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It was nighttime over at Serena's house and everyone was very filled up with pizza and a lot of junk food. The friends spend the rest of the day after Darien left just eating, talking and more eating. Everyone was getting ready to retire for the night, well mostly Serena, she wanted to go to sleep. The others seemed ready to stay up the entire night.

Giving up on the idea of sleeping anytime soon Serena reached over and grabbed another handful of potato chips to keep herself occupied. As Serena sat on the couch and watched her friends talk and have fun she was contemplating how and what Darien was doing. She even felt a little jealous because Darien is spending time with another family, not her, but Serena didn't worry excessively about it. The family would probably feel more secure with Darien looking after them.

Mostly Serena was worried about Darien's safety, even though a couple of people on the police force said that nothing would happen while Darien was watching over the family. Serena was still skeptical no matter what they said, in her mind anything could happen or go wrong. If she had it her way she would be with Darien this minute, but she still liked having her friends over for a change.

Serena was just content watching and silently reminiscing of the past, like when she and her friends were younger. Serena missed the days where she and her friends would spend the day talking, shopping and eating. She thought that this moment right now is the closest moment she will have with her friends for awhile and that the time spent together in the next few weeks will be the closest to the past that they can get.

The atmosphere of relaxation and fun made Serena feel faintly sleepy, she couldn't think of another time where she felt as content and safe with her friends as she was now. Serena enjoyed the happiness her friends brought into her life and she would miss them if something happened to any of them. She still couldn't seem to believe that everyone was with her, she didn't think that they would get back together for about another year. She also liked to listen about what they remembered during their younger years, for she had forgotten some things. Just by listening to her friends talk Serena could catch up on what details she missed about her friends lives while she was gone.

As Serena continued to sit quietly she thought that not one of her friends seemed to notice the usual hyper Serena was sitting silently. But in all reality she was wrong, everyone did notice. They were just waiting for her to say something first. Serena's friends all had their ideas about what was wrong with Serena, but not one idea was close to what was really bothering her. They had all picked up on the fact that she was still the same , but also noticeably different in some aspects. Raye couldn't seem to take Serena's silence so she decided to ask if Serena was okay because Serena couldn't possibly lie about something important in front of her friends, right?

Trying to sound happy, light and carefree Raye cautiously directed a question at Serena not knowing how she would react, basically everyone wanted to know why Serena was acting a little weird. " So Serena you have been awfully quiet tonight…you know it is quite nice for once, weird, but nice. Anyway you have asked everyone else questions about themselves, but what we really want to know is how you have been and if anything interesting has happened lately. That's one of the main reasons we are here right now"

" Well Darien and I have been fine, we have also been getting along great."

Everyone looked at Serena like she was leaving something out. Since they have been friends for a long time they could notice when one of their best friends was acting a little weird. Everyone was sitting in a sort of nervous silence hoping that Serena would continue on about how she has been doing.

Raye wasn't convinced or happy with Serena's reply and she was done with waiting for Serena to finally tell everyone what was bothering her, so she decided that maybe Serena needed a little more prompting.

" And what else?…..Come on Serena we know something is wrong, why don't you just get it over with and tell us, it should make you feel better."

Serena looked at Raye, she wanted to smile at Raye's antics because she was just the same, bossy and caring. Figuring that it wasn't time to just start smiling at Raye, Serena thought seriously again. Now with a clear head again Serena still could not believe that she would finally have to tell everyone what's been going on, she would also have to break the somewhat carefree air around her house.

Taking a deep breath Serena thought rationally and came up with the conclusion that she would tell the truth about everything and hope everyone agrees to help, she was procrastinating too much. Another reason she was reluctant in telling her friends everything is because she didn't wasn't to make them feel obligated to help her. So figuring that after all they would find out somehow, or if they didn't they would keep on bothering her about it. In the end Serena thought that telling them everything wouldn't be hard at all and that they would probably listen to her, she was just overreacting about everything.

