you."

She pursed her lips but her gaze went back to the bags underneath his eyes.

"You look really tired. What time is it there?" She asked.

"Almost midnight. We've been rehearsing all day, doing full sets since my first show is tomorrow night." He grimaced. "We still gotta lot to do tomorrow. We start rehearsing at six."

Sinead felt her eyes widen. "Six? Jonah you should be sleeping."

"I wanted to see ya though. I missed you."

At those words her eyes flickered around the limo, but her cousins had resumed conversation and to her surprise didn't seem to be listening in.

"I miss you too." She admitted, her face falling slightly. "I wish I were there right now."

"I do too." He looked sad too, but brightened. "Hey I wrote somethin' on the plane that I wanna run by you, but when you're by yourself."

Sinead's heart dropped. Was it about her, or just something he wanted her opinion on?

"Call me again tomorrow if you get a free second. Or do you want to text the lyrics to me?"

"I would rather sing them, since I have the melody and everything already figured out." He said, but she couldn't read his expression. "I'll video call you again."

He yawned, and his eyes drooped a little. Sinead would never tell him this but he looked adorable, like a little puppy.

'He's turning you into a sap, toughen up'. She told herself.

"I wish we could still keep talking," She said softly, not wanting anyone to overhear, "But you look exhausted. You're going to get sick if you don't sleep."

Then she halted, hoping that she didn't sound like she was trying to be his mother, but he agreed with her

"I know, my dad would kill me if he knew I was still up." He admitted.

Sinead bit her lip, a warm feeling overtaking her. It was nice to know that he wanted to talk to her that much.

"So, I don't want to say it, but I guess I should say goodnight." He laughed lightly, "Or good morning for you. Tell everyone I said hi."

"Ok, I will." She had said, hanging up the phone and relaying the message.

*End Flashback*

"I'm not even going to ask why you have that sappy look on your face." Dan stated, startling her out of her thoughts. "But it's still weird to see it there. You act so different now that you're dating Jonah."

Sinead blinked, turning to Dan, who had somehow managed to cross the room without her noticing. "Do I really?"

'Is that a good or bad thing?'

"Hey it's not bad." He seemed to read her thoughts. "You aren't as stressed out, even though you should be. Aren't we still meeting him next week?"

"Yes." She replied. "But remember don't say a word or I'll have to kill you."

Dan rolled his eyes. "I barely talk to Jonah. But that sounds more like the 'normal' you."

She ignored his tone, thinking again of her plan and feeling proud of herself. It had been two months since she had seen her boyfriend in person, and both of them were about to go crazy. Jonah's tour was wrapping up in two weeks, but Sinead would be starting two new classes then and wouldn't be able to see him on his break.

However, she had arranged with her professor to take her final early, ahead of the rest of the class in order to have one free week before her next classes. She normally took two fast-track classes at once, but was glad that she only opted for one starting out.

But this was the fun part of her plan: Jonah had called her two days ago and told her he would be in the states, doing a song on DWTS, and was hoping that she could fly in to see it live. It was the day of Sinead's final, but Broderick had already informed her and had arranged for her, Dan, and Amy to fly out the next morning and meet them at L.A.X., where Jonah would fly back to Asia.

Although she had hated hearing the disappointment in Jonah's voice, she was ecstatic about surprising him, hardly able to contain herself as she sadly told him that she had a big project that day and had to be on-campus for it.

She let out a deep breath now, as Dan took a chair next to her and opened a bag of Doritos. "I hope that it all works out ok."

Dan shot her an exasperated look, having heard this almost constantly for the past two days. "It will be fine. He won't know unless you say something to him."

"True, and it's the last thing I'm going to do." She smirked. "I enjoy having the upper-hand."

"Please tell me you aren't talking about your trip again." Nellie walked in, shooting them a sad look.

The pink-haired girl wouldn't be able to go with them this time, due to something planned with her family, and it was bumming her out.

"We'll change the subject." Sinead said quickly, leaning over and snatching a Dorito before looking up at Nellie. "Tell us again about your trip with your family."

'And you,' She told herself sternly, 'need to focus on getting that schoolwork done and keeping this a secret.'

"Turn up the T.V.!" Dan said, sliding in on the couch beside the girls. "Is he doing his new single, the one you showed us Sinead?"

Amy eyed her little brother, "I thought you had packing to do. We are recording it you know."

Dan looked at her like she was crazy. "Already done. The clue hunt turned me into a pro packer."

Sinead pursed her lips, but turned the volume up to full blast. "You mean the single that just came out a week ago but is already #1 practically everywhere? The one you, Amy, and Nellie hassled me about? Yes."

