This should have been posted a week ago, but the wouldn't let me log in, and then I was in Ottawa. So, in other words, I'm sososo sorry that this is so late!

That being said, my challenge introduced in chapter three is now closed, as the answers are revealed in this chapter. I'm gonna write them in her too, in case anybody actually bothers to read my montorous author's notes... The green and white charm is the Green Lanern Symbol. The R belongs to Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's original sidekick. Thank you to all those who tried, and congratulations to all winners!

Oh, I'm also still in need of a beta reader... Someone wanna recommend me one?

I'm gonna stop rambling for now, but there will be an authors note at the bottom that I feel the need to write, and would appreciate if people read. Thanks, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club. The song used at the beginning is 'Twenty-Four' and it belongs to Switchfoot. Green Lantern, Robin, and all other mentionned superheroes belong to DC comics.

Chapter Six

When Kaoru came to, it was, once again, to Julie's voice, singing softly.

"I wanna see miracles
See the world change
Wrestle the angel
For more than a name
For more than a feeling
For more than a cause
Singing- Oh!"

Her voice broke off when she realized that he was awake.

"How are you feeling?" she asked gently, worry evident in her features.

Kaoru realized that he really had no idea how he was feeling, so he decided to take a moment and observe his surroundings before coming to a conclusion.

His mind felt sluggish and slow, but he wasn't in any pain, which came as quite a surprise. Julie was looking down at him, and that's when Kaoru realized that he was laying with his head in her lap. He felt feather light touches on his forehead, and realized she was stroking his hair.

It really wasn't uncomfortable when he stopped to think about it…

"Yeah, I'm okay." Kaoru replied. "How long was I out for?" He tried to sit up, but there was an intense jolt of pain across his torso, and he gasped. A pair of cool hands touched his shoulders and forced him to lay back down. The hair-stroking resumed.

"Try not to move too much; it'll irritate your wounds. I'll go get some more ointment."

She carefully shifted out from under him, sliding a pillow under his head as she did.

"They left us a first aid kit." She threw the words over her shoulder. "It isn't much, but it we'll have to make do."

Kaoru noticed that her movements were very careful and small, and with a jolt her remembered that she had been tortured as well.

She returned to his side holding a slender tube, already mostly empty, twisted and mangled. With a feeling of slight horror he realized that she was going to use that last of the lotion on him.

"No." he said as she sat next to him and took the lid off of the container.

"What do you mean, no?"

"No. I don't want it." He pushed her hands away from his body forcefully.

"Don't be stupid Kaoru, of course you do." She was smiling, but her eyes held a warning, don't-you-dare-contradict-me sort of expression.

He steeled his nerves as he prepared to do just that.

"I don't want it. You use it instead."

She laughed, and Kaoru looked at her in shock. He had just done a very selfless thing, and she was laughing at him!

"What the hell are you laughing at?" he asked her moodily.

She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself down.

"I'm sorry Kaoru… but… It's just… that was so stereotypical of you, thinking that since I'm a girl I need this more than you do, when it's actually the other way around."

Her face grew serious, sombre. "Don't worry about me. I can take the pain. I'll be fine."

She moved her hands towards him again and, again, he swatted her away.

"No, you take it. Please."

He turned the puppy dog eyes on to her. Didn't she understand that he had promised himself that he would never deliberately hurt her again? Taking this from her would be breaking that promise.

"Kaoru," she spoke in a calm but deadly tone, "just take the damn ointment."

"NO! You'll be in pain, and-"

She cut him off abruptly. "I said I can take it!" she said sharply.

"But I won't let you be in pain. I won't!"

She looked at him, anger blazing in her eyes. His eyes drifted down from her face to her torso, unable to bear the look of anger for any longer, and he was alarmed to see a growing red stain on her shirt.

"Julie," said Kaoru, panic evident in his voice, "you're… bleeding."

She looked down at her chest in surprise, then muttered, "Aww damn it…" under her breath. She stood abruptly and walked towards the first aid kit, pulling her top off in the process.

"I really liked that shirt…!" she moaned childishly as she began to unwrap the bandages that were encasing her ribcage. Kaoru looked at her, shock mixed with a tiny bit of anger in his expression.

"Are you not concerned in the slightest that you are bleeding?"

She gave him a funny look. "I'm changing the bandages, aren't I?"

"Well yes, but you're acting so… so nonchalant about it. You're injured, and all you seem to care about is your stupid shirt!"

