A/N: This chapter is a bit shorter than the last few, it's also a little different. But I'm planning on explaining things through the story as we continue along on their quest. Thanks again to everyone who has hit follow/favourite or left a review. And thank you again to the lovely Sancturia for beta-reading and being generally confused at me sometimes. Find me on Tumblr at Wilsalx70, also feel free to tell me what you think of the story as a whole or just this chapter.

Please note. Every line break in this chapter indicates a switch of POV.

She's floating, feeling weightless as she drifts along, towards what she doesn't know. Her eyes refuse to open, arms and legs refuse to move. Voices, whispering all around her, calling her name. She can't focus, doesn't know who's calling to her. Faces racing by, she can't see them, but she knows they are there. She shouldn't see them, shouldn't be able to, her eyes are closed. The voices get clearer. She listens carefully, trying to pick out individual people that she knows from the from wall of sound. There! She recognizes one voice, then another. They shouldn't be here, can't be here, they died long ago, killed by raiders. 'How is this possible? She thinks. She feels a light pressure on her brow, like a mother's kiss. A face hovers above hers, her eyes are closed, but she still sees it. The soft features, prominent cheekbones, well sculpted eyebrows, long flowing brunette hair and hazel eyes – Just like...

"Kate!" Kyra shoots up out of bed, sweat beading on her brow and trickling down her cheeks and neck. Oh, it's not all sweat, some of it is tears too. She gasps as she feels the phantom pain shoot up her leg. The tears start flowing even heavier, the pain is too much, the sweat stinging her eyes, making her feel sticky and uncomfortable. The voices still ringing in her head, voices that she shouldn't be able to hear because she's never even met the owners of them. They had died before she was born, murdered, just like her own parents.

Martha comes bustling into the small room given over to Kyra to sleep in. Taking one look at the girl she rushes over to her bedside. "Bad dream darling?" Martha asks. Kyra doesn't answer, just throws herself into Martha's arms, clinging to her tightly and sobbing hard into her chest. Wrapping her arms tightly around the girls tiny frame, Martha soothes her and calms her down. She holds her tightly until the sobs slow and eventually stop; the girl crying until sleep pulls her under once more, exhausted from her emotional outburst, leaving Martha more confused than than when she entered.

She was confused. The voices were swirling all around her. They were too indistinct for her to recognize individual people. Faces swam around in her peripheral vision, which was weird because her eyes were closed. The pain in her leg was excruciating, her body felt like it was on fire and she couldn't move. The faces came closer, she could see them now, but they still weren't clear to her, like if they had been stood right before her. They were hazy, as if she was seeing them through a gauze veil. Her Mother and Father were there, looking at her with pride but also concern in their eyes. They faded before she was ready to let them go, only to be replaced by Richard. Worry was etched into his handsome features as he gazed down upon her. He disappeared after only a few moments and she frowned, felt a pang of pain in her heart at the loss of all of her loved ones.

A small girl came into view, with long dark brown hair and blue eyes. She looked adorable, as she looked up at here. 'Wait. Up? When did I turn around? I was looking up only a moment before and now I'm looking down? How the hell did that happen?' She thinks to herself. This just gets weirder and weirder, what the hell was happening to her? She leans down and lovingly kisses the young girl on the forehead. She watches the girl as her face contorts in confusion. They recognize each other at the same time, just as they are ripped away from each other. Why had she seen Kyra when all of her loved ones had been there just a moment before? She didn't even know the girl, in truth, she had only met her for a few moments before Kevin had taken her back to the village. She had felt something when she saw the young girl and heard her tale, she knew that. Maybe it was that feeling of both having their parents torn away from them by violence at such an early age? She didn't know, didn't have the energy to ponder over it now either when her body felt like it was burning. Katherine soon slipped back into unconsciousness as the pain slowly slid away again.

Lanie, stayed with Katherine all night, performing her healing magic on her leg to speed along her recovery. As she worked she wondered what had caused Josh poison her friend. The wound had been cleaned diligently, the bone set properly after it had been broken by the strong jaws of the hunters trap when it snapped closed around it. The blood flow had been staunched and the wound properly closed, it would scar yes but better that than not being able to walk properly ever again. This just didn't make any sense, she was missing something here. Why heal her leg only to kill her with poison?

