Joe PoV

Stupid, fast, mean, amazing, freakish, annoying, sexy, weird, sarcastic, silver eyed, smirking thief girl!
She was constantly on my mind, the way she laughed, the way she vanished right before my eyes.
Slipping through my fingers, taking the blue star with her.
I groaned.

I sat on my chair in the headquarters, my head on the table, listening to Nick and Leila, who were discussing who said girl had been. Kevin was sitting next to me, fooling around with the new piece of his uniform. Frankie was supposed to do his homework, but instead he was listening amused to Nick and Leila's words.
Nick said she was a member of organisation G (as we called the gemstone stealing organisation) Leila thought she was operating alone, because a huge organisation wouldn't send such a young girl. The risk of blowing it would be too high for such criminals.
I groaned.

"Will you stop bugging yourself already?" Leila asked me, pushing her glasses up with her index finger, the eyes behind it looking stern and concerned. "She stole the blue star, so what, that stuff happens. We just have to make sure we get it back and stop that stupid criminal organisation." A few strands of blonde hair fell in her face.

"I know that, Leila." I said, softly smiling. "I want to. It's just…"
"She beat ya!" Frankie yelled. "A girl beat you! Hahaha!" He sang.
"That's enough Frankie; we were all listening with our mouths open to what happened." Uncle Sean said.
Frankie nodded. "Sorry Uncle Sean, I won't tell Joe he lost from a girl and lost the blue star again."
Uncle Sean turned around.

"When you can hear it…"

I groaned again.

Who was that girl, with the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen.
Wait? What?
She was the most annoying person I had ever seen!

I groaned once again.

"For heavens sake Joe! Get over it!" Kevin told me, putting his stuff away. "Go do something useful!"

To please them (and myself) I went upstairs, to the main house. I stalked through the kitchen and grabbed my jacket from a chair in the kitchen.
Maybe some fresh air would help me out...

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"I need the money!" the girl whispered hoarse, tears fell from pleading silver eyes.

He didn't even seem to notice

"you get the money when I get what I want." He replied coldly.

"I already got you what you want! I got you the bloody blue sapphire!" She hissed through her teeth. She knew the huge amount of money she would've gotten for that thing. If only he hadn't such a grip on her, if only she never met him.
Then again, if she never would've met him, she would have visited the museum by day.

"I wasn't talking about the blue star." He said. Looking at her with cold blue eyes, reminding her of the stone.
"I want the diamond, the diamond that's coming in tomorrow... When I get that, you'll get your reward."

"That's ridiculous!" She half-screamed.
Faster then thought possible, she was grabbed by her throat and pushed painfully against the wall.
"I will make out what's ridiculous and what's not. Or do you want me to make it clearer?" He growled.

She grimaced. "Do you want me to die? If I do you won't get your precious diamond."
He slammed her head once again against the wall. "I'll be the one to decide if you live or not. I'll be the one that will decide whether you will get the stone or not. I'll be the one to make the choice for your precious ones."

Horror appeared in her eyes. "Don't, please! I'll get the diamond." She whispered, his hand blocking her air supply.

He loosened her grip on her, making her body drop down on the ground.

"I do it, you know I'm the best, just promise me-"she breathed. "-promise I'll get the money."

He stared down at her. "I know you're the best, that's why you're mine. Like I said, you'll get your reward when I get the diamond."
Then, without warning, He pulled her up and pushed her towards the door.

"Now get out. I'll recon you know the way out?" He told her, while turning around and walking away.

She groaned. "It's for her… I do it for her." She chanted, reaching up and pulling herself to her feet.
She winced, he had hit her harder then she'd thought.

She pulled open the door and quickly went outside, closing her eyes against the bright sunlight.

She sighed. She hadn't gotten what she came for. Now it would be even harder to come round this month. Heck, it would be hard enough getting through this week.

"Damn it, Maria, you're so stupid." She muttered to herself, walking out of the alley. Pulling her black jacket tighter around her body, already fading away in her surroundings.

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Joe PoV

Joe kicked away a stone. Making it shoot across the street. A woman with two children hanging on her arms looked at him with a very annoyed expression.

He put his hands in the pockets of his jacket. The wind messing with his hair.
He sighed. What was he so worried about?

That he let the girl, and the blue star, get away?

No, not really.

That she taunted him, and like Frankie had said, beat him?

Nah…

Joe sighed and looked up at the clouded sky. Usually Kevin was the deep one, but today, the sky seemed to represent the way he felt right now.

He walked to the grand-square. There was a market, everywhere merchants praised their merchandise. Calling for people to buy their items.
Somehow, the sight of people doing their daily purchases calmed Joe down.
He looked at a woman arguing about the price of some oranges. He saw a man chatting with a young girl who was putting his vegetables in a bag, happily chatting back.

Somewhere else, a little girl took a bite from a pear the merchant gave her, to see if she liked it.
Joe smiled at her excited expression as she asked her father if they could buy some of the 'sweet, weird looking apples'.

