OK, I've thought my way through a two-hour long headache and found out how to associate the first chapter with the fanfic. Here's the chapter that does exactly that. Oh, Dani, sry I stole your hyper-ness. I promise it'll only happen again when…uh…I find a pig an' shove wings into it's back :P

Lily sat on the rusty swing and dug the toes of her shoes into the ground. She moved her knees in rhythmic motion and thought back to a year ago, when she was walking in the same park. This week greatly resembled that; the thick, grey clouds threateninga downpour for 7 full days. Lily expected the clouds to break any moment, but when they stayed for an hour, something hit her.

Change.

When she heard that gunshot hit her mom, everything was different. Her father almost had trouble raising Lily and Simone himself, but with his oldest daughter's help, he got through it. Two changes happened in that, both the death and her father trying to be good single parent.

A week after the sudden downpour, the park came back to life. The grass was dried out, the weeds were almost as tall as Lily, and the trees were losing all their leaves. But Lily came back one week later, and it seemed almost magical.

One year later, the rain never came down.

One day later, Lily wanted Ray more than anything.

One life-changing moment later, Lily knew what she needed to do. What those dreams were telling her, what Ray was doing, what Lily needed.

Lily roughly pushed herself off the swing and ran out of the park. She ran as fast as she could to the station, hoping Travis was still there. 5 pm, RFR just ended for the day. She bust open the door, startling Travis, causing him to drop several CDs. He looked up at Lily with a scared look on his face, changing to anger when he saw a broken CD on the floor, then to confusion when he saw tear stains running down from Lily's eyes.

"Lily? What's wrong?"

"Travis! I'm so glad you're here. Have you been--"

-insert very loud sound here-

o.O; I honestly wasn't expecting that…but it's part of the fanfic anyway! :D YAY TO ALL NATHAN CARTER FANS—at the end of the fanfic, I'll share the URL where insane NC fans can find a sexy drawing of Him :P

Actually, I didn't really think so hard I got a headache. It came to me about two minutes before I typed it up :3 The headache part was the night before :P