Oh my God guys! I actually have a whole plot thought up! I know, shocking isn't it! I definitely am shocked, and excited! And I published this in just over a month, which is impressive for me, so don't ruin it! So, just a couple things before we get to what I think is a good chapter. Number one, last Saturday I officially finished Buffy, and I cried at the end. I will truly miss that show, and sadly my mom won't let me get the complete series on DVD, so I'm stuck with Netflix. Number two, found the best website ever, called . It is fricken awesome and hilarious, and has changed my life, so that's why my chapters might get a little more out there than they used to be... Go look it up, please? You'll love it, I think. Number three, read City of Fallen Angels in three days, finishing around ten last Thursday. It was awesome, although not the best in the series. Stupid cliffhanger though! And just when things had worked out. Liked it anyway, you have to if it has Jace in it. Number four, finished the Gathering this morning, or actually yesterday morning. It was amazing as well! No, nowhere near Darkest Powers status, but that's probably because of my love for Derek, and there are no werewolves, at least I think… I'm really excited to see where this trilogy is going, and it looks like there might be a little run in with our favorite group of genetically altered supernaturals. Definitely go read it. Alright, that's it. Sorry for grammar/spelling errors, and out of characterness. Don't own DP as always.

You'd think that after everything I've been through, the zombies, werewolf attacks, mad scientists, that I could take anything. Well, walking through the pitch black house with no one else up was an exception. I knew that nothing was going to pop out and kill me, but some little part of my brain kept going through all the possibilities. Every time I passed a door I thought I saw it movie, shadows behind couches and other stuff seemed to shift, and I almost screamed when I heard the ice maker in the fridge start up. It only took about five minutes, but they were some of the worst ones of my life. I was never so happy to outside at 5:30 am.

Being outside wasn't really that bad, the moon was full and lit the yard well, and there was lots of room to run. Still, I kept hoping anyone, even Tori, was already out. When I walked through the thin line of trees separating the main yard from the lake, I was discouraged to see no one there. As I got closer the dock however, I heard voices, but couldn't tell who they were or what they were saying. I moved faster, eventually recognizing Derek's rumble and either Simon's or Kit's voice, they sounded so much alike, as I got to the storage shed. Rounding the corner, I saw Derek looking frustrated as he faced Kit who… well was just Kit, always way too calm, like Chuck Norris.

Derek saw me almost immediately and nudged his dad's arm. Kit stopped mid-sentence and turned to smile at me.

"Hey," I said through a yawn, so not a morning person.

"See Dad," Derek said, closing the gap between us and hugging me. "I told you people will be too tired to care, we should have just gone on a fake trip to Wal-Mart or something."

"Casey and James are in love with Wal-Mart," I reminded him. "They wouldn't have let us go without them, Target would have worked though."

"Yeah, but then they would have known something was up," Kit said. "It's like Barnes and Noble, no one goes there willingly." (Yeah, anyone who likes Target or Barnes and Noble you should take offense, there's something wrong with you. Wal-Mart and Borders rule the world!)

"That's why I went with Wal-Mart," Derek said.

"I'm sorry about the earliness Chloe," Kit said. "We just can't risk the others hearing until we have everything set."

"Yeah, I'm still confused about what the everything is," I said.

"What we're doing with this," Derek said, pulling the list of phone numbers and names Simon had collected of the other Genesis subjects.

"Okay, that makes sense. Did you tell any of them about it?"

"Not yet," Kit said. "Like I said, we need to plan first."

"Plan what?" Tori said, sounding pissed as she appeared at the corner. "Because it better be more important than sleeping, I have not gotten enough of that and the stupid alarm stopped a very good dream."

"No one really cares Tori," Derek said.

"And no one asked for your opinion Wolf Boy," Tori said.

"Hey, haven't we had the arguing conversation before?" I asked. "Get over it." Surprisingly, they both closed their mouths and resorted to glaring. Kit clapped.

"Why are we clapping?" Aunt Lauren asked as she came around the corner and joined our little circle.

"Chloe got those tow to stop fighting," Kit said, motioning towards Derek and Tori.

"That is impressive, good job honey," She said. I rolled my eyes at the nickname.

