This is a huge author's note. I apologize. I just wanted to get it all out in one instead of spreading it out over the next few chapters I'm posting. xD
Ahhh! My first story broke 7,000 views! :D Sorry for not posting last week. Didn't get around to writing. (for anyone who doesn't care to hear about my vacation, as I doubt many of you do, just skip over this part, xD)
I walked over 5 miles every day in Washington D.C. (the U.S. capital) and got to see my best friend & boyfriend. c: It was pretty awesome. I got 11 pins - I collect pins for my pin hat - and have no room on my hat for them. TT-TT I was able to stand in the theatre President Lincoln was shot at though! It was such an amazing moment for me, as I'm a history freak. :D I'm glad to be home though.
*I dunno if I'll finish the story this week as I have a Linkin Park concert to go to wednesday :D, but I will by next week. I start school next week, meh. Dx Okay, no more rant about my vacation. *I think I'll write a prequel while we wait for season 3. And maybe a walking dead fanfiction. I'm still thinkin' about it. (Go ahead and tell me if you're interested in either though in the reviews or a private message if you'd like,c: )
AND THOSE CREEPY ALIENS AT THE END OF THE FINALE, OHMYGOD. AND ANNE'S PREGGERS, AND BEN'S FINALLY STAYING, AND HAL'S GOT THAT THING IN HIS HEAD, I HATE THE DROP OFFS THEY GIVE US. But it'll be awesome to write season 3, I can already tell. xD

"Tom Mason! Tom, are you there?"
I stood from my spot on the rooftop and looked down the street to see Karen holding a white flag. Rage filled me as I half listened to them talk and Pip had to hold me back. After her scene with Ben, I wanted to kill her - to put it bluntly.

"Calm down 'Stell," Pip had his arm hooked between mine, holding them behind my back, "Her time will come. Relax."
I felt Meredith become scared and sighed, forcing myself calm.
"Sorry Mere," I walked over to her once Pip let me go, "I've still gotta get used to this."
She looked up to me, her puppy dog eyes filled with worry, not fear, "I want you to be okay again."
I laughed, picking her up and hugging her, "I was never okay."
I turned to look at Karen when I heard her last words, "He talked to you when you were aboard his ship."
"They have the overlord?"
I put Meredith down and walked over to the edge of the roof, "They seriously caught the overlord?"
Before I had time to digest that news, I caught wind of Ben's voice a few floors below me, arguing with his dad. He was going to leave after we left the hospital.

He was going to leave me, after that.
It pieced together then. That was his goodbye. And when he talked about our relationship being up and down, he meant because of him leaving. He took me away to say he loved me before he left. It should have made me feel glad that he'd want to do that. But I only felt hurt, anger, confusion. So far the time with my harness off has been a crappy one.

I ran before anyone got to talk to me, loosing our connection easily as I jumped off the roof and into the hospital. I walked aimlessly throughout the hallways, trying to find him. No. Trying to find someone else. I needed a hug from someone who didn't see everything in my head.
"You lost, trouble maker?"
I turned to see Tector, someone I had only talked to once before now.

"Eh.." I spun in a circle to see that I really was lost, "A little. I'm trying to find the psyche ward."
"So you can talk to that fish head?" He laughed as he waved me to follow him, "It's pretty creepy looking. Didn't you talk to it when you were harnessed?"
"No," I shook my head, "It was considered an honor to be brought on a mission for an overlord, but we were only sent so the guardian we had - one of the rebellion - could free me like I had asked before I was harnessed."
He laughed again, "Man, I don't think I'll ever follow what's going on around here."

We walked up some stairs and to the left. I hadn't been on this floor before, "I don't think I can either."

"You gonna talk to it?"
I looked to him, "You don't sound worried when you ask a question like that."
He turned to look back at me, a bit of a smile played on his lips, "You've only been here to help. I don't think you'd turn on us. Not now."

I could sense him now. The overlord was amused. But it was pretending to be caught. I didn't understand.
"I can go from here."
"You sure? We're not even close though."
"I can sense him. I'll find him," I smiled to thank him before wandering off.

"You're welcome!"

.

Instead of going to talk to him though, I circled where he was at a few floors below my feet, wanting to hit something. I couldn't destroy another room in this hospital though. I still felt bad for the one.

"Jimmy.. I wish you were here to help," I whispered, my hand going to the compass around my neck, "You'd know what to do, what to say, to calm me down."

I heard Karen's voice and leaned out the window. Boon was standing next to Karen, a Mech behind them.

"Oh no.."

He started limping his way to our lines. But when he was half way there, the Mech started shooting him in the back until he fell to the ground, defeated.
I watched Tector fire aimlessly. I didn't blame him. I was even tearing up. I never liked Boon, but he was one of us.
I took off to the overlord's chambers. I was angry again. And I wanted it dead.
When I was walking towards the stairs, I felt Ben going towards them too. The overlord would surely hurt him.

"Dumb boy and his stupid ideas," I mumbled as I started to run there.
I turned a few corners and went down more stairs before standing at the end of the hallway, watching, listening to the conversation.

"He took Ben over," Pip whispered from behind me, holding my hand, "He'll hurt him if you hurt him."
I stood there, clinging to Pip's hand until the moment the overlord started to torture Ben.

"There, he's torturing him," I took the revolver out of the hands of a guard in the hallway and stormed into the room, the gun aimed at the overlord's chest while I felt him invade my mind.

These emotions make us stronger, not weaker you pathetic alien.

I pulled the trigger.