She watched her friend tiredly, she had to be in excruciating pain yet she looked relaxed, almost if she were asleep in her own bed on any given evening. She was shocked when she saw a small smile form on Katherine's face a few moments after she had mumbled something about her Mother, Father and Richard leaving her. Yes, she thought, there were definitely things here that didn't make sense and needed explaining.

Richard came into the room where Lanie was treating Katherine a little later, he walked over to the bed and sat in a small chair beside it and took her hand in his. "How is she?" he asked of Lanie. "She's getting there, the leg is healing well and I think her temperature is beginning to come down." She replied. "But there is something I don't understand here. Why would Josh, heal her leg so perfectly only to fill her body with poison that would have been sure to kill her?"

Rubbing his hand down his face, Richard answered her saying, "I don't know. I don't understand that either. But I'll be sure to ask him before I kill him"

"I don't know what's going on her mind right now but she was mumbling something earlier about her Mother, Father and you leaving her. She was frowning while she was saying it but then all of a sudden a small smile just appeared on her face. It was weird, it was like something happened and even though she has to be in so much pain right now, she was happy, just for a moment, and then the smile was gone."

"I don't know what it was but if it left her smiling instead of being in pain then I'll take it and be thankful for it" Richard said. "I would take any and all pain from if her I could. I hate that she's like this." Lanie reaches over the bed and covers his hand where he holds Katherine's and gives it a small squeeze. "You really do love her don't you?" she asks. "I really do" he replies, "There is nothing I wouldn't do for her. And when we end this thing I plan on asking her to marry me. Seeing her here like this, so fragile and vulnerable, has made me realize that I can't and don't want to live without her by my side."

They stay silent for a while after that, until Richard eventually breaks the silence saying "When was the last time you slept Lanie? You look exhausted." "Before I got here. There was just too much to do and my girl here needed me" she answers. "Then tell me what to do and try to get some sleep" Richard says. Lanie shows him how much medicine to give Katherine and how to administer it and then curls up in a chair in the corner of the room, leaving her friend in the hands of her lover for a time, trusting him to wake her if anything changes.

Richard watches as the woman he loves more than he ever thought it was possible to love, lies in the bed where she had been moved after her leg had been healed. 'She's so beautiful' he thinks, 'So much more than I deserve'. He wants to hate his mother for not telling him the truth about his family, but in all honesty, he can't really blame her for hiding it when it has caused so much pain and hardship for so many people, including the woman lying on the bed before him.

As he considers this he comes to the realization that if not for his mothers past actions he wouldn't have met Katherine at all. And he wouldn't have Alexis, the sister he adores so much. Or any of his other friends now that he thinks about it. His friends... What they have done for him, and for Katherine... He'll never be able to repay that debt. They have put their lives on hold and in danger for them. Javier took a nasty cut to his leg from a sword while stopping Maddox from escaping, and Kevin... He knows he owes Katherine's life to Kevin's quick thinking. If he hadn't seen there was something seriously wrong as soon as he did Katherine might not be alive now. Using his magic to bring Lanie here without even stopping to think about it... Yeah, he definitely owes him big. And Lanie, she was dragged out of bed and brought here with no explanation and took immediate action, no mess, no fuss, no questions. Until she found the 'medicine' Josh had been giving Katherine. She had just got straight to work and began healing the woman he loved, and reversed the damage that treacherous bastard Josh had caused.

Josh would pay. First they would get answers, and then he would pay dearly for what he had done. Richard is pulled from his thoughts by the sound of Katherine sighing. Looking over at her, he sees a small, almost blissful looking, little smile on her face and he wonders to himself just what is going on in her head to put that smile there.

