Chapter 27 – Every Last Thing   

The blue light flashed brightly throughout the room brilliantly, blinding Tyana for a split second, making her wonder what exactly it was doing to Jeff. When her vision cleared she watched him, staring down at the small machine in a dream-like state, his eyes glazed over and wholly unfocused. She wanted to reach out and touch him, awake him from his reverie and ask him if it was alright, if it was real. But her limbs weren't working and she could only gaze at him, probing and terrified and hopeful and silent. Slowly, as the minutes passed, his eyes lost the look of being phased and they began to regain center, focusing in. Then slowly he raised them to look at her and she stared into his orbs, desperate for any clues.

And then everything stopped for just that one crucial second before her lips began to tremble and she felt herself beginning to give into the disappointment and sadness of seeing the same unsure eyes that she had seen only minutes early. Tears began to roll agonizingly down her cheeks as she shook her head, not wanting to believe it.

Jeff blinked back sadness too, apologetic and upset. "I'm sorry…I don't know" And she collapsed into his arms, her body shaking with the wracking sobs of the realization. The sobs that told the world that she knew she must have lost what they had forever. Jeff cradled her in his arms, hushing her quietly as he began to rock her gently backwards and forwards, trying to ease the pain he could feel radiating from every seemingly nonexistent pore. He could feel it welling up inside of him, the sensation of having let her down, the emotion of disappointment mixed with the before feelings of knowing and yet not, sensing it and yet not knowing what 'it' was. But from the way Tyana was shaking against him, heartbroken and torn, he knew 'it' was something he suddenly wanted more than anything else in the entire world. And that was all he could feel as she slowly and tiredly drifted off into the world of the sleeping.  

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Tyana could feel something warm snaking up her stomach, latching on to her shoulders and shaking her gently, reluctantly but urgent. She fought against it, struggling to stay asleep, but as the minutes wore on she found herself being awoken, familiar green eyes appearing over her own when her lids fluttered open. Everything instantly rushed back to her, the fresh memories of using the device on Jeff, the heartbreak of it not working, the way she had cried until she could do nothing but lapse into a peaceful unconsciousness.

"Jeff" she mumbled, closing her eyes again tiredly, rubbing the back of her hand against her sleep-caked lashes.

"Tyana" he whispered, his hands on her shoulders, soft but strong as they held her. And she stopped stretching, her body tensing at that voice, at the underlying tones that she hadn't heard for so long, tones she had been convinced only seconds before that she would never again capture in her own ears. Her eyes shot open, eager, fervent, looking for specific eyes to be staring back at her. Jeff smiled, looking at the realization dawning on her beautiful face, the face he hadn't felt so close to in months. "I'm here" he told her, waiting for the next immediate reaction. He fell over backwards when she launched herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, throwing her body on to his feverishly in the excitement of hope. He laughed and clung onto her, trying to stop them both from tumbling off the bed and hitting the floor.

"Jeff" she gasped, brushing her turquoise looks out of her face so that she could look at him. "It's you? You remember?" she asked, her eyes gleaming violet with incandescent mauve flowing impatiently in a pool around her irises.

He nodded, "every last thing" and then she was laughing, half chuckling, half crying with the joy.

"Really? I, oh god, when you didn't remember, I thought, I thought you were gone" she gushed, her mind running over the recollection of her devastation.

"I'm here." He replied smiling, brushing away her hair, wiping away her blissful tears. "When you were sleeping, and I was holding you, it just started to come back. And I remember. I know it all, even everything that has happened since they made me forget"  

"Really?"

He laughed, "Really. Everything, Miss Malée."

"Thank god" she squealed and gave him an almighty hug, only pulling away so that she could press her lips to his. And then she was swallowed up by the happiness of his true presence.    

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Shadow flicked through her magazine, sighing in boredom when she reached the end of it for the third time. She blew out her cheeks then swung herself round so that she was sitting up and not lying on her stomach. She glanced over at the two communicators on the dresser, their screen's alight but the images of two working Guiders. Shadow gave a quick look to the two devices she had prepared since Tyana had been gone that afternoon; two tracking mechanisms to be assigned to herself and her friend as soon as possible because of the assassins that had proved determined to harm the turquoise bombshell. She sighed again and her eyes flew back to Quande and Bret, both typing busily on the computers. She really shouldn't bother them, they were working…but she was so bored. And so, so curious. She stopped biting back the question.

"So how do you think Ty is going with Jeff? D'ya reckon she's used the device yet?" she quizzed, hoping to coax one of the two into conversation.

Bret shrugged, "I don't know. I hope it works though, she deserves some happiness after all she's been through"

Quande nodded in agreement as she continued to type, "It should work; if she fixed it up right he'll be back to normal in no time."

