A/N: Happy Mother's Day to all moms out there! A lot of them out there have gone through such hard times and many have made it through with a smile. My mom has gone through probably the worst divorce ever and I give her kudos for that. If it weren't for her, I might not have been sitting her right now, writing this fanfic. Just think of my dad as a drunk version of slightly injected Albert Shelbourne and the rest is pretty straight forward. If I lived with my dad, I might have ended up like Marie. Anyway, enough with all that, it's making me teary-eyed. Here we go with the chapter… (and I'm still gagging about the AngelicaXAlbert scene in the previous chapter. I seriously DO NOT support them as a couple.)

The door to the Mayor's office slammed open and everyone in the room whipped their heads around to see who had come. It was a figure in a black coat and sunglasses. Pointed high-heeled boots poked out from the coat. Brown wavy hair was waving around behind the person. It wasn't a guy. Then five students all watched the woman walk across the room and sit down at the Mayor's desk. She grabbed a dart from her pocket and threw it at Mayor Albert Shelbourne's portrait on the wall.

"Well, aren't you going to leave?" the woman raised an eyebrow, that went over the rim of her sunglasses.

"Uh, we are waiting for Mayor Oreant." One of the boys looked at her.

"I am Mayor Oreant." The woman whipped off her sunglasses and glared at the five students.

She did look like Mayor Angelica Oreant, but the five students still doubted it was her. This woman looked slightly younger, but strangely looked just like Angelica Oreant. An exact copy. But there was something in her face that wasn't Angelica. One of the girls narrowed her eyes. The woman face reminded her of Albert Shelbourne for some strange reason.

"Uh, then I guess we aren't substitute Mayors anymore?" another one of the girls blinked sadly. She was looking forward to turning this town into something extraordinary.

"No. Leave." The woman who claimed she was Mayor Oreant pointed at the door and all five students left with their heads hung.

But as they left, they kept on looking back. The woman shed her black coat and they saw that she wore a white polo shirt and faded jeans. This wasn't Mayor Oreant. The woman saw that the five students were watching her, so she got up and slammed the door in their faces. Taken back, the five students stared at the door for a few seconds, before they headed down the hallway. They had been this close to becoming town leaders, but now this happened.

Meanwhile inside the office, the woman crackled with static and suddenly vanished into thin air just like that. It hadn't been Angelica Oreant. It hadn't even been a human. It was a moving 3-dimensional image that was programmed to get the five students out of the office and tell them that she was Mayor Oreant. It had been a 3-dimensional image of Marie Oreant. That was the reason she had looked so young.

xxx

About two hours had passed and Denis was becoming more and more worried. The rain was still coming down and beat just as hard on the windows. He wondered where Angelica was now and if Flint was okay. Sam was just as worried. She was in the kitchen reading and Fran was playing with her stuffed animals in her playpen. The only sound that was heard in the whole house was the sound of Fran talking to herself in baby talk.

Slipping his hands into his pockets, Denis sat down across from Sam and watcher her read. But she kept glancing at him.

"What are you looking at? I can't concentrate if you're staring at me." Sam looked up at him and slammed her book closed.

"I'm bored." Denis snatched the book from Sam and looked at the cover. It was a romance novel.

Rolling his eyes, Denis gave Sam the book back. He didn't even read books anymore. The only thing he read were sports magazines. The last time he had read a fiction book was in 9th grade when they had to read To Kill a Mockingbird. In 10th grade they had done Shakespeare, so the only thing he had read there was the script for the plays. In 11th and 12th grade he had taken Shakespeare once again to avoid the novel study.

"Well what do you want me to do?" Sam demanded and glared at him.

Shrugging, Denis asked Sam if she had a laptop. Nodding she told him it was upstairs on her night table. Grinning he ran upstairs and came back with it and placed it on the kitchen table. Sam watched as he booted the laptop and the moment he opened up Sam's user, he leaned back in surprise when he saw Sam's wallpaper.

It was a picture of Flint and Sam kissing each other and Flint held the camera. Shaking his head, Denis glanced at Sam; who turned deep red and buried her face into her book to pretend she was reading. Then Denis burst out laughing.

"Embarrassed? Awww c'mon Sam." Denis grinned at her.

"I bet if that was you and Angelica you'd be red in the face too." Sam then lowered the book and wiggled her eyebrows at Denis.

The moment those words left Sam's lips, Denis blushed really deeply and looked down. Now it was Sam's turn to laugh.

"I know you like her, Denis." Sam drawled and grinned at him.

"I do not! She's freaking twenty years older than me! And she's still married to Albert! They still didn't file a divorce!" Denis cried.

"But Flint told me Angelica had a Youth Ray in her lab. Sadly it was stolen. I bet you want to zap her and make her 24 again. Right?" Sam teased.

Denis didn't say anything. Instead he just typed something into the laptop and Sam peeked onto the screen. He had gone on . Sighing, Sam leaned back into her seat and began to read. Why can't Denis just go get a girlfriend? I'm sure many girls would go for him! Sam thought and glanced at Denis.

