Yeah, well, I changed my pen name to Independent Angel, 'cause it sounds better! Anyway, Chapter eight is called 'Rather be with you'.

The seven had already defeated the beast, and all of them came inside the brownstone. Theresa hugged Jay, finally being able to her life to him.

"I've missed you," she giggled. Jay smiled. Before he could say anything, Theresa's PMR began to ring.

"Hello?" She answered. She looked at the screen, seeing Vanessa in a horrified look.

"Theresa, you have to come help us! This man had broken into our hotel and taken Zac! You've got to help him!" Vanessa screamed. Theresa became horror struck, fearing for this.

"Zac…?" She whispered, terrified.

Theresa looked at all her tired friend, and the disappointed Jay standing in front of her.

"Jay…he's gone…" she said, tearing up. Atlanta over heard this and became completely concerned.

"So let's go find him, kick the dude's butt, and put everything back to normal," Atlanta smiled. Theresa nodded.

"But I wish it was that easy. I don't even know where to start! Wait…" Theresa paused, looking at a diagram of the city.

"When I first met Zac I knew something was going to happen. I put a tracking devise on him…I was planning to take it off him but I didn't get to," Theresa smiled. Jay, who was silent the whole time, was completely stunned on how much Theresa cared about Zac.

"So let's go find him," Jay slowly said. Theresa smiled lightly.

"Thanks, Jay. That really means a lot. I mean, Zac and I are only close friends and we broke up, but thankfully Vanessa and the others aren't mad at me."

"Wait, you broke up with him?" Jay asked, along with Atlanta, Archie and Neil. Theresa nodded.

"Yeah, I did and it broke my heart just seeing him leave," she said. Theresa then grabbed her coat and ran outside, as the rain started drizzling.

XX

It had been five hours since Theresa had left, and Atlanta, Archie and Herry had gone to help Theresa out. Neil, Jay and Odie had stayed behind, using Odie's computer to track him down.

"I still can't believe you dumped Zac," Atlanta said, talking to Theresa. Herry nodded.

"Yeah; you looked so happy with him, but you do like Jay, too, right?" He asked. Theresa nodded, still running and headed for the outskirts of town.

"Okay, I broke up with a celebrity, so what? I treated him like a normal person and he seemed pretty happy about it. Besides; I have Jay to hang around with," Theresa said, finally stopping from running.

They had entered a building, a familiar building – the one when polyphemius (sp?) had captured Odie and Jay.

Herry had slightly opened the door and found Cronus talking to Zac. His hands were bound, but his feet were still on the ground.

"…and I know about you dating a certain Theresa," Cronus sniggered. Zac frowned, and didn't say anything.

"Oh, c'mon, you know who I'm talking about; the one who dumped you for a lowlife teen?" Cronus smirked. This made Zac burst out.

"Jay's her friend and she would never do anything to him, or me!" Zac yelled. Cronus chuckled.

"How do you know that?" Zac frowned.

"Because she'll like to hear that," Zac weakly smiled. Cronus looked over to the door and growled. Theresa had taken out her nun chucks and threw them to hit Cronus' hand, while Atlanta threw her bolos and wrapped them against Cronus' feet. Herry had ran over to Zac and crushed the chains from his hands.

"Thanks guys, can we please go now?" Zac pleaded, looking away from Cronus. Theresa nodded and left Cronus.

XX

Theresa, Atlanta, Zac, and Herry had returned to the dorm with Jay growling to himself. Theresa had looked over to Zac, and then to Jay. She had to tell who she was going to actually tell this time.

"Guys, I rather be with…"

I'm just going to leave it there. Oh, and since there's too many Theresa/Zac fans, I decided to make an alteration. There's going to be a T/Z and a J/T ending. So everyone's happy. Just one question: Which one should I do first?! And another question: should I make a sequel?