Hi guys! So we start up with episode 5. It will have 4 scenes. Actually as I was re-watching this episode I had to realize Barbie said it was almost a week since the some came down. Which also meant he and Julia spent a few days away from each other.

Someone asked if I was using the dialogs from the show. The answer is yes, I am using those. (:

Car

(S1x05 – Part 1/4)

Barbie couldn't even remember how many times he had slept in his car during the past four years. Probably more than he cared to admit. Sometimes alone, sometimes with one of the one night stands. He had never really cared or minded. The car was basically his home. It actually reflected its owner. It was a nice car from the outside but total messed up and empty from inside. And now it stood broken a few feet from the dome. And so was he.

Sleeping in his car has been something he was used to, up until now. Now, after those few nights he had spent in the bed in Julia's house, the car seemed uncomfortable, cold and lonely. Just as his old life seemed to be. The dome had changed something in his life, he got stuck in the town, he had to spend days with the same people, something he was not used to and he started to care. But it did not change him. Julia did. She made him feel uncomfortable about his old life and he was pretty sure even if the dome was to magically disappear, he wouldn't be able to go back to it.

Those thoughts kept him awake in the past few days and were his sole company. After Julia had kicked him out, he camped outside in his car trying to make some sense to his messed up life. To what he actually felt about her. The separation might have been hard, but it helped him sort out all the confusing feelings. With her nearby the sexual tension was just too much to think clearly. At twilight he finally fell asleep.

"Oh my God there is more!" A voice, Norrie's voice, drifted his way waking him from his light slumber. She sounded excited about something. Blinking a few times to chase what was left from the sleepiness he got carefully out of the car to check what was going on. Joe and Norrie were standing in front of the dome in complete awe.

True to be told he was not in the mood to talk with anyone at the moment, especially not with over excited teenagers. Norrie and Joe were curious kids and he did not want them to see too much of his inside troubles after what had happened a few days before with Julia and him so he hid his eyes behind his sunglasses.

"Barbie?" Joe turned his way in surprise. He was a smart kid, his eyes were burning with curiosity and Barbie could see all his questions swimming through his eyes; why he was so early there at the edge of the Dome and what he was doing in his broken car. But one glance at his carefully guarded face and hidden eyes made the young boy gulp back all those questions.

"What is this?" Barbie asked as he walked up next to the kids staring at the dome in wonder as well. There were butterflies. Hundreds or even thousands of butterflies covering the outside of the dome.

"Isn't it amazing?" Norrie said with a smile. Barbie wasn't sure if amazing had been the word he would have used. Odd, creepy or strange were a better fit. There were only very few things under the damn dome he would have called amazing and a swarm of butterflies were definitely not on the list.

Slowly he lifted his hand to touch the dome. On the other side the butterflies flapped their wings and flew away. At the same time a guard turned their way. It was surprising as hell that he was actually looking at them when they had been ignoring them ever since the dome came down.

Norrie carefully lifted her hand for a wave, smiling tentatively at him. Barbie rolled his eyes and was about to remind her that the soldiers were under order not to communicate with them when to his utter shock the soldier just lifted his hand and waved back with a nervous half-smile before he turned away.

"Huh." The day before he had called the day of disaster. Today seemed to be the day of shock. "These guys are suddenly paying attention to us?" He asked none in particular. There was something very strange going on.

"Look. They are bussing in more soldiers?" Norrie pointed at the busses getting closer to the dome.

"No, civilians" Barbie said after one quick glance at the busses. They seemed actually like tourist buses.

Just as he said that, people, normal citizens, were getting off of the busses. Men and women, younger and older ones.

"Hey! That is Frank!" Joe suddenly called out pointing excitedly at one of the young boys looking around hesitantly as he stepped closer to the dome.

"Who?" Norrie asked lifting her eyebrows.

"My cousin. He went away to college before the dome came down." Joe explained.

"Okay, it's been nearly a week since this thing came down. Military hasn't let anybody near here." Barbie stated the facts. This was making no sense. He used to be in military, he understood their logic, this step? This he did not understand at all. "So why bus the families in now?" He asked out load not really expecting any answers.

"Haven't you ever been to camp?" Norrie asked with a half-smile. Barbie turned to her with a deep frown on his forehead. "They are finally giving us our own visitors' day." She explained.

That shocked him yet again. Visitors' day? What? Why? From a military point of view this was making no sense at all. What the hell was going on?

Okay I know there wasn't any Julia in this chapter but still I think the fight they had and the days they spent separated, was an important step that changed a lot for both of them. Without it I don't know if they would have ended up together. So let me know what you think!

knuckles99heidi: Am happy you liked it! (:

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Romantic In Denial: Thank you! I can't wait to get to the kissing part ;)