"Alright, Simon better have his ass out here soon," Tori said. "I swear if he's still sleeping I'm going to blow up his bed."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down," Simon's voice called from somewhere between the house and shed, followed by running footsteps. "I'm comin.'"

"Can we move over to the dock?" I asked, shaking off a foot that was covered with dew and grass.

"That'd probably be a good idea," Kit said, migrating towards the nice, dry, non-grassy wood. Simon approached and immediately hopped up onto the railing of the dock, not knowing that every one of us saw the perfect opportunity to push him off into the water.

"Okay, down to business," Kit said, holding his hand out to Derek, who gave him the list. "You all know that we're here only temporarily, and it's time for us to decide when that will end."

"I really don't see why we have to leave," Tori said. "You said this place was safe, so why don't we just stay? These Cable guys won't be able to find us anyway."

"It's Cabal," Simon corrected. "But as much as I hate to say it, I see Tori's point. Really Dad, we stayed in Albany for almost a year with no problems, and that was with school. Plus everyone who ever had anything major to do with us is dead."

"Actually we never did find out what happened to Margret and Russell," I said. "Besides them being evil."

"Exactly," Kit said. "And the Ed. Group kept detailed reports of everyone who ever contacted them. Even if the place was destroyed, they had everything backed up some other place."

"So you're saying everything we did there was for nothing?" Derek said more than asked.

"No Der, we did do something. Davidoff was the only real mastermind left to my knowledge, and without him no one would be able to really bring back the group, without a lot of time and back up that is. Sadly though, there are a couple more labs around the country, much smaller, since this was the HQ, but they could still do some damage."
"So you are saying we did all that for nothing," Tori said angrily. Kit just stood there for a moment looking at all of us.

"Alright, I know it might seem that way, but we really did make a difference. These other labs only have one or two small projects each, and Davidoff was heading those too, last time I heard. All the others are probably idiots, and without Davidoff babysitting, they won't know what to do and, hopefully, shut down on their own. Lauren, back me up here."

"I really think he's right," she said, moving to stand next to Kit. "I've heard a couple things about eh side projects, and they really don't seem too serious. But if they're still running, we need to make sure they shut down soon in case they really are problem causing. Davidoff only visited them every few months though, so they might keep going for a while without him."

"At lease tell me these labs are somewhere cool," Simon said. "Like in a dam forming Alkali Lake." (X-Men people)

"The only location I know of is in North Carolina, somewhere in the Appalachian," she said, smiling.

"Well, it's not a no for Alkali Lake," he said excitedly.

"But the question is do we go after the labs or other subjects first?" I said.

"Good point," Derek said. "Sure the labs might be causing problems, but what if these kids came into their powers while we're getting rid of them. If they're failures like Chloe, no offense Chlo, or Tori… and please do take offense to that, they could really endanger not only themselves and their families but the whole supernatural world."

"Again, good point," Simon said. "And how exactly are we going to deal with the subjects anyway? I mean 'You're a wizard Harry' doesn't really mean anything without proof."

"Exactly," I said. "Sure we could call them up and say 'Oh guess what! You're not a crazy schizophrenic! You're a necromancer!' Who the hell's gonna believe that? And it's not like these parents don't know what's really up with their kid, unless they got brainwashed or something."

"Chloe, you really do watch too many movies," Aunt Lauren said. "But no, no one got brainwashed."

"So, then what are we going to do," Tori asked. "Phones won't work, so it seems to me that our only choice is in person."

"Well," Kit began, thinking carefully. "I mean sure that'd work but it'd be more dangerous obviously. And we also don't know anything but the names and phone numbers."

"Uh hello?" Tori cried, pointing to herself. "Computer genius here. I can get addressed by hacking into phone records. Not even that hard." We all just stared open mouthed at her. "What? I tested myself a couple times." When we all just started at her doubtedly she added, "Okay, okay, I sort of dug up the phone records of a couple boyfriends… I was paranoid!" We all continued staring, then broke out into hysterics.

"Well anyway," Kit said, bringing us back under control. "If Tori can get the addresses, going in person probably is our best bet. Anyone against it?" No one said anything. "Then that's settled."

