Sorry this took so long and the next chapter may take longer. So please forgive me.

"Jane!" Kitty gasped and tried to shut the door so she could bolt it. Hoping desperately that would have held against Jane's supernatural strength. Jane easily pushed open the door and stepped into the room. She surveyed the room and took in the cheap furniture and the slight chipping of the walls.

"Your place is charming Catherine. But I would have thought that the Empire would have treated the heroine of the century better than this." She turned to Kitty and smiled revealing some teeth that seemed a bit unnatural.

"I didn't want to attract attention."

"It didn't seem to work. I'm here." Jane sat down on a couch and made herself comfortable.

"What do you want Jane?" asked Kitty defiantly.

"Tsk. Tsk. Is that a way you treat a guest? Could you get me a glass of water Kitty dear?"

Kitty got her a glass of water and she took a drink. "Ahhh. That's good after walking under that sun."

"What do you want?" asked Kitty again.

"I have a proposition for you." Jane looked around the room and noticed a spider hiding in the corner. She muttered a spell and the spider started to change into its true form. Kitty gave a gasp at what Bartimaeus really looked like before he changed into Ptolemy with an outraged look on his face.

"Hey! What was the big idea changing a spirit to his real form?"

"I wanted to see if you really as harmless as you trying to portray. Now be gone demon."

"Hey!" said kitty interrupting Bartimaeus's reply. "You don't order my servants around and he stays right where he is."

Jane waved her hand dismissing the matter. "Okay he can stay. Now as I was saying…"

Just then Nathaniel came out of the bedroom asking where the bathroom was. When he saw Jane he stopped short and looked at the occupants of the room puzzled.

Jane's eyebrows went up in surprise. "You're alive Nathaniel? Everyone thought you died when the Staff broke."

"I did die," he said dryly. Obviously he didn't want to talk to her.

"Then how come you look alive?"

"Kitty had Bartimaeus pluck me from the land of Death and we fixed the problem of me being dead." He started fiddling with the ring on his left hand and Jane noticed the ring on Kitty's left hand.

"You got married? I do see how that could fix you problem if you had the right incantation and runes."

"We didn't have a problem."

"Then why bring him back to the land of the living incase you wanted to…"

"What are you doing here Jane?" asked Nathaniel clenching his fists he didn't like where Jane was taking that conversation.

"I had a proposition for Catherine as I was just explaining before you walked in."

"After you've tried to kill her?"

Jane gave a laugh that almost made the room colder. "That was before I had thought about her usefulness."

"Usefulness for what?" asked Kitty crossing her arms. Even though there was no way she goes to help her it would be useful to know what she was doing so she could later tell the Empire.

"Usefulness for my plan to help the Empire of course."

"And how is killing Council members helping the Empire?"

"That's only the first step," said Jane with a wave of her hand as if it was unimportant.

"And what will you do once that's done?"

"Now I can't be giving away the whole plan," said Jane as she gave a cruel smile.

"And why would I join you to 'help' the Empire?"

"We're going to rid the Empire of all it's impurities and put a new leader at the top and with your influence in the council though I know you aren't on it we could purge the Empire of all it's weaknesses."

"But why would I join?" asked Kitty getting annoyed.

"Maybe because the new leader is someone you used to know."

"But, I know you."

"Oh, you flatterer. I'm not going to be the Emperor or rather the Empress. No, a once dear friend of yours. Does the name Danielle Hoose mean anything to you?"

Kitty looked at Jane in horror. "She's alive?"

"Yes, I quite am Kitty," said a voice behind her.

Kitty looked around and saw in the door way a long lost best friend with an evil smirk on her face.

"How's it going Kitty?"