This is it - the final chapter. A BIG thank-you to everyone who has read and reviewed it. It's always nice to know your work is apprieciated!! Please keep the comments coming, if you can think of anything to improve my writing I would love to hear from you! Hopefully I will have another story for ya'all soon, so until then, keep Tribal and enjoy............

Jay looked up for Destiny as the rest of the tribe surrounded Bray and Amber only to see her turn, pick up a small bag and head for the exit. With rising fear he hurried after her. Destiny walked swiftly out of the Mall and down the street.

"Hey, wait."

She turned to see Jay come running after her. "Go back Jay." She called over her shoulder as she continued.

He caught her arm and pulled her around, causing her to drop her bag, which spilled its few contents on the ground. "What are you doing?" he asked.

"Please, leave me alone. I'm doing what I should have done before – the right thing." she answered without looking at him as she knelt down and stuffed her things back into her bag.

"The right thing?" Jay repeated, a look of astonishment on his face. "How can running away ever be the right thing?"

"Don't make this harder for me than it already is." she whispered. He knelt beside her and tilted her head upwards so he could see her face. "Please?" she begged, tears trickling softly down her cheeks.

"You can't leave." he said.

"Jay, I have to. Don't you see?" They stood up together. "I'm not running away – I'm making a new start. It will be better for everyone if I just left."

"Better? Better for who?"

"For Ved, for Chloe, for everyone."

"No, no it won't be better." There were tears in Jay's eyes now.

"Of course it will."

"It won't be better for me!" he burst out suddenly. "These past few weeks I... I've never felt like this about any other woman before."

"Jay." she said softly, shocked, "I never knew, I mean, you've been so kind to me. I can talk to you. But..."

"But what?" he whispered.

"Love? It's too soon."

"I know it's too soon. I'm not asking you to marry me or anything; I'm asking you to stay."

"I can't..."

"Please." he said as she made to leave again. "I have to know... is there any chance of, of us?"

She stopped and bowed her head. It was too soon, too soon after Carl, after Ved. But there was something there, something inside that was crying out to him, wishing he would just hold her. There waslove there.

She turned to look at his tear-streaked face. "Carl was dangerous" she said quietly, wiping her tears away. "That's why I was attracted to him, but he hurt me. Ved offered me a chance of escape, of security and safety, but he failed. What do you offer me Jay?" she said, shaking.

"Only myself." he replied. "I don't know what will happen in the future, but I know if I let you walk away now I will regret it for the whole of my life. The future's not certain, I can't say where we'll be tomorrow, or next year, or even in ten years, but I can tell you this, I love you now. If we worry about tomorrow, we'll never live for today. Please Destiny, please don't leave me."

"How can you be so sure? After all that has happened how can you be so positive about the future?"

"Because even in the darkest moments of someone's life, a glimmer of hope always remains." he said firmly.

She looked at him sharply, her big blue eyes bright with unshed tears, and stood, full of indecision. "What about Ved? What about Amber?"

"What about them?" he asked. "Amber's got Bray, Ved's got Chloe. I don't care what anyone else thinks. I cared about that before and I lost someone special. I'm not going to lose you." he paused. "If you leave, I'll go with you."

"What?" she looked at him, startled.

"I mean it. If you want to go, we can go. Anywhere! I don't care, as long as I'm with you. We could go to the moon if you wished."

"Jay..." she began to laugh for the first time in years as he lifted her and spun her round.

"Will you come to the moon with me?"

He lowered back down, where she stood, breathless and dizzy and looked up into his deep brown eyes, so like his brother but at the same time completely different. Suddenly, her mind was made up. She kissed him, a deep, lingering kiss that left her even more breathless than before. Her hands were in his hair, on his neck, everywhere. She didn't care anymore. He returned the kiss just as passionately.

"I'll stay." she whispered. "Oh Jay, of course I'll stay." Even as she said those words, she knew she had made the right choice.

She took his hand and allowed him to lead her back towards the Mall. She didn't know what tomorrow might have in store for her but she had found someone to build a new future with. It would take a long time for the wounds of the past to fully heal and for Destiny to completely trust someone again, but she realised something; in these past few months, which had felt like the darkest moments of her life, there had been her own glimmer of hope

– and he was called Jay.