The Aurora Borealis filled the night sky, a kaleidoscope of colors swirled around her, she felt as if she were in a beautiful dream. She shivered against the chill of the night, and wrapped her pink sweatshirt around her shoulders, she looked up at the night sky again, as brilliant colors appeared around her, it was like she was part of the show.
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Kassy smiled at the memory, she was currently standing on the fire escape, outside the Archive, Kay had decided to let her stay with Cameron and Jonathan. She was looking down at the city, watching it spring to life, listening to the hum of city traffic going by, watching the crowds of people going to and fro, she could so easily slip into one of those crowds, and disappear, she had done it so many times before.
"It's a game," her father had told her.
"Hey, what are you doing out here?" Cameron asked, as he and Jonathan climbed out on to the fire escape to join her.
Kassy let out a deep sigh, "Just thinking," she told them, smiling to herself.
The warm spring breeze blew through her long brown hair, and somewhere in the distance, she heard a car alarm blaring.
"I remember the first jewel heist my father ever let me help him with, I was so excited, because I had been practicing," Kassy told them, she smiled as the memory came flooding back to her, "The heist was in Reykjavik, and my father came up with the plan, he called it, hiding in plain sight, after he stole the beautiful Ice Diamond, he would give it to me, and I was supposed to disappear into the sea of people, and meet him at the hotel later, it was all a grand Deception."
"So, while you disappeared into the crowd, along with the Ice Diamond, the police believed your father still had the diamond," Cameron concluded, and he couldn't help but smile a little to himself, it seemed that disappearing acts ran in his family.
"Kassy," Jonathan began, coming up and leaning against the railing, "Last year, when the heist went so wrong, and William disappeared, why didn't you disappear too, slip into one of those crowds," he asked, gesturing to the now crowded New York City streets below.
Kassy looked at Jonathan for a moment, before, again looking out over the city, "Well, I guess, I didn't want to be the girl who disappeared into the crowd anymore, sure it was fun growing up, traveling to these beautiful places, but my father and I never stayed anywhere for very long, so when we came back here last year, and everything went wrong, and my father disappeared, yeah, I could have disappeared too, but... well... hey, if I had, I never would have met you guys, and found out that I have a family...so, even though things are bad right now, it feels good to be seen again, not be hiding in plain sight anymore," Kassy said, looking up at Jonathan.
Jonathan could understand a little of what Kassy meant, she had been living the life her father had chosen for her for so long, and in the beginning, it had been fun, playing this game, but now she wanted her own life. It wasn't exactly the same as how he had grown up, pretending to be Cameron, always living in the shadows of life, but he understood wanting your own life.
"Hiding in plain sight," Kassy said to herself. She walked back over to the window, and climbed inside.
Jonathan and Cameron exchanged a look, before following her back through the window.
"Kassy, what is it," Cameron asked.
But Kassy wasn't listening, she was looking very intently at the picture of the empty display case from the museum.
"Kassy, where did you get that picture," Jonathan asked, coming up behind her.
"Well, let's just say, I "borrowed" it from Kay," Kassy said, without looking up, she was searching the picture for something, "Yes," she exclaimed, "I know why the FBI hasn't been able to find the Himalayan Pink Diamond, it's because it never left the museum."