"We still have the labs to figure out," Aunt Lauren said.

"Oh yeah…" Tori said unenthusiastically.

"Wait, you said the labs were scattered around the country right?" I asked, addressed Kit, who nodded. "And all the subjects are spread out right?" Derek looked at the list and nodded, whether he did it out of habit or because he actually knew where the area codes were for, which wouldn't surprise me, I didn't know. "So why can't we just start at the east coast and work our way west, taking care of labs and subjects as we go?"

"God, that's so obvious it's pathetic we didn't think of it within ten seconds," Kit said, slapping a palm to his forehead. "And that'll work too, because we only know of the one lab in North Carolina."

"So that's our plan?" Derek asked. "Take a cross-country trip in a van, stopping to blow up a few buildings and tell kids their magical?"

"No one said anything about blowing up buildings," Kid said quickly, transforming mine and Simon's faces from excited to disappointed. "But yeah, I guess it is. Although we could probably get an RV or something, I know you kids hate the van. We still need to figure out when we're leaving though. Tori, how long do you think it'll take you to get the addresses?" Tori snatched the list from Derek and scanned it quickly.

"Probably only a couple of hours," she said. "Depending on the company's firewall strength and the computer power available."

"So then the sooner we leave the better," Lauren said.

"Actually, maybe not," Kit said, pondering something. "Tori and Chloe have virtually no training to control their powers, no offense, and Simon and Derek could always use more. Another three days or so of preparation both for them and the finer detail of our plan would be helpful. Who's up for staying awhile?" We all hesitantly raised our hands. "Then that's settled as well."

"What are we going to tell the others?" I asked.

"Just the situation I guess," Kit said. "Maybe call a little meeting tomorrow, or today actually. They obviously can't come with."

"Why exactly?" Simon asked. "I mean, Casey was in it same as us, they were after her too. And if they did trace us here then what'll they do with the others?"

"Casey wasn't really- Ah never mind," Kit said. "But really, a group of 13 people all traveling together, might get a little suspicious."

"Are you kidding me?" Tori asked, laughing a little. "I've gone on road trips with forty people, no one was stopped by cops or anything, and we had six RV's all in a group on the highway. Besides, we could probably pass for a messed up family reunion thing anyway."

"Still, it might not be the best idea. But I don't know, I'll think about it," Kit said. "For now just go back to bed, but be up by ten alright?"

"Yay! Sleep!" Simon yelled happily, jogging back towards the house. Aunt Lauren, who was only ever coherent in the early morning for about an hour, followed him sleepily. Kit started talking to Tori while Derek and I just kind of stood there.

"Well at least we have cars for this road trip," I said.

"It was only about a day of walking Chlo," he said, looking down worriedly as I yawned. "Come on, it's the middle of the night, let's get you to bed."

"Come on Der," I said, stifling another yawn. "I'm not five, I can handle being a little tired." I glanced at Kit and Tori. "Besides, I need to talk to Kit."

"About what?" he asked suspiciously.

"Nothing about you or me, or us," I said, reassuring him. "Not even werewolves or necromancers, I swear." I didn't see anything wrong with not mentioning that it was about witches and sorcerers.

"Fine, we can go ask Dad whatever it is you want to ask him then go back to bed."

"Actually… I think it might be better if I talk to him alone. It's nothing personal, really, not against you anyway, but I think it'll be better for your dad if it's only me there."

"Chloe…" he said, sounding really freaked now.

"Look, I just need to check to see if something's true, and I don't want to freak you out unless I know for sure that it is. Either way, I'll tell you when we're done talking alright?"

"Alright," he said, still sounding slightly suspicious. He leaned down to kiss me, then whispered "See you later," before walking back towards the house. I turned smiling towards Kit and Tori, then completely lost the smile when I realized exactly what I was going to talk to him about. I took a deep breath and walked over to them. Thankfully, their conversation seemed to be over, and they were just kind of standing their awkwardly.

"Uh… Sorry to interrupt," I said, coming to a stop next to them. "But… Uh… Could I talk to you for a few minutes Kit?"

"Sure," he said, a little too quickly, seemingly very glad I did interrupt. He looked at Tori and quickly said, "Um… Well thanks, Tori, I'll see you later."