Shadow felt herself getting excited for her friend just thinking about it, "oh she fixed it fine, I saw her doing it. God, it's gonna work and she's gonna be so happy; you're right, she totally deserves this" Just then as if reading their minds the door opened and Tyana walked in, her hand strolling in a step or two behind her, encased in a hand different and larger than her own. Shadow smiled as she followed the arm up to the body, the head perched atop it belonging to the man they had all been expecting. The beauty with blue-green hair beamed with luminescent contentment and glanced back at her partner briefly before she let her eyes flip back to the pink haired girl and the two people at the end of the universal links.   

"Shadow, Bret, Quande, I'd like you to meet Jeff. And yes, all memoried-up Jeff" she added, sensing Shadow's question. The friend beamed happily at the response, much in the same way that the Guiders did. Jeff gave them friendly smiles. "Jeff, this is Shadow, as you well know. And this is Bret and that is Quande"  

He smiled, "nice to meet you for not the first time ever." He paused then, thinking, "Um, no, that signals out Quande" He ran a hand through his dyed hair nervously, making them all chuckle. Tyana laughed and hugged herself to his chest, calming him down.

"Don't be nervous, they love you already" she smiled, kissing his jaw, melting him immediately at her touch.

Bret beamed proudly as he watched the man struggle not to kiss her full on right there, as if he were on his best behavior because he was meeting the parents. Obviously in Tyana's case that wasn't possible but the three present in that room were the next best thing, people that meant far more to her than any biological link; they were her true family. "Jeff" he caught the man's attention, making him looking at him with slight anxiousness. He smiled warmly to ease him, "Welcome back"

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Tyana fell back onto the bed, Jeff on top of her as they kissed tenderly. She felt him slip a hand beneath the hem of her shirt, resting his palm flat against her back, his fingertips moving only slightly to caress her skin just so, causing little ripples of sensation to shudder through her. She bit her lip when his mouth trailed away from hers, moving to slide down her neck. She could already feel her heart beat thumping at a great volume and with great speeds inside her head, in her body, everywhere around her, the pumping so much more urgent and excited then any other time of her life, even more so than when she had been in the numerous battles that had fortunately ended in her favor. As Jeff's lips caressed her, covered his neck and shoulders in downy kisses she leant her head backwards, enjoying the sensation while she ran her hands through his hair. After a moment she gently pulled him up so their lips could meet again, her body already aching from being separated in that way for so long. She kissed him softly, an underlying heat beneath the touch so immense that she could feel her stomach churning with burning hot undulations of passion. She felt him smile against her lips very briefly, the small show of happiness turning into a full blown beam when she reached out and pulled his shirt up over his head, dropping it to the floor beside his bed without a second thought. She wrapped her legs around his waist and with one swift move ended up on top of him, straddling him, her turquoise hair falling down over her face. He laughed at the switch and placed his hands on her stomach, gripping it gently.

"I see your combat moves could come in handy" he teased, chuckling still. She giggled with him but hushed when he shifted the mood, reaching up and brushing hair out of her violet eyes. He stroked her face, "You're too beautiful" he whispered.

"Jeff" she murmured back, her passion seemingly dampened by what looked somewhat like child-like fear.

He gazed up at her concerned, "What?" he swept away more hair, shifting beneath her with worry.

She bit her lip and brushed her very finger tips against his stomach, staring down at his body with a plain but pleasant expression. When she lifted her eyes up from his torso she was looking up at him through her lashes, biting her lip a little. "Jeff, I've…I've never done anything, like…" she bit her lip again before looping some hair behind her ears, sighing. "I mean I'm a virgin"

He looked at her innocent face, her eyes shining with the naivety of the 17 year old girl she was before she morphed into the women that sat atop him. And he nodded, understanding. "I know" the truth was he did; he hadn't guessed, something inside him could tell—it was probably the way she always seemed so new to every touch they had ever shared. She had seemed so new to it because she was. It was something he loved most about her. "It's ok. We don't have to" he assured her, rubbing his thumb across her left thigh gently, smiling softly. He took her delicately and laid her beside him, leaning on his side to kiss her shoulder. She stared up at him, bright eyed, beautiful, uncorrupted. And he knew he could wait forever for her, so long as she was ready.

After a moment she reached up to him, slipping her hand around the back of his neck and drawing him to her, capturing his lips with hers in a feathery kiss. When she released him for a precious breath he found she had clasped his hands around the rim of her shirt, looking at him with eyes that told him it was alright. He shook his head at her, insisting silently that it wasn't necessary. But Tyana pushed herself up so that she was sitting upright. She encased Jeff's hands in hers and did the hard work for him, pulling her shirt up and off using his hands. She threw the shirt on the floor and sat watching him, her hands tenderly stroking his that she still clasped. He slipped one of his hands free from hers and grazed her shoulder with the firm softness that was his thumb. His fingers trailed down over her collar bone, dipping over her chest and sliding down her toned stomach, circling her torso then and slipping into the base of her spin; he pulled her to him, kissing her lovingly.

And she fell deeply into his world.

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*A/N* Awww, see, I did it, he remembers! Had you going there for a while didn't I though? Lol. Anyway, thanks Shadow and Someone for reviewing, I really appreciate it, MWA!