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Hope you enjoy… this is sort of just filler and explaining until they plot makes it slow winding process into the words. For you non-aussies, Roxy is a big surf brand, and Havaianas are the most comfortable thongs ever (that's the shoe to all u americans thinking otherwise.)

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Isabel

Laughing all the way up the stairs, I shove the last of my toast in my mouth, and duck my head into mum and Jimmy's room and say good morning. Mum smiles and winks, and I just laugh her off and go and get changed. Neriah looks really good in that skirt. She can keep it, I don't wear it anyway. I pull out a pair of denim shorts and a pink Roxy t-shirt. Putting them on, I fish my white Havaianas from under my bed, and shove them on as I walk back downstairs.

The phone rings as I walk into the kitchen where the others are. I pick it up on the second ring, just as the Matt is about to stand up. I wave him down.

'Hello, Becket family, Isabel speaking.'

'Um, hello. This is Rob Thallimar. I was wondering if I could speak to Jimmy please.' A shiver runs down my spine at the sound of his voice, and I tell him to wait just a second while I go get him.

Sprinting up to the top of the stairs, I yell at Jimmy to pick up the phone in the bedroom. When I hear him answer it, I run back down and hang up the other phone.

Sitting down at the table with the other, I must look pale, because they all seem to know who it was. Arkarian places a reassuring hand on my leg and smiles at me.

'His thoughts don't give any indication of him being evil Isabel,' I look at Matt for confirmation, and he just gives a shrug while nodding his head.

'It's true. I don't get it though. The way Rochelle used to talk about him, I was convinced he would be evil right to the core. He isn't. I think he honestly is just looking for her.' I look my brother like he's just grown three heads, and he shrugs again. 'Don't get me wrong, I still don't trust him. I just don't know why his thoughts don't betray anything that has happened in his past.'

'Rochelle couldn't have, I don't know, made it all up could she? Neriah asks uncertainly.

Before I can say anything, Arkarian jumps in, 'I trusted Rochelle. I'm not going to stop trusting her now.'

Matt looks at her, 'You should have heard her talk about him Neriah. She was dead frightened of him. There was no way she was making it up. She used to get edgy just talking about him.'

I nod, suddenly remembering the time Rochelle and me were in the Labyrinth. We were both faced with our fears. She saw her father. She was too scared to move nearly. You can't make up fear like that. I tell Neriah what I was thinking.

'I don't think she made it up either. I'm just trying to think of any explanation to what is happening,' she admits.

Jimmy interrupts our discussion by coming down the stairs. He looks worried.

'Rob's going to check with the school tomorrow. They know about you knowing her. The school can give out details for Ethan, Matt, Dillon, anyone. The teachers will also know about you,' he said indicating me, 'and Neriah. He may even want to talk to you about her. There isn't any way that he wont recognise you.'

'Won't they just say she died in a car accident like we told them, and then he'll want to see the police file or something. Will he even think about her friends right away? We only have a few months of school left!' I object.

Jimmy just shakes his head sadly, 'He has already thought about it. Rob's a smart one. He contacted the government already to see what schools are in the area. He found out details, and will be visiting first thing tomorrow. Even worse is that he was talking about finding her friends to see what she was like before trying to contact her.' I felt my stomach drop. 'The school will naturally tell him straight away about the 'accident', but I doubt he still wont want to talk to you guys.'

'I can organize a training session tomorrow!' Neriah pipes up!

'I can fake a sickie!' I try hopefully.

Jimmy looks torn, but Matt saves him from having to answer, 'It would seem too suspicious if you were both absent. If there are any members of the Order left in the school, it will seem odd. It will be made known that he is looking for Rochelle, and who knows what Mr. Carter told them all about her. We have to be very careful. If Isabel goes tomorrow, Neriah goes too. You will have to help each other if anything goes wrong.'

Arkarian agrees, 'I'll make sure we have others not too far away from the school, just in case.'

I frown at him. There isn't a need for this much security. It's just a man looking for his daughter. Well, sort of. He catches the look on my face, and sees the same one on Neriah's. He comes up to me, and puts his hand on my cheek, and then runs it through my hair. He sighs.

'Doesn't it seem just a little strange that he just turns up, after the battle, after she died, to find her? He was supposed to be in jail, and we can't find any thoughts that seem unusual. This is supposedly a cruel man, no heart. I think it would be naïve not to be extra careful around him.' There's something he isn't telling us. Something he suspects, but doesn't want to warn us about. My frown doesn't lessen, but Neriah and I agree to go to school the next day.

