Back with another chapter! Hope you liked the cliffhanger, I'm not a fan, it keeps me shivering in antici...pation. Okay I couldn't help it! It had to be done! Funny little thing about this chapter is that it was written for the initial draft of the story in which Winnie had been dumped on the Addams's doorstep as an infant. As such, it was written three months before the rest of the story had even begun to be written. Of course, I basically went back through it and changed a good portion of it to fit the storyline better. So there is a cute little author story for you! Hope you enjoy the chapter!

"Hello Garnet, welcome back!" File said the next day, finding the book on the shelves again. Garnet walked in timidly, her arm wrapped up in bandages. She quickly loosened up though once she noticed File had stopped staring at her arms.

"Hello File! I'm so excited to finish the story today!" Garnet cheered, once again feeling comfortable with the sound of File's voice.

"Wonderful, I must tell you though. This story is much longer than I initially realized though. It might take another day after this though."

"That doesn't bother me much." Garnet blushed, " It's nice to hear about mother in such detail."

"Good! Then lets begin!"

Winnie drove up to the spot where the castle was. As you had probably guessed by now, the castle had long since returned to Transsexual with Winnie's family in tow or what remained of them. She got out of her car to examine the blast site closer. She silently prayed that there was some sort of cloaking device on the castle and that her family hadn't abandoned her. For the first time since they sent her away she truly needed them and they were nowhere to be found.

She checked past the gate, all they way up to the fictitious doorstep. She could see grass growing where the castle once stood. A small sapling was beginning to grow in the center of where the castle was. Winnie slumped down to the floor in a patch of grass, noticing small scorch marks on the ground around her. Her family was gone, she finally accepted. For the first time since she was sent away she cried, her tears dampening the grass beneath her.

"Momma….Daddy…Columbia…Eddie…Uncle Frank? ANYBODY!" Winnie shouted into the sky. She stood up, suddenly fueled by fear and frustration she got in the car and drove back into town. The large television station must have held somebody who had at least seen the castle. Perhaps she could find the answers she now searched for with her every being.

She pulled into the parking lot of the station to find a man standing by the door smoking a cigarette. His head was bald and he wore glasses that magnified his eyes. His outfit was reminiscent of a doctor's but it had the color of medical scrubs. The very sight confused Winnie but she figured he was as good as anybody to ask.

"Excuse me?" Winnie walked up to him as calmly as possible. The man took one look at her and nearly dropped his cigarette.

"Yes?" His voice was calming but slightly creepy at the same time, it made Winnie happy to hear a voice that reminded her of home, her home with the Addams at least.

" I was wondering if you had ever seen the castle that used to stand out in the forest?" Winnie asked as politely as she knew how. The man's eyes grew wider under his goggle like glasses.

"What? How do you know about that castle? You don't look older than sixteen."

"You might be surprised to know I am seventeen actually, I had a friend that used to live there. I went to visit her and the castle was gone…do you know what happened to it?" Winnie tensed up over her flimsy excuse. The man nodded silently and looked down in deep thought for a moment.

"I doubt you will believe this but the castle blasted off into the sky about six years ago. It was amazing! Out of nowhere the castle blasted off into the sky with a beautiful rainbow behind it! It's a sight I will never forget!" The man smiled to himself.

"Oh…" Winnie was shocked that her family had left Earth almost a year after they sent her away. " They left? Do you know if there were any people in town that disappeared after? Did the family stay or did they disappear with the castle?"

" My, you are so full of questions aren't you?" The man sat down on the sidewalk, motioning for her to join him. " Why do you need to suddenly see this friend? Apparently you two haven't seen each other since you were ten, why now?" The man asked.

"Well…she was my closest friend in the whole world…if people care about each other…a little distance shouldn't hurt right? I needed some advice, that's all." Winnie sighed, resting her chin in her hands.

"If you need advice I'd be happy to help. I am a doctor; I work in the mental hospital in the station. Come on in, I doubt anybody would care if you came in."

"Oh? You are? If you could…that would be amazing! Thank you!" Winnie smiled at him, her eyes lighting up with hope.

"Certainly! Come with me." He stood up, offering his hand to help her stand. "My name is Dr. Cosmo McKinley by the way."

" My name is Winnie Addams, it's a pleasure to meet you." The two entered the bustling station; from the looks of it they were filming something. Winnie began to speak again but Cosmo stopped her.

"Pleasure to meet you too but please do remain quiet." Winnie marveled at the massive station, noting every little detail. The two entered a backstage area that looked like a mental institution; she visited many Addams family members so institutions were very familiar feeling to her. They entered a pure white office, it made Winnie cringe, she suddenly felt a longing for the deep colors of her home again. "Please, sit down." He motioned for her to sit in a chair in front of a large desk. Winnie noted a second nametag next to his on the desk.

" It's my sister's. She is around her somewhere." Cosmo smiled, clearly thinking of her. Winnie nodded. "So, tell me about your problem?"

" Oh, well..." Winnie paused for a moment to figure out how to word her statement properly. " You see, for the past year or so I have been seeing a boy...Stefano. I'm adopted and he is the nephew of my adoptive father. Yesterday he asked me if I would marry him...when we are both old enough of course but it's still scary and I'm just not sure if I can make that kind of decision just yet but I don't want to let him go. Once I turn eighteen then I have to leave the house and start my own life but...people will now have...how could I say this...they would finally be able to fully take advantage of me?" Winnie caught herself "Not in that way, of course not! But essentially I will have to choose between Stefano and my biological family because I am certain I could never have both. My biological family is…different." She tried not to completely lie when making up a story that seemed more acceptable than 'My parents are aliens and they blasted off without me and now I'm mad because I decided to fail my mission because I got scared'

"I see..." Cosmo looked at her, almost examining her face. He looked deep in thought again. He seemed nearly conflicted with the situation. He sighed and nodded, it seemed like this was something difficult to say. " Well my advice to you is to pick the one that truly makes you happy. You haven't seen your biological family in how long?"

"About six years, we were separated under unusual circumstances but I still love them...even if they don't love me..."

" So you are saying your family does not love you?" Cosmo frowned he almost looked hurt.

" No, they just sent me away...I had no choice. They got rid of me...but what if I do marry Stefano and one day receive a letter that says they miss me and want me to come home! I was ten; maybe I didn't understand why they did it at the time! Then I will have to live my life wondering what would have happened if I hadn't married Stefano and that is no way to live! And neither will choosing my family! I can't win..." Winnie head slumped into her hands, her shoulders beginning to shake with sobs.

" Now I understand." Cosmo looked at her regretfully, visibly torn. " I had to make a decision like this many years ago when I came to work here. I could have stayed home but never truly been successful, though I would have been with my family or come here but never returned because of the demanding work schedule. I was lucky, I got to have both." He looked over at his sister's nametag. " What you have to ask yourself is if you are willing to wait for that hypothetical letter from your family. Just think, if you were to marry this boy then you would actually have what you have always wanted, no?" Before Cosmo could speak any further the doors burst open to reveal a nurse in a short skirt.

" Hey Dr. McKinley! Have you seen Nation anywhere? I can't find her and there is this one patient that needs a sedative and I can't find my keys! Clumsy me right?" The nurse babbled on, eventually noticing the redheaded girl in the chair next to the desk. " OH! Hello! I'm Nurse Anslong!" She grinned, her perfect teeth nearly glimmering. Winnie stood up to greet her, when she turned, Nurse Anslong looked visibly shocked.

"My name is Winnie Addams, it's a pleasure to meet you." Winnie smiled, extending her hand to shake with Anslong. Nurse Anslong's eyes suddenly grew very wide with excitement. Refusing to simply say hello to Winnie, the nurse instead pulled her into a tight hug. Winnie just stood there, uncertain of this woman's sudden friendliness. Behind her back the nurse mouthed to Cosmo.

'Is she...City?' The nurse was shocked. Cosmo nodded while mouthing

'Possibly' back, causing the Nurse to nearly squeal. 'Now get out!' Cosmos interrupted the hug.

" I'm sorry Nurse Anslong, I haven't seen Nation. If you could excuse us, we are in the middle of a meeting." Cosmo sent Nurse Anslong away. She rushed out of the room as fast as she entered, wiping a tear from her eye. Winnie sat down, still slightly shaken by the nurse's display. She looked over at Cosmo for reassurance that the nurse wasn't crazy, Cosmo just shrugged, not letting on that he knew why the nurse had acted so strangely.

"...You may be right." Winnie said after a small pause. She realized that if her parents had left her alone then they didn't want her back. She felt part of a weight lift of her back as she realized that her home was on Earth, with the Addams, where she belonged. Of course that inevitable twinge of guilt still held true in her mind that someday her parents could come find her but she chose to ignore it for now. Her life was happening now, not when her parents would come looking for her. " Thank you for your help. I think I know what I need to do. I'm going to get married!" Winnie grinned, standing up and almost twirling around. " Oh my god...I'm going to get married!" She hugged Cosmo. At that moment a redheaded woman in a female version of Cosmo's uniform entered the room. Her eyes got wide with fury.

"Excuse me!" The woman got in between the pair. " May I ask who you are?" She shot a look at Cosmo, not necessarily paying attention to Winnie.

"I'm Win…" Winnie began to speak but Cosmo cut her off.

" She has a family member undergoing therapy here. He is the one that stopped sleeping and doesn't talk. She is his niece, I was reassuring her that he will be fine. She got excited. She was just leaving anyways." Cosmo motioned to Winnie to leave.

"Yes…" Winnie nodded, going along with his lie. " Thank you Dr. McKinley, that helped a lot. I'll be certain to invite you to the wedding! I'll just show myself out now…" Winnie left, slightly confused but ecstatic nonetheless. Nation scowled at her brother, she knew he had lied.

"So tell me, who was that? We both know it wasn't just some patient's niece, you should know by now that I can see through your lies Riff." Just as Riff Raff was about to answer his sister's question, Nurse Anslong burst back in the door.

"Why is City leaving? I thought she completed the mission?" She asked, " I was so excited to play with her again!"

" City…was here?" Nation looked over at her brother.

"Magenta, that was her. She is getting married…" Riff Raff looked back at his sister, knowing that she was going to snap any second. Magenta just stood there, having just realized that she sent away her daughter. The same one that they had come back to Earth to look for.

"Why….didn't you keep her here?" Magenta's face was frozen with pain and confusion.

"I couldn't tell her it was us. She looked too happy. I can't take that away from her, not again." Riff Raff pulled his sister into his arms; she began to sob out of frustration with herself. "I couldn't just ruin her happiness for our sake."

" I can!" Magenta suddenly sprung into action, fleeing down the hall after her daughter with Columbia and Riff Raff not far behind. The trio burst out the door to see Winnie driving halfway down the street. Magenta stood on the sidewalk in awe, completely unable to process what had just happened.

"At least we know she is safe with them…" Columbia shrugged, " She looks so different, I wouldn't have guessed! Why was she here anyways?"

"She came in asking for advice under some flimsy pretense. She wasn't sure if she wanted to marry him….and she wanted to know why her family abandoned her…" Riff Raff said, putting his hand on Magenta's shoulder. "She is safe, I'm glad for that at least. Maybe someday she will come back to us"

"Doubt it…"Columbia mumbled, thinking back to her conversation with the long-since-deceased Eddie. She walked back into the building, wiping a tear from her eye.

Ooh! Close call eh? So in case you didn't catch it:

Magenta=Nation

Riff Raff= Cosmo

Columbia+ Nurse Anslong

R&R please! Thanks for reading!

Jenny