Hey all. Here's another installment. Hope you're all still with me. I should be updating Broken Wings this weekend.

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Kadence

Disclaimer: Camp Rock and its characters are the property of the Disney Channel. I own nothing…I merely borrow for my amusement, as well as yours.

Chapter 13

"Okay, you need to eat with these," Jason said, handing Mackenzie two pain pills. "What do you want for lunch?"

"Jason, you don't have to wait on me. I can find something for lunch myself," Mackenzie replied.

"I'm not doing it because I have to…I want to," Jason replied. "You've been through hell and I want to take care of you. Now you sit and I'll make us lunch."

Mackenzie just shook her head as Jason kissed her cheek and started pulling out ingredients from the refrigerator, to make sandwiches.

**********

A short time later, Mackenzie had fallen asleep, so Jason pulled a blanket over her, kissed her forehead and left her sleeping on the couch while he went to speak to his father and his uncle.

"Dad, since camp ended so abruptly, we've got nothing specific on the calendar," Jason said. "I want us to be able to take advantage of that free time, since we so rarely get any, but I'm nervous about Mackenzie's picture getting plastered all over a bunch of gossip sites. I don't want Mackenzie to feel like a prisoner here. Before camp, she spent months in some hotel room, having no contact with anyone other than lawyers and agents. But we're surrounded by paparazzi the minute we leave the house. How can we protect her?"

"Agent Schiff said she's safer right now if the Carmine family things she's dead," Brown replied. "I know you don't want her to be a prisoner, Jason, but right now she's safer if she doesn't go out."

"Your uncle is right," Paul said. "We were lucky to get her here unnoticed, when she really should be hidden away in a government safehouse. Photographers constantly follow you boys when you're out. The minute there's a picture of her, the danger she's in multiplies."

"Your father and uncle are both correct," Agent Schiff said. "Mackenzie's not going to like this any more than you do, Jason, but I'm sorry. The same rules that applied when she was at the safehouse during the trial apply here. No phone calls and no leaving the premises."

"How many agents will be here?" Paul asked.

"Not many," Agent Schiff replied. "There will be several plainclothes agents on the property, but I've spoken with your Head of Security, Bob Feggans, and I am confident that he and his team will provide adequate additional protection. Your boys have substantial security measures for them that won't look out of the ordinary. We don't want attention drawn to increased security. Any speculation that Mackenzie's alive works against us."

"Agent Schiff, what happens to Mackenzie when all this is over?" Jason asked.

"Whatever she wants," Agent Schiff said. "She's free to go back to New York and rejoin the dance company. I'm sure they're anxious to see her return."

"Oh," Jason said.

**********

A little while later, Mackenzie woke up on the couch and wandered around the Grey house looking for Jason.

"Oh, hi Mrs. Grey," Mackenzie said, when she found the boys' mother in the kitchen preparing dinner.

"Sweetheart please, call me Denise," she said. "How are you feeling?"

"Better. I think those pain pills kicked in right before I fell asleep and it should be a few more hours before I need another dose," Mackenzie said. "Can I help you with anything?"

"I'm fine sweetheart," Denise said. "I'm sure Jason would like to see you. I think I saw him go up to his room."

"Thanks," Mackenzie said, taking a bottle of water of the refrigerator before walking towards the stairs to the second floor, where the bedrooms were.

**********

"Jason?" Mackenzie said, knocking on his door.

"Hey Mac," Shane said. "How was your nap?"

"Good, thanks," Mackenzie replied. "Is he in there?"

"I think so," Shane said. "Go ahead in. He might have just fallen asleep."

"Thanks," Mackenzie said, opening the door to Jason's room. "Jason?"

"Yeah," he said, his voice muffled with his face in his pillow.

"I was knocking. Didn't you hear me?" Mackenzie said, walking towards his bed.

"Guess not," Jason said.

"Hey," Mackenzie said. "What's with you? You were definitely not in a mood like this before I fell asleep."

"You're going back to New York when this is all over, aren't you?" Jason said, his voice broken.

"Oh, Jason, is that what this is about?" Mackenzie said, sitting on the bed next to him.

"I just…I don't want to lose you," Jason said, sitting up to face her.

"Hey," Mackenzie said, her hand touching his cheek. "I am here for the foreseeable future. I haven't thought about what I'm going to do when I'm released from protective custody. I haven't wanted to. But I do know that I can't just go back to the way things were. And I promise you, whatever happens, you won't lose me."

"I love you Kenz," Jason said, kissing her softly.

"I love you too," Mackenzie replied.

**********

"Mackenzie, I need to talk to you about something," Jason said.

They were sitting in the game room, watching Shane and Tommy play Halo, while Nate waited for his turn.

Mitchie and Caitlyn had been called into the label's office to discuss a Mitchie's upcoming album.

"What's wrong Jason?" Mackenzie asked.

"I spoke to my dad, Uncle Brown and Agent Schiff earlier, and they all feel that you will be safer if you don't leave the house," Jason said, not happy about having to tell her that.

"I knew that was coming," Mackenzie said.

"I'm sorry," Jason said.

"It's okay," Mackenzie said. "None of this is your fault, and I'm glad I'm here with you instead of by myself in some safe house."

"I'm glad you're here with me too," Jason said, leaning down to kiss her.

"Gross," Tommy said. "Nate, Jason's kissing that girl."

"Tommy, that's not nice," Nate said, seeing that Mackenzie's cheeks blushed a deep red as she buried her head in Jason's chest.

"Tommy, that's Jason's girlfriend," Shane said.

"What's wrong with her arm?" Tommy said.

"She hurt her shoulder," Jason said. "But she'll be fine."

"Tommy, my name's Mackenzie," she said, offering her hand to Tommy.

"Hi," Tommy said, shaking Mackenzie's hand. "So you're Jason's girlfriend? Did you meet him at the Disney Camp?"

"Yes, I was the dance instructor there," Mackenzie said.

"So you know Nate and Shane's girlfriends?" Tommy asked. "Are you nice, like them? The last two weren't as nice."

"Tommy!" Nate and Shane said.

"Who is he talking about?" Mackenzie whispered to Jason.

"Hannah and Taylor. They always ignored Tommy because he's a little kid," Jason replied. "And they were crazy after the breakups."

"Well, I'm definitely not crazy, and I've always wanted a little brother," Mackenzie said. "So Tommy, would you like to teach me how to play that game you're playing?"

"Sure," Tommy said, excitedly.

"Thank you," Jason said, kissing Mackenzie's cheek.

"I love you," Mackenzie said. "And by extension, I love your family."