Er… hi everyone.

It's been a while, hasn't it… so sorry.

TRO was swamped with her summer life as a camp counselor, dealing with children of all ages with… issues of all types.

As for DA, well, she was busy too. You know how summers can be.

And now we're in college, and we're living in different states, and DA has the dreaded 7am class and far too many bus rides to and from school every day.

So updates will be kind of difficult.

Sorry.

We're working on the next chapter right now, and it should be up soon, but we make no promises, but know that the chapters will be posted, just not on a schedule.

As for the last chapter's 'Hairspray' references, it's these lines:

"Oh look, Reid and Tyler are back," Katie said, interrupting Chase's story about him and 'the boys' watching tapes of his grandfather's Baltimore based TV show from the 1960s, "I'm going to go…. do something…. in their general direction."

The 'Baltimore based TV show from the 1960s' is the 'Corny Collins Show', which is hosted by Corny Collins.

SilverLight05, sorry it took so long, and yes, the girls will tell the guys about their powers… soon. kaayla lovely, glad you liked. AnnabelleLee13194, yes, poor, poor Reid… as for when the guys find out, soon... and about who sent Katie the darkling, you made DA and me realize something important, and just who sent Katie the darkling is someone no one would expect, but we're not going to say who. That's something that won't be revealed for a while… but it'll be interesting. Nahirta, all the SOI will be together soon. We've got some things planned… just you wait!

Anyhoo, here's the next chapter!

No Peace And Quiet… For ANYONE


The morning after Katie's harrowing experience with the darkling in the showers, and her amusing run-in with Reid right after, found Katie and Jenny getting ready for their first day of school at the ungodly hour of 6am.

"Ugh! I hate school uniforms!" Jenny growled, standing in front of her mirror above the dresser, struggling with her school-issue tie as she tried in vain to get it to lie straight, "Tell me Katie, why did we leave California again?" She called to her roommate who was getting ready in their tiny bathroom.

"Because we want to get into Harvard." Katie muttered sarcastically, grabbing her eyeliner pencil from her large silver makeup bag that was perched precariously on the white porcelain sink.

Jenny rolled her eyes at the mirror, "Since when do we want to go to Harvard?" She muttered.

"Since TRO and DA got bored and decided to send us into an alternate universe where we are descendants of the 'lost sixth and seventh families of Ipswich'," Katie leaned out of the bathroom and looked at Jenny, "That's when."

Jenny laughed as Katie pushed off the doorframe and went back into the bathroom, "Oh, right."

Though they didn't want to be, by six-thirty, both Katie and Jenny were ready for their day. They left the dorm building, school bags, blazers, and umbrellas in hand, and made the trek through the dreary, misty forest to the school building's cafeteria where they would grab some breakfast before classes began.

The large student cafeteria was quiet when they arrived, considering classes didn't start until eight, and it was barely seven, so Katie and Jenny quickly made their way through the breakfast buffet, put their meals on their school tab, and grabbed seats at a small table near the back.

Jenny and Katie were quietly eating their breakfasts when Sarah joined them, "Good morning." The blonde greeted.

"Morning." Jenny greeted through bites of syrup covered pancake.

"Morning," Katie greeted as well, looking around the cafeteria for the girl's roommate, "Where's Kate?"

Sarah took a sip of her coffee and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear before answering, "Still sleeping. She came back pretty late last night."

Jenny chuckled, "Spending some time with Pogue?"

The Bostonian nodded, "It looks like she and Pogue are having some problems." She told them quietly so the other early birds in the room wouldn't hear.

"I assume Chase is involved." Katie commented.

Sarah nodded a yes.

After the three girls finished their breakfasts, they left the cafeteria to go pick up their books and schedules from the main school building.

"Oh I just love this weather!" Katie commented happily, opening her umbrella to protect herself from the falling misty rain as they left the cafeteria, "It's just so lovely, don't you think so Jen?"

Jenny on the other hand opened her umbrella, and glared maliciously at the falling water, "No." She answered abruptly.

They picked up their schedules from the main office, and were mildly surprised to find out that, due to the fact that their graduating class was very small, they all had pretty much the same schedules, except for Katie who had a photography class instead of film like Sarah and Jenny.

Their first class of the day, along with almost half of their very small senior class, was American Lit with Mr. Bishop.

Katie and Jenny took their seats down the row from Pogue and Caleb, Reid sitting across the aisle, and Sarah sitting in the row behind the other girls, Kate joining the blonde right before class began.

"Good morning." Mr. Bishop greeted, putting his briefcase under his desk.

Before beginning class, Mr. Bishop told Caleb to go to Provost Higgins' office after class, garnering strange looks at Spenser Academy's golden boy, who was shoe-in for valedictorian, by the rest of the class.

School had been in session for five minutes.

It had to be some sort of record.

