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Gardner's POV

"Are you sure it's the guy?" I asked Suzy. We were currently in my bedroom discussing the latest discovery out of my nosy sister's earshot. I was sitting on my bed, and Suzy was at my desk on my laptop looking at who knows what.

She didn't even bother to look up at me."Even if I didn't get a good look at him the picture matches his driver's license photo."

I couldn't help but roll my eyes. She had his license this whole time, and didn't tell me? It made me wonder what else she had been keeping from me. "You've had his driver's license this whole time and didn't say anything?"

She stopped what she was doing and gave me her 'you're-such-a-moron' look. "I managed to grab his wallet. And don't you think I've already tried finding out who he is? Did that day one in the computer lab and found nothing."

"But you still could have mentioned it!"

In the same tone she had just spoken in, she replied, "Why? His credit cards don't work here and he didn't have any cash."

I groaned. Money would be the one thing she would look for.

"Don't look at me like that. I was hungry and didn't have any cash for the vending machines."

I decided to let the subject drop at that point since with her stubbornness I wasn't going to get anyway. So I brought up something else that had been bothering me.

"Suzy, why do you think he was stealing from a government facility and armory?"

"Because there's no League here to stop them and that's what bad guys do," she said and went back to what she had been doing earlier. Apparently I was boring her with my conversation. Well that was about to change.

I shook my head. "Think about it. Yes there is no League here. They have a watch that can transport them to different dimensions. What's so special about this one? Why not go after Fort Knox, museums and other places with expensive stuff? Why go after a military that probably has less effective weapons than yours probably has? Why not be looking up their secret identities and everything about your world to use there?"

She paused and turned her attention back to me, thinking over what I had said. "You're right. Ugh, I can't believe I admitted that out loud. But there is something off. Most supervillains I know of only care about jewels and wealth. Too bad we can't contact the League and let them know that there's something bigger going on."

It was too bad, especially if there were wasting all their time on Suzy when they had bigger issues to deal with. Then I thought of something and said, "I have an idea."

"Last time I checked I wasn't E.T. and I can't just 'phone home'."

Knowing that she would hate what I was about to say, I said it anyway. "Trust me."

Like I said she hated it, and replied with a snort.

Suzy's POV

"This is the stupidest thing ever," I complained. When Gardner suggested going to Lucy of all people I thought he was joking. Actually when he first said to trust him, I thought that he was joking. Then he insisted that since Lucy was Annie's author, there might still be a connection between them. And if we could take advantage of that connection, we could inform the League through Annie what was going on here. Like I said, stupid.

Despite my skeptic nature, I tried going along with his plan. Except it backfired and Lucy was in her room refusing to speak to both of us. She didn't handle the news about Annie and me that well, just yelling that we were making fun of her and her story. While Gardner was trying to sweet talk his sister, I took his laptop to continue reading my comic that I had learned about earlier that day. I had started reading while Gardner rambled on about the driver license thing, and his theories, half listening and half ignoring him.

It was surreal reading the comic, but also... nice. Reading the comments about how people enjoyed my sarcastic nature was awesome since most people aren't fond of it. The story itself was pretty much close to everything that happened. It started with the car incident, and was currently on what happened during Thanksgiving with Annie's transformation. Annie herself, was portrayed as a typical air-head Sue with ever changing eye and hair color. As for me, like I said before, the author had gotten my sarcastic nature perfectly. When finished, I started to read the author's profile and tried to figure out whether I hated or liked them.

"Your turn to talk to her," Gardner said, sitting down next to me.

"Nu-uh. I told you it was a stupid idea. Hey, here's a picture of Annie trying to glomp that lion," I said hoping to distract him from where the conversation was about to go.

Gardner was nowhere as amused as I was, nor distracted as I had hoped. I know that because he slammed the laptop lid shut while I was still typing away. And to think, I had just started to sympathize with him. Jerk.

"Fine then, don't talk to her. But don't blame me, when your world is destroyed." And then he stormed out of the room fed-up with dealing with me and his sister.

I scoffed. Destroyed might have been just a bit exaggerated. But still... I sighed and backed away from the closed laptop. In the past couple days I had learned that Superman's weakness was kryptonite and mine was guilt. I hate guilt. It makes me do stupid crazy things like what I was about to do.

"Lucy, open up."

"Go away!"

This was the fourth time I had knocked on the door and she was still refusing to listen to me. Brat.

"Lucy..." I pleaded.

