Disclaimer: I don't own this stuff, it's Diane Duane's

A/N: It's taken me a while to get this, the second half still isn't what i had in mind originally. Ah, well. Very much thanks to LandUnderWave, Dragonsong1, and Gategal! Cyberchocolate to you all! So here's my update! R&R please!

Nita followed her sister down the stairs. By the time she had gotten to the kitchen, she had already heard the pop! of displaced air.

"She looked determined," Kit said when he saw her.

"She's off to find Roshaun."

"You sure of that?"

"Call it a precognition. And something tells me this is either going to be her hardest or her easiest assignment."

"Huh?" Kit looked confused.

"Well, it'd be her easiest because she's off to find Roshaun, she misses him so much and he's barely been gone a day. But it'd be her hardest because it has got to be awfully hard to find something that is not exactly dead, but not exactly alive either, just lost. What she needs is…" Nita stopped, unable to finish, not wanting to hurt Kit.

"Needs what?"

"No, nevermind."

"Oh, come on Neets, just tell me."

Not looking at him she said, "She needs Ponch"

"Yeah, the greatest finder in the universe…" He trailed off, tears forming at his eyes. Nita sat down next to him and opened her physics book. Kit joined her in the normalcy of homework. The two wizards began working on the ever-looming pile of homework that had accumulated in their absence.

Dairine showed up in Tom and Carl's backyard and went up to knock on the door. Tom answered almost immediately.

"Hello, Dairine, come on in and have a soda."

"Thanks," Dairine muttered.

"Carl, can you get Dairine a soda while you're in the fridge?" Tom yelled.

"Mmph!" Was the muffled reply from the kitchen.

As they entered the kitchen, Dairine noticed that Carl really was in the fridge. Tom noticed her quizzical look and simply said, "The fridge decided it was going to act all weird as soon as we got our wizardry back, Carl's trying to fix it." Dairine rolled her eyes as Carl's hand reached out holding a lemon soda. Dairine took it and sat down.

"So, how was your first day back at school?" Tom asked casually.

"I don't want to talk about it," Dairine said. "I'm here because the manual says that I'm on active."

"Okay then, straight to business then." Tom summoned his manual, "Yeah, you are on active, now my question is, do you know why?"

"Yeah, I do, I think. I'm pretty sure the Powers want me to find Roshaun. Nita thinks so too. She didn't say it, but I know that's what she thought."

"Maybe, Dairine has some precognition qualities like Nita," Carl said as he climbed out of the fridge.

"A little uncommon, but not unheard of," Tom said. "Dairine, do you have any idea what you need to do, or how you're going to do it?"

"Carl, can I have a time-slide? I don't want Daddy to get in trouble with the school." Technically, the only thing she knew, was what she was doing, she had no idea how. But a time-slide was a start.

"Sure," Carl said, getting out his manual, "How about 8:00 to 8:05 tonight? Everything after that is full until next weekend."

"I'll take that."

"Dairine, I hope you know what you are getting into," Tom said.

"I'll be alright; I just have to find him." Her hand went to the emerald at her throat, held by the single sentence of the Speech…no, she would not think about that, she would not cry in front of Tom and Carl. Not now, not ever.

Carl handed her the wizardry and she left.

A/N:What did you think? Review please! Cyberchocolate squared to all who do!