DISCLAIMER: All of the Disney characters in this fic are not mine (but their names are... except Alex of course) although I wish they were. I'm also borrowing the idea and storyline from the movie and book by the same name called "Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu". The book is by Takuji Ichikawa and the movie (and later the TV series as well) are both based on the book. Hope you enjoy! Comments and complaints welcomed :-)

Author's Note: Okay So I don't know how many people have really noticed it, but if you look closely enough there's actually two "Alex Sapphic"s. It might be that someone at Disney messed up or whatever, but if you notice in the episode with the visor, Alex walks by with two of her buddies, the Asian looking girl in pink & the Caucasian looking guy wearing an open green shirt over a dark red-ish one, in the scene where Ron tries on the glasses, and then in the next shot, she's walking out the door by herself behind Ron. Now I don't know about you but unless those two have the ability to teleport, there's no way they'd be able to vanish in less than 5 seconds.

I really can't get the string instruments portion of Coldplay's Viva la Vida out of my head. It's too bad American music usually don't include instrumentals to their songs, 'cause I think the instrumentals by themselves would be a relaxing to listen to. Kinda got my creative juices flowing too.

Timeline: The morning following the freak incidents in the last chapter.

-- -- -- Chapter 5, Scene 1 -- -- --

"Something wrong Sapphic?" Alex starts, coughing and spitting out her mouth full of coffee at the interruption from her musings.

"Dammit JB, I'm getting you a fucking bell!" She hisses, not in the mood for her friend's jokes being that she's been awake since 2 in the morning. "If this shit had gotten on my uniform I'm stapling the shit to your fat ass."

JB, full name Johnny Bradshaw Garrison, one of her good friends from elementary school, practical joker, and her boss. The African American who's a couple inches and pound short of rivaling retired NBA player Shaquille O'Neal in height and weight snickers at her, lifting up the coffee cup in his right hand and gesturing to his seated position next to the coffee machine.

The two friends grew up together and faced the same problems of being the so called "younger" set of twins with less IQ than the "older" set. Her older twin is Tammy Sapphic the Fourth and his older twin is Professor Paul Garrison the Eighth, both of them are engaged to each other and are leading medical doctor and scientist respectively in some field Alex often have to refer to her flash card for considering the seemingly infinite numbers of doctors and scientist from both their families some of which inherited the same name from their elders.

The closeness between them shows when it is not anger but amusement that crosses JB's face at her insult. To them it is simply a game they play and only the two of them are allowed to insult each other. Anyone else would recieve a bloody nose.

"Hey, I've been here the whole time, it's not my fault, your way too fucking skinny ass in La-La Land again."

"Shut up!" Alex huffs as she grabs the paper towels to clean her spill. She refuses to admit to the tall man that she'd let her training slip while she was caught up in her own thoughts.

"So, what's on your mind Alex?"

"I don't accept the conclusion that whoever is behind this is after all the Team Possible members JB." A thoughtful look crosses JB's face.

"What makes you say that?" He asks before drinking from his cup and then setting it down on the table at his left elbow.

"I worked with Ron and Brick on the case this morning."

"I heard. We were lucky that there was a Martial Arts exhibition and that the Denver Broncos' game is going to be here at home instead of in Oakland. Good planning job getting all the people out and getting those two to work together."

"Actually, I wasn't the one who came up with the plan, Brick was." JB raises an eyebrow.

"Brick? As in Brick Flagg? Jock and oblivious Brick Flagg? That Brick Flagg?" Alex shoots him a look of annoyance at the incredulous expression in his tone.

"Yes I mean that Brick Flagg."

"Holy shit the world's about to end!"

"Hey! Don't say that!"

"Oh lighten up, Shorty. I was just joking."

"Some of your jokes have a habit of coming true, this being Middleton and all."

"You worry too much." Alex looks up to make a retort to that but is interrupted by JB as he says, "Case this morning, something happened?"

"Yeah. There was a room covered with newspapers, photos, etc. scattered all over the place. Each one had something to do with Team Possible. There was also a number and a knife driven through the only existing picture of one of the Team Possible members. I talked with the other guys and they all said they came across something similar, except the numbers were the same in all the cases from this morning, but different from each of the past three days."

"What was the number written on it?"

"The one for this morning's attack said 32 and the one from three days ago said 35."

"A countdown. To what?"

"Right now, I'm hoping I'm wrong. I don't know if your remember, but I think either 5 or 6 years ago, Tammy, Justine, and Paul left to work on a topic secret project in Montana but before they left, one or all three of them went to all the buildings listed as part of the freak fire and tornado incidents with their project leader. The buildings that one or all three have been by themselves were untouched all three days. So unless that changes, all of the data that I've gathered is leading me to conclude one thing." She takes a deep breath and looks over at JB who's clenching and unclenching his fist around the arm rests.

"It's a countdown to the murder of their project leader, Wade Load."

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A/N: Whoever it is that came up with the idea that Bonnie is the most popular girl in school is wrong. Alex Sapphic tops Bonnie any day. This girl has connections all over the school despite just being a background character. And at last count, there's about 51 recurring background characters in Kim's school and they're all friends with each other. I'm not going to use all 51 of them, just people that I see are usually close enough to Alex.

I'm sorry for the shortness of this chapter, but no worries, I'm not done yet. I just found out that I will be out of range of any type of internet connection until late August. Since I promised you to have a chapter out for this month, I figure I'd post my finished scene for this chapter. This is not a teaser... not in the sense of it being in the middle of the chapter anyways, but it is the start of the chapter. I was hoping to get two scenes finished before my long break but because the second scene got too long and isn't even close to a "conclusion" I had to take it out. Sorry guys. Don't worry though. I'll make it up to you. I'll finish the rest of this chapter and will hopefully have two addition chapters out before the end of August.