Only one more chapter left after this one : )

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The old man looked at them for a moment, then slowly nodded his head. "Yes, if it is what you desire." He walked over to a small pile of books and took the top one off the stack. Upon opening it up the girls realized that it was not a book at all, but rather one of those secret-hiding-place-in-a-book things [A/N: that is what they're called…right 0; ) ].

"If anyone tries that with bad intentions, they'll just find a rather boring book on the life of a ruler." (A/N: hey! It was all I could come up with!ducks from the rotten fruit)

Kristina, Sam, and Sarah were too amazed to laugh [A/N: then again, that may just be one of those 'that was so funny, I forgot to laugh' moments ; ) ] From inside the book, he pulled out a crystal that was shaped like a key.

"This is the time key. It's not really a key for anything, but the ones who created it thought it would be funny to have a 'key' that would, in a sense, unlock the doors of time."

"Oookayyy…so how does it work???" Sam thought the whole 'unlock the doors of time' thing was really corny, but hey, we're talking about a key that lets you travel through time….ya can't really judge something like that.

"You simply stick it in the air, and turn it as you would a regular key. It will then open a portal through time. To get back, all you would have to do is walk through the portal thinking of your intended destination."

"So what are we waiting for?" asked Sarah, who seemed determined to get home as soon as possible.

"Well, I assume you would like to say goodbye to your new friends. Come along." He led them back into the first room where Dylan, Rommie, Beka, and Harper were still waiting.

"So, uh, what is this thing?" Harper was standing by one of the four pillars when they walked back in.

"That," said the old man, "Is a communicator. By adding the one of the four basic elements to each of the pillars, it creates a link that lets us talk to our operatives that are spread across space and time."

"Operatives?"

"Yes Captain Hunt. Operatives." Dylan was still confused, but just shrugged and tried to look like he understood.

"I must be honest. I had hoped you girls would be able to help us. You are the ones that were chosen for this quest, but I understand that you are not ready for this. With any luck you will change your minds. When you are prepared for this, the key will find you. Are you ready?"

"Yup." Said Sarah.

"Let's go home." Said Kristina.

Sam would have said something as well, but there was a battle going on in her head as she tried to make a decision that had been eating at her mind since they arrived.

The old man raised the key in the air like he was ready to unlock a door, and turned it 90°. Before he could drop his arm, a swirl of light appeared and grew till it was big enough for a person to fit through. It was full of shimmering bright colors. This was the thing that would take the girls home.

"Just walk through this and think of where you came from."

Just as Sarah was preparing to enter the portal, Sam made her choice.

"Wait…just one second." She turned toward Harper. "I've wanted to do this since I got here. I figure that since I'm leaving now and I'll probably never see you again, it won't really matter if I do this…" With that, she pulled Harper into a deep, passionate kiss.

After a few seconds, she pulled away, grinning, and walked towards the portal.

"Ready to go guys?"

A bit surprised at what their friend had just done, they followed her towards the portal. Sami, Kristina, and Sarah entered the portal and left on their journey home.

Realizing they had no further reason to stay, the Andromeda crew began to leave the old building. About halfway to the door, Beka sighed, turned around, and walked over to where Harper was still standing, staring off into space with a wistful look on his face.

"Wow." Was all he could manage to say. Beka shook her head with amusement and began to drag Harper back to the Maru. Today's adventure had ended…at least for them.

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A/N….ok, just one more chapter left to go. With any luck, I may even finish it tonight. It's not going to be too long and I already have the ending written. Actually, I wrote it in Physics class months ago. All that's left is the beginning of the chapter.

I know the element/ communicator thing is right out of the fifth element, but I needed some way to explain the random for pillers…actually, that was origionaly going to be how they got home.

Btw, if you like Dylan, then I'm sorry for this story. He's okay and all, but he tends to get on my nerves unless he's kissing Rommie………or Beka ; ). Anyways…his part in my story is pretty small and when he does make an appearance, he ends up looking kinda stupid.

Last thing….Sam is sooo lucky. After re-watching Sunday's alias ep (thank the gods my friend taped it….and I figured out how to copy a tape!) I just had to have Sam kiss Harper….after all Francie and Will finally made out and Syd and Vaughn FINALLY kissed : ) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that's all now! Crappy…I've already missed half of Farscape : (