Yahoo! Chapter 5! Thank you to randompandattack! You've probably never heard of a Bornagain because I invented the term today. I was going to call Jenny a halfling, but then I looked up the word and realized that it's been used. And I didn't want to be accused of copying or anything. I was considering Reborn too, but decided on Bornagain. Do you guys like it?

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Chapter 5

"A what?" Timmy exclaimed. Never in his 10 year old life had he ever heard of a Bornagain. He had seen aliens, fairies, pixies, even anti-fairies, which were like their opposites. But nothing like whatever a Bornagain was.

Wanda's eyes had grown large. "A Bornagain?" she breathed incredulously. "Oh my goodness!" "This is incredible! I haven't seen one of those in over a thousand years!" Cosmo gasped. His green eyes looked Jenny up and down as though he expected her to disappear. "We must be dreaming!" Then, Timmy expected him to pinch himself. But instead, because Cosmo was an idiot, he poofed up a gigantic sledge hammer and brought it down on his head. "Ooh, look at the pretty stars." he said in a cuckoo type voice, and then he fell to the floor with a crash. Wanda rolled her eyes and waved her wand, making Cosmo disappear. "Don't do any wishing for a few hours. I want to keep him in the castle resting for a few hours. That hit is probably going to give him a major headache." she ordered Timmy.

He waved her request away dismissively. "Yeah, yeah, I get it. Now, is anyone going to explain to me what the heck is a Bornagain?"

"I will." Jenny said. She sat down on the bed and adjusted her headband and choker as she spoke. "But before I explain what I am, I'm going to need last year's August newspaper. The Dimmsdale Times. Would you happen to have it?"

"Yeah, my dad always keeps his old newspapers." Timmy left his room and went to the living room to look. Why on Earth did Jenny need the paper? This day was getting more and more confusing every second.

Finally in his dad's newspaper basket he found the right paper. He went back up to his bedroom and slammed the paper onto the bed. "There. I got the stupid paper. Now what?"

"Flip to page 6 and read the headline out loud." Jenny instructed. So Timmy did. "Child Drowns in Lake Bigfoot. What does this have to do with anything?"

Wanda gasped again. "Timmy! Look at the photo!"

Rolling his eyes, Timmy glanced down at the photo. It looked like it was a young child's school photo. The child was female, that was obvious. The photo was black and white, so Timmy couldn't identify any colors. But there was something about the way the girl looked, with her shoulder-length dark hair, close-set light eyes, and brilliant, toothy smile…Finally he got it.

"Oh my gosh! You're dead?" He cried out in shock. How could he be in love with a corpse?

"Correction. I was dead." Jenny corrected him angrily. "If you could just stop talking for ten minutes, then you'd understand, and wouldn't have to ask so many questions!" So Timmy closed his mouth and vowed silently not to interrupt. "Thank you." Jenny said coolly. Then, clearing her throat, she started to explain.

"I used to live with my mom and dad and a dog named Robot. Last August, we went to Lake Bigfoot to do some end of the year camping. My best friend Hannah came with us too.

My parents slept in our camper, and Hannah and I had a tent all to ourselves so we wouldn't keep them awake. Anyways, on the last night, Hannah and I tried to pull an all-nighter. We'd tried before, but never successfully done it, and sure enough, at about 2 in the morning we started getting tired. So I suggested we go into the lake. I thought the cold water would wake us up.

So we snuck down to the lake, my parents never suspecting a thing. When we got there, Hannah noticed a large flat raft like thing anchored down about 30 feet away. I dared her to race me there, even though we both knew that I was a better swimmer. We never even thought about putting on lifejackets.

We started, and I easily got ahead. But that was when things got dangerous. When I reached 20 feet, the wind started picking up and the waves got bigger. But we kept going.

Then suddenly, at about 27 feet, my foot got tangled on some weeds. I started kicking, trying to get untangled. But that just made it worse. And I couldn't call to Hannah because she was only at 14 feet. So I just kept struggling, which wore me out. And the waves kept crashing down on me, and it had started to rain, so I couldn't see anything. It was the scariest thing in my life.

