Ashley had fallen back in her dream world and was seeing part of her childhood when she noticed the small boy playing with her. He looked like he would grow up very handsome, but something struck her as familiar.

He had brown and gold striped hair. It looked very cute on him and she suspected that he would be well known in the future as he was probably the only one with that hair style. But it didn't feel right. Her younger self was playing with him, but he kept calling her Karone. That's not my name, my name is Ashley, not Karone.

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"That's not my name…Ashley…Karone." She mumbled lightly.

His heart stopped. How could she know about Karone? He had never told anyone and most certainly not her. The only way she could know about Karone would be if she had snuck into his room and taken it from his locket while he was asleep. He always wore the locket though and it had a picture of his younger self with a picture of Karone's younger self in it.

The only one who had a identical locket would be Karone herself. She would never have taken it off as it was a token of their friendship as siblings.

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Ashley woke, but didn't open her eyes. She felt like she had lost something in the short amount of time that she was asleep. She quickly remembered the locket that held her family's picture in it, or at least two of them. She didn't know who they were or if they were even still alive for her to find out, but she never stopped searching for them. She quickly looked at her wrist that always held this locket and realized that it was no longer there.

"Oh no, this can't be happening!! Now I won't be able to identify him if he has the same one. No, no, no, no, no. AGH."

She didn't realize someone come into her room as she was now in the fetal position.

Andros walked into her room and saw Ashley curled up into a little ball on the bed. She had tears coming from her eyes and he suspected that she had been this way for a while now. He ran up to her bed and tried his best to comfort her with words.

"Ashley? Are you okay? What's wrong, maybe I can help."

Ashley heard a familiar voice and immediately wrapped her arms around him, crying into his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her after getting over the shock and simply let her cry until she fell asleep in his arms.

As soon as she was asleep he put her back down on the bed gently. He supposed that she had had a hard day and that she needed to rest.

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Ashley awoke in a dark room yet again. It was becoming routine for her. She was starting to hate the infirmary and really just wanted to go to her room and stay there with Alpha looking in on her healing progress.

She knew that it might take a while for the others to be satisfied with her well-being, but she really just wanted to be in a familiar surrounding for a while.