I would just like to make a quick message to these people who I could not send an e-mail to. Samantha, Jemmah and . I would love to write a story about mei and d'jok but I've got too much stuff on, so if I have time I'll try and do a one-shot and maybe in the future I'll make a story about them. Piechara and Yuna, I know my writing on Sinedd is not the best but I don't find it easy to write about him, he's too much of an confusing character but I swear I'll make it better in the future promise. :) Now on with the story.

Chapter 10: Family and Phone calls.

D'jok, Tia (Micro-Ices girlfriend) Yuki and Mana Ice, sat around a sleepy Micro-Ice in silence. Tia didn't feel comfortable sitting with everyone. She felt like she was intruding on some private matter but Sonny had instructed D'jok to not let her out of his sight while he went to make some phone calls (he muttered something about the Emperor giving up to easily) to some people. She knew D'jok had wanted to desperately go and see Micro-Ice as soon as he was free of his job, so Tia had suggested they go and visit him, while they still had some time. They had been sitting in Micro-ice's room for five minutes when his mum and girlfriend had entered the room. They had both been nice to her but still she couldn't help thinking this. I wonder what Rocket's doing right now, Tia consider to herself, moving into another comfortable position in the chair. From what Tia could remember Rocket said after every mission he came back from he would go to his parent's house. Mostly, around tea time because he would try to catch up on paperwork or have a rest. Looking down at the new watched that she had been giving; Tia saw that it was five o'clock. He would defiantly be having dinner with his family now, she sighed to herself. A knock at the door caught her attention. Turning around Tia saw Sonny waiting by the door. Quietly, she learnt over her chair and tapped D'jok gently on the shoulder and signalled him to his father. When D'jok realised who it was, he stood up, muttering a goodbye to everyone and then gestured to Tia to follow him out of the room. Tia followed them to what looked like some kind of car park. She had to suppress every laughing fibre in her being when Sonny and D'jok got in a fight about driving Sonny's brand new SUV. In the end Sonny won because he quoted that even if he had been shot in the arm, no one was allowed to drive his car. D'jok acted like a gentlemen and let Tia sit in the front seat or maybe he just didn't want to be the one flying out the window when Sonny crashed the car. Whatever his reason, he instantly fell asleep in the back seat.

"So Tia, what do you plan on doing now that you're on Akillian?" Sonny questioned, as he stopped at a set of traffic lights. Tia had come up with an idea but quickly dismissed it when she saw how hopeless the dream was.

"I did have an idea but it was silly, so to be honest I have nothing." Tia answered, leaning her head against the black leather seat behind her.

"What was your idea?" He asked, as the light went green, putting the car into gear and heading forwards at full speed. Tia twisted her long white blond hair between her fingers, nervously before replying.

"I... I wanted to go back to school." Tia replied, chewing her bottom lip anxiously, as she waited for Sonny's answer.

"I don't see what's so silly about that." Sonny's mused. Tia relaxed a little when Sonny agreed with her plan. She knew she was acting silly but with her biological father had been very critical with every move she made. She was always trying to impress her father and with Sonny being a father figure in her life at the moment; the habit was rearing its ugly head again. The only time she could remember her father being proud of her was when she had married Jonathan; that hadn't turned out good. "What made you think it was a silly idea?" Sonny spoke randomly, making Tia snap out of her thoughts.

"Well, I can't go to college without any applications and when I get my new identity I won't have any of those." She explained. The Flux society leader had gone through all of the details when they met in his office, so they could speak privately. He stated that they would give her a new identity and a bit of money to help her start off, although finding a job would be a problem because they wouldn't be able to give her any applications to set her up with. He had also explained that she would need to go in for a training session every week to learn how to control her flux. As Tia started to drift out of her thoughts, she noticed that Sonny had gone quiet; when she turned to look at him she saw he had hid thinking face on. Whatever he was thinking it was probably something important that she shouldn't disturb. The remained of the journey was spent in silence until they came across a roll of neat looking houses.

"You might want to cover your ears." Sonny suggested. Tia shot him a confused look but did what she was told. She wondered what Sonny was going to do when he suddenly slammed his fist on the wheel and beeped the horn. It all became clear when the car shook and D'jok leapt up from the back seat of the car. "You're home." Sonny sang innocently back at D'jok. Wiping the sleepiness from his eye's D'jok grumbled something that sounded like random curses as he stumbled out of the car. Tia couldn't help but giggle at D'joks antics, as she waved goodbye through the window. Sonny's house wasn't far from D'joks as they parked a couple of streets over. Sonny helped Tia out of the passage seat and guided her towards the house. It was a small cosy looking house, with a little garden and a tiny pond hidden in the corner. Breathing in the fresh Akillian air, Tia couldn't help but look to the future.

Rocket parked his car behind his parents green houses. He swore to himself when he jumped out of his car and landed on his bad leg. Muttering curses under his breath, Rocket limped to the front door of his parent's house and pressed the doorbell. The door swung open to reveal a teenage boy with baby blue eyes and pale red hair. His mouth fell open in shock; revealing braces.

"Hey Jamie, long time no see." Rocket smiled at his fourteen year old cousin who stood frozen in the door way. A few moments, after standing shocked in the hallway he ran in shouting his head off.

"Mum, Dad, Uncle Norata, Auntie Kira, Rocket's home!" Rocket laughed at Jamie's rant as he followed him into the families living room, where he was suddenly attacked by two eight year olds; all three of them falling on to the floor. They all started laughing their heads off, as Rocket mess both their hair up.

"Rocket! We spent ages doing are hair before we came here." The twins argued, as they push Rockets hands away. But despite their annoyance, Rocket could tell his cousins were happy to see him. When his other cousins got off him he was then bombarded with kisses and hugs from his mother. After half an hour of his mother's love and affection he was able to greet the rest of his family and was then pulled in to the kitchen to help cut up the vegetables. He tried to act as normal as he could but he couldn't. Rocket's mind kept drifting back on to Tia and Sinedd. Chills went up his spine as he thought back to the interrogation.

Rocket and D'jok had been watching Sinedd for over an hour. Sinedd had said nothing to the two interrogators, he just kept smiling; that was what freaked Rocket out the most. Rocket couldn't shake the feeling that Sinedd knew something very important but at the moment he was just playing with those two men. He wished he could just go in there and beat the crap out of him but he kept reminding himself he couldn't do that without himself getting himself into trouble. However, the atmosphere changed completely when the interrogators mentioned Tia.

"Why did you try to kidnap the girl?" One of the officers demanded. This was probably the first time they had mentioned today's events, so far they had been asking Sinedd if he had been working for Bleylock. At the mention of Sinedd's actions, his dirty little grin grew even bigger and an evil glint sparkled in his violet eye.

"You mean the weapon." He smirked, staring right at Rocket. Rocket would of probably gone right in there and beat him a couple of times for refereeing to Tia as a weapon, if D'jok hadn't placed an hand on his shoulder to remind him of reality.

"What's the weapon?" The other interrogator questioned but for the next few hours, that was the only thing Sinedd said. For the rest of it he sat there and smiled.

It was clear that Sinedd knew something about Tia that they didn't. Could it possibly be connected to Tia being the only person in the galaxy having the Breath? Yes he was sure of it. What other reason could there be? He shook his head, as he tried to concentrate on the task he was working on. But it didn't take long for Tia to slip back into his thoughts again.

"Ouch!" Rocket cried out when he accidently cut his finger with the knife he had been using to cut the tomato up with. He had been so distracted thinking of Tia that he hadn't been paying attention to what he was doing.

"Are you all right Rocket?" His mother asked, as she learnt towards her only son and inspected the injury. Rocket didn't even bother arguing with her because she was just as stubborn as he was. Heck, everyone in this family had stubbornness burn into their genetics'. Just as his mother finished inspecting his wound, his phone began to ring. Usually he would ignore it when he was with his family but when he saw it was Sonny's number; he couldn't resist answering it and finding out about Tia.

"Talk to me Sonny." He spoke, picking up the knife again, so he could finish preparing dinner for tonight. He saw his dad give him a dirty look when he heard Sonny's name. His dad could never forgive Sonny for letting Rocket join the army, when in fact it was Rocket's decision and Sonny had done his best to scare Rocket, D'jok and Micro-Ice off from joining. His dad was one for holding a grudge.

"Uuuummm... Hey, it's Tia." When Rocket heard her sweet voice over the other end of the phone, he nearly dropped his knife again, almost chopping off his finger. Rocket couldn't have been more grateful for the lessons on keeping yourself calm in surprising situations.

"Oh, hey Tia." Rocket replied back, finally over his shock. He could feel his heart beating more rapidly for some reason; maybe it was because he nearly cut his finger off.

"Hey... again, I hope I'm not interrupting." Her voice echoed nervously from the phone other side of the phone.

"No, not at all." Rocket answered, placing the stuff to one side, as he mouthed some random excuse to his mother and walked quickly out of the kitchen and out to the family terrace, where he could clear his head and pull his thoughts together. "So, how did it go?" He asked, finally thinking of something to say as he tried to get the conversation going so he could hear her voice again. There was a silent pause, as he waited patiently for her answer.

"It was ok. I have to go and see the leader of the flux society once a week, so I can learn how I can control my flux and I'm going to the protection program tomorrow to get my new identity." She explained. Rocket was nodding to what she was saying, before realising she couldn't see him.

"So how do you feel about getting a new identity?" He questioned, leaning against the wall behind him.

"Honestly a little scared." She answered; Rocket could tell she was a bit frightened by the whole process because he could hear the hesitation in her voice.

"Don't worry, Sonny's been through the whole process before, so he'll look out for you. " Rocket tried to comfort her. He knew she was in capable hands because he knew a few people that worked out the protection agency and they would try to be nice and helpful as they could for her, plus he knew Sonny would do all he could to help her. There were a few moments of silence, making Rocket think he had lost connection or something before she spoke again.

"I hate to ask this but... is it possible that you could come with me as well, I know it's a lot to ask but..." She hesitated to finish off the sentence, as she struggled to find the words to express how she felt.

"I'll meet you there." He finished for her. To be honest he was kind of thankful that she had asked him because he wanted to be there for her. He could a deep sigh of relief on the other end of the phone. The rest of the conversation they talked about normal thing's like music and what they were having for dinner. They went on like that for ages, until his mother called for him, saying that it was dinner time. He regrettably said goodbye and went to meet his family. Dinner started off fine but Rocket couldn't shake the feeling that they were keeping something from him. He tried to shake it off but the feeling refused to go away. After what seemed like an eternity of silence (but was actually a couple of minutes) Rocket was about to ask what was up when his young cousin decided to ask him a question.

"Was that your girlfriend you were talking to on the phone Rocket?" Jamie asked out loud, making Rocket turn at least fifty shades of red.