"Okay guys, I guess right now what I'm going to tell you might be surprising, or not. Do you know about the murders happening lately? Well that's it, this is about the murders."

Feeling a small weight being lifted from her mind Serena looked at the girls and noticed that they were probably thinking the wrong thing right then, they might not think that Serena had direct evidence to the murders and was hiding it from authorities. Serena was about to continue with what she was saying when she was interrupted by Mina. " So your saying that you knew some of the people that were murdered and that's why you have been acting a little quiet and weird, your mourning for them, right?" After she was finished talking Mina looked at the other girls to see if that's what everyone else was thinking.

" Your close Mina, sort of close actually, but Darien did know about one person who was murdered, he trained the guy and that's about all you got right. This is something more serious….I think that we have a new enemy on our hands and in fact I'm most certain that's correct."

Finished talking Serena waited for someone to ask more questions about what she had just said. Looking down at her lap Serena nervously twisted her hands, afraid that her friends wouldn't want to help find and defeat the new enemy because they had more responsibilities now like jobs and college.

Serena was surprised when Amy was the one to talk first. " So what your telling us is that these murders that are happening lately are a new enemy, with powers or something like what we have dealt with in the past. How are you so sure that this is the case with the murders and not some crazed serial killers or killer. I'm just making sure Serena, did you make sure that your not overreacting, did you research this? Or did someone specifically target you and Darien? Does Darien even know about this or is there another way you found out about the murders and the new enemy?"

This time Serena wasn't surprised that Amy had gotten mostly everything right as to why Serena knew that there was a new enemy. Thinking about Amy's questions Serena mentally answered all of them and she also thought about how Amy was the same as she had always been. Now there was only one last part left, tell them all of the details and if they will help her and Darien.

" Yes Amy you are right and thanks for having so much confidence in me….that's sarcastic, I hope you know that. There is some interesting evidence that Darien and I have received by mail. But before I tell you everything will all of you be willing to go after and defeat these new enemies with me?"

Unsure about what they would say Serena didn't look anyone in the eye she just looked up and stared into space waiting for an inevitable answer that she had asked for.

Not even a few seconds later all of Serena's friends chorused their agreement together. Looking at her friends Serena smiled and felt relief that she and Darien wouldn't be alone on this. In her heart Serena knew that they wouldn't have left her behind to face this without them, Serena just needed confirmation that they would actually go and fight the enemy with her.

" Now look who has little confidence in us, you knew we would say yes." Lita said

" Thanks everyone, I really knew that you would agree, I just needed to make sure."

"Now we need to get up and see this package that was delivered to you and Darien. It obviously sounds important to finding out who is killing innocent people." Amy said.

Everyone grabbed their trash from all of the food that they had consumed and carried it into the kitchen where Serena gathered everyone's plates and put them in the sink so she could wash them later.

" I have the package right in this cabinet, an original hiding spot isn't it? It contains all of the evidence that we need and as soon as Darien gets back from his bodyguard duty in a couple or a few weeks we will then get onto finding out where this enemy is hiding and how to defeat them."

" Wait, did you say a few weeks? I thought we were just staying for about a week and a half." Raye said.

Again everyone looked at Serena for a answer. " Well guys, I really forgot to tell you about that, do you think you would be able to stay for maybe another week and a half, please? You see I don't know exactly when Darien will come back home, I just know it will be in one week to two weeks time." So does everyone think that they can stay that long?"

Again everyone said that that would be fine, they just wanted an explanation.

After getting everything straightened out with her friends again, Serena walked over to the dark hardwood cabinet that contained the package that she had sat there the previous night and then she picked the heavy parcel up that contains everything essential to their success on the murder case.

" Now before I let everyone look through this there are some very gruesome pictures taken from the policeman who was murdered and some journal entries from him also, it seems unbelievable that he actually got to send all of this evidence, but he did. He was killed just barely an hour after sending this to us. Well I guess it is just good luck that we received it and I will be happy with that."

"Yeah, very good luck." Added Mina.

