AN: I reread this fic and didn't like how light I made it soI decided to redo it. This one is going to be a more mature look at the same plot with a few obvious changes. Hope you enjoy. And as usual please read and review.

They couldn't understand. No one could, they weren't the ones who had their life ripped away and had to go on living as a shell. I can't tell them, they just wouldn't understand.

Snow was lightly falling across the windshield when they pulled up the long lane way. "You sure this is the place?" Zack asked from the back seat looking around eyes wide.

"Positive. These are the correct coordinates which we were given." Billy replied making eye contact via the rear view mirror.

Zack would you just relax, I'm sure they aren't going to put you to work immediately. Muriel sounded like a really nice lady." Jason said from the passenger seat as he folded up their well wore map.

"I still don't know why we are here. I mean Drece left without a word so what makes her aunt think that she would want to see us?" Kimberly asked as she slouched down in her seat.

Jason turned around to face the girl he considered a little sister, "Look Kim all I know is that her aunt is really worried about her. So since we are her best friends Muriel thought that maybe we could get her to snap out of it or at least talk to someone. You've got to remember that there is a lot about Andrece that we don't know."

Kimberly just sighed again as Billy pulled the blue car up next to a beat up pick-up truck. An older woman stepped out from the farm house dressed in jeans and an over sized flannel shirt, her reddish brown hair was getting tossed in the early spring weather.

"Hello, I'm Annie's aunt Muriel." She said as the teens exited the car.

"Hi I'm Jason we spoke briefly on the phone. This is Zack, Billy and Kimberly." She nodded greetings to the others and ushered them inside. "Thanks for coming up. Annie has been so down since she got here I thought some friendly faces would cheer her up." Muriel led the teens to the second level of the house, the stair creaking with every step. "The bathroom is at the end of the hall, Kimberly I have you bunking in with Annie here." She opened the door to a cozy, very girlish room complete with two twin beds covered in lacy duvets. "Now you three I hope you don't mind but one of you can have Josh's room where the other two have to share the spare room. It's usually only used when I need extra help in the fall."

"Now Annie went out for a ride and I don't know when she'll be back so make your selves at home. None of you are vegetarian are you?" Everyone shook their heads. "Good that makes dinner a lot easier." Muriel gave a slight chuckle. "Sorry kinda got a weird sense of humour never mind me."

Muriel left them to prepare dinner as her guests got situated. Though a round robin of paper-rock-scissor Jason won out the single room as Billy and Zack had to share. Mean while Kim was slowly wandering Andrece's room.

"Hey Kim you okay?" Jason asked poking his head inside. The usually perky brunette shrugged and sighed. "You really don't want to be here do you?"

"It's not that. I mean I thought that Drece and Trini were my best friends in the world. But now looking at everything here it's like I only have Trini, Jason I feel like I don't even know her anymore."

Jason pulled the small frame of Kimberly into a warm hug, "That's why we are here Kim, to get to know the real Andrece Primer."

Kim sniffed and pulled away, "Did you know Andrece drew?" Jason turned around and looked at the posters of sketches on the rear wall. The sketches were of various subjects everything from fruit bowls to horses to Power Rangers. "She's not bad." Jason could only agree.

Down stairs Billy and Zack were waiting for their friend's return. "Don't fret boys Annie knows when it's time to come in." Muriel said as she set the table. The weather outside was turning unpleasant. The boys looked back to the field, and there through the falling snow they could make out a figure coming closer. "Well here she comes now. Why don't you get the others, grab your coats and meet her in the barn?"

"Good idea." They said in unison as they darted away.

Muriel came over to the window and whispered, "Please don't be mad Annie. They're here to help."

The quartet hustled out to the barn excitement of seeing their friend again was warding off the cold. Inside the wooden barn they could hear a voice. It was rambling to someone. Together they walked closer and around the corner of the tack room they saw her.

Andrece had her long red hair loose it reached now just about her mid back. Grinning like a Cheshire cat Zack snuck up upon Andrece.

