Disclaimer: I don't own Earth: Final Conflict or any of its characters. Just my poor widdle plot.

A/N: Unfortunately, I am at times a lazy person. So sorry for the delay. I tried to make this longer to make up for it. Thanks so much for the reviews wildbikerbabe, Bronny, Aki, Lady of the Dawn, Whit(Whitley?), Cyrana!

The story is in season two after Agent Beckett dies. I think I mentioned something to that effect in chapter two.

At the Fair

"I-I'm fine," Liam whispered, unable to move. Da'an would know. He noticed who or what Liam was the first time they met, how could he not know? Da'an made a move to help him up. Instinctively, Liam lurched backward, away from the offered hand. He unsteadily got to his feet, keeping his eyes on the ground.

"Thank you. I'm fine, really," he blurted out. Liam had to stop his hand from covering is mouth. His voice was so high!

A woman quickly made her way over to them, seeing the incident. The tag declared her name Jamie Garrison. Liam realized she was one of the fair's people. She had been extra friendly to all Companion staff that morning, obviously a big fan of Da'an's.

"Is everything all right here?" Without waiting for an answer, she continued, "I wanted to personally thank you, Da'an, for coming today as well as everything you've done for these unfortunate children. Isn't that right, young man? The Companions have been more than generous." She frowned at Liam's shaken appearance. "You should watch where you're going."

Liam nodded his head rapidly, his eyes though looking left and right for an escape route. Da'an noticed.

"Thank you for your concern Ms Garrison and your gratitude. It was not the child's fault for our collision but rather an unexpected step and the brightness of the sun. Earth's sun so often can hamper one's vision. The sun of my home world is quite dim in comparison. It took me some time to adapt."

Garrison nodded in agreement. "I'd love to hear more about the Taelon home world if you wouldn't mind."

"Perhaps, but I would much more enjoy hearing about the entertainment being provided for the children. It is quite unusual to my people. I'm sure young –" He looked at Liam for a name.

Liam choked out, "Li- " but couldn't get out anything more. He was such an idiot. Why couldn't he think of another name to use? Da'an would figure it out now, if he hadn't already!

"I'm sure young Li here would like to find out what there is to do at the fair."

"My friends," Liam coughed and tried again. This conversation was too close to their previous discussion about what kids do for fun the other day. "My friends are waiting for me. I need to find them."

"Then you must go find them. I hope we meet again, Li." Liam took the permission with a shaky grin, nodding his head at Da'an and Ms. Garrison. Liam could feel the Companions gentle eyes following him, but when he turned around for a quick look, there was still no recognition in them.

After the confrontation with Da'an, Liam needed something to help him calm down and his stomach gave the winning idea. Liam headed for the closest food stand.

He took the offered hotdog, larger then remembered them being, and piled on the relish. It was Augur who got him hooked on it all the while Lili crying out he was too young to eat that stuff. Augur would usually reply that just because Lili had never grown up enough to enjoy such delicacies didn't mean that Liam should be deprived.

Liam took a large bit and immediately wanted to spit it back out. Foul! Forcefully he swallowed it. Looking around, he found a trash can and immediately pitched the offending dog.

"Must be something wrong with it," Liam muttered to himself.

Sipping on his soda, Liam started wandering around the fair, taking in the sights, and looking for an appropriate mark from which to lift the needed global. To his left was a Farris wheel and next to it a funny looking ride that spun in circles. To Liam's bafflement, the seats were grouped in what looked to be large cups. Each ride had a line of eager looking kids. Along with the children in the new orphanage were groups of kids from the local schools. The idea of course was to help the orphans get along with the localswhile more permanent homes were being found for them. So far, very few had.

After watching severalgame, food, and ride operators, Liam decided on the bored balding man loading kids into the funny cups. There were long moments when his global was out of his sight, sitting on a table near the console filled with levers and buttons, when the man was making sure everyone was secure in their seats. Set in his course, Liam threw away his drink and got in line.

What Liam hadn't taken into account was how long it took to get close enough to the global, slowly going through the ride line. It may have only taken ten minutes, but to Liam's new short attention span, it felt an eternity. Finally, it was in reach.

His hand was inches away when the global beeped. Startled, Liam jumped back. Good thing to as the bald man swooped down on the global. Giving Liam a glare, he answered it. Liam took a few steps away into the line. Looks like he'd have to give the ride a go. Besides, he reasoned, I might as well try to enjoy myself.

Liam tried to remember that thought as the bald man tightened his seatbelt on his seat in the cup. Pushing down his nervousness, he gave a weak grin to the two boys belted in across from him.

"Hi, I'm Jason," said the blond haired skinny boy. "Have you been on this before? You look too scared to have been."

"I'm not scared!" Liam defended. Just because he was cautious was no reason to call him scared.

"Jason! Don't mind my brother. He just loves rides, especially roller coasters. Too bad they don't have any here. I'm Josh." The older brown haired boy gave Liam an evil grin. "Don't worry. You'll enjoy the spinning teacups."

Deciding not to ponder that grin at the moment, Liam introduced himself. "My name's Li. I'm sure I will enjoy the teacups. Why do you call them spinning though? They just go in a wide circle." As the two boys grinned at each other, the ride started moving.

"Just follow our lead!" With that, they started twisting the wheel in the center of their cup. Liam wasn't sure he liked that.

Hovering over a trash can, puking his guts out, Liam was sure he didn't like the spinning teacups, especially when they were spinning. On the bright side, he was now sitting next to the global and better than that, he'd spotted another global in a backpack under the table while he was hunched over the trash. If he took that one, no one would realize it was gone, much less that he was the thief. As soon as his stomach got with the program, he was all set to go.

"You all right, boy? It's all good, some people just don't have the stomach for rides. Takes the iron strong constitution of a pilot to handle some of these, especially the way those other youngsters had your cup spinning. Here," he handed Liam a paper cup," drink some water to rinse out your mouth."

Liam took the cup, still shocked at the idea that he didn't have the stomach to be a pilot at the moment. What if that was still true when he grew up again? He was still sipping water when the man left to get the next group settled on the teacups.

Straightening up, Liam glanced around to see if anyone was watching him. Leaning over to throw away his cup, Liam swiped up the global and deposited it in his waistband. Casually standing up, Liam made his getaway.

It wasn't until he was seated behind a couple bushes at the edge of the fair that he relaxed. Quickly, Liam punched out the proper address and code to send his emergency message. It seemed to have been hours since his transformation but in fact he was only now late for his meeting with Doors. Lili would be here soon. He just had to make until then.

With his eyes closed, Liam took a few relaxing breathes. He would just stay put for now. Eveything would work out soon.