As Serena brought down the packaged she felt all of her friends stare at it, wondering what might be inside of it even though Serena had told them only moments before. As she placed the package on the table the girls practically ripped it open because they were so curious.

Glad that she wasn't holding the package anymore, Serena walked out of the kitchen as her friends were looking in amazement at all of the evidence. Serena felt that she didn't need to see anymore of the evidence or the pictures for that matter.

Passing the phone as she walked aimlessly around the house she almost picked it up to call Darien, but remembered that she had never received or had been given the home phone number to where Darien was staying. Changing her mind about not trying to call Darien, Serena backed up to use the home phone. Serena decided to give his cell phone a try, but he rarely had his cell phone on him, she tried anyway. As the phone was ringing Serena knew that it was off because it just kept on ringing and ringing so she decided that when the voice mail came on she would call again the next day, maybe he would answer then.

Finished with trying to contact Darien, Serena was a little frustrated that she couldn't talk to him about anything, like she usually could. So with little else to do she walked back over to her friends that were gathered around her kitchen table, she wished that they were done exploring the parcel. She knew that they had all read most of the journal entries and seen the horrible pictures in the short time that she had walked around. She looked into the faces of her friends and knew that they wanted to find the enemies right away, they had probably seen the pictures of the family that was killed and read the very informative journal entries.

" We had no idea that this would be so bad Serena, we all looked at the set of pictures and we can't believe that someone would do that. I personally think that we should start figuring out our plan of action soon because I sort of want to avenge the families that were killed and I have some confidence that everyone agrees with me." Lita said.

As expected everyone did agree and they all wanted to start figuring out a plan of action, but first Serena had something to say, " Sorry to break it to all of you right now, but I'm super tired and want to get some rest before we start figuring things out, and maybe we should wait until Darien calls us and gives us news on how he is doing. Does that sound good? I think that each of us should think of a plan so we can proceed with finding the enemy and tomorrow we will all talk about it."

" I want to add something before we go to bed, we still don't know if this evidence is all accurate or if it was intercepted by someone, we should be really careful." Amy said.

Everyone nodded their head and started heading upstairs to their bedrooms, where Darien had set up all of their bags. As she watched all of her friends depart from the kitchen and head upstairs for bed Serena felt déjà vu because yet again she was gathering up the cluttered papers and putting them into a neat, clean pile. Then storing them away in a hardwood kitchen cabinet. Serena shut off all of the downstairs lights and just went straight to bed, she was just too tired to do or think about anything else.

With Darien

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As Darien woke up in the morning he smelled something cooking, he was confused because usually Serena only would make food like toast or something simple, this smelt like a very huge breakfast. As Darien sat up and opened his eyes he realized that this wasn't his home, he was technically at work being a bodyguard. Sliding out of the warm sheets Darien got ready to go downstairs and greet everyone. He was slightly annoyed that they hadn't woke him up since he is supposed to protect them. He didn't have a single alarm clock or clock for that matter in his temporary bedroom.

As Darien was walking along the unfamiliar hallway something was bothering him. And as he was walking down the carpeted staircase Darien looked straight ahead to a window, then he remembered. Late the other night he had been awakened out of his sleep and went to the window and saw something or someone. He couldn't rid his mind of that for some reason. What if something was watching everyone right now and what if they had been killed when he was asleep or maybe the thing was plotting to kill them?

Finally in the kitchen Darien hoped that Laura would be more civil towards him because that would make everything go much easier for him and everyone else in the house.

Taking a seat at the large table in the kitchen Darien impatiently waited for someone to come in and talk to him, hearing and feeling his stomach growl he also wanted to eat breakfast.

After sitting at the table for ten minutes Darien was bored so he started thinking of the night before, yet another time. He was worried, but mostly about Serena and the others because the thing that he saw last night could have possibly been someone dangerous.

Darien had a gut feeling that it was the enemy outside last night, so he thought that right when he was done with breakfast he would call Serena and the others, then he would warn them just incase. Maybe after he did that he would ask Laura if she knew anything, he doubted it.

