A/N: If you haven't read my first story, An Unexpected Surprise, this story won't make any sense. So if you want to read this, read the first one. Or skim it. Whatever. Ok. I'm going to stop now.

I just realized something; I never put Buffy in my first story! Darn it!

Disclaimer: I do not own the 39 clues.

Ian's POV

You will never see her alive again. Let's see how well you'll get along without your precious Madrigal leader.

Sincerely, the new Vesper recruit,

Evan Tolliver

Alistair finished reading the note, and we all had mixed reactions.

Sinead continued to sob on the floor.

Hamilton tried to keep his cool while comforting Sinead.

Dan let tears run freely down his face, and hugged Natalie, who buried her face into his shirt.

Alistair didn't cry, but he did bow his head.

Phoenix widened his eyes, and looked around, confused.

Jonah struggled to hold back tears, and tried to comfort Phoenix.

Ned and Ted also bowed their heads.

Madison punched the wall, and Reagan tried to calm her down.

Nellie put her face in her hands.

What did I do? I stood still, taking it in. Amy, my Amy was taken from me. Tolliver might kill her. I clenched my fists. Next time I saw him, he was going down. Hard.

"Well, what are we going to do?" Madison angrily asked. We all looked up at her.

"Yeah! What are we going to do? It's not like we're going to let them get away with this! No one messes with the Cahills and gets away with it!"

"She's right," Dan choked out, letting go of Natalie. "We defeated the Vespers once, we can do it again."

"But what if they kill her?" Sinead sobbed. "Evan wrote 'you will never see her alive again'!"

"That doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to kill her," Nellie mentioned, removing her face from her hands. "It just means that they are going to take her away from us."

"And if they do kill her, we can still get revenge," Hamilton agreed, punching his fist into his hand. "But we'll make sure that that won't happen."

I looked up at everyone, trying to look as if I haven't been broken into a million pieces. I needed to stay strong for Amy. "Well, then our first step should be finding… her," I stated, avoiding saying Amy's name. I knew that if I did, I would break.

"They wouldn't put her in the same place that they put us," Alistair decided, pacing. "And this time, they are trying to keep her completely away from us altogether, so we get no contact from the Vespers."

"But why would they do that," Natalie wondered aloud.

"Just to break our spirits. They want us to fall apart," Dan whispered, seething. His emotion had quickly changed.

"Well, aren't there Cahills everywhere? Can't we just tell all of them to keep a look out," Phoenix suggested.

"That's my homey," Jonah grinned, wiping away tears and slapping him a high five.

Everyone else looked happy with the idea but me. I knew that wouldn't work, even if we had Cahills within every square foot of the earth. They desperately needed hope, and they were using that one idea to grasp it.

I, however, was thinking logically. I was never going to see Amy again.

And that's when the tears came.

Amy's POV

While I was unconscious, I dreamt that I was young, with my parents again.

We were smiling and laughing, having a picnic in a pretty park near our house.

Dan was just a toddler, rolling down he grassy hills and chasing butterflies (to no avail). Mom laughed as she rested her head on his shoulder. Dad pulled her close, and gestured me to join them. I sunk down into my father's lap, laughing along with them.

Then, the happy image was darkened with flames.

I woke up, breathing heavily. I'm ok, it was just a dream. Then I remembered what had happened last night.

I glanced around at my surroundings. I was lying on a cold cement floor. The walls were also made of cement, and bare. There was a door at the far right corner of the room, and I jumped up to try it. Locked.

I sat in the middle of the floor, waiting for something, anything, to happen. Silence.

Then the door swung open, revealing… Ian!

He smiled, holding out his arms to me, and I jumped into them, hugging him close.

"Amy," He whispered into my ear, and I held on tighter. "What happened?"

"It was Evan! He broke into my room, and… I'm not sure what happened afterwards."

I gently pulled away, looking into his amber eyes. He smiled… oddly. It was like a smirkish smile. Where had I seen that before...

He tried to kiss me, but I twisted free. Ian wasn't that forward with me! "Ian, are you ok? You seem… different."

He did that smirkish smile again. "What are you talking about, Ames?" Wait, Ames? Ian called me love, not Ames.

Wait a second… being to forward, smirkish smile, calling me Ames…

"Evan!" I exploded, trying to smack him. He grabbed my wrist before I could, squeezing it to the point where it hurt.

"How did you know," He snarled. Definitely not Ian.

"You called me Ames! Now let go," I wrenched my arm free of his grasp. "But how did y-"

"You think that the Madrigals own all of the technology?" Evan sarcastically asked. "We Vespers also have the form changing chambers!"

Oh, yeah, like one of the things that Fiske made us… wait, did he say Vesper?

"Evan, you're a Vesper?" I whispered.

"Yes."

"And you tried to turn into Ian to get me to like you? That's sick!"

I expected him to wince and my powerful words, but instead he darkly said, "You will never insult me again, is that clear? Right now, you are under my control. Whatever happens to you is because of my decisions."

And with that he stormed off, slamming the door. Silence resumed once again.

Evan's POV

I slammed the door to the cell and stormed up the stairs and into the living room, where I plopped on the couch, rubbing my temples. Being a Vesper was hard work.

When Amy found out that I cheated on her and dumped me months ago, at first I was heartbroken. I plead for forgiveness over and over again… then all of that changed.

I was walking home from work when a man dressed in a dark cloak crossed my path. I tried to sidestep him, but placed a firm hand on my shoulder to stop me.

He told me all about the Vespers and their power, and everything became so real to me. If I had power, I could get anything that I wanted… including Amy.

I joined them, and my first task was a good one… I was to either get Amy Cahill to join us, make sure that she was never in our way, or dispose of her completely.

I took the task on, but never told the man what my real goal was.

To make Ian Kabra pay.

My first step was to take her away. My second step was to get a picture showing him that she was in love with me, but that wasn't going to work.

Time for plan B.

A/N: First chapter of sequel completed! YAY! Was it ok? Please no flames! If you didn't like it, just don't review! Please! Don't!