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Jerry smiled. "Sam it's all over now you're coming home." He put his arm around Sam's shoulder. Together Clover, Alex, Jerry and Sam walked to the chopper. Sam got into the back. Alex spoke "you're awfully quiet Sam, say something." Sam gulped then spoke. "I'm just tired guys, I'm glad to see you." Then she stopped talking. She was glad that it was dark because nobody noticed the tears flowing form her eyes. "He thinks I framed him" she thought. She recalled his face he looked so hurt. From the window she caught sight of the chopper he was in but then it disappeared. Sam was left crying. She wiped her tears. She thought, "I can't let it end this way, I have to see him again..."

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9:00 am - Beverly Hills High School

Clover, Alex and Sam walked to their first class together. Clover and Alex walked ahead and Sam a few paces behind. Normally they would all be chatting chirpily about a hot new band, or some new boy at school, what not but today they were silent. Both Alex and Clover glanced at Sam through the corner of their eyes. She looked miserable. She was walking with her head down and her books held to her chest. Even her hair wasn't as neat as it usually was. They both figured she was still recovering from her time on the island. Both girls did not understand why Sam bothered to come to school today after what she went through. Alex broke the silence "Hey Sammy I bet you're glad to be back, huh?" Sam barely nodded "Yeah, sure." Clover was about to speak when the bell rang. "Oh my god we're late" Alex shouted. All the girls ran to their own classes. "Bye Sam , Alex see you at lunch." Clover waved as she entered her drama class.

12: 20 pm - Beverly Hills High School, Cafeteria

The girls sat together eating. Both clover and Alex had been watching Sam the best they could over the morning and they knew something was wrong. Alex and Clover had met up in Phys.Ed class and voiced their thoughts about Sam. Now at lunch they decided it was time to ask. Clover spoke first. "How are you Sammy?" Sam gave her a small smile, "I'm great." She continued eating. Alex took her turn to talk. "So Sam wanna tell us about your survival on the island?" Sam didn't answer. Alex waited, then waved her hands in front of Sam's face who looked as if she had spaced out. "Hellooo" Alex said, "Sammy you there?" Sam sat up abruptly. "Huh? Me? Sorry you guys, I'm just..." Clover put her hand on Sam's shoulder. "Sammy is there something you want to tell us?" Sam just stared at Clover. "Like what?" Clover asked the question that had been prodding her mind all morning. "While you were stuck on the island with Tim Scam he didn't do anything funny with you did he?" Sam almost choked on her sandwich. "What do you mean?!" Clover sighed. "You know what I mean did he try to do anything with you?" Sam stared at Clover. "Is she serious?!"

She wanted to tell Clover that he never did anything like that, and part of her believed that he would never do that kind of thing at least not with her. She wanted to speak, but just hearing his name caused her eyes to prickle with tears, she held them back. Clover asked again, more worried than ever. "Sam?!" Sam just sat there shaking a little now, from holding in the sobs. She wanted to tell them everything, how she had learned how wrong she was about Tim by spending time with him, how she was hating that he hated her now, and how she really loved him. She wanted to pour her heart out to them after all they were here best friends in the whole world, if not them then who. She thought about it and wondered would they ever accept the fact that she loved him. Her questions topped with Clover's became too much for her and she stood and ran out of the cafeteria. Clover stood to run after her, but was stopped by Alex. "We should leave her alone for now." Both girls were worried they had seen Sam's tears when she ran from the cafeteria. Something was terribly wrong.

3:00 pm - WHOOP headquarters, Jerry's Office

Sam took the rest of the day off and had spent quite some hours just crying. When she finally decided that it was enough and that she needed to talk to Tim Scam she went to visit Jerry in his office. Jerry sat in front of her in his usual chair. From his position he took in Sam's appearance. Her hair was messy and her eyes looked swollen. She was really pale. She looked as though she had cried herself half to death. Jerry spoke. "Sam is everything okay, you don't look well at all." Sam just nodded. Then she spoke. "Jerry I've been meaning to ask you something." Jerry smiled. "Go on." Sam took a deep breath. "It's about Tim Scam." Jerry nodded as if encouraging her to go on. She continued. "What do you know about him?" Jerry looked a bit confused. "Hmm. What do I know about Tim Scam." Jerry thought for a minute. "Well he is intelligent, hard to catch, used to work here, and now is a criminal." Sam cringed at his vague statement partly because it offered her no more information but also, because that was how she used to feel about Tim Scam. Sam thought about what Jerry said. He had said how he was "now" a criminal.

