A/N: Woohoo! Another chappie for tonight!...Well, tonight in my time-zone anyway...


Riley goes down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and goes down the right side of the Reflection Pool. Ben and Bianca follow closely behind him. They walk pass the Korean War Veterans Memorial and National World War II Memorial. They keep going past the Washington Monument, the Smithsonian, The Air and Space Museum, and the U.S. Capitol building. The whole walk took about half an hour. Bianca suggested they take a bus, but Riley insisted they walked. After they pass the Capitol building, they walk across the street to the Library of Congress.

"I've never been in here before," Bianca says when they walk into the Library.

"Then welcome to the Library of Congress," Ben says to her.

"I have to get some materials. I'll meet you guys over there," Riley says pointing to the center of the Library, "Ta."

He walks off.

"Okay, we have to get some 'materials' also," says Ben and walking in the opposite direction as Riley.

Bianca follows behind him.

"What exactly are we looking for?" asks Bianca.

"A book," says Ben.

"Wow, like I didn't know that," she says sarcastically.

Ben goes up a few sets of stairs to find the kind of book he was looking for.

"Ah ha," he says, taking a book off of the shelf.

"What?" asks Bianca.

"I found the book," he says.

He opens the book to the back glossary and looks for a specific part. He finds it and opens to the page, showing it to Bianca.

"The Preservation Room?" she questions taking the book from Ben.

"Yup. Come on," he says leading her back down the stairs to where Riley told them to meet him.

Bianca sits at the table and reads about the Preservation Room. Ben sits down next to her.

Within a few minutes, Riley comes over to them with his arms full of books and papers. He sets them down and stands opposite them. He takes a pair of glasses out of his pocket and puts them on.

'He looks cute with glasses...' Bianca thinks looking up at him.

"Are you ready yet?" Ben asks Riley.

"Just give me...yeah. I'm ready," he replies, "Okay you 2, pay attention. I brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books and they're all saying the same thing: Listen to Riley. What we have here, my friends, is the entire layout of the Archives. We've got builder's blueprints, we have construction orders, phone lines, water and sewage," he says picking up papers and putting them back down without letting Bianca or Ben to look at them.

He continues: "It's all here. Now, when the Declaration is on display, it's surrounded by guards and video cameras, and little families from Iowa, and little kids on their 8th grade field trips. And beneath an inch of bullet proof glass is an army of sensors and heat monitors that will go off if someone gets too close with a high fever. Now, when it's not on display, it's lowered into a 4 foot thick concrete, steel plated vault that happens to be equipped with an electronic combination lock and biometric access and denial systems."

"Wow, what an explanation...thanks for the info," says Bianca.

"You know Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton filament for the incandescent light bulb," says Ben.

"Edison?" asks Riley.

"And when asked about it, he said: "I didn't fail, I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb," but he only needed to find one way to make it work. The Preservation Room," Ben says taking the book from in front of Bianca and handing it to Riley, "Enjoy. Go ahead."

Riley looks over the book. Bianca and Ben grin at each other then look back to Riley.

"Do you know what the Preservation Room is for?" asks Ben.

"Delicious jams and jellies?" Riley replies with a question.

"Not quite," says Bianca.

"That's where they clean, repair, and maintain all the documents and storage housings when they aren't on display or in the vault. Now, when the case needs work, they take it out of the vault and directly across the hall into the Preservation Room. The best time for us or Ian is to steal it, would be during the Gala this weekend when the guards are distracted by the V.I.P.s upstairs," Ben explains while Bianca pulls the pamphlet out of her pocket and hands it to Riley, "But we'll make our way to the Preservation Room where there is much less security," Ben finishes sitting back in his chair.

Riley slowly sits down in a chair across from Ben and Bianca.

"Huh...well, if Ian...Preservation Room...gala...this might be possible," Riley manages to spit out looking at Ben and Bianca.

"It might," says Ben.

"Just might," says Bianca.

They put all of their 'materials' back where they got them from. Ben takes his one book, while Bianca helps Riley put all of his books and papers back.

"Where and how'd you find all of this so fast?" asks Bianca balancing a book on her knee while tying up her hair.

"I come here often," says Riley putting a book on the shelf and watching Bianca, "That's talent."

"That's what happens when you take ballet for 4 years and gymnastics for another 5...plus about another 10 years of sports," she says, smiling, "Good balance...I like the sneakers with the suit, by the way."

"Oh...yeah," he says looking at his feet, "I like comfortable shoes."

"Same here," she says.

They finish putting everything back, and meet back up with Ben at the front door.

"We have to get things ready. We don't have much time," says Ben.

The trio heads back to Ben's apartment where they get a whole bunch of stuff together.

"Riley, you're going to have to get video of the hallway and Preservation Room. I assume you have the equipment that's necessary?" asks Ben.

"Ben, you know what happens when you assume, right?" asks Bianca grinning.

"Yes, Bianca. I know what happens when you assume," says Ben.

"Well, I don't. Could you inform me?" asks Riley.

Bianca faces him: "It makes an 'ass' of 'you' and 'me'," she says, "Get it?"

