Title: Hands Clean 16/?

Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net) if you want to email me during the week email me at (23405@sjamail.net)

Disclaimer: these characters belong to once and again except any characters you don't recognize

Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.

Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions. This is my second once and again fan fic but my it's my first August/Grace so any ideas or comments you have would be great. So please email me with them. J Oh and I'm very glad to see I got a review Yeah!!! (ok there are no more flashbacks for the rest of the chapters because I think the present is good enough with out the flashbacks)

"Just make sure you don't tell on me especially to members of your family

We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse

I wish I could tell the world cuz you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly

I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body"

"Katie?" Mr. Dimitri asked as he came up to her in the hall.

"What?" Katie asked shocked that he was talking to her.

"I want you to do something for me."

"Really? What's that exactly?"

"I need you to give this stuff to Grace and before you think its love notes or something it's not. It is her notes for class and homework. I talked to her other professors about how things are horrible with her family right now.  That you know her father was hurt really badly in an accident. They've agreed since there is only a few weeks left till school's out, she can send everything to them via email." Dimitri said handing the things to Katie.

"Her father was a horrible accident?" Katie asked sarcastically.

"It's better to say that then the both of us getting in a lot or trouble. Everything she's worked for would be questioned and I don't want to put her through that. Just give her the information."

 "You don't even want to know if she's ok?" Katie asked.

"I don't think I can. I know she's not going to come to school because of me so I'm transforming and I'm leaving for the summer so she doesn't have to worry about seeing me. Tell her that please." Dimitri said as he started to leave.

"She's not ok, she's heart broken and depressed."

"Yeah, so am I."

"She still won't come down?" Lily asked Eli as he came for Grace's room.

"She only comes out to eat and drink. I've tried everything." Eli said sadly as he sat down in the chair.

"It's been like this for weeks. I don't know what to do." Lily said sadly.

"Well don't look at me I'm only her step brother, I don't know that much about her. Plus I've got to go…"

"To work, I know thanks Eli for trying." Lily said as he started to walk out the door.

He stopped. "You know I miss the old Grace."

"Before or after Dimitri?" Lily asked.

"During and I know you don't think they should be together but truthfully that's only the time I've really ever seen her happy."

"But…"

"You're going to say she's too young but she's all ready planned out her life, what's she going to be and she's nineteen so maybe she does have some clue about what she doing."

"I thought you were on my side."

"I'm on what ever side is best for Grace."


 "It isn't! It ISN'T fair! Who you love, who you hate, who changes your life, none of it's fair."
 "I have heard of…flirting."
 "Chemistry?"
 "Yeah, where…you know...Where it seems like you belong with someone…or something."- Grace

 "I think…you are PERFECT for this."
 "Careful, we wouldn't want to let that guard down. Then where would we be?"

"I'll be Orlando."
 "To you I give myself, for I am yours." - Grace
 "If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind."

 "You. You made it different. What you said."- Grace
"It doesn't have to be a secret."- Grace

"If circumstances were different, I'd like nothing more than to be your friend. I'd WANT you to drop by my house. I'd lend you my book of poems I wrote when I was in my twenties which I'm now embarrassed by. I'd want you to call me August and not Mr. Dimitri and we would sit and talk for hours, but we CAN'T do that. We.can't.be.friends."

"You'd better get out of the car now."
 "Why?"- Grace

Grace was lying in her bed all wrapped in her covers. Her mind was not in that room, it had not been for days. She was thinking about August and everything they had been through. No one else would ever understand what they had been through and she was not sure she wanted them to.

"Gracie?" Lily asked as she came in the room.

Grace did not say anything.

Lily walked over to her. "Katie dropped your work off for you." She said as she put it on her bed. "I hope you can come down later." Lily said as she started to leave.

When Grace heard the door closed, she got up and looked at the information. Most of it was August's handwriting. There was a note on the top from Katie. "I wasn't sure how ok you would be with getting this stuff but he made it sound like you needed it. I hope you get better. Oh and he wanted me to tell you he's leaving for the summer and transforming to another college so you don't have to worry about seeing him."

Grace got a quick pain in her stomach and then threw the note in the trash. She lay back down in her bed and cried.

"Ooh this could be messy and

Ooh I don't seem to mind

Ooh don't go telling everybody

And overlook this supposed crime"