Either way, you'd think that someone like Reid or Aaron would have gotten the honor first.

"Now," Continued Mr. Bishop as he turned to the blackboard and grabbing a piece of chalk, "We are going to study four American contemporary writers of fiction."

"Yay!" Jenny cheered quietly at the prospect of new books to read.

"Cormac McCarthy," He said, writing the names across the powdery board in a sloppy scrawl, "Tim O'Brien, Kent Haruf, and last but not least, Stephen King."

Reid, who had been vacillating between glaring at Caleb and trying to sleep, decided to comment, "Yeah! Dreamcatcher was the shit."

The entire class laughed, and Mr. Bishop turned to Reid, "Thank you Mr. Garwin, but no," He said with a sarcastic lit to his voice, "My choice is The Shining."

Reid merely shrugged nonchalantly, 'to each his own then' his message.

"Oooh an alcoholic teacher from a prestigious New England prep school," Katie couldn't stop herself from adding, "Are you trying to tell us something Mr. Bishop?"

The class laughed again, and Reid tipped his head to Katie.

"Well it seems that someone knows the novel's plot," Mr. Bishop said, gesturing to the brunette, "But it does not in any way relate to me."

Katie merely shrugged, and Mr. Bishop continued with his lesson.


TRO and DA will now interrupt this young fanfic for a Simms Family Fun Fact:

FACT: Noted surfer Clark Sims disappeared in Borneo in 1972 while searching for the perfect wave. It is reported he was the last person to be devoured by cannibals in the 20th Century.

TRO: 'He's a… surfer? Okay…'

DA: 'He was eaten by cannibals? Cool!'

Now we will return you to your young fanfic.


When lunch hour rolled around, Jenny made her way through the crowded cafeteria alone, Katie off doing Gods know what.

Easily spotting Caleb, Kate, Pogue, Tyler and Reid, sitting at a table on the other side of the large room, she walked over with her food filled lunch tray, taking a seat between Caleb and Tyler.

"Hi Jenny," Tyler greeted, "How have your classes been?"

Jenny shrugged, "It's school. What do you expect?"

"How does it compare to your old school?" Caleb asked.

"Not too different," Jenny answered, taking a bite of her sandwich, "Smaller classes, stadium seating, but that's about it."

Reid looked around the cafeteria, looking for the missing brunette who always seemed to be around when Jenny was, "Where's Katie?"

"No idea," She answered with a shrug as she swallowed a bite of sandwich, "Haven't seen her since she went off to photography."

The group ate their lunch, chatting lightly about classes and teachers, until Katie arrived, half way through the lunch hour.

"Hey guys." She greeted, putting her black messenger bag down and sliding into the empty seat next to Reid, digging into her lunch.

"What took you?" Jenny asked.

Katie rolled her brown eyes, "Guess who's in my photography class with me?" She asked, her tone making the answer apparent.

"Kira?" Reid guessed.

Katie nodded.

"Ouch."

"Someone up there must not be happy with you." Kate commented sympathetically after taking a sip of her soda.

"Yeah," Katie agreed in a sardonic tone, sharing a look with Jenny before discretely shifting her eyes skyward to hear some not-so-innocent whistling.

"Have you seen Sarah?" Caleb asked, not seeing the blonde.

Katie nodded "I ran into her on my way down here. She said something about going to the library."

"Library!? Where!?"

Rolling her eyes, Katie gestured with her left hand in a random direction, and before anyone knew it, Jenny was up and running.

The boy and Kate stared after her in silence as Katie nonchalantly filched some fries off Reid's plate, "Works every time." She stated with a chuckle.

"You know Katie, the library's that way." Kate said, pointing in the right direction to said room.

Katie looked up and nodded, "I know," and looked down at her watch, "Any second now." She commented.

"What?" Pogue asked.

"Five…. four… three… two…. one."

Then, the doors to the cafeteria slammed back open, and Jenny stomped back toward the table, glaring at the giggling brunette, and ignoring the rest of the slightly baffled table as she zoned in on her roommate.

"Not. Funny." She snapped, stopping in front of Katie.

Katie smiled, "I thought it was."

Sitting back down, she crossed her arms over her chest, "Lee Adama in a towel." She stated.

Katie started, but didn't get up, "Nice try Jenny." She smirked.

"Who's Lee Adama?" Kate asked curiously.

Jenny and Katie looked at each other, identical grins breaking out on their faces, previous animosity forgotten.

It was time to make another Battlestar Galactica fan!


After surviving their first day of school, Katie and Jenny found themselves lounging in their room, doing their homework.

"Jenny," Katie started, breaking the silence from her seat at her desk, already cluttered beyond belief and she had barely been here a week, with her feet propped on the small cart that the printer sat on as she worked on her math homework.

"What?" Jenny asked, not looking up from her workbook.

