A/N: Hey people! I've been struggling so much with this chapter. That's why it took me so long. Sorry! I won't bore you much longer.

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I say no, to status quo.

Kim's POV:

I shoot up in my bed, in panic I look around. Then I see a figure standing at my window, my dream slowly seeps back in. I'm about to scream when the figure steps forward, into the moonlight. His eyes are warm chocolate brown, not the cold blue I dreamt about. 'Don't scream.' His soft, warm voice chuckles. 'Jack.' I sigh. 'You scared me idiot.' I tell him. I'm so relieved, for a second I thought my dream hadn't been a dream. Then I realize something. Jack, the guy I broke out of prison a few hours ago, is standing in my room. In the castle. With guards. My eyes grow wide and he looks around. 'What?' he hisses at me, looking for a danger that isn't there.

'How did you get in here? What are you doing in my room? Are you insane?' the questions follow each other so quickly he can't even answer. He chuckles softly. He points at the end of my bed. 'Can I?' he asks. I nod. He sits down at the end of my bed. I look at him expectedly. 'I got in here by climbing the castle walls. I am in your room because I need to talk to you and yes, I am probably insane.' He says looking me straight in the eye. I can tell he's serious. 'Are you okay?' he asks me. I frown. 'Yeah why?' he laughs. 'You almost flew out of your bed and you were mumbling something about someone leaving you alone.' I look down. My dream, I had been talking in my sleep. Lovely. 'Just a bad dream.' I tell him, he doesn't seem convinced but leaves it.

I sigh. 'What do you need to talk about.' I decide to leave the fact that he actually climbed the castle walls and could have been killed. He looks at me and then at the window. He hesitates. Then he bites his lip, trying to decide what to do. I look at his lips. They remind me of the ones I saw in my dream, just as full and perfect. I swallow. Why am I looking at his lips? I need to stop doing that. 'I need to talk to you about the fact that Cray wants me to kidnap you.' The words come so fast I hardly understand. But when I do I turn pale. My breath speeds up. 'What? You're going to kidnap me?' I say, my voice rose about an octave. 'No. Well maybe.' He says. 'I said Cray wants me to.' I look at him. 'What's the difference?' I ask him and he looks up at me, he looks hurt.

'What's the difference? The difference is I don't want to, but if I don't Cray is going to kick me out, if not worse and where do I go then? I can't go live in the village where people know me as a thief. I can't go work for you, your brother and father hate me.' He sounds, desperate. This is the first time I hear Jack like this. Cray his boss, his father figure or something tells him to kidnap me. He doesn't want to. 'What are you going to do?' I ask him. I'm scared, honestly. If he decides to kidnap me I'm going to have to face the subject of my nightmares. Yes plural.

He looks up at me again. 'I don't know, Eddie and Chris are telling me to just kidnap you, I mean it's not like Cray will kill you. Jerry only apologizes because he told Cray I knew you. And Milan and Jason just tell me to do what's right. But what is right? How on earth am I supposed to know?' he looks so desperate I feel sorry for him. He looks hopeless. Without thinking I crawl forward and hug him. He stiffens. When I realize what I'm doing I want to let go but right at that moment he relaxes and hesitantly hugs me back. I'm on my bed, on my knees, hugging a boy I barely know. And I don't even care. He smells like the forest, but the good kind and some sort of peppermint and, how do I describe it… freedom? His breath tickles my neck and I feel that I'm blushing. Lucky for me it's dark.

We let go at the exact same moment and he laughs. 'Well that was unexpected.' He grins. How is he not blushing, why doesn't he do that? Annabeth does it around him, I do it around him, every girl blushes around him, but Jack? No, not Jack. I roll my eyes, damn it, I have got to stop doing that. 'I don't know what you should do Jack but I do know that I really appreciate the fact you ask me if you should kidnap me.' Please note sarcasm. Jack laughs. 'Wow Kim thanks. You're really helpful.' He snickers. Then we hear a low whistle outside. He looks up. 'That's Jason, I've got to go.' He says getting up and walking towards the window.

'Wait!' I whisper yell at him. He turns around as I walk towards him. 'I'm not letting you jump out my window and kill yourself.' I hiss at him. 'I didn't know you cared about me so much Kimmy.' He smirks. 'I don't, it just that I'm going to have to explain why you are lying there right under my balcony. And I don't feel like that.' I sweetly smile back at him. He puts his hand on his heart pretending to be hurt. 'Ouch Kimmy that hurts.' He says, still smiling 'Well then stop calling me Kimmy.' I tell him and he laughs again. Again we hear the low whistle and Jack looks out the window annoyed. He walks closer to the window and I follow him. I was serious. He whistles back a tone that sounds just like a pigeon.

