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Sierra sat on the bed and looked at the phone that she was given, she sighed and decided she might as well call DJ and get it over with. When she finally called him, he seemed surprised that she wasn't going back to the house like he originally thought that she was going to.

"DJ, It's me." Sierra told him when he finally answered. "I just wanted to tell you that Izzy stopped by and I decided to spend a few days with her."

"You're with Izzy?" DJ asked her, not sure as to why she would want to spend time with her. "I was sort of hoping you'd come back tonight so we could talk things over?"

"Just give me some time." Sierra told him in almost a whisper. "I just need to figure some things out."

It was technically wasn't a lie, she did have some things she needed to figure out, mainly who deserved to live and who deserved to die and she didn't know how to pick. Sierra would have ended her own life to save them both if she thought that would work but it was beyond that point.

"If that's what you want." DJ told her. He seemed disappointed that she wasn't going to go back to what he thought she considered her 'home'.

"Thanks for understanding." Sierra sighed. "Don't worry, I'll be back soon."

"You're not at the hotel anymore?" DJ asked her.

"I'm at Izzy's apartment." Sierra lied. "Just don't worry, okay?"

"Love you." DJ gave up and just wanted to end this conversation.

"I love you too, DJ." Sierra told him. "Just don't ever forget that."

Sierra hung up the phone before DJ could ask her anymore questions that she didn't have the answers to. All she wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to sleep and that's exactly what she did, she took a hot shower and went to bed on one of the beds in Mal's hotel room.


The next morning, Sierra was woken up by being rolled off her bed and on to the floor. Once she had the floor with a loud thud, she sat up to see Izzy in the bathroom doorway giggling at what had just happened to her and Mal with a smirk on his face.

"Rise and shine." Mal sat on the edge of the bed next to her. "C'mon and get up."

"What time is it?" Sierra groaned and looked at the clock. "It's 6:18am! If you wanted me up you could have just tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to wake up!"

"I told you we're going to talk today, didn't I?" Mal laughed. "First things first, did you call your guy?"

"DJ?" Sierra asked with a yawn as she sat on the bed. "Yeah, I called him on that burner phone."

"Good girl." Mal smirked at her. "Give Izzy your cell phone, not the burner. It needs to be your phone."

"I need my phone!" Sierra told him. "Do you know how many calls I get from people?"

"We don't need your phone to get tracked." Mal warned her and put out his hand. "Give me your phone right now so Izzy can get rid of it."

"Is that necessary?" Sierra asked him. "I don't think DJ would trace my phone."

"DJ isn't the one I'm worried about." Mal rolled his eyes and still insisted that Sierra gave him the phone. "I'm talking about Noah. I wouldn't put that passed him to make sure you're doing what they want."

Sierra wanted to argue, she loved her phone and she needed it for what she did, However she wasn't in the mood to argue with Mal especially when what he said made perfect sense. Sierra handed Mal the phone and he tossed it to Izzy who turned it off and put it in a plastic bag.

"When will I get it back?" Sierra asked them.

"You're not getting it back." Mal told her. "Izzy is going to smash it and throw it in a lake or river."

"See?!" Izzy waved the bag in front of Sierra, laughed and then grabbed a hammer from the dresser drawer, placed it down on the dresser and pounded on it a few times until it was smashed into a few pieces. "Now Sierra's phone is like, boom-boom and in tiny little pieces!"

"Why did you need to smash it with a hammer?!" Sierra was confused. "Why do you guys even have a hammer?"

"Izzy likes to smash things." Mal shrugged. "I can't blame her for wanting you smash a few things, can I? Izzy, go and get rid of it."

"You got it, Mal!" Izzy tossed the hammer on the bed and then quickly left while laughing with Sierra's phone.

Once Izzy left, Mal sighed and seemed a bit more focused on Sierra now and Sierra wasn't sure how she felt about this. Being alone in a room with Mal was not something she would want to do in the past and she wasn't entirely sure if it was something she really wanted to do now but in her head she was certain that she had no other options, her friends weren't her friends anymore and her enemies seemed to be more helpful then evil.

"Let's talk." Mal smirked at her. "Do you have any way to solve your current problem?"

"No I don't." Sierra slightly rolled her eyes. "I also need to fix my phone problem too."

"That seems to be the least of your problems now." Mal couldn't help but chuckle. "With everything going on in your life? You wish you had a new cell phone? Talk about priorities."

"Instead of making fun of me, can you help?" Sierra wasn't going to fight with him. "You're like the only one who can even help me now! I'd appreciate your input."

"I was getting to that." Mal chuckled again. Sierra hated when he did that, it made Mal sound like he was a serial killer. "I was thinking that Courtney and Noah are going to have to die and then maybe Chef and DJ could die too."

"That's a horrible idea!" Sierra gasped. "That does not solve the problem! I want DJ to live!"

