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Rafe pulled the box out from the top shelf of the closet. Ian had told him where to look for that medallion. There were pictures of Eve with Chris and Karen, some papers, and some jewelry. He was about to give up when he saw it. Picking it up in his hands he could feel a protecting force coming from it. This is what they needed for protecting Alison, now he just had to get back home and give it to her.

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Alison was standing at the sink when she heard a knock at the door. She remembered what Rafe said, and didn't make any noise. Maybe if she stayed quiet they would go away.

"Alison, its Livvie. Open up."

What was Livvie doing here? Maybe something had frightened her, and she came over for company. She figured it was safe to let her in, as they were going to have to work together again. "What happened? Something scare you?" she said opening the door. Livvie wasn't alone, a man was holding her arms behind her, and had his fangs at her neck.

At first she wanted to shut the door and wait for Rafe, but she couldn't do it. She couldn't let Livvie die like that. She walked out and closed the door behind her, leaving the dishrag she had been holding right in front of the door.

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Caleb walked up the stairs to the apartment. He was starting to get a migraine from thinking about this too much. There had to be a way to find out how the Dragomir's were defeated before. He looked up and saw the apartment door was open. "Olivia!" he yelled as he ran inside. There had been a struggle. He was walking around the apartment trying to pick up when he heard footsteps in the hall.

"Hey Caleb," Rafe said walking in through the still open door. "What happened here?"

"I-I don't know. Have you gone home yet?"

"Yeah, I thought maybe Alison had been frightened and came over here. Nothing was wrong at our place."

"Well, it doesn't matter now, we've got to find them and fast," he said as he turned back to the door to walk out. As he started to leave he saw Imani standing next to the door. "What do you want?"

"I was coming by to tell you-"she said, nervous about what she had to say.

"What? To tell us that you came to this town to steal my ring? To steal my legacy? I ought to kill you right now-"he said as he started to grab at her.

"Caleb, stop!" Rafe said jumping in front of him. "Give her a chance to speak."

"You really have lost your mind, Slayer. This person here just caused us both our loves, and you want to let her speak?" he said wishing he had something in his hand right now to throw against the wall.

"I haven't forgotten, and I will not forget until Alison is back safely. But she might just be the key we need to get them back."

"They've already got Livvie and Alison? I'm so sorry. I didn't want it to come to this."

"If you didn't want it to come to this then why did you even show up in this town?"

"I was forced to by my father and oldest brother to come find you and get the ring back. When I got here I realized how nice this town is, and didn't want to cause havoc on Port Charles."

"You expect me to believe that you betrayed your family because you thought we were nice? Oh, this is great. Maybe you'd like to explain to me how your family even knew I was in Port Charles."

"Joshua Temple. He had been corresponding through letters to my father for months, promising the ring if we were to come and destroy you. When the letters stopped I was to come and find him then tell my family what had happened."

"I should have known," Rafe said walking around. "Imani, he was never going to give you that ring. He wanted to destroy Caleb, and thought your family would help. When he got the ring without your help then he didn't need you anymore."

"So fine. We know that Joshua is behind this, and that Imani's family has Livvie and Alison. Would someone like to tell me where they are?" Caleb shouted, getting fed up with this already.

"I can go find them, and tell you," Imani said, willing to help in anyways. This was her fault after all. She should have just taken the punishment to begin with rather than agree to come to Port Charles.

"I don't trust you. If you are going to go, then you are to wait until morning. We will take shifts watching you through the night. I will take the first shift. Rafe, you can go sleep on the bed."

"I'll take my chances with the floor," he said, shivering at the thought of lying on Caleb and Livvie's bed.

"Fine, suit yourself," he said plopping down in the chair and staring intently at Imani.

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The first thing Livvie noticed was that instead of feeling the silk sheets underneath her she was feeling dirt. She was lying on her back, and slowly opened her eyes. The walls were curved, and there was a small window about 10 feet up. She looked around and saw Alison sitting against the wall, her legs pulled up against her.

"You're awake," said Alison, "I was starting to wonder if you were ever going to wake up."

"What time is it?" Livvie said, rolling over onto her side to face Alison better.

"I guess it's around 10 am. My stomach woke me up awhile ago with hunger pains, and I wasn't able to get back to sleep."

"I'm going to guess we probably won't get that much to eat. You want to try and see what's out that window?" She said, getting up to brush the dirt off of her and then staring up at the window.

"How do you plan on doing that?"

Livvie squatted down, "Get on my shoulders."

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Come on. It'll be adventure," she said as Alison walked over and got onto her shoulders. Alison leaned against the wall as Livvie slowly rose back up. She grabbed the window ledge and pulled up a little more. "What do you see up there? Any idea where we are?"

"I can see a lake and pastures. For some reason I don't think we're in New York, or even the United States for that matter."

"What!" Livvie said, pulling away from Alison, forgetting that she had been holding her up there.

"Livvie! Get back here. Are you trying to kill me?" Alison screamed, as she tried to keep a hold of the gray stone that made up the walls of the room.

"Shhh. Let's not make the guards come see what's going on," she said, grabbing Alison's legs. "Ok, I've got you. Let go," she said as Alison let go and fell on top of her. "There, I told you it was going to an adventure," she laughed.

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Rafe sat in the chair, his back still hurting from spending half the night sleeping on the floor. Imani was out on the couch, and he could hear Caleb's heavy breathing on the other side of the partition. He gave out a chuckle, thinking about how he could have never seen him and Caleb working together in the past. Now was different though, now they had to work together. They couldn't let the Dragomir's win, but the question was how to defeat them. Imani slowly started to wake up.

"Morning," he said quietly. "You want a cup of coffee? I made a pot earlier."

"Are there any other choices?"

"I doubt it. Livvie's not what you would call a cook."

"Don't bash her just because she isn't your muffin-queen," he heard Caleb groggily moan from the other side.

"Rise and shine, sleepy," he said.

"I guess I'll take a cup," Imani said sitting up on the couch. She hadn't taken notice of the place before, but studied it more closely this morning.

"Can you make me one too, Rafe?"

"What am I, your butler?" he said as he walked back to the kitchen. He came back in and walked over to Caleb. "Here, I brought you a muffin too."

"Awww, you shouldn't have."

"Are you two always like this?" Imani asked as she took the cup of coffee from Rafe.

"Only when we're not trying to kill each other," Caleb said in between coffee and muffin. "You know, I'm sad to see these muffins go. I know I'll never get her to make them again."

"Speaking of the ladies doing the switch-a-roo on us we need to get the ring today. What else is on tap?"

"Well, I was thinking of taking a nice trip to hell. Anyone want to join me?"

"I think I'll pass this time. Do you need the ring to make the trip?"

"Nah. But you better have it by the time I get back."

"Will do. Imani, do you think you could find out where they might have taken Alison and Livvie last night?"

"I can try. It's the least I can do."

"I have a feeling we will need you for more than that," he said as he took his cup to the kitchen. "Well, I'm going to go get a shower and a set of clean clothes on. I will see you later," he said opening the door. "Oh, and Caleb-don't forget to send me a postcard," he grinned closing the door behind himself.