Ok, sorry that it took me so long to write the next chapter, I won't bore you with the excuses (I could go on forever) thank you sooo much to all of my reviewers I am amazed by how many of you there are!
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Jesse Tuck was no longer just her past. Nor was he looking past her anymore, he was looking at her. And, if she didn't know better, she would swear he was going to have a heart attack by the look on his face.
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Winnie didn't know what to do. When she drank from the spring so many years ago, she had been filled with hope and joy at the thought of spending forever with Jesse. But, as time wore on, her hopes were slowly eroded until none of them were left. She didn't know what had happened to the Tucks, she came up with many ideas, everything from them finding a way to die to them deciding not to come back, and even, in her most depressed and delirious hours, an evil super villain had captured them and was keeping them in a lab, testing them to see why they wouldn't die.
Eventually she had stopped coming up with reasons why they didn't come back and tried to stop thinking about them altogether. It hadn't worked, the only thing she was able to do was push them to a back corner of her mind where they only nagged annoyingly all the time.
But now, with Jesse standing right in front of her and Miles somewhere behind, it was like a door opening and all of her memories and squished hopes came at her like demons.
Seeing Jesse in front of her her handsome face staring, shocked, at her and his hair (slightly longer than it used to be) falling slightly over his eye, made her realize how she had finally been able to forget. Winnie thought he had been able to get over him through the many years she had survived, but that moment proved her wrong, she still loved him, after everything she had been through, the many nights lying sobbing in some hotel bed or another, remembering, she still loved him! And he didn't love her. He hadn't come back for her, they didn't find a way to die, and they most definitely weren't in the evil clutches of a super villain. At least in the last two scenarios Winnie had been able to believe that he still loved her. But he didn't. This thought made her want to break down sobbing right there in the airport terminal, right in front of Jesse.
But she couldn't do that, she couldn't let him see her cry. It was a childish thought but it was the only one running through her head. So she turned and walked away, leaving a stunned modern-age Jesse standing in the heavy foot-traffic of the New York airport.
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Again sorry I was so late in updating (excuses again) and I'm sorry this chapter is so short. I am mad at myself for waiting for so long to update. I promise to update sooner this time with a (hopefully longer) chapter