"I guess we could discuss it." Mal shrugged. "Okay, you want to solve your man problem?"

"I want DJ to give up this stupid reality show idea." Sierra told him. "I want him to move to L.A. and just live a normal life with me but he seems to think we need to do this reality show. Can you help me with that, without killing DJ?"

"That can be arranged." Mal smirked. "In fact, I have a really great idea!"

"If its anything like your last idea, I'm not sure how I feel about it." Sierra admitted. "Can you just promise me you're not going to come off with some way to screw me over? I'm putting all my trust in you right now and it shouldn't be that way. I'm seriously thinking right now that I'm going to get up and you're going to bash my head with a hammer and kill me."

"No. No. No." Mal shook his head and laughed. "That would be a bloody mess and you don't get blood in a hotel room. That's the mistake so many people make! If I wanted to kill you, I could do it in two seconds, not make you bleed all over the floor and give your body to Izzy to dispose of. Let's face it sweetie, if I wanted you dead I could have just had Izzy handle that at the bar and you wouldn't have even known."

"I guess that means I can trust you?" Sierra sighed.

"Do you really have a choice?" Mal asked her. "Like you said, you need me."

"I'm trusting you." Sierra told him.

"You're going to go back to your house with DJ and you're going to take Izzy with you." Mal instructed. "That's the plan."

"I don't get how that's going to work with Courtney and Noah if they can find me!" Sierra told him. "Mal, you're not making any sense."

"I doesn't need to make sense." Mal told her. "Your phone is gone, stay off the internet if you want me to spare your computer, and you're going to go with Izzy and let me handle this. Get it? Good."

"Fine." Sierra agreed even though she hated not knowing what the hell Mal had planned, all she knew was that with Izzy and DJ in the same place that she could guarantee they would all be safe, there was no way Mal would risk having anything bad happen when Izzy was there if she was his right hand man.


Sierra was unsure why she agreed to this but two hours later she found herself driving her car back to DJ's house...her house?...their house? The only thing that Sierra could do was tune out Izzy the best that she could because after being in the car with Izzy for a long period of time, Sierra wanted to kill Izzy! She was the same as she was when Sierra knew her. Maybe she was the most real person out of everyone she's reunited with?

"Izzy, we're almost at DJ's place." Sierra turned the music down. "You're not going to say anything to anyone about even seeing Mal, right?"

"Izzy knows what she's doing." Izzy smiled and went to turn the music up but Sierra slapped her and away.

"Izzy, I'm serious." Sierra groaned. "What did Mal say he was going to do? Did he give you a plan? I know you were packing when you got back! What do I tell DJ about my phone? He's going to ask."

"Izzy only knows what Mal tells her." Izzy shrugged.

"Do you trust him?" Sierra found herself asking. "I mean, do you trust him with everything? What does he tell you about these things he usually does? Aren't you worried that he'll turn on you?"

"Mal? He would never do that!" Izzy laughed. "He lets Izzy boom-boom things all the time! How great is it when the guy you work with lets you destroy things?! I mean, it's soooo cool to see him plan things and they actually work! Some people just talk about doing things, Mal does them and Izzy likes that!"

"Are you two...dating?" Sierra asked. "I obviously wouldn't blog about it, I'm just curious."

"No, Izzy would never date Mal." Izzy laughed. "Izzy isn't into Mal, Izzy just likes to see justice served and play by her own rules and Mal lets that happen!"

"Do you know what this plan he has even is?" Sierra asked. "I know he didn't give you much of a notice that you were coming with me but I figured maybe you would have an idea of what he was going to do?"

"That's the thing with Mal, you never know!" Izzy laughed. "It makes it so much more exciting!"

"You just do whatever Mal tells you?" Sierra asked. "That can't be much fun."

"It's totally fun!" Izzy laughed. "Plus nobody I know died yet."

"Yeah..." Sierra didn't know what to say at this point. "We're going to be at the house soon so I don't want you to mention any of this to DJ at all. He can't know that we even talked to Mal, let alone that you work for him."

"Izzy won't say anything." Izzy promised. "Izzy will just say she's staying with you for awhile! DJ won't even know!"

"Good." Sierra sighed in relief but still unsure if Izzy would blow her cover. "We're here."


When they got to the house, Sierra walked up with Izzy behind her and she unlocked the door to the house and walked inside to find DJ sitting at the table with Gwen, Bridgette and Geoff and it felt almost exactly like it was when she first left.

"Sierra?!" DJ got up from the kitchen table where they were talking and ran over to her and hugged her. "I tried calling you four times and I was hoping you were okay!"

"I'm fine." Sierra smiled at him. "I figured since you wanted to talk to me that I could just bring Izzy here for a few days and she could stay here."

"On the way over here Izzy threw Sierra's phone out the car window." Izzy laughed. "Izzy was playing a game and she lost so she got rid of the insulting game."

