October 26th 2012…

22 year old Amanda drove around in the freezing rain, looking for Seth, who had left the hotel.

She had assumed that he was going to his girlfriend, who he had yet to introduce to anyone except his immediate family… but when he hadn't returned, she got worried.

Her recent breakup with Cody hadn't helped her mindset either.

Amanda pulled the rented Equinox over, the soaked black and blonde haired man getting in the passenger side, wrapping a blanket around himself after Amanda handed it to him and closing the door after buckling up and Amanda driving back to the hotel.

"You could've frozen to death out there, you bonehead!" Amanda responded in a mix of anger and relief as she readjusted the heating in the vehicle so Seth would warm up.

"I could've… but I didn't." Seth replied.

"Because you knew I'd go looking for you… because you had a bad breakup with her." Amanda responded, seeing Seth's reddened eyes.

She couldn't ever remember a moment where she had seen him cry.

"I did… she left." Seth admitted.

"I'm sorry." Amanda responded as she slowed the speed of the vehicle.

"Don't be… you didn't cause it." Seth replied as his left hand instinctively rested on her right thigh.

"Seth, you're hurting right now." Amanda responded gently, hoping to get Seth to keep a level head about things as the two friends had been put through the ringer lately… and Seth moved his hand to the passenger side armrest.

"Yeah…" Seth replied before he noticed that Amanda was guarding her right side and hip. "Pain?" He asked.

"Just an ache every now and then. Nothing to worry about at the moment." Amanda explained.

"You said that three hours ago, Amanda… something's wrong." Seth replied before he put a hand to her forehead.

"What are you doing?" Amanda questioned.

"Making sure you don't have a fever… which you don't but I can't really feel anything my limbs now." Seth replied before lowering his hand. "Look, you could have some kind of infection. He was screwing around." He responded.

"If it doesn't go away, I'll go to the ER-" Amanda replied before another burst of pain almost caused her to lose control of the vehicle.

And she would've had Seth not unbuckled himself and grabbed the steering wheel.

"That does it!" Seth responded as he unbuckled Amanda and moved her to the passenger side before he switched to the driver's side and sped off to the nearest ER.

He slammed on the brakes after parking, turned the car's engine off and pocketed the keys before he grabbed Amanda and ran into the building with her in his arms.

Because he wasn't immediate family, they tried to make him wait in the waiting room but Seth made it clear he wasn't leaving Amanda's side as they figured out what was wrong and called a waiting OR team.

Amanda looked at Seth, who held her left hand and kissed her on her forehead.

"You're gonna be okay, Mandy…" Seth whispered as Amanda let the sedative overwhelm her and Seth watched helplessly as they took her to the OR.

At the same time and far away from Earth, Zola was looking out of the spaceship before she turned back to Zosha… who was brushing tears away.

"Something bad?" Zola asked.

"Pain… horrible, blinding pain that she's in…" Zosha answered, Zola's eyes widening in shock.

"Should we go back?!" Zola asked.

"Not when you're hurting too… it's not gonna help her." Zosha responded.

Zola nodded reluctantly… they would go back one day.

One day soon, she hoped…

Present time, October 26th 2015…

Amanda felt a heating pad on her lower back and looked up at Finn, who lightly brushed her hair back with his right hand.

"Two times I've been slammed into a cell within nine years." Amanda responded quietly.

Because no one in creative had bothered to run a script change by Amanda, Finn, Seth or Hunter and Kane had mistakenly assumed that they knew beforehand, Amanda was the one thrown into the unforgiving steel by Kane… with enough force to break part of the cell wall and render her unconscious.

Kane was getting a lot of heat from the incident, despite apologising… and Amanda, while cleared of a concussion and other head and neck injuries as well as cleared of injured ribs and broken bones, had ended up with a bruised tailbone.

And Amanda, who was rightly upset, had said last night: "The next time I find whoever authorized that stunt without my consent, I'm gonna choke the life out of them!"... and she and Finn had a feeling it was the resulting backlash of the AfterBuzz interviewer being pissed about Finn paying more attention to Amanda than the interview at Aftershock.

Amanda hardly had any female friends in the company… and Finn felt like his theory of "Women secretly hate other women." was correct in this case.

"I doubt Kane meant to hurt you… but after that interview, Hunter and most of corporate were flooded with calls from that woman." Finn replied.

"Why does she have to be so catty? We didn't intentionally do anything to her, just went through with our scripted part of the interview." Amanda responded, trying to move when her phone rang but Finn grabbed it and answered it.

"Hey. She feeling any better?" Dianne replied before Finn let her in the room and they hung up.

"We both crashed out at 4 in the morning." Finn answered… before the floor started to tremble and Amanda turned panicked.

"Earthquake?!" Amanda responded before they saw an outline of a ship in the sky.

"I don't think that's a natural earthquake…" Dianne replied as she looked to the other two as the ship passed from visual range.

Amanda then remembered something that Seth had said three years ago.

"She's… not exactly of this earth."

"Oh fuck…" Amanda whispered before she headed down the hall, banged her fist on Seth's hotel door and Seth opened it. "She's back!" She responded, Seth realising what she meant.

"What the hell is Zola doing back here?" Seth questioned.

"Looking for you? She might've missed you more than you said." Amanda replied before they went down the hallway and into the hotel room.

But he couldn't see the ship or its outline.

"Or it was another of her species on a passing survey." Seth spoke after a few moments.

"Possibly… whatever they are." Dianne replied as Finn helped Amanda sit back down.

"Hey, they're people, not things. Just as if not even more intelligent than us." Seth responded as he stepped away from the window. "Come to think of it though… they're a lot fewer in number, I doubt they'd send surveys this far from their home for no good reason."

"True…" Dianne replied as Amanda was back to lying on her side, Seth seeing how tired she was.

Amanda was between asleep and awake as Finn pulled the covers over her and Seth turned the heating pad off as Amanda dozed off.

"How many hours of sleep?" Seth questioned.

"4… barely 4." Finn replied.

From the ship, Zola surveyed the landscape and looked to Zosha.

"You're sure this incident disrupted the signals?" Zola asked.

"The recon probes are over 20 feet below the ground, they don't just stop because a car drove over them. Something would be directly interfering with it, or unknowingly doing so with something else." Zosha answered.

"It wouldn't be… what I left with him, would it?" Zola questioned, lightly scratching near the painted black mark on her forehead as she looked at her friend.

"No, the incoming and outgoing signals are way too small for that. This thing is streaming data over millions of lightyears and if I'm not mistaken, Humanity doesn't have that capable power yet." Zosha answered.

Zola nodded and pulled up the video footage.

The one that had everyone lightyears away in an uproar.