Darien's concentration was broken by a very hot steaming plate being placed in front of him. He looked up and saw Laura. She was looking down at him in annoyance, the reason, he didn't know. " You could have gotten your own food, everything was out. Next time just get it yourself."

Nodding his head and saying his thanks for the breakfast Darien thought on the bright side of things, which was that Laura seemed a little less spiteful or mean. She did look a bit tired though, maybe that's why she was being more tolerable. Darien wondered why she would be mad at him or whatever feeling she felt towards him, maybe because he got to spend a lot of time with her husband on the police force and she was angry at that?

Looking away from his plate of food Darien saw that Laura was leaving the room, but he needed to ask her another question. Darien decided that he would ask Laura if she was outside last night, he thought that asking her that would be the best incase she really knew something. He would then call Serena and tell her the news. If Laura was outside last night, he would have told Serena and the others that there was an enemy, that would have put everyone on the lookout for an enemy that wasn't really after them. But Darien really did doubt that Laura was outside last night.

" Laura, I have to ask you something really quick, it is just a question." Laura had stopped walking and was looking at him expectantly, so he continued. " Last night were you or anyone else outside by chance because I though I had seen something or someone right outside my window last night, they seemed to be looking at me."

" Well I guess I was outside pretty late last night because I was covering some plants for the cold night, but I wasn't by your guest bedroom window at all and to the best of my knowledge neither was anyone else, they were all getting into bed. Do you think it was someone after me or my family? Oh, I also want to know why you didn't get up and tell someone if you saw something watching you. You are a bodyguard, right?

" I wasn't sure what or who it was, they just moved too fast for me to get a better look, it is nothing to worry about right now and it could have just been a dream or part of my imagination. And yes I am a bodyguard, if I wasn't why would I be here and why would you have hired me?"

She looked at him skeptically like he was lying and with that she turned around and left him alone to eat his breakfast. As he picked through his eggs and pancakes he entertained the thought that she might have poisoned the food with something, but he thought better of that idea because she wouldn't go to that much trouble to kill him when a lot of people knew he was staying over here.

After finishing his non-poisoned breakfast he wondered what he could do for the few weeks he was going to be here. Standing up and putting his plate in the sink he went to find Laura so he could ask her some more questions. Just as he was going to go outside and find her, he turned a corner in the hallway and saw a black wall phone. He decided that he would call Serena and the others and tell them about last night.

As the phone was ringing he looked out of the sliding glass window in front of him and watched Laura's son Robert. He looked a lot like he remembered Bryant to look like, Darien figured that it would be hard for Laura to cope with a son that looked exactly like her dead husband. The phone was still ringing as Darien was watching Laura's son. Then when Darien thought that everyone was out somewhere and he was about to turn off the phone Serena ended up answering it.

As Serena answered the phone she sounded like she had gotten some sleep finally and that she was happy and just waking up.

"Hello?"

" Hey Serena, it's me."

"Darien! How have you been? It has only been about a day and a half and I already miss you. What have you been doing and has anything interesting happened where you are staying?"Darien didn't know where to start as he was bombarded with multiple questions from a excited and happy Serena.

" Well for starters I have been fine and yes I miss you also. Nothing has really happened, but one thing has been weird, it happened last night."

" What is it? I really hope your not in any danger after all."

" I have no clue if I'm in danger, but last night I was awakened by a feeling of dread and so I went to the window in my bedroom because I felt eyes on me. Basically when I blinked whatever I had seen was gone, they were too fast. I don't know if it was an animal or an enemy. I want to also tell you that you better be on the look out for anything out of the ordinary because there definitely is something out there."

" Okay, I will tell everyone the news when we get off of the phone. So I guess the girls and I should be on alert at all times now."

" Yeah. So are you doing good now?"

"I'm fine now, all of us are just trying to make a plan to catch the enemies, oh and I told everyone about the delivered package and almost everything that I knew about the murder case."

