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Chapter 10 Kat POV

I was looking at the sky; watching the sun set. I hoped that was okay and looking at the sunset as well. I really missed him. I didn't think it was possible for me to feel this alone. Not to mention that I feel terrible for messing up the plan and getting him caught. It makes me want to leave the crew behind and finish this job on my own. I can't put them at risk, but I know that they won't leave me. They'll follow me on whatever crazy heist I go on. It makes me feel a bit more comfortable knowing that I have my crew to back me up. They're the best, but it's tough to do these jobs when they're at risk. It makes me rethink my choice as a thief...

I'm not a common thief; I steal for the good and not for the bad. What I do is completely uncommon for a thief, but I can't say that I don't love it. I smiled at the memory of the first time Hale and I met. I was supposed to steal the Monet that was in Hale's mansion, the one Stacy and Sapphire stole just before I got tangled in this mess. Hale was home when he wasn't supposed to be and from that moment on we kind of just hit it off. Sure it took us a long while to realize the feelings we had for each other, but I knew from the moment that I saw Hale that he was something different.

I'd have to make a plan to get Hale back, but I have to get this job done in two days. I couldn't risk it…and there's no way that I could get Hale back in two days. I had no idea of where he might be. The only thing I do know is who has him but not where he is.

All this worrying about Hale was giving me a headache, and I needed a clear head to get this heist right. It feels terrible having to put Hale aside but it has to be done. I know Taccone won't make a move till he tell me first that he has Hale. Till then I'll have to wait it out, no matter how hard it might be.

I looked at a small star that was shining bright in the sky. The sun was still setting but I could see it so clearly in the sky. I nearly cried looking at it. Hale got me that star as a month-aversary gift and named it Kitty Kat. It was the sweetest gift I'd ever gotten. Hale just knows how to make me smile.

I was lost in thought when I heard a loud crash inside. I turned to the sound of yelling. I ran back inside. I saw Stacy and Gabrielle arguing; there was a broken vase on the floor. I don't think it was one of those priceless vases or at least I really hope it's not. Hamish and Angus were still trying to clean their faces off. Simon was looking at Gabrielle as she argued with Stacy. Alex wasn't in the room and Hale…oh right, he's gone.

"It was your idea to have a stupid party at the museum!" Gabrielle yelled.

"You're making it seem like I planned for Hale to go missing." Stacy responded

"No, I don't think Stacy would hand Hale over to Taccone…or at least she wouldn't turn us into such a dangerous man." I interrupted.

"Kat, you can't be siding with her! Her father threatened to kill us if we don't pull this job off." Gabrielle gave me a hurt look like I had just backed stabbed her. I know I was technically siding with the enemy, but there was no way she would ruin the job. It doesn't seem like it would be her style.

"I'm doing my job and my job does not include messing it up. You guys aren't the only people on the line here." Stacy snorted, "You just needed someone to blame for what happened."

"You did not just imply that Kat was to blame for Hale's kidnapping."

"You said it; not me." She smirked and Gabrielle glared back. "Just admit it Gabs, you really think Kat was to blame."

Gabrielle was silent. I looked at her and she looked away. "See there's your answer everyone. Your sweet Gabrielle thinks its Kat's fault."

"I do NOT think that!" Gabrielle yelled, "You better shut the fuck up."

I blinked. I've never seen Gabrielle so angry before. Come to think of it, I've never heard her curse before. The boys were silent, they probably didn't want to get into this argument and I totally agree with them. It's getting bad fast between these two girls.

Stacy laughed, "Or what Gabrielle? You gonna give me fashion tips?"

Gabrielle looked offended, "You need the fashion tips. I mean who does the whole bad girl look anymore? You're outdated."

Stacy just continued to laugh, "You're hilarious Gabs." She wiped a tear from her face, "You made me cry."

I looked at Gabrielle and she looked ready to punch Stacy's lights out. I walked over to her and said, "Don't do it Gabs, she's not worth it."

"It was her fault! She made Hale disappear. I overheard her talking on the phone. I heard her say she had a plan and that someone would disappear. It was her fault Hale was kidnapped!"

I turned to Stacy, "Is that true? You said someone would disappear?"

Stacy wiped the rest of the tears away and looked straight at me, "Yeah I did say that, but—"

"See!" Gabrielle shouted, "She admitted to it. It's her fault."

"Will you fucking let me explain myself? God, damn Gabrielle, you're such a prick." Stacy snapped. Gabrielle got silent and looked at the floor. She didn't look too happy, but Stacy's tone was something different. She was demanding but firm and I've heard it only once before, the day I met Silver.