Katie leaned back in her chair, "I'm sad…"

Jenny looked over at her friend, "Why?"

"We're missing the locker room scene."

Jenny rolled her eyes and went back to her book, "Katie, if you want to see Reid naked that badly, I'm sure you can just ask him."

"Shut up!" Katie blushed, throwing a balled up piece of graph paper at her roommate's head.

She missed.

As usual.


The next day started like any normal Tuesday for Jenny: wake up, go to school, be bored for hours on end, eat lunch, and another class.

Then she would head back to the dorms, catch up on some reading, and get ready for her date.

At least, that's what Jenny wanted to do.

But unfortunately for her, Sarah and Kate had other plans.

After school, Jenny walked back to her dorm, intent on getting a couple hours of peace and quiet before getting ready.

She entered the dorm, and saw Katie lounging on her bed, reading book, iPod headphones in her ears, the small musical contraption playing her 'music of the week': Within Temptation and Nemesea. Glancing up when her roommate arrived, she waved once before going back to her book.

Jenny tossed her book bag on her bed, headed to her desk, and was in the process of booting up her computer to check her emails when she heard two consecutive knocks on the door.

She looked over at Katie, who was so engrossed with her book and music, that she didn't hear the door.

That, or she was just plain ignoring it.

Sighing, Jenny reluctantly got up and opened the door revealing a mischievous Kate and Sarah.

"Hi Jenny." Kate greeted as the two pushed their way into the dorm.

"We heard you have a date tonight." Sarah added, putting down a couple bags on the foot of Katie's bed.

The brunette pulled off her headphones and looked at her perplexed roommate, "I had nothing to do with this." She laughed.

"We just want to make sure everything goes well," Kate said, moving to the small closet on Jenny's side of the room.

Sarah nodded, "Caleb told me last night that Tyler hasn't gone on a date in umm…." She trailed off trying to remember what Caleb had told her.

"It's been a while." Kate finished.

Jenny nodded slowly, "How did you hear about this?" She shot a suspicious look to Katie.

"Wasn't me." She replied, holding her arms up in defense.

"Reid might have mentioned it." Kate laughed.

"Only a few dozen times."

Jenny rolled her eyes.

The four girls sat around the dorm, talking for a while, Kate still going through Jenny's wardrobe, when she looked at the clock on Katie's bedside table and gasped, "Jenny? What do you think you're doing? You have to get ready!"

Jenny raised an eyebrow at said clock, it was only 3:30, "I think I have some time…"

Sarah and Kate on the other hand, didn't think so.

With Katie watching on in amusement, the blonde and dark-skinned brunette grabbed an arm each, shoved her shower kit in her hands, and pushed Jenny right out the door in the direction of the showers.


Three hours of hair curling, nail painting, clothes changing later, Kate and Sarah finally deemed Jenny ready for her date.

Jenny on the other hand, wanted a minute to be left alone.

After pouring through Jenny's closet, Kate finally picked an outfit for the black haired girl, with dark, low rise jeans, heeled boots (from Katie's closet), a silver tank top, and black leather jacket.

"So Sarah," Katie started, "How'd your date with Caleb go?"

Sarah smiled, remembering the previous night happily, "It was great. He asked me to Fall Fest."

"He did? That's great!" Kate said excitedly, "We should all go shopping and get dresses together!"

"Hold up there a sec Kate, Jenny and I don't even have dates yet." Katie reminded.

Kate waved a hand in dismissal, "Date or not, we all have to go Fall Fest. It's the first dance of the year! We'll go shopping tomorrow after school." She decided, the girls eventually agreeing with her.


Jenny was sitting at her desk, Sarah finishing her makeup when they heard the knock on the door at a little before 6:30.

Katie hopped off her bed where she and Kate were looking through a magazine, and opened the door, revealing a slightly nervous Tyler Simms, "Hi Tyler!"

"Uh… Hi Katie. Is Jenny ready to go?"

Smirking, Katie leaned back into the dorm to see Jenny struggling to get away from Sarah, who was steadfastly working on finishing the last touches to her makeup, "She'll be just a sec."

Sarah deemed Jenny ready a minute later, and as soon as she could escape the blonde and her eyeliner pencil, Jenny pushed past Katie, and was out the door, "Hi Tyler," She rushed, "Let's go. Now."

"Have fun you two!" Kate called from where she and Sarah joined Katie at the door, the three leaning out into the hallway to call after them.

"Don't stay out to late!" Sarah added with amusement as Jenny pulled the embarrassed teen down the hall.

"We won't wait up!" Katie laughed as they turned the corner.


And that's the chapter!

Not as long as the last though...

Hoped you all enjoyed it!

Here's a teaser for the next chapter:

"Welcome back Mr. Simms."
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Mr. Simms? Bring your dates here often Tyler?"

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Happy Reading,
DA and TRO