New Chapter! I would have put this up weeks ago but my computer went my story went weird and wouldn't let me update it till now. XS

I had so much fun writing this chapter. Hope you all like it and as always thank-you for your reviews and support.

I do not own KND or any of its characters.

xxx

Dave, somehow not noticing Wally, or his customer's reactions, slapped Wally on the back and turned towards Abby, Hoagie and Kuki.

"This here is Wally, my very good friend and mechanic genius. Wally, this young bloke is looking for an engine for his plane" Dave explained. Wally turned his head slightly, his gaze still on Kuki.

"Huh?" Dave frowned and stepped forward slightly, waving his hand in front of Wally's face.

"Hello, Wally, mate? Can ya hear meee?" Wally snapped out of his frozen state and glared at Dave.

"What?" he growled deeply. Dave nodded with satisfaction and waved a hand at Hoagie.

"This young gentleman needs a car engine that can work in a plane. He'll probably need some help installing it sin..."

"No" Wally cut in quickly as he glanced at Hoagie's still shocked face.

"Huh?"

"Ah said no. He doesn't need help installing it" Wally stated firmly.

"How do yo-"

"I just know alrioght" Wally growled back.

"Well if ya say so. Look I gotta go talk to Tiger about something, so I leave them in your hands. Good luck with the plane" Dave called back to Hoagie, winking at the two girls before disappearing off into the garage leaving the old friends all by themselves. And awkward silence filled the air as Wally felt the hard gazes of his ex-friends. He frowned slightly, slouching his shoulder and tucking his hands into his pockets, he sighed.

"Engines are this way" he turned towards where the pile of engines were held and took at step towards them, acting as though nothing was wrong when something extremely hard hit him with a LOT of force. Wally yelped loudly, grabbing his head and turning around to see Kuki standing before him, a spanner gripped tightly in her hand and her eyes looking furious.

"What the crud was that for?" he practically shouted. Kuki's eyes turned to fire.

"What was THAT for? I'll tell you what that was for! Six years! SIX YEARS we haven't seen you, not knowing you were fricken ALIVE and the first thing you say to us is 'ENGINES ARE THIS WAY!'?" She screamed holding up the spanner in both hands to swing at Wally. Wally dodged holding his hands up to calm her down. His emerald eyes were shocked as he listened to Kuki rant.

"Kuki, wait, let's just calm down and..."

"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN" Kuki shouted. Tears flowed freely down her face as she clumsily attempted to hit Wally again.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH? WHAT... –hic- what I had to put up –hic- with" Wally froze as he saw Kuki's tears fall freely through her eyes, his heart wrenching as the girl he loved poured her emotions out. He had seen Kuki cry numerous times in the past, but this time it was different. As if had bottled up every negative feeling in her body for years on end and finally they were coming out. Wally tripped over his words in attempt to comfort her, but the only thing that managed to come out of his open mouth was silence.

Before he could take a step towards the crying girl, Abby beat him too it and stepped towards her to comfort her best friend. She pulled Kuki into a hug, holding her so that she could cry into her shoulder and gently pried the spanner from her hands.

"There, there, Abby's got you, it's alright okay? Abby'll handle this, you just stand with Hoagie and calm down alright" she soothed softly, as she talked to the emotionally delicate girl. She glanced at Hoagie over Kuki's back, motioning for him to comfort Kuki. Hoagie scrambled over and placed an arm around Kuki, rubbing her back so as to sooth her tears and oncoming hiccups. Wally watched as Abby turned around to face him, Kuki's weapon held now in her hands. The young African American took a step towards him before suddenly swinging the spanner down onto his head.

"WHAT THE HELL?" he cried rubbing the top of his already throbbing head.

"Don't you 'What the hell' me, Wally. All of us know you deserve it and Abby'll hit you again if interrupt Abby" Abby snapped at him. Wally glared at her furiously but smartly, stayed silent.

"Now, Abby, wait, all of us want to know where the hell you've been these past 6 years because boy do YOU have a lot of explaining and apologising to do!" Abby placed a hand on her hips and waited, staring intently at the Australian. Wally sighed and opened his mouth to speak.

"Ah..."

"WALLABEE BEATLES!" Wally jumped at his name and froze, not needing to turn around to know who was shouting at him.

"What?" he asked gruffly. Hearing no more shouting he relaxed slightly and turned, looking behind him to see a browned haired girl head towards him. She looked like she was around 21 and had short brown hair which was streaked with fiery red and orange. She wore a grease-stained, blue tank top, fitting her figure with frayed jean short shorts that showed off her long tanned legs. Her stormy-blue eyes glared at Wally as she strode towards him, grabbed the closest object on the bench she passed (which happened to be a metal pipe) and slammed it down on Wally' head.

"WHY THE CRUD IS EVERYONE HITTING ME" Wally raged, as he grabbed the metal pipe off the sudden arrival and slamming it on the concrete.

"Cuz you're an idiot and you darn right deserve it. Now what on earth are you hollering about? I can hardly work with your screamin' and shoutin'!" The woman replied heatedly.

"Ah'm hollering cause everyone keeps hitting me on the head!" Wally complained back.

"Well it's not like it's killing any brain cells, seeing as you don't have any left"

"Oi! What's that supposed to mean?"

"Means I called you an idiot, no different to what I call you everyday now will someone PLEASE tell me what all this racket is about" The fiery haired girl turned her question towards Kuki, Abby and Hoagie, much to their surprise. Kuki realizing how horrible she probably looked wiped away her eyes and nose, knowing full well they were probably red and puffy.

