Author's note: so I don't know if that many people are reading this, but that's fine, because I'm really enjoying writing this so I'll do it anyway:) and for those who are reading, thanks:) and I think this will probably be a threeshot, which I've never done before, but I think it'll be cool.

P.S. In case anyone cared, I'm sorry for the slow update.

It was getting dark outside, and knowing Miami, that meant that it was already pretty late, and Ross and Laura still had no idea how they were going to get back to Earth.

"We should probably stay the night," he suggested.

"Yeah! Let's have a sleepover!" his older but otherwise identical newfound friend exclaimed enthusiastically.

"Austin, maybe it's better if we try to find a way to get them home," Ally said, sounding nervous. "I mean, they can't stay here forever!"

"But it would be so fun!" he whined.

"Ally's right." Laura sighed. "As fun as this is, people are going to notice that we're missing!"

"And neither of us have our phones, so we can't even contact Earth." Ross added. "So we really have to find a way to get back."

As if on cue, Austin's phone rang and he picked it up.

"Hi, Dez!"

There was a pause as his redheaded best friend spoke on the other end.

"Um...we're in the music factory! Me and Ally. Yeah, we're...um, probably going to stay overnight here."

There was a brief pause as Dez spoke again.

"No! I mean...you can't come, because...we're planning a surprise. And it would ruin it for you."

He quickly ended the call and placed his phone on the table nearby.

"And there's another problem," Ally sighed. "We can't tell Dez or Trish about you guys! That would make things complicated."

"Imagine if Raini and Calum were here," Ross mused.

"Who?" Austin and Ally said in unison.

"Raini and Calum are our co-stars," Laura explained. "They're Trish and Dez. And I'm pretty sure your Trish and Dez are the same as our Trish and Dez."

"Trish hates working," the other brunette offered.

"Dez wears weird clothes," her boyfriend added.

The other two nodded. They understood. And it was still weird that Austin and Ally's lives were exactly like their show. There was a small silence as they all contemplated their situation.

"I'm tired," Austin suddenly whined, breaking the silence.

The other three teenagers laughed before realizing that they, too, were tired.

"We can sleep in Trish's office," Ally suggested. "I mean, we have to stay here somehow, and her office has a bed and everything."

An hour had passed and Austin and Ally were soundly asleep next to each other, but their younger counterparts were uneasily rolling around on the floor. They had offered to take the floor instead of the bed, since they were the ones who had somehow teleported into a different planet and were causing all the problems.

"What do you think is going to happen to us?" Laura whispered. "I mean, how are we going to get home?"

Ross smiled sadly. "I don't know," he replied quietly. "Maybe we'll just wake up in the morning and it'll turn out that this was all a dream and we're back home?"

"I don't think this is a dream," she said. "As crazy as it seems, it feels too real."

"Surreal, you mean," he laughed softly. "Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I think that either this is a very elaborate prank involving our doppelgängers, or somehow we actually ended up on a different planet."

"Yeah, but they knew about what happens in the rest of the second season!" she objected. "And no one knows about that except the people involved in making it! And I'm sure I would have noticed two crew members who look exactly like us."

"So do you think the rest of the show is really going to be like their lives?" he asked, changing the subject a little. "I mean, is everything they said happened really going to happen?"

"I hope so," she replied. "It sounds pretty nice."

"What, pretending to be a couple?" Ross said, grinning.

"What? No! Ugh, that's not what I meant...sure, whatever, you're just like the rest of the fans!" she stuttered, blushing a bright red.

"It's kind of weird, huh," he replied instead, choosing not to tease her for her awkwardness.

She nodded vigorously, thankful for his lack of teasing. Not that she didn't like it, it was part of their normal friendly banter, but it got awkward whenever anything vaguely romantic was brought in. She only saw him as a friend, but somehow everyone thought that they should be together.

"Do you think they'll make us kiss?" he said abruptly.

She groaned and laughed, purposefully turning away from him so that he wouldn't see her blush. And in that moment of relaxation, she fell asleep.

