**Cassie's POV**

My eyes flicked around the room as the first chords of the next song came on, followed by the first few words.

"This doubt is screaming in my face

in this familiar place, sheltered and concealed" It suddenly occurred to me how sheltered we'd all been before the war. I'd never been out of the state. I'd been perfectly happy, caring for the animals, going to school, and having the same routine every day.

"And if this night won't let me rest

don't let me second-guess what i know to be real" Elfangor. That night. We all second-guessed reality; we saw an alien. I don't know if any of us believed that aliens existed before that, but I don't think I had, honestly.

"Put away all i know for tonight

and maybe i just might learn to let it go" A different memory, just the vaguest shadow, was brought on by those two lines. Of a time when we didn't take the shortcut. but wait. We took the shortcut. Didn't we? We had to.

"Take my security from me and maybe finally,

I won't have to know everything" I won't have to know everything. we didn't know everything. We didn't, that time. Wait. That time? And suddenly, I knew.

"I am falling into grace to the unknown to where you are

and faith makes everybody scared

it's the unknown, the don't-know

that keeps me hanging on and on and on to you" Sure, I couldn't remember exact conversations. I had a very strong feeling that I couldn't tell anyone what I remembered.

"I've got nothing left to defend

no i cannot pretend that everything makes sense" I remembered. whoa. Tom shooting at Jake? And Rachel. she hit Tom with something. and he went down. And Rachel with the Dracon beam at the mall, and meeting Ax. And then it stopped. but why? And then suddenly it was normal again, never happened? Ugh.

"But does it really matter now if i do not know how

to figure this thing out " And then, I realized that the lyrics spoke the truth. So what if I didn't know what was going on? So what if I didn't know what could have happened? It didn't.

"I am falling into grace to the unknown to where you are

and faith makes everybody scared

it's the unknown, the don't-know

that keeps me hanging on and on and on to you

I am against myself again

trying to fit these pieces in

walking on a cloud of dust to get to you" I listened to the rest of the song absently. I didn't quite understand the last few lines, although they sort of reminded me of Jake.

With a last chord, the song was over.

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Wow. I can't believe I did it. MOMO IS BACK! WHOOSH! I have written. Hear me roar. Roar. Anywho, didja miss me? A big thanks to Lydia, who basically let me IM her constantly with "Could this work? No.This? No." So thank you, Lydia!

Also, this did not go under a lot of revision and editing. ok, no revision and editing. Including author's note, this took like twenty minutes, give or take. It's kinda weird.

The only reason I didn't have this up sooner was because I couldn't think of an idea, and then I went to camp, came back, and forgot about this. I was looking to see if my new poems had reviews and I stumbled across this. Somebody Else's Song (the next chapter) should be up fairly soon. My last day before break is Friday, and I already have a songfic written for Somebody Else's Song. My only real problem will be dragging the simplicity of it out long enough for the entire song, lol. So anyway, REVIEW!