Arriving at my boss' office, I get looks from everyone I walk by. They must've heard about the other web's attacks. Some people even come up and congratulate me. I thank them and head down the hallway to the room. Left down this way, the second right from here and then two doors to the right. I open the door into the office and talk with the secretary. Yes, even at a criminal headquarter, we still have secretaries.

"I'm here to see Cici.", I tell her.

"One moment. Take a seat.", she says, nodding to the furniture before consulting her sheet and typing something on the computer. I sit down and wait. "Raven? You can go back now."

I nod and get up and walk to my boss' office. Celine Noel. She's 32, was born in France, and that's all the information I'm giving you on her. She can speak English very well, with a slight accent, but whenever her and I talk, we always like to talk in French. I take a deep breath and knock.

"It's open.", I hear. I slowly open the door and walk in. She's at her desk filing some paperwork. She doesn't notice me until I close the door, when she looks up from filing.

"Bonjour Cici. Comment ça va?", I ask. Hello Cici. How's it going? She stands up and walks around the desk to me.

"Bien. Pour ça, il est 4 heures du matin. Et vous?", she asks, looking at me, and hinting the slightest of smiles. Good. For it being 4 o'clock in the morning. And you?

"Bien, je suppose." Good, I guess. She raises her eyebrow at me.

"Vraiment? J'ai entendu parler de la visite de l'autre web et de l'attaque de votre sœur. Et le feu n'était-il pas censé être la maison de votre ami?", she asks. Really? I heard about the visit of the other web and your sister's attack. And was not the fire supposed to be your friend's house? I shake my head.

"Trois choses. Un, l'autre web n'a pas réussi à faire un argument convaincant sur la raison pour laquelle je devrais aller. C'était un plan très désorganisé. Deux, ma soeur va bien. Et elle n'est pas mon ami, mais elle va bien. Et trois, quand est-ce que je suis bien?", I reply. Three things. One, the other web failed to make a convincing argument about why I should go. It was a very disorganized plan. Two, my sister is fine. And she's not my friend, but she's fine. And three, when am I ever okay? I see sympathy in her eyes. She smiles and hugs me. She's like an older sister to me.

"Alors? Pourquoi es-tu ici?", she asks when she lets go of me. So? Why are you here?

"J'ai besoin d'aide. Nous sommes suivis et regardés. Jusqu'à présent, seulement six personnes sont impliquées, et je vais mettre un lien mental dans leur esprit, donc nous n'avons pas besoin d'utiliser des téléphones et des périphériques traçables. As-tu d'autres idées?", I ask, looking at her desk and fidgeting a little. I don't want to look her in the eye... I need help. We are followed and watched. So far, only six people are involved, and I will put a mental link in their mind, so we do not need to use phones and traceable devices. Do you have any other ideas? She smiles again.

"J'ai un couple qui peut vous aider. Vous avez déjà pris les appareils. Bien. Ensuite, pouvez-vous leur apprendre à tenir un fusil ou un couteau? Ou se battre main dans la main?", she notes. I have a couple that can help you. So you have already taken the devices. Good. Then, can you teach them to hold a gun or a knife? Or fighting hand to hand?

"Je peux les enseigner avec des armes, Jack peut les enseigner main dans la main, et Serena peut leur apprendre les moyens d'évacuer." I can teach them with weapons, Jack can teach them hand to hand, and Serena can teach them escape means. She smiles at me.

"Il y a ma fille intelligente. Je vérifierai s'il y a autre chose que je peux faire pour vous. J'espère que vous pouvez comprendre quelque chose. Si vous avez besoin de quelque chose, appelez-moi.", she says, giving me another hug. There's my smart girl. I'll check if there's anything else I can do for you. I hope you can understand something. If you need something, call me.

"Merci beaucoup, Cici.", I say. She smiles and walks back around her desk and sits down again. Thank you so much, Cici.

"De rien. À présent. Vous n'avez pas les gens à voir?" You're welcome. Now. Don't you have people to see?

"Oui. Adieu, Cici." Yes. Bye, Cici.

"Adieu Raven." Bye, Raven. She goes back to work and I leave her office with a hopeful feeling. Flying back to the warehouse, I think about how this is going to go. My guess is frustration. I start humming an old Irish lullaby my mom used to sing.

When I walk through the door, I see Serena typing on her computer, I see Jack making coffee, and I see Luna, Angelina, and Cole reading. I walk over to Jack and hug him from behind.

"Je t'aime.", I say. I love you. He turns around and hugs me back.

"You too.", he whispers. "So? Success?"

I nod and he chuckles and hugs me tightly. Serena comes over when Jack puts me down and she hugs me and laughs in relief.

"Where are the electronics?", I ask, after letting go of Serena. Jack nods to the table.

"GPS is turned off on all of them and I also turned off location and shut them down.", he says. I nod.

"Good.", I say, before lowering my voice. "She suggested that we teach them defense. I can train them with weapons, Jack, you can do hand to hand, and Serena, teach them escape methods."