"Sure," she said, sounding bored as she turned back to the house and walked away. Kit looked at my gratefully.

"Uh… you wanted to talk to me Chloe?"

"Yeah. Um… Well there really isn't an easy way to ask this, so I'll get straight to the point. Are you Tori's father?" He froze, just stared at me for a couple seconds, before he fell back against the railing, covering his eyes with a hand.

"Where did you hear that?" he asked, sounding like he was more than a little shocked.

"Oh…. One of the people at Andrew's 'safe house' sort of mentioned it." We had all sort of agreed that it was probably the best idea to keep the whole demi-demon thing to ourselves. Kit sighed, and stayed silent for another minute or so, before lowering his hand, sighing again, and looked at me.

"Yes Chloe, I'm about 99% sure I am. But you have to understand, I really didn't have…. That is… I wasn't exactly-"

"Okay really Kit, you can stop there. I'm pretty sure I know… Uh… Tori's mom… she for s-s-some reason w-wanted a hybrid spell caster baby, for some reason c-chose you to be the f-f-f-f-father, you didn't… c-c-comply, so she uh… acquired some of your... u-u-u-uh… and got Tori. And can we p-please pretend like that awkward c-conversation never h-happened?"

"Oh you got it," he said, obviously as uncomfortable as I was. "Diane was always a little crazy, and a lot obsessive, especially when it came to power. She wanted a powerful child, and she was going to get one. When she came to me, I obviously said no because she was a crazy bitch who I hated, but also because a hybrid would be so dangerous. Between the time that I refused and I left with the boys, she made some really strong comments that she somehow had… well succeeded. I mostly just brushed it off, thought she was just crazier than I had ever thought, but there was always a little part of me that thought she might have actually been telling the truth. Then when I saw Tori… I don't know, I just sort of knew she was… mine, if that makes any sense."

"It does," I said. We just kind of stood there for a few seconds, until Kit broke the silence.

"Do any of the others know?" he asked, sounding kind of scared.

"No, at least I'm pretty sure." He nodded, and rubbed his temples. "Kit, you are going to tell them right? They need to know, all of them. Especially Tori. You didn't see her after her dad, well the man she thought was her dad, gave her up to her mom. I've never seen anyone so upset. She needs a family, one who doesn't just treat her as an object of power.""

"I know, it's just… I'm still getting used to this myself Chlo."

"And I get that, but think about it, would you rather tell them now and let them sulk in their own rooms by themselves, or when we're all squished together in an RV?"

"Whoa, thanks for bringing that up. In that case, I'll tell them later today." He then got this really panicky look on his face. I smiled slightly at I put a hand in what I hoped was a sympathetic way on his shoulder.

"If it's any help, I'll take care of Derek and everyone else. But I think it really needs to be you that tells Simon and Tori."

"I know, besides I'll need to be there to attempt to control the power explosion that's bound to happen. But thank you Chloe, thanks a lot."

"You're welcome," I said. I was about to turn around and walk back towards the house, when a thought occurred to me. "Uh… You actually might want- well not want, definitely not want, but need to know something." I then gave him a short explanation of Tori's short thing for Simon, which just freaked him out more.

"Crap, this is going to be worse than I thought."

"Yeah, it's probably not a good idea to mention the last thing though, but in case it comes up… well just try to change the subject. But when are you planning on telling them, because I should probably tell everyone the same time, because then there isn't a chance of them overhearing and people won't get completely scared when things start breaking… Maybe you should take them outside."

"Yeah..." Kit said, spacing out and obviously panicked now. "I guess right after we talk to all the others about us leaving."

"Alright," I said, wanting to try to comfort him but not knowing how, so I settled for "Maybe we should both just get some sleep, we'll need it for tomorrow, I mean today."

"Uh huh," he said, still spacing as he just walked towards the house without another word. Poor guy, the reality must just be sinking in. But at least the freak out will be here and not when we're all packed together. I followed Kit, who if I didn't know better, was acting very zombie-like. Thankfully, Kit conjured up a little light ball when we got inside, so I wasn't terrified while walking back upstairs. Kit and I parted ways at the third floor, both of us going to a different hallway, which wasn't horrifying to walk down.

