Yay, another update! I tried updating yesturday, but FF wouldn't let me log in, oh well. This one is only a short part, but hopefully it'll tide you over for a couple days. Oh and thanks for all the feedback! 40 reviews, yay!

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For the next two day's, the wormhole stayed inactive, leaving Josie busy teaching her new 'friends' how to act like her 'old friends', which she wasn't finding an easy task. But it took her mind off trying to get home for a little while. Even so, every spare moment she got, she disappeared of to 'Z's Office' to see if the wormhole was open. Not to mention the hours she spent surfing the net trying to figure out a way to create her own wormhole.

But Emma was following her around everywhere, trying to imitate her style, while the others were constantly asking her how Lucas would do this, how Marshall would that, would Corrine say it like this, would Z act like that?

And to be truthfully honest with herself, Josie found that, although at times it could be annoying, she was actually having a bit of fun. She was beginning to think that maybe it wouldn't be so bad if she was stuck in this time line.

But even with the fact that everything was so different, so interesting and appealing, Josie still missed home. She missed her real friends, Z, school, her mom… She even missed Principal Durst, if such a thing could be possible.

Josie was sitting logged on to Emma's AOL, lost in thought, supposedlyresearching, when Jeff walked in the room. Her research wasn't going to well. She'd found out that although scientists were trying to recreate them, so they could learn more about time and sub-dimensional travel, they were still years off perfecting the technology.

Even with all the information she knew about wormholes… having been one of the very few people to have ever been in one, Josie kind of figured she was pretty much an expert on the subject… she didn't think she could create one from scratch.

The materials needed alone left Josie standing blankly… Enormous amounts of mass and energy. And then there were the scientists who claimed that sub-dimensional travel would be virtually impossible, although Josie knew that they were wrong.

"Any luck on creating an active wormhole?" Jeff asked, coming up behind her and laying on hand on her shoulder, startling her out of her musings.

Josie shook her head and sighed, before rubbing her eyes with one hand. "Nothing. Every site says that wormhole creation is far off being made… And a lot of them state it's not possible to travel more than a year back anyway. There's not very much information about sub-dimensional travel, which is what I really need the wormhole for.

She turned sideways in her seat and looked up at the man who looked so much like her mentor. She had to keep constantly reminding herself that he wasn't, but it the resemblance in looks was so hard to forget, so that every time he opened his mouth, she got a shock to hear him when he was confused about something that her Professor Z would have understood right away.

"I'm sorry," Jeff replied. "I'm really not sure what you're saying."

Josie shook head and smiled sadly. 'At this point,' she thought to herself, 'Z would be snapping in to gear to give them all a short science lesson.'

"Don't worry about," she replied out loud. "There's not a whole lot you could have helped me out with anyway. No offence or anything, but you guys really don't know anything about wormholes and black holes and all the rest of it."

"No offence taken, Josie," Jeff replied smiling at the girl. "You're completely right, we don't know much about any of this. But that's because we're only required to know what we need to know for the show. And all of that's in our lines. We have done some research on it, to understand what we're talking about, but I never did have a scientific mind. I can't really get a grasp on it all," he finished, with a movement of his hand like he was grasping an object.

The gesture almost made Josie come undone. It was very much like Professor Z, but she held her tears in, trying to stay strong and tough.

"Well, we've got a scene coming up, and the others were wondering whether you could come help us out with it," Jeff asked, sensing how close Josie was to crying. He figured that if he could distract her, it might help a little with the homesick feeling.

Josie nodded wearily, and logged off the computer. She stood and followed Jeff out of the room, and down to the lawn.

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