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ALADDIN'S POV

I didn't find Lee's letter until late into the night. I'd recognized the signs which showed she wasn't ready to talk, and had gone on another carpet ride with Jasmine as a celebration for our being engaged. I knew Lee would talk to me when she was ready. I couldn't wait to get the awkward conversation out of the way.

So while I was actually a bit relieved to get the conversation finished in the letter, I couldn't believe it. Lee had been like my little sister for the last six months, and now she was gone.

The last part of the letter was also...strange. She was saying that she came from a world where everything that had just happened was in a...movie, whatever that was. Well, it sounded like it depicted scenes from our lives, like a historical play.

But I didn't care about that. I cared about my adopted sister. Where had she gone? Would she be OK? She said "I'm sure you'll live happily ever after," and she was right that Jasmine was all I looked for in a girl. She was kind, fiesty, daring, rebellious and it didn't hurt that she was beautiful with it. But my happily-ever-after wouldn't be complete without my family in it – and no matter what our genes said, Lee was part of my family. She was the one who made it possible for me to be with Jasmine, and yet, I could see her envy and bitterness when I looked back. She had muttered about how lucky Jasmine was, and had later yelled at me because she thought something I'd said suggested that I didn't count her as someone. And when I'd confronted her, she'd said I'd figured out how she felt for the past six months...

She did love me. That was why she'd left, because she felt that she couldn't stay if she had to see me with Jasmine.

I showed Jasmine the letter, knowing that if Lee had been here, she wouldn't have minded. They'd become close. Jasmine simply looked thoughtful. "I want her to come back," she said. "But how can we do that without hurting her? It sounds like it's painful just watching us."

"More importantly, where did she go?" I wondered out loud.

"She could have been gone for a long time now." Jasmine said quietly. "Anyway, she's your sister, kind of. Where do you think she would've gone?"

I thought about it. Whenever Lee was in a really negative mood, she usually just ran. She'd usually come back on her own time, and whenever I'd asked where she'd been, she'd just say "Nowhere. Don't ask."

"We'd probably have to search the whole of Agrabah to find her." I finally said. "She used to run off somewhere when she was angry or sad or something, but she wouldn't tell me where, and I wasn't going to follow her when she didn't want me around. I think she just used to wander around."

Jasmine thought about this and then suddenly exclaimed "Wait! What about the place you used to live in?"

CLEO'S POV

I went back to the place where Al and I lived before everything happened. It felt kind of nice to be back there. I didn't need to worry about Al being in love with someone else, or having to act like royalty, or the fact that the beautiful girl that captured the guy I loved turned out to be sweet but fiesty, a bit spoilt but really nice.

But I didn't know if I could live here on my own. My overwhelming feeling was that I wanted to be alone, and even if I did stay here, I was sure to be found. I only stayed there during the night, and then ran, not looking where I was going, thinking.

I almost wished this was the movie with me, too. Then there would be no "what happened next", no anything. Unless there was a crappy sequel...

I skidded to a stop. There WAS a sequel, and what was more, I had a faint memory of that, too. Now that I'd seen the first movie and remembered, my memories of the sequel were coming back. I remembered Jafar coming back, but he was a genie. Some pudgy little thief who rubbed Jafar's lamp and Jafar being coloured so he looked sickly pale. The quotes about genies not being able to kill and "You'd be surprised what you can live through". And Iago deciding to turn his back on Jafar and working with Al, Jasmine, and everyone else.

I thought about this. Tried to remember where to go, what to do.

For once, my luck was good, and not only was I able to retrace my steps, but the world sped up time so the sequel was starting the next morning, and the minute I stepped into the desert, a black lamp, held by a parrot, was pulled up. I crept closer, trying to listen to what Iago was saying now. I could hear his usual indistinct yelling.

Suddenly, a clear memory was coming to me. A musical number. Sang by the parrot. Yes...here it was.

"That's it, I've had it, I hate to be dramatic,

But it's time for me to fly the -" As Iago began to sing, I ran forward and grabbed him by the throat.

"OK, you little freak. Tell me how you and Jafar got out of the Cave of Wonders." I demanded.

Iago barely looked at me. "Why should I tell you, street mouse?"

I glared at him. "Try the sister of Princess Jasmine's fiance." Even if I wasn't going to be there with him, Al was still going to get married to Jasmine, right? I figured that since they weren't married in this movie, the clothes they were wearing at the end of the movie were used to show their official engagement. "Anyway," I continued, "Do not drop the lamp into the well. Do not try to gain the good guys' friendship without me. And most of all, do NOT sing. It makes people's ears bleed."

I saw how it was going to be. I was going to have to go back to the palace and get things to the point where that fat thief didn't find Jafar's lamp and let him loose. We'd have to just keep the lamp and destroy it.

I didn't like it, but I'd have to face Al again after all.

Well, Cleo's going back. What do you think? Review!