Cause you guys are amazing and I couldn't help myself I have written you another chapter in my free time. For all you romantics I got some stuff here but there is more action and even more romantical aspects to come soon. For now enjoy and pray that I do amazingly well on my one and only exam on Friday! Oh and review and lemme know you're favourite part.


CHAPTER NINE

Robert Shapiro

We were stood 2 miles outside of New York and around about 45 miles away from the base where Tori and Jade had been taken. I knew this thanks to the trackers I insisted everyone in our group wear. It took me at least two weeks to create all of them and now Tori, Cat, Jade, Beck and Andre and I all wore one. I had not gotten the chance to make one for Gramps, Aniq and Connor who had recently joined us and in some way given the group a purpose in the form of the Haven. I however didn't need one. My purpose stood in front of me: a redheaded beauty who wore a blue tank top, jean shorts, a pair of running shoes and a worried look on her face.

I looked up from my tracker to Cat and couldn't help but stare. She shivered a little and I jumped out of my daze noticing the wind. "Here take my hoodie." I took off my hooded grey sweatshirt and got back on the bike wearing an understated white shirt and a pair of jeans. "Thanks Robbie. Here." She walked towards me as I got back on the bright yellow sports motorcycle and pulled at the cuffs of my shirt pulling them back and instead doing up the buttons on the cuff around my forearm. She smiled at me and then ran a hand through my curly black hair. Despite the fact I had grown in the last six years and at 23 I could be called a man I still had the same long hair and the same glasses.

But she didn't mind. Cat Valentine liked me for who I was. Liked, though. Not Loved. I started revved the engine of the motorbike and Cat after zipping up the hoodie. Sat behind me and put her arms around my waist. I savored the feeling of her warm hands on my abdomen. "Cat? We don't have to do this. We can always go back and re-group with Beck and Andre. I already know where Jade and Tori…" Cat shook her head and I could tell because her crimson hair fell against my back as she did.

"No. Robbie. Beck and Andre can protect themselves. They'll probably go looking for them too with their trackers. We have to get Tori and Jade. We have to." I nodded despite the fact that she couldn't see me and then without any hesitation I took off towards where to where Tori and Jade were taken. We rode the desertedfreeway and my mind was only focused on a few things. For one I smiled realizing that Cat's head was rested against my back, then my mind wandered to Rex the puppet I carried with me until I was 19. It's been four years since I put him away in a cupboard and entered therapy.

Not in an "I'm crazy!" way but to understand that Rex was a way of saying things my teenage self couldn't. I was an awkward kid but without Rex I started to say what was on my mind without hesitation. It was welcomed by the others and I was glad for their support but I would miss those crazy times in high-school when I would have Rex Powers around. There was only one thing on my mind I found hard to say and that was that I was in love with Caterina Valentine the bubbliest girl I'd ever met in my life with long locks colored similar to red velvet cupcakes. Sometimes I wondered where I'd find a cupcake like that in this crazy new world we survived in.

Just to see her smile when I'd give it to her would be enough for me to survive this cruel dark world.

My mind focused again as my tracker started beeping telling me that Tori and Jade were both situated in the same vicinity we were in. This being the small deserted town that we now approached the outskirts of. The sun was beginning to set and I worried of whether we'd run into any Zowls and if we'd be able to get them out and find a safe place to camp out for the night. My thoughts were only reinforced as Cat squeezed her grip around my waist and dug her head into my back for comfort. I stopped the bike and killed the engine just behind a house as I passed a bunch of tall open wooden fences that seemed to be surrounding the entire town.

I turned to the right immediately as I entered the open gates and parked the motorbike in an empty back garden. After a tense few minutes in which Cat checked the house and I hid the bike in the garage we came to stand in the house. "I'll go find them Robbie, you go find us a getaway vehicle and make sure that you meet us at the gates. We need to be in and out before they see us." She turned around and I grabbed her hand. "Cat. It's too dangerous. I can't let you do it. Let me do it." She shook her head slowly and put her hand on my cheek. I turned my head to the side where she held my face and savored her touch.

"Don't worry Robbie. I need you here to give me instructions through the walkie so I can get them out. You can guide me in and out before anyone even notices us. Plus you have that red thingy which senses the bad guys." I corrected her as I held her hand and gave it back to her. "It's a thermal sensor." She laughed lightly and for a moment I forgot we were in a deserted town filled with murderers and traffickers. That's what she did to me. "Start up your trackers and your sensors I'm going to get them out."

She turned around to leave. "Cat?" She turned around and looked at me. "Be careful." She nodded and then walked over to me. "I will." She said before kissing my cheek and rushing out of the house. I stood dazed for a few seconds until I regained my senses and started up my modified mini laptop. I opened up the thermal imaging process and tracked her progress. There were not many people in the town as a whole I'd say their was no more than forty people. This must be a temporary arrangement I thought. After watching her slink through the shadows I spotted a parked truck about two streets from where I was.

I opened up my specially built tracker app on my phone and watched Jade and Tori's position which had remained stationary for a while. After staring at it for a minute I made my way through the deserted town to the parked truck to check if it needed gas. I smiled as I realized it was running on 3/4 of its full intake. The next few minutes were spent hotwiring the car and after finding a baseball cap in the passenger seat I put it on and then checked Cat's position on the tracker. Cat, Jade and Tori were all visible on the tracker moving at a quick pace down the main street but followed by at least 10 men with the numbers increasing steadily. I used my ears and heard a few distinct sounds.

The wooden fences closing, the sky turning dark, the sound of guns going off and the sound of the Zowls awakening with an incontrollable rage.