Jack sighed. 'So I didn't scare her away? YES!' He smiled to the large screen, with a larger-than
-life image of Ashley Judd, and looked over at Annie's intrigued face, thinking about how much
easier it would have been if he'd just come around earlier, told her sooner, gotten over the
child-like games he'd played in the beginning, convincing himself that he was a bad brother to
Fiona for liking the girl who was in her seat on the bus. But, he'd talked to Fi about it, and
she convinced him to 'fess up. And here he was, smiling for the first time since Fi'd left.

Annie looked over at him, gazing intently at the screen, but his mind wasn't on the movie, but
far, far away. 'I wonder what he's thinking about? Why is he so distracted tonight?'

Annie just stared, and Jack felt eyes upon him, and turned slowly to face Annie. Even in the dark,
he saw her cheeks glow crimson, and a smile spread across his face. "It's okay, Annie. Had you
looked at me 5 minutes earlier you would've caught me." He saw Annie breathe a sigh of relief.

* * *

Annie and Jack left the movie theater hand in hand. In the shadows, the darkened figure watched
intently, as it had the entire time Annie had been with the Phillips'. Inside, it laughed. Every
day, Annie drug Jack, or Clu, or Cary along on a mystery hunt, a hunt for voodoo witches, and
tracking the unexplainable happenstance. Annie, proclaimed to be the new Fiona Phillips; Annie,
the newest genius of the dumbfounding and stupidifying; Annie, the newest love of Jack. Did she
know his past? Oh, what a secret to tell! Would he dare to tell Miss Perfection? Would he tell
his perfect Annie, his little angel, his breakable rose? Only time would tell. The shadow laughed
aloud. Lord knew it had all the time in the world to observe the human Armaggeddon. The destruction
of one human soul, and anothers heart. All the time in the world....

* * *

"Jack? Annie?" Molly shouted.

"Molly? Hey, they went to the movies."

"Clu, is that you?"

"Yep! In here!"

Molly walked to the back of the tour bus, and saw Clu jammin' to his music, jumping around the
bus. "CLU??"

"Huh? oh, yeah, hey Molly. They said they were finished with homework, so you said they could
leave. They should be back soon though."

"Thanks Clu" Molly muttered, turning sharply. 'Just when I needed their help.'