Hey. I do not own heist society, but I like to thank Ally Carter for her awesomeness in writing it, and I can't wait for the next to come out. this is a new heist that comes after Heist Society. There will be an explaination...by me. at the end of some of the details that aren't in the story. So read, review, enjoy, and link me any of your stories. I'd love to read them. tell me what you think. I'm open to flames, and sugestions for later twists. Enjoy. This is my first Heist society fic.

Ashlynn couldn't believe her ears. Sammie was dead. Sam. The world didn't make sense anymore. The Sam? Her Sam? It wasn't possible. It wasn't fair. It couldn't have. Not Sam. She had no idea what to say. Ashlynn had worked closely with Sam and his team…but now…?"

She had no idea what to do. So she turned and exited the room, needing to be alone, needing to figure out the world she thought she understood.

Hale found her on the balcony, staring out at nothing and freezing. She'd probably been there for hours. Ashlynn didn't react at his approach, so he draped his jacket over her shoulders and sat down beside her.

Ashlynn looked up incredulously at Hale. How did he even get here? She'd made sure it was next to impossible for anyone to find her. And if the crew was here, why was it Hale who came to her? He would've been the last one she'd have expected.

Sure, Hale was suave, and charming, but not with her. And not the kind of person to approach her. "When did you get here?" she asked, wincing at how raw and cracked her voice sounded, but her eyes were dry. No matter what Ashlynn Emerson does not cry.

"A while ago."

"When'd it happen?"

"Almost a year." Hale said

"And I just found out?"

"It took us this long to find you."

"Not long enough," she muttered, then sighed. "How's Kat?"

"In France with Gabrielle. Her mom's getting married again."

"Oh, joy." Ashlynn said flatly. "Why'd you come looking for me? I thought I made it clear when I left, I wanted out."

"Once you're in, you can't get out Ash."

"I'm not in. I help you guys out on one job. That's it."

"Ash, face it. You're in."

"Why are you here?" Ashlynn said, her patience wearing thin.

"We have another job."

"Hale! I told you. I'm not a thief. I'm not cut out for that life, and besides, I'm going back to school soon."

"Ashlynn—"

"No! Hale, listen to me. I'm not a thief. I'm barely fifteen, and I'm going back to school, and—and I…can't." she finished lamely, before standing and quickly exiting the balcony, leaving Hale his jacket, and locking herself in her room until long after everyone had gone to sleep. Or so she thought.

When Ashlynn crept down the stairs as silent as air to grab a four a.m. snack she found several computers blinking on her kitchen table. She slunk over and quietly looked at the screen, trying to figure out what who-ever-it-was was trying to do. Seeing an error in the code, Ashlynn quickly retyped it.

Suddenly, instead of the snow that encased the screen was replaced with a video feed of a room Ashlynn didn't recognize. "What did you do?" a voice behind her asked, and Ashlynn jumped, angry at herself that she hadn't heard someone come in. She hopped quickly out of the chair and turned to see Simon coming forward.

"I—I'm sorry. I…just recognized the code—and I…" she gestured to the screen.

"No, it's awesome. I've been trying to get that to work for hours. Think you could help me out with the others?"

"Oh, I don't think so…I just happened to know that code. I'm really not all that great with computers."

Simon shrugged as if that didn't matter. "Four eyes are better than two, right? It can't hurt."

Ashlynn shrugged as well. "I guess."

So ten minutes later Ashlynn found herself sitting next to Simon staring at millions of computer codes, with a coke, and bowl of popcorn.

"Hey, look at—"

And that's how the next couple hours went by; Simon and Ashlynn sitting, watching out for errors in the code and munching on popcorn.

And that's also how Hale, Hamish, and Angus found them at nearly seven a.m., half asleep in their chairs with a bowl of popcorn in Ashlynn's lap.

Ashlynn sat forward and changed a few keys in a sequence before falling back in her chair again and yawning. Her eyes dropped to almost close as she laid her head back.

"Have you two been up all night?" Hale asked with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"Yeah," Simon said sleepily.

Hale turned his gaze to the girl in front of him. "Guess that you're in then." He smirked as Ashlynn grunted an affirmative, too tired to argue.

Ashlynn narrowed her eyes, though that didn't seem possible, and typed a few keys on the last screen before it erupted into the picture a room. "They're all done," she said drowsily, falling back in her chair and falling asleep almost instantly against Simon's shoulder.

When she woke she was faced with a startling image. She yelped and fell back in her chair, hitting the ground hard. The boys around her looked at Ashlynn like she was crazy, but she duly ignored them, looking closely at a screen in front of her. "Oh my god," she breathed worriedly.

And then her vision went fuzzy, her legs felt weak, and she stared hard at the girl on the screen. She had no idea what this job was, but whatever it may be, Ashlynn was in, absolutely in. Someone had found her weakness.

"Hale, what the hell is this job."

Hi again! this is the explaination I promised you. Okay, so I like to write short chapters because I don't know about you, but I feel really good when I finish a chapter ;) so this will probably be lots of short ones. Plus, I got some writers block and I wanted your guy's sugestions. So PLEASE review.

Okay...I'm ranting. Explaination. Sam is one of Kat's distant cousins that died in a heist before Heist Society. the actual story takes place afterwards. Ashlynn helped them on a heist a long time ago and then disappeared, decideing she wasn't cut out for that life. She's a bit like Hale in the fact that her parents are rich but don't care about her. Ashlynn goes to Colgan but never met Kat there. If you have any other questions add them in your REVIEWS which I know you will give me because you guys are awesome.

What is Ashlynn's weakness? ooh. next chapter won't come until you guys help me out. Because again I am suffering from an annoying case of writers block. Anything will be welcomed with open arms. Not on her weakness though...I know what that's going to be ;) Okay also, I almost forgot, I think Hale was a little (or more than a little) OOC. But I figured even Hale can be sympathetic and serious sometimes. That's all for now.