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A/N: Well, here I am, updating yet again!! I don't know if an update will occur tomorrow or not. Simply because I will most likely have homework and I am going in to get contacts tomorrow! Woo hoo!! After 6 years of wearing glasses, I won't have to deal with the anymore!!! YAY!!!!! Ok, anyways, Tuesday is a possibility, but I'm really not sure. Just keep checking back as often as you can, and if I've updated, then enjoy it!! OK, on to XA/N!!

XA/N: You all know what was going on......

Akila and Skittle are about three miles ahead of everyone, still running, however, the XA/Nites have nothing to fear, seeming as they can hear Akila screaming profanities at Skittle all the way.

"Wouldn't you think that her voice would have run out yet?" Lizzie asked. Rockie shrugged.

"Maybe she's used to yelling like that?" Rockie suggested.

"She is. Trust me." Jeff said. JB smiled. They walked a little ways more along the cornfield when they came to a clearing. Skittle and Akila were running around in a continuous circle in the clearing.

"Just wait until I catch you, stupid biatch!!"

"You're gonna be waiting for a while!!!" Even Lizzie had to smile as she saw the spectacle that was occurring before her. Rockie started walking inside the clearing for a moment.

"Everybody shut up!!" She yelled. Everyone did, and even a few crows flew away. As they stood there and listened for a second, they began to hear something that sounded like it might be far away.

"Damnit, stupid piece of shit!!! Get away from me you stupid dog!!" someone's voice floated through the field. Lizzie's eyes brightened.

"It's Chris!! I KNOW it's him!!!!" She yelled. She took off running in the direction of his voice. The other XA/Nites took off after her.

"Do you really think that it is smart for her to simply run into whatever is out there?" Rockie asked JB as they were running to catch up to Lizzie.

"Probably not, but it sounds an awful lot like Chris. I think that she'll be okay."

The XA/Nites soon reached another clearing, which Lizzie was standing right in the middle of. She was staring up at something. Everyone looked up.

It was a scarecrow.

Not just any ordinary scarecrow, though.

Jericho was where the scarecrow was supposed to be.

"It's wonderful to see you all too, now could you please get me down from here? And somehow get that stupid dog away from the pole?" Jericho asked them. Akila smiled.

"One little mishap in a trip sure doesn't change you much, does it, Jericho?"

"Hell no, but being stuck on a freaking scarecrow pole makes me angry, now get me down!!!" Shawn, Rock, and Jeff all laughed.

"Ha ha ha." Jericho mocked them in his sarcastic laugh. "Come one assclowns, it really hurts to be tied up here like this!" Lizzie smiled through all of it, she couldn't wait to hug and kiss Chris again.

But something dangerous was lurking in that cornfield.

Something that no one had ever seen before.

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**4 MONTHS LATER**

Chris and Liz were both released from the hospital, but Liz was to never leave Chris' sight. They'd had a very lengthy talk about everything, and it seemed that the wedding was still on. Shawn and Randy were constant visitors, as well as Rebecca and Cameron. Rebecca's visits were always with a slightly more bulging belly, though. Shawn was to be a father again.

Despite Hunter's escape, he did nothing to them in the course of the four months. In fact, no one heard anything from Hunter.

Unless you listened to what Chris was saying in his sleep.

They had never told the doctors what they had seen in that hospital room. Randy and Shawn both tried to forget that it had even happened. But, they never seemed to forget it. They tried numerous times to try and explain it to Chris. He didn't know WHAT happened, but he knew that SOMETHING happened.

He had more headaches, more frequently. He said that he didn't dream as much anymore, and when he did, they were all pleasant dreams. He would describe places that seemed beautiful and lovely.

Then, the next thing you'd know, you'd turn on the TV and some kind of crime or murder had just happened there.

Chris had no idea how to explain it. He didn't know what the hell was happening to him. He and Liz had started on the wedding plans, and she hadn't done anything drastic in that course of time. Chris figured that it was a one time thing from all of the stress that she was feeling.

God knew that he had considered that from time to time.

Randy pretty much lived with Chris now. When Chris would fall asleep, Randy snuck up to the door to listen and see if Hunter was planning on doing anything. It was the only way to know.

The only way to beat Hunter at his own game, was to BE the Game.

Randy was wondering what kind of cost they would have to pay before too much longer. He was wondering how much time they had left.

He was wondering if the cost would involve a life.

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