"Timmy?" I asked softly, "can I come in?" I heard grumbles and then soft pattering footsteps. I heard the click of a lock and then the door swung open slowly. Timmy's eyes were red and puffy and he didn't have his glasses on.

"What do you want, Bloom?" He asked harshly. My stomach gave in to the butterfly feeling.

"I'm so sorry, Timmy." I reached out to put my hand on his shoulder but he jerked away at the last minute.

"Sorry won't bring her back, Bloom! What's done is done!" He turned away from me and went back into his room.

"Timmy! I didn't mean to!" That was the first time that I'd admitted that the death of Tecna wasn't entirely my fault. I followed him in, just managing to dodge the door he threw at my face.

"Oh yeah?" He retorted.

"Timmy, I am so so sorry. Tecna was my friend too. I feel as much horrid as you do." I tried to explain.

"Should be more. Bloom, you killed your best friend. You should feel terrible. Horrible. Disgusted with yourself. Stupid. Small." I could not believe my eyes or ears. Timmy had just rattled off about how he thinks I should be feeling. That counted as an insult in my book.

"Timmy, I thought you were one of the calmer Specialists that I could go to. The one guy who won't judge me for who my partner is." I closed my eyes as I heard him pace around the room, punching the fist of his right hand into the palm of his left.

"I guess you changed that of me, huh, Bloom?" I opened my eyes to see him smirk and I felt like crying. What had I done to the technology nerds of the group?

"Timmy, why are you acting like this? I said it was an accident. I felt terrible too, you know."

"Yes but she was my girlfriend. If Baltor got killed by his best mate - which he kind of did in a way - you would know how I feel. I can't... get my damn head around all this. Why did you have to go and do what you did?" I gasped.

"Timmy..." I felt tears well up in my eyes. "I... can't believe you would say that!"

"Well guess what?! I did! If that is all, then I suggest you leave!" He walked over to the door, held it open and gestured outside.

Right then, I felt something inside me snap, making me tougher but meaner. I wiped my tears away furiously. "No. Timmy, I said I was sorry. I will bloody do anything it takes for you to believe that. Do you understand?" I stood with my hands on my hips and frowned. Timmy burst out laughing.

"That coming out of Princess Bloom of Sparx's mouth sounds horribly wrong. Do you seriously expect me to believe that?"

"Yes. Yes I do. Because whether you agree with it or not doesn't matter. I said I'm going to do whatever it takes for me to do to make you believe that Tecna's death wasn't entirely my fault and I meant it." I walked over to his window, purposefully not looking into his piercing hazel eyes that my technology fairy friend found so beautiful. I couldn't see the beauty in them.

"Bloom, you must be having a laugh!" He sat on his bed and stared at me. Even though I couldn't see him, I felt his eyes boring into me. "You can't force a person to believe something. Belief comes from the heart." He thought he had won, but I had the finishing word up my sleeve already.

"But you can do things to help the heart change. And that's what I plan to do." I smirked, knowing I had said more than I actually intended to.

"Fine, fine! You win the verbal war." He sighed, knowing he was, indeed, defeated. I flicked my hair with a hand and placed my other hand on my hip.

"Don't I always?" I smirked. I sat next to him on the bed, although I kept a small distance. "Timmy, I really am sorry. I... I didn't know my attack would go that far. Hell, I didn't even know my attack could go that far."

I know, Bloom." He sighed and turned his back to me. "I just... it's a shock, that's all. I'm sorry for yelling at you." He picked up the photo of him and Tecna from his bedside table and held it to his chest.

"You must think I'm disgusting, don't you?" I said, standing up and stepping away from him. I heard him sigh again and held my breath.

"Bloom. I know you didn't mean to." He said as he walked up to me. "You wouldn't do that on purpose." I turned to face him. "I hope." He smirked.

"No. I wouldn't. Thank you for actually listening to what I had to say. I knew it was a difficult subject for you but I didn't want to stay on enemy terms forever."

"It was a pleasure. Well, not exactly the first part but you know what I mean." He smiled at me.

"Yeah. Well, I kind of need to get going. I've been in here long enough and the others will be getting suspicious." He smirked.

"OK. See you later, Bloom." He waved and I waved back. I walked over to the door but turned back to him.

"I'm sorry, Timmy. And thank you."

"It was nothing. And Bloom?" He called.

"Yeah, Timmy?"

"Are you and Stella friends again?"

"Nope. I wouldn't have it any other way. She's a bitch." He gasped and I smirked. "See you, Timmy."

"Bye!"

I walked out of the school to find the girls and the specialists waiting patiently, though in Riven's case it was impatiently. "Well?" Musa said, "you spent an awful lot of time in there. What happened?" She smirked.

"It took me a lot of time but I finally managed to get through to him." I told them.

"Well, good for you!" Layla said. She smirked and suddenly my vision was cut off.

"Hey!" I whined. I put my hands up to my eyes and felt fingers. Suddenly, I was well aware of the situation. I lifted Baltor's hands from my eyes and turned to face him.

"A little bird told me a certain Dragon Fire princess went to apologise to a technology nerd?" He winked as his hands found mine. "How did it go, love?"

"It was hard. He wouldn't believe me. He said that I should feel disgusted with myself for doing it." I looked at the ground and mumbled, "I did. I am disgusted with myself for doing it." He placed his finger under my chin and lifted my gaze to meet his.

"Bloom. You need to believe it yourself. Then you can go and help other people believe it." His bright golden eyes were shining with love but there was a flash of concern which I felt I was responsible for.

"I... I got angry with him and said I believed that it wasn't my fault but I... I don't. I know it was my fault." Tears welled up in the corners of my eyes and I knew they were threatening to fall. I closed my eyes but they spilled over. I wiped the tears away but they overflowed again.

Baltor cupped my face with both his hands and wiped the tears with his thumb. "Please, Bloom. Don't beat yourself up over this. I don't know if you've realized this but this... this is affecting me too. Seeing you like this is just... horrible. Absolutely horrible." He tried to smile but he failed miserably. "So I'm counting on you to look past all this and believe that it wasn't you." He smiled and reached down.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and reached up to meet his lips with mine. My eyes closed and I felt his hands rest around my waist, pulling me closer. I felt the Dragon Fire in me jump and bounce around, desperate to be let loose. But this was neither the time or place so I reluctantly kept a strong hold on it.

As we broke apart, the air suddenly chilled and I felt a negative aura flow through the currents. "Great." I sighed. "I have a feeling that another battle is due." I turned to the other girls but Baltor grabbed my wrist, forcing me to turn back around.

"And this time, we'll beat him and that witch girl and even Stella if we have to. Right?" He enquired. I took a deep breath.

"Right." I smiled at him and he grinned harder.

I believed that this would be the end. In a good way. I believed that Lysthenstyne and Aquarius would be no more.

A/N: Yay! One more chapter! The last battle.