Hi every1 its me….. am do srry it is taking so long in my defense I'n taking a full load of college classes over this summer. Plus I just recovered from whooping cough…I didn't no that xisted nemore…..but ON with the Story!

Then in one swift movement she leapt out of bed and allowed her body to become a shadow.

"What THE!" exclaimed the man who had shaggy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes

The woman with green eyes and dark curls started laughing.

Jasmine quickly activated a crystal circle in her room and stood outside of it trembling.

"Who are you?" she asked in a voice that was calm despite everything, Mother Isanya would've been proud. Mother Isanya…Oh Gods. Everything that had happened came rushing back. Or tried to. She quietly started pushing the information into a place in the back of her mind. Deal with the now, now and the past later.

"I asked who are you and I need to know why you are here."

"Relax if we intended to harm you we would've done so while you were asleep…" the woman's voice was compassionate, loving in fact.

"There are different types of harm; there are ways of destroying people that require a waking mind." Jasmine spoke while trying to understand the love in the woman's voice and why it was so comforting to hear.

The man seemed agitated by something, "We would never hurt you. You have to know that. Lorinna, don't you know who you are? Doesn't some part of you remember who we are?"

Jasmine's breath stopped at that name and she had a thought, her own thought but stranger than any she had ever heard from any one else.

She removed a crystal deactivating the circle. "You have to be kidding me…oh well I need some hot cocoa, she started to leave her room, then turned to the two people standing staring at her "Coming?"

Jassy quietly walked around the dead bodies and to the kitchen where she put on a saucepan of milk and got out the cocoa, turning to shadow and floating so as to reach the cupboard the cocoa was in.

"Sit down, if you will. By the way you have my name including a name I have never given any one; I believe you have me at a disadvantage. So far I know your name is Stanton but, yours hasn't been mentioned"

"My name is Serena, cant you go into or minds?" the woman's voice was loving but curious.

"Of course I can. Every one has a right to their privacy and other than to ascertain my own safety I respect it. Besides one can lie with mind as with anything else" Jasmine paused "Cocoa? Ice Cream? I have a feeling this is a" she checked her watch "5clock confessional so we might as well have required sweets" As she spoke she did the math 5o'clock she had been asleep at least an hour and a half, then her adoptive parents deaths happened at 3 am.

"Dying at the hour of lost souls how fitting" she murmured forgetting her company for a moment.

"What did you say?' asked Stanton his piercing eyes meeting hers.

"I was marking the time they died" she answered starting and handing her parents cocoa and vanilla ice cream.

She sat facing the two of them and it was silent for a moment. "Ok" she said "Explain"

"Explain?" asked Stanton a bemused expression on his face.

"Let's see you dumped me as a child withy a family I assumed was my own. Now you show up 16 years and two families later right after the latest family dies and obviously there is a lot more to the story than I know, so yeah you may not owe me much but an explanation would be appropriate."

"Your right, sweetie, you deserve an explanation. Problem is I 'm not sure where to start."

"How bout you explain why you left and why your back and we'll go from there."

R&R, and once again thanks to all who have R&R'ed and srry it took so long to post