Matt

I can sense there's something else on Arkarian's mind, but I wait until later. I do agree with him though. I don't trust this man. No matter what his thoughts are telling, or not telling us.

'I have to go guys, I'll see you tonight?' says Neriah.

'Yep, cya later,' Isabel says.

I stand up, and bring her into my arms, 'Say hi to my dad for me, and I'll talk to you tonight.' I kiss her gently, and whisper in her ear, 'I love you.'

Now it's her turn to kiss me, 'I love you more.'

Before giving me a chance to argue, she waves goodbye to Jimmy and Arkarian, and disappears.

'How's her training going anyway?' Arkarian asks. He was in Athens a lot in the few months after the final battle, but since then, he hasn't been needed as much. He has been co-ordinating most things here in Angel Falls and Veridian instead. Veridian has now been restored to pretty much its original state. After the construction of the memorial for Lorian, the workers moved down to work in the Ancient City. Several levels had to be completely reconstructed after the Wren had attacked, and the flood released.

'Dartemis is pleasantly surprised at how fast she's learning everything. What took me over six months has taken her only a few. Although she is so much more willing to learn than I was, and the she has already had to learn how to generally control her own powers. King Richard is also helping to train her.

'She'll make a great Tribunal member,' Isabel adds approvingly. I smile, knowing that everyone is just as proud of her as I am.

Isabel stands up now, 'I've got lots of homework to catch up on. Where are we meeting tonight?'

'Ethan's house at 7.30. We can finalize what we are going to do tomorrow.' I tell her.

She blows a kiss to Arkarian, and runs upstairs to her room. My mum comes in not long afterwards, and offers us a cup of tea, smiling at Arkarian. I'm glad that we were finally able to tell her the truth about us. Not long after the final battle, Dartemis restored all memories she had of him, and we sat down with her and filled the blanks. It took her a few weeks to get used to the idea that Arkarian is over 600 years old, even though he has the body of an eighteen year old. We also had to explain that the moment Isabel turns eighteen, in a little over a year, her body will stop ageing. She understood quite easily that I am an immortal. She realized that my father being one, it would be a given that I would be as well.

Laura Roberts was the next to find out. After Rochelle's death, we thought it would be easier for her to be supportive of Ethan and Shaun if she knew all the details. She wasn't as surprised as we thought she would be. She had always known there was a secret that her husband and son were hiding from her, although saving the world wasn't exactly what she thought it would be. Our powers are what seem to shock mum and Laura. Whenever we use our wings, or Isabel heals someone, or I shape-shift or control the elements, they just sit there amazed at what we can do. Ethan's visualizations are what continue to amaze and amuse. If he can be bothered to produce them anymore. I haven't had a chance to talk to Isabel about her talk with him last night. I hope it went well, and I haven't seen Ethan to give me any suspicion. It's just so sad that we were so close to getting the old Ethan back when Rob came into our lives.

After we finish our tea, Arkarian decides that it is time for him to leave.

'I'm going to look up as much about Mr. Thallimar as I can. I want to believe that Rochelle was telling the truth, but I need to know. I can't just ignore what's happening at the moment, someone has to be lying.' He seems determined, and now is the chance I've been waiting for to ask him.

'You think he could be altering his thoughts?' I press. I can't think of a way for him to do this. Unless…

'I don't think he's doing it himself,' he pauses, as if wondering how to say what's on his mind, 'I think the Order may have gotten to him.'

I nod, processing what he just said, 'So you think that someone who survived from the Order, who knows about Rochelle, found her father, got him out of jail, altered his thoughts, and then sent him to us?' It's a crazy thought. So crazy, he might actually be right.

He just shrugs, 'That's my theory. We don't know what Marcus told the Order about Rochelle. If he told them everything he knew, and then Marduke added what he knew about Rochelle, it would be a plan that even a low ranking Order member could come up with.'

I sigh, knowing he has a point, but make sure he doesn't inform his suspicions to anyone else except the Tribunal. We don't want to alarm anyone if there's a chance that Rob is just an ordinary guy. Although I believe this is wishful thinking.

'I'm going to go say goodbye to Isabel. I'll see you tonight Matt,' says Arkarian, interrupting my thoughts, and he walks out of the room. Leaving me, tossing his ideas over and over in my head.

I have to talk to my father about this, but he's busy. I decide to go to Athens and find someone who knows about the last of the Order. Then it hits me. Dillon.

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