Nathaniel:

The building is where my father used to work before he died. Ames walks with me to a private room. There is celebrations going on everywhere, I am feeling like I am missing something.

"Ames." I walked with my brother into the room. "I need you to tell me the truth about everything."

"I have." Ames states, locking the door.

"No you haven't. Everyone has told me something different and somebody is lying."

"Can I just tell you why I called you down here. The voting ended last night and I don't think you know what is going on."

"Fine." I sigh. "Why did you call me here?"

"I know this is a lot to ask." Ames states. "But I can not be everywhere-at everything doing everything at once, I am in need of some assistance."

"For what?"

My brother sighed. "The people have chosen me to lead. I won the vote. Luke's rein is over. I have been trying to do my best in the few hours I have had, but I can not do it all on my own. So what do you say? Will you lead with me?"

"Assistance or secretary?" I ask.

"I want you to be my Lieutenant."

"Of course." I state, full confidence.

"By the way, thanks for that video and the flyers and buttons. It won my votes."

"Anytime." I smile

"Let's go."

We walk out down the hallway, lined with paintings of each of my brothers and sisters. I can see Luke's eyes staring down at me as I pass him, like a psychopath. I then see Azun shoved into the corner, my father never liked him. Azun's eyes are gentle and kind, he encourages me, believes in me. Yet, it has been months and he isn't here.

We walk outside, the light hits me before the hundreds of news reporters that are flooding the sidewalks. Ames pushes through all them, staying silent to their pleading questions. I try to keep up until someone pulls at my sleeve, throws his hand over my mouth and takes me from the crowd into a empty alley.

Summer is over. The bright colors are done and now we must prepare for the harsh winter. The storm is coming and let me say that when someone succeeds, everyone else must tear them down. Like nature, rebuilding and destroying itself with each new season. Everybody wants to rule Malison. Nobody is safe anymore.

"Martha Stuart." I curse, looking up to see my brother Dustan, his eyes filled with fear and tears. "Dustan, what are you doing? I can't talk now!"

"Nate." Dustan speaks. "You are just so helpless, so innocent." He touches my face, I slap away his hands.

"Ames asked me to be his second." I tell him. "I got to go!"

Dustan grabs my arm, stopping me. "Nate, I am powerless against Luke. You don't know what Ames and I did, but it is bad and if Luke ever find out that we-"

"I have to go lead."

"Look around, you are blind to what truly happened. I promise so wouldn't scratch the wall, but it needs to fall down. It will come down on its own and I don't want you to think I kept a secret from you, especially about-"

"I got to go!" I try and break my arm from his grasps.

"Nate! Take a look!" He shoves a newspaper clipping into my hand. I don't take a glance, I just shove it into my pocket. "Fire and Earth!"

Each word hits my head in a bang, sending me that spitting image of that barn again.

"They told me to lead, that what I got to do!" I kick at his feet.

"Look around at this place, something is not right! Can't you see it! Time has passed without you! Don't you understand that he isn't coming back because-"

"I promise to do my best to lead." I beg. "I won't be like Luke. I will not be a villain!"

Dustan drops my arm. He knows something I don't about this newspaper clipping, but I don't have any time to read it.

Between all the fighting and working I am doing I barely have time to sleep. Dustan's eyes are filled with sadness and a lost of faith with me.

"You won't stop." He cries as I walk away. "You won't ever be satisfied with what you got, even after it is all gone."

"Dustan." I walk away. "There is no need to worry."

"Think of Azun!" Dustan stoped me. "He isn't here. Don't you think that if he was he would come running to you."

"Azun abandoned me." I argued. "And I feel like you are doing the same. You keep secrets from me, I just want to know he truth, but now I don't even know what is true. There is no more rebels. There is only Ames and I will help him lead."

"Please don't end like this did last time!" Dustan screamed at me as I ran down the sidewalk. "I don't want to see you dead too!"