"Wake up, Austin!"

That was the call to which both blonds and Laura woke up to. Ally was the first to wake up, and she had realized that Ross and Laura were still very much present, having not teleported back to Earth in their sleep.

"Allyyyy," Austin whined, stretching and opening his eyes. "Go back to sleep!"

"No!" she replied. "It's Sunday and we have to find a way to get these two back home! And somehow also keep them hidden while we run the music factory!"

"But they can just stay," he argued as Ross grinned and nodded.

"No!" the two girls said in unison.

"As much as I love being here, surely our families will notice that we've gone missing!" Laura said. "We can't disappear forever, we have to tell your story to everyone back home! By that I mean that we have to keep acting as you guys in our show."

"Laura's right," Ross sighed. "I love being here, but we have to get home at some point."

"You know what, you two can stay in the practice room for the day or at least until we figure something out." Ally suggested, quickly taking control of the situation. "We can tell Trish and Dez that they can't go there because we're working on a surprise. They'll understand. During the day, Austin and I will have to teach the kids, but you two can work on figuring out how you can get home."

Laura nodded, admiring her leadership and sense of responsibility. Of course, Ally grown up was the kind of person she aspired to be as she herself grew up.

"What if we teach the kids?" Ross said excitedly as Austin eagerly nodded his approval.

"No way!" Laura exclaimed. "Trish and Dez are definitely going to notice if we're not the usual Austin and Ally."

"Well, we do act as them!" he argued. "I think we'll do a good job!"

"As foolproof as that seems, I agree with Laura." Ally said. "It would just be too risky. It would cause a lot of trouble if anyone found out. Besides, you two can try to find a method of communication with Earth. Maybe you'll figure out a way to get home."

"Fine, I guess that makes logical sense." Ross agreed. "Okay, have fun teaching the kids, and we'll just hang out in the practice room today!"

"And hopefully we won't be here for more than the day," Laura pointed out. "I mean, I love seeing our show's future! It's like seeing a part of me that I never knew about before. But we have to get back somehow."

"And I love meeting you guys," Ally added. "It's like seeing myself younger all over again. But you're right, you definitely have to get back to Earth."

"Group hug in case you guys successfully get home before we see you again?" Austin said.

The other three nodded as they joined in a group hug like none other before. It connected them somehow, and they all knew, in that moment, that everything would work out for them, no matter what. It was a reassuring feeling, but also a bittersweet one, knowing that they would be leaving the strong bonds that they had already formed with one another, but they knew that their pasts, futures, and alternate lives would be with them always.

It was the middle of the morning, and Austin and Ally were too busy teaching the kids in the music factory to be able to worry about getting Ross and Laura back home. That didn't mean that the latter pair couldn't worry about themselves. In fact, that's what they had been doing for the entire morning in the practice room.

Laura picked up Ally's cell phone that was lying on top of the piano.

"Maybe we can try calling someone?" she suggested.

"Yeah, but there's no way that you can unlock it!" Ross countered.

She ignored his comment, already having unlocked the smartphone using her fingerprint, which was, of course, identical to Ally's.

"Wow, this phone is so high-tech!" she commented. "Fingerprint technology? Does that even exist back on Earth?"

"It's being developed," he replied. "Not that you would know, you still have a flip phone!"

She once again ignored his comment, rolling her eyes, as she dialled Raini's phone. It rang once, twice, and lit up.

"Hello?" a voice on the other end said. "Who is this?"

"Is this Raini?" Laura asked.

"Yeah, Raini Rodriguez, who are you?" the voice on the other end asked.

"Raini, it's Laura!" she replied, both relieved and nervous.

"Hey Laura, what's up?" Raini said. "Why are you calling me? I literally just saw you 5 minutes ago!"

Laura frowned. Five minutes ago? She paused.

"Laura? You still there?"

"Yeah," she replied simply.

"Well, okay, um, if you don't have anything to say, I have to run, so talk to you later!"

She hung up and Laura put the phone down.

