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Hi! Ahhh I'm soooo sorry! It's been like a month…BUT I have good excuses! The first two weeks after my last update I was in Harry Potter world and then the week after that I was without a computer! Cause my dad thought mine need 'repairing' and then the week after that I had to worry about finals and this past weeks I was making…music vids…heheh…anyhoo hope you guys can forgive me and at least I'm here with the next update.

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OoOoOoOo Chapter 7 OoOoOoOo

Anna sat alone at a small two-seater table at de bleu café. A week had gone by since Agatha and Irene were murdered and her thoughts couldn't help but think about who was responsible.

"You ok?" Amara asked sitting at the seat across wearing her waitress outfit.

"Ya," Rogue answered.

"What do you think about it?" the younger girl asked not being able to help it any longer. Everyone else had pussy footed around the subject with Rogue but Amara felt it was about time someone asked.

"Ah dunno. Ah just know that whoever did it is trying tah send us a message…"

Before Amara could respond someone from across the room yelled at her to get back to work and stop chit chatting. Amara gave an annoyed looked and whispered to Rogue, "Remind me to kill her whenever I decide to quit."

Rogue gave a faint smile and watched her walk away. After a while off staring into space her thoughts went back to the awful incident last week when two of them had lost a mother figure. She was so occupied trying to find out who wanted Pietro dead that she never noticed the eyes on her until the person decide to make their presence known.

"Y'know…y'never did call chere."

Anna's eyes rose up and looked at their own reflection.

"Remy…that's right ah said ah'd call. Ah'm sorrah," she answered. Remy sat down across from her and gave her a curious glance.

"What's on yo mind? Y' look distracted?"

"Ya…meh and mah roommates just lost two close parental figures…actually that's why ah didn't call."

"Oh…sorry to hear dat…"

Anna shrugged, "Ah don't think there was anythang that could have helped the situation."

"Was it someone in yo famili?"

"Ya...Ah've told you about her. Irene…we grew apart…but ah guess ah can't help but still care."

"Maybe y'shouldn't ponder over it to much…sometimes death can cause insanity…"

Anna stared up at him after this sentence, Remy almost felt like she could see right through his shades into his eyes. It made him feel uncomfortable. He almost felt like taking the shades off and seeing what her reaction might be…after all, she didn't know but they were a lot a like.

His thoughts were interrupted though when she smiled a bit cynically and replied, "Many things can lead someone to insanity. Pain, Love, Obsession, Hate, Anger…" Rogue looked over to Amara who was attending and elderly couple.

Remy stared at her with a curious expression again but quickly looked down with what seemed like a thoughtful expression. When he looked back up Anna could tell he was hesitating on asking her something.

"Look…Je sais que c'est un moment difficile pour vous mais……I gotta be honest wit ya Anna…"

Anna blinked a couple of times at the man in front of her and waited for him to continue.

"I like y'…et I know it might be wrong ta ask y' tis now mais…would y' like go out to dinner some temp? I'll understand if ' can't cause of the deaths…"

"Ah'd love tah…"

Remy looked up without finishing his sentence. "Y' sure?"

"Yah," Anna answered with a small smile.

"D'accord. Well den 'ow bout tomorrow night? At the restaurant around de corner?"

"Ya, that's fine," she answered and watched as he got up and his walkie-talkie started burst with static. A woman's voice came on and asked for 'officer Lebeau' to report to the department as soon as possible.

"Duty calls…mais I'll see yah tomorrow night?"

"Yeah," she answered and watched him leave.

"We'll...at least now we know what will make you stop obsessing over who wants to get to us..."

Rogue looked over at Amara who was grinning at her.

"Who's the major hunk?"

"Don't worry about it. Well Ah'm gonna go off..."

"Kay, I'll see you at home then." Rogue nodded and walked outside. Her arms went up and she hugged herself as she felt a cold wind. Her eyes looked around and she shivered. 'Something's not right...' she thought as she started walking towards her car, never letting her guard down.

OoOoOoOo Airport OoOoOoOo

He looked around to see if anyone would be here to greet him. After a couple of seconds of impatient waiting he but some of his blue hair behind his ear.