"Look Kat, I didn't set you guys up; that phone call Gabrielle overheard had nothing to do with you guys."

"Well who did it have to do with?" Angus asked. Everybody nodded; we all wanted to know what that call was for.

"I can't tell you." She looked at the floor, "But I assure you that I did not plan Hale's disappearance. You have to trust me on this."

"I don't know Stacy…" I said skeptically.

"Kat, you've meet my father. You know I can't mess this up."

"Well then, who was the call for?"

"I can't tell you that. It's another job my father gave me yesterday."

"You're lying. You're working for Taccone." Gabrielle stated; she just won't let go of her suspicion of Stacy. "And you know what? I bet her sister isn't even hurt."

"Don't you dare bring my sister into this." She sneered, "Thanks to your wonderful explosive techs my sister is unconscious and seriously burned. So back of Gabrielle or I will rip you to shreds."

"Bring it rebel wanna be. I'm tired of you anyways."

"Gabrielle don't." I said.

I turned, looking for Hamish and Angus. They were nowhere to be seen. Where could they have gone? When I turned back around I saw what I really didn't want to happen. Gabrielle and Stacy were fighting.

Stacy was on her back and Gabrielle was hitting Stacy with all she had. Stacy on the other hand was just playing defense; covering her face up. Her arms where scratched up and bloody from Gabrielle's sharp nails. She kept hitting Stacy till Stacy pushed her off. Gabrielle yelped as she crashed into the side of the coffee table.

"Stacy, stop it!" I yelled but it did no good because Stacy got up and grabbed Gabrielle; pulling her up and then slamming her down onto the coffee table. "Gabs!" I ran to pull Stacy away from my cousin. Simon did the same. Stacy just pushes us all aside like we were weightless. It must have been the adrenaline.

When she pushed me off, I stumbled back and was caught from behind. My heart skipped a beat, "Hale?" I looked up and it was not Hale, I was slightly disappointed. "Alex…"

"You okay?" He looked at me.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"Okay, I'm—Gabrielle!" Alex screamed.

"What?"

"Stacy, stop!" He put me aside and ran to pull Stacy away from Gabrielle. He pushed Stacy away and picked Gabrielle up who was a bit bloody and…unconscious. Alex glared at Stacy, "What the hell did you do Stacy? I thought you said you'd keep your promise and not fight."

"Technically I said I wouldn't fight Sapph."

"I don't give a fuck. You hurt Gabrielle."

"I did not Alex. She's still breathing. She's just unconscious and she started the fight I was just defending myself."

Alex gave Stacy an angry look, "What?"

"You heard me Alex. You're girlfriend here started the fight. She keep blaming me for Hale's disappearance and was all pissed of thinking I was to blame. Then she tackled me." She lifted up her arms, "See? She attacked me."

"I don't care Stacy. You took this too far."

Stacy frowned at Alex, "You've gotten soft Alex." She took off the necklace she was wearing and put it on Gabrielle. "There, Alex. I'm going to check up on Sapph and then we're leaving. You guys deal with this heist on your own. I don't care what happens to you anymore. I knew I shouldn't have let Sapphire be all buddy buddy with you guys. All you've guys have done is brought us trouble."

"Trouble? Isn't it the other way around? Thanks for sticking with us Stacy." I said with a hint of sarcasm.

"I'm sorry Kat. I tried, but you're crew obviously has trouble believing that I didn't have anything to do with Hale's kidnapping. Even my old friend won't believe me." She gave Alex a hurt look, "So Sapphire and I are leaving. We'll fax you the new plan for the remaining crew members."

Alex set Gabrielle down on the couch and said, "Don't go Stacy. You're jumping to conclusions again."

"No, I'm pretty sure no one here believes me."

"Stacy, understand that you don't have the cleanest track record."

"Yeah I know. I want that necklace back after Gabrielle gets better." Stacy walked to the door. She was upset and hurt. I suppose I'll never understand the way she is. Alex sighed and started tending to Gabrielle's injuries. Stacy walked out and I followed her out.

"Stacy wait." I said.

"Kat go back to your crew they need you right now more than ever." She replied.

"What?"

"Just go back." She turned and faced me. "You might not have noticed, but the whole crew is upset that Hale is missing. You've got to be the strong leader you are and give them confidence."

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"You've got it in you. Just think of how you feel when you're with Hale. You'll find what you're looking for there." She walked down the hall and up the stairs to the room Sapphire was in. I followed behind her.

"Are you really just going to let us do this job without you guys? It'll be almost impossible now."

"That it is." Stacy stopped at a bedroom door and frowned. "I don't remember leaving the door ajar." She looked at me confused.

"Maybe Marcus checked up on Sapphire?"

