Author's Note: Sorry for such the long wait. Okay, I have to say that I finished book 11 and to be honest, out of all the books, I don't like it. Well, I liked it but I really very disappointed by the ending of it. I mean, whose going to take Maggie's place? And yeah, they told Jimena who she really was but…what's going to happen with her now? Ewing can't really end it at 11? That would be mad but then again it's not my decision to make. Okay, on to what I was really going to say… My story takes place in between book 10 and 11. So Jimena didn't really know who she was but I think I was on the right track of saying that she would remember…maybe something else could happen to her… shrugs shoulders I dunno…I'm not ranting so I'm on with the story!

-------------------------------------

Tianna lay down on her bed, thoughts running through her mind. Yes, she was the one who saved the Daughters and became a Daughter herself yet in the back of her mind, she couldn't shake the words that Serena had said. Maybe I should talk to Maggie by myself… I've never felt so weird before. As if I don't belong anymore… They can't just cut me out like that. She ran her fingers through her hair and shook her head. She took a quick shower and pulled on some clean clothes. Tianna decided to go find Derek and to go skateboarding, it would take her mind off things.

She ran down the stairs with her skateboard in hand and told her foster mother where she was going and headed out the door but found Catty staring at her. She stopped.

"Hey, Tianna," Catty said with a smile.

"Catty…hey…" she replied slowly. "You have something on your mind, don't you?"

She nodded. "Well, I wanted to know if you want to come with me to see Maggie. Maybe we could get some answers just the two of us instead of being with the other girls."

"Um…sure. I thought about going to see her too." Tianna set her skateboard on the porch and walked with Catty.

They were silent as they walked out of Tianna's neighborhood and entered the city.

"I don't think I could ever see Jimena not being a Daughter," Catty said.

Tianna looked at her. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, it was Jimena and Serena that helped Vanessa and I the first time that we were in trouble… I know that we've said this all before but we didn't think that Jimena would be the first one to go… We had stated that we all wanted to make the decision together…"

Tianna knew that gentle as Catty was, she wanted Jimena back just as much as Serena and she was beginning to feel neglected. "You think that it's a coincidence that when I came as the fifth Daughter that Jimena left just as quickly so it could only be four?"

She shook her head. "I don't think so, Tianna. I don't think it really matters how many Daughters there are. The more there are, the more powerful we are and the more we have to defend against the Atrox."

Tianna nodded as they reached the gate of Maggie's apartment building. "Right…" she mumbled.

Maggie rang them in and they walked to Maggie's apartment. The door opened before they even knocked. Tianna always wondered how Maggie knew those simple things but she ignored it as she and Catty sat down. Maggie put two cups of steaming hot tea in font of them, telling them to drink. Tianna noticed that Catty was fidgeting with the cup, tracing the cup with her finger. Maggie waited patiently for one of them to speak.

"Vanessa has already been here," Maggie said, quietly, her cup of tea only inches from her mouth.

Catty and Tianna looked at each other. "Really? What for?" Catty asked.

"She wanted to know exactly what the two of you are here for," Maggie replied calmly. "I do not know how many times I am going to have to say this. I've lost many Daughters before and losing another is just like losing your own child but you girls have to understand what is happening. The transition happens to all the Daughters whether the other ones like it or not."

Tianna was disappointed. She felt as if maybe Maggie was hiding something and the hurt in her words seem to show it all. She looked to Catty who was looking at her tea. She didn't speak at all. Tianna began to wonder if it was a bad idea to have come to Maggie.

"But Maggie," Catty began, "Jimena is different. It's like she actually knows that the four of us are still Daughters… I know that there is something inside of her…something that is speaking to her heart and telling her…" her voice trailed off, she didn't know what else to say.

Tianna didn't speak and neither did Maggie. Her eyes were avoiding both Tianna's and Catty's. Just as Tianna had decided to open her mouth, the door to Maggie's apartment swung open and hit the back of the wall with a very loud thud! causing the three of them to jump. Vanessa and Serena were standing at the door way, panting, out of breath. Maggie stood up but Catty spoke before she did,

"What's going on?"

Vanessa took a deep breath. "It's Jimena."

"She's gone!" Serena finished for her.

Tianna raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"I saw her with David!" Serena cried. "He took her! Took her into the shadows… C'mon! We have to go find her!"

Both Tianna and Catty bid good-bye to Maggie whose face was still emotionless as all four of them left, shutting the door behind them.

"Wait!" Catty said, panting hard. "Vanessa, do you think we you could make us invisible? That way we could move a little faster and no one would know what we were doing."

Vanessa hesitated. "I can try…"

"Wait a minute," Tianna interrupted. She turned to Serena. "You saw her with David?"

Serena nodded.

"Are you sure it was him?"

"Tianna, are you crazy?! Of course it was him! Both Vanessa and I saw him. C'mon, we have to get to her!!"

"But David took her into the shadows. Who knows where she could have gone?"

"C'mon, Tianna," Catty said, "this isn't a time to be worrying about little details. David took her. We were wrong about him. He is a Follower."

She shook her head as the other girls grabbed her hands. She soon felt her molecules separating and soon she felt light as air, knowing that Vanessa had turned them invisible. They hovered over the cars in the city as Serena and Vanessa argued over where they last saw Jimena.

"You think that Stanton would know where David took her?" Serena suggested.

The three girls glared at her.

Serena shook her head. "Oh, fine, forget it. I was just trying to help."

Tianna could easily sense tension between all of the girls and she began to wonder if getting Jimena back would be harder than it seemed.