She sees it again as she rides away, looking back at her parents. She's not alone this time either, but instead of Alexis riding behind her, it's Kyra. The image changes and she's looking down at their graves again, only it's not Montgomery's arms around her this time. Kyra is holding her tightly, comforting her as she falls apart, just as Roy did all those years ago. Another shift, and she sees a tiny Kyra run as fast as her chubby little legs will carry her to her hiding place. She sees when Kyra returns to find the whole town burnt to the ground and townsfolk littering the ground around her, their cold lifeless eyes staring up but seeing nothing. She's there when Kyra finds her parents lying on the ground outside of their destroyed home. The attack had come so fast that they never had a chance to get more than a few steps before they had been cut down, after spending too long watching their daughter get to safety.

She watches as Kyra moves around the town trying to find someone, anyone, but everything and everyone she knew is gone. The young girl walked blindly around the corner of a building and finds a small puppy nudging at it's mother with it's nose, whimpering loudly as it's mother doesn't move. The rest of the litter lie dead on the ground around their fallen mother.

'Three children orphaned' she thinks. 'Two human and one canine. All losing their parents to senseless violence.' If she was awake she knows there would be tears flowing down her cheeks, from red rimmed eyes. She grips Kyra's hand tighter and pulls the girl into a tight hug, comforting her as she had been comforted herself by the small child.

The images in their minds shift and they see the faces from before. Once again, they are hazy and indistinct, viewed from through the gauze veil. Katherine looks down at Kyra as the young girl reaches out a hand somehow, someway, she rips the gauze aside. They see two women, smiling back at them before turning to each other and falling into each others arms. What astonishes Katherine the most is how the two women look so much alike, especially since one of them is her mother. Judging by the look on Kyra's face, it's a safe bet the other is her mother. The two women are so much alike you would easily imagine them to be sisters, but with no living relatives it's impossible to know for sure. The last thing they see before the gauze falls back into place is their fathers, pointing at the two women, and that at the two onlookers. With a small smile and a nod to them the faces disappear, and so does Kyra.

Katherine is back in the camp, having her dram bath with Richard when she feels the eyes on her again. She hears someone say "Go back to sleep, everything is OK." She knows everything isn't OK though, she was injured, so she knows she isn't in the camp this time. Her 'dream' eyes open fully this time and dispel the dream of the bath with Richard, and she sees Josh, coming back in to camp. A quick glance around and she knows everyone else is asleep, so where had Josh been?

Her eyes fly open and take in the room, that's thankfully dull as it still isn't full daylight yet. "Richard" she says. His face looms over her as he answers "I'm here love" "It was Josh, she says. "He was sneaking out of camp at night" Richards face clouds over as he says "How do you know? Did you see him?" "Not exactly" she replies, and tells him all about the bath they shared in her dream and how when she was half asleep she heard him moving around but her brain didn't process it. Richard thinks for a moment and then "That makes sense. We knew our movements were being tracked, we knew they were looking for us. They only way they could have possibly known where we were was if someone was telling them. It had to be Josh. And Josh did this to you too, put you in this bed for the last three days. He almost killed you Kate. God if it hadn't been for Kevin's quick thinking and Lanie's skill you wouldn't be here now" he finishes, tears gathering in his eyes as he remembers just how close he came to losing her. "Hey, hey" she says softly, her hand snaking out to grab his and intertwine their fingers "He didn't kill me, I'm here with you. And I'm not leaving you any time soon."

Kyra wakes up, tired and confused. She had just seen her parents and Kate's parents. She had seen them all before they died and after. How had she seen Kate's parents, she didn't even know them? When she had seen Kate's mother with her mommy though it was like looking at the same person in a looking glass. Or two sisters that looked exactly alike... what were they called again? Oh yeah, twins. It was like looking at twins. She remembered Kate's arms around her as she looked at herself finding her parents outside her home. 'She likes Martha' she thinks to herself, 'but there is just something about Kate that is different, special even.' She had seen it that night when her and Richard had found her, they didn't have to help her, they could have just hurt Midnight and took her if that's what they had wanted to do, but they didn't. They helped her. Helped Midnight too and brought them both here.

She had felt over the last few days that Katherine was hurt, she could feel her pain when she was with her in her dreams. Had it been getting better though and when she woke up today she hadn't felt the pain as she had before, it was gone now. 'Maybe Lanie will be coming home soon and she'll be able to tell me what happened.'