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"I think I should let him tell you himself…" You could so tell that Father Dom was just so happy. The old man, I swear to all that is holy, was basically giddy.

With that I heard another male voice halfway whisper, "Susannah…"

Chapter 17. When I started this I didn't expect this to get so long…

"Susannah? Are you alright?" The male voice whispered to me. A voice that has soothed my tears and helped me sleep many a nights. A voice that excites me like no other and scares the shit out of me when it gets stern. The voice of the one and only Jesse de Silva. I closed my eyes to make sure they were not playing tricks on me. When I opened them again I saw that Jesse was standing next to the cot I was in, and not only was the unearthly glow of the dead gone, so were the cowboy western clothes. Instead he had on a pair of 'hot boy jeans' as we call them, meaning the jeans that aren't too baggy or too straight. They just fit perfectly. Plus they have the whole faded look to them. He also had on a navy blue polo that was tight enough it gave a hint of his six pack but definitely not skin tight, with a white undershirt under it. Wow. He looked amazing in 21st century guys' clothes. He could easily walk into ANY clothing store and they would ask them to model. Not that Jesse would ever do that, of course.

I felt a huge smile form across my face and I basically jumped up and wrapped my arms around his neck probably giving him the biggest hug of his life…after life…and I suppose his new life. "Jesse…oh my god…are you really alive?" I said crying for joy with my head buried in his chest.

"Yes, Querida, I am," He said his voice so full of emotion you could cut through it. By the sound of his voice, it sounded like he too was fighting back tears. He wound his strong arms around my waist and just held me for what seemed like an eternity. An eternity that was cut far too short for my liking by the good priest.

"Ahem…" Father Dom cleared his throat to get our attention. Right. I forgot that he was still here…it is probably a good thing I did not start making out with Jesse like I wanted to. Jesse and I broke apart some and looked at Father Dom.

"Yes, Padre?" Jesse asked, while he sat down next to me and held my hand.

"I understand you two are…very overwhelmed about this all, but Jesse I see it only fit to explain to Susannah what happened, or at least as best as possible." He said sternly even though he too was smiling.

"Si, you are right Padre," Jesse said still holding my hand. He turned and looked me in the eye…those liquid brown eyes staring deep into mine as if he could see the depths of my soul. Really, I would not put it past Jesse to be able to see my soul. "Querida, I am not exactly sure how this occurred. In fact, I really do not understand it at all. All I know it suddenly I heard what sounded like your voice, Susannah, saying 'All I want is for you to be alive…" over and over again and this tingly feeling started in my hands and feet and slowly moved all throughout my body. It reminded me of when I was alive and my arm would, as you say, fall asleep from lack of movement. I thought to myself, this is a very odd sensation seeing that I have not felt anything like this in 150 years. Then as I thought that suddenly all these memories of when I was alive started flashing through my mind starting with my death and going to my earliest memories. I saw my family and friends the farm and horses…everything…it was almost as if I was there among them once again. Suddenly it felt as if my chest exploded and a gust of breath broke forth through my mouth. Real breath, Susannah…I could feel the warmth of it on my hand…and then I noticed that my skin looked real also. My aura was gone and instead I was left with my natural skin tone. I could feel my heart beating in my chest. A heart beat. The sign of real life." With that he took my hand and placed it where his heart was in his chest so I could feel it's beat. "I am alive again…and it is all because of you. I do not know what you did or how…but Querida…I thank you with all my soul. We can finally be truly happy."

Ok whoa. What? I did WHAT? I felt my face get into a look of utter most confusion. "Jesse…don't get me wrong, I am, God, so happy you are alive…but I do not understand…" I looked at Fr. Dom to see if he understood any of this. Then it dawned on me, one person would know. Paul. "Father, we gotta get Paul in here! Call him down to your office! I need his help!" Ok I started rambling on about getting Paul to come down, because, well I knew he would have the most knowledge about this. He is after all a Shifter too.

Jesse, on the other hand, did not seem to like this idea at all. "Susannah! Why in the name of all that is good would you want Slater's help? Of all people…" He kept muttering to himself in both English and Spanish, so I just stopped paying attention to him.

"Jesse, chill, Paul is one my friends…he and I talked it all out, he is actually a good guy…" I said trying to convince not only Jesse but myself too. Like I said earlier, just because he and I are friends does not mean I totally trust him yet.

"Well," Another male voice said. "I am glad at least ONE person thinks I am a decent person." Enter the infamous Paul Slater.

"You," Jesse growled at him.

"Yes, me. Jesse, you are looking, well, not dead today." Wow. Way to speak the obvious Paul. He continued to say, "What is up with that?" This boy is seriously not surprised by anything it seems.

"Paul, I was just saying how Fr. Dom needed to call you down here so we could ask you something," I said ignoring the glares Paul and Jesse were sending at each other.

"Yeah, I know. That is why I came. You called me, Suze. I am actually proud of you; your powers seem to be getting stronger and stronger with each passing minute. I told you that you would be able to call humans eventually."

"Yeah, more powerful then you think…" I said to him.

He raised his eyebrow and said, "Do explain."

I took a deep breath still trying to sort out all my thoughts trying to figure out what was happening. "Ok, well first of all in History I was staring at the clock and basically just kept thinking how I wished class would hurry up and finish. I guess what I really was thinking, "I want time to speed up" and right before my eyes the clock's hands rotated three minutes worth in three seconds. What does that mean? I sped time up…" I trailed off to see Father Dom looking at me in surprise and Paul just smirking at me.

