2D was pouring over Noodle's photo album, writing in little song lyrics for her when it deemed appropriate, although they more portrayed his feelings towards her, than to the pictures on the page.

2D paused on a picture of him sitting on the floor, with Noodle's arms draped around his neck, sticking her tongue out, whilst he's showing off his trademark, gap-toothed smile. He felt a lump in his throat as he thought of Noodle… when would he see her again?

He wrote a small paragraph underneath the photograph, using one of her favourite extracts from a song from their Demon Day's album.

Dreams all bad,
A head turned mad.
I love the girl,
But God only knows it's
Getting hard to see the sun coming through
I love you
But what are we going to do?

2D smiled as he stared at the words, watching the ink glisten in the weak evening sun. He'd actually wrote these lyrics for Noodle… well, more about her than for, seeing as she didn't know it…yet. 2D has always had a feeling Noodle had known though, just something in her eyes gave it away each time they performed the song, like a glisten of a secret, or of hope.

2D closed the book and looked out the window, gazing over the view of Essex.
'I'd been so close to finding her…' he whispered, remembering the lyrics he'd hoped against hope that would find her.
'…obviously not though…' he mumbled, hanging his head and muttering a different part to the song.

'Icon soul
Something new in this
When no one needs to haunt me and I'm
Looking out to somewhere I've never been before
…been before...'

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Noodle reached Kong gates, ecstatic; she jumped and hugged a railing.
'I'm hoooooooome!' she yelled jumping down from the pole and starting up the driveway to Kong, thankful for it being daytime and there being no zombie presence.

Noodle's cheeks started to hurt from smiling, but she couldn't stop, she'd be seeing 2D, Murdoc and Russel in less that a few minutes. She'd be 'back from the dead'… alive!
She couldn't wait to see the look on 2D's face, it made her heart flutter just thinking about him.

Noodle opened the garage door, making sure the Geep wasn't parked, and headed towards 2D's room. 2D was the first person she wanted to greet, and knowing Murdoc and Russel were still down the pub made it a whole lot easier.

She crossed the car park and headed down the stairs to 2D's room, being careful to make as little noise as possible.
As Noodle reached the bottom, she'd noticed 2D's door was flung open, and contents of the room untouched, like he'd not been in it for a few say to say the least.
Slightly disheartened, she turned around and mournfully headed back up the stairs. 'Where else could he be…?' she thought to herself, heading towards the elevator and stairs.

She went to press the elevator button, but remembered about Shaun the Head's voice booming everyone's arrival in the elevator, so she jogged up the stairs, not wanting Shaun's voice to alarm anyone in the house.
As she reached the top, she could smell leftover food from Russel's cooking earlier. The smell made her realise how hungry she was, so she tiptoed towards the kitchen. As she entered, she noticed the door to her room was ajar. Being careful to make no noise at all, she tiptoed towards her door, pausing just outside of it.

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Back in the pub, Murdoc and Russel had no luck of hearing anything about Noodle's whereabouts. Murdoc, growing slightly agitated, snapped at Russel.
'Where'd you see Noodle?!' He growled, slamming a fist down on the table.

Russel raised an eyebrow at Murdoc's outburst and shook his head slowly. 'I was probably imagining it, Muds. Del's probably playing wit' my mind again, man'

Murdoc stood up and stormed out the pub, beckoning Russel to follow him.
They walked down the long road in an awkward silence, as Russel knew not to bug Murdoc when he was silent.

They soon reached another pub, just as dingy and unclean as the other and entered, Murdoc calling for silence.

'Have any of you unclean bastards heard anything about a small Japanese girl called Noodle?' he yelled, slouching in a chair by the nearest table.
Russel stood by Murdoc, ready to restrain him if he went to hit someone. 'Well?! Any of yeh?!' Murdoc yelled again, staring at the Barkeeper.

The barkeeper looked behind him, as if to check Murdoc was actually staring at someone else, not him.
He sighed slowly and cleared his throat.
'We do not know of a small girl named Noodle.' He stammered, pouring a glass of beer and shoving it at the nearest man.

Murdoc slowly rose and went to head towards the barkeeper, before getting pulled back by Russel.
'Leave it man, he's not worth it' Russel growled in his ear, steering him out of the pub and up the road towards the Geep.

As Murdoc got into the Geep, he cleared his throat. Russel looked up and wondered what Murdoc was going to announce. 'Why'd you hold me back!?' he yelled.
Russel climbed in the Geep, ignoring Murdoc and turned his MP3 player on. 'I so could have had 'im…' Murdoc added in an undertone, driving off to yet another pub in Essex.

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2D looked over towards the crash site and sighed heavily

.
'That's the last time I'm ever gonna see her…' he mumbled, forehead pressed against the cold glass.
He stared over at the site for a few minutes before sighing yet again.

'I wish I could tell yeh how I feel righ' now, Noods…' 2D whispered, pulling out a photo he'd taken from the album from his jeans pocket.
'I haven't slept since…' he chuckled, knowing Noodle would have scolded him for not sleeping.
'Good 'fing is… I haven't taken a pill in awhile… I blame you for that, love' he added, smiling at the photo.

2D cast another gaze over to the crash site, staring in deep thought before putting a hand up to the window, slowly letting it slide down, leaving a trail from his fingers on the steamy glass.

He looked over to the outskirts of Essex, where he could see the trail of dust the Geep was leaving as it went 'cross country' as Murdoc described it. 'Obviously 'ent heard nuffin'' he groaned, putting the photo back in his pocket.

Slowly, he turned towards the crash site and let out the first thing that came to his head.

'I saw that day…
Lost my mind…'

2D lowered his gaze to the floor, trying to hold back tears.
As he stood in silence, he heard a female voice behind him.

'Lord I'm fine…
Maybe in time… you'll want to be mine…'

2D, confused and intrigued, spun around to see where the voice had come from.
He looked around the whole room before setting eyes on the door.

'That's odd… the singing sounded exactly like…' he stopped as he noticed the figure standing in the door way, tears streaming down her face.

'..Noodle…' he breathed.