Sorry this took so long but yeah, writer's block and distractions will do that to a writer. I now plan to wrap this up in a few chaps all nice and pretty. I just need one more conflict and evil cliffhanger to entice you all and get ya back into this story. Come on. You know you love a good cliffhanger.

She tried tracing her steps from the lab to where the Bishop home would be, about a few miles in one direction. But being surrounded by nothingness and not having any light, made it impossible for Olivia to know if she was even going in the right direction.

She continued to call out for Ella. There were risks in doing so. There was no telling if they were the only ones here but it was Olivia's only means left of finding her.

The wind began to pick up and blew dust everywhere. It was bad enough that Ella was freezing, but now she felt like she was suffocating from all the bad air. She fortunately had found a hollow tree and took shelter there. A few hours later, she would hear a strange noise in the wind.

"Ella!"

She continued to listen.

"Ella!"

Someone was calling out for her and it was a female voice too. A few more times she would hear her name, wishing and hoping for the voice to be familiar. A part of Ella wanted to come out and run to the voice right away, but she took her time considering this. After all, what if it was a trap?

Eventually, Ella found the courage to call back.

"Aunt Liv?"

She waited.

"ELLA!"

The voice was urgent now.

"Aunt Liv? Is it you?"

"Ella! It's me!"

"Where are you?"

"I'm coming. Just keep calling out for me. I'm almost there."

"I'm over here Aunt Liv!"

Olivia moved faster than ever to reach the source of the voice.

The moment they found each other, the girls ultimately cried and hugged. "Aunt Liv."

"You're okay, baby girl. I'm here now."

"But how did you…" Ella looked up at her aunt in shock. "Aunt Liv, you're not in a wheelchair anymore!"

Olivia smiled. "You healed me, Ella. You wished for me to get better, and I did."

"I did that?"

"Yeah, you did." She hugged Ella even tighter. "I knew you could do good things."

Pacing around the lab for hours wasn't gonna make Olivia or Ella come back any faster and Walter was right to point that out. "Peter, this is going to take some time."

"We don't even know what universe they're in and something bad could've happened to them by now. Excuse me if I'm losing my patience."

In truth, it would've been easier if the girls were stuck in the other universe, in Peter's old home. But the world Olivia saw Ella in was nothing like the one she had been trapped in for two months. This world was different, like walking into an empty room of nothing.

"I do believe that Agent Dunham and the little girl could be in a void verse."

Peter jumped. "A what?"

"A void verse. A universe that has yet to be created and unraveled. Belly and I, we attempted to open up another gateway, one leading to an empty void where we could send Olive and the other Cortexiphan children to create and construct a world they imagined within that void."

"Then what happened?"

"Agent Dunham happened," said Walter. "She had difficulty building than the other children. So in much in fact, that it deterred the visions of the other children from fully completing tasks in the void. We were forced to abandon it. The risk of the children getting permanently trapped in that world was too high. But I believe little Elleroy's ability to enter that world was of no coincidence."

"Well how did you get them out of there before?" said Peter.

"Well," said Walter. "Normally they come out when they're ready."

"What?"

"My son, you don't understand. The only way for Olivia and the girl to come home is to fill that universe using their Cortexiphan abilities. Olivia never got through step one of the task. She needs to imagine just one thing in that universe or she's not going to come back."

Peter wanted to grab his father by the collar then. "Why didn't you tell her this before she went into the tank?"

Walter apologetically replied. "I only remembered just now."

As it got colder and darker, Olivia gathered nearby branches to create a small campfire and the girls huddled close.

"Aunt Liv, how will we get home?"

"I don't know," she said. "I'm still trying to work that one out. We'll be okay as long as we stick together."

"But I'm cold. I don't like this place."

"Well then, we're just going to have to close our eyes and pretend we're somewhere else."

Ella remembered her aunt's assuring optimism when the bad man held them both in captivity and that didn't work out for them well. "I don't think it will work this time, Aunt Liv."

"Ella. You know, you're a very special girl. And I know if you believe really hard, things won't be like they were last time. There's no one to hurt us here. Won't you try?"

"Well…" Ella continued to rub her arms. "I just don't want it to be so cold."

"That's a start."

"And I want the sun to come out. Maybe we can see some flowers."

Olivia smiled. "That would be nice. Now you just have to…" She looked up. Far up in the sky, the darkness slowly began to fade and a yellow light seeped its way through.

"Is that the sun, Aunt Liv?"

Olivia noticed that Ella was no longer shaking or rubbing her arms. The cold was no more. The air was warm and even Olivia's clothes were drying up. With every second the sunlight began to lit up the land around them. Ella looked down in curiosity at the small green sprouts that were slowly sticking out of the broken earth.

"Ella…" Olivia smiled, nearly laughed in disbelief. The sprouts were the very flowers that Ella had requested. "What kind of flowers were you thinking of?"

"What?"

"The flowers. Just vision in your head. What color are they?"

"Yellow," she said. "Yellow carnations and some daisies…"

The sprouts were growing bigger and were slowly opening their buds.

"…and some white tulips."

Within a few minutes, the Dunham girls watched at the very flowers that Ella had imagined began to reveal themselves to the sun. Daisies, carnations, tulips, in all the various colors that Ella wanted were growing in a circle all around them.

Ella knew what was happened but had trouble believing it. "What…what did I do?"

"You did exactly what you wanted to, Ella." Olivia looked down and picked some of the flowers. "Whatever you want and imagine for yourself, you can make come true."

Ella picked some flowers for herself and for the first time since leaving that island, she was finding hope again. This illness wasn't so bad. Or maybe it wasn't an illness an all but a special ability she had over her surroundings.

There was only one way to find out for sure.

"I want to go home now, Aunt Liv."

Olivia reached out to hold her niece's hand and the two were enveloped by a bright yellow light.

SCREECH!

The light vanished and was quickly replaced by two headlights charging toward them. Olivia quickly leapt to shield Ella.

The van had stopped infront of the girls just in time. Two men came out to inspect.

Since it was nighttime, Olivia and Ella were still disoriented and confused.

One of the men said, "I don't believe it. It's them."

"Well, don't just stand there," said the other. "Grab them before they get away."

Upon hearing those words, Olivia quickly grabbed Ella and tried to run but felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck. Ella screamed until she was silenced by the same sharp pain in her neck. The girls were loaded into the van.

When the men got in they made a call. "This is Russ. We 're on our way."

The voice on the receiver asked, "the child is with you?"

"Yeah, we found her and the woman in the middle of the street."

"Just get them here right away. Everything's prepared."

Russ knew it was only a matter of time. The bombs were in place in New York and Chicago and ready to go. All they needed now was the little girl's abilities to activate them.