"Yeah..." Sierra looked at Izzy strangely but went with it. "I guess I'll have to buy a new phone when I get the time."

"Izzy, would you like to join our reality show?!" Gwen yelled to her. "It's going to be really fun."

"No thanks." Izzy scoffed at Gwen. "Izzy isn't a sellout!"

"Your choice." Gwen smiled and went back into the kitchen. "Hey Sierra! Did you change your mind?"

"Did you?" DJ asked her. "Because Chris and Chef went to talk to some producers to see about starting filming next month..."

"I don'-" Sierra was going to say but Izzy cut her off.

"Sierra was telling Izzy on the way here that it seemed like a great idea!" Izzy told DJ. "Remember Sierra? You told Izzy that?!"

"Yeah, I told her you were right and we should do the show..." Sierra lied, hoping that Izzy knew what the hell she was talking about. "Would you guys mind calling it a day? I'm tired and I just want to lay down for awhile."

"I guess if you want, we could just come back tomorrow?" Bridgette smiled. "C'mon Geoff, let's go home."

"I should probably go home too." Gwen agreed but seemed slightly disappointed. "We can meet up tomorrow morning at the diner for coffee before we open up?"

"That sounds great." DJ agreed. "Sierra and I will be there. Izzy, do you wanna come tomorrow?"

"Izzy would love to do that!" Izzy laughed. "Izzy can't wait!"

"I guess we'll see you tomorrow then?" Sierra awkwardly laughed and walked the three of them to the door.

Once Bridgette, Geoff and Gwen left for the night, Sierra and DJ offered Izzy the couch for the night and the three of them watched movies for a couple of hours, had dinner and then Sierra and DJ went upstairs for the night to go to bed. Once they were upstairs and getting ready for bed Sierra started to wonder why it was so quiet tonight.

"Where was Chef today?" Sierra asked. "I know you said he went with Chris but I assumed he would have showed up later on to rant about things like he usually does."

"He most likely stayed with Chris. If I call him, he'd just yell at me." DJ yawned. "So, I guess he went to his house or he went with Chris. I'm sure we'll see him tomorrow morning at the diner."


The next morning it was around 5:30am when Sierra was getting in the shower. On her way to the shower she heard Izzy and DJ talking downstairs so that was good news for her, at least they didn't sound like they were bored or not getting along because she heard them laughing a little bit.

When Sierra finished taking her shower she got dressed and went downstairs she found that Izzy and DJ were already ready to head to the diner. When the three of them got to the diner they found two fire trucks, a ton of smoke and Gwen standing there with Geoff and Bridgette.

"DJ, I'm so sorry!" Bridgette ran up to DJ and hugged him. "When we got here, it was already like this. I'm just glad you guys weren't in it."

"Mama's diner!" DJ was in shock and started to cry. "Sierra! What am I going to do?!"

"Call Chef?" Sierra weakly smiled at him and wrapped her arm around his waist. "Call your Dad."

"That's right!" DJ quickly pulled out his cell phone. "He'll know what to do and he'll be able to help me."

"This is such a shame, dudes." Geoff watched as the firemen but it out.

The fire was bad, it was burnt down to the ground and Sierra hated seeing the place looking like this, it was so black and unfixable from what Sierra could tell. She was pretty sure it wouldn't be open for business for a long time, if ever.

As Sierra watched the fire get put out, DJ came up behind her and was sobbing. Sierra didn't know what to do but hug him.

"DJ, it's going to be okay." Sierra assured him. "The important thing is nobody got hurt."

"It's not that." DJ hugged her tight and cried even more. "I called Chef's phone to tell him about the fire and Chris answered his cell phone. He told me that Chef died...My Dad died!"

"Oh my gosh!" Sierra almost cried for DJ. "Did Chris say how it happened?"

"He told me that Chef parked his car in the garage of his mansion last night after they met with some producers and he said he was going home! Chris thought he went home but this morning when he went in the garage, there was a strong smell of gas and he killed himself in the car! It was almost like he hot boxed himself in the car exhaust!" DJ sobbed. "I...I need to go home and meet with Chris so we can plan the funeral."

Sierra watched as DJ quickly got in the car and drove off. While Gwen, Geoff, Bridgette and Izzy watched the fire slowly start to come to an end. While she happened to be alone, her burner phone started to ring.

"Uh...Hello?" Sierra answered it, almost forgetting she even had it with her.

"Phase one, complete." Mal told her before he hung up.

Sierra tried calling the number back but got no answer so she quickly put it back in her pocket, hoping nobody would see that she had it before joining the group to decide what they were going to do now.


There! What do you guys think about that? No Chef, No diner and Mal kept his word. Now what's going to happen? Well I'm pretty sure at this point you guys can figure it out! Read and Review and let me know what you think is going to happen. Looks like a few things may be changing!