Quinn whipped her head around, growling, her lips pulling back over her teeth in a snarl. Mark wrapped an arm protectively around her waist and she grabbed his arm, keeping him to her. "Come." Caim's voice ran clearly over the alarm. "It's just a drill, don't worry." He walked past the pair and Quinn's eyes skeptically followed him. "Come," he repeated. Mark grabbed Quinn's hand and pulled her with him as he followed after Caim, who led them down to a basement neither newbie knew was there.

They followed him into a large room where it seemed all the students were gathered. Quinn squeezed Mark's hand, who squeezed back, and she looked over the entire room. It was a giant silver dome with what looked like a control center at the other end. There seemed to be several lines running through the walls and Quinn narrowed her eyes. "Alright everyone!" A man's voice boomed through the room and Quinn snapped her attention to the muscled man that was parting through the crowd of students.

"Hope you're all ready for a surprise training session!" Some kids groaned while Quinn perked up. Caim, who was standing in front of her, turned his head and gave her a small smile before looking back at the man. "So suit up and get outside!" The group dispersed and Caim and Jake came up to Mark and Quinn. Mark ran a hand over Quinn's and she let go. "You look really freaked out," Jake told Quinn. "Are you alright?" Quinn nodded and crossed her arms tightly over her chest. She glanced at Caim, who had dark circles under his eyes and his skin was paler than yesterday, if that was possible, and his hair was extremely disheveled. He looked like he was suffering from a bad hangover. "Are you alright?" she asked, addressing him.

He looked her dead in the eye, something she hadn't expected, and his chocolate eyes were tired. He nodded once, the movement slow, and Quinn automatically knew he was lying. "Hey! You three! GET MOVING!" Quinn turned to see the man striding towards them. "Ink, we need to talk for a sec after practice." Caim nodded and Quinn realized that Ink must be his code name. The man stopped and looked Quinn and Mark over. "Ah, the newbies Chuck told me about. Alright. Well, since we don't have suits for you yet, put on something you can fight in and the four of your get outside." On that note he turned and left.

"Who's that?" Mark asked as they followed Jake and Caim out of the silver room.

"That's Logan, but everyone calls him Wolverine. He has claws that shoot out from between his fingers." He rested three fingers on the spots where he was talking about. "He's a little rough but he can be pretty cool. You don't want to get on his bad side. He pops in and out of the mansion, he doesn't stick around too much, but when he's here he does a lot of training exercises with us. Like now. Oh, just saying, about the siren, you don't have to worry. Everyone knew it was a drill, well everyone 'cept you two of course, but we all knew it was a drill 'cause if it wasn't then we would have heard the fighting before the siren. We're our own defense system." He looked over his shoulder and beamed. "So now we gotta suit up and get outside. I wonder what we're doing today." He turned to Caim. "And I wonder what he wants to talk to you about?" Caim shrugged like he couldn't care less and ran a hand through his wild hair.

"Well anyway it's pretty cool that he wants to talk to you." Caim nodded and stuck his hands in his pockets before picking up his pace and quickly disappearing upstairs. Mark looked over at Jake, who caught his gaze and held it for a moment. Quinn felt like a mutual understanding about something was passing between the two of them and for that brief minute she felt completely out of it. "Well I'll see you two outside," Jake cheered, waving. "Meet out by the pool." Then he too disappeared up the stairs. Quinn started to the kitchen, intending to take the back door out to the pool. "You going dressed like that?" Mark asked.

Quinn looked over at him. "Yeah, why would I change? I'm good in this."

"A jacket?"

"I have my sweater." Mark raised an eyebrow but then shrugged. "Alright. Just saying."

"You're always 'just saying' something."

"And you always ignore me." Quinn smiled. "Don't we make the perfect team?"

AN: Whoo hoo! Finally got this stinkin' chapter up... So the next chapter will be a training session! Which is going to be A LOT of fun to write XD I can't wait to do it... Then our little group gets to go shopping and we will (maybe...) get to meet a friend! Maybe. I haven't decided... I might just have him show up but not actually tell you guys who he is. No. I don't think so. He'll show up but then you won't find out his true identity until later.

Am I teasing you guys?
Yes?
Yay ^^

Anyway, thanks a lot for reading! Reviews are always awesome... Love you all! Hope your week has been going well :)