A/n: This is set nineteen years before the first chapter. Of course, I don't own, please don't sue.

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"I swear I can't work with you!" Audrey Ramirez's temper was well known throughout all of Whitmore Industries, especially on Team Atlantis. Well, to every one but Sam Romero. He was new to the team, having only been there a few short days. A navigation expert and not too bad with tools.

"It's not my fault if you can't handle working with someone who's better then you are, little girl." Sam, a half-Spanish half-Italian local, ran his hand carelessly through his jet black hair. Mole, who was standing not too far away, began to worry.

"What did you just call me?" Had her shirt not already been sleeveless, Audrey would have rolled up her sleeves and punched the guy right n the spot. Only one thing

stopped her. Mrs. Packard's voice over the intercom.

"Audrey, Mole, report to the bridge. You're late. By about an hour."

"Ay, Dios mio!" All anger forgotten, Audrey bolted up the ladder out of the engine room. "Mole, andeles! We haven't got time to play around!"

"Oui, I'm coming." Mole regarded the ladder for a moment, he hated heights, in all aspects. Gaetan Moliere was a man of the ground, and frankly, he wasn't too crazy about the ocean, either. The excavations expert sighed and made his way up the ladder, but not before he spotted Sam. Who was watching Audrey run for dear life. Smiling. Odd one, that boy.



"Ah, there they are." Sweet regarded the heavily breathing teen and a calm collected should-be-rodent, leaning back in his chair a little. "We were about send Fluffy down for you, Aud."

"Not funny. She probably could find me though." Audrey took her usual seat to Sweet's left and dropped her head into her arms. She didn't notice her hat flip off and landed in front of Vinny, who placed it back on her head. Mole, however, having kept his wits and taken the short way, plopped down quite cheerfully.

"Where hava you been for an hour, anyway?" Vinny questioned, which earned something akin to a growl from Audrey, though they couldn't be sure it wasn't from her stomach, she'd been down in the engine room. Since she woke up. At five. It was almost dinner.

"Zat is of no importance right now! We must speak of our up coming landing." Mole was smart enough to know when the young mechanic was having her buttons pushed, he'd done it often enough himself.

"Well, Milo said something about a ship going down just off the coast of Atlantis and he wanted us to-" Sweet was cut off by the ship lurching to one side. Audrey's head was no longer in her arms, and she was no longer in her chair."What in the devil?"

"Samuel Romero! I swear if anything happened to one of my trucks, or my cat, I'll kill you!" Audrey threatened, climbing down the ladder, just as the ship lurched again.

"Relax, sweetheart, I didn't touch anything. It was that stupid fish thing." Sam moved forward just as Audrey as pitched forward, catching her against him. For a moment she seemed hesitant to move, it had been a long time since someone had held

like that. She did realize soon enough, too soon if you asked Sam, just what she was doing.



"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" The girl fumed as the rest of the team barreled down the ladder after her.

"Audrey, it's the Leviathan, we woke it up. It's abou' as happy as you are whena we wake you up. My guess is we're all gonna die." Vinny was now crawling into a sub-pod with Mole, and Sweet was helping Mrs. Packard.

"Wait where's Fluffy? We can't leave her here, she'll drown." Audrey was just about to take off for her cabin, when Sam grabbed her arm.

"She followed you down earlier, and she's already in a Sub-Pod, so let's go!" The newest teammate pulled her into the pod and buckled up.

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"You nearly got us killed, Audrey! Where the did you learn to freaking drive!"



"I nearly got us killed, you're the one who fired the stupid missiles!" Again, Audrey was getting ready to hit him, and again was interrupted, this time by Kida. "Kida!" Audrey smiled and threw her arms around the friend she hadn't seen in almost a year.



"Nice to see some things never change." Kida hugged the girl back, she was the closest thing to a sister Kida had ever had. 'The girl has no idea what's going to happen to her' Kida thought, 'her world is going to change forever and she doesn't even know it.'

Milo came out and greeted the team, but he spoke to Sweet quietly and handed him something the rest of the team couldn't quite see. Joshua's shoulder sagged, and he lowered his head.

"Aud, come here for a sec." She rose an eyebrow, but did as she was told. "Sweetheart, I .... I think this belongs to you."

"What is it?" Audrey scrunched up her nose as she looked at the ripped and stained green-brown material that she held lightly.. There was some red on it, but she wasn't sure if it was blood or something else, so she wasn't too thrilled about to touch it.

"It's your father's jacket. They found on the beach."

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Dun dun dun......... lol, sry, had to do it! r/r!