"Hey! It's a nice shirt! My aunt Jamie bought it for me…"

"That's beside the point! You're in pain, and you don't even seem to care!"

"That's because this isn't that bad! I've been in pain a lot worse that this in my life!"

Both of their eyes widened, Kaoru's in shock, Julie's in astonishment for actually having said that.

"What do you mean?" Kaoru asked.

She gave a resigned sigh. "Look at me, Kaoru. Look at my body."

He did.

And that's when he noticed that underneath the dark red cuts covering her torso, there were other scars, some faint, some fairly fresh and recent looking, criss-crossing her skin.

"Where on earth did you get all of those?" he demanded.

She was now rewrapping her body with a roll of thick gauze and studiously ignored the question.

"Julie," Kaoru said in what he hoped was a warning tone, "where did you get those scars?"

She continued to work for a brief moment before she began to speak.

"That…" she paused, "is none of your business."

And then there was silence.

Kaoru, for his part, was livid. What, or who, had done this to her? Was she abused at home? Why couldn't she tell him?

She finished with the gauze and put three pieces of medical tape across the edge to keep it stuck down.

"Look," she said, "it's not that I don't want to tell you, but I can't!"

"Why can't you?"

"I can't tell you that either."

"Why not?"

"It's classified." Her tone was brusque, and he looked at her, mildly shocked at her behaviour. She winced at the expression on his face. "Just… forget I even mentioned it, okay?"

"How the hell am I supposed to do that?"

"I don't know… Just… Oh God, I'm so bad with words!" She buried her face in her hands.

And once again, silence reigned supreme.

"It's why I sing so much you know." she said suddenly, surprising and confusing Kaoru quite a bit.

"Beg pardon?"

"I'm not very good with words. So, I try to find a song I can use to express what I'm feeling, or whatever I may be having trouble explaining for most any situation."

Kaoru wasn't quite sure where to go from there, or even what to say. "Ah, I see." was all he could force his rebellious vocal chords into saying.

She sighed softly.

"Except for… I don't have one for this. I've no idea what to say."

And silence fell again.

Kaoru realized that they had crossed a line at some point in this conversation. This wasn't about healing ointment anymore; it was something that could change the entire dynamic behind their slightly rocky relationship.

Now that he thought about it, he himself had no idea what to say in this situation either. So, he resigned himself to a silence crackling with tension and unspoken words.

Julie's body had slid to the floor and she continued to hide her face, now in the crack between her knees, as the tension in the silence continued to grow more intense.

They were teetering on the edge of something big now, Kaoru knew it. He didn't know what would happen either way, but he knew that this moment, right here, right now, would change everything that currently mattered in his world, which was himself, her, and the relationship they shared.

o0O0o

Kaoru wasn't a big fan of silence. It always felt so awkward with anyone besides Hikaru, so he tried to avoid it whenever possible. With a brother like his, it wasn't that difficult. The two of them weren't called the Little Devils for nothing- they thrived on chaos and noise and general insanity, Hikaru especially. Kaoru was more along for the ride.

Or so he thought. But now, in this suffocating silence unlike anything he had ever experienced, Kaoru realized that maybe he thrived on chaos and noise and general insanity just as much as his brother did.

o0O0o

They had probably only been sitting there for about five minutes or so, but to Kaoru it felt like it had been hours.

o0O0o

It was a new feeling for him, this not knowing what to do or say. He wasn't really sure how to deal with it.

It scared him, in a twisted sort of a way, if he were to be completely honest.

o0O0o

"Look," Julie said, finally breaking the ever-growing, oppressive silence. Her voice was so loud in comparison to the absolute absence of noise they had been experiencing that Kaoru nearly jumped out of his skin.

"Let's just start over, okay? Let's forget everything that's happened in the last little while and begin again on a clean slate."

Kaoru was shocked for a moment, before his face morphed into a more thoughtful expression. Start again… He quite liked the sound of that. Perhaps then he would get real answers out of her, if he played his cards right.

"Okay," he replied, mindful of his tone of voice, "that sounds good."

She smiled and walked over, taking a seat on the bed once again. After some more careful manoeuvring, his head rested once again in her lap and the gentle hair-stroking resumed. Kaoru sighed and leaned towards her touch.

She laughed lightly. "Enjoying yourself?" He grunted. She giggled again.

