Chapter Four

"Don't you think you should go downstairs and talk to him?"

Wade looked up at the Professor through watery eyes. "Wade you can't stay up here forever,"

"I know that. I'm just not ready to talk to him,"

Arturo sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her. "He thinks I'm going mad and he's right,"

"No he doesn't,"

"Yes he does and I am. I mean look at me. I'm talking to you and your not really here,"

"To you I am,"

"Doesn't matter. If your not really here why am I still seeing you?"

"Because you need me still. You needed me back in the camp when you had no one and you need me now when you feel you have no one,"

"I have Quinn,"

"But you can't open up to him can you. There's still apart of you that feels you can't completely trust him and that's because of what happened back at the camp,"

Earth 192 Kromagg Breeding Camp

18 months earlier.

Everything had happened so fast that Wade had had trouble digesting most of it. Four months ago she had had everything and now she was being led to the prison cell that was to be her new home.

Four months ago she had had her friends, all of them. Then everything changed. Rickman had killed the Professor, the closest thing she had to a father. Then Maggie had joined the group and Quinn had become distant, well to her anyway. Remmie however had been the only one who hadn't changed. He was the only constant force she had and she found herself growing closer to him. However seeing Quinn and Maggie kissing on the cliff top had still hurt and the fact that he had stayed behind with Maggie instead of returning home with her kept the wound fresh.

So after mourning the loss of her beloved Professor, she hadn't really had much time to mourn Quinn before the Kromaggs had captured and separated her and Remmie. And now she was grieving for him as well as she doubted that she would ever see him again either.

The cell door shut behind her and for the first time since she had been taken she realised that she was truly alone.