Like I said, the last chapter wasn't the end of the story. It was actually I guess a prolog... But, if you're just reading this, you don't really have to read my other story, but it'd be nice to know what is happening. So... basically... yeah. You probably would end up confused if you don't go to my profile and read River's Story before this. Just fair warning. Now, let's get on with it.

Italics are Greek, unless otherwise indicated.

Bruce's POV

I spot something as I finish my patrol, something strange. And that's something, coming from someone who sees strange on an almost daily basis. A girl, no older than 16, is asleep on top of a telephone pole. There's snow in her blonde hair and on her clothes, though it didn't snow anytime today. She moves, rolling off the pole and I catch her. I shiver, she's tiny, and I can feel cold radiating from her, even through my sleeves. An earbud falls from her ear and I can hear metal music coming from it. I take out the other one and follow the cord to... her bracelet. Ok, color me surprised.

I take her back home and bundle her up in blankets. I get Alfred to watch her while I go to take a shower.

River's POV

I wake up and feel soft blankets wrapped tightly around me. I figure Danny had found me asleep and brought me home. I hear silence and remember my 'surprise' birthday party. I jump up, eager to eat cake and ice-cream, play games, and who knows what else they planned. I'm not in my room, though. "Danny? Samantha? Tucker? Little Dido? Dani?" I get louder as I call each name, my voice squeaking with tears. I curse under my breath in Greek.

The door opens and I hide behind it as it swings in. An elderly man walks in with a tray and I slip silently out. Somehow, I bump into a kid about the same age as me with black hair and the bluest eyes I've ever seen... oh, Zeus, they're beaut... focus. I need to get home. I side-step, and he matches so he's still standing in front of me. "Move."

He smirks and steps when I step again. "Look, I just want to go home. Move."

He crosses his arms and his smirk turns evil. "Make me."

An equally evil smirk creeps onto my face. "If you want me to." I put my hands on his shoulders and start to turn him around. When he braces himself, I let go suddenly and run at the wall. I run through it and drop to the ground from the second story. Ouch. I recover and run through the grounds, disappearing from sight.

As soon as I get off the property, I turn visible again. I can't believe I showed someone one of my powers. 'Great. Now the GIWs are gonna be after me.'

I sit down on the curb, wondering where I am. Something in my back pocket crinkles. I reach in, pulling out two papers, one a note from Clockwork with my name on it, and another with an address on the front. In the light of the rising sun, I read it. It reads:

I'm sorry, River. I should have told you what was going to happen, but I know you would have done everything in your power to stop it from happening. You are no longer in our universe, you are where you should have been over two years ago.

I've already enrolled you in school, Happy Harbor High School. You will be attending. I've also arranged for you to stay with some friends of mine. Show them the second note. Please don't make a situation where I have to step in.

CW

I groan. School? Really? I crumple the note and throw it into the street. One hissy-fit later, I'm flying over the city, looking for the place mentioned in the note.

After a while of searching, I find a map and head to fricking Happy Harbor. Seriously, what were they smoking when they named it? After a longer while of searching, I find the house. By that time, the sun has risen fully and school buses are picking kids up. I shrug and knock.

I hear someone shout, "I'll get it!" Something thuds several times, like someone fell down stairs, and the same voice curses. Another voice chides the first one with "Wallace West! Watch your language!" The door opens to reveal a boy with blazing red hair and bright green eyes. "Mom! I have no clue who this is!"

The boy grins at me after shouting to his mother. "Not that I'm complaining."

I narrow my eyes at him. I let my accent slip through, making my voice sound menacing. "I'm only going to say this once, I'm not interested. Hit on me again, and..." I trail off as someone, a woman who I assumed is his mother, walks out of the kitchen.

She looks me over and tells the boy to get ready for school. She stands in front of me with her hands on her hips. "Are you lost?"

I shake my head, wordlessly handing her the note Clockwork had told me to give to them. She reads it, her expression unreadable. A man walks in, eating a pancake. "We're out of syrup, honey. Who's this?"

The woman hands the man the note, and his face breaks into a smile. "Well, it looks like the exchange student is here."

The boy pokes his head in, eating a pancake as well. "Mom, we're out of syrup."

His mother looks at him and the man. "Yes, I know. Your father just told me. Wally, would you mind walking to school with Dido?"

Wally looks blankly at his mom. "Who?"

I cross my arms at him. "That would be me, jar-head."

His mother crosses her arms too. "Ok, to school, both of you. Dido, we'll get some supplies for you tomorrow."

Wally and I nod and after eating, his mom doesn't like to see anyone leave without at least offering food, we're walking to school. We don't say a thing until we get there.

I'm going to have to end this here. Please review. I don't care if you flame, I'll take it as a compliment that you felt you had to review after reading my story. Heck, I'll take it as a compliment that you read my story. That means either you read my other one and liked it, or you saw it and thought it looked interesting. Either way, thanks for reading. Even if you never read anything from me ever again. :D