"Shh…" She took out a dagger out from her boot and slowly pushed the door open. When she opened the door her jaw dropped and rushed into the room. I ran after her; into the room. Stacy was fighting large men who were trying to take Hamish and Angus. Sapphire was there fighting as well, but she wasn't doing such a great job. I'd seen both of them fight before, but now Sapphire seemed off on her game. She must have been really hurt.

Stacy pushed Hamish aside as she pulled Angus away from one of the intruders. I ran over to the guys who seemed a bit out of it muttering something about explosions and cake. I pulled Hamish off to the corner after he had passed out. Angus followed me but he passed out and fell on me. He was heavy and was squishing me. It took me a good two minutes to get Angus off of me. When I managed to get free I stood up and saw Stacy over a body. She was holding the man by the collar of his shirt.

"Speak, you piece of shit or I'll slit your throat right here." She pulled up her dagger to the guy's throat.

"Whoa Stacy, relax. What's wrong?"

She looked at me with terror and anger written across her face, "She's gone."

"Who?"

"Sapphire."

I looked around and didn't see her. Sapphire was indeed missing. Stacy pressed her dagger into the man's throat. "Tell me! Tell me where they took her!"

"Stacy stop, you won't get an answer from him like that."

She looked at me, "And what's your plan."

I smiled at her, "We have a little fun first."

She frowned and punched the man in the face; he passed out instantly. "Bring me something to tie him up with. We'll ask him questions later."

I nodded and left the room. I asked Marcus for some rope; when I got back to the room Stacy was pacing. "Here" I said as I handed her the rope.

She cut the rope in half with her dagger and used one piece to tie the man's hands together behind his back. She tied his feet together with the other piece. "There. He won't be going anywhere." Stacy said. She got up and kicked the pillow on the floor. "Damn it Sapphire. Where did you go?"

I saw something shiny on the floor where the pillow was, "Hey what's that?" I walked over to it and picked it up it was a snowflake necklace. I looked up at Stacy and she was pale.

"That's Sapph's favorite necklace." She walked around the room. I walked over to the bed and moved the bed sheets; I didn't find anything.

I turned and looked at Stacy, "I'm sorry. We'll find her."

"You'll help me?" she asked.

"Of course, you offered me the very same just moments ago. I'm just returning the gesture."

Stacy did the strangest thing next, she hugged me. "Thanks." She said just before letting me go and continuing to pace in the room. "Who would take her?"

"I'm not sure. An enemy perhaps?"

"That doesn't narrow it down much."

I blinked. I mean really how many enemies can two teenagers have? "What about a new enemy? Have any of those?"

"No, and that's the weird thing of all of this."

"What about Taccone?"

"I've never dealt with him. There would be no need for him to want to target my sister."

"Well, what if Taccone thinks you and your sister are part of the crew?"

"We're not."

"Yeah you are."

"You're delusional Kat. You saw how your crew acted when Hale went missing. They won't want to help me. I'll find my sister, but right now you should get your crew to calm down."

"Come on Stacy, we need to work as a group, a team. I know you want to leave, but going off on your own doesn't work. Trust me I know. So we'll find Sapphire and Hale but we have to work as a team."

Stacy sighed, "Alright, but you'll have to do some serious convincing because I screwed up big time."

I smiled at Stacy, "Sure."

She frowned at me, "Don't smile, you remind me of Sapphire."

"You miss her." I stated.

"Duh, she's my twin." Stacy paced the room then walked to the open window and looked outside. "I can't believe I let this happen. I shouldn't have left her alone."

"It's not your fault Stacy. It's not like you knew that she was going to be taken."

She sighed and leaned into the window analyzing it closely. "Yeah I know..." She picked up a piece of fabric off the window. "Look at this." She lifted it up. "It's a dark piece of cloth."

"It must have come off who ever came in."

Stacy pulled out a small Ziploc baggie from her shoulder bag. She placed the piece of fabric in the baggie. She looked at me, "Look for more clues, like a foot print or something that will help me find my sister."

I nodded and looked around the room carefully not to miss anything. I checked the sheets while Stacy looked under the bed. "Nothing up here Stacy."

Stacy looked up at me and for the first time she didn't look so tough. There was a sense of sadness in her eyes that I'd never seen before. I was about get off the bed when something fell down to the ground from the bed. We both looked down. It was a cigarette bud. Stacy picked it up and looked at it.

"What is this doing here?" Stacy asked.

"Maybe someone dropped it?"

"So it's a clue" She smiled and saved the cigarette bud. She stood up and sat on the bed with me. She had gone back to her serious frown expression. She looked at the clues we had found. "Taccone messed with the wrong people. If he truly did kidnap my sister he'll regret it."