They sat in a much more comfortable silence for a time, and Kaoru was just beginning to doze off when the sound of her voice snapped him back to attention once more.

"Do you want to play Twenty Questions?"

He craned his neck slightly to look at her. "What's that?" he asked, rather puzzled.

"It's rather self-explanatory, Kaoru."

Twenty Questions…?

Oh.

Oh!

Duh…

"Why do you want to play that?" he asked, trying to distract her from his complete lack of common sense in that moment.

"You're the one who always goes on about getting to know me… Now you finally get a chance."

"Okay. So… How do you play, exactly?"

She sighed. "That's pretty self-explanatory too, Kaoru…"

At his look of exasperation and slight confusion, she relented to explaining the basics to him, but not before muttering "Honestly? You've never played Twenty Questions? What kind of deprived childhood have you lived?" At his glare, she finally got around to telling him the rules of the game.

"Pretty much, you take turns asking each other questions about any and everything. Normally, my friends and I play where if we refuse to answer a question, we have to take off an article of clothing, but judging by our current position and your current condition, plus the fact that we don't know each other very well means that we'll need to think up a different consequence." She paused for a moment, the added, "And it may be called Twenty Questions, but we used to just play until we got bored. So, in other words, there's really no limit.

Kaoru nodded his head. "Got it. What's our consequence gonna be?"

"Let's see… We can't bet anything, 'cause we don't have anything to bet… We can't really do much in the way of dares either…"

Julie got a thoughtful look on her face.

"There's only one thing I can think of that we could do in this situation, and it's really awkward…"

"What is it?"

"Well… Before we heard about the stripping idea from Scott's older sister, Arielle, we played maybe three or four rounds where you had to kiss whoever had asked you the question that you didn't want to answer."

Kaoru blinked owlishly, processing this in his head. "So… we'd just have to kiss?"

She was looking anywhere but his face, cheeks tinged with a bright but faint shade of pink, when she replied rather shortly and abruptly with a single word; "Yup."

"Nothing fancy like tongue of French kissing?"

She gave him a look and countered, "What kind of girl do you take me for, Kaoru Hitachiin?"

He laughed lightly at her comment then replied, "No then? Well, that's not too bad… Let's go for it,"

She quirked her eyebrow at him. "Really?"

"Yeah, sure. Why not?"

Despite how confident he sounded, on the inside Kaoru was a mess. The logical part of his brain was screaming at him, 'What the hell are you doing? You take that back right now!'

But, apparently, the rest of his brain wasn't listening to that small section, and Kaoru said nothing more on the subject.

Julie shrugged her shoulders in a very good impression of a casual manner. She seemed as unaffected as Kaoru was pretending to be, but he could tell from the slightly pink tinge that persisted on her cheeks that she was just as uncomfortable and embarrassed as he was. They were both far too proud ever to admit it though.

'This should be interesting…" Kaoru thought to himself, the slightest him of a smile hovering around the corners of his mouth.

And so the game began.

o0O0o

It was a very informative game, Kaoru realized. He had unearthed many interesting, albeit random, things about Julie over the course of the two or so hours they had been playing. Kaoru didn't actually know how long it had been- Julie's watch was set to Central Canadian time, and she said that unless she knew exactly where in South America they were, she wouldn't be able to tell him.

They hadn't exactly followed the rules of the game either… but when had either of the Hitachiin twins been known to stick to the straight and narrow? It was no big thing; they just took turns asking questions, and then they would both answer them for the most part. There was the odd personal question, like Julie asking Kaoru to explain what the Host Club was, but other than these few exceptions, they tried to keep things fairly generic.

Kaoru learned that Julie's favourite colour was either purple, turquoise or aquamarine, her favourite foods were plain Ritz crackers and manicotti, the most embarrassing thing that had ever happened to her was being pulled into a the lake by a ten pound bass when she was nine, while fishing off the dock at her great-grandparent's house, and that she enjoyed writing in her free time.

Kaoru, in turn, had told her more about himself than most of his own family knew. It wasn't really his fault- she was just so easy to talk to…

He had told her that his favourite colour was actually blue, but everyone thought it was orange except, of course, for Hikaru, that his favourite food was pancakes with maple syrup, that his most embarrassing moment when was Tamaki had accidentally pushed him into Hikaru, and they had ended up kissing for real in front of the ENTIRE Host Club AND it's patrons, and he enjoyed drawing in his very small amount of spare time.