I saw that the light in Derek's room was still on and walked over, tapping the door with a finger lightly, having learned my lesson from last time. He opened the door within a few seconds and motioned me in. He shut the door quietly before turning to me expectantly.

"Relax, I'm getting to it," I said, smiling, then sighed, knowing his reaction might not be very good. "But you might want to sit down." He raised his eyebrows. "Der I'm serious, maybe even on the floor away from anything breakable."

"Chloe, you're seriously scaring me now." Still, he moved into the middle of the room and sat down, with me sitting a few feet away, just to give him some space in case he really did freak.

"Okay, so… No real way to break this to you gently, so… Kit is Tori's father, her biological one." He just stared at me, again, really all the staring has begun to get really annoying, before—bursting into laughter? And not his normal laugh, or actually like any laugh I've ever heard, it was just this creepy dry wheezing. It was seriously terrifying seeing it come from Derek, but also one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and soon I was laughing at, not with, him. (I had just watched the season six finale of Buffy when I wrote this guys, and there's a scene exactly like this that is my favorite scene from Buffy ever that doesn't involve Spike.)

"Hey, you're going to wake someone up," I whisper-yelled, slapping his arm as soon as I had mostly recovered. After a couple seconds he calmed down.

"Sorry, but these walls are pretty thick, even I can barely hear things, regular talking anyway, Casey blasting her music is loud and clear." That's all he got out before starting his creepy wheezing again.

"Derek! Please stop, that's the scariest noise I've ever heard."

"I'm sorry, couldn't help it. It's just… funny. I mean come on, tell me you don't find Tori having an obsessive crush on her brother hilarious."

"Alright, it is pretty funny. But I thought you'd be a little more freaked out."

"Yeah, it's creepy and kind of disturbing, but I'm actually not related to her. Now if I was Simon I'd be seriously freaked and… a whole bunch of other bad stuff. Oh God, is someone going to tell him and Tori?"

"Yeah, your dad is supposedly going to tomorrow, or today, after our little meeting with everyone else."

"Uhg, that is not going to go well." He then made an annoyed groaning noise and moved over to the wall, thumping a fist against it hard. When he saw my confused but amused look he said, "Casey is still up and listening to music, and I'm tired and easily pissed."

"Well sorry Mr. Cranky," Casey said from where she was floating above the bed. "I'll put in some head phones. And do I even want to know what you guys are doing up?"

"Couldn't sleep," I said quickly. "I was going to go for a walk when I saw Derek's light on."

"Yeah I've heard that excuse before," Casey said, wiggling her eyebrows. "Somebody's hiding something…."

"Not really," Derek said, using his emotion lacking voice.

"Sure you aren't… Well this is boring, I'm gonna go back to playing Harry Potter Lego, with earphones this time. You guys go back to… whatever you were doing." She then popped out of the room.

"God she's annoying," I said, stifling another yawn.

"Alright, if we're going to tell everyone all this stuff tomorrow- or today- then we both need sleep." He stood back up and walked over to me, holding out a hand which I took.

"I'm actually not that tired," I said as he pulled me up, of course yawning again.

"Of course you aren't," he said, a fake-serious look on his face. "But even if you aren't you'll regret not sleeping later."

"Fine, but only because I know you won't stop bugging me until I do." I reached up to give him a hug, then kissed his lightly. "I love you."

"Love you too Chloe, but you're stalling." I laughed and smiled at him.

"Can't blame a girl for trying," I said, kissing him again. Then I backed away, saying "Goodnight," as I walked to the door. I crossed the hall and entered my room as quietly as possible. I quickly stripped off my sweatshirt I had worn over my pajamas outside and slipped under the covers, strangely enough falling asleep almost instantly.

"You ready for this?" I asked Kit as we sat at the kitchen table, slowly finishing breakfast, knowing that as soon as we were done we'd have to start our little meeting. Simon had been sitting with us, but left to go check his blood sugar a few seconds ago.

"No," he said as he stared into the cereal he was absently stirring around.

"Come on Kit, don't chicken out on me. You know it's what has to be done."

