A/N: Alright people! Guess what? No more marching band! I know, it's sad. But it also means that I'm free for a LOT more updates! So thanks for struggling with me through the marching band season; I'll be around a lot more now hopefully ; )
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Twilight was gathering by the time that Mistyeyes and Toothless found her. They had paced through the wooded island, milling around dragons that were busying themselves with hunting or trying to reunite with others of the Pack, just like they were attempting to do. Every single one turned and called out a warm greeting to Toothless and Mistyeyes as the couple walked over fallen trees or sculpted rocks, the warmth in their eyes like a ghost of the past to Mistyeyes, who was simply overjoyed at the rejuvenation of friendliness with the others around her. She'd gotten so used to being outcasted by them ever since Nightflight had come back, and the return of hellos and friendly conversation was like a warm wave of nostalgia. And as she walked and returned the curtsies, she almost forgot what was going on. What was wrong. What they were in for. She almost forgot that this wasn't like the way it had been. It wasn't like back then.
"What?" Toothless asked eventually as they finally got to the stretch of a marsh that was void of any other reptile. Mistyeyes perked, turning and looking his way with an innocent look of confusion. But she could tell that the male knew that something was wrong; his green eyes flashed over with concern as they met her's, and she gave a small sigh through her nose as she realized that hiding things would be pointless. "What's the matter?" He asked when she didn't make a move to broach the topic herself. "Besides the obvious, I mean." He added on swiftly, as if attempting to make a joke and lighten the mood.
But if that was what he was attempting, he was let down. Mistyeyes responded with a tart little sigh, her ears flicking backwards to rest against her head. She busied herself a moment, stepping delicately around a rather large puddle, taking more care than she needed to in the maneuver. Toothless stepped through it though, eyes not wavering from where they rested on her as he slushed through the wet dirt carelessly. "Nothing is wrong." Mistyeyes said curtly, blue eyes flashing as she eyed the male stumble rather ungraciously through the puddle. "It's just….kind of odd. The way things have played out."
"You're telling me." Toothless growled in response, looking down at his now-muddy claws with a small hint of distaste. Mistyeyes watched with a hint of amusement as he flicked away the debris with a curl of his lip. "Just a few months ago, everything was perfectly fine and sound. Now we're outcasts of Berk, going in who-knows-what direction, heading for who-knows-what kind of trouble, with a person who remembers nothing, a boy who's severely confused on what to do, and we're walking around a dark forest looking for someone who obviously does not want to talk to us." He threw Mistyeyes a skeptical look. "If that's not 'odd' I don't know what is."
Mistyeyes gave him a weighted stare, rolling her eyes before turning and keeping on their path. "You could be a little bit more level-headed with the situation." She offered blandly, her voice a little bit sharper than she intended as she kept a step ahead of Toothless. If he noticed the small hint of distance though, he did not call it out. Instead, he fell into step accordingly, the female feeling his gaze bore into her as she walked. But she just shook her head, ears flicking back and forth as she debated going on. "It's not like I'm saying that it isn't hard; because it is. But…there are better ways to deal with it than the way you're offering." Her blue eyes flashed at this, and she turned to glance over her shoulder at him, albeit reproachfully. "You won't help things by ignoring Hiccup."
"He's not helping things himself." Toothless flashed back, almost childish as he turned pointedly. His green eyes flashed up to the low-hanging branches, sweeping his tail up to jar the leaves and splatter a few lingering raindrops down on them as they walked. Mistyeyes winced a little at the cold feeling of the splatter, sighing a little too patiently through her nose as she closed her eyes briefly. Sensing her dwindling spirit, Toothless heaved a sigh himself before shaking his head, going back and defending himself reluctantly. "You have to admit: I'm not wrong."
"I never said you were wrong." She said tartly. "I'm just asking why you think you can't be the bigger person in all of this." Toothless flared at the notion, already opening his mouth to jab out with a sharp retort before she was even finished. So she quickly swept on, realizing that he probably wouldn't cooperate with the way she was going right now. She backtracked as best she could, shaking her head and clearing her throat a little pointedly. "Hiccup has been through a lot, and he's just trying to think of everyone in the same kind of sense. You could at least try and help him instead of making things harder for him."
