Ok, this is the chapter when it actually starts to get interesting. I won't wait for my three reviews because the last chapter was pretty boring and pointless. Isn't it weird that the real main storyline starts in the 14th chapter? Aw well. Well not really. I suppose it does a little, kinda. It mainly starts in chapter 15. Mainly, ok, this is just confusing the crap out of me.

Anyway, I have something to say (don't I always.) After this story is finished (which I think roughly will be a long time, as it just past the half way mark, and I'm not even really into the story so they will more than likely be longer chapters) and My Buffy /Angel crossover (which is not actually on the site yet) is too, I will not be adding a new story on the site. I will still be a regular member and review constantly, but have decided it better to lay off updating stories on the site. What I will do is I will write all the stories down on paper, then type them up on the computer. I have about 3, and then I will start to post them on the site. But more than likely what will happen is (if I have enough will power) I will write one story then put it on the site. But I have a lot of stories planned, and most are series. In fact, only one isn't and that's a fairytale that will go on for a while.

Also, I have decided against a sequel to this story, instead I will just add it onto this. I have written part of one chapter of it, it's kinda weird. The whole Kira thing comes into that though/ I think I have bored you enough so I'll let you read the story.

Wiccan-gal: I know, it was a shocked me too. But that chapter didn't seem to have anything happening in it, so I added something into it. Probably the reason you don't understand is that I just came up with the whole Kira thing three seconds before I typed it in, so nothing else in the story will point to it. Well, very soon is a whole big thing about Ebony and Ryker, a BIG thing. But I won't give anything away.

Bradhadair: What the hell is with you and the duck! It's creepy! Hey, you should stop because I just said something was creepy, ME! HOPE IS NOT EVIL. Ok, I just gave away part of the story but who cares, Hope is good. And (as I said to Wiccan-gal) there will be a BIG Ebony Ryker thing coming up shortly. Maybe in the next two chapters. Cause that's when it's getting interesting.

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Erimentha woke, after only a few hours sleep. She slowly stood, taking in her surroundings. She reminded herself she was no longer held in the institute in England, but in some cheap, dingy motel that was close to the ferry docks in Ireland.

As she stood, she was in direct view of herself in the large mirror. She looked about as dingy as the motel. Her eyes were red from crying, her clothes dirty and torn to reveal her scars, her neck still purple from where the needle had been pushed into.

She pulled her gaze away from it, unable to look at what she had become, a murderer. She kept telling herself not to call her that, it was in complete self defence. Then another voice tells her about the family she had destroyed. Then she thought of being back their, the conditions she would be put in scared her so much. But she reminded herself she didn't have to kill him; she could have knocked him down and not stuck the athame into his chest. All these thoughts were almost as bad as when the voices started when she was younger. Almost, anyway.

She groaned, she was so hungry. She hadn't had a proper meal for ages. She grabbed some money, the keys and her jacket and headed out for breakfast and some new clothes.

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As the rest of her friends talked about something she knew not of. Moira looked out at the ocean. It calmed her when no one else would. The steady rhythm of the waves coming in and out made her feel secure and safe. Especially at times like this.

"Moira?" She heard Ebony call out her name. Moira raised her head and looked at her friends. They all were staring at her. She felt self-conscious and began to blush.

"Yes?"

"Just checking you are still alive in there." She nodded and resumed back to her thoughts. Gideon was behind Hope with his arms wrapped around her waist. Her hands held onto his as if he was the only thing that was keeping her here. Moira just wished she had something like theirs, something that was real.

"Then she always reminded herself that she might have had that with Jack. But she would never know. It was all over before he really, truly, showed he loved her. She told herself that too. But it was a lie. After all that time and it never got interesting? Ye right.

Gideon and Hope seemed so right for each other. They were perfect. Gideon adored Hope and she loved him. They would die for each other. She knew they would fight to the end to make it work.