"Oh that's not what I'm worried about, the telling them part. It's the screaming and explosions that keep popping up in my head every ten minutes that I'm terrified for."

"Isn't there some power reduction spell or something?"

"Not one that doesn't knock you out for three days, although that might be helpful after I tell them." I laughed a little, but was honestly just as scared, and I wasn't even going to be there.

"Well whenever you're done stirring my cereal Dad, I'd be happy to finish it and we can move on," Simon said as he stood at the table. Kit mumbled some sort of apology before getting up, mumbling something else about grouping everyone up, and left.

"What's up with him?" Simon asked through a mouthful of cereal.

"I think he's just anxious," I replied vaguely. I was about a third of the way through picking through another muffin when Aunt Lauren came in.

"Are you kids ready? We're waiting on you."

"Sorry," Simon and I said. He shoveled the last few spoonfuls into his mouth before hurrying towards the stairs. I walked with my aunt and offered her the rest of my muffin.

"No, I don't want your deformed pastry Chloe," she said seriously. "But what's up? You only ever destroy your food when you're nervous." I sighed.

"I'm not sure if you already know, but you will soon enough. Just do me a favor and help me keep everyone who doesn't go with Kit in the room, please?"

"Chloe…"

"Relax, I'm just helping out Kit, it's got nothing to do with me."

"Okay," she said, still sounding unsure. We walked the rest of the way to the second floor in silence.

"Happy birthday," I said sarcastically as I threw my concave muffin at Derek.

"I've already have five of these today," he said, taking a bite out of it anyway.

"Now that we're all here," Kit said. "we have some things to discuss. When we were at the Edison Group HQ, Simon and Tori got a list of all the other Genesis subjects. We've talked and decided that we're leaving in a couple days to go find these kids and let them know what they are and explain things as well as trying to get a sense if they're over powerful 'failures' like Chloe and Tori, no offense." Tori looked like she was about to say something, but a punch on the arm from me made her shut her mouth.

"There are also small Ed. Group labs that are scattered around the country, working on small side projects and such. We're going to go around and take care of those as well. And that's pretty much it. Until we get all the locations of these kids, there's really nothing to do. But actually, last night, or this morning… whatever, you guys got me thinking." He was addressing Simon, Tori, Derek, and I now. "Claire, would you care if the kids, your kids that is, came with us? I mean, there really isn't any huge reason they couldn't come. Of course we'd be in RV's the whole time, so I'm not sure if-"

"I'm going," Charlie said, standing up randomly. "Claire, I don't care if you say no, 'cause you're not my mum. I've been in this country for eight months now, and all I've seen is Ohio, which is bloody boring." (Alright, sorry for the "mum" and "bloody," but I love British words. And Ohio is not boring, but most people seem to think so, so here's the opinion of the majority.)

"Same," Casey said, also standing. "Except for the in country for eight months and Ohio being boring part and being only in Ohio. Point is, I'm going. Bye guys." She waved at James and Julie.

"Hey I didn't even say they weren't going," Claire said, turning to Kit. "You promise they won't lose anything longer than a finger?"

"Mom!" James and Julie both yelled. Charlie made a weird choking noise like he was trying to hold in some comment.

"I think that'll be safe to say," he said.

"'Then you have to take Miles too, he needs the kids to keep him occupied or he'll start breaking things. Frank and I need to stay in case someone else wants to use the house."

"Yeah, I'm sure that's the only reason," Miles said softly. James got a terrified and disgusted look on his face and punched Miles in the arm. "But yay! It'll be just like my post-graduation road trip, except without the alcohol, strip clubs, gambling, and alcohol."

"Did you only go to Vegas?" Casey asked.

"Never been, but we spent most of our time in Kentucky." (No offense to people from Kentucky, just the first place that popped into my head.)

"Please make sure it's nothing like Miles' post-graduation road trip," Claire said seriously to Kit and Aunt Lauren.

"I don't think I even want to hear any more than that," my aunt said.

"Me either," Kit agreed, standing up. "Alright, then if we're leaving, we need to prepare. Miles, I'd really appreciate it if you could work with Chloe on necromancer stuff more, give her some control. Derek, you're pretty good. Simon and Tori, how about we go get some training in now?" They both said some sort of affirmative answer and walked out. I mouthed "good luck" to Kit as he turned around.

