DISCLAIMER: NOPE, don't own anything. I wish I did though. =)


"Oh, it's so nice to finally meet you Alex," Ms. Peace said as she took her bag from the passenger's seat and closed the car door. She smiled up at me and held her hand out.

"It's nice to meet you as well Ms. Peace," I smiled back at her as I shook her hand.

"Please, call me Sara," she said and I nodded.

"Of course,"

"Why don't you come inside?" Sara ushered both me and Warren into their house and we followed along.

"Are Lena and Paul not home yet?" she asked.

"No, they went to the movies with Danny, they should be back soon," I replied as I stepped into their entrance hallway and into the living room. It was decorated in warm honeyed tones of brown, ivory, and beige, with hardwood floors.

Ms. Peace asked us if we had had dinner and Warren told her that we ate at Will's already. I sat down on the couch beside Sara and Warren sat across from us.

"I was so glad Warren made friends with our new neighbour so quickly," Sara grinned, "He was always so hostile to the other new kids that move in," she glanced at Warren with a stern look and I had to hold back my laughter.

"Really? I would have never guessed," I commented lightly and Sara laughed.

"So how do you like Maxville so far?"

"It's very…clean and bright," Sara laughed again and I couldn't help but smile along, she was so like my mother, cheerful as always.

"Well we do try," she chuckled, "what about Sky High? How did Power Placement go?"

"I got in as hero, it's okay so far," I shrugged.

"What's your power? I'm sure you're very excited to become a hero," Sara asked innocently and I could see Warren getting tired of his mom's charade of not knowing me, he was running his hands through his hair and fiddling with his cell phone.

"Mom," he said simply and Sara and I turned to him.

"Yes?"

"You can stop the pretense, she already told me everything," Sara looked at him, then back at me for confirmation. I nodded.

"Well," she finally said to me, "you certainly did it sooner than I'd expected."

"Uh…yeah," I started fiddling with my own bag and Warren spoke up.

"Alex, here, told me about the whole elemental business," he informed his mom.

"I see, well, I'm glad you found someone you could talk to about that," Sara turned to me, "it's so hard to explain something I know nothing about," she added lightly and smiled.

At that moment, Sara's red emergency phone rang and she excused herself to go into the next room. I stood up and looked at the picture frames by the bookshelves; they were pictures of Warren growing up with his mother and some with other family and friends.

"Awww…" I was looking at a picture of a toddler Warren wearing a red raincoat, his face smudged with mud.

"Why do girls always find the need to 'aww' over everything?" Warren said as he came up behind me.

I huffed at him.

"We don't 'aww' over everything, you were just really cute as a kid," I grinned and couldn't help but add, "what happened?"

"Ha ha," he laughed sarcastically and I started giggling.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it," I said in between giggles, Warren just shook his head at me in a pitying way.

I calmed myself enough to tell Warren that I really liked his mom, she was just so nice.

"She has to be for a healer," he said referring to his mother's cheerfulness.

Sara walked back into the living room with a slight frown on her face.

"What's wrong mom?" Warren asked her.

"I have to get back to the centre, we have a patient who was attacked this afternoon, he was stabilized when I left but he just recently had a relapse," She started to gather her things and walked towards the hallway. Sara looked so worried and was avoiding my glance so I became curious instantly; I followed her to the hallway, with Warren right behind.

"Sara?" I said and she turned to face me, "who is it? What happened?"

She sighed and said the words I was dreading to hear.

"The raid on Jackson Laboratories this afternoon," she said, "Silver Bullet was there and Robin was hit,"

All the colour was drained off of my face, no, not Robin, he can't be.

"You said he had a relapse?" I asked, my voice shaking.

"They just found that the bullet he was hit with had traces of poison that got into his bloodstream," she informed me and I looked at her with wide eyes, "it's okay, we've called in Rayne Landon from England, she's an expert chemist healer, he'll be okay, I promise," she reassured me but I was still frozen in shock.

"I have to go," she said hurriedly and I nodded slowly, she took a folder out of her bag and handed it to me, "These are the progress reports so far, and the last files are from your homeground," I took the folder from her and she turned to leave after saying goodbye to me and Warren.

"Alex?" Warren stood in front of me and checked if I was alright, I was still frozen on the spot so he took my arm and led me to the living room and sat me down on the couch.

Ever so slowly, I opened the folder and took out the paper in the front; the most recent one; the Jackson Lab mission.