"It's hard for everyone." Toothless replied rather shortly, narrowing his eyes against the dim light of night, stumbling a little bit as the shadows lengthened around them. It was starting to get darker and darker now; they would have to hurry if they wanted to get back to camp and mingle with others before they all retired to sleep. The sun was starting to sink below the horizon, and with the way that the group had looked before landing, Mistyeyes figured that they were short of time. It occurred to her that Nightflight might not even be out here, or that she might have stayed back in the camp with the others. She cursed mentally as the thought just now chose to appear, but she disregarded it quickly. It was fine. They'd find her either way.
When she didn't reply, Toothless restated his defense, taking care this time to step over particularly mushy sections of dirt. "I'm not saying that he can't feel bad, I'm just saying that he can't let other things cloud what's really important." His voice was tensed with this, and Mistyeyes perked at the sudden change in tone, turning and staring curiously his way. The male was looking forward with a rather heavy look, eyes distant, as if he wasn't really speaking to her as he went on. "It's just….it's happened before.
"Everyone knows what happened the first time. Me especially." His claws flexed a little against the ground as he walked, Mistyeyes looking down at his claws with a sorrowful look. She remembered all too clearly the scene that she had helped to create: Hiccup pinned down against the rock, battered and bleeding underneath Toothless's own talons as he pleaded with the dragon to listen to reason. She had to blink quite a few times for the image to go away, but still it burned in the back of her mind. And she could tell that Toothless was facing the same problem. "….I always remember it. And I always look back on it and wonder: '…How could I have possibly done that?'" He looked over at the female, letting the question hover between them before: "I don't want Astrid to feel what I feel. If anything does happen, she is going to remember it. And she is going to hold herself accountable."
"I'm sure she wouldn't-"
Toothless swerved forward suddenly, dashing over and planting himself almost angrily in front of Mistyeyes. The female gasped a little bit with surprise, stumbling backwards and nearly slipping in the mud as she righted herself hastily. She opened her mouth to say something in response to the sudden maneuver, but Toothless spoke first, his voice clenched tight with held-in emotions. "Mistyeyes, do you know how bad it feels?" He asked suddenly, cutting the female off effectively as she clamped her jaws shut tightly at the words. "Do you know what I think of whenever I look at Hiccup? I think of the way that I abandoned him. And I think of the way that I nearly killed him, both mentally and physically. Do you understand? Do you understand how bad that feels? How I have to look at all my mistakes when I see him smile at me, and- and wonder what the heck I was thinking? Do you know what it's like to live with that weight on you all the time?"
"….No." She whispered softly, subdued. "I don't."
Toothless took a small step backwards, ears flat as he paused a second before doing anything more. But he dipped his head rather awkwardly, like he was almost apologizing for his outburst, though Mistyeyes would never have gotten cross with him over such an explosion. "It isn't something that I'd wish on anyone." He said eventually. "Not even on someone I despised the most in this world." He shook his head loosely at this. "I know that it's stupid to push him out…and that it only makes things worse. But…he just doesn't know the kind of pain it can cause. If something happened that changed things…she would be forced to live with this like I do. And I don't want her to have to deal with what I do. But whenever I tried to explain it to Hiccup, he always pushed me out. So… I don't know." He turned with a small shrug, as if the movement sufficed for an answer. "….I don't know." He repeated uselessly.
Mistyeyes debated her answer, unable to move as she found herself pinned both by Toothless's gaze and her own incapability to step around him. "Nothing will happen." She assured him instead, taking care to make herself sound sure and confident, hoping that it would come across as such. "Okay?" She asked when he didn't make a move to reply. "We're only a few days away from Berk now, Toothless; everything will be okay. There's not enough time for something to go wrong, don't you see? It'll all be okay?"
"What about when we get to Berk? What then?" Toothless asked scathingly.
"Then we do what we said we would from the very start." She replied neatly. "We solve things."
"You make it sound easy."
"You make it sound hard."
"I make it seem realistic."
"No, you just-"
"Are you two fighting again?" The pair of them froze at the sudden call, breaking their now-heated eye contact as they turned and looked in the direction of the sudden break in conversation. Mistyeyes straightened, both out of surprise and embarrassment as she saw Leafdapple, Shadowclaw, and Nightflight standing at the edge of the clearing in a neat line. Shadowclaw, the one to have spoken out, looked at the pair of them with an incredulous look, Leafdapple looking merely awkward as she shifted her feet rather anxiously. Nightflight's face was blank and wiped clean of emotion, though her sightless gaze bored oddly straight into Mistyeyes, as if she could really see the female standing a ways away from her.
