As soon as Eddie came back from his food run, I left to find Sage. From my former experiences, I had learned which time she would show up at the coffee shop so I hurried there to meet her. I needed to speak to her again. I needed to make sure that this was real. I needed to look her in the eyes and feel the spark that used to be between us. I needed to feel alive. I practically ran in through the door and shocked a few costumers, but it didn't bother me. I was used to getting attention. She was at the counter, paying for her coffee so I stayed, hovering by the door, waiting to grab her on her way out. I couldn't stand still, I kept shuffling my feet and flexing my arms. Maybe it was my nerves that were messing things up for me, maybe I was just going mad. She came towards me and stopped right in front of me, a big smile on her lips.

"Hello crazy guy.", She simply said.

"Hello 'My-name-is-Andrews'.", I said back. I mirrored her smile even though I didn't feel like it at all. Oh the beauty of have been a faker all my life. It was almost too easy to make people think I was okay.

"So, what's up?", She asked, she didn't seem to be in a hurry today.

"Do you have time? I need to speak with you.", I needed some clarification.

"Actually, I do. I have an hour or so off.", She seemed a lot happier and relaxed today.

"Great, why don't we sit down?", I gestured to the nearest table and we sat ourselves down on the chairs.

"Okay, talk.", She sipped on her coffee and looked at me expectantly. I drew a deep breath.

"I've been thinking a bit on what happened to you and whatever-"

"Crazy guy, I've told you that I moved here. With my aunt. Nothing strange have happened.", she interrupted me.

"Just listen. I know for a fact that you are my Sydney Sage and that you were kidnapped.", I saw that she was about to interrupt me again so I raised my hand to silence her. "I don't care what you think, I'm sure about it. Listen to me please.", I looked at her, pleading. She stared at me for a second and then sighed and leaned back, arms crossed on her chest.

"This is what I get for calling you crazy guy, huh?", She seemed kind of pissed of but that soon went away and she flashed a small smile. "Okay, tell me what you think", This time she drew her hand across her mouth as if closing a zipper, meaning she wouldn't interrupt anymore. I was pleased.

"Okay, so here's the deal. You were kidnapped about six months ago and from a hopefully reliable source, I learned that it was humans even though they weren't really humans. Any thoughts so far?", I expected a whole rant about her life and that she didn't remember any of that, but instead she just nodded and seemed calm.

"How could it have been anything but humans?", She wore a confused expression, but somehow, I could see under her cloaked aura that she was as calm as ever. She only pretended that she didn't know anything about non-humans. Something was up here. Lucky for me, I was an excellent actor too.

"Long story. I'll explain sometime, even though I hope to retrieve your memories before I need to explain anything. Any other questions?", I asked. She simply shook her head and I continued.

"Okay, so you were kidnapped in Palm Springs and since then I've been looking for you but you vanished without a trace so it was pretty hard.", I drew a deep breath. I had so many things to say. "Up until recently, I had no clue where you were, nobody did. But then I saw you in the background of a photo in this news article and I was so surprised. I was shocked and relieved and a thousand other things all at once. I was going through hell when you were gone. It was awful.", I sighed and she took her opportunity to squeeze in a question.

"Why were you going through hell? Did this Sage person mean a lot to you?", She seemed concerned. It kind of caught me of guard. I was a stranger to her, all she knew was my name and that I thought she was someone else. She shouldn't be concerned, she should be afraid or skeptical, not concerned.

"You meant the world to me. When you were you, You were the only one that understood me and kept me from going insane.", There was no need to lie. After all, she had been taken away from me once.

"Okay, that was deep.", She seemed a bit shocked by that, and she really reminded me of my Sage.

"Yeah, sorry about that. I tend to get a bit deep when I talk about important things.", I apologized. I wasn't sorry at all really. She just had to deal with it.

"That's okay. It was kind of beautiful too.", She smiled. She was so pretty even though I didn't feel the same towards this Sage as I did to the one I had fallen for. She wasn't the same person as the one I loved so deep.

"Okay, let's move on. Anyway, I have a question for you.", I spoke. She seemed surprised at that.

"For me? Okay, shoot crazy guy.", She leaned forward and placed her elbows on the table and her hands behind her neck. I leaned back.

"Where, why, and when did you get your tattoo?", I smiled. It would be fun to see her answer to this one.

"That's three questions technically.", She looked amused.

"Just, answer please.", I pleaded. I was not in the mood for games today.