He was really getting handsomer. His green eyes were the color of green grass after it was taken good care of. They were really bright green. His brown hair with its blonde streaks was spiked up in small spikes and some of it was covering his forehead and almost reaching his eyes. Plus he constantly wore either jerseys or tight T-shirt to show off his biceps. Then she imagined Angelica being his girlfriend. It seemed weird. The two were close, but they were just friends. Sam remembered when they had both been with the League of DBTC. Had they ever been such good friends back then? Probably not.

Sam remembered when she first got kidnapped and was brought into the League of DBTC's headquarters under Grand Central Station. That day she had heard Denis being injected. She never saw. And she was glad she never did. Angelica hadn't really paid attention to Denis back then.

"When's lunch?" Denis suddenly asked

"Denis, didn't you eat earlier?" Sam sighed.

"No. We ran over to your house, then Flint and I went to Brent's house and now I'm sitting here." Denis told her.

"Go look in the fridge and cupboards for food." Sam replied and continued to read.

Nodding, Denis went to look in the fridge and then snooped through the cupboards. After he came back with a beer and a box of Oreos.

"You call that lunch?" Sam raised an eyebrow at the so-called meal.

"I could take the box of chocolate chip cookies instead." Denis took a bite out of an Oreo and then a swing of beer.

Sam shook her head and just continued to read.

xxx

Click!

The bracelets snapped off Angelica's and Flint's ankles and both staggered to their feet. Angelica smiled to herself. She had gotten the remote and distracted Shelbourne so much that he forgot to lock them away in their cell. She came up to the door to the room and wiggled the doorknob. It was locked.

"What now?" Flint came over and tried to think of a way to get the door open.

"Have no fear." Angelica grinned and remembered about her hair pin, which she had pinned onto her suit jacket. Quickly she snatched up her suit jacket off the floor and took the pin out of the fabric.

Kneeling down in front of the doorknob, she began to pick the lock with the sharp point of the pin. Flint watched carefully. What if she didn't have that pin? In fact if Angelica wasn't even here, I'd probably still be stuck in the cell. Flint sighed to himself.

"Will Code Z, PLEASE bring Code B1 into Room #3!" the intercom on the wall crackled and both Flint and Angelica jumped at the noise.

"I don't understand all these weird code names. We are A1 and A2. Albert is Code Z. Is there something behind all these Code names? And what does TUIP stand for?" Angelica muttered out loud.

"Maybe we'll find out sooner or later." Flint said and Angelica cried out in triumph as she opened the door.

Grinning at Flint, she motioned for him to follow him. They exited the room and stepped out into a long hallway. A small gasp came from Angelica. This was the exact same hallway from her nightmares. Slowly, they crept down the hallway and came to the end of it. Angelica never really knew what was at the end. Holding her breath, she peeked around the corner. There was a foyer with doors that probably led into other room or more hallways. One was just another hallway leading away from the foyer. The room where they just met Richard and John was probably there.

The only problem was that Flint and Angelica couldn't really enter into the foyer. There were at least a dozen security cameras on the walls. All were swiveling around as if they sensed Angelica's and Flint's presence. But that was not all. Voices were coming from the open hallway across the foyer.

"…it worked. But that was much too risky. What if those five kids noticed it was Marie Oreant or if they realized it was only a moving image." Richard was talking to John.

Angelica's eyes widened. What are they talking about? I heard Marie's name. She thought and narrowed her eyes.

"I don't really care about that. What you never told me and Albert what 'TUIP' stands for." John shook his head.

"When Albert comes, I'll tell the both of you." Richard nodded slowly and glanced around the room.

Suddenly one of the doors in the foyer opened and Albert ran out with a wide grin on his face. Confusion washed over Flint and Angelica. If Albert had just come from their room, he was supposed to have run down the hallway in which Angelica and Flint stood in. Either there was a shortcut to this foyer or this place was just really messed up. Albert ran over to Richard and John and told them about what Angelica just told him and that she actually hugged him.

From where she sat, Angelica turned red and covered her eyes with her hands. Flint just chuckled and patted Angelica on the shoulder.

"WHAT? She didn't." Richard's eyes widened and then narrowed suspiciously.

"Oh, she so did." Albert sang and couldn't help but grinning.

"His happy emotions are taking over his injected mind." Richard muttered to John.

Shrugging, John didn't really seem to care. He then reminded Richard that now that Albert was here, Richard could finally reveal what 'TUIP' stands for. When John had said that, Angelica and Flint leaned in a bit to make sure they heard every single word.

"Well, okay. But after I say what it stands for, I then need to explain why the weird Code names." Richard told them.

"Get on with it already!" John cried and Richard took in a deep breath.

"TUIP stands for—" Richard began.

A/N: To torture you, you'll have to wait till tomorrow to find out what it stands for. (Evil laugh) =D