Shaking the thought free of her mind, Mistyeyes stood up erect, taking a short step backwards from Toothless and righting the distance that she had accidentally let slip her mind. Her brief spark of anger towards the male dwindled in an instant, and she suddenly felt guilty for even thinking of becoming short with him. She should know out of everyone how crucial it was to keep a level head, and here she was getting snippy with the dragon she thought she could side with on anything. Finding the inner monologue not helpful at all, she did her best to cut it short, clearing her throat ungraciously as she looked at the trio in front of her rather shyly. "No." She said quickly, her voice sounding tight and weird in her own ears. "We were just- we were just looking for you all."
"'Looking?'" Shadowclaw repeated with a small sniff. "Looks like you were too busy standing in one place and bickering to do much looking." Toothless glanced at Mistyeyes out of the corner of his eye as the younger one said this, but he didn't dare open his mouth to contradict him outright. Shadowclaw seemed to sense that this was more than just a random bout of fighting though, his tail giving a lash as he moved on reluctantly. "We were sent out to find you two." He elaborated, jerking his head to indicate the small group that was around him. "Hiccup is trying to find you guys. Everyone is back besides you all."
"He's getting worried." Leafdapple interjected, looking towards the now-darkened sky.
"I told him you were probably off messing around, but he wasn't so sure." Shadowclaw said, his voice losing a touch of its harshness as a flash of humor entered his eyes. He offered the couple a smile, hoping to ease the tension as best he could. But when they only stared back at him, his grin wavered until it dropped completely. He tilted his head curiously to the side, looking puzzled at their odd looks. "What's wrong?" He asked suddenly, realization dawning on him slowly. "Why were you looking for us?" He asked.
"We weren't." Toothless said before Mistyeyes could start to explain. He took a small step forward, so that he was a little close to them than the gray dragon was. She blinked, looking indignant at the motion, but she clamped her jaws shut tartly instead, refusing to start yet another fight in front of them. "We were looking for Nightflight." Toothless went on, turning and looking the Night Fury's way with an expectant look. Mistyeyes noticed the way that Nightflight started to flinch a little at Toothless's words, a stark flash of pity making Mistyeyes almost sway on her feet.
"Why?" Nightflight asked, her voice a little soft as she asked the question presently. Toothless opened his mouth to speak, but Nightflight didn't see the movement, for she started to go on before he could do anything of the sort. "There's nothing more we need to say to each other, Toothless." She said, her voice raw with pain and struggle as she forced out the blunt statement. Toothless started at the wording, eyes rounding out slightly as the brush-off seemed to register for him. Mistyeyes winced slightly, looking at Nightflight and sensing what the female meant.
She looked closely at the Night Fury, seeing all the details that before she found no reason to observe. The stooped shoulders, the tensed muscles, the cloudy eyes, so wrought with pain and suffering. And now here she was, telling Toothless that there was nothing more to say, and the realization of everything finally dawned on Mistyeyes as she finally knew. Guilt stabbed her deep in the heart, and she found herself speaking up slowly, eyes locked on Nightflight's hunched form. "Leafdapple. Shadowclaw." She rasped softly. "Go and tell Hiccup we'll be back."
Shadowclaw blinked, seeming to come to the conclusion just as Mistyeyes did. He glanced questioningly at Leafdapple, who immediately shook her head, already starting to back away from the scene cautiously. Reluctantly, obviously not wanting to leave, Shadowclaw ducked his head. "Alright." He said, starting to turn with a weary glance at the three. "We'll tell him. But you really should hurry back." 'And don't do anything stupid.' He didn't say the words, but it was obvious in his tone and look the he wore. When none of them even glanced his way, he gave a small sigh, a little curse mumbled in the breath. But he turned nevertheless, quickening his pace to catch up with Leafdapple as the pair streaked back the way that they had come.
Pretty soon, it was just the three of them in the muddy clearing.
Nightflight spoke up first, voice halting as she grumbled. "You didn't have to send them away. We have nothing left to say to each other, do we?" Neither Mistyeyes nor Toothless answered for a moment, and she shook her head listlessly. "Unless you've come to tell me off for messing things up again. And if that's what you are trying to do, then there's no bother. You've done it enough already."