Her mind went blank when her word when dark. Two hands covered her eyes and a voice tickled her neck. In a sing-song voice it cooed "Guess who?" Fear leapt to her throat making it hard to breath, making it hard to think. Her flight or fight instinct kicked in. She pulled away from the body and turned ready to flee. Her back pressed up against the wall of the pen with the dark figure before her. It spoke again this time the voice was not the same. She didn't hear the concern nor did she see the other three people come closer. She was lost in the vision again.

"Andrece? You okay?" Zack asked when she pulled away suddenly. She all but threw herself against the pen wall. He tried talking to her but she seemed only to become more afraid.

"Zack what did you do?" Kimberly asked not able to tear her eyes from Andrece's frozen body.

"Nothing, I just told her to guess who." He replied in his defence. Billy only nodded as though accepting the information; it was only Jason who moved towards the terrified girl.

"Andrece, relax. You're alright. We aren't going to hurt you." He said softly. He purposely made his movements slow and deliberate, not wanted to scare her more. Slowly ever so slowly he came to sit beside her, with great care he laid his arm across her shoulders not surprised when she tried to pull away. Whispering softly into her ear her shaking and pulling died down. Her glossy wide eye expression changed into one of confusion and then embarrassment. Ever so slowly she came back.

"Andrece are you alright?" Billy asked. The girl's sea green eyes locked onto his blue ones and in an instant he saw the fear carefully veiled just under the surface.

"Oh God, you didn't need to see that." Andrece put her face in her hands trying to get a grip on her embarrassment. It dawned on her that she was being held by some one very familiar, identifying him quickly she pulled away post haste and made a dash for the house.

All four teens looked at each other. None of them had expected that type of greeting. "I think we need to speak with Muriel to discover what exactly transpired here. "Billy said, the others agreed.

"Oh my dear," Muriel muttered when she saw the look on her niece's face when she came racing in. "They are going to want an explanation."

"Where did she go?" asked Zack when the four had returned to the house.

"She's calming down. I suppose I should have warned you before you went out." Muriel led the teens into the warm living room and gestured for them to sit. "You see when Annie came back up here it was like two years ago all over again."

"What happened two years ago?" Kimberly asked as she tucked her feet up under her. She was sharing the couch with Billy, as Zack took the old rocker and Muriel sat in an over stuffed arm chair. Jason was leaning against the door frame.

"Two years ago she was raped." The answer didn't come from Muriel it came from Jason.

"Yes that's right. I know it's not my place to tell but I think you better know. Andrece and her brother Josh were attacked on the way back to their cottage. Josh was paralysed from the waist down and thankfully hedoesn't remember the event but Annie was not so lucky. She was gang rapped by the four boys who attacked them. After the attack she wasn't the same. Her mother denied there was anything wrong with Annie and spent almost all her time with Josh. Annie became mute for a long while and stayed here with me until her dad moved to Angel Grove after the divorce." Muriel looked at the faces of the teens. All but Jason were shocked and looked ill. "During her time with me she was diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome. She was very easily startled, had awful reoccurring nightmares of the attack and was prone to zoning out with flashes of the attack. Something in the barn must have triggered it. It seems that since she came back it's like nothing has changed."

"It was my fault. I scared her." Zack said hanging his head.

"You didn't know hun. It's not your fault." Muriel said, Zack only nodded not feeling any better about it but knowing what she said was true. The group was silent until a timid voice fluttered in.

"Is dinner ready Auntie Muriel?" All heads turned to Andrece. Her hair was messed, her eyes reddish from crying. Muriel quickly went to the girl and hugged her.

"Yes dear it is. Come on lets eat."

As they sat down to eat Andrece would meet no one's eyes. She left after only half finishing her plate. Muriel saw the concern on Jason's face. "Don't fret she's still not quite settled. Tomorrow she'll be fine and not remember the incident."

Jason only nodded and ate his dinner. After seconds and dessert the now tired teens retired to bed. Kim gently knocked on the bedroom door not wanting to enter unannounced, she hear only peaceful silence as Zack, Billy and Jason quietly said good night.