A/N I hope you guys enjoy this. Please comment. I changed how Shaylin was marked if you didn't notice in the last chapter. Please don't hate me, but I wanted her in my story. P.S I'll Be updating every Wednesday and Weekends. Just to fly through the next few chapters.

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"She has a crush on you," I whispered to Erik as we walked through parking lot with the girl Shaylin. She had a red mark, and was blind when Erik marked her. So he was pretty freaked out.

"I don't care," he whispered and got in the driver's seat. I rode in the back so the two love birds could talk about Shaylin seeing colors, and whatever else she was talking about. The girl covered a lot of ground in a few seconds, yet you couldn't get her to shut up.

Erik brought us to the old depots and he wanted me to go through a creepy hole in the floor. "Stop being a baby," he playfully demanded.

"In a horror movie you're the one idiot that gets us all killed, and somehow lives to the end. And being that I'm the closest thing to a black guy you have. Not happening," I said folding my arms and shaking my head.

"Wow your color changed," Shaylin noted. "It's kind of like a field of wheat," she smiled.

"Will you just come on," Erik said trying to hide his annoyance with Shaylin and her color reading.

"You go first," I said and he sighed and went down.

"Come on," he yelled up.

"I'll go if you want to be sure," Shaylin offered.

"Thanks, and if something tries to eat you guys I totally will help," I said making her laugh. She climbed down and Erik just looked up at me for a moment. "Come on," he yelled after a heartbeat.

I sighed and started on my way down. When I jumped off the latter Stark came from out of the shadows yelling boo and making me jump into Erik's arms. "What is your problem?" I yelled at him as he, Shaylin, and Erik laughed.

"It was Erik's idea," he smiled. Then he looked at Shaylin. "Wow, Aphrodite was right," he said making me laugh.

"I guess so," I said. "Shaylin this is Stark," I added introducing them.

"Hey Shaylin," Stark said reaching out to shake her hand.

"Green, I don't know what your color means," she smiled at him.

"Is she okay?" he asked looking to me.

"I don't know when Erik marked her she was blind or something."

"Wait what?" he said looking to Erik now.

"We'll explain, come on," he said walking down the tunnel.

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Erik had brought Shaylin to us and she was annoying. She was a nice person and all, she just talked…a lot. Damien and Darius told us about her gift of true sight and luckily Roxanne had a copy of the advance fledgling hand book to lend them. "Ohmigod, I can't believe Erik messed this up twice, and Shaylin is something," Roxanne laughed. She was cooking something amazing with the food Stevie Rae and Ant brought back.

"It looks like she's into Erik," I said looking over at them. He looked slightly annoyed by her, but I guess he was trying to be polite about it.

"Yeah isn't it cute," she smiled. I was surprised Roxanne wasn't jealous. "It's not like he's into her or anything, and well the only reason I had any female friends was because they wanted to get with Erik," she half smiled.

"That sucks," I said feeling sorry for her. "Wait how did you know what I was thinking?" I asked her.

"I don't know, sometimes I just feel really in tuned to your emotions, and well you know how Shaylin is reading colors," I nodded, "Sometimes when I look at people I feel a song. It's weird, and I don't want to freak Erik out anymore. The gold mark thing was hard enough on him. So please don't say anything ."

"I won't," I assured her, "It's weird 'cause I feel the same about you, not the hearing songs thing, but like I can read you," I smiled at her.

"It's cool having a girlfriend to talk to, well, there's Morgan, but she's like a sister," she said and I knew she could tell I was confused. "My friend from the other night, she's engaged to my asshole, stepbrother Daniel, the one that tried to blackmail me."

"Oh, that sucks," I said feeling really bad for being jealous of her and Erik. "I'm happy to be you're first girlfriend," I said smiling at her.

"Me too," she smiled back.

"That smells so good," Stark said, wedging himself between us.

"It's done, grab a plate," she smiled at him.

Roxanne was a really good cook. It was five-star restaurant quality, and she made it look all fancy on everyone's plate. "Where did you learn to cook like this?" Stark asked.

"When my sister got sick me and my brother did what we could to help out and that meant one of us always made dinner. I got most of my recipes from my mom, and the rest from watching cooking shows and experimenting," she said smiling at Erik. "Somethings worked out better than others."

"This is amazing," Aphrodite said.

"If I weren't madly in love with Zoey I'd ask you to marry me," Stark said making her giggle.

"I'm not your type," she reassured him, and Erik smiled seemingly to himself.

"What do you mean, you're not only rich and beautiful, but you're talented, funny, and you can cook," he said puzzled. "You're everyone's type."

"There's more to love than that, and my flaws are about as heavily weighted at my perfections"-

"You could say that again," Erik said to his plate as he played with the reminder of his food.

"Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad knows, but we still don't know what Roxanne's marks mean, and why she went through change so fast, or why Erik marked Shaylin red," Damien said bring all of us back to the unresolved issues we were supposed to be going over.