Her gaze refocused, this time on Ryker and Ebony. They stood hand in hand, listening to a story Hope was telling. She looked at them and, although it pained her to think it, they didn't seem so perfect. She didn't think they were soul mates. She thought at the beginning it was because she had known them as pure friends for so long that it was just strange. It became clear over time though, that that wasn't it. The way they acted around each other. They seemed to run on lust more than love.

Finally her eyes rested on Elsu. He was the reason she had broken up with Jack, and yet nothing really changed that much between them. He was the reason her heart beat a little faster every time she saw him. He was the reason she choose to get up in the morning. He was the reason

But he had just broken up with Clare, they had been in love. And she was so different to her; Elsu would never love her more than as a friend.

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Gideon stood happily with his friends and his love in his arms. They all felt a strange feeling and Hope pulled him to the side. The others realised what was going on.

"That was one of my trainees, they need my help." She explained to him. The strange feeling that they had all had was Hope getting a witch message from this person.

"But didn't you tell them that you were away?" Gideon asked, desperate for her to stay with him. This was two weeks that they had to be together, no interruptions and he wasn't go to let that go without putting up a fight.

"Yeah, but it's an emergency." Gideon sighed in defeat as he looked into her pleading eyes. He could only think of one word that could describe him just now. Wiped

"Right, ok. Go," Gideon said. She smiled and leaned forward. Their lips meet briefly; kissing each other's sweetly before Hope ran off to do the teleportation spell. He knew she had a responsibility for her charges, but he still wished that she could give it all up and stay with him.

As he walked back, he felt someone collide with his shoulder. He turned around to see the back of a girl of a girl around his age. She looked awful, probably some junkie living on the streets.

"Sorry."

"Ye, sorry," she said, turning her face around slightly, giving Gideon the shook of his life.

She turned to walk but was stopped when Gideon reached out and pulled on her arm. This caused her to spin around and let him see her fully. That confirmed what his original thoughts were.

"Erimentha?" She nodded and squinted her eyes at him until a look of realisation appeared on her face.

"Gideon?" They embraced in a hug. The two had been extremely close. As they pulled away, he could see tears in her eyes. He soon realised the others had appeared at their side. Elsu's face seemed completely normal while the other's faces changed as soon as they knew who was standing in front of them.

Moira leaned forward and hugged her cousin. She could feel Erimentha's tears fall gently onto her bare shoulder. As they pulled apart, Ebony and Ryker waved and a slight smile broke out on her face. Moira heard Elsu's confused voice in her head. What the…

"Erimentha," she said quickly. "This is Elsu." She pointed from her cousin to her friend. They nodded and acknowledged each other.

Elsu felt slightly uneasy. In the morning, Moira and Ebony had explained about her. Or all they knew anyway.

He looked at her from head to toe. She looked a wreck. Her clothes were torn, underneath them lay deep scars. He winced slightly, unnoticeable to the rest of the group. The most noticeable were her neck and arm. Her arm looked like an injection gone wrong. Drugs?

Also, she stood with a number of shopping bags hanging in her hands. Clearly, she was staying.

"So where are you heading?" asked Ryker, casually.

"I suppose, I should, probably, go to my motel room," she managed to stutter out. It wasn't as easy as she thought it would be meeting them again. What made her feel worse was Elsu, her replacement. But the truth was, she hadn't thought about where she was going to go.

"Maybe you should go see your Mum," Ebony suggested, as if reading her mind. This is funny 'cause, that's my thing.

"Thinking about it. Does she still live in the same place?" She asked, still unsure if she would go. They were silent for a minute or so.

"Do you want us to come with you?" Elsu offered. Although he had only known her about 3 minutes, it seemed like they had been friends for a long time. Erimentha felt the same.

"Please," she said. They all turned in the direction of the Eventide house, filling Erimentha in on the events of their lives since she left.

A/N: ducks and screams as Bradhadair and Wiccan-gal throw stuff I'm sorry, don't throw things with corners. Its not my fault Moira thinks that. Your getting your Ebony/Ryker bit so deal with it. Also, that will be in a while because I haven't actually finished writing it yet. Cringe!