Sam continued. "Hang on Jer, are you telling me he wasn't always a criminal?" of course she knew the answer to that but she wanted to know what Jerry would say. Jerry smiled. "Very few, if any are born criminals Sam." Sam smiled. "Jerry I want to know what drove him to become a criminal. I don't think that was in his lifelong goals." Jerry sighed. "Very well." He began shuffling through some files. Sam stopped him. "No Wait!" Jerry looked up. She continued. "I don't want WHOOP records on him, I want to know what you know about him. why he is the way he is today." Jerry stared at Sam. "Why would you want to know that?" Sam wondered what to tell him, she wasn't going to say because she liked him. "Because I believe at WHOOP as agents it is our duty and job not only to catch and punish criminals, but if possible to reform them." Jerry stared. "You want to reform Tim Scam?" Sam nodded. Jerry sighed. "Well let's just say you have a lot of work to do Sam."

Sam sighed. "Jerry just tell me everything that you know about him." Jerry leaned back in his chair. "It's a long story actually." Sam smiled. "Please do tell me." For the next hour or so Jerry talked, and Sam took mental notes on Tim Scam. Jerry told her how Tim Scam was once known as a brave and highly important and intelligent agent, unlike the criminal he was today. "I was proud to have him on WHOOP's side, anyone would be." Jerry continued to talk, telling her about how he had met Tim Scam and how he realised he would make a great agent. "He was very close to me, I thought I knew everything about him, but guess I was wrong." Sam waited for him to continue, this was the part she had been waiting for. Through talking to Jerry she learned that each and every word Tim had said to her on the island about his life were true. The part about meeting Jerry and being a hero. Everything about working at WHOOP was true. She knew now that his life to her was like the pages of an open book, except for the one page she was missing. The one that held it all together. The one that made him become this way.

After what seemed like an eternity Jerry continued. As you might know Tim Scam worked for me for quite some time. In his final year he was working on a top notch secret assignment. Sam waited. "What kind of assignment?" He continued. The assignment he was doing was creating a powerful weapon to put WHOOP ahead of any other spy agency in terms of technology." Sam sighed. "I take it that it must have been very important." Jerry smiled. "It was. He was working with another agent named Michael Denev. The project was a complete success, due to both agents hard work and intelligence." Sam registered the new name, "Michael Denev" in her mind. "What happened next? Jerry sighed sadly. "I still don't get the full picture." He faced Sam. "When the project was complete news got out to many agents that some of the secret parts and the formula used for the device was missing." Sam leaned in to listen better. "I didn't want to suspect Tim but he was one of the two people working on the project."

Sam practically screamed at Jerry. "You mean you just fired him due to a doubt?" Jerry cut in. "It was a reasonable doubt." Sam cut in. "What about Michael Denev?" Jerry continued. "Good question. When we got news about the missing parts and formula we first checked his premises for any evidence that he may have been involved." Sam asked. "Did you find anything?" He shook his head. "No." Sam sighed. "On the other hand when we searched Tim Scam's place it was filled with overwhelming evidence. He had everything from missing parts to blueprints. Of course he was fired after that." Sam spoke. "Isn't it possible he was framed?" Jerry leaned forward on his elbows, his chin resting on his hands. "Maybe." Sam continued. "I mean this Michael Denev character seems suspicious to me." Jerry stared at Sam. "Sam do you know what you are saying?" Sam stared at Jerry. He continued. "Michael Denev happens to be one of our finest officers, he is the right wing of WHOOP."

