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Landon had taken Sebastian into a boardroom. Sebastian had drawn up a diagram up on a whiteboard of Dante, Elena, Donatello and Leo. "So, Donatello hates Dante. Dante takes Donatello's laptop. This causes a chain reaction of anger." Sebastian did his best to impersonate a professor.

"Where does my son tie into this?" Landon wondered.

"I'll be taking questions at the end..." Sebastian paused. "He doesn't really... He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time really." Sebastian shrugged.

"Well what about the night Elena was locked in our storage units? What was that about?" Landon asked.

"That was me. I wanted to talk to Elena and I needed to speak with her, but had she not been locked behind a cage she would've clawed my eyes out." Sebastian explained. "To summarise, Leo's kind of in danger- there's someone we're hunting. But they haven't done anything worrying yet. I know, I'm confused too. I have a faint suspicion of who it is, but nothing confirmed yet."

Landon's brows furrowed. "Who is it?"

Sebastian hesitating in answering his question. He fiddled with the whiteboard marker before turning to Landon. "How do I know it's not you?"

Landon scoffed. "Do you really think I'd torture my own son?" Sebastian nodded. "No, I could never. Not without reason."

"It seems like you have enough reason in that you didn't want him around Elena." Sebastian shrugged. "In fact you didn't seem to budge when his room was invaded."

Landon jumped up in panic. "His room was invaded? Did they find anything? Was anything taken? When was this?" Landon threw questions at Sebastian as he rushed over.

"I don't know, only Rita and Elena went." Sebastian answered indifferently. "You look surprised."

"Yeah." Landon nodded, his voice higher than usual. "No, I just thought he would've told me. I hate it when he doesn't tell me these things."

"Give him a break, he's probably doing it for the best." Sebastian suggested as Landon sat back down.

"What good could possibly come from hiding this?" Landon wondered and Sebastian shrugged.

"I don't have the answers for that and I happen to be meeting someone tonight, so if we're finished here..." Sebastian uttered as he tapped the whiteboard marker, he immediately became distracted. "Can I keep this?"

"Why don't we trade?" Landon stood up. "You give me everything you know about who broke into my son's room and I'll let you keep that."

Sebastian grimaced as he held the marker up into the air. "I love this marker... But for my information? That's not fair."

"Then name your price." Landon replied. "You should work with me on this."

Sebastian put his hand to his chin. "I'm unsure of what to ask for..." Sebastian looked around the room for inspiration. "How about five favours?"

"One." Landon retorted.

"Three." Sebastian sassed back.

"Fine." Sebastian pocketed the whiteboard marker. "And that doesn't count." He turned his back and walked out. "I'll email you everything I have!"

"Wait!" Landon went after him. "I don't have your email!"

"I'll find you!" Sebastian yelled on his way out.

Meanwhile, Rita held Leo's hand in hers as Elena watched. "Who's job was it to fix this up? I don't think they did a good job." He muttered, looking down at the bandages that came loose the second Leo came home.