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Guest: Nuh- uh. Jackson and Melissa all the way. Which you will probably see in a few chapters. Thanks anyway for your review.

Since I updated last I have finished the stories what is a human if she loses her best friend, what I did for hate, the search for a family and buried deep within.

Things will change in this story a little bit. I'll delete Captain Bob's chapter. And then I'll re-write it some and put that chapter last before the epilogue.

Sorry it took me so long to update. I still have a load of stories I'll finish and I didn't quite know what to put in this chapter. But here it is (Writing this I haven't started the actual chapter yet) and I hope you like it.

Ian Milbauer

"Ian?"

On almost all of the way home from the island I had sat quiet, with Jory by my side but still taking in every single thing that had happened and that we were finally on our way home.

"Yes?"

"Are you alright? Really? You've barely even said a word since we were saved from… you know where." I couldn't help bit sigh deeply. "Does your leg hurt?"

"I'm fine…" I watched out the window as the plane went lower and lower down, as somewhere far away I heard the voice of the flight attendant. "I honestly don't even know who will be here or not…"

"Your mum had been away for months before we left, right?" I nodded. "I know Doctor's Without Borders all do an amazing job. But first, she's away for months and then you leave…"

"I know." I knew she was only trying to cheer me up. My best friend was great like that she always would… "I just… I don't know if it's her or dad or Kyle- I just need…. Oh my Gosh. A bed to sleep in!" Jory nodded agreeing, I couldn't help but give a short laugh. "I would never know how much those things mean…" The plane bumped downwards when it hid the ground and there was a sigh of relief going through the whole room. "Finally!"

Well, not really. First, I just needed to get myself out of the plane and onto the ground in a wheelchair…

But then at last, while Jory pushed my chair into the big hallway of the hospital and I saw my mum, dad and brother I knew for the first time that everything I had worked for and gone through was worth being back here.

Jory left me, my hands were too weak and shaky to get myself anywhere. But all of a sudden mum was there, pressing her lips against my forehead with her arms around my shoulders- just like she would when she came home from when she spent months travelling.

"Mum" She kept kissing, my neck, my cheep, my forehead… everywhere she would reach really. "Mum. That's enough… Mum. I have to be able to talk to dad and Kyle too… Mum?"

It must have hurt her as much as it hurt me, but at last she took a step back. Kyle smiled at me, but he had a look of relief I didn't recognize and his voice sounded shaky when he spoke.

"You always wished you would break a bone, little brother." He said. "Just to have it done really… And also for the attention you would get."

I tried to laugh again but that hurt too. It was so much that span in my mind, and it wasn't made any less by knowing falling through that rotting roof. And how I was so grateful I couldn't breathe when I remembered telling the others to go on without me…

"Ian..." Mum's voice broke through my thoughts. "Baby?" I felt her kissing my cheek and heard her voice as she whispered in my ear. "It's okay now. Don't cry."

I hadn't even noticed that I did. I could barely remember crying even once, not even when I was little. Right then, when I could finally lean into my mum's lap and lean my face into her shoulder, realizing how close I had been to not making it here I couldn't help but to just let the tears come running down.

And how I cried, it felt as if it lasted hours. But as mum sat right nearby and hugged me tight, shushing as if I had been a little child I just couldn't help but to cry and cry and cry…

At last, with tears still rolling down my cheeks the sobbing had finally stopped so to the point I could talk.

And there was one thing more important than all else.

"It was so close that everyone made it back except for me."

Mum gasped, I saw that Kyle and dad too heard what I was saying and only almost wished I could have heard what they were thinking- although I wanted to do anything but that.

"I can go home… " Mum probably knew more than me about what would happen but now the crying was… well, paused there were information. "But I will have to go back to the hospital and it might be already tomorrow. My leg's been so swollen… when it goes down I might need more surgeries…"

"It doesn't matter." Mum almost whispered shakily. "It doesn't matter. Nothing matters as long as you're back here with me…"

Random facts

Of course I need to come up with something unique for each chapter. And, mostly because we know nothing about Ian this chapter took me long to figure anything at all to write about… In fact I had started the chapter and write a bit to figure…

Be right back with Jory's chapter.