"Mr Sparkle brain here was having a 'reunion' with his childhood friends" Abby told her in an almost sarcastic voice. The adult raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Wally? Had friends? I would've never guessed!" Wally glared at the Toyota Station wagon beside them. The woman coughed loudly and Wally turned to meet her glaring, expectant eyes. He sighed,

"Guys this is Tiger, ma boss, Tiger, these are ma... childhood friends. Hoagie, Abby, and Kuki" he mumbled crossing his arms and pouting slightly at his boss.

"Nice ta meet you" Tiger said, giving them a two fingered salute. "Well now, don't mind me, I've got a car that needs finishing. If Wally gives you any trouble just give me a shout and I'll sort him out in a jiffy" she waved goodbye to the teenagers and walked off towards the Volvo sitting in the middle of the garage and disappeared under the car.

Wally watched her, momentarily forgetting the current situation he was in. Abby coughed bringing his attention back.

"Wha- oh rioght umm... what was the question again?" He asked hesitantly. Abby glared up towards the ceiling for a second before looking back at the boy in front of her, contemplating whether to hit him again or not.

"Wally, you disappeared for 6 years. We all had been told you were murdered and yet here you stand before us. Care to explain" Abby told him, her voice filled with exasperation. Wally looked down as he thought about the question.

"Well, ma only families here" he started.

"You could have told us you were moving" Hoagie spoke up before Abby could.

"They made me leave the moment Ah got out of hospital"

"Wait hospital?"

"It's... it's a long story, look Ah'm sorry Ah didn't tell you, Ah'm surprised you're even talking to me"

"And why wouldn't we?" Kuki spoke up this time her soft voice shook Wally to the core. It sounded so sad and delicate, like it would break at the slightest movement.

"Well, ma families murdered" Wally whispered.

"And you think that would make us hate you? What sort of messed up thinking is that?" Abby snapped loudly.

"But... wait, what? What were you told?" Wally looked at his childhood friend in confusion.

"That you had been murdered along with the rest of your family! What else to you think we were told?" Hoagie asked, irritation scraping his voice slightly.

Wally fell silent as he figured everything out. Sighing he looked up at his old friend, gazing intently into each of their eyes.

"Look, Ah went through a lot and had to take some space, plus ma only families here, so Ah moved up here and decided to stay here. Ah'm sorry Ah didn't tell ya, but Ah didn't want to worry you guys, and besides, the pasts the past, better to move on" he told them, his voice no longer filled with any emotion or feeling. He slouched his shoulders, tucked his hands into his pockets and leant against the bench, peeking up at the 3 comrades through his ragged blonde hair. Kuki looked like she was about to cry again, Abby watched him in confusion and Hoagie looked like he wanted a turn at hitting Wally over the head with something hard and metal.

The silence was interrupted as Dave strolled up to them.

"Why're you all standing where I left you all?" he asked as he stopped beside Wally. He opened his mouth to speak again but froze as his eyes lit up with sudden realization.

"I HAVE SEEN YOU BEFORE" He shouted suddenly pointing to Abby, Hoagie and Kuki all in turn. Kuki stared at him slightly wild eyed and glanced at Hoagie for reassurance. Abby just looked like she wanted to hit the guy. "That's right! You were all in that picture Wally keeps on his bedside table! Wow, so you're Wally's friends! I've always wanted to meet you guys, hey do ya-"

"DAVE" Dave was suddenly cut off by the voice underneath the Volvo. Dave jumped at grinned sheepishly as the two eyes stormy-blue eyes glaring at him from underneath the car.

"Unless you want to get a bruise on your head extremely similar to Wally's then I suggest you pipe your mouth and get back to work" She growled.

"Yes Tiger sir, I mean, miss, I mean..." He laughed before scooting off and disappearing into the side area.

Wally during this whole time was staring off at the Aston Martin he was supposed to be working, his face in a childish frown. Abby looked at the boy and for the first time meeting with him grinned.

"Past is the past aye" she asked, raising an eyebrow and flashing her white toothy smile.

Wally whipped his head around to stare at the African-American in slight surprise at her reaction. Hoagie laughed and punched Wally shoulder lightly, smiling at his best mate.

"We've missed you. I can't believe you've been alive this whole time" he gave Wally a warm smile, as if to say 'I missed you' without being soppy about it. And for the first time in 6 years Wally sincerely smiled back at his two old friends.

"Nice ta see you guys too" he said simply. Hoagie grinned and opened his mouth to say something else but yelped as he was suddenly grabbed by the arm and dragged away by Abby.

"We'll go check out the engines for a while, Kay?" she called over her shoulder, heading towards the pile of scrap metals. Wally turned his eyes away to look at Kuki, who was watching the back of her friends quietly. She turned her attention back to Wally as he took a few steps towards her, stopping before he got too close to her. Now that he stood in front of her he realized he didn't know what to say. He gazed up towards the ceiling corner and rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Kuki, I-" He was cut off as Kuki flung herself at him, hugging him with such strength Wally forgot she had. The two teenagers landed on the cement floor in a tangle of legs and arms but Kuki didn't let go. She clung onto Wally's neck, her face hidden by his chest.

"I've missed you so much" she mumbled into his orange fabric as tears seeped out from her eyes. Wally paused before eventually winding his arms around her waist to hug her back.

"I missed you too" he whispered hoarsely into her ebony hair. And as they lay there, Wally made her a new promise. He promised that this time he would never leave her, no matter what.

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Don't even think that this is the end cause it definitely isn't.

We still have to meet a new character and see what Sydney Goldfield thinks about this new arrival... or should I say rival ;)

Haha I'm lame, anyway, hoped you enjoyed it!

Xx A.S