Author's Note: I just wanted to let people know, that I am going to make this into a sequel of sorts to "Heaven is Overrated", so you can all stop bitching about the ending! :)


Part 2

"Summer Quint?" Thea stroked a fair blonde curl off the girl's forehead.

"Mmmm...." She woke with a sigh, far too comfortable to think of going
anywhere.

"Summer?" The voice persisted, with a hand gently shaking her shoulder.
"Summer?"

"For christ's... I'm up!" Lexi swatted the hand away and glared at the room
in general.

"Oh yeah, she's up." Thea sat back with a laugh.

"I can see that." Oisin remarked grinning as the slight girl rubbed the
sleep out of her eyes. As she focussed and turned to look at him, he gasped
at the sheer identicalness the twins odviously shared. There was one
difference in the eyes, however, they seemed more carefree with none of the
vulnerability that he had seen in Winter's piercing gaze.

"Summer, I'd like to ask you a few questions."

"Please call me Lexi." She smiled and sat back against her pillows.

"Ah yes, sorry. I heard about this from Winter. Tell me, why doesn't she go
by Karis if you go by Alexis?"

Lexi laughed, "Winter suits her."

"She is slightly chilly." Oisin smiled back at her infectious grin.

"Chilly? She's an icicle" Lexi shot him an amused look, "I have no illusions
over how she acts with strangers."

"Anyway, on to my questions."

Oisin stood in the doorway of his living room sometime later, an amused look
on his face as he took in the occupents of the room. Winter was relaxing in
an armchair, staring at Rhys casually as he fidgetted and babbled
incoherently.

Rhys grimaced as he listened to himself, but he couldn't help it. Hell, she
hadn't even blinked yet. Those beautiful blue eyes were freaking him out in
their intensity. He glanced up with relief as he noticed Oisin in the
entrance.

Standing, he walked away from the tiny girl, who was by all accounts, evil.
"She's scary, Oisin. Two bucks she's gonna cackle and make off with my
soul."

Oisin laughed as Rhys muttered that to him before leaving the room. Winter
turned to him, amusement plain in her mocking smile.

"Sit with me, Mr. Bloodthorn." She invited. Oisin noted another difference
between the twins. Winter had a lower, huskier voice which should have been
completely at odds with her almost childlike appearance, but instead suited
her.

"Are you having fun scaring off my agents, Winter? And, if you're going to
be formal, call me Lord Oisin. I am a member of the inner realm." Oisin sat
with a grin.

"Me? I would never scare off your agents, Lord Oisin." She emphasized the
title and smiled at his laughter, "Why? Did it work?"

"Hell, yeah."

"So, did you have fun interrogating my sister?" She arched a pale eyebrow at
him as she smiled mockingly.

"I wouldn't quite call it an interrogation, but yes, I did have fun." He
frowned slightly. Rhys had been right, she was slightly unnerving.

Winter stared at the top of his head, mesmerized by the play of colours in
Oisin's shoulder-length dirty blonde hair in the overhead lighting. Shades
of red and gold glinted....

"So, Winter, what are you up to besides terrorizing Rhys?" His voice brought
her back from her confused thoughts to the present.

She smiled brightly, "Knitting."

Oisin laughed. An uncomfortable silence filled with tension fell between the
two. Winter stared at him, mainly out of habit to hide her uneasiness at his
presence. His warm brown eyes unnerved her with their amazing depths, and
odvious compassion she saw there.

Winter cleared her throat, "Excuse me..."

As she walked by him to leave, his hand reached out to stall her movement,
"Don't go, stay and talk."

She shook her arm, knocking his hand off her material covered wrist, but his
hand persisted. As he reached out again, he touched bare skin and was thrown
into a different world.

Winter stood motionless, simply staring down at him in shock as she
subconciously tried to prevent whatever he was doing to her.

Oisin's gloriously warm smile faded as he realized what she was doing.
"Don't shield youself, Winter. Just feel."

Winter looked down at his saddened face with dawning hysteria, "What are you
doing to me?"

"We're soulmates." He winced as she violently turned from him and fled from
the room, her bare feet barely making a sound on the tiled hallway as she
disappeared from sight.

Sighing, he stood up and moved to the small wet bar that was in the corner.
Pouring himself a drink, he thought about all the times wishing for a
soulmate and exactly how it would be when he finally found her.

"Wasn't exactly what I had in mind." He muttered, downing the drink. He
gasped as it burned down his throat.

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"What the hell is wrong?" Lexi frowned as she took in Winter's somewhat
crazed eyes as she threw her clothes toward the large bed.

"Nothing. We just can't do this assignment anymore." She searched for a
suitcase she knew must be there and stood up triumphantly brandishing it.

"Have you lost your mind? Do you remember the price? We could leave after
this job, and never look back!" Lexi yelled. She scooped the clothes, that
Winter had just thrown in, out of the suitcase.

"Stop it Lexi!" Winter turned on her with her hands on her hips. "I know the
price, but I can't do this job!"

"Sure you can! This is so much more easier than the other stuff we've had to
do!" Lexi glared at her. "And why can't you anyway?"

"Nothing! I just can't!" Winter turned, and resumed wildly throwing clothes
toward the bed.

"Why not? Damn it, Winter, this is not the time to clam up! This job is
important to our, and Jordan's freedom!" Lexi grabbed Winter's wrists and
pushed them to her sides, staring into her face.

"He's my soulmate!" Winter screamed, and hit Lexi away. She gasped, unable
to take this in.

"Who? And you know there's no such thing! That's just an old rumour!"

"Oisin, and it's true." Winter sat heavily a pile of clothes on the edge of
the bed.

"You're imagining things-"

"No, I'm not." Winter stared into Lexi's amazed eyes, willing her to
understand, just once. "Believe me, Summer, I wouldn't make this up."

Lexi started at her first name, "You haven't called me that since we were
kids."

"It's your name, isn't it? I'm asking you to trust me. Oisin could make it
very difficult to continue this mission."

"Okay, I believe you. But we need this! Winter, are you sure you can not do
this?"

"I'm sure."

"Maybe... Maybe, you can leave, and I'll do it by myself."

Winter drew in a sharp breath. They had never been seperated on a mission
before, they were a team. But, then again, things had changed.

"That would work..." She replied, reluctantly.