Man, I had to get this out of my system even though I should really be working on my other stories. Well I guess I have another one to add to the list. Excuse me while I fling myself into the sun.

Not one hundred percent sure where I'm going with this but it is definitely going to be Amy-centric and possibly OC-centric.

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It was a strange thought really.

They had no reason to be there.

They didn't know her. Perhaps they had seen each other just once - twice at most. But they didn't know her, not like the others did.

In the sea of black umbrellas and heavy rain, there was one face that let the water hit him regardless. He may have thought the droplets disguised his falling tears and perhaps some were too deep in their own grief to notice. He was holding an umbrella to his side, underneath which stood another blonde girl whose sobs were kept as quiet as the first drops of the rain that morning. Of course the Uniter was present, right beside Alek and surrounded by the countless Mai that had answered the call to watch the casket being lowered.

It really was strange that they were there. It was strange that she felt the grief around them overwhelm her too. Paul had said he wanted to support Chloe. Amy agreed. But now that they were here, she felt more than just sadness. She knew that she had also come here to value the life that was lost, even if the two humans stood away from the gathering. It felt wrong to intrude. So the two watched Valentina's funeral side by side in silence, forgetting their own awkwardness in the recent days.

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The rain didn't stop even after the funeral and the silence in Meredith King's car was almost unbearable. If it wasn't for the feeling of her best friend's freezing hand in hers, Amy would have thought she was completely alone. It was a slack hold but Amy knew it was also Chloe's connection to the current world. Yes, a lot had happened that night four weeks ago and equally as much since. It was terrible that they were only getting to Valentina now, as if the weather had been lying in wait for it all along. Judging by Chloe's shaking form and blue lips when she had come back to the car, the Uniter had left the safety of the umbrella not long after the burial.

Amy and Paul had found Chloe with Brian in her arms. They had understood her first mumblings of him being dead but with every second, she became more and more incoherent between her sobs. It wasn't until Amy pulled Chloe to her feet and Paul attempted to move Brian from Chloe's lap, which was a difficult enough job as Chloe was reluctant to let go of him, but he had frozen on the spot and turned slightly pale. There was a pulse. A faint pulse but a pulse none the less in hours after that had been a blur and the last things that Amy had really remembered was Chloe collapsing next to her loved one and Amy dialling for help. The rest was a rush of sirens and inhuman wails. They were sounds that would haunt Amy's dreams for a long time.

While doctors had worked on Brian in the nearest hospital, a police officer questioned them all on what happened. Chloe was the only one able to provide any details and was lead away to answer some questions after being assured that Amy nor Paul would leave until they knew what was going to happen to Brian. A silent prayer passed between them all; the small spark of hope in Chloe's eyes shouldn't be allowed to die. Brian shouldn't be allowed to die.

When Alek had rushed into the same hospital, it was hard to tell who was more confused to see the other. For just a split second, they thought the young and handsome Mai had rushed there to see Chloe but there was blood on him that night too and it wasn't all his own as they noticed the bloody heap in his arms. Jasmine was in his arms and looked within the reach of death. And her cousin looked like he was spiritually dying too. Just the mere fact that he brought Jasmine to a human hospital rather than get Mai healing proved that he had nowhere else to go. They didn't get a chance to talk as Jasmine was swept away by doctors and Alek followed after them.

Chloe never mentioned what she had told the police when they questioned her, especially since she had her own blood staining her clothes. She just silently sat with them while Amy rubbed comforting circles around her upper back. The only time she did react had been when she spotted Alek finally emerging and ran after him. They couldn't be heard but it was obvious that both of them were devastated and angry. After what had seemed like half an hour of them talking in hushed voices, Alek had been convinced to come and sit with them and they were filled in with quick details. Zane had betrayed everyone and tried to kill Jasmine and Valentina. Alek never gave details about how he fought Zane off apart from the fact that he somehow gained the upper hand and Zane had fled. But Alek was left and he had to make a choice about who to save. Amy had never heard more guilt in someone's voice since Chloe accidentally killed Xavier. Any other details were forgotten about when they saw the doctor heading their way.

