"Now entering the Northern Forest of 200 million A.D." The Time Flyer's infostation announced as CG landed the ship skillfully in a clearing around the trees.

"Yay we're back home!" Emily announces to Squibby who made his excited little chirping noises and climbed up to the window to see the forest around him. "Are we going to get to hang out with the squibbons more?" Emily asked hopefully and looked at CG.

"No Emily." CG replies. "My father wants us to do more research on the plants in the area. Find out which ones are edible and how much nutrients they offer to humans to see if it could sustain a large population of humans as well as the squibbons and megasquids in the area." Emily and Ethan sigh but Luis looks excited.

"Aw come on guys this is a really important mission." He insists but his friends seem to ignore him. "We're going to be figuring out the diet of the new human colony that lives here!"

"Sorry Luis but that's just not as interesting as the animals in this era." Emily says.

"I'm with Em on this one Luis." Ethan says. "I'd prefer to spend my time studying things that move, rather than staring at rooted plants for an entire night."

"After you two had a similar reaction with my father's berry plant I decided that you two could collect more data on the squibbons' intelligence while Luis and I collect data on the edible plants in this era." CG says and the crew nods in agreement.

"Great plan Ceege." Luis says. "You and I don't get to team up often do we?"

"That is true." CG says while gathering some equipment while Emily noticed Luis blushing a bit. She smiled and tried her hardest to contain her excitement. She had noticed that CG and Luis had a special connection ever since they met. She had assumed that this was due to their shared love of science. But as their time on the Time Flyer went on she noticed every now and then that this connection seemed to be leading to something more. "We should get going before the sun sets." She instructs and hands the crew their equipment.

"Alright. Let's get out of this ship and into the forest, away from Emily and Ethan." Luis states and winks at CG making her blush lightly as they separated from Ethan and Emily.

Heaven can't help me now...CG thought as she and Luis walked away from the Time Flyer and into the woods.

"It appears that this fruit supplies quite a lot of nutrients." CG said as she scanned it with the analyzer.

"Great. And this bush has some berries on it. And it looks like they have a lot too." Luis says as CG comes down to record his analysis on her tablet. She takes his scanner from him but as she does so their hands touch. Luis's breath hitches a bit and CG looks confused as to why and takes the scanner and syncs up the data while Luis recorded some more from another bush nearby. But Luis wasn't focusing so much on collecting the data. His mind was on CG and how pretty she looked standing against the sunset of the Northern Forest. It rains so often you almost never get to see the sunset, but today he was lucky to see something so beautiful, and CG standing against it was just an added bonus. "Wow." Luis says accidentally out loud.

"Did you find something Luis?" CG asks excitedly, thinking that he's talking about the data.

"Uh..." Luis blushes and quickly scans the bush. "Yep. Got it right here." He chuckles shyly and hands her the scanner.

"This data is nearly the same as the data collected from the other bush. I do not see how this caused you to say 'wow'?" CG asks and Luis smiled a bit at the ground. She was so cute when she was confused.

"It wasn't the data that made me say wow." Luis admits, gaining some courage and looking into CG's bright blue eyes with longing.

"Then what did make you say it?" CG asks confused looking back at Luis. She noticed this look before on him and Ethan a few times when he looked at Emily and she knew what it meant, but she had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that he may have romantic feelings for her. Especially since she wasn't sure how to interpret it because expressing love was different in her era from his.

"How amazing the view is." Luis says honestly and looks away from CG to the forest behind her. She turns to look at it too.

"Yes. The rare Northern Forest sunset is quite spectacular." She says and they watch as a group of squibbons swing through some trees, chasing flish in the distance.

"Yeah. The future really is amazing. Something like this, I could never imagine before. Not even in my wildest dreams..." He says and looks at CG and the two hold each other's gaze.

"I agree." She says then turns back to her tablet. "We should collect data in another area before it gets dark and we need to return to the ship." She says and Luis nods in agreement and they make their way to another location. "We should also collect some slither sucker samples, to see what is inside of them that makes the megasquid act so erratically." CG says and takes a sample while Luis scans some more fruit and gives her his scanner.

"I think we're almost done." Luis says and that last word, 'done' hits CG like a ton of bricks. She didn't want to mention it yet but their mission was coming to a close. Her father and his team were narrowing down the places she and her crew had visited to find out which ones were the most suitable for human relocation. Soon they would come up with a decision and the mission would be over along with her time with Ethan, Emily and Luis.

Nothing lasts forever... She thinks to herself as she finishes recording the data and looks at Luis taking a sample of some kind of fern. But these feelings she had developed for Luis were surely going to take her down. He was so tall, and handsome as hell! He was so smart and he expressed that trait so well. But she could see the end as her crush began. She sighed and looked at the sunset and then felt Luis's presence next to her. "Everything okay CG?" He asks and she looks at him with the same longing look he gave her earlier and she just nods.

"Yes, Luis. Thank you." She says and takes his scanner. Their hands touch again but this time he doesn't let go of her hand. Instead he takes the scanner out of their hands so he's just holding hers. She didn't know what was happening but her heart was racing from this contact. She looked up at Luis and he seemed to be experiencing the same thing. "What are you doing?" She asks softly.

"Honestly I'm not too sure." Luis says and chuckles a bit. "I'm guessing you don't really show affection like this in 12,000 AD huh?"

"This is how you are showing affection?" CG asks and blushes a bit and looks at their hands and Luis nods. "In my era affection is expressed mainly verbally. With occasional physical interaction when an emotionally intense moment is present."

"How do I do that?" Luis asks and takes a small step closer to her. "What do you want me to say CG?" The girl gently squeezes his hand and looks up at him, tears were brimming her bright eyes.

"Luis this mission is nearing it's end. Our time together is running out. Soon you will need to return to your era and I will never see you again. If in this short time we have left if we are to become more than just friends then my one condition is..." CG pauses and takes a deep breath. "Say you'll remember me. Collecting data with you, staring at the sunset. My red hair, and my rosy cheeks." She lets out a short chuckle and he smiles. "Say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams..." She says and looks into his now tear brimmed hazel eyes. Their faces were moving closer and they almost kissed when Ethan screamed on their communicators making them jump back from each other.

"Emily! Calm squibbon down! He almost knocked me out of a tree!" Ethan protested.

"Sorry Ethan! He saw a flish and you know he needs to practice catching those." Emily argued and Luis groaned in annoyance.

"Hey send us a warning next time you're going to scream over the communicator like that Ethan." Luis complains on his communicator.

"Sorry dude. I'll send a warning next time I decide to fall out of a tree okay." Ethan replies snarkily and Luis rolls his eyes and turns back to CG.

"We should head back to the ship." She advises and walks past Luis fairly briskly before slowing down and looking back at him. He came up beside her and gently slides his hand into hers.

"I'll remember you. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever imagine I'd meet a girl like you. And never in my wildest dreams will I ever forget you." Luis vows and the two head back to the Time Flyer in thoughtful silence.