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her voice as it crackled when she spoke.  He saw a tear form in her eye and roll down her cheek.  He felt a pang of guilt at the way he had pushed her for answers. He rose from his chair and joined her on the edge of the bed.  She tried to pull away from him, but he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into a hug.  He had always been helpless when it came to tears, but he found that AnnaBeth’s tears made him feel especially helpless. 
    “Don’t cry,” he said softly.  “How could it possibly be your fault?”
    The kindness in his voice had such a calming effect AnnaBeth.  She had never felt this way towards anyone before.  Maybe it was because her whole life had been devoted to finding Alexandra and preparing to train her.  She had never made time for boys.
    “It was my only duty in life to find her, and teach her how to use her powers,” she said with a little sniffle that made Sam want to smile at the cuteness of it. 
    “It’s not your fault that you couldn’t,” Sam said, trying to soothe her, “and besides, you are here now.  So you can train her.  No harm, no foul.”
    “I wish it worked like that, Sam,” she said, finally looking up into his ey es.  Their faces were so close.  They gazed into each other’s eyes and began to lean in closer to each other, lost in the moment.
    When their lips were but a breath away, the hotel room door swung open and Alex and Balthazar came barging in.  They were too caught up in their own argument to notice the Sam and AnnaBeth’s compromising position. 
    “I’m telling you,” Alex said with a huff, “it’s not going to be that simple.  You can’t just go busting in through the windows and snatch it.”
    “Why not?” Balthazar asked, removing the sunglasses and hoodie.  He was so ready to remove the strange articles from his person, and he had already sworn he would never wear them again.  Human fashions were terribly peculiar, he decided. 
    Alex was about to recruit Sam to her cause when she noticed the peculiar look on his face, as well as AnnaBeth’s.  She looked between the two, who were now as far apart from each other as they could manage without arousing suspicion.  Balthazar’s nose picked up the very faint hint of arousal in the room, and recognizing it was not coming from Alex this time, looked at Sam with a smirking approval but said nothing. 
    “Is everything ok in here?” Alex said, with her brows scrunched over her eyes as she continued to shift her gaze between the two.
    “Fine,” AnnaBeth said, a little too quickly to be convincing.
    “Sam?” Alex said, looking at her friend with skepticism.  She had known Sam for as long as she could remember, and she knew when something was amiss with him.
    “Fine,” Sam said, also less than convincing. 
    “Ok,” Alex said slowly, not believing them at all. “Well, we should probably talk about how we are going to pull this off.”
    “As I have suggested ,” Balthazar said, picking the argument back up where they had left off, “it will be a simple task for me to enter at night, when no one is present, and retrieve the diamond.”
    “No,” Alex said through gritted teeth, “it won’t.  I know you think you are all powerful, but things don’t work like that here.  There is security there that you just can’t see.”
    “Alexandra is right,” AnnaBeth broke in, finally finding her composure.  “I’m afraid we cannot risk your presence being known in this world.  It was dangerous enough to allow you to go out in public today.  I do not think it would be wise to test our luck again.”
    “See,” Alex said, giv ing Balthazar a triumphant smirk, “we will make plans and go in stealthily.”
    “Actually,” AnnaBeth said, cutting off Alexandra’s private victory party, “I’m afraid Lord Balthazar will not be going back in.”
    “I most certainly shall,” Balthazar said, crossing his arms over his chest.
    “I don’t think that is a good idea,”