"Yeah. They're just reading right now." Serena gestures to them, where they've fallen asleep. "Or they fell asleep. And it is 5 A.M. and I've only gotten 2 hours of sleep, so can it wait?", she asks.

"Even with all the coffee I made?", Jack jokes. She nods.

"Caffeine crash.", she says, yawning. "Can't do crime without a right mind." We laugh at that.

"Go to sleep then.", I say. Jack looks at me. "I'm kind of awake right now..."

"We know.", Jack groans, causing Serena to giggle. "You're like the living definition of night owl."

"Yeah, Raven, we can't all be on five hour energy 24/7.", Serena chimes in. I give her a look, but can't help but laugh when she hits me playfully. Jack grins and jumps between us.

"Ladies, ladies, you're both pretty. Well...", he says. Serena hits him just for that. He's about to retaliate, but I stop him.

"I know I'm fabulous, but you two don't need to fight over me. There's definitely enough of me to go around.", I smirk.

"Oh shut up.", Serena giggles. I raise an eyebrow at her and go with the cliche.

"Make me." She does, if you're picking up what I'm putting down... Jack just stands there and watches with an amused look on his face.

"Do you two want to be alone for a minute?", he asks. Neither of us shifts our attention, but Serena flips him off, and he smirks and walks away. She and I eventually do need to pull apart and breathe, but who said that has to stop us from diving right back in? I wrap one arm around her shoulders and tangle my other hand in her hair, pulling her closer and she wraps both of her arms around my waist. We keep kissing, borderline making out for a couple of minutes before I hear Jack clear his throat.

"Oh my God you people have the worst timing around here.", I say, pulling away from Serena to look at him. I see Luna standing at the sink, looking like a deer in headlights, watching us. She shakes her head.

"I came over here to get some water.", she complains. "And what do I find? My sister making out with her best friend." Serena giggles and I turn to her, grinning and letting my arms drop from around her neck.

"Shut up and drink your water.", I tell Luna quickly. Jack is silently dying of laughter in the background. I shoot him an amused look. She gets her water and walks away, muttering something about needing to bleach her eyes and being scarred for life. Jack is too far gone at that point to say anything coherent, so me and Serena watch him get all the giggles out of his system. She and I share a look and she pretends to check a watch.

"Are you done yet?", she asks. Jack takes a second to recompose himself before taking a deep breath and nodding.

"Yeah, yeah... I'm good now."

"You sure? You still seem a little... out of it...", I note. He grins. Serena facepalms.

"And here we are, supposed to be threatening, intimidating criminals.", she says. I grin a little at that.

"Well who said we couldn't have a little fun every once in awhile?"

"As fun as this is, I'm going to look forward to when all this is done.", Jack says.

"Congratulations. You just successfully ruined the moment.", Serena says, rolling her eyes and pushing him gently.

"Excuse me, you're the one who just made everyone else third, fourth, fifth, and sixth wheels.", he retorts. She tries to glare at him, but can't keep a smile off her face.

"That's what I'm here for.", she smirks.

"Oooooh, shots have been fired...", I say quietly, grinning.

"Oh hush.", he says. I raise my eyebrows and put on some sass.

"Unless you want to be dragged into a repeat of moments ago, do not challenge me.", I say. He puts up his hands in defeat.

" Fine. Although I really wouldn't mind...", he says. I smirk.

"Stop it...", Serena says, seeing the looks on our faces.

"Didn't you say you were tired?", I ask. She nods.

"Got too caught up in whatever the hell just happened.", she says. I nod.

"You two go to sleep. I am very awake right now, so I'm going to stay up. And remember the plan.", I say. Jack leads Serena to where me and him sleep and helps her lay down. I watch her curl on her side as Jack lays down next to her and pulls her close to his chest, and she buries her face into his neck. I smile to myself. That's the Serena and Jack I know.

I needed time to think, that's why I stayed up. What do I do when I need to think? I read. I climb up the ladder and grab a book of French fairy and folk tales. I sit on the walkway where I can see all of the sleeping and dangle my feet over the edge and get lost in the stories.

When I check the time next, it's about 10 A.M. and a Saturday. I look down from the walkway. No one is up yet. Serena and Jack are cuddled together sleeping. Luna is curled in her chair. Angelina and Cole are sprawled on the couch, her head in his lap. Well, I think they've spent enough time here. I jump off the walkway and fly down to wake up Angelina, Cole and Luna.

"What're you...", Cole asks sleepily. I shush him and cast a mental link into their minds.

"This isn't traceable. Easier than devices, and only the 6 of us can use it.", I say. "You can leave whenever. Just make sure to be on the watch."

Luna stands up and stretches. Angelina and Cole untangle themselves before all 3 of them leave. I'm actually a little tired... I didn't wake up Serena and Jack, because I know we were up later than Angelina, Cole, and Luna. I walk over to them and flop down between them. Jack grumbles and opens his eyes a little. They're both still half asleep.

"Hey...", he whines softly.

