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Chapter - 13 - Boiling Point

"There's someone following us." Zan said, looking out the rearview mirror again.

"What? Who?" asked a worried Beth. They both remembered the stories they were told growing up by their parents about the Special Unit and the Skins.

"That grey car has been following us for awhile now."

"For awhile? And you didn't tell me until now!" Beth said starring her brother down.

"I didn't know if they were following us until now, I told you when I was sure."

"You told me when you were sure! You should have told me the minute you thought that possibly we were being followed!" she yelled.

"Now I've done it. Fahrenheit is going to boiling point." Zan said.

"I am not going to boiling point! And don't call me Fahrenheit! I hate that nickname and you know it!" Beth yelled, face turning red.

"Your face is red and you're yelling at me. No you're not at boiling point." he said sarcastically.

"Shut up, nark!" she said and turned to look out the window.

"Hold on." Zan said as he suddenly turned down a side street.

"What are you doing?!" Beth screamed, her anger at him growing with this stunt.

"Trying to lose our friends back there!" he said, while looking to see if the car was still behind them. Then taking another sharp turn.

"Oh. Sorry." She couldn't believe she had forgotten about them being followed. I don't know what I would do if Zan wasn't here with me! I'd probably be dead right now! Or worse some freaks' science experiment! She thought.

After taking several more quick and sudden turns, Zan pulled the car into an alley and watched as the pursuing car drove past. Once they were sure it was safe, Zan backed the Jetta up and continued in the opposite direction to the chamber.

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"Landon, I lost them." the driver of the grey car said into his phone.

"What! How could you lose them?!" yelled Landon from the other end.

"They noticed I was following them and went all over the place until I lost them." he stated hoping he wouldn't get into too much trouble for losing them.

"You're so incompetent, Zack! Go to the boys' apartment and wait. They will have to come back eventually." Landon said and hung up.

"Incompetent! I'll show him who's incompetent!" Zack said out loud to himself, before he drove off to Michael's place.

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The rest of the ride Beth was quiet. All she could do was think about how she hadn't noticed they were being followed and Zan had, how she was so into their fight that she had completely forgotten about the grey car and Zan hadn't. In fact he had been watching the car the entire time they were fighting and long before they had even started. It really bothered her that she got so much from her dad but the one thing that could really help right now, being aware of surroundings and what was going on, was given to her brother; who was more like their mother than anything else!

"Beth?" Zan said bringing her out of her thoughts.

"Huh."

"You coming or are you just going to sit here all day?" he asked. At this she looked around and realized they were there.

"Yeah, I'm coming. Sorry, I was thinking."

"I could see that, what about?"he asked curious.

"Nothing."she said and walked past him to the rock formation that held the Pod Chamber and Granolith.

When they got to the top, Beth swiped her hand over the wall and a hand print appeared, she placed her hand on it and an opening appeared. They both went in and straight to the spot on the Granolith where the crystal should be.

"It's not here!?" said a shocked Beth, who had got there first.

"What do you mean?" asked Zan as he came up behind her.

"I mean IT"S NOT HERE!!" she yelled to further her point.

"I has to be there!" Zan said worried. He looked all over the Granolith, but couldn't find it.

"Maybe it disappeared after Mom and Dad used it, you know, like a one time use only thing." Beth said hopefully.

"I doubt it." he said flatly.

"Let's search the rest of the chamber. Maybe it's hidden."

"Alright." They looked all over the chamber, in all of the pods, on the Granolith again, and every hidden storage compartment.

"The crystal's not in here anywhere." Zan said defeated.

"Not only that, but the orbs and book aren't here either. The compartments are completely empty." Beth said confused as to why her family's most important possessions were not hidden away where they could be protected.

"Beth, I don't think they've found the compartments yet. They looked like they haven't been touched in years."

"Then were do you think they are keeping the stuff?" she asked.

"I remember AuntAva saying something one time about how surprised she was that all of the stuff survived and never got lost while Dad had them."

"So I guess we start looking at his apartment then." Beth said.

"That's our best bet at the moment." he said shrugging and led the way out.

"This place is gross!" Beth said when they got inside Michael's apartment.

"Doesn't Dad know how to clean?" she asked to no one in particular.

"Stop fussing about the mess and help me look for the crystal so we can get home." Zan said irritated that she wasn't helping. Beth rolled her eyes and walked into the bedroom. After looking for what seemed like forever they still hadn't found the object of their search.

"We found the book and the orbs, but no crystal." Beth said stating the obvious as she set on the couch.

"This has to be the worse day ever! I get dumped by my girlfriend, my baby sister almost dies, I find out we've been sent to the past, Granyells at usfor something our parents did, we get followed, AND NOW WE CAN'T FIND OUR ONLY WAY HOME!!!!!" As Zan finished what he was saying the apartment began to shake. Things fell off tables and out of cabinets, while other things began to break and explode.

When Zan started yelling and things began to break and move, Beth knew she had to calm him down before something worse happened. She jumped up and with a wave of her hand Zan was frozen, literally! What do I do now? If he doesn't calm down the whole building will fall to the ground! But I can't keep him frozen forever. And I can't unfreeze him until he calms down, but he can't calm down until I unfreeze him! What do I do? Beth thought.

After a few more minutes of thinking she decided to do the only thing she could do. She thawed him out. Fireappeared in her hand and she sent it to her brothers frozen form. The fire quickly thawed him, but slow enough so that by the time he was completely thawed Zan had calmed down.

"Sorry about that. I didn't hurt you did I?" Zan asked after Beth finished.

"No you didn't hurt me, the TV maybe, but not me. It's ok Zan. If anyone knows that sometimes you just have to let it out its me." she said laughing.

"Yeah, but you don't hurt people if you let it out. If I lose control like I just did then something other than a TV will explode." Zan said sadly as he sat on the couch with his head in his hands.

"And you talk about me hitting boiling point." Beth said laughing, as she moved beside him on the couch.

Across the street in the opposite apartment a camera was taking pictures of the entire thing. Zack moved the camera from his face and smiled.

"I got you now." he said and laughed as he picked up his phone.

"Landon, I found them. They came back to the apartment just like you said."

"Good. Do they have the crystal?" came Landon's reply.

"I'm not sure. But it's Them." Zack said emphasizing the last word. Getting the meaning, Landon replied, "At last, after all this time. Marcus will be most pleased."

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