I look surprised at him. 'I didn't know you could do that.' I say. He raises an eyebrow. 'There's a lot you don't know about me.' He says, it sounds like more than the teasing we normally do. Like there's really something I don't know and he wants me to know. He starts to walk to the window again, this time I spare my voice and just grab his arm. 'Wait, at least I have the right to know if you're going to kidnap me.' I tell him, I'm still not releasing his arm. He looks at me. His brown eyes so deep I could drown in them. For maybe half a minute he's silent. Just looking straight at me. Then he finally moves. He looks down.

Then before I know it he is out the window and over my balcony. Shocked I run to the edge. I look down. Afraid to see Jack lying on the floor. But he's not there. I do notice a figure in the shadows of one of the buildings near the castle. And then I see him, on the wall like a spider, climbing down like it's nothing, placing his hands and feet in the slots between the bricks. When he reached the floor he shoots over the square like a ghost. When he reaches the figure in the shadow he looks up. I think he smiles, but I'm not sure. He never answered my question. Wait… he was in my room in the middle of the night, telling me he had to kidnap me… I'm going crazy. I swear.

Jack's POV

As soon as my feet hit the ground I freeze. I can feel a pair of eyes on me. When I turn around, my eyes lock with two blue eyes. For a second I'm afraid it's Cray, but then I realize Cray is way too lazy to get of his butt and follow me. It was Jason. I let the breath I was holding escape. I realize very well that I didn't answer Kim's question. I don't want to kidnap her, but I don't know what else to do. My whole live I have never ignored an order from Cray. Yeah, I've done things he didn't approve, but I never defied his orders. I want to tell him no. But just between you and me, I'm terrified of Cray. I may be a lot better in hiding it than Jerry, but the few times I've seen Cray mad…

I shoot over the square to Jason and he looks at me. 'You're getting sloppy Jack, I followed you from the camp.' He says, smirking slightly at me. I roll my eyes. 'Like I didn't notice you.' I lie. He looks at me very sceptically. Jason nods in the direction of Kim's room and I follow his direction. Kim is at the edge of her balcony. I grin. She was worried about me. My smile disappears. She didn't even scream. She was about to but when she recognized me she didn't. She trusts me and I'm going to kidnap her. I'm a coward.

Jason starts walking. He's looking at me intently. 'Stop looking at me.' I tell him without looking up from the ground I'm focussing on. I can feel his gaze shift. 'You are an idiot you know that right?' he tells me, and I look up surprised. Then I almost walk into one of the first trees of the forest. I jump aside just in time. I look at Jason confused. What is he talking about? Why am I an idiot? I'm about to ask when he starts explaining. 'You have a chance to get out of here. She is your chance to get out and you're ruining it. None of us wants to be here, she could help you get out. All you have to do is tell Cray yes, and tell her no. Ask her to help you, she likes you she will. Jack this is your way out. Maybe even lead a normal live once. In a house, with a bed. Not a tent and a straw mat.'

By now we're standing still and I'm looking at him. I'm stunned. Here is Jason telling me to escape Cray's camp by asking the princess for help. He's telling me to lie to Cray. To get out. It sounds like heaven, and hell at the same time. If it doesn't work, I'm dead. If it works and I run into any of the guys again, they'll probably kill me without hesitation. But imagine it works. I would be free. No more stealing to keep Cray happy. No more packing up my stuff every month, no more building up Cray's tent for him. No more sleeping on that stupid sac of straw, no more shivering on cold winter nights. No more fighting and stealing among the boys. No more guarding your things from the people you assume are your friends. Not seeing seven year olds get caught and locked up for stealing.

I let the possibility's run through my head. It would be amazing. There's just one problem. Cray. I lie to Cray, of course I do, I lie all the time, I'm a liar, lies, lies, lies. Right. What was I saying? Cray! Now I remember. But I never lie with such a big meaning. I never tell a lie so big it would change everything. Those piercing blue eyes, the look when I tell him I'll do it. When he sends guys looking for me because I don't do as he said. The others that will suffer because I disobeyed him. I can't. I look at Jason and he knows. He nods and we finish our journey to the camp. I realize I don't call it home anymore.

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