"Hush. It's sleep time.", I say, folding between them and giving him a kiss. Serena stirs a little, so I roll over to face her and Jack wraps his arms around my waist.

"Hi...", she whispers sleepily. I smile, kiss her forehead and pull her closer so all 3 of us are cuddled together. I wave my hand and the warehouse gets dark like nighttime again, so we can fall asleep.

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By the time we wake up, it's 4 in the afternoon, so I wave my hand and some bowls of noodles appear.

"Who's hungry?", I ask, floating bowls over to Serena and Jack, while I mix drinks. I like to experiment, so this drink is lemon lime soda mixed with apple juice. Tastes pretty good. I give one to Serena and another to Jack.

"Not poisoned, is it?", Jack says with a grin. I shake my head. "I'm just teasing."

"That's actually pretty good.", Serena says. Jack takes a sip and nods.

"I like that.", he says. We eat with common chatter for the rest of the time before I get up.

"I'm going to talk a walk."

"Have fun.", Jack calls. I step outside and carefully cover my tracks before starting off on my walk.

I end up going through the abandoned town in the woods, and come to the old millhouse. I smirk and walk inside, coming to stand over the body. I kneel down next to it.

"Hey Max. Long time, no see. I wonder why... Oh yeah, because I killed you for attacking my sister. Now you know not to mess with the people close to me.", I say, before standing up and poking his body with my foot. I feel a spark of creativity, so I add some flesh back to his bones and sew on his limbs and sew his mouth and eyes shut. Hm... He looks like a little doll.

I wave my hand and he becomes a puppet. I make him do some poses just for the fun of it. Every little girl's dream... I stop playing with him and drop his body on the ground and leave him there. I wonder if anyone else will ever find him...

I decide to head home after that, except I walk out on the main street. I get lost in thought, focusing on the ground for a couple minutes before I hear a loud bang. And another, and another, before I feel white hot pain course through my shoulder, rib cage and arm, causing me to double over and try to hold back a scream, which fails. I'm pretty sure the entire block heard me, and I ignore people who try to help. I look down and see red dripping everywhere. I have been shot... yet again... I think something fatal got hit... Yep, the lower part of my left lung got hit. Joyful, now I'm coughing up blood. I open my wings and fly to the warehouse.

As soon as I land in the warehouse, I find that I can't stand, so I collapse onto my knees. Ow... I think something punctured something else. I can see the outlines of Serena and Jack run over to me. I must be crying, my vision is all blurred. Jack kneels down elevates my head by putting it in his lap. I try to say something to them, but a heavy coughing fit interrupts, getting blood everywhere.

"Sh... Sh... It's ok, you're going to be ok...", Serena says, kneeling in front of me and stroking my forehead. We all know I'm going to die within the next couple of minutes, but they're trying to make me as comfortable as possible. "Relax. It's going to be ok."

Jack leans down and presses a kiss to my forehead and Serena grabs my hand. I look up and smile at them.

"I'll be right back...", I say faintly, before fading into darkness.

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I wake up to pain, not a lot, but enough to make me not want to move.

"She's awake!", I hear. Jack... I feel hands lift me to a sitting position, leaning me against the arm of the couch. Ok, so I got moved here... Serena runs over with some pain killers and water.

"How are you feeling? It's about 7 pm.", she says, handing me the pill and water.

"Pain. Not too bad, but pain.", I say. She nods and sits back on her heels. Jack is zoned out so I snap him out of it. "Anything?"

"Nope. I've been thinking about reasons why this is happening, but I haven't gotten anywhere", he says. Sigh. I move to get up, but pain flashes through me, and Serena gently pushes me back down.

"Don't.", she says. I forgot painkillers take 20 minutes to kick in... Jack and Serena sit next to me on the floor.

"Before I left, you said 'Have fun.' Does getting shot and dying count as having fun?", I ask. Jack shrugs.

"I mean, depending on how you look at it, I guess.", he answers.

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I really want guacamole and lemon drops... The hell, brain? Serena and Jack are still awake.

"Hey Serena. Can you make guacamole? We have the ingredients and chips, I think.", I say. She nods. Jack gets up too.

"I'll help.", he says. I love the guacamole they make, it has red onion in it, and it makes it perfect. Once they make it, I snap my fingers and make two plates of their favorite Mexican food and give it to them. I then make a giant bag of lemon drops appear and dip one in the guacamole and eat it. Hm... Maybe not the best combo, but you know what? Screw it.

I look at them and they're watching me with raised eyebrows. I eat another one.

"Don't judge me. My palette got erased. I need to find what I like and yep, this is not one of them", I say putting the bag of candy on the ground and grabbing a handful of chips instead. I end up making a plate of Mexican for myself and we talk about anything and everything except for what's going on. Sometimes it's good to forget for a little while. 

Bonjour, Izzi here. So I was thinking of making a book of oneshots with events from Raven's life, starting with the Salem Witch Trials and working up to the present. If you have historical events beyond the Salem Witch Trials that you want to have me write her into, please tell me.

Adieu, mon amis.