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A/N: Well, I'm back, thank you to all who reviewed and missed me while I was gone.

Dairine made sure her transit got her straight back to her room, she did not want Nita and Kit to see that she was crying. All she could think about was the day he had disappeared. He had tried to save her solar system and had failed. She replayed the scene in her head. And how, one moment, he had been standing there, a statue of burning gold and the next he was gone. He hadn't even said goodbye.

Flashback

I went to my room after helping out with Ronan. I prepared a transit to Wellakh; there would be no time to take a shower or even change. I would talk myself out of going, and I needed to go. They needed to know. The sunstone burned in my pocket. How could he be gone?

My hand went to the emerald at my throat. It was held together by a single sentence in the Speech. I unclasped it to read what it said, I could not believe it! It said…I love you. Roshaun told me that he loved me, in the Speech, the one language you cannot lie in! If only I could have known sooner...then I could have said that I loved him back. Why did he have to be gone!

I went to Wellakh. They were cleaning up from the Pullulus like everyone else was. Then his parents came. They knew when they saw me alone that he was gone. I tried to give them the sunstone back, but they would not take it. It was now attuned to my star. His father offered to teach me some routines. I had accepted. I was to go there after everything had settled down. They believed him dead; I couldn't bring myself to accept it.

I fell asleep with the sunstone. I had a dream. I had seen Roshaun's home, his desire…and it had a hole in it. He was still out there somewhere. I had to find him. I had to find the one who is lost.

End Flashback

Dairine prepared a transit to the moon. And there she sat on the moon, lost in her thoughts, playing with the emerald, waiting until it was time to set up the time slide. I'm going to find you Roshaun. I will find you. She thought.

It's time. Spot said.

Roshaun woke up to something licking his face. Ponch, he thought, did we win? Where am I? Where's Dairine? He opened his eyes.

Oh good! You're okay! I thought you were gone! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

"Ponch, where in the worlds am I? What happened?"

You used a bright shiny light to get rid of the Pullulus, you were all shiny and then you were gone, I couldn't find you! Dairine cried, she wouldn't let anyone else see, but I knew. Then Kit told me to go and save Carmela and his parent's and Nita's dad, but I wouldn't, I couldn't let him go. My boss would NOT die. I would not let him. Then the Darkness came and I fought it, and I won, now I'm not me anymore I'm a…"

"Wait, are you saying that you are an Aethyr!" Roshaun was shocked.

Yeah, I am now. I made the dog's new Choice. It's better now. Anyway, I knew that you weren't gone for good, just lost, so I found you! Kit would be so proud. So now you're here, where We are. Now all I have to do is find Dairine and get her here so she can take you home. Oh, by the way, these are for you. He shoved a bag of lollypops at Roshaun. Hope you enjoy! Then he left.

Well, if he's an Aethyr now, I'm sure he has other things to do. Roshaun thought. He changed the dog's Choice? I'll have to look at that. Did Dairine really cry when I...disappeared? Technically, I should be dead now. All that power should have killed me...unless Ponch saved me. This is so confusing! Ponch never did say where we were, probably outside of time though. And I'm assuming we won, since Ponch defeated the Lone One inside the Pullulus. He reached for the bag of lollypops, took one out and began to suck on it.

I miss Dairine. Where is she? Is Ponch really going to find her for me? CRUNCH! I really need to stop doing that. I wonder if she read what that sentence around her neck says…

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