"Whoo hoo!" Charlie yelled happily. "This is gonna be awesome! Miles, you have to teach me how to blow up cars now, I might need it." Claire gave Miles a death glare.

"I told you Charlie, those were only remote control cars stuffed with firecrackers," he said quickly, smiling nervously.

"Well then, I have to practice teleporting now," Casey said, making her way towards the stairs.

"Wait, one second," I said quickly, and everyone stared at me. "Derek, have they gone out yet?" He shook his head and head and held up a finger. Ten seconds later, he nodded. "Alright… uh… Guess I'll just say the simple version. Tori and Simon are half-siblings. They don't know but Kit's telling them around now, so I suggest you steer clear and ignore explosions."

Everyone just continued staring at me. Then Julie started laughing.

"So she had a crush on her brother?" she yelled between laughs. I looked at Derek who looked like he was about to crack up with her.

"I swear Derek if you start that creepy laugh again I will kill you!"

"But it's funny," Casey said, moving back to the couch. "To me any way, it'd be beyond awkward for them."

"Well, that's it. Disperse," I said, and most people left the room.

"Did you know about this Aunt Lauren?" I asked her.

"I'd heard rumors, but Diane was always obsessive, and I figured they were fake. And now that I know them…"

"I know, it's really weird."

"Well I should go try to find a discrete RV rental place," she said, getting off the couch.

"Have fun with that," I called after her. Turning back, I saw that Casey had apparently rethought practicing teleporting and was flipping through the recorded list.

"Please turn on something with a higher than G rating," Derek said, following the highlighted bar. "I was stuck in a house for months without even hearing 'sucks.'"

"Hey you didn't have to live in a house for your whole life that didn't allow anyone to even say- Oh my God! I completely forgot about this!" She had stopped on some show called An Idiot Abroad, and within two seconds had clicked and started and episode titled "Mexico."

"This isn't some stupid cartoon is it?" I asked.

"No! Best travel show you will ever watch! And the funniest unscripted one!"

"I looked to Julie to see if it really was, or this was just one of Casey's weird opinions.

"It might be a bit exaggerated," she said, watching the screen. "But it is seriously funny. These two British guys make their complete idiot friend go on these trips to the Seven Wonders. They told him they're making a show just about the Wonders and he's the host, but they actually just wanted to show people what an idiot he is." (Honestly guys, it's my fourth favorite show and probably the funniest thing on television. I've never heard my dad laugh so much or so creepily than when he was watching this. Go watch it and I guarantee you will at least laugh.)

"Yeah, yeah, now shush, the poked by a stick part is coming up." We watched the show for about fifteen minutes before Casey turned around. "You guys have that list? I want to see if I'm on there." Derek took it out of his pocket and handed it to her.

"You're not," he said.

"Then why is there a phone number with my old area code- never mind, that was never my number. And that's not my- Holy shit."

"What?" we all said, alarmed by her tone. She held out a finger and scanned the list more carefully, her face getting more and more grave by the second.

"Damn it just tell us!" Derek yelled, he never did like waiting.

"There are five people on here with my old area code. I was-am best friends with two of them, know two others, and have never heard of the fifth." She looked up, seriously freaked.

"Go get your dad and mine," Julie said to Derek. "We got a problem."

"Oh, we've got more than one," he said. We just stared until running footsteps sounded on the stairs, and we saw Tori race by."

Uhg, this is going to be so much more complicated than I thought.

So… You guys satisfied with how this is going? I am! So satisfied that I actually am going to keep this short and just ask for your guys' opinion. What are some nicknames that Chloe and Derek could have for each other, 'cause no couples just stick to names, but all the main ones sound really cheesy, and very un-Derek. Oh, and I also had like this whole page long thing that went on after Casey left Derek's room and before Chloe left, but I wrote it in study hall (just like I did for almost all of this chapter, and by the way, I fucking love having a study hall) and somehow that sheet got misplaced and I couldn't remember most of it so I just forgot about it since I wanted to publish this chapter now, although I really liked it. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, and please review! I'm off to watch the newest Ben 10 episode now. Bye-bye!