"So that's that." Mackenzie said at the tribe meeting. She looked around at all the faces and over at Ved to make sure she had made her point clear. She had tried to make amends with him, but it hadn't worked. He wasn't ready to talk to her, he wasn't willing to forgive for what she had said.

"Thank you." Amber smiled nodding. "She brings up a lot of good points, it's going to be easier to take them down from inside the city, using their own weapon's against them."

"It won't be easy to get any of us into the city." Bray said looking around at them. He felt like the leader again. "Ram will have increased everything since we left. He will be worried about a takedown, he is expecting it to happen."

"They will have made it harder to get through sectors, most likely there will be a curfew, and a lot of check points, so it will be best to start with the Zoo, the out skirts of the city weren't under any control, they were a no man's land." Lex said, trying to use the memories he had of the Techno's to help them.

"Ebony do you have anything to add?" Amber asked smiling over at her.

Ebony looked around at all the faces, and then over at Jay, who was seated at her side. She wished she could go back to their morning, to the moment she was lost with Jay, the moment that felt real to her. She looked across the room at Mackenzie, and lastly at Bray and Lex. But seeing Bray, it brought back the string of memories she couldn't separate, real and fake.

"Ebony, and I aren't going back to the city." Jay said speaking for her, noting her expression. They had agreed that they would tell everyone, to make it easier on all the planning.

The whole room seemed to explode with noise.

"What?" Alice asked.

"You can't be serious." May shouted.

"Calm down!" Lex shouted, making everyone fall silent.

"This was your idea, you asked for this Ebony. You wanted to go back." Amber said looking at her.

Ebony slowly pushed herself up from her chair and let out a breath. "I don't need to explain my reasons, and no one should expect me too. I am not going back to the city, and I am also not staying here at the farm." She looked at no one but Bray while she spoke.

"What are you saying?" Mackenzie asked.

"You're leaving." Bray whispered, for him it was almost like no one else in the room, they all faded away, and all he could see was Ebony, standing before him, announcing that she was leaving him.

Ebony tried not to look sad when Bray spoke, he was the reason she didn't want to say anything. But she knew that Jay had a point, to make it easier on everyone, they had to know. "I have no reason to go back, and no reason to stay here." With that she left the barn, and the stunned mallrats behind her.

"And you're going with her?" Pride asked, turning to look at Jay who was still seated.

"I will stay and help with plans, both Ebony and I will. But she's not ready to go back, and I'm not going to force her." Jay told everyone.

"Not ready, she was the one that told me to start making plans. She's the one that asked that we go back." Amber shouted frustrated. She didn't understand what had just happened.

"We should have known that she would have done this, if there is nothing in it for her, why would she want to go back." Trudy sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Don't talk about her like that." Bray snapped looking over at Trudy. "You have no idea, none of you do." With that, both he and Lex left the barn.

"Did he just stick up for her?" Ellie asked, unsure of what happened.

"She can't be doing this." Amber said, still looking confused.

"She was ready to go when she wasn't having to face her own memories, when everyone was so focused on Bray remembering, and helping Lex adjust." Jay said looking sad at Amber. He had always thought that her skill was to think about everyone, to see how everything affected everyone, but it seemed like Ebony didn't count, no one bothered to stop and think about how she was dealing with everything, who she was talking to.

"And no one bothered to help her." Mackenzie breathed out. "I have to check on her." She said before leaving the barn, Honestly and Lane right behind her.

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"If you'd rather be with her, than just go!" Amber shouted at Bray.

"She's my wife Amber, even though you can't understand that, she has been with me for the last year." Bray tried to explain to Amber, but it seemed pointless, everything he was feeling, she didn't understand, and it seemed to him that she didn't even want to try and understand.

"I am your wife." Amber glared back at him. "I am the mother of your child, not her." She could feel the tears falling, warm against her cheeks.

"You're being ridiculous." Bray said shaking his head. "You're being selfish."

"I am not selfish!" Amber screamed. "I am making plans to get our city back. I am trying to keep this tribe together, and our family!"

"Then you need to give me the space to work things out." Bray said looking at her. He didn't understand why she couldn't understand that, why she was refusing to look at this from their point of view, their jumbled and mixed up view on everything.

"You don't need to give me any excuses." Amber said taking a deep breath, to calm herself. "If you want to be with her, then just go, be with her, despite everything she's done."

"This doesn't have anything to do with what Ebony has done, this has to do with what her and I are going through." Bray shouted. He was beyond frustrated with her. She wasn't listening to anything he was saying, and she wasn't even trying. He looked over at her before leaving the bedroom, Amber and his son's room.

