Here is the dress for those of you who love to see the dress. Sorry if it is blurry.

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We finally arrived at our destination after Cam had shown me pictures of the necklace a thousand times. He then told me that as soon as I had it in my hands, I was to walk outside wait for our limousine and get in. There he would make sure the necklace was real before we begin our ride back to the hotel. Cam quickly opened the door for me, I was still mad at him and not caring if I was acting like a kid was not going to talk to him. He led me into what looked like another hotel, through the lobby and into a room on the first floor where a stage was set. Thousands upon thousands of chairs were placed in a neat role in front of the stage. There were few people here telling me that he we got her pretty early. 

I looked around the room looking for the stuff that they were auctioning but seeing none, made me sure that they had it hidden behind the curtains.

 "Take seat number 47 there will be a sign upon that seat. I must go and as much as you hate it, Cole and I will be watching you. We have your back if-"

I interrupted Cam by quickly walking towards my seat. Like I said before I was not going to talk to him and quite frankly I was getting annoyed when he told me they have my back when Cole still does not trust me. But then again why would he be allowing me to buy the necklace if he did not trust me? He could have anybody buy it but why me of all people? Was he giving me a chance to prove myself or was he keeping me in his sights so that I could not go and warn those men. Why would I even warn them when they are the ones who reopened my stomach wound? I am not that stupid. I looked down at the seats, finding mine at the front. I quickly took my spot and just in time too as people begin to pour in.

It seemed like thirty minutes past before everyone was seated and the announcer a young, brown haired man in his twenties appeared on stage.

"Ladies and gentleman." The room became silent. "Let us begin with auction. This item is a rare and beautiful jewel from South Africa. It can only be found in South Africa and there is very few left. This blue diamond may not seem like much but just like the diamonds here it is strong and beautiful the only difference being its color and rarity. Let us start the bid at $500 k."  It was crazy how many of the items looked normal compared to many of the things I thought they would show. The cheapest item they sold was a diamond encrusted Bluetooth headset sold for $50 k. Soon enough the necklace was up and I raised my sign after the naming of the price that is. It seemed like a war and before I even knew it the necklace's price was up to a million. I gulped at how much of that money could be used towards everyday things such as food or even buying a house and vehicles. It was just annoying at how many rich people flaunted their money around like it was nothing when they could be doing something good for this world. Like building an orphanage in places that do not have one. It was so annoying that I was about to get a marker, right on the back of the sign, 'I'm against rich people flaunting their money' and start a mob. I mean you would be with me on this too right?

The man eventually stopped and I tired from holding my hand up for too long, lowered the sign waiting for the announcer to name the final the price. Once he had, I sighed in relief as I was allowed to sit. All buyers were to go to the back of the stage at the end of the auction and collect their items. So now I had to wait for a little bit less than two hours before I would be able to collect the necklace.

I was about to even fall asleep as my eyelids felt heavy. Finally the auction drew to a close and I tiredly went to the back of the stage to collect the necklace. Finding the sign, item 47, I quickly collected the necklace, drew the wads of cash that Cam gave me to keep in a wallet that I was to carry around with me at all time and handed it to the man behind the desk. I waited for a moment for him to count the cash before I exited the building. Everything was going as planned except for one thing we did not plan on at all.  

"Well hello." A man in a dark suit with black brushed back hair and glittering dark blue eyes blocked my path and the light behind him.

"Excuse me, sir. I really do not have time for this. I must be on my way."

"Are you sure? Were you not aware of the after party."

I frowned. I looked around at the people coming out of the building. "If there was a party then how come no one was not made aware by an announcement?" My brain was yelling at me to get away from him but there was no escape. I had a feeling that he would not let me leave easily without causing a scene that is.

"It was supposed to be announced after everyone had collected their items. To be honest it is not really a party it is more of a ruffle but there are people still partying."

"I think I will past but thank-" My head, it feels light. I can barely stand without waving or doing any motion that threatened to make me fall.

"Are you alright?" The man asked his voice and eyes were filled with worry.

Just like that I could stand again but the light headedness was still there. "I am fine but thank you." I told him before I moved around him stopping only to scan the limousines. I need to get out of here before something worse than dizziness and light headedness happens to me. Finally the limousine pulled up and I got in, saving myself from the man.

Cam quickly shut the door before he got in beside me once again.

I handed him the necklace.

He took out a small metal brief case very much like Maddie's and opened it. Unlike Maddie's, he pulled out a magnifying glass and looked at the necklace closely.