"Detective Kurt Wagner?" a soft voice called out making Kurt turn. His eyes fell on a beautiful dark skinned woman with small braids in her hair.

"Uh...Yes..." he answered a bit speechless.

"Hi. I'm Amanda Sefton. Officer Sefton. I was sent here to pick you up. I hope you don't mind I was a bit late, traffic is murder...ohh...bad expression."

Kurt smiled at the young woman before him. She was cute and seemed to have great innocence, which was odd considering she was a police officer.

"It's fine..."

"So would you like me to show you around? Or would you like it if we went directly to the police department."

"The department would be fine. I've lived here before so I don't need a tour."

She bowed her head making braids go down to the side of her face. "As you wish." With that they both walked outside the airport in silence.

OoOoOoOo Maximoff Mansion OoOoOoOo

His eyes slowly opened and looked around. Everything was dark and gray and a bit fuzzy too. He was sleepy, tired, cold and hungry…common symptoms of a cold. Pietro coughed and groaned as he closed his eyes. He felt himself being pulled back to a happy dream world and before he knew what had happened he was back asleep.

He started regaining conscience though when he felt something cold yet soft brush against the side of his face. His eyes slowly opened and looked into hazel eyes, he closed his eyes again but then it registered in his head that waking up to hazel eyes wasn't in his daily routine. He quickly got up and 'bam' his head collide with a smooth hard surface.

"OW, what the hell Pietro?"

"Lexa?"

"NO, i'm the freaken tooth fairy."

Pietro rubbed his forehead, which had collided with X-23's. He then laid back down and looked at the beautiful women on top of him. If it had been another day and he wasn't feeling like crap he would have taken great advantage of the position they were in, but he just looked up and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Lexa rolled her eyes, "Nice to see you too sunshine."

Pietro coughed to the side and X-23 still made no move to get off. After a while of silence she finally said, "It's lunchtime so I went to lunch with your sister and was gonna stop by your office to say hi when she told me you weren't there cause you were here sick. So I decided to come by and bring you something."

Pietro looked at the side drawer where a bowl of hot soup stood. He also caught glimpse of the clock, which read 1:30.

"Shouldn't you be at work?" he asked seeing that she was still wearing her uniform.

"I took the rest of the day off," she answered with a shrug. They both stayed quiet for a while and Lex took this time too look Pietro over. His cheeks were flushed and his nose was a bit red. She smiled and started getting off him, "You should eat…it'll make you feel better. I'm gonna go down stairs and get you some liquids. You'll get better sooner," she finished with a wink and left the room.

Pietro watched her and started eating what was inside the bowl. Chicken soup. After a while his mind started wondering back to the people that might want him dead. He wondered if they were also the ones that killed his father. And if it was them, were they also gonna go after Wanda?

So many thoughts ran through his head at a rapid pace...

"Don't think to much...you might hurt yourself...even more I guess I should say" Lexa called over to him from the doorway as she caught his expression.

"I didn't hurt myself, it's not my fault I got a cold."

"Guess your right about that," Lexa answered and handed him a glass with orange juice.

"So why are you here again?" Pietro asked after taking a couple of sips.

"To be nice and sweet you ungrateful little..."

"Ok ok...that did sound ungrateful but I was just...curious," he ended with a yawn. Lexa sat on his bed next to him.

"So this is what you're gonna do all day? Just sleep."

"Ya. They say sleep helps you get better."

"So anyway, this isn't only a pleasure visit...it's also a business one. Rogue wants to know if you have anymore hits for us."

"No, plus you haven't finished Roberto Da Costa off either."

"Ya I don't know what the hold up on that is...Rogue seems to though. She just won't tell anyone about it."

Pietro nodded and his eyes started closing in a drowsy matter. The both stayed quiet afterwards and just looked at each other. For some reason neither could find words to say...nothing to talk about. They did notice though that their faces were getting closer and closer by the minute. As their lips got close enough for them to touch Pietro quickly turned away making Lexa get a surprised, curious and disappointed expression.

When Pietro turned back to her he just answered, "I'm sick...don't want you to be at home bored cause you caught it from me..."

