So I have a couple other chapters written and 13 is like my favorite yet but I'm going to start saving the chapters. It takes me about and hour to two hours to write a chapter and when school starts with swim practice in the morning and all my homework after I won't have much time to write other than weekends. So I will start saving them so you won't have to wait so long. Ugh high school.

Shout out to Copicrazeunwoltxnaa: Thank you for your fav.! That is so awesome!

Guest: Sorry! But the next chapter is a new pov, I hope you like it.

Keeper: Well unfortunately it is not a Keefe fic because I don't ship incest sooo…yeah. Sorry I hope you still like the story though.

Saraoh781: yeah, Luc was an unexpected romantic complication for Sophie wasn't he. Well thank you, I guess you will just have to wait and see who she ends up with.

ForeverFreeFall: Aww thank you so much! And OH MY GOSH NO REVIEWER'S EVER GIVEN ME A COOKIE THANK YOU HERE HAVE A BATCH OF THEM (::) (::) (::) (::) (well you get the point)

Springgirl: Thank you! And I can't say what is going to happen with Luc and Fitz but I think you guys will like it.

Pen .edge: I can't help it! Luc seems to be having this effect on a lot of people including me! He is the personification of my perfect guy, literally! But don't worry, Fitz will get his time too and it will confuse your heart even more.

Copicrazeunwoltxnaa: (Whoa long name :)) I'm sorry. But never fret, Fitz's time will come.

Bianna POV

"Where are they? They should have checked in by now." She began pacing her the length of her room. It had been over ten minutes since Fitz and Dex last checked in at the human school. She was beginning to worry. What if something went wrong? What if they didn't find Sophie? What if they did and something still went wrong?

She didn't realize she was crying until she felt Keefe's hand on her shoulder. He didn't ask if she was okay, he could feel that she wasn't. "Sophie's fine, Bianna. There's no reason to feel guilty. We're having fun remember? Spying, sneaking, breaking the rules, going to the forbidden cities and disobeying the council! Fun stuff! Everything is working out!"

She shook his hand away. "Ugh! I am so sick of you! When are you going to admit that you are just as upset as everyone else? Fitz and Dex may be too dense to notice but anyone with half a brain can see through you façade! Friends help each other! It goes both ways! Stop trying to be such a bloody hero! It doesn't suit you!"

Bianna regretted saying it as soon as she saw his smile replaced by clear hurt. "Thanks."

"That's not what I meant, I didn't mean that you can't be a hero it's just-"

"I know what you meant Bianna, I get it. Can we just drop it?" She would have kept pressing, but then they heard Fitz yelling down stairs. One look at each other and they agreed to put their current conversation off until later. Her hand was on her bedroom door knob when it swung open.

"Where did dad go? I can't find him!" He looked terrible. But unlike earlier, now he looked angry. Dex stepped in behind him, looking equally as bad.

"He left a few minutes ago for some emissary stuff. Why, what happened? Did you guys find Foster?" Bianna decided she should be worried. If Keefe looked this concerned, then he could not be feeling anything good from the two boys.

"Explain later, I need to find my dad. He has some stuff to explain. Bianna, can you still track where he is?"

"Yes, but Fitz maybe you should calm down first." Nevertheless she pulled out the tiny device and found that her dad was visiting Grady and Edaline. "He's at Havenfield." Fitz nodded his head once, and reached for his pathfinder. "Whoa wait. Where do you think you're going? Those two are a mess! You can't bring this up in front of them!"

He just shrugged. "They disserve to know this too." Bianna looked to Dex, trying to make him talk some sense into her brother but he just looked down. Keefe wasn't going to stop him either.

She sighed. Leave it to her to be the sensible one for all of them. Now she would have to be the damage control. "Fine then we're all going." She leapt away before anyone could protest.

…

Once they arrived at Havenfield the group seemed to take a collective breath before knocking on the door. A gnome answered the door and began to show them in but Fitz pushed past him and walked right to the sitting area where they saw the three adults talking. Dex and Keefe shrugged and followed suit. She internally groaned.

After apologizing to the gnome she ran after them.

"How could you!?" I see Fitz hasn't wasted any time with, oh I don't know, manners. Alden turned around and smiled but it fell away as soon as he saw how furious his son was.

"Fitz, children, what are you doing here?"