Kaoru was really quite pleasantly surprised that this game had managed to keep his attention for so long a period of time. Normally, he lost interest in things rather quickly.

But… Miss Julie Rutherford-Hopkins really was a very fascinating person.

o0O0o

"What's you guilty pleasure?" he asked, God only knows how much later. Julie Blushed and mumbled something unintelligible under her breath.

Kaoru smirked.

"Sorry, could you repeat that? I didn't quite catch what it was that you said…"

Her face still on fire, Julie muttered, slightly louder this time around, "Manga and anime."

Kaoru blinked, surprised. "Really?"

Her blush deepened further, if that was even possible. "Yes really. They provide me with an escape from reality."

Kaoru debated asking her why she needed an escape from reality, but decided that it wasn't safe ground to tread on at this time. Instead he asked, "What sort of manga do you read?"

"A bit of everything, but my two favourites are Fruits Basket and Black Butler." She paused for a moment, looking slightly awkward, then said briskly, "Well, what about you? What's your guilty pleasure?

It was Kaoru's turn to blush. He had momentarily forgotten that he would have to reciprocate when he had asked the question, and was now seriously regretting it.

Her eyebrows rose at the (presumably very embarrassed) look on his face.

"Come on," she cajoled in a laughing voice, resting her right elbow on her knee, her face on her loosely clenched fist, and gazing down at him, a smile playing at the corners of her mouth, and mischief dancing in her deep blue orbs, "spill it, dude."

Kaoru made a face, crinkling up his nose in mock disgust.

"Did you just call me dude?"

She stuck her tongue out at him childishly. "Yes, I did. Now answer the question!"

Kaoru was still hesitant to reveal that particular piece of information. No, it was much too embarrassing.

But, then again, so was the alternative…

"Come on Kaoru!" Julie sing-songed.

"I don't wanna!" he whined pitifully.

"Well, it's your choice in the end," she began, completely straight faced, "but you know the consequence if you don't!" Her neutral expression had morphed into a cocky, confident smirk by the rime she was done speaking.

Kaoru took a deep breath, steeled his nerves for what was sure to come, tilted his head to look at her, pushed his body up slightly with his elbows, ignoring the searing pain shooting across his torso…

And kissed her.

Straight on the mouth.

It was nothing fancy; just a small, quick peck on the lips. It was still as embarrassing as hell though.

Kaoru had closed his eyes when he pulled away, more embarrassed than that day in Host Club, but when she didn't make a single sound for rather a large about of time, he cracked his eyes open and nearly started laughing at the look of complete and utter shock on her face.

Her eyes were wide and surprised, her mouth hung ever-so-slightly open, her eyebrows scrunched up slightly in confusion, blinking almost constantly, with her head cocked slightly to the left side and her mouth turned down at the corners.

The hilarity of the situation chased away his embarrassment that Kaoru managed to say cheekily, "Your turn!"

She shook herself out of her daze, and in a rather flustered voice stuttered out, "Oh, right… Umm… What's your, uh… favourite video game?"

And so the game continued.

o0O0o

An infinity later, Kaoru finally mustered up the courage to ask the question that had been plaguing his mind since they had begun to play.

"Will you tell me what the charms on you necklace mean?"

She blinked once and shrugged.

"Sure, which ones do you want to know about?"

Kaoru hesitated for a brief moment before saying, "All of them. Weather or not they actually mean anything, I still want to know why you wear them."

"Alright." Her voice was quiet, distant.

She pulled the cord off her neck and held it up. It jingled softly and glinted in the harsh florescent light of the room. She began to speak, voice soft and faraway.

"The beads and the leather were a gift from an old Cree woman named Tanis, which means daughter. She lives on the Native American Reserve near my house. She and her son, Mahihkan, which means wolf, also gave me the carving of the eagle's feather, because that's what they call me; Mikisow; eagle.

"That's a carving?"

"Umm… Yeah! Have you ever seen a real eagle's feather? They're about this long!" She indicated a distance of about a foot between her hands, "It would have hung down to my stomach! That would have made it hard to move without ruining it, plus I'm really ticklish… Anyways, the feather symbolises bravery.

"What about the others? Do they mean anything? Well," he amended, "besides the yin-yang one and peace over there. I already know those ones…"

"Well, the only other one that actually has any significance outside of personal, sentimental stuff is this one here."

