A/N - Ilce - Funny thing about the eye comment with Dan is that I adore cats, lol. Well you get to find out who my mystery POV is this chapter. Yes there are gay people due to my particular brand of complete insanity so don't complain… and a homophobe as well. Also this is the second chapter… today so enjoy.

Mystery POV

Dan looked different to say the least, his hair was tipped frosty white and he definitely didn't use to be quite that pale, but the look worked well for him. Drago was by his head and I smirked to myself.

I straddled his waist and sat down on his hips, then I pinned his wrists above his head with one hand. His eyes snapped open and he looked up with shock, the best part was he didn't recognize me. His eyes were luminescent yellow, making me think of a cat.

"Hello Dan," I said to him.

His eyes got bigger when I said his name, but managed to choke out around the shock, "Who are you?"

"C'mon Dan you know who I am," I loved the confused look on his face especially since I wasn't lying. I lowered my face 'till the tip of my nose was brushing his.

"Masquerade?" His voice was whisper soft.

"Correct," I smiled at his now bemused expression.

"You disappeared," he denied "You disappeared after that battle."

"Yes," I conceded "and no," he looked so confused at my answer that I decided to take pity on him, "I did disappear but somehow I reappeared here and just a few days ago Hydranoid appeared here as well."

"Where is here exactly?" He asked me getting over the shock of my reappearance.

"I'm not really sure about that," I admitted "and my appearance has changed a bit."

"Clearly, because the last time I saw you, you didn't have brown in your hair," he chuckled.

"Oy," I said "Leave the hair out of this frosty."

"It's not that bad," but he was now trying to look at his hair which made him look cute.

"Looks like you don't believe it," I told him.

He pouted at me which was the last straw, I couldn't take it any more.

I let out a low sound, almost a growl, and kissed him.

Dan's POV

I was still a little in shock over Masquerade's reappearance and his appearance.

Turns out he has pale blue eyes under his mask and somehow he had brown streaks in his blonde hair.

"Looks like you don't believe it," he said and I could practically hear the smirk in his voice.

Weirdly enough I didn't feel to weird talking to him like this or pouting at him for teasing me, which I did.

He let out a low, almost growling, sound and kissed me.

This I had not been expecting to happen, but I liked it. I felt my eyes almost closing.

He ran his tongue along my bottom lip encouraging me to open my mouth, ok now that I wasn't to sure about. He gently bit my bottom lip when I hesitated to respond so I opened my mouth giving him access, which he didn't hesitate to take. His tongue surged into my mouth. Within seconds I was panting from the intense kiss until he finally pulled back.

He pulled back and smiled at me and released my wrists at last, he also slid off of me to sit next to me on the ground.

I sat up slowly watching him the entire way.

"Well if you two are quite done here we found a way out," I jumped in surprise at Drago's amused voice and I felt my face go red with embarrassment.

Masquerade looked up at Drago with a funny expression, somewhere between amusement and irritation.

"I can't leave here," He told Drago with an annoyed sigh "I've tried."

"Well why don't we try again," he motioned to the portal where Hydranoid was, "Dan try keeping a hold of Masquerade it may help."

Ok now he was teasing me indirectly, but was still being serious.

Masquerade however seemed to like the idea and stood up then pulled me up, but before he pulled me through the portal, he gave me this look and stopped.

"No one is going to know who we are," he said very serious "We don't look anything like we used to and for me it's probably better that no one, and I mean no one should find out unless we have absolutely no other options. Not to mention your friends would…" at the word friends I had flinched.

Masquerade's POV

When I said friends he flinched as though I had physically slapped him.

"Fall out?" I guessed.

"Won't even be in the same building," he said bitterly.

"Well then the only people who will know that were back will be you and me," I told him making him look at me in the eyes "A fresh start, new lives and the past doesn't matter."

The pain in his eyes was too much, "And we'll get them back for what they did," I promised pulling him through the portal.