"We'll find her. She's tough."

She sighed, "I know, I just worry about her. She can be so nice…" She set the clues aside and fingered Sapphire's snowflake necklace. I'd never seen Stacy so worried before. I didn't think she was capable of it, considering she always seems so tough and mean. Don't get me wrong I think Stacy is a cool, but she has terrible people skills. So I was surprised to see her so worried, so…vulnerable.

She was looking at the necklace in her hand, tears running down her cheek. This was starting to get uncomfortable. I cleared my throat, "Hey how about we go down stairs and tell the crew that Sapphire is missing?"

Stacy wiped the tears from her face; removing some of the makeup off her face in the process. I saw some white and orange markings on her face near her eye. It couldn't have been eye shadow since she wasn't wearing eye shadow. She looked at me and frowned, "Don't you dare tell anyone you saw me crying."

I put my hands up in a defensive position, "I won't tell anyone." I brought my hands down and patted Stacy's back. "You're worried; it's understandable."

"Yeah…" She looked distant.

"What is it?"

"The window…" She got up and walked over to it. She leaned into it and tilted her head as she stared at the glass of the window. "It has a hand print."

"Really?"

"Yeah, come and look."

I got up and off the bed. I walked over to Stacy. She pointed to the window where she saw the hand print. I tilted my head and it took me only moment to notice what she had seen. "There is a hand print." I said with a smile, "This is good."

She looked at me and smiled. "Kat, do you think that Simon can figure out who this hand print belongs to?"

"Well there's only one way to find out." I said, "Let go down stairs and tell them what happened."

Stacy looked at me with a sour face. "Do I have to go?"

"Yes you do. You have to apologize to Gabrielle for knocking her unconscious." Oh goodness, I sounded like a mom there. Well I guess there is some truth in it. Stacy did need to apologize to Gabrielle and she needed to face her mistakes. We all do at one point in life.

Stacy sighed, "Alright, but what about Angus and Hamish? And the unconscious guy on the floor?"

I looked down at the guy on the floor. "He won't go anywhere right?"

"Well we could take him down stairs with us."

"And risk him hearing our plans?"

Stacy made a face and was about to respond when she was interrupted by Hamish, "Ah! Dude get off of me!" Both Stacy and I looked at Hamish. He pushed Angus away quickly as he sat up. He looked at us, "Uh why is there a guy on the floor?"

"Same reason you're on the floor." Stacy said. "You were unconscious."

"Then…" He looked at Angus who was waking up. "Angus, you're drooling."

Angus sat up and wiped his face clean. "No I'm not…whoa who's the dead guy?"

"He's not dead." I said.

"He's unconscious and tied up, big difference." Stacy added.

"Uh…how did that happen?" Angus asked.

"Punched him in the face." Stacy shrugged like it wasn't a big deal.

"Wait," Hamish said, "Where's Sapphire?"

Stacy frowned and stepped out of the room. I sighed, "Sapphire's been taken."

"What?" Both Angus and Hamish said. They looked rather upset about it. I suppose they took a liking to Sapphire.

"Stacy saved you guys, but Sapphire got caught."

"Oh man," Angus said, "That's terrible."

"We gotta get her back." Hamish said.

"We will." I said, "Right now we just have to tell the rest of the crew what happened." The boys nodded and stood up. I walked out of the room for a moment. Stacy was pacing the hall.

"What if she's in real danger?" Stacy said.

"Stacy, you can't think like that right now. You have to be strong. You told me yourself."

Stacy sighed, "Alright lets go."

I nodded and headed into the room, "Hey guys, Stacy and I are going down stairs…" Hamish looked at me and blocked my view of Angus. "What are you guys doing?"

Hamish grinned, "Nothing Kat. You go downstairs we'll take care of the dead guy."

"He's not dead."

"Same difference." Hamish walked over to me and ushered me out the door. "You two tell the rest of the crew what happen; we'll watch the guy."

"…Okay."

"Great. Later." Hamish walked back into the room and closed the door. I sighed and looked at Stacy. She was frowning still. I walked down the hallway and about half way to the other end of the hall, I glanced back to make sure she was following. Stacy was lingering by the door. I motioned my head for her to follow me. She sighed and followed me. We walked down the stairs and to the main room.

"What if they won't help me?" Stacy asked.

"I'll help you if they won't and I'm sure Angus and Hamish will too. They seemed rather upset that Sapphire was missing. They'll help you too I'm sure of it." I opened the door and nudged her into the rom. The room went silent as they all turned towards us.

"What do you want Stacy?" Alex asked. He was kneeling next to Gabrielle who was still unconscious.

