A/N: I'm so sorry I was gone for so long! The semester ended up being crazy busy and then when I got back I was in Disney! I've returned now with one of my favorite chapters! Hope you enjoy!

At first, Finn wasn't quite sure what had happened. It was like he had very suddenly woken up after not knowing he was asleep. His mind was hazy, and he wasn't quite sure where he was or how he'd gotten there. He blinked his eyes over and over as he tried to process it all, and then he heard his name.

He looked up. Amanda was crying. They were on Tom Sawyer Island. Why was Amanda crying? His eyes widened as a wave of memory came over him, and suddenly, he knew. He'd forgotten her. He'd changed the world and he'd forgotten her and then he'd kissed her and now he remembered her and she was his girlfriend and she was standing in front of him and he'd forgotten her and she was crying.

They met eyes and then, at the same time, they lunged forward, enveloping each-other into an embrace. Amanda's arms squeezed him as tightly as they ever had and he pulled her close to him, cradling her head in his hand and trying to quiet her cries as they intensified. If he could, he knew he would stay like this forever, never letting go of her ever again.

"You were right," he whispered, and tears filled his own eyes as well. "We shouldn't have tried to change anything; it was too risky."

"You were right first," she replied. "I should've listened to you all along."

He broke the embrace and held her face in his hands, wiping away her tears with his thumb as she continued to sob.

"You were dead," she blubbered. "The last thing I saw you were dead and I was holding you in my arms and I thought I was never gonna see you again…"

Her cries took her over just as Finn pulled her into him again, letting her tears soak his shoulder.

"Shhh," he whispered, filled with guilt now that he'd done this to her. "I'm not leaving: never again; I promise."

After a moment, Amanda pushed away from him and wiped her tears away with a forceful hand. He watched her closely, and they still stood inches apart.

"You were right about something else though." he said softly.

"What's that?"

"Even when we changed things...fate brought us together."

Amanda's laughed brightly, tears still streaming down her face.

"Guess it's destiny then," she teased, though she knew the words were true.

"Amanda," Finn said seriously. "I love you."

His heart soared as he said the words that he'd scribbled nervously weeks ago onto a note that he'd meant to give to her when she found him, its envelope left as a clue, the note he'd never actually gotten to deliver.

Amanda giggled.

"I love you too," she said. She'd known it for a long time, realized it while he was missing, but this was the first time she'd said the words out loud, and immediately it felt like the truest thing she'd ever said.

Finn's eyes bared into her own, and there was something deep inside them. His cheeks raised in the slightest smile, and then he was leaning in again, and she was too, and then their lips met once more. It was sweet and right and perfect and magical just like the last one, only now she knew right away who she was kissing, and what it meant. She wrapped her arms around his neck again and stood up on the tips of her toes, pouring every ounce of her soul into his own, so that he'd never be able to feel he was without her again.

They parted and Finn kept her close, holding her cheek in his hand again. Both of them were smiling, and crying, and somehow this felt like the most important day of Amanda's young life. He was hers and she was his, and, even though they were young, and even though she knew others would laugh at it, she knew that that was how it was meant to be forever. This was her fairytale, and nothing, not even entering a parallel universe, could take that away.

Just then, something dawned on her, and she stepped back.

"Wait," she said.

"What?" Finn asked.

"What do we do now? I mean, clearly we remember, but we're still in this other…whatever this is."

Finn's smile changed into a look of confusion as well. In all his joy, he hadn't considered that point.

"Well, let's just get off the island first," Amanda said. "I think we already know why Jess' dream sent us here."

Her face formed a smirk as she said the words, and Finn returned a smile. He held out his hand and, after a moment, she grabbed it. They gave each other one final look before jogging off of the island, laughing all the way.

Ten minutes later, Finn and Amanda, still holding hands, ran into Frontierland and immediately stopped. It was much different than the scene they'd met before. The area music was playing in full blast, and characters were everywhere, walking and skipping around, some even dancing to the music.

Amanda let out a chuckle as her hand came to cover her mouth.

"What the…" she started.

"Oh my God," Finn said, cutting her off.

Near a snack cart, the country bears were dancing with Brer-Rabbit and Brer-Bear. Anna and Elsa ran by, headed towards the Big Thunder Mountain area. Rapunzel and Eugene passed in front of them, arm-in-arm, and Rapunzel offered them a half-wave. Amanda and Finn lifted their hands slightly in return, jaws dropped and eyes wide with shock.

"When did they…" Amanda started.

"Like I know?" Finn answered.

Amanda was looking around when she caught sight of Jess and Mattie, walking around looking confused and terrified. In an instant, Amanda broke apart from Finn's hand, screaming and dashing towards them.

Jess' head turned when she heard the scream, and she saw Amanda sprinting at her. Before she even had time to question it, she was crashed into and pulled into a tight hug, paired with another squeal. She laughed instinctively as Amanda squeezed her tightly and rocked her side to side.

"Hi," she said sarcastically.

Amanda pulled away from her smiling giddily, but before she had a chance to question her, Amanda's eyes caught Mattie, and she did the same to her. Mattie's eyes went wide, but her hands slowly and confusedly came to return Amanda's gesture.

"What got into you?" she joked.

Amanda broke the embrace again and Jess looked at her. She was crying. Something was definitely different. She had never seen her sister like this before. Amanda was staring at her, all teary, and she looked back to Finn, who was watching them with the same kind of look in his eyes.

"What happened to you two over…" then it dawned on her.

Amanda walked backwards to stand next to Finn, and she stood closer to him than was normal for her. Jess thought about the dreams she'd had, and about what happened in the books, and about Amanda running to hug her and Mattie like she hadn't seen them in years.

"You remembered," she muttered, and Amanda nodded slightly.

"Wait so…" Mattie started, then looked back and forth between the sisters. "This is a lot to process."

She grabbed her head and sat down on a nearby bench.

"So it's true," Jess said. "And you two are…"

She indicated Finn and Amanda who gave each other a soft smile before Amanda blushed and leaned her head on her shoulder. As crazy as it all was, Jess couldn't help but smile; her sister was happy, and if Casey's theories were true then she had been happy for a long time...they'd both been.

"Sorry to interrupt...whatever," Mattie said, walking up behind her. "But what exactly do we do now?"

"That's what we're trying to figure out," Finn said. "Clearly whatever happened didn't restore the other world, just our memories of it."

He pointed to himself and Amanda.

"And brought all these characters out of nowhere," Amanda said, looking around her. Next to the lake, Violet Parr and Tony Rydinger were sharing a pretzel.

"Yeah, where did they come from?" Finn asked.

"Who knows?" Jess said. "They just started showing up five or ten minutes ago. I haven't been brave enough to ask them."

"Maybe we can see them now because they want us to see them, because we know they exist." Amanda suggested.

"No that doesn't make sense," Jess pointed out. "Because we can see them too."

"I'm disappointed in you Jessica." An older voice sounded from behind them. "I thought you knew...believing is seeing."

All four teenagers turned their heads sharply to where the voice was coming from. When they saw who it was, Finn started crying all over again, and Amanda had to hold him to stop him from collapsing to his knees.

A/N: Thanks for reading! Everything and anything is appreciated. Stay magical and see you next time!