"Just because you're guardians are here doesn't give you; a petulant little kid, charge." Caleb glared at the small red-head.

"Well my guardians and I beg to differ." Will said, emphasising on the word 'guardians'. Taranee yawned, the pair of leaders had been fighting for the entire week. The two just couldn't seem to get along.

"Face it, I am far more prepared as a leader. And we cannot lead a war while the two of us are fighting. Truce?" Taranee sighed, finally this guy was making amense. Then she could leave the two of them to make plans and she'd join the three other guardians, along with Aldarn and Vathek, in the room just up the basement stairs to enjoy light conversation and snacks.

"More prepared?" Will's words cut through Taranee's dream with their tone of aback, then the next shout even catching attention of the five next door, "MORE PREPARED! WHAT, JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A STUPID MAP AND SOME PINS THAT MAKES YOU MORE PREPARED!" Will challenged him.

"Well, I was actually refering more to my experience and knowledge, but battle plans do have an effect on-" At that Will turned the table beside her with a single hand, sending the map of meridian and hundreds of wall pins flying.

"What the hell was that for!" Taranee and the five others had frozen as a reaction to the crash.

Will simply took a step forward raising her head high to face her opponent, in turn Caleb mirroring her; arching his back slightly so that his forhead rested against hers. "I said, 'What the hell was that for?'." Caleb slowly uttered the words, making them clear and loud.

"I'm sorry," She spoke softly, though her face remained quite hard, "I guess as I petulant child I couldn't control my anger."

Taranee relaxed slightly and took a gulp of her soda through the straw.

Caleb had pushed his forhead against Will's. For a long painful couple of seconds the tension remained thick as the pair glared at each other, before the two joined in iusion; Caleb pushing Will into the wall as they engaged in a very passionate -almost violently so- lip lock.

Taranee choked on her soda. And her straw. She tumbled off her perch on a small stool near the only exit, then crashed through the door and up the stairs, surprising and instantly gaining the entire room's attention.

"Uh-oh." Cornelia said as they all stood up, "She didn't bite him did she."

"I- don't- think- he'd- mind." Taranee stuttered in a rasp voice, still recovering from her choking.

The group exchanged confused glances as Taranee gave up on speaking and simply pointed at the door, coughing slightly and doubled over.

"OH MY GOD." Cornelia stood rigid in the doorway. Vathek peered over her looking confused and Aldarn slipped in, an impressed, boyish grin spreading across his face.

Hay Lin was next to poke her head under Cornelia's arm -she was now gripping the wooden doorframe for support - and her eye's bulged.

Irma, peeking round over Cornelia's left shoulder was the last to react, "Well that's new."

The pair - still engaging in continuos hungry kisses- had made their way along the wall and Will was now perched on the edge Caleb's high-cot (like a bunk with no bottom bed), with Caleb standing in front of her so that Will now had to arch down toward him for their lips to remain unseperated.

"The guardian leader; score!" Aldarn said to Caleb, who clearly wasn't listening, only to receive glares from the four guardians (Taranee had recovered and join the group at the doorway), and a worried glance from Vathek.

"Haven't they even noticed us!" Hay Lin asked, looking back at the pair who were still at it in the corner.

"Doubt it, otherwise they might've stopped eating each other's faces by now." Irma said, grinning.

"This can't be a good thing." Vathek muttered, shaking his head, unheard over the others' talk.

Suddenly all comments ceased as the groups attention was caught by a small cry in the other side of the room, "What was that for!" Caleb shreiked, his hand gently touching his mouth.

"I didn't-" Will started to retort, but was stopped as she started fidgeting. It was an odd movement, as though she was having somesort of spasm throughout her upper body.

"Will?" Caleb jumped when he saw Hay Lin approaching tentatively, but quickly focused back on the jerking redhead.

"I-'m-n-not-d-d-doing-ng-this." Will grabbed on to Caleb as if for dear life, leaving him to fearfully look into her pleading eyes, "Pl-ease h-ngh!" Will doubled over, squeezing her eyes tight together, forcing out tears. Caleb stuttered, stepping back and falling over - clearly in shock.

Then it stopped. Will inhaled loudly - Caleb hadn't realised that she couldn't breath before - and slid down one of the bedframe's posts until she sat sprawled across the floor.

"What, was that?" Hay Lin asked worriedly.

"Hey, maybe she's allergic to Caleb." Irma joked, but Will only looked at her, too confused to be embarrassed.

"Shut up Irma, that's the stupidest thing I've heard all day, I-"

Taranee was interrupted by the now standing Caleb hitting his head slightly against the wall. "What? You don't believe her!"