X-23 turned her face to an angle and smiled. "Well...maybe I don't wanna go to work..." and with that she turned his face all the way towards her and pressed her lips against his. Less than 10 seconds later Pietro started to respond but was disappointed when she backed away.

"Sleep," she told him repositioning herself to lean against the bed next to him. Pietro rolled his eyes at the satisfied smirk on her face but did as she asked and closed his eyes. A couple minutes later he heard the sound of the TV on, and barley felt fingers softly stroking his head.

OoOoOoOo Maximoff Industries OoOoOoOo

Wanda looked at all the paper work in front of her.

'Damn you Pietro,' she thought as she looked through the work he had to do that day. "Oh well," she mumbled to herself, "he's lucky he's really sick though…or else…"

'Beep'

"What is it Crystal?"

"There's a police officer here to see you Ms."

"Damn it," Wanda mumbled angrily and hung up the receiver. She then made her way out of the office.

"I've already told them I know shit of Tabitha and Todd's case what the hell do they want now…" she stopped rambling when she saw who it was.

"Hi."

"Hey...bad timing?"

"Not not at all…com in," she answered and moved to the side to let John inside her office. "So what brings you here?" she asked while sitting on her chair and moving a stack of papers to the corner of her desk.

"Well…I was in the neighborhood…so I thought it'd be nice if I stopped by to say hi."

Wanda looked up at him intently and the smiled.

"Sweet gesture," she answered.

"Also we haven't 'bumped' into each other for a week and I guess instead of waiting to meet again I decided to come to you on my own."

Wanda perked an eyebrow as John started laughing sheepishly and she said, "I told you you planned out meetings."

John scratched the back of his head and changed the subject by saying, "So how've you been?"

"Been better," she answered as he looked the spacious room. "It seems that death is all over the place as of lately," she added making John turn to her. Her eyes seemed to have a far away look in them like she was remembering something.

"Now that you bring it up, I have news on Evan's case."

"Evan?"

"Your friend.""

"Oh ya…Evan…" Wanda mentally slapped herself as she put on a sad face. "Have you found the murders yet?"

"No but we have concluded that the killer or killers were professionals."

"How did you come up with that?"

"Well nothing was taken and one of the victims throat was cut in a perfect angle making it obvious that they knew what they were doing. We think they might have been attacked by hit man."

"Life can be a bitch to people who don't deserve it," she stated and looked out a nearby window.

"That's true…but can we really do anything about it?"

"No But I guess we can try and change it…" she answered and mentally added, 'for example…I can make things worse.' She then looked up at him and got up, "I'm sorry to have to cut our meeting short John but my idiot brother is out today leaving me to do all of his work. But I'd love to 'bump' into you later."

John smirked, "time and place?"

"You decided," she answered and took his hand. With a pen she grabbed from her desk she wrote down her cell phone number. John got up and started following her to the door.

"All right, I'll bump into you later than," he stated and then looked at his hand which was now entwined with Wanda's as she showed him out. As she opened the door he started walking out but stopped when he felt her tug his hand making him turn around. She then got on her tiptoes and gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Thanks for coming…it really was a sweet gesture."

John looked at her in a dazed expression not expecting that and mumbled a 'no problem' then walked off.

Crystal looked at her boss with a perked eyebrow but got back to work when Wanda looked at her and said, "Don't you have work to do?" in an annoyed voice. Wanda smirked as soon as things went back to normal and locked herself in her office wondering what she would wear later on that night.

OoOoOoOo Police Department OoOoOoOo

"Hello Officer Lebeau, I'd like to introduce you to Detective Kurt Wagner."

"Bonjour."

"Hallo."

"Detective Wagner is here for..." she looked at him. She actually didn't know why he was here.

Kurt smiled at Amanda. "I'm her to investigate a recent case that may also be involved with one from a very long time...I was wondering if you could give the files on all the murders and suicides in the past year or so..."

"I'm sure I could get em for y'...mais if y' need all of dose cases it must be a pretty big case y' covering non?"

"Guess you can say that...In a way I guess I can say i'm looking for a specific pattern that might point out if my killer is here in Bayville."

"D'accord." Remy started walking and walked into a room with a lot of file cabinets. "Y' ever been ere before?" he asked trying to make conversation while picking out some files from each cabinet.

"Ja. I lived her for a while as a teenager. I'm originally from Germany though...my mother lived in the South but moved here with me and my sister..."

Remy nodded without really listening. "C'est bon...den y' ave a place ta stay while y' ere on business."

"Ja, I'll be staying at a hotel."

"Wat bout y' sister?"

"I don't know where she is...maybe I'll have Ms. Sefton look her up later," he said looked at her. She smiled and nodded agreeing to the assignment.

"Sure...what's her name?"

"Anna Marie Darkholme."

Remy's face snapped to face Kurt. Kurt looked at him oddly.

"What is it Mr. Lebeau? Does that name sound familiar?"

"Non...Remy just tinks it's...a belle nom," he answered and handed him a stack of files.

Kurt nodded and muttered a thank you.

"You can work at my station Detective," Amanda offered.

"Thanks," he answered and the both walked off. Remy looked after them, as he watched them go his sunglasses fell to his nose giving a glimpse of red irises before he quickly put them back on and walked off into his own office.

OoOoOoOo Assassins Mansion (later) OoOoOoOo

"Bitches I'm home."

Anna rolled her eyes as Lexa's voice echoed through the house.

"Ah don't really care."

Lex walked into the living room where she found her fearless leader lying down on the couch looking at the ceiling.

"What's up your butt? Still thinking about our new found rivals that we know nothing about?"

"Ya...but I also think she's thinking about this hot ass guy she was talking to at the cafe this morning," Amara stated walking in with a soda in her hands.

Lex perked an eyebrow.

"Oh...do tell."

"There's nothing to tell. Where were yah?"

"Pietro's..."

"Oh la la," Amara teased and got a pillow thrown at her.

"His sick so I decided to stop by and see how he was. ANYWAY, where are Jubes and Wanda?"

"Wanda called and said she wasn't gonna be checking in cause she's gonna go on some date. And Jubes is upstairs obsessing over finding who's after us, even though she has no leads. I think she got the obsession from that one," Amara said and looked at Rogue.

Lex whistles, "Wow, Wanda in a date since...forever. Love is in the air for all of us huh?" She joked but didn't miss Rogues glance at Amara with an intent stare.

After a while of silence Rogue asked, "What Pietro say about new hits?"

"He said he didn't have any...our only one is Roberto Da Costa." Rogue looked over at Amara again who was avoiding her gaze at all cost.

"I think i'm gonna go give Jubes company," she mumbled and left the room.

"So...what should we do?" Lex asked Rogue.

"Ah dunno..." Rogue answered looking at the spot where Magma had been standing. Lex shrugged and turned on the TV, never realizing that Rogue's answer hadn't been about their activities for the rest of the day.

OoOoOoOo Next Morning OoOoOoOo

Jubilee yawned and stretched as she got out of bed. She could tell the others were up because it was noisy downstairs. She got up and dressed the cheerfully walked down stairs into the kitchen. For some odd reason she was feeling pretty good, maybe it was because she finally went to sleep early after staying up for a whole week trying to find leads to who wanted Pietro dead.

"Morning!" she greeted.

"Morning," came three drowsy voices.

"Hey Rogue…we don't usually get the paper do we?" Amara asked.

Jubilee looked at Rogue who looked up from her cereal.

"No why?"

Amara gave Rogue a rolled up newspaper and for some odd reason they all looked at it as if it was about to explode.

"BOOM!" Jubilee yelled making everyone jump then glare at her.

"What?" I wanted to beat it to the blast," she answered with a sweet smile.

Rogue rolled her eyes at the youngest girl and unrolled the newspaper. "Well it looks pretty normal and safe tah meh," she told them while turning the pages. The others soon went back to eating breakfast while Rogue eyed all the pages carefully. She stopped flipping the pages when she got to the local section. There in the front stood a picture of a most beautiful painting, it was the latest attraction at the museum.

