A/n: I hope you like it, there will be one last chapter after this so it isn't the end. Warning: cursing- the f-word is said once.

"I really wish you weren't here." Ian sighed again. Caeli couldn't think of anything to say. She just sat there. "At least say something."

"Say what? I don't even really know why I'm here except that I feel I have to be." They sat in silence for a few moments. Caeli fiddled with her hands a bit and said, "I'm sorry Ian." Ian could think of nothing to say. "For a lot of things but most of all for you ending up here."

"I'm sorry about that too but it was purely my own fault, I wasn't thinking clearly because of the treasure." He looked tired, there were bags under his eyes and his formerly golden hair had turned yellow.

"Why did you want the treasure? I mean you're rich aren't you?" Ian was a rather mysterious guy but this was probably what eluded her the most about him.

"Not that rich, Ben only got 1 of the treasure and look how rich he is. Not to mention the history behind it, some of the things date back to the early BC's."

"Why are you so interested in American history?" Caeli wasn't very patriotic or anything, she liked Scotland but as well as any other boring country. Japan or Canada always seemed cooler to her. Ian looked at her surprised, and to her astonishment began to laugh at her,

"That isn't all American history, America didn't even come around until the 1600's and then it wasn't a country but colonies. How are you so well uninformed?" His eyes had a bit of spark back in them, and for a moment he looked younger. Caeli blushed, she hadn't meant the treasure but now she had embarrassed herself, again.

"I didn't mean the treasure, I meant the clues and all that." She murmured.

"Well America was became the closest thing to democracy since the ancient Greek times."

"Monarchies seemed to work so well, they should have just stayed with them." He raised a blond eyebrow,

"Monarchies did nothing but steal from their already poor subjects, and the peasants starved. It's what started the French Revolution." Caeli racked her brain for another sort of government, anything to not lapse back in silence, she fiddled with her hair,

"What about communism? From what I remember my teacher saying it sounded good." She really didn't know what communism was; she always got it confused with capitalism.

"The idea I guess was ok but everybody is to power hungry and greedy to live in a society such as that."

"Like you?" She said teasingly, he smiled a sad smile,

"Like me." He gave her a look of despair,

"Ian, you may be greedy but I think you're still a good person!" He chuckled,

"You don't, you're just saying it to get in my pants." Caeli looked straight into his eyes,

"What the bloody hell! Is that what you think!" Her anger was rising, before she burst out into the tears that usually came with her anger she stalked out of the room, many people were staring after her, then stared over at Ian. She ran to the car and opened the door and then closed it much harder than needed. "Fuck." Tears were known running down her cheek. She pushed down the gas and the moment she was on a highway she pressed the gas petal down really hard, going about 100 mph. She saw flashing lights of blue and red in front of her so she instantly slowed. Caeli pulled into a parking lot in front of a 7 eleven and wiped the tears off her cheek. She took in a few deep breaths to calm herself down then she ran her fingers through her hair. Once she was calmed down she got out of the car and went in; she came out with a bag of Reese's cups, the kind that had a lot of miniatures in it. She instantly started eating them; they had a sort of calming effect on her. A tall man with short black hair exited the 7 eleven, he looked around casually then walked up to her car. He made a motion for her roll down her window, she did thinking he needed directions. Instead she got a gun pointed at her,

"Remember me?" He grinned. She looked at him carefully- it was one of Ian's men. "Well my name's Marco and you're going to come with me. Slowly exit the car and follow me." She did as he said and they came to a van, which he opened the back of and shoved her in. He then closed the doors and locked them. He got into the driver's seat and they drove off. Luckily Caeli still had her Reese's cups with her and she started eating them again, not caring about what was going to happen. Marco started talking on the phone with someone,

"Yes I have her, now we can ransom her. Ben has a lot of cash now, he will give any amount for her back." Ben probably would too he was annoying but also a good person. Though why Abigail was attracted to him she failed to see. He hung up and dialed another number, "'ello Ben, I got some'un 'oed interest you. Caeli is now in my 'ands. If you 'ant her back then you'd best pay a 'ansom of 5 mil. Meet me at 'hat abandoned factory on Lake streat." He said in a terrible cockney accent. "'an come alone or else she goes under." He hung up,

"That was a terrible accent." He glared at her through the rear view mirror,

"Shut it or I'll kill ya. I only need you for so long." Caeli rolled her eyes and switched to a cross-legged position. Something was stabbing her leg, she took it out of her pocket, and it was a pen. She checked her other pocket and found some paper, she ripped it into two parts on one she wrote something quickly and on the other she wrote a bit more slowly taking care of her words. Caeli wrapped the first one around the second and wrote on it: Abigail. She put it in her pocket and then munched on her Reese's cups. Waiting for what happened next, no use worrying about what would happen in the future.

After about a half-hour the van stopped and Marco led her at gunpoint out of the van. At least it wasn't quite cold yet- it was a nice day with a slight wind. Caeli never really paid attention to the weather but she did now, she might not come out of this alive if Ben went to the police. She took a deep breath and hoped he'd know better. She looked up at the warehouse it was kinda creepy looking, a place where you would expect things like this to happen. They went inside, it was in very bad shape with graffiti and holes all around the interior.

Ben was already there, no police or at least that Abigail could see. He held out a check and Marco took it from him and spent a few moments looking at it, to see if it was real, he put down his gun. Then all of a sudden a bunch of cops run towards him, his hand moves faster than him and shoots them. Caeli takes the moment to jump on him and grab at the gun. She wrestled with him, getting the upper hand for the first few moments because of the surprise but soon he overpowers her. He was quite a bit stronger than she was. He flung her off his back and she crashed into the wall, just missing the window of broken glass. Ben tries for the gun but he was too weak as well and he gets flung through the window of broken glass. He was screaming but when he hit the glass he immediately stopped screaming, Caeli wondered if he was dead, the thought made her sad. She had never really warmed to him but he was still a good person. With the last of her almost nonexistent strength she ran towards Marco but all of a sudden she feels a great impact in her stomach that sends her flying back into the wall.

Marco ran out of the building and Caeli faintly heard his van starting and driving away. She looked down; her stomach was covered in blood. And she was starting to feel the pain- the adrenaline rush was wearing off. Her eyelids grew heavy and the pain intense soon her consciousness eased her off into darkness.

A/n: I hope this is a good cliffhanger please review. And thank you to all my reviews and readers- you make my world go 'round. Starts humming the cabaret song money makes the world go 'round