She indicated the green-and-white circle that had so baffled Kaoru during his initial look-over.

"It means 'willpower'. It's also the symbol of the Green Lantern Corps."

Kaoru gave her a baffled look and she laughed sheepishly, blushing once more.

"Right. I keep forgetting that not everyone is as big a nerd as I am… The Green Lantern Corps. are a group of superheroes, each hailing from a different planet and the protectors of the universe. They're comic book characters from the DC universe."

He looked at her, mystified. He had never heard of anything quite like this, not in Japan. It was really quite interesting, to be honest…

"What do they do? What are their powers?" he asked, eager to learn more.

"They protect the quadrant they're assigned by The Guardians. They have something called a 'power ring' that runs on willpower, , and they can create anything they can imagine using one; their only limit is their own creativity."

Kaoru opened his mouth to ask her more about this Green Lantern Corps., but she cut him off, saying, "Do you want to hear about the rest of the charms or not?"

At his look of disappointment she added, "we'll talk Green Lantern later if you want, okay?" Kaoru nodded and gestured to the charm next to the Green Lantern symbol.

"What's that one, then?"

"This is Bast." she replied, fingering the cat shaped pendent fondly. "Joshua gave her to me on my ninth birthday."

Kaoru's eyebrows furrowed.

"Umm… What's a Bast?"

Julie chuckled then replied, "Bast, or on occasion Bastet, is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of cats. She was actually quite widely worshipped way back in the day… Y'know three thousand or so years ago, round about?

Kaoru was, once again, mystified. He had never been a big fan of history or ancient civilisations, but the way she spoke of it, softly, almost reverently, so unlike his history teacher's harsh, droning tone… She made it sound like the most fascinating thing he had ever heard.

He realized he had been laying there silently for rather a long while, so he quickly forced out, "How about that one?" and pointed to the strange looking, pointed R hanging next to the newly dubbed Bast.

Julie fingered the charm, eyes distant, unfocused, a slight smile on her face.

"This is Robin's symbol… He's my absolute favourite superhero, ever. Even though most people only consider him the sidekick of the 'all powerful' Batman, if they've heard of him at all. Anyways, my two pretty much best friends in the world Kristen and Peter bought it for me on my thirteenth birthday. Kristen's almost as big a fan as I am, and Peter… well, he just didn't know what else to get. They both covered half of the total cost."

Kaoru was still stuck on the superhero part. What sort of amazing powers would this guy have for her to like him even more than those Green Lantern people she had spoken of earlier?

He decided that this question needed to be asked before she moved on again.

"What are his powers?" His voice sounded overly eager even to his own ears, and Kaoru inwardly cringed at bit at the sound of it.

"Nothing. Robin has absolutely no powers. All he has to help him in his crusade against evil are phenomenal detective abilities, and acrobatic skills."

Kaoru gazed at her, confusion clearly visible in his expression.

"Then… Why do you like him so much?"

She laughed, but there was no humour in it.

"Because he has no powers. He's no more than a boy of fifteen or sixteen with no super natural abilities to speak of. He isn't bullet-proof super fast. He can't summon a wall to protect himself or fade from sight. He could die just as easily as any other person in the entire world, yet he still goes out there and fights for the greater good. That's why Robin is my favourite superhero."

She spoke with a degree of conviction and passion that Kaoru had never heard from her before. It made him see, not for the first time, that there was so much more to this girl than met the eye, that was for certain.

She shook herself out of her Robin-induced haze and grabbed hold of the next charm, a silver rose.

"This was a gift from my Uncle Jim on my ninth birthday, before he died."

"How did he die?"

"He had leukemia, and the chemo treatment totally killed his immunes system. He got shingles, and he just… never got better."

"Oh."

Why was it that no matter what he said, he felt guilty for drudging up painful memories?

"What about the snowflake?" Kaoru asked, hoping to take both of their minds off of her dead uncle.

"This one? It was a gift from my cousin David. He was in the army, and the first time he came home from… I don't even remember where, I was only six. But, it was the first snowfall of the year, and I dragged him out tobogganing, I was so excited to see him." She sighed. "He gave to me before he left on his last tour to Iraq when I was eleven, and… he never came home; MIA."

Kaoru had a sinking feeling in his stomach, but felt the need to ask anyways.

"MIA? What does that mean?"

"Missing In Action. MIA. They never found his body, so we have no idea if he's dead or alive, though the former is more likely."