Jasmine wasn't out of complete danger but she was going to pull through. Brian was in some sort of coma and they were not sure when he was going to wake up.

Meredith had rushed into the hospital only a short time later after Chloe had called her, accompanied by Brian's father above all other people. It was indeed a small world. No-one could give him a straight answer about what happened and left the man to his own grief. Meredith took pity on her daughter and allowed her to stay in the hospital that night but Amy was less fortunate and was picked up by her worried and near hysterical fathers. In the days that followed the 'humans', as most of the Mai referred to Paul and Amy, were given very little information about how the Mai were smoothing over the whole situation outside of what they heard from Chloe in the few times they saw her over the next week. Their only other source was Alek, whom Paul had taken in to stay with him seeing as the young Mai didn't really have anywhere to go with his only guardian now dead. But even Alek wasn't around much and the only time they saw either of them was when they visited Jasmine after she woke up. Amy noticed that she and Paul visited the hospital a lot.

It was about two weeks into the whole fiasco that Amy really stopped and noticed it. Paul seemed to want to visit the hospital every day and he'd spend hours there too, helping Jasmine cope with the loss of her mother in any way he could. He certainly seemed to help Jasmine by being around and it made him happy to help somehow. He certainly couldn't play his usual role as sidekick to Chloe. In some ways, it shouldn't have been a surprise on that Saturday night out of the hospital when Paul brought up those horrible words 'just friends'. Yes, their relationship had been tested severely where both were frustrated and trying to help but not really getting anywhere but through that frustration, Paul had clicked with Jasmine and Amy suddenly felt very alone. She wanted to yell at Paul and cry and kick and scream. But where was the maturity in that in these times when it was called for everyone to be an adult: Jasmine had been announced the new leader of the San Francisco Mai days before and was coming to grips with it, after thorough investigation Chloe and the Mai came to the shocking revelation that Brian's father was somehow connected to the order so he vanished as soon as that was uncovered (Of course, how they found that out was forbidden to be told to anyone, not even Chloe's closest friends) and no-one knew if Brian was aware of the Mai situation as he was still showing no signs of coming back from his coma, Meredith had finally been told about what her daughter was, Alek refused to see Jasmine out of guilt for what he felt was letting Valentina die and now Amy had lost the one guy she believed would battle with her through all this stuff that felt too big for them.

The day before that was the day that all the arrangements for Valentina's funeral were finally completed. At first Amy avoided Paul's calls but he finally caught her when she paid an early visit to Jasmine. It was more awkward than she wished it to be but they had agreed to go to the funeral to support Chloe and Jasmine who had begged to be released for that one afternoon to attend her mother's funeral. The sky outside had gotten visibly darker and Amy could practically sense the rain coming. She believed that in some ways it would ease the passing. And suddenly, her news had felt irrelevant. Zane was now officially wanted by the police according to one of her fathers who was a lawyer. Unsurprisingly, the Mai already knew as it was one of the only things she heard come from Alek's mouth herself when she bumped into him in the elevator on her way out (He had spent many days lurking outside Jasmine's ward somewhere but he still didn't have the courage to go and see her.)

So now, as she sat in Meredith's car and saw her familiar front door coming into view, Amy came to realise how truly out of the loop she really was. Giving Chloe's hand one final squeeze to assure her that she was still here for her friend, she saw the blonde girl pull a sincere smile for what felt like the first time in all those weeks. Yes, they were going to come back from this, the darkest times had to be behind them. The rain would clear up into sunny skies again soon. The light would shine on San Francisco once more. And Amy Martins, human as far as she knew so far, would be there to either be ignored or lend an ear to anyone who wanted it. She had no idea what her own personal destiny had in store for her.