AN: I don't own National Treasure or any of the characters. If I did, I'd put myself in the story and marry Riley.

Chapter 1

Kennedy's Legend

"Riley, would you STOP typing for just two seconds and LISTEN to what I have to say??"

Riley Poole sighed and closed his prized Macbook. Even though Ben Gates was his best friend, he still got sick of always being considered the lowly sidekick and being ordered around by Ben.

"What is it?"

"Abigail just called. She found something that--"

"Let me guess, Ben. Something that's gonna lead to another giant world tour and end up back in the States, only to change the lives of people that haven't even been born yet?"

"You're good, Riley."

"Thought my talent was limited to hacking into places that are impossible to even think about hacking??"

"Kinda."

"Whatever."

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Abigail Chase-Gates had just gotten off the phone with her husband, famed treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates. She had just found a letter written from John F. Kennedy to his brother, Robert, describing in detail a vast treasure that their father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was rumored to have inherited. Knowing that this was something that Ben and his best friend, Riley, would go crazy over, she had instantly phoned them and told them to come over to the National Archives right away.

"Abigail! You said this was important?"

"It better be," interjected Riley. "I'm missing Star Trek."

"Riley, it'll be on in reruns, and besides, you have the complete series on DVD."

"I just like watching it!"

Ben and Abigail looked exasperatingly at Riley and continued.

"So, I found this letter, from JFK to RFK. John says here that their dad apparently inherited an absolutely enormous treasure from FDR. It got lost between 1945 and 1963, when this letter was written, and it said that even Joe forgot where it was."

"Hmmm. I've never heard of the Kennedys having any sort of Masonic or Templar connections."

Riley sighed. "You still haven't read my book, have you?"

"I'm going to take the Fifth on that question," Ben replied.

"Abigail?"

"I did skim it, but I saw nothing about any Kennedy being part of a secret society."

"Come back home, I'll show you. Let's go."

AN: More later!!