"Are you still bitter over that?" Amy chuckled.

"Yes." Sinead repeated, thinking back to that night when Jonah had sent her an early link to check out his video a few days before it was released to the public.

*Flashback*

"Back it up!" Nellie exclaimed, after she ran in the room at Dan's proclamation of Sinead watching a video of Jonah's. "Why were you trying to hide it from us? Wait…" Nellie's eyes lit up even further. "Is the song about you? It is, isn't it? OMG!"

Sinead sighed, repeating what she had just told Amy, who had asked the same thing. "He said just the second verse. And he hasn't let me look at the lyrics yet or anything; he wanted me to see the entire video." She shot them a glare. "I suppose you guys won't let me watch it alone first."

"No way!" Dan exclaimed. "I can't believe we get to see it before everyone else! And that you weren't going to tell us about it."

"I was, but after I heard what he wrote about me. What if it's something embarrassing?"

"Hey don't be embarrassed, I think it's sweet that he wrote something about you." Nellie gushed.

"Besides, the entire world is about to hear it." Dan put in breezily.

Sinead just glared at them again before giving up and hitting the play button.

The video was really cool and the part he wrote for her was sweet, but she tried to keep her face blank as Nellie and Amy squealed over it.

"Can you keep it down?" Dan complained, and Sinead shot him a look.

"Really Dan? You just flipped out a few seconds ago."

"But that was over really cool dance moves," He protested, "Not mushy lines."

She let out a long-suffering sigh, but didn't say anything else.

As soon as the video was done, she shooed everyone out of her room. "Go away."

Nellie smirked. "Got a phone call to make?"

"No, I'm re-watching it. Alone." She bit out. "Now leave."

*End Flashback*

She shook off the memory and turned her attention back to the T.V.

They were still in the preliminaries of the show, but she didn't want to miss any of it. Sinead, who had turned in her final that afternoon was antsy but also felt extremely excited knowing that she would see Jonah in less than 24 hours. She tried not to let on to it, but the Cahill siblings knew her too well now, so she had given up about an hour ago.

"Why is this blasted guy still talking?" She asked out loud, and puffed in annoyance.

Amy laughed. "A little anxious are we?"

Seeing Sinead's scowl, she quickly added, "Not that I blame you. I'm actually looking forward to what he is going to do. I like his music now a lot better."

Amy was referring to the recent album Jonah had released, which still featured a bit of rap, but was mainly dance and hip-hop songs. It hadn't decreased his fan base at all, instead seeming to strengthen it, if that were possible.

Sinead just impatiently dropped the remote and stared daggers at the screen, as if that would make them hurry up and move on with the show.

"So do I." Dan responded to Amy's statement. "His music is totally awesome. And his dancing. And he is a lot nicer now too, with none of that fake stuff like during the hunt." He popped a piece of candy in his mouth. "You did pretty good Sinead."

Sinead rolled her eyes. "Thanks?" She said it like a question, still annoyed with him. But their conversation was cut off by the guy on the T.V., who was announcing the guest star that evening.

"Welcome back to Dancing With The Stars. Our special guest tonight is an 8x Grammy nominee and 3x winner who just released his first single from his latest album, already #1 on the U.S. Charts. With his latest hit, here he is, Jonah Wizard!"

The crowd went crazy, and Sinead leaned forward as the camera changed scenes. It was dark, and showed a silhouette leaning on a wall. Dan frowned, "Is that him? He doesn't look flashy enough."

As if answering his question, another figure entered the scene, this one dressed in a red suit. "I think that's him." Amy said dryly.

Sinead was too focused to throw her two cents in, and kept her eyes glued to his figure, which she recognized as undoubtedly Jonah as the camera zoomed in, even though it was still dark.

The spotlight shone on him then, and Jonah swaggered to the music, a small smile on his face. The camera then moved to a young boy, who stood up from his chair, pointing and shouting, "Is that Jonah Wizard?"

Amy cooed, "He's so adorable!", as the boy begin to break dance. Sinead nodded but her eyes were already drinking in the next scene, which showed Jonah again, appearing in another flash in front of the judges' stand. The #1 song in the U.S. currently started, and Jonah started doing his thing. He kind of just stood and sang, doing a few dance moves, until he joined his dancers in doing a cartwheel and a backflip.

"Whoooaaa cool." Dan's voice was impressed. Sinead's heart actually dropped, although she knew it was silly. Jonah was a trained professional who knew what he was doing, but still….

