(meanwhile Jamie's POV)

The rain storm had come out of no where and we all rushed around the house to unplug anything that wasn't on a surge protected power strip and to get the windows closed. As I was shutting the one in the living room another flash ripped across the sky overhead. It startled me but should not have thrown me back, which was the next thing that happened. Though it was fast enough that I couldn't really tell if it happened next or at the same time. I was guessing same time by the fact that the world had gone dark and I felt... a whole lot of nothing. Oh, great had I gotten struck? Well shit, I hoped the others were okay.

I was lying in the tall grass, in the middle of who the hell knows where. The sky was clear over head and my only thought for the moment was that I was glad the damned storm was gone. I laid there and tried to feel if anything was broken or bleeding. I slowly moved my head, my neck seemed fine so I dared to look at my arms that I couldn't feel. They were attached at least, but as I knew dislocation could cause numbness, so I moved my fingers. Yep, that I could do. It was tingly but the feeling was starting to come back now, kind of like they had fallen asleep. I could feel my toes and hoped that meant that I wasn't paralyzed or anything like that. I slowly sat up and instantly regretted it as my head swam and pounded. Too fast, too fast. I carefully plopped back down and covered my head as I laid there, trying to convince the headache to go away. I'm not sure how long I stayed there like that but at some point I managed to get to a sitting position and my head had finally stopped hurting. I looked around and found charred bits of the window frame laying in the grass a few feet away from me. I could only see part of it but it was definitely toasted. I wasn't sure about standing just yet as my legs were still quite sore and didn't seem very cooperative about being even remotely stable.

"Babe?" I heard my girlfriend Dee calling for me.

Where was she? I could hear her but, "Babe!" she said more excitedly as she came up behind me and hugged me to her, "Are you okay?"

"I think so. I don't think anything is broken, so that's a start." I said as I smiled to her.

She helped me up and I knew my first conclusion about my legs had been right, they still weren't being very helpful and I had to lean on Dee to be able to stay standing. Still they didn't seem to be broken, just really sore. I looked at her and she seemed fine except for a small cut along her forehead.

"What happened?" I asked.

"I woke up in a tree." she said.

"Oh, so you fell out of it?"

"Yeah, kind of."

I looked at her and she knew she was going to have to explain that one, "I got startled awake by a pissed off squirrel. It was throwing stuff at me and I fell out of the tree. It was a short fall, so I'm okay. Have you seen Bo?"

"Nice subject change, darling." I said teasingly, "No not yet. Come on we should probably look for her and make sure she's alright too."

"Hey is that smoke?"

"Yeah, looks like a campfire. Come on lets go see if it's her!"

We were nearly at the tree line when I heard movement and made Dee stop.

"Wait." I said quietly.

"What's wrong?" she asked but was answered as we both heard the footsteps coming towards us, "Should we run?" she asked softly.

"I'm not sure. What if it's Bo?"

We were both ready to run if we had to but decided to wait and see who it was. They were definitely closer now and soon enough two young men were walking out of the forest. It didn't take me long to figure out who they were either, as I'd seen them before even if my memory of it was a little foggy. Gaara and Zero were walking towards us.

I breathed a sigh of relief and started forward, Dee tugged me back, "Who are they?" she asked nervously.

She had never met them, Bo and I could talk with them because we could astral project but Dee had never had any kind of control of it. She could do it from time to time but it was random and her memory of the experience was worse than ours had ever been.

"It's Gaara and Zero." I told her.

"You're sure?" she asked as I started forward again.

"Yeah. Hey guys." I said as we finally reached them.

"Are you both alright?" Zero asked.

"Yeah, we're okay. You guys?"

"We're fine. Have you seen any of the others?"

"No, not yet. I was hoping maybe you had. There is a fire going over that way, maybe it's them." I said pointing to the fire which was more visible from this angle.

"Perhaps. Let us hope that it is. Nice to meet you Dee." Zero said as we all began to walk together.

"Hi." Dee said uncertainly as she walked with us, "How is this even possible? Where are we? What happened? And how are you here? I was just watching you on tv!" Dee exclaimed as her own paranoia set in.

"None of really knows right now. We'll figure it out Dee, don't worry." Zero said in an attempt to be comforting.

While it did shut Dee up, it only left her brooding with her thoughts and doubts. I was wondering many of the same things but there was no point panicking about it if they didn't know any more about it than we did. At least we were together and I hoped we'd soon be finding Bo and who ever was with her as well.