AN: Not sure what to say about this chapter,actually...umm...

oh! this would take place two months after Victoria wakes up, so three months or so after the events of District 9. Sorry I didn't get this up before I went to my friends, I simply didn't have enough time.

On another note, happy New Year! (Belated a smidge, but that's fine ^^)

Enjoy.

"You're up to something...I know you are."

Fiddling a little with the bandages wrapped around her arm, Victoria looked at the stern blond woman who had taken over for Philip shortly after the incident at District 9.

"And if I am? It's still going to go through, If you don't approve it, I have someone else, higher up then you and able to overrule any decision you make ready to do it for me. Face it-you've lost. I win."

There was a hard edge to her tone, one that had developed since Cassie was transferred to MNU. She always tried to make Victoria seem as though she was faking paper work, and was a traitor who should be shot...again.

Glaring at her, Cassie scrawled a signature on the bottom of the page and threw it back at Victoria, causing it to land a few feet away from her seat.

"Mature,aren't we?" she asked, rolling her eyes as she picked it up before she walked out of the office and back to her desk.

"So...? How'd it go?" Susan asked, scooting over on her rolling chair to bump lightly against Victoria's chair.

Taking a deep breath,she turned to face her friend, breaking into a smile after a moment.

"It worked...she signed it. They can come live with me now!"

"I'm so happy for you!" Susan said, pulling the younger girl into a tight hug.

She knew how much Victoria worried about Adam and Carter with all the fighting that had erupted lately, even going so far as to think about moving away from the District...but she knew being close would be better, in case something happened. With Adam and Carter living with her, she could move out of the building like everyone else had long ago, allowing them to close it permanently.

"Mmm...I can't wait to tell them. They're going to be so happy!"

"*You did what?" Adam clicked, looking a little surprised.

"*I arranged through work for you two to live with me,permanently." Victoria replied, smiling.

Once home from work, she had immediately called Adam on the cell she got him after leaving the hospital, telling to come over with Carter because she had a surprise for them.

"*But this place is so tiny! Is there room for us?" Carter asked, looking up from his spot in Victoria's lap.

"*That's another part of the surprise...I'm moving out of the apartment now that everything's set, and into a house-plenty of room for us, and some to spare too."

"*How long have you been planning this?"

Thinking for a moment, she smiled.

"*I started planning it a month or so after I started working at MNU. Figured I might as well use connections for good."

"*...You, my dear, are brilliant."

"*Thank you,love~"

Thinking to herself later that night, she considered herself extremely lucky. Her father had wanted to move her back home after she got out of the hospital, but she had stood firm, saying she wasn't leaving her friends-or her sister-behind.

Knowing full well he couldn't fight that, he had given up, on the condition she call once a month, at minimum, and let him buy her a house so she could move out of the area, and be less at risk. She had gratefully accepted, but warned him she had to do some shuffling before she could move into the house, and that he shouldn't worry if she didn't for a few months. He agreed, not asking about the things that needed shuffling-He didn't care as long as it was done legally, and it helped make his daughter happy.