As he sang the next line he turned and faced the camera, his hands spreading, singing right into it, Sinead was hit again with the realization of how much he loved performing. He ate it up, the people, the lights, and the attention. Although he always had energy, it was like a light turned on when he hit the stage.

"He's really good." Amy sounded impressed, watching the camera zoom back out and focus on the whole team of dancers. "Did he arrange the whole dance?"

"Yeah." Sinead kept her eyes on the screen. "He choreographed the entire thing, and even planned the costuming. I don't know how he finds time to do it all."

And it was true. Yes, Jonah was a Janus, but she knew how much work he put into every album, performance, tour, dance, and it floored her. He was easygoing by nature, but put him in a studio and he was as meticulous as Sinead was about finding a cure for what her brothers were suffering.

As soon as the show was over and the credits started rolling, Sinead stood. "Well I'm going to finish packing and then call him."

She grinned mischievously. "As much as I hate surprises, it's kind of fun to surprise someone else."

It killed her, but she waited about an hour to make the call, knowing that he would need the time to change back and then get to his car and hotel. She still wasn't used to thinking of him as a major celebrity, but she always had to take into account the media and the fans, who sometimes slowed him down considerably.

His voice sounded energetic when he answered, probably still on a high from his performance. "Hey babe! Did ya catch the show? What did you think?"

He always asked her this, seeming to value her words, even when Sinead thought that she was the last person to give feedback on things like singing and dancing.

"It was great. But I should probably tell you more at the airport tomorrow. Won't it be better in person?"

He didn't say anything, so she just let out a cheery, 'goodbye!' and hung up the phone. Smirking, she descended the stairs, ignoring her phone as he tried to call her back several times.

Amy and Dan were still in the living room, watching a different show, and eyed her as she entered.

"Did you tell him?" Amy asked.

As if on-cue, her phone rang and she stared at it.

"Why is Jonah calling me?" She sounded mystified.

"Don't answer it!" Sinead said quickly, but it was too late.

"Hello?" Amy said, darting her gaze at Sinead. She paused, then said, "Ummm…"

Sinead rolled her eyes; her cousin was a terrible liar. She reached for the phone and Amy handed it to her.

"Oops we must have gotten disconnected." She tried for her most innocent voice, but Jonah apparently wasn't in the mood to play games.

"Are you serious?" He demanded. "You'll be in L.A. tomorrow? Just to say hi or what?"

She grinned, walking down the hall for privacy. "It will be me, Dan, and Amy. And we are flying to Seoul with you and will get to stay a week."

Silence.

When he finally spoke, his voice was stunned. "Really? I thought you had classes."

"I was supposed to," She admitted, leaning against the wall once she got out of eavesdropping distance. "But I arranged with my professor to take my final today, a week early, which is why I couldn't come out to the show tonight. I feel bad about that."

"Don't feel bad." He said quickly. "An entire week getting to spend time with you? I don't even know what to say."

She laughed. "It's been killing me but I wanted to surprise you. Your dad knows of course, but no one else outside of us. I wanted to just show up at the airport but I didn't know if the paparazzi would be around and I didn't want you to react, uh.." Trying to search for the right word, she paused.

"Badly? Like come up and kiss you and end up on the first page of every magazine in the country and probably crash Twitter?" There was laughter in Jonah's voice too. "I'm glad that you told me tonight."

Then he added. "I'm impressed that you did all of this and kept it a secret. Wow."

Hearing the pride in his voice, Sinead felt warmth spread through her. Smiling down at the floor, her free hand went to play with her hair as she responded. "I know. This is going to be the worst 12 hours ever though. I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight, although with all of the school this week I should collapse."

"Awww baby you need to sleep. Because when you're here you know we won't hardly be doing any of that."

She flushed, even though she knew he didn't mean it the way it sounded.

"I know." She muttered. "I've missed you so much."

Then she bit her lip, hating how weak uttering the words made her feel, like he had too much control over her emotions.

But he responded quickly, "I've missed you more. Seriously, I've been in the worst mood this week. My entire tour group will be happy when you get here."

"Do they know?" Sinead's heart skipped a beat.

"Only my dad and Eric. And I'll probably have to tell my two bodyguards now. But they won't say nothin'."

She could almost hear him thinking on the other line, then he said slowly, "We probably need to keep it low-key. I can just tell my dancers and tour team that you guys are my cousins and leave it at that."

"Ok." Sinead kept her voice mild, but on the inside she was frustrated, knowing that they would have to hide the entire week if they wanted to be alone.

'But it's worth it. It's him.'

Just a small note: I am aware that I used double negatives while writing one of Jonah's sentences...lol