He himself stopped to look at some books, Nick's birthday was coming up, and he picked up a promising looking book saying: 'technology for expert-dummies'. Nick would see the humour in that and it would give him a nice evening of reading.

To his left, a familiar silver colour caught his attention.
At first, he didn't bother to look, until he realised what exactly was so familiar about the silver flash.

He completely forgot the book as he looked at the black haired girl coming out of the alley. Noticing her limp figure
he looked more careful, trying to get a view of her as she scanned the area.

It was her; he'd recognise that unusual colour everywhere.

The confidence and the smirk from last night on the other hand, were gone.
His spy instincts told him to follow her, 'technology for expert-dummies' still lying on the counter.

She crossed the square rather fast. People didn't even seem to notice her. How strange, Joe thought.
He followed her, careful not to let anybody notice.
She walked into a shabby looking street, her black hair blowing in the wind.

She looked around, making Joe hide around the corner.

When he looked again, she was gone.

Joe figured she probably had gone in to some house. He just had to figure out witch. That wouldn't be hard, for Danger that was.

He swiftly climbed up the drainpipe and decided he would just listen at windows. Nobody would notice, he hoped.

After hearing a television, a very angry father, someone singing, a very angry mother and some guy playing a video game he heard the voice that had burned itself in his brain last night.
Once again, he'd recognise it everywhere.

"Mackenzie, can you say this?" He heard her say.

Luckily for him, she was on the highest floor of the third house. With a bit of luck, he would be able to get a look inside.

His vision was upside-down, but very adorable.

The girl, it was definitely the girl from the museum, was sitting cross legged in the middle of the room. On her lap were a book and a small girl. She seemed about Frankie's age.

"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow" said Mackenzie, beaming at the thief-girl.
Joe was dumbstruck, again, Romeo and Juliet?

"That's it Kenzie, you're doing great." The girl praised her warmly, it was clear this Mackenzie was very dear to her.
"This here is a really famous line, it's said by Juliet, as she waits for her Romeo: O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
The small girl started giggling and the thief-girl smiled.
"I'm hungry."

The thief-girl sighed and closed the book. "I know Kenzie, I am too, I'll se what I can get okay?"
Mackenzie, or Kenzie, nodded eagerly. Patiently observing the older girl as she walked away to the back of the room, where Joe couldn't see her.

Joe also waited patiently, wondering who the little girl was. And of course, who the girl self was.
She didn't seem like a criminal. Opposite of it. She took care of what probably was her sister. Where were her parents?

The girl walked back into Joe's vision. "Look Kenzie, pizza. You like that, don't you?" She said. Showing two slices of pizza.

They both took a slice of pizza, Mackenzie eating eagerly, the girl taking only small bites. "You want more Kenzie?"
"Yes! Please…" said little Mackenzie and accepted the pizza-piece from her older sister, who watched her with a smile, but Joe could've sworn he heard her stomach rumble.

"Kenzie, I will be going away again tonight." She suddenly said.
"Kenzie doesn't like it when you are away; it is so dark and cold without you."
"I know that Kenzie… But I have to; promise me you'll be good." She asked.
"I'm always good, but I'll miss you!" she softly said.
"I know sweetie, but it's necessary."

Joe listened very carefully, what was she going to do this night, leaving her sibling she obviously loved very much, alone?
He wondered if she went to go out stealing again, which was a proper solution. However he didn't understand why they lived so sober. She stole a bloody sapphire. It was worth way more then a small apartment and two slices of pizza.
Did the person that hurt her previously, when he had seen her coming out of that alley, also take the sapphire? Did she work for this person, or made this person make her steal for him?

"What are you going to do?" Little Mackenzie asked.
"Something that will get us more milk and pizza Kenzie, if he keeps his promise and doesn't hurt…"

"Something important, I'll tell you about it later." She finished, stroking the girl's straw blonde hair.
Joe knew enough and climbed down.
He had a lot to think about.

The sky had cleared, but dangerous looking thunderclouds threatened this peaceful blue. Joe didn't notice it once again represented exactly how he felt.

''—''—''—''—''—''

"Joe! Finally, there you are! We got the rest of the information about the mission!" The others yelled at me when I came walking in.
I decided to keep what I discovered to myself for a little while longer.

"We found out that our Organisation is controlled by one person." Nick started.
"His men are very faithful, or very scared." Kevin continued.
"He's got people everywhere in the country, this is big time work!' Leila said.
"The man's an evil genius." Frankie yelled excited.
"We're assigned to help with rolling up this organisation, our mission right now, is to catch that thief-girl, after that. We'll be going after people higher up in the organisation." Uncle Sean smoothly finished.

I stared at them. "Did you guys practise this?" I asked.
My brothers started laughing and Leila answered smiling: "No, actually, we didn't."
"Are you guys coming with me this time?" I asked Kevin and Nick.
Nick nodded. "Yeah, we're better as a team. We've got enough people at headquarters to help us."