"Let's see.. I got it in Palm Springs, I think.", She wrinkled her forehead like she was deep in thought. "Um, I got it because I thought it was pretty?", She seemed to be having trouble thinking. Just what I thought. "And I don't remember when I got it. This is weird. Everything is kind of blurry.", She sighed and looked at me again. I simply nodded and smiled.

"Just what I thought.", I was overflowing with pride over my idea. She couldn't deny that her memory loss was strange now.

"What? What did you think?", She was really confused now, and she was also very intrigued.

"That someone has tampered with your memory. Otherwise you would have remembered where, when and why you got that golden lily.", I pointed to her cheek. She placed her hand on the tattoo then, as if she didn't want me to see it.

"The name crazy guy really suits you.", She simply said before dropping her hand and placing it in her lap along with the other hand. I smiled.

"Oh, If you only knew.", I almost laughed. She thought I was crazy now. I wondered what she would've thought of me if said that I had seen a ghost that looked like her. She would most certainly run as fast as she could away from me. Lucky for me, she didn't know and instead of fleeing, she just looked at me with that concerned look again. I suddenly felt uncomfortable under her gaze and had to fight the urge to move around in my chair or nervously tap with my feet. I drew a deep breath and decided to talk some more.

"So yeah, you're kidnapped and have had your memory wiped and I'm gonna become your knight in shining armor and rescue you."

"What if you're wrong? What if I'm not the one you're searching for?", She almost whispered. She seemed sad all of a sudden.

"How many girls in America looks exactly like you and has a golden tattoo on her cheek?", I challenged. She was my Sage. No doubt about it.

"Point taken.", She murmured before looking at the clock. "I have to get going soon.", she sighed, as if she was sad that she had to leave me.

"I just have a few more things to say.", I rushed the words out. I didn't really have anything else to add, I just didn't want her to leave me again. I had to think something up fast. She nodded and I opened my mouth and said the first thing that came to mind.

"I don't want you to leave. It makes me sad.", I almost bashed my head against the table. Why did I say that?

"Well, we have fifteen minutes left to small talk on. Did this 'Sage' leave you a lot?", She seemed intrigued once again. Like she was uncovering the mystery that was Adrian Ivashkov.

"Well, yeah. Kind of. You didn't know you were really leaving me every time you did it since you didn't know how I felt towards you and all that, but this one time, you left me and you knew you hurt me when you did, but still, you left and broke my heart, and just a month after that you disappeared and left me again and it just breakes me and I don't know how to handle it-", Insanity took a swing at me and made me ramble. I could faintly hear her saying my name repeatedly while I couldn't stop talking. "-and you just keep destroying me inside and I know you don't mean it but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, I wish you'd just stay once in a while or at least not leave me when I'm vulnerable and make me sad and-", I was interrupted by her putting her hand on top of mine on the table. We looked at each other for a second before she jerked her hand away and looked at me with a shocked look on her face. I'm sure she had felt it. The jolt of electricity that always came when we touched. The gray cloak on her aura ripped open a bit more after that and she looked at me with a different light in her eyes. It looked like she started recognizing me. It made me smile even though she looked completely terrified.

"What just happened?", She looked at me with big eyes and a scared gaze.

"Your breaking through your memory loss.", I simply stated. Best to be true.

"For the record, I still don't believe in your crazy story, but I just had the weirdest thing going trough my mind.", she looked shocked.

"We still have ten minutes, why don't you tell me what you saw?", I leaned forward and looked her in the eyes. She bit her lips and hesitated for a second before speaking.

"This is going to sound stupid.", She didn't seem like she wanted to tell me.

"You're talking to a guy that thinks you're someone else entirely, nothing is stupid to me.", I simply said nonchalantly. She seemed to hesitate for another second before sighing and starting to speak.

"Okay.., I saw you and me. You stared at me and I was standing in the sunshine of a window, and you told me my eyes were pretty, and that I was pretty. I felt happy.", She shrugged. I leaned even closer.

"I think I said you were beautiful. And that you're eyes were like molten gold.", She flinched at that and looked, if possible, even more shocked.

"How did you know that?", She narrowed her eyes at me and looked suspicious mixed with her earlier shock.

"Because I was there. That was an actual memory.", I felt really happy. She had remembered. And she had felt happy about it. It felt like my lucky star finally had turned its light on me and I was so relieved. I was breaking through the cloak and the memory loss. I was getting to her.

"I still don't believe you crazy guy.", She whispered before rushing past me and out on the street.