"Five minutes ago?" she repeated. "That doesn't make any sense!"

"I know what happened." Ross said. "Time isn't passing by when we're here. The only way to make time on Earth pass by while we're here is to contact Earth while we're here. So as long as we don't contact Earth, we can disappear for as long as we want."

She thought for a second, then nodded.

"Yeah, that sounds about right."

"Unless there's somehow another Raini Rodriguez on this Earth who somehow knows someone else named Laura," he offered.

"That sounds too far-fetched." she replied, then paused. "I'm pretty sure you were right the first time."

He nodded. "Yeah. But then how are we going to get back if we can't afford to contact Earth until we get back?"

"We got here somehow, maybe if we just retrace our steps from when we got here, then we'll somehow end up back home?" she suggested.

"It's a good idea," he said. "But we can't leave the practice room, meaning that we can't leave the Factory!"

"We'll wait until the day's over." she replied. "But if it doesn't work, we'll be in trouble, because Austin and Ally won't even be here to help us tomorrow. They'll be at school!"

"Knowing Ally, she'll definitely be at school." he amended. "But Austin would probably skip school to help us."

"You can't demand that of him!" she replied. "No, we have to get home before the end of the day."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the practice room door.

"Ally? Are you in there? Do you know where Austin is?" Trish's familiar voice yelled. "I'm coming in!"

"Dez, where's Trish?" Ally asked.

"Huh? I saw her go up to the practice room," he replied.

"No!" she exclaimed, running upstairs.

She ran as fast as she could, opening the door, expecting to see Trish shocked at the appearance of a new Austin and Ally. Instead, she found Trish in the empty practice room.

"Hey, Trish!" she said, relieved and hopeful that Ross and Laura had found a way home.

"Oh, there you are!" her friend replied. "I was looking for you! Where's Austin? Where were you?"

"We were just in the back downstairs getting instruments!" she replied. "Come back downstairs, we can't leave the kids unattended with the boys!"

The two best friends ran back downstairs to attend the kids and prevent the Factory from ultimate destruction without supervision.

Ross and Laura, in fact, had not been able to get back home. They had only hidden in the closet in the back of the room just in time.

"That was close!" Ross said, opening the door from the closet and getting out, seating himself on the couch next to Laura.

"What are we going to do?" she said, feeling like they weren't making any progress.

"I don't know," he replied, for what seemed like the millionth time that they'd had this conversation.

They stayed in silence for a little while, worried and not a little scared. They had done something that, as far as anyone knew, no one had ever done before. But that couldn't help them, if they had to stay hidden here and couldn't get home. They couldn't live the rest of their lives in an alternate universe, in what would be an infinitesimal amount of time back home, unless they contacted Earth again.

Ross sighed. "Laura, I'm scared."

"I know, and so am I." she replied, putting her arm around him comfortingly. "But we'll find a way, I know we will. And even if we can't figure things out for a while, we'll always have each other. Even if we don't have anyone else in this world."

"I guess you're right," he sighed, before becoming more cheerful. "But we won't have to worry, because we're going to find a way back home. We got here somehow, we can just wait until tonight to retrace our steps. Time's not passing by back home, anyway. We have as much time as we want."

She nodded, both of them lapsing into silence. He had never seen her this silent before, but he knew it was because they were both worried. They had never been a situation more uncertain, yet to him it seemed certain that they would make it together.

They sat together, enjoying one another's company, her arm around him and his around her. It was nothing more than a friendly gesture, a reassuring one, but to both of them it felt like more. It felt like they were connected somehow, in a way that no one in their lives could even imagine, but it was something that they knew about and shared.

And despite everything, it felt good.

Author's note: thanks for reading! I hope you liked it, and as always, constructive criticism and feedback is appreciated! There's probably going to be only one chapter left, since I realized that I didn't really have much plot development planned. So I'm sorry if this story seems a bit discombobulated. I'll try to update soon, in case anyone cares, but I'm super busy with school and robotics and choir and band and piano and pretty much everything so the next update might not be up for a while.