We made it! The last chapter of the story! It's always so sad to put up the last chapter because it means I have to start on a new story… It's such hard work…

chyp: Wow, a review longer than one word! I'm touched! You know, this one time at band camp…

Wesley directed Matthew to Dr. Gilkeson's attention. They had witnessed him being burned alive by the flame, but they had turned to the students before seeing this. Dr. Gilkeson was standing there, as clueless as the other students, but looking a lot more normal. His skin showed no trace of having been burned, and his eyes were no longer black, but now a fresh blue color.

"That's a new twist," Matthew commented as he helped Dr. Gilkeson over to the rest of the group.

"Since this happened," Wesley hypothesized, "it must have turned all the people he turned in the first place back, so that must mean that Jimmy's back, too."

"We better get to him," Matthew said, "but first, let's get these people back to where they belong."

It took the better part of the night to find all of the people who had been affected by Dr. Gilkeson's Demonic Flame. Once they had been located, though, Matthew and Wesley explained to them that they had simply hit their heads and that everything they had experienced was a wild hallucination. It took even longer for the brothers to actually convince them, but eventually they got the job done. After sending all the students back to their respective homes, the two of them returned to their own to find it in exactly the same way as it was before. This time, though, James was missing.

"Where do you suppose he is?" Wesley asked. "Hiding?"

"Only one way to find out," Matthew said as he raised his voice. "Jimmy! You home?"

"I heard a noise coming from the basement," Wesley said as James mumbled slightly from the basement, slowly awakening from his sleep.

"Guys?" James asked lazily.

Matthew and Wesley rushed to the basement to find it in a shambles. There was debris everywhere, a definite sign of a fight, but James was the only person in the room. Even stranger was that he was bound and blindfolded to a chair in the middle of the room. Matthew undid his blindfold while Wesley untied the ropes binding him.

"What the hell's going on?" Wesley asked. "What happened to you?"

"Who did this to you?" Matthew added. "You're okay, right?"

"I'm fine," James yawned, "just a little sore. I…I actually don't remember how I got like this. The last thing I remember was standing in the living room. I couldn't move…then I was here."

"That's weird," Wesley said. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Check this out," Matthew said, showing his brothers the Book of Light, its pages now overflowing with words.

"It's back?" Wesley asked, his eyes widening. "How can that be possible?"

"I don't know," Matthew said. "Seems like there's a lot of unexplained things happening around here. From what I can put together, whatever happened to Jimmy must have something to do with the Book being back. Are you sure you can't remember anything, Jimmy?"

"Nothing," James answered.

"Let's just count our blessings," Wesley said. "For once, everything's back to normal and we can get back to doing things like regular people."

"Maybe he's right," James said.

"But didn't Mom and Dad always say that everything happens for a reason?" Matthew asked.

"Yeah," James said, "but I don't think it's always meant for us to understand the reason."

"He said something intelligible," Wesley smiled. "Certainly no way to explain that."

"Shut up," James said, pushing Wesley into Matthew.

"Hey," Wesley protested, "what do I look like, a toy? Go find somebody else to play with!"

"Oh my God!" James shouted, looking at his watch. "I had a date today and forgot all about it!"

He jumped up and ran out of the room, leaving Wesley and Matthew to further contemplate who this mystery date was. He ran into his room, wanting to have a little privacy. Wesley would surely be on another phone, secretly listening in on his conversation. He searched his pockets for his cell phone and noticed a slip of paper that fell out. He looked at it; it was pink and scented. He didn't remember having any paper like that. Opening it, he read to himself:

"Dear You,

Looks like we both got held up tonight, but don't think it's over yet. I guess we'll have to figure out some other time. I'll be in touch, will you? You know where to find me.

From Me."

And that concludes episode 2. As usual, thanx to everyone for reading and/or reviewing! Hopefully I can hit 40 reviews… Episode 3 will be up as soon as I get far enough ahead to keep it going! Stay tuned to find out what happens next!