"That's not what we're trying to do." Mistyeyes said, ears flat as she tried to reason with her.
"It's not what you're trying to do." Nightflight replied, eyes narrowing a little bit.
"That's not what I wanted either." Toothless agreed, getting over the mental hurdle that Nightflight had given with her declination. His green eyes were focused now, and Mistyeyes prayed silently that he wouldn't ruin things again. It was a guilty thought, but it wasn't a false one at the same time. "I wanted to talk about Astrid, yes." Nightflight cringed at this. "But it's not what you think." Toothless hesitated, looking over at Mistyeyes with a searching sort of glance, as if he were asking for her help. But the gray female only stared back at him blankly, not offering anything of the sort as she eyed him. He sighed heavily, shoulders loosening as he looked back at the blinded dragon in front of him. "I wanted to ask…if you would try again."
The words landed like weights in the middle of them, and Mistyeyes watched Nightflight's expression carefully, weighing the emotions as best she could from where she stood. At first Nightflight didn't react, merely staring straight forward as she blinked slowly. Then her face clouded over with the inevitable anger, and Mistyeyes found herself holding her breath as it only mounted. "What!?" The female screeched, immediately flaring up, the spark of anger being blown into an inferno as she dug her claws into the mud at once. Toothless went rigid at the sudden yell, Mistyeyes closing her eyes calmly as she ducked away from the shout. "You want me to do it again!?" She roared furiously. "After you yell at me for even thinking about it the first time!?"
"There's not much more that can go wrong!" Toothless said desperately, eyes round as he took a small step forward. But Nightflight sensed the approach, guarded as she took two steps backwards, righting their spacing and increasing it even. Noticing the maneuver, the male gave a small sigh before trying again. "If you try now, then the only thing that can happen is that it gets better!" He paused, panicking a moment before: "I don't want this to happen a second time, Nightflight, and-"
"You think I do?" She asked in a high-pitched voice.
"No, I don't!" Toothless retorted. "So this is what I'm saying: we have to fix it before it develops into a bigger problem! Don't you see, Nightflight? We have to do something other than just let it play out on its own, because if we just leave it alone, it'll get as bad as it did last time." Nightflight was starting to calm down now, but her breath still came in huffs as she glared sightlessly Toothless's way. Mistyeyes debated stepping in, but she found herself rooted to the ground uselessly. She only watched with her anxious blue gaze, looking on and wondering wildly what was going to happen now. "It's not a lot to ask. I just want you to keep trying. I want to fix Astrid before she gets too wrapped up in her own confusion like I did. I don't want anything bad to happen, because you and I both know that Hiccup doesn't deserve anything else on his conscience."
"It won't be on his conscience." Nightflight objected, albeit softer now.
"But he'll force it there." Toothless pressed. "He'll blame himself. And you know that part too."
She didn't reply.
Mistyeyes finally got herself to force her way into the conversation. She went forward, looking slightly troubled as she tried to plant her way in the middle of the pair. "It's completely up to you, Nightflight." She said her tone smooth and controlled, like cold water on a hot day. "If you don't want to do it, we understand." Toothless frowned at this, but seemed to know better than to object to the assurances. "You have your reasons, I'm sure. We're just looking for a way to fix Astrid before anything can go awry." She paused a moment, then asked rather hopefully: "You don't know a way to fix her….do you?"
Nightflight hesitated, troubled now as she looked a little lost. And when she replied, her voice was curt and guarded, like the walls of a building meant to keep people out. "No." She said at once, ears flat against her head as she started to glare at Mistyeyes as well. The female drooped a little at the advancement, finding herself travelling in slow circles, getting nowhere. "I don't know of a way to fix her." Nightflight switched her sightless gaze to look Toothless's way, surprisingly accurate as she did so. "Hiccup fixed you last time, not me, don't you remember? He got you to remember everything; I had nothing to do with it. So why don't you talk to him?"
"He's not willing to try anything." Toothless said, his eyes flashing at the painful memory of the Caves. "He thinks that it's better to just focus on the task at hand with returning to Berk. He doesn't want to waste time trying to fix Astrid, even though he wants to." His ears flicked, a little irritably. "He thinks that it's not on his list of 'priorities.'"
"Well, then, maybe Hiccup is right." Nightflight stated plainly.
