A/N: Chapter 14! Awesome! Ok, really quick, before you completely ignore this Author's Note (Because I'm sure ya'll get tired of reading every single one), please make sure you read the one at the end of the chapter! VERY IMPORTANT!

And now, on a completely unrelated note, Just Dance 4 came out! It's sooooo much fun! I've been playing it for the past two days! (Be warned though, If you play the Extreme version of the One Direction song. At the end of the song, you're supposed to fall on your knees... Do not slam to your knees as hard as you can, four times in a row! You will regret it :/ - bruised knees... I get just a little too excited when I play Just Dance ;D )

Okay! Enjoy:

(Cammie POV)

Macey looked stunned. She stared at me hesitantly.

"H-his descendant?" She cocked her head and squinted her eyes. "So, If they want him-" Her eyes suddenly grew wide again. "Does that mean they want me too? Why would they want Preston? He doesn't even know about Gallagher or Blackthorne, or any of this!" She threw her arms out, gesturing around the room and smacking Kyle in the face at the same time. He jerked, unprepared for the impact. Macey turned toward him, her fingers going to touch his face. "Ooh! I'm sorry Kyle! Are you okay?"

He sat up straighter, a slight grin on his face. "Yeah, I'm good. Very good." Macey smiled at him and slowly moved her hand away. I stared at the two of them suspiciously.

"Should we tell Joe?" Liz piped up uncertainly. Kyle looked up and tensed. I gave him a questioning look.

"Joe already knows," Zach inserted, immediately grabbing my attention. "Joe and Mrs. Morgan have the file. I'm pretty sure they've read it and de-coded it a few billion times already."

Nodding thoughtfully, I answered Macey's questions. "Macey, I don't know why they would want Preston. And I'm not sure if they want you or not." I felt something rubbing against my right arm. I looked over and saw Liz sitting next to me. She had a colored chart in one hand and a pH strip in the other. She was holding the strip up to my now purple skin and comparing them both, her eyes squinted in concentration. I pulled my arm back and leaned away from her slowly.

"Liz….." She ignored me and looked over at her laptop, showing the chart to Jonas. "LIZ!" That got her attention. "I am not an experiment!"

She frowned at me reproachfully. "But, Cam, you're the first living person I've tested it on! I need to study this!" I squinted at her. Living person? Had she been experimenting on non-living people? I slowly inched away from her, but it didn't deter Liz at all. "Cam! Stop moving!" She sighed. "Here, help me out with this. Turn black!"

I stared at her. "I can't just turn black! I can't control it!"

"Sure you can! Come one, just try to turn black! Think about-I don't know- being all chameleon-y! It's what you do!"

I sighed and thought for a moment about blending in with the shadows. "Liz, this is pointless." My skin instantly turned a smoky shade of black. Huh. How bout that. Liz got so excited I thought she was going to have a conniption.

"Jonas! Look! It works!" Liz and Jonas instantly turned to their twin laptops, typing furiously and whispering excitedly to each other.

"Hello!" Macey yelled. "Can we please get back to the important stuff now?"She waited for Liz and Jonas to calm down and look toward us again. "Thank you! Have you found out where they're staying yet?"

Liz consulted her notebook. "They're staying at that 5 star hotel down by the mall. The Sibyllin Hotel."

Macey nodded approvingly. "Good. So what's on their agenda? Do you know yet?"

"It hasn't been posted anywhere online. I know the general stuff that the public knows, like the two public outings they're going on. But that's it."

"Hey, Macey, why don't you just call Preston and ask him?" I spoke up as the idea came to me. Macey nodded slowly.

"That would work. I'll do it Monday, on our trip to Roseville with Joe."

Kyle suddenly sat up and looked toward me intently. "We're going on a trip to Roseville with Joe?" I nodded in affirmation, deciding at that moment to find out what was making Kyle act so odd when Joe was mentioned.

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I walked through the school searching for Kyle. He had left the room earlier without a backward glance. I scanned the hallways as I went. It shouldn't be too difficult to find him, I reasoned. He was one of four boys in an all girls school. I caught a glimpse of him turning the corner and sped up. He looked out of place in the hallway, standing a good 6 inches above most of the people near him.

"Kyle! Wait up!" I sprinted down the hall towards him, ignoring all the odd glances thrown my way. I wondered absently what everyone was staring at. Kyle slowed for a moment and waited for me. I reached out to touch his shoulder and recoiled when I saw my graying skin. The chameleon effect was wearing off, the midnight blackness of my skin slowly fading away. I whirled around and looked at a large mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I saw a strange corpse-like person, faded graying skin and brown hair, wide eyes. My jaw dropped.

"I look like a corpse!" I shrieked. I saw Kyle walk up behind me in the mirror, his mouth twitching.

"Well…..A beautiful corpse?" He tried. I shook my head at him.

"There is absolutely nothing you can do to make 'corpse' sound like a compliment." I smiled. "But the effort was cute. Thanks." I looked away from the mirror and saw Tina headed toward me. I grabbed Kyle's arm and pulled him along behind me as I quickly headed towards the nearest hidden passageway. "Hurry!" I hissed. "Tina's coming, and I am NOT explaining this!" I stressed the word, gesturing to my skin. I grabbed a wall sconce on a wall and yanked on it, slipping into the tiny opening that popped open as a result. I turned around once I was in there and saw Kyle looking at me warily. He looked as if he was contemplating my sanity. I rolled my eyes and yanked him through the small hole right as it began to click shut. We walked for a short period of time without saying anything. I guided us through the maze of tunnels beneath the school, heading back to that abandoned lounge where we had talked last time.

"Y'know," Kyle's voice broke into the silence. "Every time I see you, you're yanking me into a secret hidden tunnel of some sort."

I stopped. "Your point?"

He shrugged, stopping with me. "Just an observation."

"Well, if I recall correctly-and I usually do- a couple of times I've done that, I've saved your life."

Kyle started walking again. He smiled sheepishly. "Touché."

"Besides, it's nice to have a place you can steal away to when the whole world is going crazy. Trust me," I added dryly. We finally found the room I was looking for and sat on the couch. I paused for a moment, wondering how to pose my question. I shrugged mentally, deciding I didn't really care.

"So…What's up with you and Joe?" I spoke quietly despite the fact that we were alone. Kyle's face whitened and his pupils contracted slightly. I scooted sideways to face him and leaned back against the armrest comfortably, my arms loosely crossed. He shifted uncomfortably.

"Wasn't there some reason you needed to talk to me?" He hedged. "You came running down the hallway yelling my name. I assume you did it for some other reason than pulling me into yet another passageway? What did you want to talk to me about?"

I nodded. "I wanted to ask 'What's up with you and Joe?'" Kyle paused.

"Cam, I really don't want to talk about it." He said quietly. "Can you please just respect that?"

I paused, considering. "…No." Kyle snorted in reply. "Come on, Kyle. What's up?"

He ran his left hand through his hair and sighed in defeat. He glanced at me sideways.

"All right… I'll tell you."

A/N: Okay, here's the important author's note!

I have been trying to write the chapter for the past two days. I worked on it ALL DAY today. I wasn't going to cut off the chapter when I did, and you guys were going to find out about Kyle and Joe... But here's my problem: I can't make up my mind! Is Joe Kyle's dad? Uncle? Are they related at all? They aren't related, but Kyle helped Joe escape from the circle back in book four? AHHH! Too many choices!

So I decided to let ya'll decide! Please leave a review letting me know what you think should happen! Help a poor confused author make up her mind! ;) I also put up a poll on my profile, which includes the choices above ^ . Thanks soooo much! You guys are awesome!