"Cool." I said. They agreed.
"Nice to see you're back to normal Danger." Kevin said.

"yeah."

that wasn't true. What my family, including Leila, just told me had me thinking even more.
Very faithful… I thought, or very scared.
I guessed at the second option. The girl didn't seem, cruel, evil enough to be a bad guy. I wanted to bet the organisation leader had threatened her. With a little sister that close, it wouldn't have been hard to get her on his side.

Joe groaned.

This was going to be one hell of a mission.

''—''—''—''—''—''

"Okay, remember, when the girl gets here. Only focus on getting her. Not the diamond." Uncle Sean said through the headsets.

"Roger." "Roger." "We know! I mean, Roger."

I saw Nick roll his eyes from across the Gemstone-section in the museum. I could almost hear Leila do the same.
"Focus Danger!"
"Sorry! I mean, Roger!"

"I pick up something." Leila said. "I think she's coming your way guys. Go and get her. Over and out." None of us could hear the other now.

I watched anxiously, wondering if I should've told my brothers what I found out and what I suspected about the girl we were about to attack.

From across the room, Nick stared at the door, waiting too.

I couldn't see Kevin, who was hiding up at the ceiling, because the girl had surprised me from there last time, but I knew he was there.

I was the only one to see the moving shadow, because I was the only wan looking for it.

"Nice seeing you again." I told the shadow. "Really, though it would be nice to know your name."

Out of the shadows stepped the thief-girl. This time the smirk from last night was back on her face.
"I should've known." She said, walking casually towards the diamond, lifting the glass and taking the white stone.
"I'm curious, why are you here?" she asked, examining the stone.
"Actually, I'm here for you."
"How flattering, why?"

I wanted to compose a reply, but Nick got a heck of me.
"We're arresting you." He said, while Kevin dropped from the ceiling.
I looked at her; I knew it wasn't her fault.
"Well, will you look at that? I always liked Charlie's angels when I was younger. Now I finally get to see them in real life." The girl smiled. "Just never imagined them like this."
She smirked at me. "Can't do it on your own, Danger?"
"I can, but I can't."
"Confusing sentence, but I get what you mean. Spy thing, right? If I learned one thing on the streets, it's that you never leave a team mate, right? I guess… Good thing I don't have a team." She shrugged.

"To bad we do." Kevin said and jumped for her. She easily avoided him, making the path towards the exit clear.

"Goodbye, Angels!" I heard her harp voice laugh.

"Damn. Come on guys, after her!" Nick said.
We followed the girl through several centuries and lost her.
"Where'd she go?" Kevin exclaimed.
"That way!" Nick pointed towards an open door, revealing a staircase.

It was a good thing I was the fastest of us. Because of this I was the first to reach the rooftop.
She was there, looking at the road below.
"Guess I was wrong when I thought there would be a way out of this here." She stated, turning around and facing me.
In the light of the moon, or maybe the light from the stairs. I could see her face clearly for the first time.
She had a heart shaped face, black hair blowing around her. Though, something about her seemed rough and hard. She obviously hadn't got a peaceful life.
Her skin looked pale in the weak light, making her lips look almost dark crimson instead of red.
Though, her eyes shone like more beautiful diamonds then the one in her hand.

"Go!" I said.

The defeated look on her face got replaced by surprise.
"What?"

"I said go! I know you need that stone. It's for your sister." I confessed. As surprise made place for sadness.
"Thank you." she said simply, but I could feel her reaching out to me, in a certain way I didn't quite understood. She turned around, now standing at the edge of the roof, preparing to jump and get away. I smiled. She was only trying to protect her family. Like I did.

Unfortunately, speaking about my family, there were my brothers.

Kevin slammed open the door with so much force, it made me jump.
The girl too, making her fall down uncoordinated.

She wouldn't make such a fall…

Without thinking I threw myself towards the edge of the building, flat on my stomach, reaching over the edge.
By a miracle, I managed to grasp her hand. I tried to support myself with my other hand while I stared into scared silver eyes.
She grasped my hand tightly, the only thing keeping her from falling in that dark distance.

I got her; she was safe, sort of.

"Danger! Nice work, pull her up so we can arrest her." Nick said, joining Kevin.

I looked down at the girl, horror in her eyes. She couldn't be arrested, who would take care of her sister. The man who threatened and hurt her would kill little Mackenzie.
I stared at her.

"My name is Wing." She whispered.

Then, she let go of my hand.
I watched her fall down, my fingers reaching for her. Once again she faded away in the shadows. The shadows of the depth beneath me.

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Cliff-hanger… :) Sorry!
I just thought the story got a bit boring, here's your action now.

So, got any thoughts about this. If you do, be kind and make me aware of them!
Love you guys!
Xx Silver…
and yeah, I watched Charlie's Angel's while writing this. :)