I did not pay attention to the rest of the process. The light headedness was back and I was having a hard time staying awake. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted Cam moving his mouth up and down to try and talk to me but it was like my hearing was suddenly shut off and just like that I closed my eyes for a second before everything went dark.

As soon as I woke up, I looked around at my surroundings. Quickly spotting the beautiful view and familiar furniture, I found myself letting my head fall back in the comfy pillow, sighing. Hopefully I would be left alone just enough so that I could relax in the comfortable hotel room but just as I presumed the relaxing silence was interrupted by the loud sound of a door opening close by. I turned my head towards the door way just in time to see the person; who had been acting as my doctor for the past two weeks since my previous doctor was hiding somewhere in Russia.

His arms was crossed and I knew that he was going to scold me for not taking it easy and just like that I was right. "I thought I told you to take it easy. You are lucky that your wound has not been in any way reopened. I am ordered to do one thing that is to keep you alive and well. If I can not keep you alive and well I would lose my job. Do you want that because it seems like you do."

"I am sorry. I will not do it again."

He did not look convinced. "Just in case you were wondering, you collapsed out of exhaustion. How long have you been sleeping?"

I looked down at the mound of blankets at my feet, guiltily. I had not been sleeping well since my father's death. Every time I closed my eyes, pictures of my family in the fire haunted me. So instead of sleeping for the past two weeks, I had been figuring out ways to keep me awake. A past time that even I found unfavorable.

"You have to sleep, do you know how much the lack of sleep can effect your brain? It can cause a release of cortisol which can break down skin collagen, it can impair your ability to judge, be alert, concentrate, reason and solve problems, it can put you more at risk for heart related diseases or failures, high blood pressure, stroke-"

I blanked out for the rest of the speech and I guess he noticed that because he quickly begin to get to his point.

"My point is that sleep is important and is one of the most important things needed to keep you alive so sleep when you feel like you should. If you need any medicine I can give you some."

I guess if I accepted his medicine he would end his speech so I kindly asked if he could give me some.

"Good, just remember you can always tell me any problems you have. Most patients who are sleep deprived always have some sort of problem in their life that strangely is generally social."

"I think I am good but thank you. Also would you mind not telling anyone about this. I would like as few people as possible knowing about my problem."

He nodded, "Of course. No one will know of this unless the problem escalates."

"Thank you, doc."

He smiled, gently before disappearing out the door.

I wonder why so many people are going out of their way to take care of me? Its probably due to Cole's interest in keeping me alive but why would he want to keep me alive? I have nothing for him. Either he or those men have the hard drive-. I stopped the second hard drive. Is that why he is keeping me alive so I can lead him to the second hard drive the one that I broke and is now with Makar. He even had the fore thought of training me so that I could grab it and get out, without a second's notice. He wants me alive. So that he could use my skills as a thief one last time before he threw me out like an old tool and completely ignored me, making it to a point that I was nothing in his life. He would probably even tell people that he had no idea who I am. So who was I to care? Its what I wanted all this time for him to leave me be so what was the matter? The matter being that I did not feel right with this. I had generally avoided this problem by simply not getting too involved in it but there was one big problem that made any thoughts of escaping impossible. The possibility that Cole knew information about my father. Is that really all? Your heart beating at abnormal speeds when he is around does not amount to anything? A voice in my mind made me sigh and blush. I was not going to answer that because if I did that would present another problem that I was not ready to deal with.

My mind would not fawn over such unimportant matters. I needed to focus on finding my father's killer not such thoughts. Are you running so you do not have to face the fact that you are- I stopped the voice by shutting my mind off. A trick that I had learned when I had begun physical training. Thoughts were unnecessary and could get you kill. "Allow your body to fight without thoughts and then you are certain to win." Makar had taught me. He had taken the place of my father when my father was out who knows where. First as a normal toddler, I started many martial arts but as I was moved on into my teen years, I begin to feel anger at my father for not spending a lot of time with me so when Makar had suggested training. I saw that as a way to get some of that anger out soon even up until now, I felt some sort of freedom when I fought. Freedom from feelings, freedom from family and most of all freedom from life and its problems. Fighting was a hobby of mine that I would never get up for the world. As much as I hated to admit it, for the meantime, I needed to keep myself busy and Cole had already offered me my solution. I just needed to ask him.

Author's Note

So who thinks that the solution will be? Sorry it is so short but just wanted to get into another chapter that I am excited to write. Big things are coming and hopefully Snow is ready for them. Just to warn you the CHAPTER WILL NOT BE LIKE THE OTHERS. IT WILL BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT.