I'm back at home and I was in a bad mood these last days and this came out. I have fought with myself if I should upload this, but why not?! Here are not really much storys with a not so good ending for our favorite couple. So here is it. Hope you can forgive me this one. The next one will be better, promised.

!!!Captain Planet is not my own!!!

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Are you happy?

The phone rang as she came out of the shower and was looking forward to lay down at the sofa and relax after her day full of hard work, until her thoughts would wander off to that what she had lost a year ago.

She thought for one moment if she should ignore the phone, but it rang again and again, as if the caller would know that she was at home, and it could be important.

"Hello?"

"Linka? It's me, Gi."

"Gi! How are you? We have since such a long time nothing heard from each other. How is the work and your Love?" asked she, as she thought at the last mail of Gi, who she had written how happy she was with her colleague and boyfriend.

"Lee is very well, best wishes from him to you."

"Thank you, the same back", replied Linka with a smile. It was strange to greet someone, who she only knew from hearsay.

"The work at the marine biology station is really good. But this is not why I was calling. I wanted to give you an advance warning, that you have at the next days an invitation in your letter-box."

"A invitation? For what?"

It was silence at the other end and Linka rolled her eyes with a smile. Gi had still the preference to make moments infinitely thrilling.

"Lee and I want to marry. Next month", squalled Gi to the phone."He made me the proposal at the last weekend, it was so romantic."

"Oh, congratulations…next month already?" stammered Linka perplexed. Gi knew him only since one year and was only since a half year together with him.

"Yes I know, it is so fast, but it was love at the first sight and we're so happy. It was like you and…I'm sorry. I don't wanted to…" Her rapture turned sudden to embarrassment.

"Nyet, it's okay. I know what you mean", replied Linka quickly and could manage to hide how much it had hurt her. Fortunately she had no visiual phone, or else her friend had seen her wet eyes. "Besides we are not parted angry. We have still contact. I only hope that you are safer like we were obviously?!"

"We are, really." A short unpleasant silence arose, before Gi kept on talking chary."Was it right?" asked she then.

"What? To accept Lee's proposal? I can't…"

"Linka! I talk of you and Wheeler. We have never talked about it, because we had no possibility and I think, that you didn't wanted it, but I thought at that time that it seemed that both of you were not really happy about your decision."

"I don't know." She stopped astonished, how easy she had learned to lie to others at this subject, during she inwardly screamed out that it was wrong, that it was the biggest mistake of her life."We were too much together. 24 hours, without a break, that was asking for trouble."

"I can get that, but…Linka, once in a while I have boredom and then I spend time with the internet. I have searched you, all of you, and thereby I found a report of you and your work with a picture. You don't look very well. Are you happy?"

"I have just too much work to do. The Job is very capturing." What was not really the truth – it was not the Job that was capturing, she was capturing the Job to divert her thoughts from other things.

"That is no answer to my question. You are not happy, are you? And I guess you are still alone?!"

"Da, I'm still alone, but you ought to know, what for an choosy woman I am, so…" replied Linka snappish.

"I'm sorry. I only want all of you happy. You're my best friend. You and the others are my familiy."

"I know Gi. I'm sorry."

"And Wheeler is not happy too", said Gi quietly.

"So?! He had recently written to me, that he is satisfied with his job and I'm sure he has no problems to meet other girls."

"But he don't leave his home often, like he said a short while ago at the phone. He tried everything with his jokes and his kind to let it look harmless, but you can notice at the phone more of the truth as at a mail."

"Gi, I'm sure, that he is doing well. How I said, we have contact and we were a couple for one year after all. If he wanted me back he had surely said something."

"Do you say it?"

"Who says that I want him back?!" A sigh at the other end, then again a moment in silence.

"Whatever. You have to deal with it by yourselves. I wanted to solicit you that you're my bridesmaid, to come back to the subject."

"I'm glad to do it for you, Gi."

"Great. The invitation have to be in your letter-box in a few days. I'm glad to see you all again. But I have to hang up now. Lee is back home and I have still to phone Ma-Ti."

"It was nice to talk with you Gi. We should phone more often."

"We will do that, I have to keep my bridesmaid informed."

"Do that, bye."

"Yes, bye."

Slowly she hang up the phone. A airflow wafted suddenly through the room and it leafed through her opened address book on the table. As the pages quietened she saw the entry of Wheelers address and phone number. She sighed resigned and thought for the millionth time at their last morning at hope island.

She awoke after a long and restless night. Wheeler had the same problem, she knew it, because he lay besides her. And now too he looked at her with a slight smile at the corner of his mouth as he wished her a good morning, but it didn't reached his eyes.

"You were restless last night Yankee."

"I know, but you too." He remained silent for one moment, before he found the brave to talk about what he had in his mind."This day came faster as I have ever thought. We are no longer Planeteers and we have still not talked about what we both want to do…But I have a feeling that anything is wrong between us, that anything is broken."

"I thought the same", replied she quietly, glad that he had noticed it too."It's crazy. We have lived together for 6 years and now where we are hardly a couple for one year, it seems that we have enough from each other."

"That is what you think?"

"Don't you? I mean, it was so harmonic between us until a few months ago. But you have to confess that we were get on each others nerves the last time more often and we have fought because of that too much."

"But the conciliation was so much better", replied he with a grin and he got a smack on the arm for that."Then we have the belly full of each other?!"

"It seems so."

"And we will go separate ways?!"

"I guess it will be better." They remained silent for a few minutes, looked only into each other eyes, without touching."But we stay in contact and it will nothing change between us?!"

"Absolutely nothing, promised Babe", replied he with a smile and kissed her at the forehead.

And everything had changed between them. At this one year, that was gone by since then, they had not phoned with each other, only contact with email and these made clear, that their seperation had initiated a escapement between them. They wrote nothing more and nothing less as the usual between only friends. Actually the exchange of letters between her and Gi, Ma-Ti or Kwame was more cordial.

But what, if Gi was right and he was really unhappy? Did he miss her? So much, like she him? Regretted he too, that they have so easy given up their relationship and he didn't have the courage too to tell her, to ask her if she felt the same?

A pipe fetched her out of her thoughts. She went to her computer and opened her post office box. A new message…from Wheeler!

Her heart was racing, her hands wet, she felt hot and cold at the same moment, like ever if she got a mail from him. Would she now read, what she was hoping for?

But no, it was the same as usual: Hey Babe, I have phoned with Gi. Good news, but I don't know if you already know it, so I only will say, that I look forward to see all of you again. Are you all right?! Let me know. –W-

And what should she reply? Should she write that she still loved him, that she missed him, that she was unhappy without him, that she wanted only him, now and for ever? And maybe get the answer which she feared? That he was no longer interested in her? Had he not written long ago, or done everything to win her back, if this was what he wanted? Sure had he done that – it was Wheeler after all, who had ever everything tried to get what he wanted.

So she wrote a short reply, like ever, and couldn't hold back her tears as she had sent it. Any time, any day, any hour it hurt more and more.

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Thousand miles away sat Wheeler sunk down on his chair and stared at his black screen of his computer. The conversation with Gi was not going out of his mind and he had to write a mail to Linka. There was so much what he wanted to tell her and he could only write the usual stuff. He wanted it so much, but he couldn't. She means everything to him. If he wrote, how much he loved and needed her and she didn't felt the same, he would only push her away. He can't risk the few what he had with her.

His screen was light and he opened the mail – his heart was racing, his hands were wet and he shivered because of expectation, but everything what he could read was: Hey Yankee, I know about Gi's plans. I look forward to see all of you again too. I'm well. How are you? Bye –Lin-

Everything as usual. How could he think, that she still love him, that she wanted him back? If he was doomed to live a lone life, then it should be this way.

'But, I'm not alone at all.' thought he and a ironic smile spread across his face for a short time, but he had tears in his eyes too, as he took the glass from his desk. 'I have still my best friend Jack…Jack Daniels.' he sighed resigned, before he drank the whole glass of whiskey in one gulp – the only means, that let him forget his broken heart for a short time.

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Okay, this is it – so sad, I know…should I write a sequel? I don't know, I feel myself torn about it. Tell me what you think.

P.S. During I wrote this I heard two songs, that gave me the idea to this story. They're called Ich bereue nichts and Symphony by Silbermond. I know, I know – german songs, but if you want to hear it though (I can just advise it – it's a really good band) you can go to Youtube, and if you search for Silbermond Ich bereue nichts english or Silbermond Symphony english you can listen to the original song with english subtitle and maybe understand why I get this idea.