It had been a few days since the accident with Kevin breaking into her house to help her and her grandfather almost exploding at the lack of presence from her cousin. Tension was still high around the household with the two cousin's. Gwen was still fuming from being left on her own but at least she got to see Kevin, not that he had been around lately. She wondered if he would call or come visit. Just a simple hello would do the trick. She didn't know why she missed him so much. It was weird; she had never felt this way about someone before, especially Kevin. She was pretty turned off by getting a boyfriend after she dated Michael Morningstar for a very, very brief period. Two dates, she swore it. That was before he tried to steal all the energy in her body and practically kill her, or turn her into a zombie. She hissed at the idea, still making her sick inside. He wanted her as his prize possession; a 'trophy'. It was a recent memory, only a year old, but it still had the same traumatic effect on her since.

She was lucky Ben was so over-protective of her or she might not of gotten out of there alive and intack. She breathed out thinking back to her cousin. As controlling as he was to her, she knew he cared. Deep down. When he had come bursting through the door of the Tennyson household, her grandfather was there; 3:30am in the morning he had been staying up all night with Verdona awaiting his presence. Which to Ben, came as a shock. He didn't know what to do. Half-drunk with the one and only Jennifer Nocturn in his arms, Ben was caught like a deer in headlights. Not knowing what to do once Max starting yelling his head off. Of course waking up every body in the whole-damn street. And of course, Ben was first to blame his cousin, resting on the couch, mentally screaming her head off at feeling like her bones were being forced into back into place by her dear grandmother.

The next day he had confronted her about it. Her mind still numb from practically being tortured by her grandmother. He needed an explanation, supposebly a good one while her grandparents were still asleep. Why he thought it would be a good idea to wake her up at 7am in the morning was beyond her.

"I fell on the floor and no one was here to pick me up" She had constantly told him constantly but he always rebutted in the same way.

"You told me that you could look after yourself"

And of course it was always followed by an all out war of who could raise there voice higher than the other, waking up their grandfather who had just about enough of them. They had spent the next few days avoiding each other as much as they could.

Right now, Gwen was attending to her sneakers. Tieing up her laces, peacefully, as she prepared herself for a nice, long walk; something she had been looking forward to since she had injured herself. All the pain of the treatment had finally paid off and she couldn't be more happier. Her leg muscles were a little weak from not being able to stand for quiet a while but it didn't matter now. She smiled happily as she grabbed her keys from the bowl and exited the front door. Her school sachel slung over her right shoulder she was looking forward to a long day of studying at the Bellwood Library, probably her favourite place in the whole of Bellwood.

She stretched her arms out as she walked along the footpath slowly taking at least a metre pacing on each stride. It was 8:30am in the morning and she knew that her family wouldn't be up on a Saturday, well except her grandparents. Verdona doesn't sleep and Max is just used to being up at 6am who had constantly bickered the girl about him escorting her to the library. Despite, his consistency of asking over 20X, Gwen had still politely refused. She was finally able to up and moving around and quite frankly; she needed to sometime alone to gather her thoughts.

Of course, it could always be distrupted by about twelve people waiting along the footpath, in her direction. Gwen frowned, not ready for the public media to harass her about her relationship with Ben 10. She took a large breathe of air in before looking across the road in an attempt to lose them before the ambushed her.

"Gwendolyn Tennyson" She turned round hearing her name being called by a certain blonde haired man. She gulped, eyes widening as she saw the basketball jersey which took her off-guard by...alot.

"Cooper!" She smiled, hugging him. He blushed lightly, embracing her affection before he spoke.

"Ben told me that you got injured really badly, I was going to swing by and see how you were going"

She removed her arms from him and smiled polietly.

"Thank you, but I'm good, Verdona's fixed most of my injuries up"

"That's good"

He scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, wanting to ask her a question. He may of been waiting inside his car for two hours, knowing full well that she always walks to the library on a Saturday morning and attends church on Sunday. She wasn't religious at all but her parent's had taken her every week since she was born. She just kept up the habit and he had kept up the stalking. But he was good at it, she hadn't noticed him keeping a close eye on her or the fact that when she goes to bed at night-time she usually sleeps in her clothes that she had worn for the day, too tired to throw on pajamas. He wondered if she had pajamas. He was eager to know.