"That's terrible! I'm so sorry!"

"It's no big deal. He knew the risks going into it."

"Why then? Why did he join?"

"It's kind of expected. My family has been involved in the military in some way, shape or form for seven generations. Either that or the police."

"Really?"

"Yep. Sir Samuel Steele, my great-grandmother's great-uncle, was one of the founders of the RCMP." At Kaoru's look of confusion, she added, "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police."

Kaoru took a moment to process this information. She seemed to sense this and allowed him to silently go over things in his head before continuing on to the next charm, a heart shaped opal inlayed in gold.

"From my grandfather. I've had it for as long as I can remember. I think it used to have a chain of it's own, but I've long since lost it." That was all that she said before launching into a brief description of the dolphin charm.

"From my mother. It used to be a necklace, but the chain snapped, so I put the charm on here."

"Why'd she buy it for you?" Kaoru asked curiously.

"Because I really like dolphins."

She had reached the second to last charm; a pair of golden ballet slippers.

"My dad bought these for me after my first ever dance recital. They were earrings, but… whatever."

Her eyes held that faraway look again. With a bitter smile she said, "They're probably my favourite girt he's ever given me."

Kaoru decided it would be unwise to broach the subject, no matter how he may have wanted to ask why. Instead he asked, "What about that one?"

This was in reference to the only remaining charm; the silver oval engraved with the letters CAF.

She hesitated slightly before she replied.

"CAF stands for Canadian Armed Forces."

Well, why do you wear it then?"

"What do you mean?"

"You've had a reason for wearing all of the others, therefore you must have one for this as well. So, what is it? Why do you wear it?"

She bit her lip and looked indecisive for a minute. Then she leaned over and pecked him on the lips, cheeks on fire but eyes solemn. And Kaoru understood. He didn't broach the subject.

Yet later on, as she called off the game for the night pleading exhaustion, Kaoru couldn't help but wonder exactly what Julie was hiding behind those guarded blue eyes…

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS NOTE! IT IS VERY IMPORTANT. THANK YOU!

Okay, so this note is here to clear up some confusion that might result, especially from this chapter.

As you may recall, the character of Julie is based off of myself. Well, I want people to be able to distinguish me from my character, so I'm going to specify what aspects of Julie are true also to myself, and which are purely fiction. So, here we go.

the random facts when Kaoru is summing up the game are true.

2. I don't actually have a twin. I do have a brother, but his name is Josiah, not Joshua, and he's only nine

3. My family has been involved in the military, the navy, and the police, but it is not something that is expected of anyone.

4. I really did have an Uncle Jim who died of Leukemia

5. I do have a relative named David. He's my moms cousin, and he is currently teaching English in Japan and practicing martial arts. He has never been involved in the military to my knowledge. He was a stunt man in "The Bride of Chuckie", though.

6. I don't own a charm necklace, nor do I know any Native American people. I live in the city, so there is no Reserve near my house.

7. My favorite superhero is Robin, for the reasons stated.

8. I don't have alot of scars, like Julie does in the start

9. I do have an aunt Jamie. She's my mom's half-brother's wife.

10. I've never played strip anything before in my life...

11. My best friends names really are Kristen and Peter.

12. My last name isn't Rutherford-Hopkins, except for on Facebook. My friend Matt came up with it in math class last year.

13. My first name is Julie

14. I don't speak a bunch languages. I'm fluent in English and French, can get by in Spanish, and know bits of Gaelic and Japanese.

15. My favorite mangas really are Fruits Basket and Black Butler. Ouran is on there too, but I couldn't very well put it, as this is an Ouran story.

16. Julie isn't good with words, which is untrue of me, because I am

17. I really am a large nerd, and didn't have to do any research for that rant about Green Lanterns.

18. I don't have any confidentially information about myself. I could tell anyone anything about myself if I wanted to

19. I really am related to Sir Samuel Steele, and he really was one of the founders of the RCMP

20. I don't have a friend named Scott, and I don't even know someone named Arielle.

21. Julie's apperance is pretty much the same as my own, save for the fact that I have glasses and she doesn't.

22. My grandfather really is dead.

I think that's all. I'll post lists of similarities and differences whenever new things are learned about Julie, so that there the difference between author and character remain clear. Thanks if you weren't intimidated by the length of this thing. Next chapter is written, so expect it up soon.

~JM~