"He is not right." Toothless replied hotly. "He's confused. And the sooner we fix things, the better."
"Well what I said still matters." Nightflight snapped, growing impatient again as she looked away with a fuming expression. "I wasn't the one to break your confusion last time: Hiccup was. I don't know what he did to break it; I didn't even think it could be broken before he did it. So I would talk to him first." She paused, and then shook her head a little sadly. "I don't want to try again." She said, her words slamming into both Mistyeyes and Toothless like twin blows of disappointment. "Not right now."
"But Nightflight, don't you see what could happen if-"
Nightflight shook her head, cutting Toothless off abruptly. "I know what could happen if I do try again." She said flatly, eyes shadowed over as she spoke. "Forgetting things is a simple matter: it's something that could be worked around if you had enough time or patience with people. But…what would happen if it got worse? If somehow I…disabled her, or if I accidentally make her unable to walk or to move? I could kill her on accident; don't you realize that I could? Nobody knows what I do, and even I don't know what I do sometimes. So…that's great if you're willing to take the chance." Toothless blinked, sobering as he drew backwards, his jaw locked tightly. If Nightflight noticed the change, all she gave was a small shake of the head. "But I'm not willing to do anything of the sort. Not again. Not right now."
"You could be denying her what she deserves, you know that, right?" He asked plainly, Mistyeyes's gaze hardening slightly at his flat tone of voice that he used. "You could be abandoning her without a single care. She only has one hope that's possible right now, and that's you." He debated inwardly a second, but then forced himself to cross the line. "When you needed someone to help you fly, she was more than willing to help you. So why are you so bent on making sure that she doesn't get the same help that she needs right now?"
"Toothless." Mistyeyes growled, her head snapping around as she glared warningly his way. He was getting too far with this.
Nightflight's eyes narrowed hotly, and she had to wait a full minute before replying. "I never said I wouldn't give her help. She has Hiccup. That's all the help she needs right now. I made a mistake once, and I refuse to do it again. And that is final." Her words were barbed with thorns and needles, and Toothless fumed angrily at the conclusion she had come to. "You know, Toothless." She went on suddenly, tone hardening even more now. "You might think that you know everything, and that's fine. But you don't, and you're severely mistaken."
"Excuse me?" He asked in a small rumble, looking at her with a new light now.
Mistyeyes sighed softly, closing her eyes and bracing herself.
"You're close-minded." Nightflight retorted, her recent sorrow replaced by anger for the moment. "You only think about the little things, not the big ones. You only think about Hiccup, or Mistyeyes, or Astrid, or anyone else only at that moment in time. What's happening now, or what's happening with them later. But you don't look at the big picture. You don't see the dragons that need you really, and you don't bother to care, because you're not 'a part' of the Pack. And now, when Hiccup is finally realizing that he needs some leadership, you don't understand. So you block him out to try and solve a problem. I make a mistake that affects you, so you block me out. And now, inevitably faced with an issue that you can't solve yourself, you decide that you need me. After…after you reject me, and yell at me, and just put me down altogether.
"And you expect me to help you; you expect me to come back to you. You both do." She said suddenly, drawing Mistyeyes into the confrontation now as the gray female stiffened, her eyes widening. Nightflight was raving now, clouded gaze smoldering as she breathed in uneven huffs of both agony and anger. "Well…I'm not. Not right now. I'm finished being the one that you toss aside when you don't need but bring back when it's convenient. I want to fix Astrid, and I feel terrible for what I've done. I feel terrible for everything I've done. But that's just it: I've caused all of this. Everything that's happened now is because of me and what I do. And I'm trying not to make things worse, can't you see? I want to stop using my powers, I want to stop being the one to screw up and muddle things. So I'm staying out of things."
Mistyeyes found her voice, but just barely as she spoke in a small whisper. "Shutting things out won't make things better." She rasped.
"But causing issues won't make it better either." Nightflight said shortly.
Toothless looked her up and down, eyes narrowed now. "So that's it?" He asked, his voice as blank as his expression. "This is how we're going to end it?"
"It's not going to end; there's going to be a resolution at some point. But I won't be a part of it." Nightflight said. "I mess things up, Toothless. I don't fix them."