"I think you know! How could you say Sophie was dead when you know full and well she's perfectly ALIVE in the FORBIDDEN CITIES?" Her dad stood, looking far too tired for comfort. She didn't understand why they both looked so upset. Sophie was alive; this was the best news she had heard in months.

"What?" Edaline stood as well, looking as though she was a starving animal who had just been thrown a scrap of food.

"Fitz this is something we can discuss later. I don't know where you think you got this information but I want you to calm down."

Grady jumped to his feet, making it so everyone was now standing in a circle. "Now wait a moment Alden, if there is something about Sophie we have not been told you are going to say it right now."

"Oh there sure is something! Like how you wiped her memory of us!" No one spoke. Every one but Dex, Fitz, and Alden wore the same horrified expressions. She assumed her face looked the same.

"YOU WHAT?" Grady was the first to react.

Alden ran a hand through his hair. He looked around the room and held up his hand. "It seems I have some explaining to do. Please, sit." After a moment everyone sat, but it did nothing to help the icy atmosphere. And he did. He explained everything.

…

Well, no one was too happy with Alden's revelation. Keefe and Dex just looked shocked but they were doing better than everyone else. Fitz was still furious. Grady was worse, he was understandably furious that Alden had trusted his daughter with a rebel, but he was shut up when her father pointed out that they hadn't wanted Sophie to be their daughter so they had no say in the matter. Edaline seemed to age a few years right there…but…in a way she also seemed happier knowing Sophie was alive.

As for herself, Bianna didn't know what to think. Obviously she was ecstatic that Sophie was alive but her not knowing who she was, it was hard to process. It was wrong; Sophie should not have had such a huge part of her life taken away from her. But…then she thought back to when Sophie had decided to wipe her human family's minds. She was a mess but…it was the right thing to do. Because she loved them. So if Sophie wasn't safe here, or as happy as she had seemed to be as a human…what kind of loved ones would they be if they tried to get her back? Sure without her they would be forgotten loved ones, but it was better than her remembering as she died, right? Bianna loved Sophie like a sister, despite their rocky start, and if Sophie could let go of her little sister to protect her, shouldn't she? Bianna was shaken out of her contemplation when Alden apologized to Grady and Edaline and leapt home with Fitz. Bianna, Keefe, and Dex all mumbled good byes and did the same for their respective homes.

She arrived home to Fitz and Alden yelling again. "I don't get it! She would be safe here! We could protect her!"

Alden finally cracked his calm exterior and yelled back. "Because she was tortured Fitz! By a second rebel group that we did not even know existed! When we though she was dead they were wiping her impenetrable mind! That's why Fitz! We can't protect her! We already couldn't!" He seemed to collect himself after that. Once again calm he turned to the two of them barely above a whisper he finished. "She's safe, and until we stop the Neverseen, or at least aren't so hopelessly uninformed, then this is how it will remain. I'm sorry, I know this is hard but it will get better. There-there is no need to worry."

…

(One week later)

Keefe POV

It was nice to be having fun again. Sure they all still missed Sophie. He still missed making her blush or just hanging out. Their group of friends seemed off without her. But at least they were friends with Dex now. She would like that. And they had agreed they couldn't sit around and mope. She wasn't dead, and she wasn't gone forever. Someday they would have her back, and even if she couldn't remember them they would become friends all over again. But until then, it was nice to just play base quest and relax a bit.

It had been him and Dex versus Bianna and Fitz. But they had some tricks up their sleeves. Fitz may have been able to transmit, but he and Dex had booby trapped the area around their flag. They never had a chance.

Now the four of them were sitting at the lake, watching a couple of Moonlarks Alden had just gotten from the sanctuary swim around. They were all laughing and having a good time, but Keefe could feel Fitz mood drop as he watched the birds swim. "You're like a love sick puppy, it's adorable." Fitz didn't look up. He just managed a small half smile.

"We could do it you know."

"Do what."

"Track down the rebels and help fight. If we did that then Sophie could come back. We could do it." Keefe knew he wasn't really thinking straight, but that gave him an idea.

"You're right! We could. I don't know why we haven't though of this already! We could track down this Black Swan guy and help him fight! No one would expect kids so we could work without worrying! Let's do it!"

Fitz's eye's lit up but then he looked over at Bianna and Dex in the water. "But they can't come. Bianna's my baby sister and I won't let her come and Dex…he's already been kidnapped, I don't want him to be a part of this. Just us two."

They were in agreement. They were going to take down the Neverseen. This was going to be awesome.