I AM SO SO SO SO SOSOSOOSOOSOOSOOSOOOSOSOSOSOSOOSOOSOSOSOSOSOSSOOSOSOSOOSO SORRY! OH MY GOSH! My life has been busy that's for sure, but it's no exscuse to leave all of my loyal friends! I will post more often, but I am nearing term three, so I'll do my best! Love what ya'll are doing by the way! I'm sorry if this interfers with Katydid's post, it's only been an hour after, and  it still hasn't shown up. So I'll try my best!

Madison: 

Smoke. Nothing to smell, breathe, taste, or see but smoke. It takes up every inch possible, trying to suck it all in. Panic thoughts to the exact same to my mind, take up every sensible idea and swallowing it whole. Think, think, think!

"Run!" I shout this and grab the arm nearest to me possible. I hoped that Embry and Ivory would be able to follow us, assuming it was Roselyn who I had in tow. My foot steps were almost muffled by the thick thief billowing around the hallways. It was bittersweet; the gaurds couldn't hear our footsteps, and Ivory and Embry might not be able to. I willed the odds, to let everything turn out alright. Please! Things have been so awful for us lately. We are trying our best, isn't that enough!? No, it will never be enough. Not until the world is safe! 

Echoing foot steps chase our fleeing feet, weather they were soft melodies of hope, or marches of death was still unclear. A light patch of light streamed through a gap in the swirling clouds of grey. I turrned following it, hoping there wasn't a wall or something hard. Suddenly through a breeze of fresh, I could see, and was no longer inprisioned in the darkness behind. 

Stumbling out, stuttering, coughing, and wheezing I turned to see how I had involuentarily pulled along. I stopped mid-cough. Which is hard to do.

Cammwren!

"What the heck!?" It takes us both a second to realize who said that, and what was actually going on. Something...clicked inside me. I had to calm my racing heart beat. I had to do this now, end this. Know for sure. My heart beat trippled.

I slammed him against the wall, making him dazed. Trying to hold him in place, I prepared myself for something I've been meaning to do for a long time.  

"Cammwren, I don't know why they heck you went all ominous and malevolent on us! I thought we were friends! Why this, why now!?"

"Don't you see? I 've always been EVIL, it's where I belong! I'm truly excepted there for who I am! I don't have to pose, or pretend I have friends! They've offered me more than you putrid AYA could've!" 

I slapped his visage, my cheecks hot, and my eyes buring with tears.

"You idiot! Do you know how worried we are? You really not consider us as friends? People who actually care about your well being, and like having you around? Or the fact your personality makes you unique? You really think you have 'friends' with EVIL? The people who plan to wipe out billions of people's personalalities? Or ruin their will of free thinking?! How would you like it if I did that to you?"

Though several points of my little carry-on, he had tried to speak. I wouldn't let him. I had to do this before I lost my nerve!

"Us AYA actually care about you a lot! Mason still thinks of you as a friend, though he won't admit it since you betrayed us! Don't you dare think for one moment, we don't care about you, because that's just selfish! That night when you cut the rope from the hospital, I almost convinced myself that it wasn't truly you. But now, I see that it was true. Cammwren, I just want you to know that you've affected all of us, especially me! From the moment I met you. Whenever I see you my heart can't help but skip a beat! Cammwren Davis, I've always had a crush on you! I just can't help myself! I try to ignore, knowing you could never like me the same way I like you! That's why I always looked away when you were near, and tried to avoid you! And what good did that do? So uh..." 

I was losing my momentum, I guess I had to do this...

Bringing my knee up, I hit him square in the gut. He doubled over, and that's when I  brought my lips to his.

I pulled back as fast almost as I had went in. Things were at stake here. He was puffing from the blow to the gut still, but his eyes held another emotion. Hatred? Surprise? Fear? Sadness? Forgivness? Loathing? What?! I coulnd't tell, and I probably would never be able to. The swift echo of footsteps drew closer. My time was running out.

"Look, I only did that so I wouldn't live with that regret anymore. And I don't care if you like me back, lets face it you probably don't. I'm not the prettiest girl, or one you even know. But I'm telling you I don't care, why? Because this is more than me, this is more than you. This, right now, is about sacving humanity! This is about saving the world. Now before you go off and do more stupid decisions, just think for a moment. Which side are you on? Who are you really helping? Where do you belong?" I get him in the gut again before slamming him into the ground. I sped off towards the lingering smoke, the footsteps almost upon me now. I knew he never could like me, that was okay. I was just trying my best to get him back to the good side. The right side. His side.

I should've been thinking about where Ivory, Embry, and Roselyn were. How I was going to find them. How we were going to find everyone else, how to save the world! Where to go once I entered the mist? I should've been thinking that, but all that was on my mind was:

I JUST KISSED THE BOY I LIKED! MY FIRST KISS! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

The smoke surrounds me. 