It was already dark outside, and he wasn't sure that he knew his way around enough to wander around out in the dark, and the small house seemed crammed with people since the Eco tribe members, Pride, May, Danni, and Johnnie where all camped out in the living room. He went towards the kitchen, but there he found Alice, Tai-san, Ellie, Cloe and Jack. Without saying anything to them, he headed back out the door, and towards the only one that was left, the one that lead to outside. There was a small glow coming from the barn, he figured it would be his best bet.

"That wasn't the smoothest way to tell everyone." Lex laughed.

Bray paused outside the door, looking through the crack, the glow of the fire was low, but enough to light up Ebony, Jay and Lex, all sitting on the dirt floor.

"It's better to tell everyone now, than not show up when they are expecting us." Ebony sighed. "Although I think they would have been less surprised if I just didn't show up."

"And you're sure you won't change your mind?" Lex asked the two.

"My mind is set." Ebony nodded. She rested her head on Jay's shoulder, his arms holding her.

"And I'm not willing to give her up again, for anything." Jay smiled, his hand was on top of Ebony's.

Bray pushed the door open, and watched as the three of them all looked up surprised to see him. He looked down at everyone, he tried not to linger on Ebony.

Jay wasn't surprised when Ebony pulled away from him. "I'm going to head back, see if I can find some more blankets." He nodded towards Ebony. He knew that the three of them needed time together, they needed each other in ways no one else could understand.

Ebony smiled and nodded at Jay as he left the barn, when he was gone, she looked back down at the fire

"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt." Bray sighed, suddenly feeling very unwanted by the one person he felt like he needed.

"You're not." Lex laughed. "Sit down, join our group in hiding from the madness."

"This does seem to be the calmest place." Bray added sitting across from the other two.

"You know what, I don't think you two have really had a chance to talk since everything." Lex said pushing himself up.

Ebony looked up at Lex, throwing daggers at him with her eyes. Why was he doing this to her? She had avoided being alone with Bray since he had remembered.

"You need to talk." Lex smiled over at Bray, "And not to me." He said before leaving the barn.

A long silence sat between them, neither of them sure what to say to the other. Ebony kept her eyes on the small flames, while Bray kept his eyes on her.

"How are you?" Bray asked, needing to hear her voice.

Ebony looked up at him, unsure of how he wanted her to answer that question. "I'm fine." She finally decided that fine would work.

"Ebony." Bray whispered after another long pause of silences.

Ebony looked up at him again.

"I don't hate you. I don't feel any different towards you, than I did before I remembered." He whispered looking her in the eye.

The words felt like a knife to her. He felt the same way, but she wasn't sure of what she felt, and she knew he had to have that same pull towards Amber that she had for Jay. "Don't tell me that."

"But it's the truth. And if that is why you've been avoiding me, because you think I hate you, you need to know." He breathed out. He moved over, he needed to be able to touch her, he needed to be able to feel her next to him again.

Ebony watched him for a moment, trying to organize her thoughts. "The way you feel for me, it isn't going to change anything, I have already made up my mind."

"You can't leave, you can't leave me." Bray looked worried and hurt.

Ebony smiled, she had seen this look so many times before, but at the moment she wasn't sure which times were real and which were fake, they all seemed too real to her. "I'm not leaving forever." She took his hand, and watched as hers fit perfectly into his, their fingers laced. "I need to go away, for a while, to figure out what is going on in my head, to figure out all these memories. I need to do it alone." With her free hand she traced over his knuckles, something she knew she had done before, something she knew was real.

"But Jay is going with you." As soon as the words left his mouth he felt very immature. He knew it wasn't the right thing to say, it wasn't his place, but he couldn't help but feel jealous. He wanted to take back what he had said.

Ebony could feel her stomach tighten. She looked at Bray and back at the fire. "I don't want you to think about me." She whispered. "I want you to think about getting the city back, getting it back for all the kids that call it home." She looked over at him, and despite the tears in both their eyes she smiled. "I want you to think about your sons, and creating a new and safe world for them."

"And you, when can I think about you again?" Bray asked.

Ebony thought for a second, still smiling at him. "When you're able to remember the real me, and not the way Ram made us think I was."

"You will come back." Bray smiled and leaned in, kissing her once softly on the lips and then holding her. Holding her in his arms was something he had been thinking about, something he needed to do to feel right again, but he didn't want to upset Amber or anyone else. It seemed like whenever he or Ebony were in the same room together, everyone was holding their breath, or watching their every move.