Sam sighed a tad frustrated. "What does that have to do with his possibility of being involved in framing Tim Scam?" Jerry continued. "As I was saying, he is the right wing of WHOOP and at a time was Tim Scam's best friend." Sam gasped. "His best friend?" Jerry sighed. "Yes, they worked well together I don't see why he would go out of his way to make Tim Scam's life a mess." Sam sighed. That statement put her "Michael Denev" as number one suspect theory smack on ground zero. Jerry looked up at Sam. "Samantha there is one question I must ask." Sam smiled. "Go ahead Jer." Jerry continued, "Why are you going through all this trouble for him anyway?" Sam was at a loss for words. "What do you mean?" Jerry leaned forward. "What I mean is as far as I knew you hate Tim Scam."

Sam blushed. "I'm not saying I like him, cuz I don't, I only hated him because he is an enemy of WHOOP." Jerry stared at her, she continued. "I mean, if he has reasonable grounds that means that I don't have to hate him anymore, besides I already said that I want to help reform anyone that I can." Jerry smiled. "For WHOOP?" Sam smiled. "Yeah for WHOOP." Sam mentally slapped herself she knew she wanted him to be more like he was on the island not for WHOOP but for herself and for him. She had a strong feeling that somewhere deep down in his being there was that person who had been wrongly accused, she trusted him. Jerry interrupted her with another question. "Are you sure, this is for your job and nothing else?" Sam flushed. "Nice one, Jer I'm not answering that one." Sam got up to leave. "Hey Jer, can you give me some contact info on Michael Denev, I want to meet him." Jerry handed her a piece of paper. "I knew you would ask." Sam smiled and left, leaving Jerry smiling behind her.

9:00 pm - Sam's house

Sam sat on the ground trying to concentrate on her homework. She was supposed to read a book for English. She found herself thinking about Tim Scam again. A tear trickled down her cheek. She knew now how much she had begun to love him, but it didn't matter. No matter what, he believed that she framed him. Sam grabbed a cushion from her bed and hugged it to her chest. "What's gonna happen to me now?" Sam walked over to her window. It was dark outside and it was raining much like it did on the island. She stared out at the darkness. "How will I get him to understand, will he even want to?" She still remembered his last words to her. "I'm going to get you for this." She sighed sadly. She still had Tim Scam's coat. She walked over to her bed where she had it and put it around her shoulders, then sat down. Just then, her phone rang. Sam picked herself off the floor and answered it. "Hello, it's Sam." Her mother was on the other end of the phone. "Hi sweetie, it's me." "Hi mom." Sam listened. " Listen dear, I can't come home tonight, cuz of the heavy rain, my car won't work." "Are you okay mom?" "Yes Sam, I'm fine, are you okay alone, or should arrange for someone to come over, you can invite someone if you like." Sam thought. "No mom it's okay I'll be fine." "Okay then bye dear, see you tomorrow." "Okay, bye mom." Sam hung up the receiver, and walked back to her homework, then her X-powder rang.

Sam answered it. "Hi, Jerry, what's up?" Jerry spoke. "Sam, I have some disturbing news." Sam's hand tightened on the X-powder. "What is it." Jerry continued. "Tim Scam has escaped." Sam gasped. "What?!" Jerry took in her shock and understood. "Look if you want I'll send some WHOOP officials to watch you, for your safety." Sam stood shaking. "Sure Jer." Sam shut the X-Powder. She slumped back on the bed. "Oh my god, he's out, and he hates me." Sam thought. "What if he tries to kill me?" Sam hated having had asked for security against the person she loved, but right now she just didn't know. if a wrong accusation turned him into the criminal he is today, then what will he do to me?"

Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash which came from downstairs. She screamed. "Ahhhh" Sam did the first thing she could think of and ran out to check. She didn't get too far when the lights went out, and her house was plunged into darkness. Sam shivered. "What's going on?" She cautiously ran back to her room and shut the door making sure to lock it. Sam walked towards her bed. She thought to herself. "It could be anybody, a murderer, a thief, or worse, what if it is him." She continued walking until she felt herself being shoved forward. She landed smack on the ground. She tried to sit up but something was holding her down. She panicked and opened her mouth to scream, but her sound was cut off by a strong cold hand held tightly to her mouth...

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