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Okay I know that was stupid. And Shadow Dragon, before you go tearing out my throat I just have to say I've been planning this for a while. BUt.... I really ship CammwrenXElisha! This was just to get things rolling again. Sorry, again, for my inactivity! Also Cockleburr, I really love what your doing, and just can't wait for our characters to interact! Waiting with baited breath! Also, GO TEAM AYA!!!! This couldn't have been possible without the all of you! Love you tons!! <3 

May~

This girl may have - literally - stabbed me in the back, or side, but I can just tell that she's sincere. The look in her eyes gives it away. But there's no time to sit idly. Katara could be hurt! We rush towards the room she's in, the smoke blinding me. But it doesn't smell like normal smoke. It smells more sickeningly sweet. Clover and I feel the walls for her door, which was more metallic than the rest. Finally, my hands feel the cool metal of the door.  I wave Clover over, and we go inside.

Sorry it's short, but it's something. Guys, Buggy and I were discussing how to make this RP better, and we realized a part that is a bit lacking. The spies part. Yeah, I know there's action, but we just need a bit more spy stuff. But other than that, keep up the good work 

Wait, does making Katara knocked out count as making a decision for her writer? I'm sorry Katy! I am really really sorry!  

Wow....Buggy that was...amazingly beautiful.

Cammwren~

l can't....l can't even start wrap my mind around it all. l try to breathe to make some sense of it all, but the smoky air chokes me, surrounding me. l slowly stagger to my feet, leaning heavily on the slick, cold wall.

l know what she said, l know what happened and yet.....l can't even begin to understand it. People, as l have known for a long time now, are strange, and no matter how hard you try, you cannot begin to even understand them a little bit.

Pathetic.

Well of course l always knew l was.  What now? They have escaped. l don't really feel quite like going after them. For a few minutes l just stand there, staring out into the smoke. All of those words that Madison had said, all of those angry emotional words. And l realized that in all of them was buried sadness. Sadness about the old days, for what was once. Were we then truly better off? All of us have changed in some way after that for the better or for the worst. l think we all need to move on. 

She said that all of them had cared about me... And she was telling the truth. l knew that. l had known that for a long  time. But did l care about them? Not terribly much. Although about the other thing.

She said that she loved me.

l can't fathom that. True, real love. l've never known any like that. EVIL never loved me, everyone at the AYA l was just sort of award friends with, l was an awkward person. But what she said, about me never being able to like her the way that she liked me? l do admit that l maybe had liked her a bit but it never was very important to me. It  never took over my thoughts. But maybe something else. Maybe she meant that l have never known much love and never could in that turn....love. It sounded true. and perhaps l know it to be true.  

Where do l really belong? l had questioned this perhaps before. but really never seriously until Madison had said it. Do l have to be on a side? Dumb  question, yes you do, Camm. You either watch the world burn......Or burn with it.  Which sounds better? l know what EVIL  can do. l know what they will do.

l force myself to take a deep breath-smoke filled breath-of air. Things must move on. It be best that no one need know of Madison's kiss and what she said to me. 

l need to move on. All of us do. Forget the past. 

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"Elisha." 

She looks up from the screen before her in surprise. 
"Where is Ivory?" 

She looks me over,tipping her head to one side. . 

"Ah, well, that's a bit.....Complex."

She raises an eyebrow. "Full report."

 "l did find them, Ivory. But not just him. He had found Madison, Roselyn and Embry. l was going to....'

What was l going to do? l had no idea.

"But then smoke, thick gray smoke billowed out of nowhere and they got away but Madison..."My voice falters. l can't think of the words. 

Elisha is already wary of something being wrong. "Yes? Go on." l can hear in her voice, she is trying not to sound angry, even though she is. 

l run a hand through my hair, looking at the floor and avoiding Elisha's eyes. Think, think. 

Nothing comes. "l....." l trail off awkwardly.  

"What. Happened?" She growls this through  her teeth, her jaw clutched, eyes raging.  "Why wouldn't you tell me? What is going on here?" 

l feel the words at my lips, but then l remember Madison's sharp words, and the feel of her lips. l can't tell this. l'm sorry Elisha. But today is the day in which l will stand up for myself. 

"l'm sorry." My voice cracks. "l wouldn't tell you." Elisha doesn't explode, she keeps all of her rage bottled up in her. l think that is what makes her the most dangerous. She has a quiet sort of white-hot rage. 

l quietly slump against the wall. My nerves are raw and l feel shaky. l feel so tired all of a sudden, as if my knees would collapse at any second. l've been through so much. But l do look up. If l am to be defeated, l will do so with my head held high. 

Our eyes meet, Elisha's  wrathful, intelligent and surprisingly confused, mine dark and incredibly deep, with so much....pain. l don't want to do this to Madison, even if we are enemies, there is still some faint bond of comradeship between us. As so l will keep quiet. 

We stare at each other for a long second, before Elisha drops her hands. She takes a deep, shuddering breath, as if she is going speak.