Title: Hands Clean 20/?

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"

"So August Dimitri runs away again from the girl he loves…" Someone said behind August.

"Like I have a choose." August said not turning around.

"That's right you're being forced into leaving her by her family but when were you ever dating her family?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that your not in love with her family, it's not her family that you've been dating, it's her. So it should be her decision. Actually it was her decision and she choose you, remember?"

"Of course, I remember. Now is there some point to your rambling?"

"Yes, she choose you not her family. You choose her family for her. Her family choose for her the first time and now your choosing for her. The poor girl whether you want to accept it or not has a voice and a brain, so let her make her choice again."

"And how do you plan on me doing that?"

"Call her tell her you're laving today. Ask her if she wasn't you to leave."

"She does."

"You don't know that and don't even start to tell me that you're leaving to make it easier on her or to protect her."

"Why not?"

"Because she doesn't need to be protected. She choose to get into this relationship and she deserves to choose to get out of it."

"She did."

"No she didn't! She never gave her a chance to."

"Hey where have you been?" Rick asked as Lily came in the door.

"Talking to Mr. Dimitri." Lily said sitting down.

"Why?" Rick asked shocked.

"To plead with him not to go."

"But didn't you want him to go?"

"Originally, sure but I also want my daughter back and he's the only person who knows how to bring her back."

"What did he say?"

"That he was leaving and that I had no right to interfere yet again."

"He said that?" Rick asked shocked.

"And he's partially right, because I never really got to know him or to hear Grace's side of this."

"But would that have changed anything?"

"I don't know but she's my daughter and in the very least I think I owed her that much."

"Well if it makes you feel any better Grace went to the doctor."

"She did?" Lily asked shocked.

"Yes apparently Eli and Zoe got her to go."

"Eli? And Zoe?" Lily asked shocked.

"They drove her so insane that she went."

"We should have tried that."

"Well it's done and maybe going to the doctor will prove that Dimitri's not the cause of everything." Rick said hoping.

"No, the doctor will say we are."

Grace pressed down on the gas pedal and turned up the radio. She was going to get there before he left if it was the last thing she did. Grace's phone went off and as she went down to pick it up a dog ran across the road. Grace slammed on her brakes quickly ignoring the phone. She got out of the car to see if the dog was all right. But the dog had ran off so Grace got back in her car and sat there for a second. Her heart was beating a mile a minute and she could not catch her breath. Then she heard her phone ring again. She quickly picked it up. "Hello?" It was too late the person had already hung up. Grace all the sudden remembered why she was out on the road and started to drive off. When she got to the station, she ran to the front desk. It was already five minutes after when August's train was supposed to leave but she was not going to give up. "Have all the trains left on time today?"

"Yes, the one that just left was the last one."

"I missed him." Grace said sadly.

"Are you ok miss?" The lady asked.

"No." Grace said as she started to cry.

"Ooh this could be messy and

Ooh I don't seem to mind

Ooh don't go telling everybody

And overlook this supposed crime"