Her eyes gleamed as she looked at it. There was nothing 'great' about it but it was beautiful and it reminded her of Mississippi. It had the yellows and greens of a calm country place. She eyed every part of the picture carefully and that's when she noticed that there was something that didn't belong. At the bottom of the picture there was something small scribbled on it…a queen of hearts.

Her emerald eyes pierced at the design and narrowed, someone was sending her an invitation. She rolled up the paper, stood up and then walked out of the room. The others watcher her retreating figure.

"What was up with that?" Amara asked.

Lex shrugged and kept her hazel eyes at the empty doorway.

"Ah crap."

"What?" Lexa asked.

"I'm gonna be late again," Jubes yelled and ran out with a bagel in her mouth. Amara looked at her watch and mumbled a shit, but instead of rushing out like Jubes she calmly walked out.

Lexa sat alone and pondered what might have been in the newspaper to get such a reaction from Rogue. Deciding she wasn't going to get an answer by jus sitting there she got up and put on her blue jacket and made her way to her car. She'd find out what was in the paper went she'd buy one later.

OoOoOoOo Bleu Cafe (later) OoOoOoOo

Amara yawned and looked at her watch, it was just about to be break time and as she started walking towards a small table to sit and rest her cell phone started ringing.

"Hello?"

"Hey."

"Hi," Amara answered with a smirk.

"Good morning. So how's my angel today?"

"I'm good…but I don't know what you mean by 'my' angel," she teased.

"Why so crude? You're gonna break my heart."

"I wouldn't do that. I care too touch."

"I'm honored."

"So am I. So wanna tell me why you're calling?"

"What? I can't just call to say good morning?"

"Ya but that might be a waste of time of your busy schedule."

"I'd never be to busy for you."

"Aww that's sweet…so what do you want?"

Roberto laughed. "I was just wondering if you wanna watch a movie at my place tomorrow or the day after."

"Why not today?"

"Work is pulling me down at the moment."

"Oh, I thought it might have been cause of someone else."

"Why are you bringing that someone else up when I'm calling YOU to spend time with ME. The only reason I'm not there asking you this personally is cause I'm booked all day with businessmen."

"Ok ok…I get it. Just call me and I'll be there."

"You shouldn't accept my invitation with those words…"

"Why?"

"What if I call you late at night?

"I'd go. Maybe not to do what you want to but if it's to hold you or talk…I'll be there for you."

"…Thanks…I'll call you later."

"Ok."

"Amara…"

"Ya?"

"I…"

"…"

"Um…never mind. Bye."

"Bye," Amara answered and looked at her phone for a couple of minutes after they hung up. Then with a sigh she got up and went back to work.

OoOoOoOo Acolytes Bar OoOoOoOo

"Well I'm off."

"Bye," Danielle called out to Jubes as she walked out.

Jubilee walked down the street with a sigh. Her shift was over and she had to walk all the way home. Rogue and Amara were working, Lexa's phone was off and Wanda was too busy to pick her up so walking was her only alternative. She made her way farther away from the bar but stopped and looked back when she heard her name being called.

Ray stopped running when he caught up to her; he was out of breath so he took while to talk.

"Ray…hey…what's up? Did I forget something?"

"Nah. I was just wondering if you wanted company."

Jubilee smiled and nodded. "Sure, that'd be nice. But I must warn you I live pretty far from here so I understand if you'd like to give me a rain check."

He shrugged and answered, "Walking is good exercise."

"True, but you don't look like you need it…" Jubes blushed as she realized what she had said. Ray smirked and murmured thanks. They both walked in silence for a while until he finally broke the silence and asked how she came to live in Bayville.

"Well I came from California where I used to go to a… private school there. I graduated with a pretty high grade and my teacher had a job for me here in Bayville."

"Does that mean there's a possibility that you might be transferred to another area?"

"No, I think we'll be here for a very long time."

"We?"

"My coworkers and myself."

"Oh…wait is the job at the bar?"

Jubes laughed. " No, you can say that's my part time job. But enough about me…what about you Ray? I've known you for a couple of weeks and all I now is that you get lost in music and you love soda." 'Also that you're totally fine,' she mentally added.

Ray had a thoughtful expression and said, "well…let me think…I'm 19. I dye my hair…I have blue eyes…"

Jubilee rolled her eyes, "How bout telling me something that isn't THAT obvious."

"I love music and since I'm in a band people tend to stereotype me and think that all want is fame."

"That's stupid…I hate when people jump to conclusions like that. Just because you like loud music doesn't mean you're mean or bad or greedy or shallow."

Ray looked at Jubilee as she ranted some more and couldn't help but smile, she was cute when she was mad…well she was actually cute all the time but Ray wouldn't tell her that…not yet anyway.

After talking some more Jubes finally noticed Ray's gaze and looked away while mumbling, "sorry. You can continue I'm done."

Ray laughed and continued, "Honestly…I'm not in the band for the money and fame…I just wanna play…this might sound gay but…I'm a pretty sensitive guy. People also tend to think since I'm the lead singer I'm emotionless…it's kinda odd," he laughed.

Jubilee looked up at him intently, "I don't think it seems gay…" she answered in all seriousness. "I find men that aren't to prideful to say how they feel or even cry…attractive."

She then blushed again as Ray stopped talking to stare at her. He chuckled and the shook her head making her feel like she wanted to dig a hole and hide.

"So what other things do you like? Other than music," she asked changing the topic.

"I take an interest in people, life, animals, the environment…stuff like that."

Jubilee looked at him up and down while her head was sideways after he said this.

"What?"

She smirked, "You don't look like the tree hugger type."

Ray put on an offended expression. Jubilee laughed, "You just seem like a tough guy…that maybe people might feel intimidated by."

"Didn't we just talk about stereotypes?" he asked while eyeing her with suspicious eyes.

She laughed, "Ya. Ok sorry…go on…"

"I was a rebel when I was younger…I guess that look stuck. Plus it fit's the band," he answered with a smirk.

"So how come you changed your bad boy ways?" Jubilee asked while looking through store windows.

Ray shrugged, "Life and death situations can change the way you think."

"You've gone through a life/death situation?" she asked curiously.

"Ya. I was 13 and…I guess you can say I had an accident with electricity."

"What happened?"

"I don't wanna talk about…"

"Sorry," Jubilee answered and lowered her face to the ground feeling she had overstepped her boundaries.

Ray looked at her and said, "It's fine. It was just a painful…electrifying event that changed my life."

"In a good or bad way?"

"Both."

Both stayed quiet after that and kept walking for a couple of minutes. Jubes felt like she had dug herself a 6ft deep hole for herself. She walked on but stopped when she bumped into Ray who had stopped in front of a newspaper stand. He was looking at one of the magazine's that was still reporting about Tabitha's death and had her picture on the cover.

Ray looked at it intently and said, "It's sad that such beauty was taken from the world…"

"Did you know her?"

Ray smiled, "We dated in high school…"

Jubilee's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, "Oh…sorry…"

"Don't be. She cheated on me with some rich guy. I caught them together and she was stupid enough to still try and deny it. But even though we parted on a sour not I wouldn't have wished this kind of end for her."

"Ya…but you can't change the past and you can't bring people back from the dead. I f we could do that many things would be different," she stated and walked away.

Ray quickly followed and Jubilee than asked, "So…is that the kind of girls you like?"

"What?"

"Girls…do you like girls like Tabitha Smith? She looks a bit on the wild side…maybe rebellious."

"She was…guess that might have been a reason I liked her. She was fun and loud…unpredictable too."

Jubilee nodded and wondered if she met those qualifications.

"But maybe she was too wild and unpredictable. Right now I want someone who's fun and who listens…I guess someone that might understand me."

Jubilee nodded but kept looking at the ground while thinking about the wildest and most unpredictable thing she had done so she can brag about it. Ray looked at her and noticed that she hadn't been listening and hadn't seen the furtive look he had given her when he said that.

He tried making his statement more obvious by adding, "You know…someone like…you."

Jubilee looked at him and blushed then quickly looked away. She then giggled and he started to laugh too. They continued walking and Jubilee unconsciously grabbed his hand giving him the hint that she felt the same. Ray gently squeezed her hand then they both talked and continued to walk without worrying about anything.

OoOoOoOo Da Costa Industries OoOoOoOo

Roberto sighed happily and dropped onto his chair. He had just escorted his last appointment out and he was free to relax. As he sat down he started to plan when he should have Amara over for their movie. Unfortunately before he could decide the door to his office slammed open and in came a pissed Taryn.

"Taryn what the hell, ever heard of knocking...OR talking to my sectary first?" he added as she saw his sectary running after his mad girlfriend.

"ROBERTO DA COSTA I want an explanation and I want it now!"

"Explanation for what?"

"You never return my calls, you never call in to check in, I HAVE to knock to come into your office when I could just come in whenever I wanted! You never come over anymore. Something is wrong and I wanna know what."

Roberto thought of what he wanted to say. He could lie and tell Taryn what she wanted to hear. That he had been to busy with work but that'd he make it up to her by taking her to some kind of romantic cruise...or he could...

"I haven't called you Taryn cause I didn't want to."

"WHAT?"

"You heard me. I'm sorry to tell you this sweetie but…I think we've grown apart," he started and looked through some papers making it seem like he didn't really care.

"Roberto baby please...I didn't mean to barge in...we can still make it work..."

"No we can't Taryn...I I think it's time we end."

"It's for another HUSSY isn't it?"

Berto smirked and answered, "Of course...did you honestly believe we'd be together forever?"

Taryn's eyes narrowed and she asked, "Who the hell is she? What does she have that I don't?"

Roberto thought about it and then answered, "I don't know...there just seems to be a great fire in her that calls to me...and what can I say? There's actually passion between us. The passion you and I had died the first day we met."

Taryn growled and looked like she was about ready to throw a stapler at him when he quickly took it from her.

"Show yourself out Taryn, don't make security come and do it for you..."

Taryn turned away and quickly stomped out, before leaving completely she mumbled to herself, "You'll still be mine Roberto Da Costa"
Roberto watched his office door close and picked up the phone. "Hey, this is Roberto. Make sure that Taryn can no longer come into the building." After he hung up he sat on his chair and looked through the phone book on his cell. He deleted Taryn's number and then stumbled upon the reason he had ended things with her…Amara's number. He looked at it for a long while before hitting the send button…then waited as the phone rang.

OoOoOoOo Assassins Mansion OoOoOoOo

Jubilee flipped through a magazine while X-23 sat next to her and sneezed every few minutes.

"You know that's what you get for hanging out with a sick person all day."

Lexa sneezed and glared at the younger girl. Jubes backed away, "Hey, no one told you to go with Pietro while he was sick."

Lexa started to respond but stopped when Wanda walked in looking dazed. Lex and Jubes looked at each other, smirked and whistled.

"How was your date last night?"

Wanda smirked and answered, "Non ya…"

"Ohhh…that good?"

Wanda shook her head in amusement and looked to the other side of the room where Amara seemed to be whispering on the phone. "Who's she talking to?"

"Dunno," Jubes answered as she and Lex looked over to her. After that they all just talked about their days but stopped when Rogue walked in wearing her Assassins gear.

Wanda perked and eyebrow, "where are you off to?"

"Admire the new art at the museum…"

"Museum? Isn't that…I don't know…not your kind of loot?" Jubilee asked.

"Ah guess…lets just say something caught mah eye. Don't wait up."

Lexa scoffed, "like I would."

Rogue got ready to leave but before she did she looked over at Amara's direction where she was smiling into the phone.

"Tell her not to be much longer. It's only prolonging what will eventually have to take place," and with that she left.

Wanda, Lex and Jubes all looked at her and then at Amara. They weren't sure what she had meant but they did know one thing, Rogue knew who Amara was talking to.

OoOoOoOo Museum (later) OoOoOoOo

Rogue smirked as she saw the security guard in the front entrance sleeping.

'Guess this is gonna be easier than ah thought' she thought to herself as crept by. Getting into the building hadn't been too hard, she was a thieve…so she had stole Lexa's work keys. Of course when the merciless burette found that out she's gonna be extremely pissed…but that didn't matter at the moment. She had to get this done now before whoever her opponent was would get there first and beat her to it. As she walked through the new art exhibit she was surprised to see two security guards up and actually guarding the painting, which was covered by a velvet sheet. She smirked and when she saw that cause that proved that she was the first one there.

Without a worry or hesitation she just walked right up to them.

"Hey! You're not suppose to be here!" on of them yelled to her and walked over to her only to be grabbed by the neck and slammed into a nearby wall.

"What the…" the second security guard yelled when he heard the noise, before he could turn around and investigate what was going on a pale hand reached out and touched his face making him fall onto the ground. Rogue closed her eyes as memories flashed through her mind…a noise…them running to find out what it was…finding nothing…then returning to the painting.

Her emerald eyes open and she hurried to the velvet cover and removed it. She had been right, the noise had only been a distraction, the painting was gone and in its place stood a queen of hearts. Rogue's eyes narrowed as she grabbed the card and she started making her way out but stopped when she heard it. It sounded like something was being dragged across the floor. She ran towards it being careful not to make much noise and when she turned the corner of the hallway she was in she saw a bo staff being dragged into another exhibit.

She stealthy walked over and looked inside the room, everything inside was pitch black. The only things she could see was light bouncing off cases, the light was coming from the lights in the hall. Her eyes narrowed and she slowly started making her way deep into the room. The darkness didn't frighten her; half her jobs had been done in pitch black with nothing to rely on but her instincts.

Whoever was in the room with her would soon give her some clue to where they were and she would be ready to strike. She walked a bit further and was happy to see that her eyes were getting used to the dark, if she had turned around behind her and looked at the corner she would have seen two red orbs staring straight at her.

As she started to turn around a loud sound of glass breaking echoed through out the exhibit and a red light started flashing in all the rooms while the alarm blared.

"SHIT!" she yelled and ran into the main hall and heard footsteps running in the opposite direction.

"Another time," she mumbled into the air then ran upstairs where the food court and gift shops were. She walked past them and kicked the door open leading to the visitor balcony. She then got on the ledge and did a back flip off the balcony, like a pro she landed on her feet. After she dusted herself off she walked towards the exit and hid among the shadows of trees and bushes.

Thirty minutes later she was still there sitting on top of a tree and half a dozen police cars were in front of the museum. She watched as they brought out the injured security guards. She jumped out of the tree and started walking towards her bike, which was hidden in, bushes a couple of yards away.

"You've won this time…but we will meet again," she spoke into the air wondering if the wind would carry the message to her opponent. Then she stopped dead in her tracks and almost yelled…

"Shit! Ah forgot…ah have a date with Remy!"

OoOoOoOo TBC OoOoOoOo

Tada, I guess not a lot happened in this chap. But it's all good considering the fact that a lot of the drama starts building up in the next chap :D mwahahaha…I can't wait. Anyhoo I hope you guys liked this chap and will stay tune for the next. Things you should get ready for in the next chap are, some sex, some family reunions, some dates, some deaths…and a very dramatic thing…you'll see lol. Anyhoo the next chap shouldn't be as long to come up as this one since I have the rest of this story outlined and I'm on X-mas break :D

Questions you should be asking- Who's gonna have sex? What dramatic thing? Where did the bad assassins go? What does Kurt want? Who's gonna die next? Who's having S.E.X?

Romy- Yay! They have a date set up :D and you'll get a glimpse of that in the next chap. Also I think a lot of you have already guess who is challenging Rogue…;D

Jonda- They made a date too…and he went looking for her…awww…and she kissed him…awww lol. I didn't go into the date but that's ok cause there's more of them in the next chap.

X-ietro- AWWWWWW she's taking care of him while she's sick. Isn't X-23 the greatest? Heheh.

Jubilay- Yay! I think I made up for not putting any of this in the last chap. Aren't they so cute together? They held hands ;D and she blushed cause she told him she didn't think he needed to tone…in other words she though he looked good ;D lol.

Amarto- HA! Roberto dumped Taryn…and for who:D anyhoo you will be seeing Taryn again in the future…But what's gonna happen to this couple? It seems Pie still wants Roberto dead…and Rogue seems like she wants to go through with it…what will Amara DO?

Well that's all. Hope you guys like and review. MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! Love ya lots - UHW