As we neared the hospital I could hear Kyle's voice echoing throughout the tunnels. "We have to save her! "

"NO! It's not your choice!" I heard another voice. I looked at Lily for the answer, "Burns" she whispered.

We reached the hospital in time to see Kyle lunge for Burns. Jared tried to reach for Kyle but Kyle was too quick and his fist made contact with Burns face. "Kyle you hot headed son of a-" Jared started to say.

"HEY!" we all ducked as we heard a loud bang. As I looked up it was Uncle Jeb who had fired the shot gun. "I've had enough!"

"Me too, Jeb, can you get them all out of here. I can't get Sunny healthy with all this racket!" I have never heard Doc so aggravated before. Uncle Jeb nodded at Doc. "Everyone to the game room"

Burns had recovered and was standing on his feet now and he turned to Doc "Fine" he said "But if you remove that Soul, so help me I'll-"

"You'll do nothing" Nate said. Burns turned to Nate with hurt on his face. "Nate, you of all-"

Doc interrupted before another fight "I'll do nothing; I'm just trying to wake her so we can give her water. She's severely dehydrated and there is no telling when the last time she ate was. I'm going to heal her and get her healthy. Now go!"

I made eye contact with Ian and as Jeb shuffled everyone toward the game room I waited on Ian at the end of our group.

"What's happened?" I whispered.

Ian put his hand in mine "This morning as Nate's group was leaving for a raid, they found Sunny in the dessert. Lily and Lacey recognized her and they tried to wake her. They insisted on bringing her home to us." He sighed "Doc suggested removing Sunny immediately to so he could wake Jodi and to get food and water in her. There's no telling how long she's been out. Doc's real concerned, her pulse is weak. Burns is flipping out; he doesn't want Doc to remove Sunny"

Oh, I was hoping that it wouldn't come down to this, I knew by Burns recent questions that it would. I have caused a rift in our world of survival by giving Doc this knowledge. I knew Burns wouldn't understand. The situation was complicated and I had to give Melanie back. I didn't think of the repercussions of my decision, but then I didn't know that other Souls felt the same as me. "Stop it." I looked at Ian in surprise. "Stop worrying about things you can't control. What's done is done and you did what you did for the benefit of everyone." He stopped me before we entered the game room. "Wanda, I have never met a person like you. You put the needs of others before you and you never think of yourself. Now you have our family to think about." He smiled and rubbed my belly. He kissed my forehead and said "I love you". We both took a big breath and entered the game room.

"All right, let's get this started and over with, we have a very sick girl on our hands." Uncle Jeb started "Nate, Burns how this works is each person will be given their chance to speak. We will discuss this and all final decisions will be mine because this is my house. Burns, you first"

Burns cleared his throat "Wanda showed you how to remove Souls. This is wrong in so many ways and I am conflicted with this myself because of Lacey. The Souls you remove should have a choice; you shouldn't remove a Soul just because you see it fit. Have any of you thought once, just once about the effect this would have on the Souls? What you are doing here is wrong. Obviously that Soul doesn't want to leave that body or she wouldn't have wondered through the dessert looking for a safe place."

Jeb nodded, it was valid point that Burns has made. "Kyle, go ahead"

"Ok, Burns you say what are doing here is wrong. Fair enough, I get that and we can stop after today. We have to save two lives today. Sunny and Jodi, don't you see Burns they both will die. Let's not forget the fact that Souls stole the bodies they are in now and have no right to them."

Everyone nodded in agreement and started chattering. I gripped Ian's hand tightly for confidence. "Uncle Jeb, may I speak?" Jeb nodded "Of course Wanda. Go ahead" I looked at Ian nervously and squared my shoulders "Burns please don't be offended when I tell you that you don't know what you're talking about. You don't know what it's like to have someone in your head. Your host ceased to exist. You don't know the pain and the hurt that comes with this. I can speak for the Souls who experienced this. It's not pleasant. Melanie and Lacey can both speak for the humans being trapped in your own head, not being able to control your own body. Burns, we were wrong to come to this planet, I think you agree with me there. All Souls have been safely sent to other planets. We have been saving both human and Soul! Surely, you can see this!" I paused and I thought back to Trudy's words "Sunny was scared, change positions with her. What if after all these years, your host started talking to you in your head. What would you do?"

Nate then spoke up "Burns, you're the brother I've never had. Surely you can see their point. We have to save both girls. This may be the only chance. We have to make the right decision and put our opinions at bay, they don't matter in this situation anyway."

Burns' face tightened "I understand, can you please just do me one favor? Just slow down on removing Souls please, it's not fair to them to be uprooted and shipped off, it can be frightening to them"

Uncle Jeb smiled and slapped Burns on the back "Buddy, I don't have a lot of room here, I don't think we have much of a choice there. Jared, Mel you two know what to do."

The decision was made peacefully and I was happy that we can save Sunny and Jodi. "Let's go see Doc" and I pulled Ian to the hospital. When we arrived Candy was cleaning Sunny's face. Doc looked up at us and smiled warily. Ian said "Jared and Melanie are going to get Sunny a body. They'll be back soon" Doc looked relieved. "I've used the Awake and it hasn't done any good. I'm worried that she might have slipped into a coma. I'm going to guess that it's safe for me to remove Sunny?"