The silence between the two of them grew. Though it only lasted a couple of seconds, he could tell that she was a little uncomfortable. He looked over to the twelve people approaching and frowned.

"More of Ben's adoring fans?" He asked. Gwen crossed her arms, arching hey eyebrow.

"Actually I think they're here to interrogate me" She pulled out her phone, accessing Twitter and showing what Ben had written.

"Who the hell goes to study at 8AM on a Saturday morning" He read the words out loud.

She groaned annoyed at the fact that her cousin had to insult her since he had gotten in to trouble with their grandfather.

"Man that's harsh" Cooper stated before placing a hand on her shoulder. "My car's parked nearby we still have enough time to make a break for it"

She nodded. It was better than facing Ben's adoring public. She turned round about to follow Cooper before someone grabbed her. She turned on instinct, a flash blinding her. She winced her eyes turning away before the papparazzi swarmed her into an enclosed circle so she couldn't escape. Cooper tried to rush back in but they weren't budging, throwing video cameras, iphones and microphones into her face so she could answer their stupid questions.

She really did feel sorry for herself right now.

"This is stupid"

"Then go somewhere else"

Argit looked over to Kevin watching through the binoculars in his car, spying on a certain redhead being attacked by the community. Surely, they would be used to having famous people in their town but no. It seemed that they weren't being thrown off.

"Swear they're stalking her" Kevin mumbled as Argit leaned back in his seat chewing on his breakfast as he breathed out bored shit-less.

"Dude, what do you think we're doing?" Argit hit back watching as Kevin furrowed his eyebrows. He shrugged at the alien's response.

"They're worse they just attack and humiliate her in front of cameras"

"So," Argit munched. "What do you care?" He asked.

Kevin removed the binoculars from his eyes before growling.

"I don't"

"Then stop watching her and lets go do something"

Kevin turned back to the redhead grabbing hold of a blonde haired man's arm and walking off, saying a polite good-bye to the vicious papparazzi and attending back to her own life.

"In a minute. I wanna know where she's going with that guy"

This time, Argit furrowed his eyebrows.

"Dude, your so obsessed with her"

"Not, as much as that guy" He mumbled as the blonde haired man tried to escort Gwen into his car despite her refusal by shaking her head. She pointed down the street, an opposite way of where she was originally heading. Kevin shook his head.

"I just want to know that that guys not a rapist or something"

"Or her boyfriend"

"Don't even joke about that" Kevin grumbled placing his binoculars down and starting up the car.

"Dude, you're not seriously following her"

"I just want to see where she goes"

He pulled the car out of the woods.

Gwen sighed listening to Cooper chat on and on about his new piece of technology he was inventing. A robotic killing suit designed to withstand bullets, artillery rounds, explosions and fire. It sounded interesting when he first began to speak about it, but then he went into the extremely fine detail, to the point where she couldn't keep up. Instead she just gently smiled, nodded and continued walking to the library, which now was only a metre away. She turned round as she grabbed hold of the railbar.

"Well I better go catch up on all the homework and assignments I missed for the past few weeks" She joked lightly. He smiled at her, wanting to remember her smile forever.

She forced a nervous smile before taking a step back.

"Thanks for walking me, I had fun. I'll see you round, Coop" She waved before entering the library. Cooper smiled, eyes bright and screaming on the inside, watching as she entered the olden day building. He couldn't help but laugh and smile.

"She said she had fun" He couldn't have been more estatic before he turned round noticing a dark-haired man staring directly at him with fire in his eyes.

His face suddenly went numb just by looking a the man knowing exactly who it was.

"What?" Kevin glared at Cooper.

"I...er" He couldn't seem to form a sentence right now. Not the notorious Kevin Eleven staring down at him like he was about to pound him.

Kevin's nostrils flaired as he stared at the man, who had been currently escorting the girl to her destination.

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to move?" Kevin asked but it came out as more of a demand but Cooper was too in shock to do anything. Instead, Kevin just shoved the man out of the way before walking into the mechanical shop right next door to the library.

Cooper took a giant breathe of air in through his mouth, feeling like he had almost suffocated before pulling out his phone and ringing Ben, telling him that his cousin was in danger.