Okay, two chapters at a time. Go me. *looks over shoulder at her muse who is tied up with a rubber chicken in his mouth*

That'll teach you! Okay, I feel better now. On with the tragedy.

"So I found a blue stray wondering around and I thought she might belong to you." Jamie said as he took me to where my

dad was talking with some blonde. Both of them were speaking in German and I had the vague feeling that I recognized her.

"Talia!" Dad exclaimed. "What did you do?"

"Um..." I began. Before I could falter, Jamie stepped in.

"She didn't do a thing. I just wanted to know that you knew where she was."

"A likely story." The blonde spoke up for the first time. She had a mild German accent, and her voice was kind of pretty.

"What?" Jamie asked, "Amanda, it's enough of the truth to aviod lying."

"Uh-uh. And didn't I tell you to stop calling me that?" she said. Dad smiled and shook his head.

"You'll never change will you Jimaine?" he asked.

"Of course not." She replied crossing her arms, "now you are going to tell me the whole truth."

"Um..." he said trying to think up something quick. Luckily, he didn't have to.

"Kurt? Talia?" Brian asked. His shoulder was damp and I understood why when I looked behind him.

Brittany was distraught, her face stained with tears, her eyes red with crying.

"She's..." Brian nodded and my dad trailed off. Everyone just kind of stood in shocked silence.

"Uncle Jamie, can't you bring her back? Like Emma?" Brittany asked. He hugged her.

"No Brittany I can't. Meggan can manipulate her own threads and that means I can't manipulate her. I'm sorry." He said.

That brought on a fresh wave of tears but there were very few.

"What about Gaea? Couldn't she-" he cut her off.

"Brittany, I know you want your mom back. She's my sister-in-law, if there was anything I could do, I would do it, but

there isn't a thing."

"It's not fair!" she cried out, pushing him away and running upstairs to her room.

Well... Brittany seems cheerful doesn't she? *mental note, saddism is apparently bad* Anyway, things are going

interestingly I think. Poor Brittany. And no my dear muse, Meggan's not coming back. Death in my universe is a

permanent condition.