"Jeeze Will, you know about me. What I was. You react around dark magic Will. This could easily be Candracar-Defense system kicking in."

"What you what now?" Irma questioned and Taranee raised an eyebrow. "What were you?"

Will knew Caleb didn't enjoy reminising his dark past, and wondered how he'd let himself blurt that out. He hadn't even told Will. It was Aldarn who had told her that Caleb was a murmerer-gone-human and she was sure Caleb hadn't been aware of this conversation. Was she meant to have told the others? Apparently, as Caleb looked at her as the girls interogated him.

"You didn't tell them?" Will shook her head slightly, feeling all seven sets of eyes on her. Caleb's, with their intenseness, she could swear, were looking right into her soul, "Thank you." He spoke clearly, wanting her to know that he meant it, and she gave him a flicker of a smile.

"Not my secret to tell. I didn't even know you were aware of Aldarn telling me."

"HELLO!" Irma waved her arms in large circles to gain the attention of the others, "Aldarn telling you what?"

Caleb looked at the floor, "This doesn't concern you." Will said absent-mindedly, her focus on Caleb.

"BUT!"

Will's soft gaze hardend as she turned to look at Irma, "Irma. This does not concern you." Surprised, Irma shrank back to her leader's subtle outburst.

"I just, uh, thought you oughta' know, you know?" Caleb, usually bold and confident, spoke sheepishly.

"Yeah." Will looked down at her feet, before realisation finally hit, "Were we KISSING!" Her head shot up, a cross between disgust and confusion on her face.

"Well done. You nearly killed Taranee with that surprise." Irma rolled her eyes. Cornelia, who's knuckles had become very white during this ordeal, looked very ill, glaring at her supposed friend and leader.

"Uh.." Caleb's face became almost blank, he forced himself not to look at Will, "I have to go.." he began to push past them when Hay Lin's father began to shout what would be soon realised as a certain catastrophic sentence.

"Hay Lin, a boy is here, I've sent him down to the basement!" Hay Lin's eyes sparkled as Eric entered her mind.

"Okay! We're all down here anyway!" Caleb, who had paused at the shout, continued for the door, but when he reached for the handle the door opened revealing a large pile of boxes being carried by - Caleb grimaced as he looked down at a pair of baggy white trousers and black shoes.

"You're dad asked me to take this down?" Matt peered around the box to the others.

"Now, this, gets, INTERESTING!" Irma comentated as if for a wrestling match.

"What?" Matt noticed Caleb looking dumb foundedly back at him - not a common look for the distant mono-feeling'd rebel leader. "What did I do?"

"Oh god!" Will sighed, her hand covering her eyes and massaging her temples. She began to pace back and forth along the back wall.

Hay Lin, a little disapointed to see Matt instead of Eric, did not quite grasp the reason for tension, and replied, "We were just discussing whether it was plausable for Will to be like allergic to Caleb or something, because when he and she ki-mmphh!" Taranee had leapt up from behind and covered Hay Lin's mouth with her hand.

"When they.. what?" Matt put the boxes down on the floor next to the door and turned back towards the group.

"Ki-" Taranee usually thought fast, but the words weren't coming to her.

"-cked" Irma cut in, "They were training and both kicked at the same time and WHAM-" Irma said a little too quickly, punching one hand into the other's palm, "-he get's electric shocked, and she starts sizzling like a bad fuse!" Matt scratched his head as the girls gave unconvince grins, Vathek looked just as blank as Matt- surprised by the fast talking, Will continued to pace, Aldarn looked with concern to Caleb and Caleb turned to look at Will.

Catching Caleb's bemused guilty look, Will stopped and glanced from him to Matt, then spoke uncertainly, "Uh.. Right! Training!"

"Yeah.." Caleb sighed, almost disappointed, and turned once again, and left the room, Will's heart sank and her mouth fell open at the sight of his reaction.

"Okay.." Matt didn't seem to notice Will's pained face as he strode towards her and gave her a hug, "But you've never reacted to him before, even if there is some 'problem'."

To this Cornelia muttered under her breath, "Yeah, well she's never 'kicked' him quite like that before has she." Rolling her eyes, clearly in a mood.

"Just because he doesn't want to 'train' with you Cornelia!" Irma grinned and winked at her friend.

"Right.. Well I just came down to give you guys these," Matt dug a hand deep into his pocket and pulled out six tickets to which he handed to Will, "for the show on Friday. The last ones for Caleb.. If he's not busy." Matt glanced to the door from which Caleb had left, an eyebrow raised.

"Okay."