Connor and Edward had followed Luna around the archives, letting her stack books in their arms as she gathered the materials she was looking for. She had a large stack of her own and now she led them into the elevator. They both looked hesitant, but neither man wanted the other to look stronger in his resolve so they just followed her into the foreign contraption. She hit a button and the doors shut and when they opened again they were on the second floor, in a large seating area where the others had already gathered. The motioned for the men to set the books down on some nearby tables as she did the same. Connor spoke up now as she headed down one of the aisle ways.

"Do you still need my assistance?"

"If your willing to give it, then yes." Connor nodded and looked to Edward, who had already started to follow her. Edward was watching her hips sway in her skinny jeans and Connor was waiting for her to start piling books in his arms again. She soon reached a bookshelf, clearing one whole row of book and handing them to Edward.

"Would you please take these back to Carlo and the rest while Connor and I go upstairs?" Edward turned and headed back to the sitting area and Connor followed Luna in the opposite direction as she moved through another aisle, heading for a set of steps.

"How did you know who I am?" She smiled as she kept forward, how could she really explain this to him, or anyone for that matter.

"It's a long story Connor. Do you prefer Connor, or your given name?" He thought she was avoiding the subject and that annoyed him.

"What is easier for you, I have no preference. I do want to know how you know of us." She kept going, rounding a corner and down an aisle. Connor had enough and reached out and put his large hand on her shoulder. Luna stopped dead and slowly turned to look at the tall man.

"Connor, I'm not good with the explanations. It's better we leave those with Carlo."

"I am asking you to try, Please. I want to understand" his voice was soft and quiet, but so formidable at the same time. There was a something in it, behind it even that sounded so demanding, or maybe it was his appearance. He was broad and tall, and the muscles rippling through his robes gave Luna enough indication of what his body may look like. She took a deep breath and sat down on the floor, legs crossed and he did the same.

"Connor, part of the blood that pours through your body is from your mother, the other part, is of your father. Today, in this wonderful time I live in, we can look at the lives of our mothers and fathers, and theirs and even further back through that blood. We had an Assassin, who was a key, his blood helped us in our fight against the Templars. We know them as Abstergo today, but they still wear the same ring as they did in your time. The machine used to look at the memories in the blood, was designed by the Templars so that they may find our order's secrets. They know about the pieces of Eden, such as the apple I showed you downstairs. You, like Ezio and Altaier have handled one directly. You know their power, we cannot let them fall into Templar hands."

"Why do you not trust Edward?" She had wondered if he had picked up on that.

"Your grandfather is a very complex man. He did not start out as an assassin, but he proved himself worthy of their cause. Honestly though, you need to learn for yourself if you trust him. I know that he would no doubt end a life to save mine, but that is because right now he is trying to figure out if I may have something of value to him, I hope that I'm wrong."

"Does he know that I?" Luna cut him off, knowing the thought that was crossing his mind.

"NO, the Edward you see now is prior to your father's birth, conception even."

"Should I tell him?"

"My advise to you, no. Give him time, learn about him, see if he is someone you want to associate with, and if he is not, then you can cut your ties from him. If he is then you can tell him, but there are no guarantees that he would accept you." Connor looked over her now, he could see she was being honest with him, but she still had her guard up.

"Do you trust me." Her stature changed, her features softened now and Connor found her eyes looked more like the sky on a clear summer day.

"I do, I know that you are loyal to the oath, although I'm not sure Achillies ever told you about it. I get that though, I am not one for pomp and circumstance. Just let me do my job. Look things are so much different now. It is going to be a long adjustment for you and the others. But I just had a brilliant idea."

Luna pulled out her cell phone, damn she thought. In the vault there was no cell service. She then hopped up and grabbed a few books, handing them to Connor and running down another isle. He watched her now as she looked for something, searching the shelve but she couldn't find it.

"Damn it."

"Is everything alright?"

"No, Altair's personal journal is missing. It should be right here. Damn I bet my dad has it. Come on." Connor quietly followed Luna as she made her way down the isle and too a strange-looking photograph. Below the photo was a strange flat type writer and soon Luna started typing away on the keys, and the photograph changed. Connor stood and watched in quiet amazement now. Luna sighed loudly before picking up a strange device and putting it to her ear, speaking into it.