"That's good, it sounds like they all took the information well. Now I need to go because I'm getting a death glare from Laura, Bryant's wife, since I'm supposed to be watching them. Bye, I will talk to you later. Love you and be careful."

" Okay, I will, talk to you later and I love you, bye."

As Darien shut off the phone he walked over to Laura and offered information as to who he was talking to. " I called my wife, but I got off of the phone to watch everyone."

" I figured that much, I'm not stupid."

As Laura walked over to the door and opened it she motioned for him to follow her. As Darien followed Laura he was lead to the backyard and then to the side of the house. She then pointed to the grass and a few plants. Looking down Darien realized that they had been ran over by someone's shoe. Thinking, Darien remembered last night and he concluded that someone was watching him the other night after all.

The shoe print was huge, from what he guessed it was a male that was outside last night. He felt a shiver go through his body as he thought about someone watching them and without him knowing until the last minute, but why hadn't they disrupted more than the plants on the ground, why hadn't they been more careful of their presence? Were they trying to make themselves known? Darien didn't know, but all of the clues he was gathering from the beginning were not making much sense to him. They didn't break in or anything else for that matter, Darien was now one hundred percent sure that there is an enemy watching them, perhaps right now, but he doubted it. Darien was still contemplating about the shoe prints in the yard and under his window when a voice cut through his concentration.

" I think you were right about last night Darien."

"Yeah, are you sure it wasn't you or anyone else? If it wasn't then I will need to watch you and everyone else in the house more often now and stay up later."

" Yes I'm sure it wasn't anyone I know, and you should have been watching us the best you possible could have from the first time you stepped foot into this house and agreed to protect everyone."

Feeling stupid Darien didn't answer, he was angry about what Laura had said to him, Darien had thought she was getting more tolerable, he was wrong. Ignoring whatever else Laura had to say he started walking away to sit down and watch everyone. But again Laura's voice stopped him from proceeding to the lawn chair. Laura's verbal onslaught seemed to be endless as she continued to antagonize him.

" Did you think that this wasn't an important task? Because I heard the police chief saying that they shouldn't have sent you, they said that you were the best that they have and that they are wasting your time on a pointless guard duty since they thought that not one person would target me because my husband was killed. Well what I know that they don't know is that the person you saw last night 'visits' here every night, but they don't do anything so I don't bother them."

Darien was speechless because of what Laura just said, she was right in thinking that everyone on the police force thought that this was a pointless mission and a joke and that Laura shouldn't need to request a bodyguard.

What Laura had been ignoring was extremely dangerous, he couldn't believe that Laura didn't tell the police that there is a man coming to her house every night and watching them inside of the house and that they don't know who it is. If the police force had given this task to another person that wasn't trained just like him and that person that was spying or looking in on the family decided to attack it could have ended in disaster for the police force, the policeman and the family. Still stunned Darien had to ask another question, but he hoped that that answer would be a no.

" Are you absolutely serious about what you just said?"

" Yes, why would I lie, I'm beginning to think that your incredibly dense asking all of these obvious questions. Are you sure that you're the best on the police force? Or maybe the police just doesn't know how to train people properly."

A few years on the police force taught him to deal with criminals who taunt and talk back, but not for a seemingly normal citizen who had hired him for their protection. If he was her he would have been happy with even the worst police man. Not being provoked by the woman he just walked on and ignored her. As he walked away she seemed to be furious because of him. As she stormed past him he sat in a plastic lawn chair and stared up at the sky for a few minutes.

Darien made up his mind that he would talk to her only when she had cooled down a little. Darien figured that he really needed to talk to Laura to see what her real problem was, because he was just getting pieces of what she truly felt.

As he walked back inside of the house Darien changed his mind and decided that he would save talking with Laura for a different day since they had plenty more days together in the next few weeks.

A/N- So this is the new chapter, I guess this is just a filler chapter. I have more interesting things planned later though, the next chapter will be out soon.