Alright, FuritiveFox, you wanted to know what the Order wants with Kyle…so here's your answer.

Chapter 16

Kyle

All I remember is me fighting, getting captured, and Clara screaming. After that, I don't know what happened. I wake up sometime later to see that girl, Leanie Hall, standing overtop me. She grins when she sees that I'm awake, and orders everyone else out of the room.

"Hello, Kyle," she says in a dangerous whisper that has me wondering how she knows my name. She laughs. "You're not very good at screening your thoughts."

I quickly scramble them like I was told how, discreetly feeling in my pocket to see if my wand's still there. It is.

"What do you want with me?" I ask Leanie, trying not to show how scared I am.

"Well, the Order wants you as bait, so we can destroy your friends, but what I want with you…" she leans in closer to me, and I let out a shudder. "…is so much more." She looks all over me, as if…I shudder at the thought…checking me out. "Not bad, not bad at all. You look quite good, in fact."

I realize quickly that if I want to get out of this is a partially good shape, I'll have to play along. Clara's face comes to my mind, but I take a deep breath and tell myself that I'm only doing this because I want to be of some help when they come get me. I pretend that Leanie is Clara, and the right words coupled with the right tone come to me. "You don't look bad yourself," I tell her, although I've never been big on brunettes. She grins, and I guess that my plan is working. I just hope I can keep it up long enough for the others to find me.

Clara

We all watch as Isabel does the best she can for Vanessa. Even though her healing powers are much stronger than they were even last year, she still comes out of it looking pale and drained. She stands up slowly, and Ethan helps keep her steady.

"Well?" Jacob asks eagerly. Isabel looks at him, tears in her eyes. I understand. She's too drained to really say much, but she projects her thoughts to all us Truthseers.

Alright, I say after she's finished, who's going to break the news?

I will, Rochelle answers.

Are you sure? Neriah asks her.

Yes.

Rochelle takes a deep breath, before turning to Jacob and saying, "She's alive, but unconscious, and not completely healed. Whoever hit her did something to make sure that if someone were to heal her, they wouldn't finish in time. Of course," she adds, seeing the look on his face, "Isabel is much stronger than the average healer, and managed to at least heal enough to keep her alive."

"What does this mean?" he asks, getting worked up.

"What it means," Isabel answers, breathing deeply, "Is that she'll live at least long enough for me to regain my strength. Once that happens, I'll be able to heal her fully. I've already gotten rid of the thing stopping me from doing my job, so it should be easy."

She says this in a soft and soothing voice, but it doesn't work. "Well, how long will it take for you to be able to heal her again?" Jacob asks, still agitated. I

sabel takes a deep breath, as if she really doesn't want him to know this. "Please, before I tell you, you need to calm down."

"How long?" Jacob repeats, not doing what Isabel asked.

"You're not calm yet. I won't tell you unless you calm down."

He takes a deep breath, and I can sense that he's trying to calm himself. "Okay, I'm ready."

"Half an hour."

"WHAT?" he exclaims. "She could be dead by then!"

"No, she won't be," Isabel tells him, still keeping herself calm. "If you really want, I can start healing right now, but it would take longer, because I'd have to stop every couple minutes to regain my strength."

Jacob walks over to Isabel and grips her shoulders, shaking her. "You have to heal her faster!" he says, and she gives a little shriek, pulling herself away from him. The spots his hands were on are smoking now, and she rubs them.

"I won't be able to if you keep burning me!" she says, her patience finally snapping. "If I have to heal myself, it will be longer before I can get to her."

Jacob goes back to where he was standing, hands behind his back. "Sorry," he mumbles. All this standing around makes me upset as well.

"Look, I think Jacob has a point." Everyone looks at me. "If Isabel were able to heal Vanessa faster, we could be out there looking for Kyle right now!"

"It's like I said," Isabel almost shouts. "I would be able to start healing her now, but it would take longer. So would you rather wait for 20 more minutes and have her healed quickly, or force me to stop every 5 minutes to regain my strength?" Arkarian puts a hand on her shoulder, and she instantly calms down. He produces a stool for her to sit on, which she does. As for me, he sends me some thoughts.

Please, Clara, we're all upset that Kyle's gone, but the last thing we need is fighting between ourselves. If you can't keep yourself calm, then don't say anything.

I look at him for a minute before saying, Fine. To myself, I think, Oh, Kyle, where are you? Where did they take you? Why did they take you, when they could have had any of us?

Sorry about the emotional bit there…I couldn't resist. And I'm also sorry that Kyle's part was so short, but I just wanted to say basically that he's still alive, and that for the time being, he's fine. Each chapter until they get to him will have a tiny bit of Kyle's POV at the start of it, but it will be mainly the other person's POV. I'm not putting much detail into Kyle's part because it's not needed, and I want to really stress how everyone else is doing. Cuz we know that Kyle's going to live at least long enough for them to rescue him, so I don't have to put a lot more than that…do I? What do you guys think? Should I make Kyle's part a little longer, or keep it nice and short so I can make the other person's POV longer?