Warren took it from me when I finished reading and I turned on his TV, watching the news and clearing my mind.

"He'll be fine, my mom's the best healer in this country," Warren told me when he finished reading the report.

"I know," I said, Ms. Peace is the only healer in the USA who can fix major wounds so it comforted me to know that she's there to help Robin, plus, another healer is coming in to help, "but it doesn't feel right just staying here."

"You're really close to them aren't you?" Warren asked and I nodded.

"They're like my second family."

Warren sighed and said seriously, "It's not your fault, so don't you blame yourself."

I looked at him, wondering how the hell he knew what I was thinking, maybe he was a mind reader too, or maybe he could read my face so easily like an open book.

I looked at the time and saw that it was 10 pm already. My aunt, uncle, and Danny should be home already.

"I better go," I said and I picked up my bag and headed for the door.

"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow," Warren said as he opened the door for me, I stepped out into the cool night air.

"And Alex?" I turned back to look at him, "thanks for telling me about your big secret."

I slowly smiled at him, "thanks for telling me yours."

I waved at him and I walked towards my own front door and entered the house.

Aunt Lena, Paul, and Danny were already in and we all watched some TV before we all went to bed. Aunt Lena and I talked about what happened to Robin since she was working at the control centre then, she reassured me that everything would be fine and I went inside my room to make some calls.

I dialed Bruce's number quickly.

"Bruce?"

"Hi Vee," his tone was stoic so I didn't know what to make of it yet.

"How's Robin?" he sighed and I could picture him rubbing his temples right now in exasperation.

"He's been stabilized, the poison was transmutated by Rayne Landon, and Sara cleaned up the bullet wound."

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry too much about us okay?…Your parents are here," he suddenly said, "your mom wants to speak with you."

"Alright, thanks Bruce."

"Anytime."

I waited for my mom to take the call and when she finally did, I became happier. I really did miss her and my dad. We talked for a while and she reassured me that we'll see each other soon. I talked to my dad after and when our call ended, I decided to call my best friend Alex.

"Alex?" I said when I heard a grunt from the other end of the line, OH…OOPS, what time is it in Toronto now again?

"Whoodis?" came the reply of a sleepy Alex.

"It's your oh-so-wonderful best friend Vee,"

"VEEE!!!" Alex suddenly squealed and I laughed at her antics.

"I'm so sorry for calling so late, you can go back to sleep and I'll talk to you some other time."

"No, it's okay, I'm fully awake now…it's only…3:28," She said hurriedly. "How's everything there in the suburbs? And the giant floating school?"

"Fine fine, just some stuck-up superheroes and crazy classes, no biggie…" I sighed.

"Hmm…sounds fun, made any new friends?"

"You sound like my mom," I laughed, "but yes, I met Will, Layla, and Zack's friends, Magenta, Ethan, and Warren."

"Ooohh, nice, you sure you're not going to stick it out there forever?" Alex asked.

"Of course not!"

"Okie dokiezzz…So, you heard about what happened at the raid right? Is Robin okay now?" she asked with concern.

"Yeah, they just stabilized him, my parents made arrangements so I can visit him tomorrow after school," I said and I could hear Alex yawning from the other end.

"Give him my salutations since I have Concentration Camp after school tomorrow," Alex was an empath so she has loads of concentration training during the week.

"Will do, now go back to sleep and tell everyone I said hi."

Alex yawned in reply, "Just to let you know, we're starting self-defense training for Gym tomorrow,"

"Nice, that should be a breeze for you Ms. Blackbelt."

"Mmhhhmhh…kay, tell your friends the real Alex said hi," said Alex in an exhausted voice so we said our goodbyes and I turned my phone off.

I looked at my alarm clock and was surprised to see it was past 2:00 am already; my eyes were heavy so I switched the TV off, plopped down on my bed and fell asleep instantly.

TBC

I picked myself up off the floor and looked around as I rubbed my head. The grass was iced over thanks to Sheila but I could see the citizen dummy on fire by the pit, courtesy of Karen of course. Well this is a first, I thought, I was probably the first person to ever sleep through a Save the Citizen game.

"Do you need a pillow?"


A/N: Sorry for the HUGE gap between chappies, I've just been so busy. But I promise I'll try to keep updating as much as I can. I do have just less than 10 chaps to go for this story and then it'll be finitooo. So read & review & breath and I'll have the next one up soon. THXX. and HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :)