T.J and Andrea got Manny to his grandfather as quick as possible. The old man examined his symptoms for an hour then told the two his diagnosis.

"Well is he okay?" T.J asked.

"He's fine. His body is just going through a process that all spirits have to deal with it at least once in their lives."

"And what's that?"

"Well as you know all spirits are descendants of demons which means all spirits carry a little demon's blood within their bodies so there comes a time when that demon blood tries to take control of the spirit and change them so their spiritual blood has to fight it and keep it dormant. It usually happens in the early stages of youth but since Manny's half human the process must've been delayed for him."

"But why is he sick and bleeding?"

"Because it takes all of the spiritual power in his blood to over power the demon's blood which results in the body becoming feverish and bleeding black blood. He should be fine by tomorrow morning."

"Thank goodness." Andrea said.

"But I have another concern."

"What's that?" T.J said.

"Well it would seem that his soul his bonded with the soul of a human which means whatever he feels physically and emotionally, the other person he's bonded to will feel it also."

"What does that mean?"

"It means right now he's unconscious, sick, and bleeding a little and someone else is feeling the exact same thing. They're not going through the same process of course but they feel his symptoms."

"Wait a minute you said his soul bonded to someone else's?" Andrea asked. "How does that happen?"

"Well it can happen through various ways. Sometimes it's through family genes, sometimes it's through a blood pact, but most common would be a romantic relationship."

"Romantic relationships?"

"When a spirit falls in love and that love is returned than his soul and her soul connect, bond, so either he's made a blood pact with a human or he's related to one human particular, or he loves a human woman and she loves him in return."

"Oh my God Frida!" T.J and Andrea gasped.

"We gotta get to her house!" T.J said. "Grandpa can you watch Manny?"

"Sure."

They went to the Suarez residence but no one was home. They checked the police station but Emiliano wasn't there so finally they went to see Sandra and told her what happened. Hearing this the three of them went to the hospital and explained the whole situation to Carmela.

"So there's nothing wrong with her?"

"No Mrs. Suarez she's just feeling what Manny is going through." T.J said. "She'll feel better in the morning."

"Oh thank God. I was so worried."

"There, there, dear we just need to wait this out." Sandra said holding her daughter's hand comfortingly.

"Hmm you know I wonder what's going on inside their heads." T.J said.

...

Manny and Frida found each other alone in a long corridor of doors that seemed to neverending.

"Where are we?" Frida asked.

"I don't know." Manny said. "Are we dead?"

"I don't think heaven has doors Manny."

"Well let's check one of these doors and see which one is the exit."

They opened the first door on the right and went inside. Behind that door was Frida's bedroom.

"That's weird." She said.

"Boy that was close." They turned in the direction of the voice and saw Frida with her back against the closet door.

"What the heck?! Why are there two of me?!" She asked scared.

The other Frida opened the closet door to show Manny stuffed inside.

"Holy crap there's another me too!" Manny gasped.

"You okay?" The other Frida asked the other Manny.

"Yeah but next time warn me before you shove me into your closet because when you pushed me in here I fell on a needle. Yeowch!"

"Oops! Sorry."

"Also I'm stuck."

"Hang on, give me your hands."

She grabbed his hands and pulled with all her might. She managed to pull him out but he ended up falling on top of her. He quickly hoisted himself over her and they both blushed when they realized that the lower half of her body was between her legs.

"Okay I think that we can agree that this is beyond embarrassing. Heh, heh." The other Frida chuckled nervously

"Yeah no kidding." The other Manny chuckled back in the same manner.

"I remember this." The real Frida said. "This happened just a few days ago."

"So what is this? Some kind of time paradox?" The real Manny asked.

"No I think we're in our memories."

They left that room and went inside another door. This one showed the memory of when they were captured by those natives who worshipped an ape demon. It wasn't long before they discovered that each of the doors in the corridor led to a memory that the two of them. Confused and not sure of what exactly was going on, they checked each door in hopes of finding some sort of exit only to end up reliving another memory the two had.

"Okaaaayyyy...I uh...I really didn't want to relive that memory." Manny said blushing after he and Frida had gone through the door that led them to the memory of the time they accidentally saw each other naked at the lagoon back in Cuba.

"No kidding." Frida said also blushing.

"How many more doors do we have to go through?"

"How the heck should I know?"

"Hmm... Let's try this one."

This door led them into the woods at night.

"What memory is this?" Manny asked.

"I haven't the foggiest idea."

They looked around the area completely confused until they saw Manny age thirteen sitting on the ground hugging his knees and crying.

"Oh God I remember this." The older Manny said. "This was when I was first separated from my mother. I was all alone in the woods and crying."

"Oh Manny." Frida said giving him a gentle and comforting touch.

"Wait a second these are memories you and I share right?"

"Yeah."

"But you weren't there when this happened. Were you?"

"No."

"Then why would-"

"Hello?" The two looked to see Frida age thirteen shine a flashlight on thirteen year old Manny.

"Hey that's me when I was thirteen." The older Frida said.

When the younger verison of herself called out the younger verison of himself got up and ran away but she chased after him. The older versions chased after the kids.

"Wait a minute! Come back!" Younger Frida kept calling.

The younger Manny managed to give her the slip by climbing up a tree and hiding in the branches. But then younger Frida accidentally walked right off the edge of a steep ditch. As she fell she screamed and when the boy saw her falling he immediately jumped down from the tree, slid down the ditch at great speed using his feet, and caught the girl just before she hit the ground.

"Um...Thank you." Younger Frida said.

He put her down and tried to run away but he tripped and fell on a stone. He groaned and then crawled away toward a tree. He was trying to climb up but when he tried he cried out in pain.

"Are you okay?" She asked him.

"Go away! Leave me alone!" He said.

"Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying!" He denied while turning away to hide his tears.

"Yes you are."

"Am not!"

"Are to!"

"Am not!"

She looked down and saw that he had cut his knee. It was bleeding and it had dirt on it.

"Oh look at that you hurt yourself." She said.

"So what if I did? It's none of your concern so get lost!"

She walked away leaving him alone. Once she was gone he tried to stand up but every time he tried his knee would release a sharp pain that inflamed his entire leg. He hissed in pain and fell back down. Next thing he knew she came back carrying a water bottle and sat down next to him.

"I told you to go away!" He snapped.

"Oh hush your mouth and hold still!"

"What are you doing?"

"Fixing your knee before you get an infection now hold still and you may want to grip something because this may sting."

She unscrewed the lid on her water bottle and poured some water on his knee. He hissed at the stinging sensation but the water washed away all the dirt and blood. After that she tore off one of the sleeves on her shirt and binder it around the injured part of his knee.

"There? Better?" She asked.

"Why did you do that?"

"Well you did save my life so I kind of owe you."

"Right."

"Hey are you hungry?"

"I guess."

She pulled a candy bar from her skirt pocket and offered it to him. He looked at her skeptically then at the candy bar. He slowly took it from her and sniffed it suspiciously much to her confusion.

"Um you do know what a candy bar is right? It's food." She told him.

"I know what it is I'm just checking it."

"Checking it for what?"

"Poison."

"Poison?"

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

"Because I want to."

"Uh-huh, yeah right like the other ten people who told me that."

"What other ten people?"

"Don't you know who I am?"

"No because you haven't told me your name."

"Wait a minute you don't know what I am?"

"I figured that you were a boy. Am I wrong?"

"No! No I'm definitely a boy! A perfectly normal human boy!"

"Ooookay."

"What's your name?"

"Frida Suarez. What's yours?"

"Manny Rivera."

"What the hell is this?!" Older Manny asked. "That's not really us is it?"

"It couldn't be." Older Frida said. "We didn't meet as children. But I'm positive that's me when I was a kid."

"Same but this is impossible."

The two teenagers watched the memories of their childhood selves being together like a video tape. They watched the two kids talk together, play together, and laugh together both looking happier than they had ever been in a long time.

"This doesn't make any sense." Manny said.

"This is a dream right?" Frida said. "Or a hallucination or something like that because it can't be a memory. If it was then why don't we remember any of this?"

At last they reached the terrible memory of when Frida was attacked after school by bullies and Manny saved her while also exposing his spiritual half to her and when the council seperated them from each other.

It would seem where we placed you wasn't far enough." The head member said. "We'll have to take you farther now."

"What?!" Younger Manny gasped.

"Wait a minute who are you people?" younger Frida asked.

"Young lady we are the high council of spirits, out job is to maintain peace and balance on earth. One of the things we had to do was make sure this boy had no contact with any human civilization."

"Why?"

"Because he's not meant to exist. Him being here could draw in demons."

"No demons have shown up yet!" Manny argued. "And I haven't done anything wrong!"

"You just mauled three humans!"

"They were hurting my friend!"

"Your friend?"

"Yes and I won't let you separate us like you did with my mother!"

"Foolish boy now that she's seen you for what you really are she won't want to be around you! She'll be too afraid!"

"No I won't!" Frida objected much to Manny's surprise. "Okay I don't really know what's going on here and part of me is a little creeped out by Manny's new look but he saved me. So okay he's not human, frankly I don't know what he is but he's not a monster."

"Really? You're not scared of me?" He asked her.

"No. Why should I be? You're still you aren't you? You're just hairier."

"Young lady how old are you?" The head member asked Frida suspiciously.

"Thirteen." She said.

"Thirteen. Oh no I'm afraid this must end."

"What?!" Manny and Frida said at the same time.

"Why?" Manny asked.

"Sorry but you two are a boy and a girl on set of puberty meaning an attraction could develop in time."

"Attraction!" Frida blushed.

"No way!" Manny said. "We are not attracted to each other! Honest!"

"You say that now because you're merely children but when you get older things will change and we can't risk someone like you falling in love and possibly repopulating. I'm afraid you two must never see each other again."

"No! You can't do that! You already took my mother! I won't let you take my friend!"

"Separate them, take her home and him back to the woods."

"I said no!"

Manny kicked the head member. He grabbed Frida's hand and they ran away from them but the council members were spirits making them faster and stronger than they were. All too soon they caught up with them and them cornered. One member grabbed Frida and began to pull her away while two members held Manny back.

"No please! He's my only friend!" Frida begged.

"Stop it! It's not fair!" Manny shouted.

"Manny!"

"Frida!"

His hand and hers held on to each other for as long as they could but in the end her hand slipped from his and she was taken away from him while he was forcibly taken back to the woods. Older Frida felt tears form in her eyes and stream down her cheeks, Manny felt his body begin to tremble.

"Don't worry Frida! I found you once! I'll find you again! I will find you! No matter what happens, no matter how long it takes I'll always find you!" Younger Manny vowed.

"I'll wait for you! I'll wait for as long it takes!" Younger Frida vowed back.

Then all faded into black and it was just the two older versions. After staring into the darkness for what seemed like forever they finally turned to look at each other. They were speechless, they tried to talk to each other but nothing came out. Then Manny woke up.

"Oh Good you're awake." T.J's grandfather said. "That must mean the process is over."

"Where's Frida? Where is she?" He asked.

"T.J told me that she's in the hospital."

"She's in the hospital?!"

"Now don't panic! It's not what you think! She's alright!"

"I have to see her!"

"Not now! You just woke up."

"I want to see her! Now out of my way old man!"

T.J's grandfather tried to stop him but Manny was already out the door and racing toward the Miracle City hospital as fast as lighting. Meanwhile Frida was starting to wake up too.

"Uh...Wha...What happened? Where am I?"

"Oh sweetie you're awake! Thank God!" Carmela cried hugging her daughter relieved.

"Mom? What happened?"

"It's a long story." T.J said. "We'll explain later."

Once she was awake the events she had witnessed while she was unconscious came flooding back to her in a flash.

"I need to talk to Manny! Where is he?"

"He's with my grandpa but I don't think he'll be able to see you right now."

"Sir please visiting hours are over for anyone who's not a relative." They heard a nurse say.

"Screw that lady! Move it or lose it!" It was Manny.

"Then again I've been wrong before." T.J said.

"Come on we better stop him before he causes a panic." Andrea said.

They informed the nurse that they were all distant cousins of Frida so that Manny would be allowed to see her. Both of them were relieved to see that the person they we're worried for most was okay but they wanted to talk to each other about what they had seen during their unconscious states so they asked for some privacy which the others gave them.

"Glad you're okay." He said.

"You too." She said.

"Um...Listen while you were out did...Did you see what I see? Did you like go through all those memories with me or was that a dream?"

"No. No that happened."

"Do you remember everything we saw? Even that last thing?"

"Yes. What was that?" Frida said trying so hard not to cry. "Was that real? Did that actually happen?"

"I...I don't know." Manny said starting to tremble again. "It looked real, it sounded real, it felt real. I think it was real."

"Manny." She sniffed. "Do you think they did something to us to make us forget that we knew each other before?"

"It wouldn't surprise me if they did."

"We...We...We knew each other three years ago and we didn't just know each other we we're friends."

"And they...They...They took you away from me. Just like they took my mother away from me."

"Oh God! What if they do it again? Would they do it again?"

"If they tried to I wouldn't let them."

"Manny you saw what happened. We couldn't stop them."

"That's because we were kids and I had no idea how to work my powers but I do now."

"I'm still scared. Manny everything has been changing and my father is leaving and this stuff happening with my body and now this! It's confusing and it's scary and I think in the end of it all I'm gonna lose you."

"That's never going to happen and if God forbid those bastards separate us again I'll find you."

"But what if you don't remember me like last time?"

"So? I didn't remember you then and I still found you. Remember what I said? No matter what happens, no matter how long it takes I'll always find you."

She wiped her tears away from her eyes and smiled at him.

"And I'll wait for as long as it takes."

They embraced each other. Her fear of unknown soon became hope. Because even though they had been sperated once and had no memory of each other at the beginning they still found a way back to each other. She wasn't sure if it was fate or God's will or friendship or dare she hope love but something was keeping them together. Something that she knew for sure could never ever be broken.

"They're supposed to be cousins?" A nurse watching them from a distance said. "They're embracing like their lovers."

"Most be one of those old fashioned, marry your cousin families." Another nurse said.

"Ewww. I hear that kind of union spreads disease and birth defects in their offspring."

"Damn inbreeders."