He didn't reply, expression growing angry now as his features resembled that of a fast-brewing storm. He opened his mouth to say something, looking furious now. But either words failed him, or he was just too shocked and aggravated to speak a word. But eventually he snapped his jaws closed, ducking his head with a furious sort of growl. He lurched forward, brushing furiously past Nightflight without a single glance her way now. He knocked his shoulder into hers as he went, ramming into her on his way and causing the female to stagger unsteadily to the left, a small grimace worming its way onto her features.
Mistyeyes stayed where she stood, rooted to the ground once more as she watched Toothless go. The male disappeared into the foliage, the rage apparent in every heavy step that he took, leaving footprints in the mud with the weight of his stomps. She debated calling him back, but realized that it would be a fruitless effort. And one that would just make things worse at the same time. So she was silent, only watching him go and being left to stare at the spot he had disappeared when he left, as if the waving branches left behind some sort of clue for her to decipher.
Now the he had left, Nightflight deflated significantly, reverting once more to the dragon that had first stepped into the clearing. Her shoulders slouched, her eyes dulling with the weight of what she had just done as she gave a small sigh through her nose. Mistyeyes hesitated, glancing down at her mud-covered feet before forcing herself to look at the crumpled form in front of her. "We should go back." She said, wary and careful as she spoke in a muted tone. Nightflight barely reacted to her words. She tried again. "Hiccup will be looking for us. Especially when he sees Toothless coming back alone the way he was."
"You go ahead." Nightflight answered. "I've lost my appetite."
'I'll stay with you.' 'I'm on your side.' 'Don't push me out, please.' Everything she could have said passed through her mind. But she knew that it would make no difference as to what was going to happen now. So she just gave a small nod of recognition, forcing her cold legs into motion as she followed the path that Toothless had taken to leave. She walked slow, not wanting to run into him on her way back. "If that's what you wish." She said graciously. "I'll tell Hiccup you wanted time alone." At least the Viking would understand. Maybe he would even come out here to speak to her himself. The pair of them seemed closer than even he and Toothless were right now; he would certainly be able to reassure her. Better than Mistyeyes could do at least.
Nightflight didn't reply, and when Mistyeyes turned back slightly to look at her, she saw that the dragon was leaning forward little by little. Interest quickening, Mistyeyes slowed until she came to a full stop, neck craned back as she watched Nightflight reach out blindly with one paw. The dragon put her paw down on one of Toothless's imprints left by his stomping, shoulders hunching forward a little bit as she fit her own into the print. Her tail curled a little tighter around herself as she did this, and Mistyeyes's eyes rounded out with surprise, guilt, and utter pity at the sight of the gesture.
As if Nightflight knew that Mistyeyes had seen, she spoke up softly. "….Why?" She whispered.
"Why what?" Mistyeyes asked after a pause.
"…Why did you save me?" Nightflight asked wretchedly.
She had no answer. She only stared silently at Nightflight's back, tongue tied and jaw locked as she remained silent. Nightflight took this as an answer, closing her eyes tightly as she kept her paw in place. Blue eyes weighted and sad, Mistyeyes thought of something she could say; anything. But she came up with nothing. Ducking her head low and turning around, the female started back on her path, bending low underneath the overhanging branches as she made back for the camp.
She left Nightflight sitting in the clearing, alone, just like she had wanted. And each step she took through the now-dark woods, she could think of nothing else she could have said to her. Ears flat against her head, she wondered dismally what was going to happen. The group was falling apart at the seams, and no matter how hard she tried to hold them together, she found each and every one of her efforts completely wasted. What was she meant to do if she couldn't even keep a band of friends together? What were any of them meant to do?
….Why did you save me?
She could hardly believe that she had no answer for the question.
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A/N: Let's rearrange. I wish you a stranger, I could disengage
Just say that we agree and then never change. Soften a bit until we all just get along.
But that's disregard. Find another friend and you discard.
As you lose the argument in a cable car. Hanging above as the canyon comes between.
Over My Head – The Fray
Next chapter will hopefully be quicker! I hope this chapter makes up for the lack of updates, and I hope that you're all ready for more action! A lot of people have been asking about Astrid, so be ready to get your answer really soon! : )We'll also shift focus a little bit in the story and then some fluff later on to balance out the angst that's been going on around here! XDDD I'm back~!
Thanks SO much for the wait! We made it through Band! So it should be easier now ((she says hopefully.)) I'd love to hear from you all in a review! I've missed you all so much! ^^