"Ruth, hey it's Luna. My dad in his office? Perfect can you transfer me please?" He watched as she seemed to be talking to someone and was perplexed as to how it worked. She saw his reflection in the monitor and hit a few buttons on the phone, putting it on speaker before hanging up the receiver. He heard a man speak, but saw no one and Luna smiled at his expression as he heard her father.

"Dad, I need you to get to the vault now with Altair's book. You are not going to believe what happened."

"Luna, are you playing tricks with me?"

"Dad, listen. Carlo and I are both down here. The apple, worked. It fucking worked dad. Jupiter came and spoke to me again, telling me he and Minerva wanted to help us stop Juno. He sent us help."

"What do you mean the apple worked, that apple never worked, it was inoperable. What do you mean he sent help?"

"Dad, trust me. I know we have had our issues, but have I ever intentionally lied to you." There was a long pause on the line now and soon his voice came back.

"I'm on my way." Luna hit a button and turned to face Connor now. He had a look in his eyes now, he wasn't scared, but he was curious.

"Can you talk to more people on that?"

"Yes, well yes. But they must have one too. This is a telephone, but most people use these Cell phones. But sometimes cell phones can't work so some people still have telephones." He looked confused now and Luna laughed at him. A scowl came across his face and Luna gently touched his arm.

"Connor, I am not laughing at you, well perhaps a little. But I warned you I am not good at explaining things to people. That has never been in my skill set." He looked at her hand on his arm, noticing how the act seemed so easy for her, she did trust him. When Luna saw him looking at her hand, she slowly pulled it away.

"Come on, let's join the others." She pulled some of the books from his arms, sharing the load as they made their way back down the stairs. He watched as she moved effortlessly down the stairs, almost skipping down them. She waited for him at the bottom and soon they presented the books to the rest of the group. Carlo was busy explaining the industrial evolution to the group of people and Luna stood near the back of them, waiting for her father to arrive, only hoping he didn't go into cardiac arrest seeing the group of assassin's assembled in the vault.

Hugh came up the steps, seeing his daughter first before noticing all the people in the reading area. He had the look of shock on his face, but Luna let him stand there, let him watch as Carlo talked to the ones who had paved the way for the modern assassins.

"Luna, these are." He couldn't seem to vocalize his thoughts as he looked at all the faces.

"Yes, all past assassins, all in Desmond's blood line, except Yusuf, but he may actually be in his mother's blood line. I've done a little bit of research while I was waiting on Carlo to explain."

"How are we going to get them ready for what is out in the world today?"

"The old Farm" Hugh looked at his daughter as she looked at the men, and woman, in the room. He smiled, of course she would have already thought of that, her sharp young mind worked so much faster than he could imagine.

"Do you think the middle of the Adirondack Park is the right place for them? How will they survive?"

"Dad, look, I don't think Altair should go, but the rest, absolutely. There we can focus on what they need to know. Plus, we can survive pretty easily, I mean we can take up rations and there is Connor. I couldn't think of a better person to be out there with." Hugh smiled, his daughter was right. He knew one day she would make sure the order was in good hands. Just then he noticed her turn and head downstairs, so he followed. She had made her way to the apple and hovered her hand above it, staring intently, with a look of fierce concern.

"What are you up to Luna?"

"Jupiter never told us how long they would be here, or if the past was going to go on unchanged. I want to know, we have to know! Do you hear me, you arrogant bastards, you can't just throw people around and not give us any information! Answer me!"

"Luna, stop, what the hell are you yelling for?" But Hugh's cries went unanswered, now the golden light told him she would soon get her answers.

"Luna, child, do not worry. The past will remain unchanged. As to taking them back to their time, I'm afraid I cannot answer that, we do not know if we will be able to transport them back safely."

"How can you not know? Did you tell them that they may be stuck here forever? That they would go on living here without anyone from their past?"

"We know that we should have voiced those concerns, but this world will perish undo Juno. We had to make sure you had help here to stop her." Suddenly Minerva was gone and Luna fell to the floor.