"Well, Shaylin said that I was gold and white when she first saw me. She said it was celestial," Roxanne said. "Maybe it has nothing to do with Nyx," she proposed.

"How do you figure that?" Erik asked sounding skeptical.

"I've always been really spiritually connected to God through everything in my life, even now. Maybe my marks are more about my connection with Spirit and light," she added.

"It makes since," I shrugged then I looked up at Erik who didn't seem happy about that.

"That still doesn't tell us why Shaylin has a red mark, and if what you're saying is true you're mark and Shaylin's mark aren't connected events," he said looking over at Roxanne.

"Well, you're the tracker this might be all your fault, but I was trying not to make you feel like a total failure at life," she said with a kind unwavering smile.

"Thanks for not embarrassing me in front of everyone," he said with a blank expression on his face.

"Anytime"-

"Look you two, could you stop flirty fighting and help us figure this out?" Stevie Rae demanded.

"Sorry," they said together.

"If you're right about you're mark," I said turning to Roxanne, "then we need to know why red fledglings are that way," I said looking to each of the Red fledglings in our group.

"I thought it was because of the thing Neferet made us drink. Isn't that what you told Stark?" Kramisha asked.

"Well, Shaylin never had any and she's a red fledgling," Roxanne shrugged.

"So maybe we should eliminate all scenarios that involve Neferet being the cause for this," Stevie Rae offered.

"I wouldn't necessarily go that far. Maybe this is something Neferet started that Nyx is trying to take control over," Erik added.

"I hate to say this, but Erik has a point," Aphrodite added.

"So maybe Shaylin is going to be the first in a long line of red marked fledglings," Stark said with a mouth full of food.

"I guess," I said looking at him oddly.

"Are you okay Shaylin?" I heard Roxanne ask. "We've been talking about you like you're not right here," she smiled at the shockingly quite girl.

"I was just thinking about before I was marked and I couldn't see. I used to fantasize about the first thing I wanted to be able to see, and it was always the night. I wanted to be able to see the moon and stars take the sky," she said then left the table wiping at her eyes.

"Erik you did a really good thing for her," Roxanne smiled at him.

"I wish it felt that way," he said leaving the table to go talk to her.

"How's Shaylin?" I asked Erik when he came into the kitchen. I was doing the dishes with Roxanne and Aphrodite. Aphrodite was still on her mission to get Roxanne to dump Erik.

"She keeps telling me that she's happy I marked her because she can see, but I think the whole fighting Evil thing is freaking her out," he added.

"Well, it's a lot. You're normal one moment, and then you're not in the blank of an eye," Roxanne said drying a pot.

"You really know how to make a guy feel good about himself," he smiled at her.

"It's just a lot, and she's just a kid. You understand what I'm trying to say?" she asked me.

I did and she knew I did. "Yeah, but I don't really reflect on things much anymore," I mumbled. I really didn't want to step on Erik's toes.

"Again not very reassuring I don't want to be the one that ruined Shaylin's life, or worst got her killed," he said being bluntly honest with us.

"What is it with you and death. If you give something so much power over your lives it's bound to happen. Be the one that controls your destiny," she said sounding like a motivational speaker.

"Easy for you to say Confucius," he laughed at her.

"Ha-ha-ha, you don't see me freaking out, just calm down. You're gonna have a heartattack," she said messaging his shoulders. "We should totally go to the spa, you guys need it," she offered.

"I'm in," Aphrodite said without even think about it.

"How about you Z? My treat..." she added making the offer twice as nice.

"I think we should focus on saving the world," I reluctantly said.

"The world will still be in danger when we're done," she said and it was completely true.

"Sure," I shrugged.

"I hope you guys have fun," Erik laughed.

"You're coming too," Roxanne said looking over his shoulder and into his eyes.

"I'd rather not have some huge muscular guy rubbing my naked body. Something about it does't sit well with me," he said making us all laugh.

"I'd give you a private session, with a little happy ending," she offered seductively.

"Okay, you guys shouldn't do that in public, at all," Aphrodite objected.

"Sorry," Erik smiled as he held Roxanne, and then the fleeting thoughts of it should be me started to kick in.

"I'm going to go check on Damien," I said leaving them alone.

"I'll do it. We still have to decide on some stuff about the play casting," Erik said going past me and down the tunnel to Damien's room.

"I still don't get it, why him?" Aphrodite asked. "He's so clingy, and shuck an asshat."

"He's never been like that with me, and I'm usually the jerk," she shrugged.

"But it's funny when you're mean, like me," she said making us laugh.

"Thanks," she said returning to her drying. "I just really love him, and the two years we spent apart just made it more apparent."

"That's sweet," I said trying not to sound jealous. And I really didn't want to be. Roxanne was a really great friend and Erik deserved someone that loved him after what I did. Yet, apart of me wish I had it too, and Stark wasn't the same anymore. I had to figure out what that darkness was around him.