"Sapphire is missing." Stacy said with caution.

"Don't play the sympathy card Stacy."

"I'm serious Alex. Sapphire is missing." She said as she stepped closer. "I went up to the room to go get her, she was fighting some guys. I managed to save Angus and Hamish but Sapph was taken."

"How do we know you didn't stage this?" Alex said.

"I don't kid around when it involves family. You should know that Alex, or did you forget what we did for you?"

Alex frowned and looked at the ground then at Gabrielle. "Don't bring that up."

"I will bring that up. You left after we helped you out. Alex you're family or at least you were."

"Alex, she's telling the truth. The room was trashed, Hamish and Angus where almost taken; we found some clues that might tell us who did it." I motioned to Stacy to show them the baggies. She pulled them out and set the baggies on the table. "There was even a hand print on the window."

"A hand print?" Alex asked Stacy.

I nodded, "Simon, can you go check the window for the hand print? Hamish and Angus are up there taking care of the guy Stacy caught."

"You caught a guy?" Simon asked.

"Yeah when I was trying to keep the Bagshaw brothers from being taken; I caught one. The rest of them were gone but they had taken Sapphire." She frowned again.

"So what are we going to do with him?" Simon asked.

"Question him." I said.

Simon nodded and gathered his things. "I'll go check out the handprint Kat." He got up and headed up stairs with some equipment.

Stacy walked over to Alex and they started talking. She apologized to him for her burst of anger. Alex forgave her, but he still seemed upset about Sapphire's disappearance. He and Stacy looked at the two clues we had, trying to determine where they came from.

I sat near Gabrielle making sure she was okay. There was a bruise on her face and a scratch on her cheek. I was glad that Stacy didn't take it so far and did too much damage to my cousin. I was worried that Gabrielle would be seriously hurt. Alex had reassured me that she was fine and that it was nothing serious. Stacy wouldn't kill Gabrielle, not because of an argument. Which makes me wonder if she would hurt us if her father told her too?

Would she hurt us even after we helped her out find her sister? I'm willing to help her and show her that we're cool, but I'm still not sure if I should completely trust her. She thinks Alex as family, but what about the rest of us? I shook the thought out of my head. I couldn't think of that right now. Right now I had to think of the plan for the heist and I had to take care of Gabrielle till she woke up.

I touched Gabrielle's forehead to check her temperature; she was a bit warm but there was no fever. So I figured that was good. I looked at Alex and Stacy; they were still talking. Gabrielle made a sound and I turned to her. She moved a bit before waking up.

She blinked up at me, "Kat?"

"Gabs, you're okay."

"Yeah." She rubbed her head, "But I have a terrible headache. Goodness what happened?"

"You don't remember?"

"Not really. All I remember is arguing with Stacy."

"You got in a fight with her too."

"What?" She sat up and pulled out her mirror from her pocket. She gasped "My face is bruised."

Alex and Stacy turned. "Gabrielle!" Alex yelled as he ran to Gabrielle and hugged her.

"Alex, you're squeezing me."

"Oh sorry." He let her go and then touched her face lightly. "How do you feel?"

"I have a headache but I feel fine." She smiled at Alex and grabbed his hand from her face. She kissed his cheek. "Thanks for asking."

Stacy edged over slowly, "Gabrielle…"

"What?" Gabrielle said sounding annoyed.

"Hear me out." Stacy said.

"Fine, go on."

"I'm sorry for…hitting you. I was upset."

"Yeah... okay." Gabrielle looked at me. "Why do you all look so pained? Did something happen to Hale?"

"No, Gabs." Alex said. He looked down at the floor. "Sapphire is missing."

"What are you talking about? She's up stairs in bed."

I shook my head, "No Gabs, someone took Sapphire from the room upstairs."

"We're trying to figure why someone would take her." Alex continued; Gabrielle nodded. Stacy wasn't near us anymore. She had stepped outside to the balcony. Alex continued to explain what had happened. I decided to step outside to check up on Stacy. I'd never seen her so distraught. She always seemed so put together, but I guess everyone has a breaking point.

I walked up to Stacy, "Hey, how are you holding up?"

"I'm fine." She said, "Don't worry about me. You should worry about the heist in two days…er it's about 9pm."

"How can you tell?"

"The position of the moon," She pointed to the sky.

"Where did you learn that?"

"My grandmother taught me and I've always had a soft spot for the stars."

"Oh." I looked up at the stars and sighed. I thought about Hale again and it was breaking my heart to know he's in danger. Stacy seems just as troubled as I did.

"Kat, he'll be alright. We'll get 'em back."

"I know we will."I smiled at her and she smiled back.

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