Remembrance

summary: Sometimes, things that should have been forgotten surface, and cause pain.

Author's note: sometime spur-of the moment.

Jane Drew stared down at the pool of water besides her feet. In the distance, she could see green hills, and the clouds surrounding them.

She had return to Wales, after all these years, looking for peace of mind. Ever since she had left Bran and Will standing in the cold rain the day her family left, she had felt a sense of a lost soul in her. There was an empty space in there, and so she had return to the place she thought she might find what her heart was looking for- peace.

She had been here a week, traveling the country side, searching for remember places. She was starting to despair.

She sighed as she looked in the deep waters. She wished her brothers were here to lean on, but they were working on various projects of their own. However, Simon had confided that if possible, he would also like to return to Wales and to quiet his restlessness that was an ever-awake presence in both heart and mind.

Behind her she heard someone climbing down the rock to the lake. She then heard a slipping motion, and turned around quickly, catching the man's falling.

"Thank you, miss.......?"

"Jane. Jane Drew."

"Jane Drew? Do you happen to have two brothers?"

Jane started startled. "Yes." she replied, though she was beginning to wish she hadn't caught the man's fall.

The man looked like he would faint. "Don't you know me?" he asked, as he sat down on the rock beside her.

"If I have meet you before, I'm afraid I do not recall it."

"My name is Bran. We meet once, several years ago. As kids. I know I remember now, do you?"

Jane grew pale in her face. The world seem to spin around her, and the information made her feel a bit sick. It was such an odd coincidence.

"I remember. I remember. But yet, there's a feeling that I forgot something, and it has made a sense of lost in me. Have you felt that way?" She asked hoarsely.

"I must admit I have. I have been searching the country- my own country, for goodness sakes, because I feel the worst sense of lost in me."

It was when sitting there, talking to each other, they began remembering the time they had when they were children. As Bran was talking he rambled, "And the silver on the tree."which just called Jane to turn slowly and stare.

"Silver on the tree...Do you realize what you just said? It's coming back now....silver on the tree."

Bran looked at her, his eyes a bit questioning.

And the memories that should have been hidden came back to both Jane and Bran, though they wished they had forgotten. In cost Bran more pain to remember who he actually was than for Jane to remember what she had been a part of. However, they kept the memories to themselves and Simon and Barney never did find out what had happened so long ago.

Jane and Bran were able to live their lives without a sense of loss, but with an even greater sort of pain. Part of the pain was that they had not been allowed to remember in the first place. Bran gained a sense of self that day, and Jane realized she was anything but ordainary. Yet, for about twenty years, both had gone out not knowing anything.

The End