A/N: I highly recommend reading the CoveOps lesson in Chapter 21 of "Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover" before this chapter. If you don't want to, or can't, then it's no biggy, don't worry.

Forever and Always

Chapter 21: The Reasoning

As usual, after a quarter of an hour, I broke away. I still felt like killing him. And, being a spy, I could totally do it with nearly everything on the plane.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

He smirked. "There are six reasons anyone does anything. It's got to be one of them. I wonder which."

"Yeah, sure. What is almost tied to why right?" At that something on the back of my mind seemed to surface, but I couldn't make out what it was. "Faith and greed and all that stuff."

Suddenly, a piece of the puzzle fell into place. Six reasons…six reasons…I gasped. "Six reasons."

Zach pretended to look shocked. Then he laughed and shook his head.

"I told you Joe, no use hiding it from her, she'll find out anyway. But no. You had to keep it hidden."

"Shut up, I'm telling the others, I need Liz's genius mind."

"Have fun."

I rolled my eyes, knowing he'd make his entrance at some random time while I was explaining my theory to everyone else. Grabbing various making out couples from various places in the plane, I made them sit down on the couch (more like tossed them onto the couch) and stood in front of the room behind the screen. Grant and Bex started bickering about their Doritos.

"You took one of mine. You already had a whole pack."

"But I wanted yours."

"You could've just switched packs then."

"Then yours would become mine and mine would become yours. It's still the same case." Bex looked amused. I threw pillows at them. Hard.

"Cammie? If you hadn't looked like you'd figured something out, I would've killed you for this." Bex was angry.

"Yes, I did figure something out." Bex perked up.

"What? Spit it."

"Remember, Bex, how they aren't an old threat?"

"Yeah, um…Ioseph was responsible for the first attempted assassination of Abraham Lincoln. So?"

"So. You want to know what they want, don't you? Well, what is tied to why…"

"We had this lesson months ago!"

"Then you'd be able to tell me what the six reasons anyone does anything are."

"Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear and…revenge."

Liz gasped. I continued, "Which of the six do you think caused them to…do what they're doing?"

"Greed?" Jonas asked and Preston nodded. "They want something don't they?"

"That's one of them, I know it. But any idea where I come in?" Zach walked on that exact moment, holding a pen. He leaned against the wall and started making clicking noises with it. I rolled my eyes.

"They want something, obviously, point taken. But why us? Why Gallagher?" I wanted to add 'Why me?' but I didn't. Everyone was blank. Bex and Grant looked as if whatever the reason was, they wanted to kill them, no matter what it took. Liz and Jonas were both calculating, both gathering up the notes they had on the subject. Macey and Preston had an innocent curiosity within them, both having shared a part of the story. I sat down.

Zach's pen started clicking faster, as if to indicate time or speed, or even the gears whirring inside their heads. And then, as soon as he stopped, everyone seemed to have stopped wondering. Everyone had the answer. Everyone knew that despite what I said, the words had indeed been meant about me. Everyone knew why.

My dad.

"He probably knew," Liz whispered. "Your dad knew about it?"

"Yeah, it explains why. Of course, it couldn't only be my dad…" I was talking about Zach's parents but I let it go. No one noticed.

"So, your dad…prevented them from getting something they wanted." It was Grant who spoke up this time. Keep stating the obvious Grant. Zach kept on going with the pen, this time grasping it with both hands. "And on top of all that, they want Macey, Preston and Zach because of something Gallagher and Blackthorne did. Most likely related to what happened after Ioseph was caught during attempting to kill Lincoln."

"Yeah." Zach was now twisting the pen. It was making squeaking noises.

"So…this is greed for the thing they want and…" Liz stopped, because we all knew that the only way that sentence could end was badly. In one word.

Zach stepped away from the wall and sat down beside me. He looked at the pen in such a way that I thought it would snap. And it did. Zach threw the broken pen pieces down and stood up, saying:

"Revenge."

A/N: Don't try to figure it out. You won't succeed. Or maybe you will. Answers will be given in the next 2-5 chapters. Probably 2. Most likely 5. Wow, I'm cruel. Anyway, here's the family tree in a simpler (I think) form.

Gillian Gallagher had a descendant/heir. Macey. End of story.

Whoever Blackthorne. Ok, I'm taking Brian Blackthorne, so deal with it. So, he had a great grand daughter, whose sister in law kept the line going because of her will. The sister in law had a daughter and two sons. One of the son's descendants is Preston. The other son's descendant is Zach. That's the easy part. The daughter ran away when she was sixteen. She married Ioseph Cavan's great grandson because the Cavan saw benefit from it. Their plan did not work. They killed her after she had a son. She has two descendants. Phyllis and Gertrude CAVAN. No offense to the Phyllis's and Gertrude's of the world. Beginning of the end of story.

If you still don't get it, PM me I guess.

Ok, I asked for 240 reviews in the last chapter, I didn't think I'd get them. But I did! Thanks you all so so so much. Ok, I want 260 this time. Thanks. Wow…241 reviews…you guys are awesome.

Ok, bye.

-Sami