"So you figured it out all by yourself. Good job, Suze. I knew you were going to be a powerful shifter. Yeah, as you can probably tell now since you did it, as shifters we can control time…it's a limited power…we can only go back a few minutes or forward a few. At least at first. I read you can eventually get your powers strong enough to go back and forth at least a day." Paul said sounding quite proud of me. I wonder why he never told me this before.

"Ok, that's fine and all…but…Paul, how did I make Jesse come back to life again?" I really hoped that he knew the answer to this.

He looked at me and then to Jesse and pointed at me and said in a shocked, "Shiiit. YOU did that to him?" He looked at Father Dom with an apologetic look. "Uh, I mean shoot." He looked at Jesse and me again and continued, "Suze, you seriously made him come alive again? Dang…"

He knew something. I knew he knew something. Ugh why isn't he saying it?! "Paul, what? How did I do it? I didn't even know that was possible, did you?"

"Oh, yeah I knew it was possible. Well at least I read about it in all the notes and such. I, myself, have never tried it before though. I never had a reason to because well, it is complicated…" he trailed off and a look of pain filled his eyes. He refused to look at me again.

"Complicated?" Jesse said. "What do you mean, Slater?"

Paul sat down on one of the hard plastic chairs that schools always have and ran his hand through his hair and let out a deep breath. "Well…according to the article that talks about changing a ghost into a live person…" he stopped and propped his chin on his arms, and I could tell he was trying to figure out how to word it all. "Ok, you see you cannot just WANT it to happen. It cannot be preformed on just any random ghost." He shook his head as in still in disbelief. "You cannot just want it…" he repeated again.

"Yeah, we got that part Paul…what else?" I asked curiously.

He halfway smiled at me…yet the smile looked sad. "No, you do not understand. You cannot just want it. You must yearn for this person to be alive once again. You must ache for it with every single fiber of your being. You have to be willing to do anything, ANYTHING, for this person. You also have to truly and completely love this person with all your heart and soul…" His eyes looked into mine for a split second but then quickly looked down again. Even for that split second I could tell why Paul sounded…looked…so sad. He finally came to realize that my love for Jesse was the real deal. Actually, this made ME realize that it was truthfully the real thing. "So, you see, that is why I have never had an opportunity to try out this little power…now if you would excuse me, I have a class to go to…" he stood up, looked at me and then at Jesse, and shook his head once again. He turned and left. He just left, and I could tell by the way his shoulders slumped he knew Jesse had won. Won my heart for good, that is.

When Paul left the room was filled with silence. I was just starting straight ahead thinking about what Paul had said… 'You must ache with it with every fiber of your being…' If I am sure about anything in my life, it's the fact that I love Jesse and, well before today, wanted him to be a live more then anything in the world. And now here he is, sitting right next to me in the nurse's office at my school alive and healthy as ever. I shot a glance at Jesse to see how he was handling what Paul had informed us. Of course, right when I looked at him he caught my eyes with his and smiled. Oh god, that smile…it was seriously…to die for.

"Well. That explains it a little…" Father Dom said sounding still confused and not sure if he believed it. I believed it though, with all my heart I knew what Paul said was true.

I still was unable to think of anything worth saying so I just sat silent for a few moments more. That is till Jesse took my hand in his again and brought it to his lips and kissed it lightly. I looked at him and smiled. He said, "Querida…"

I didn't not let him continue, though, I stopped him and said, "Jesse…I still do not understand this…so I suppose it will just stay a mystery, though I know it is no mystery as to how much I love you and I really would do anything for you…I am just so happy right now!" I hugged him again and then just because I was so happy I jumped off the cot and gave Fr. Dom a hug too. I looked at them both and was basically jumping up and down I was so giddy and joyful. My eyes were huge with excitement, "Wait, you said earlier that Jesse is a student here now?" I said questioning Fr. Dominic. "But, aren't you like, 20?" I asked Jesse.

"Yes, I am going to be attending school year as a senior. Padre thought it would be good for me before going to college so I knew what life as a teen in the 21st century was like besides through watching you. Technically I never turned 20 when alive so Father Dominic said he would get a birth certificate made for me saying that I am 18…it just makes more sense. We don't want to make it look like I was held back in high school!" He said his eyes twinkling with excitement and laughing.

"Well you two it is getting late into second period. You better get going to your classes, here I will write you each a pass…" The three of us walked back to Father Dom's office and he wrote us up an excuse to hand to our teachers. We left and started walking down the hallway.

I turned to face the new 21st century Jesse. I still cannot get over the shock of him being alive and at my school. I was not beyond giddy, I was ecstatic. I gave him a huge hug and a quick kiss on the cheek and said, "Wow, I am so happy I can finally kiss you and to the outside world it wont look like I'm kissing air," Ok, wow. I cannot believe I really just said that. I smiled sheepishly at my hottie and he just laughed.

He quickly grabbed me and kissed me on the lips leaving me, and by the way he was looking at me him too, wanting more. He said in his low sexy voice, "You know there is more where that came from…"and flashed me his best smile and walked on towards his class. I stood there in the middle of the hall for a few moments and let out a quiet shriek of joy and walked on to my second period class…though I don't see why…all I am going to think about is my LIVE boyfriend, Jesse. Happy sigh

TBC

Whoa, did I really just write a chapter that wasn't a cliffhanger? So weird.

Happy New Year's! R.R.