A/N: Ok. . . so this was supposed to happen a long time ago, but now that it has started. . .what is there to complain about? Oh and just in case anyone is confused. . .this takes place after Requiem for a Demon, which occurs after Here We Go Again.

Adrasta was sitting on my couch looking at my TV remote like it was the strangest thing she had ever seen. I blinked a few times and she looked over at me.

"Hi Lena."

"Hi. . .what the hell are you doing here?"

"I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what this weird thing does."

"It's the remote for my TV. . .I meant how did you get here? I thought humans were the race most susceptible to time. . ."

"They are."

"They. . .right. . .so why weren't you left back there?"

"You know the answer to that."

"Yeah. . .then what are you?"

"Beleth had this theory that we're the same thing."

"Whatever the hell that is. That's awesome, really clears everything up for me. . ."

I collapsed into my recliner and sighed loudly.

"He mentioned in passing that the Oracle on Persi-I-3 might have an idea."

"He didn't mention that to me."

"He didn't want to repeat it. I figure he knew I would eventually be telling you anyway."

I scratched the back of my head, then leaned back to try and calm myself down. I looked over at her again.

"So you and Beleth were plotting against me."

"That's not it at all. He thought you might need some help figuring out how to use your powers."

"And I suppose you've got them all figured out."

"Of course."

"You didn't seem to be using any so called "powers" just a few days ago."

"I did a few times actually. You were just near death or not looking when I did use them."

I stared at her expecting something, what I'm not sure. She just stared back at me with her regular blankness.

"Why do you think the Yautja left so quickly?"

"Well, Gi'gush nearly took my head off, maybe he decided to leave it at that because I was done for."

"You don't remember their ship exploding?"

I thought back to that day. I do recall screaming, an explosion, then more screaming.

"Ok, so what really happened then?"

"While you were getting your head nearly severed off, I was attacking that tree remember? Those trees have really flammable sap. When I finally broke through the bark, I used my bending powers to coat the yautja in it. Then I ignited it."

"Right. . .the explosion happened how?"

"I threw a boulder through the engine."

"Yep. You've gone space crazy."

She looked at me again, still expressionless, and took a breath. I suppose when someone goes space crazy they don't realize it. Maybe I should have her committed to the place I was in before. It was pretty nice there. At least up until Ya'uta kidnapped me out of my happy delusion.

"If you want to believe that. . .well. . .I would have to tell you that you're very closed minded. If you knew how to use your powers correctly, you would know what I was talking about."

"What is bending anyway?"

"Well, you know what elements are, right?"

Ok, now she is just insulting my intelligence. I nodded and rubbed the bridge of my nose for a moment before she continued in her onslaught of my sanity.

"For example, you take the element of fire. . ."

I was amazed when a flame appeared in her hand and started to grow bigger.

"You can decide where it goes, how big it is and the temperature of it."

She began to twirl it around in her hand. I watched, completely astonished, as the flame grew, then turned from blue to orange to red. She smiled.

"That's bending. I would do it with water, but I don' really like it. Not the same effect as fire"

Great, she's destructive.

"You try."

She held the flame out towards my hand. I reached out, but as soon as it touched me, instead of burning me, it flickered out.

"Why did it go out?"

"You have to make sure to feed it."

"Feed it? What?"

"First you have to believe you can do it."

I smacked myself hard square between my eyes and scowled at her. She slouched back into the couch and sighed.

"This is going to be a lot harder than Beleth anticipated."

"I wouldn't be so quick to believe in Beleth's judgment of anything."

"Why?"

"He landed me with humans during my childhood. Humans raised me and I was very susceptible to their weaknesses."

"You just assimilated. Not problem there."

"Yeah."

"Except that you might never live up to your potential now."

"You have a hell of a way of making someone feel inadequate."

"I wasn't raised by humans."

"So when I found you. . .after that crash. Why were you there?"

"The more important thing is what are you going to do about Ya'uta?"

"What?"

She stood up and glided over to the window. Great, now that she doesn't have to pretend to be a human anymore, she's going to rub it in my face that she knows how to deal with what she is. She pulled the curtain to the side just enough for her to peer outside.

"He's out there right now, you know. If you come across him now, it's likely that things will unfold much like they did last time."

"Then. . .he is still alive right now. This is the past, the past before I even met him."

"You're insight is incredible."

I growled at her and stood up. She's in for it now. I walked up behind her and grabbed her by her head and smashed her face against the window a few times before I was thrown back through the wall. After the haze passed I looked through the wall that divided my living room and bathroom and saw that she was still looking out the window. I frowned and scrambled out of the rubble. I slowly crawled through the hole and stood by my couch.

"Ok, maybe you do know what you're talking about. The thing is. . . I don't know what to do or where to go."

She walked over and took my hand like there was no bad blood between us. I felt a pressure behind my eyes and then I thought I was going to vomit.