Finally a huge wave crashed over my head and I went under the water. I could hear Hannah screaming my name, and I tried screaming back! But that just filled my lungs with water, and made me even more tired. I was so exhausted, but I wanted to move up, so my head wouldn't be covered by the water. As hard as I tried, nothing worked. So finally, I just sunk and everything went dark.

When I woke up, I thought it had just been a dream. But then I realized that I was on the beach. I could hear people crying. I didn't know what was going on. I walked around, and I saw my family and Hannah on the beach a distance away. The police were there and an ambulance too, I remember. When I asked them what was going on, nobody answered. It was like they hadn't seen me. And they were crying. It was the first time I'd ever seen my parents cry.

Then I heard someone calling, "We got her!" and the police pulled something up from the lake onto a boat that moved over to the beach. That was when I saw my body.

At this time, I was convinced that I was dreaming. I tried pinching myself, slapping myself, doing anything to wake up! But nothing changed. My body stayed there. The paramedics from the ambulance tried doing CPR, but there was no results. Finally they told my parents, "She's gone." I still didn't believe that I was dead, no matter what I saw. It didn't seem true.

The next day, they held my funeral. I went to it of course, because I was so confused. That was when I met my very first fairy. He said to me, "You know you're dead. That's why they can't see you." I didn't answer because I was afraid of crying.

Then he said something shocking. "I can make them see you." "You can bring me back to life?" I asked. "Well, not exactly." he said. "I can make you a Bornagain." At this time, I was like you, wondering what the heck a Bornagain was.

The fairy explained that a Bornagain was a person who was brought back to life by a fairy. It was like having another life in a video game. You return to Earth, and go to school and live life normally again.

I was excited to have my life back, so I eagerly agreed. So the fairy turned me into a Bornagain. And he explained something very important to me. "Listen," he said. "When you're a Bornagain, you must wear a life chain. It's what keeps you here. If anything happens to it, you will die again. And this time, nobody will be able to bring you back. You can't take it off, you can't let it get damaged, and most importantly, you can't let it break. My life chain is my rainbow collar.

Once he had explained everything to me, he disappeared and I immediately went to my parent's house. I thought they'd be thrilled to see me and welcome me back home with open arms. But instead, they refused me. I tried to explain that I was their daughter, but they said that their daughter was dead. It was then that I realized that if you become a Bornagain, nobody knows it. You're still considered dead to everyone you know and love. So you have to start life all over again.

I didn't have a clue where to go. I couldn't go to any of my friends or family members, and I didn't want to live on the streets. I felt lost and more alone than I'd ever felt in my life.

The fairy that turned me into a Bornagain reappeared one day and asked how I was doing. When he learned how horrible I was, he offered me a deal. If I worked for him as his servant, he would provide me a home. Naturally, I agreed. So I live in Fairy World, but go to school here in Dimmsdale. And that's that."

Jenny wiped her face on her arm and sniffed. Timmy could tell that this story made her cry and felt pity and sympathy for her. "The one thing that I've learned so far, is why being a Bornagain is so rare. Nobody is willing to never see their loved ones again. I mean, if you're dead, you can still watch over them. But when you're a Bornagain…" she sniffed again and whispered, "They don't recognize you."

Timmy watched her for a few minutes. "How did you know I had godparents?" he finally asked. "I'm living with fairies Timmy. I've been training myself to recognize when they're around." answered Jenny. "Oh." Timmy said uncomfortably.

"Now do you understand?" Jenny asked him. "Yeah." Timmy replied, gazing into her hazel eyes, which were brimming with tears. "You did a very brave thing Jenny." Wanda gave her a comforting hug. "Thank you." Jenny hugged her back, and gave a small smile at Poof, who shook his rattle and giggled to try and cheer her up. "But you have to promise that you won't tell anybody Timmy."

"I promise." Timmy said. "Cross my heart and hope to die." he put an X over his heart as he spoke.

"Thanks. And I promise that I won't tell anyone that you have fairies." Jenny said, feeling a bit better. "Now I better be going. I'm already late for doing chores."

As she went out the door, Timmy called out, "See you at school tomorrow?"

Jenny turned around and smiled. "You bet." And then, without another word, she was gone.