"Now I do," he says.

"Do you have the equipment or not?" asks Ben impatiently.

"Yes, I have the equipment," says Riley, "Do you want me to go now?"

"That would be nice," says Ben giving him a 'wow-that-was-a-dumb-question' look.

"Fine, I need a few minutes and I'll be gone," Riley says walking away.

"What should I do?" Bianca asks Ben.

"You wanna go with him? He might be able to use your help," suggests Ben.

"Okay, I could learn some 'high-tech' stuff," she says with air quotes.

Ben rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

Bianca scampers off to go find Riley in one of the rooms. She leans on the door frame, crossing her arms over her chest.

"You need some help?" she asks making Riley jump.

"Uh, sure. Why are you helping me?" he asks.

"Ben's making me," she says simply.

"Oh," he says, "You might want to get some 'tourist' clothes."

"Um, I am a tourist...Why?" she says.

"Right, sorry...You'll see," he grins.

They get their stuff together and head out to the street and into a red van. Riley drives and Bianca sits in the front seat.

"So how are we going to do this?" Bianca asks.

"With a whole bunch of wires and computer tech stuff you wouldn't understand," he says.

"Are you implying that I don't know a thing about technology?" she asks.

"It just probably won't make sense because you don't use a computer like I do," he says.

"Fine, I'll level with you. Ben didn't make me come, I wanted to come so I could actually learn the technology slash lingo," she says.

"Ah, come to learn form the Great Riley then, huh?" he asks.

"I wouldn't say Great," she says.

They pull up in front of the National Archives building.

"You just can't stay away from Dr. Chase can you?" she asks eyeing him.

"That's not why we're here and we're not even going in the building...we're going in the subway," he says.

"Subway?" Bianca questions.

"Yeah, we can tap into the surveillance cameras down there and record what should be there when we go in this weekend. Get it?" he asks.

"Yeah, I get it. I'm not ignorant," she says.

They get out of the van with a few bags filled with Riley's computer and a bunch of things they'll need to collect the data.

They take the escalator down into the subway and walk along the platform until they reach the utility room. When no one is around they go in. Riley walks over to the electrical conduit and pulls a saw out of one of the bags.

"You ever use one of these before?" asks Riley.

"Have I ever used one of these before, he asks. Gimme that," she says taking the saw from him, "I used to build play houses for little kids in college...how big do you want the hole?" she asks.

"About 2 inches or so," he says pulling out his computer and a little black box with an antenna sticking out of the side.

Bianca saws the hole.

"Okay, now what?" she asks handing the saw back to him.

"Put this cable up there," Riley says pointing to the hole in the pipe, "I'll tell you when to stop."

Bianca puts the cable in the pipe while Riley watches the video feed on his computer. There is a little camera on the end of the cable along with a clamp.

"Okay, stop," says Riley, "and move it to the left a little bit."

Bianca does what she is told and moves the cable.

"There you are...now use the clamp and grab onto the bolt that's the third from the top," he says.

"Ooookay...got it," she says, "What's that for?"

"It's the video feed to the Preservation Room," he says pressing some buttons on the computer.

Bianca walks behind him to see what he's talking about.

"Oh, I get it. Is that all?" she asks.

"We just need the hallway from the vault to the Preservation Room. It should be 2 down from the one we're clamped onto now...so move the clamp down 2," Riley says.

Bianca sighs.

"You can say 'please,'" she mumbles going back over to the cable.

She moves it down and goes back over to look at the computer. Riley presses a few more buttons.

About a minute or so later Bianca starts getting restless.

"Can we go yet?" she whines.

"Yeah, just get the cable out," says Riley.

Bianca gets the cable out and they pack up. They head back up to the street to the van. (A/N: That whole last scene didn't sound good...oh well, just keep your minds out of the gutter.)

"I wonder what Ben's up to..." Bianca asks herself getting into the back of the van.

Bianca and Riley sit on the floor of the van and take another look at the computer. The images of the Preservation Room and the hallway pop up.

"Game on," says Riley looking at Bianca.

"Game on," she repeats.

Riley puts the computer away and pulls something off of the shelf behind him.

"Do I have to ask what that does?" Bianca asks.

"Just watch," he says.

Riley presses a button on the little object and it emits a green beam; like a laser beam. He points the beam at a thermometer on the opposite side of the van. The temperature starts rising very quickly.

"Cool," they say together.

"Now, what?" asks Bianca.

Riley sighs.

"We take THIS and put it on top of a video camera," he says taking a camera off of the shelf from behind him, "that's why I told you to bring tourist clothes. We're going into the Archives building and..."

"And we're going to heat up the sensors on the Declaration, ya?" finishes Bianca.

"Ya, that's what we're doing," says Riley.

"See, I'm not as dumb as you think I am," she says getting smart.

"I never thought you were dumb," says Riley.

"I'm just kidding. Let's go," she says excitedly.

Riley shakes his head and rolls his eyes.

A/N: So, there we go! Yet another chapter! Huzzah! I'll have more out tomorrow, but it's almost midnight, so Good night, all!