I couldn't believe it. I was groveling at the door of an eleven year-old. Maybe I should just ask Gardner for a screwdriver to take the door off the hinges. There was the still the slight problem of getting her to listen, but that could be solved with a lighter and something precious of hers. Maybe one of those comics that were plastic wrapped. If someone was willing to go that far to protect some paper, it must be valuable. I then realized that I had been hanging out with Angela far too long, and perhaps Gardner's mom was right about her being a bad influence after all.

"Stop making fun of me. I know there's no such thing as the Justice League and Annie. I'm not some stupid little kid who still believes in magic."

My stomach started to hurt and vision began to blur, just like that one time that Gardner had denied my world's existence. Apparently there was some sort of connection between belief here and my general well being. The whole Tinkerbell act was starting to get old real fast. I just hoped I wouldn't meet the same fate as her, needing somebody to clap in order for me to live.

Lucy continued ranting on about me and Gardner making fun of her, and I continued writhing in pain. I was going to have to do something fast, less I needed Gardner to come to my aid and start clapping for me. Then I had an Annie-worthy moment.

"Shut up!" I somehow managed to yell over the pain, probably due to all my anger at the brat. Anger and guilt combined can be excellent motivators. To my surprise she did, and the pain subsided a little. "I can prove it. Did you ever post Annie's backstory?"

After a moment she answered, "No."

"Annie was an alien princess thing who had some morons who were jealous of her, so her parents sent her off Superman style. Then she was found by a desperate couple who she saw killed Batman style. Then some other stuff happens, something about the Amazons, and a couple plot holes later she defeats the morons from earlier and is named an honorary League member. Sound familiar?"

Once again there was quiet, but my vision had started returning to normal and my Tinkerbell moment seemed over. Which I hoped was a good sign and that she was starting to believe me.

"Maybe..." she slowly admitted.

"How could I have known all that, if what I was saying wasn't true?"

"Did Mari... I mean Annie really help the League?" she asked in a small voice.

"Surprisingly yes. Now will you open the door?"

Gardner's POV

"I can't believe it's all real!" squealed my little sister as she booted up the family computer which is what my mom allowed her to use.

Suzy was less enthusiastic. "Uh-huh. How long is it going to take you to type all this?"

"Depends on what you had in mind."

My mom then popped her head in the door asking to speak to me. I got up off Lucy's bed and made my way to the door. As I passed, Suzy looked at me with puppy dog eyes, and I mouthed 'you'll be fine'.

Once I was out in the hallway I asked, "What's up?"

"Well, since you're now home and Lucy doesn't get off school till Wednesday, I was wondering if you could take her to and from school. That way I could go into work to pick up some extra hours."

"Sure thing," I answered. It wasn't uncommon for me to do it when I was home. Mom liked picking up extra hours at work so she could take time off later to be with me and Lucy.

"Thanks," she said with a smile. "You know, Suzy isn't that bad. Maybe you should ask her home more often."

I laughed, knowing where she was headed. I wondered how'd she react to the news that Suzy had been contemplating taking Lucy's door off earlier and burning her belongings. She'd probably react the same way I did, and blame Angela.

The next day, 3:30 p.m.

"Angela?"

"Lucy, is that you? What's going on?"

"They're gone."

"Who's gone?"

"Gardner and Suzy. They were suppose to pick me up off at school, and I was walking toward the car when some bad guys took them, and they disappeared into thin air."

"Bad guys? Thin air? What are you talking about?"

"Yeah, bad guys. Big and ugly looking, like the kind you see in the movies. And they dragged Gardner and Suzy out of the car, and just vanished, like they apparated or something. Do you think they're wizards and secretly kidnapped them under Voldemort's orders?"

"Lucy, they're not wizards... did your brother ever tell you the truth?"

"About Suzy and Annie? Last night they did, but only because they needed me to do something important."

Pause.

"Lucy, you there?"

"What if they got taken because of what I did?"

"Calm down. If Ashley was kidnapped, it was probably due to his own stupidity. Where are you now?"

"School. I didn't know who else to call since mom was at work."

"Not to mention how hard it would be explaining what happened to the police. Stay put, I should be there in half an hour and then you can tell me all about these bad guys, them apparating, and what you think you did."

**Author's Note**

I would like to thank Loki's Son and AidenSurvival for reviews.

So this chapter returned back to Suzy and Gardner. Next chapter will begin with Annie's POV.

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