A/N: I am so sorry this took me so long to write. I've had the worst writers block and so much work to do. And I've also been planning a party for my teacher who is leaving. So some aftermath and some loose ends tied up and some left undone. Hehe, can't wait until I can write well again. No deaths luckily!

R&R

-Anna x

Kimiko sat and stared as Anastasia blurted everything to her, Taylor and Jack.

"What do we do?" Taylor looked frantic.

"We tell Rai now." Kimiko said without a second thought.

Jack ran to get Rai. They ran back. "What happened?"

Anastasia looked at her hands, the blood wouldn't wash off. Her hands were stained forever.

"My hands will never be clean. There was so much blood. She-" Anastasia choked on her tears.

"Who?" Rai looked at the four people. Kimiko was shaking; Jack was pacing. Taylor was crying and Anastasia was seeing things. His team was a mess.

"Twila." Kimiko sighed.

"I don't want anyone to talk about her again, she's a murderer." Rai dismissed.

Everyone looked at him. "Wuya did it." The four were synced in speech. This was possibly a step to becoming a team.

"Wuya? She's a ghost…" Rai was far too loud with his words.

Anastasia burst into tears. "Now look what you've done!" Kimiko shouted. Taylor comforted Anastasia.

"We can't tell Ashley; it would hurt the baby." Jack just got glared at.

"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Rai practically shouted.

Kimiko pulled him to the side. "Wuya killed them all. She convinced Alexei to change her into her human form and then she killed him."

"So that proves Twila's innocence?"

"Yes but it's a bit complex." Kimiko bit her lip.

"How is it complicated? We go and apologise and she comes back and we play happy families."

"Exactly Rai, we would only be playing happy families! We aren't happy anymore and we certainly aren't acting like a family anymore!" Kimiko stayed strong for the team.

"That's why Twila was here." He clearly was not in the mood for putting up with this.

"She's dead, Rai." Taylor whispered. "Wuya slit her throat."

The five stayed up talking until Kimiko blacked out next to Anastasia and Taylor.

"Hello?" She called. A laugh responded. "Is there anyone there?"

A face stepped out the shadows. "Dad?"

"Kimiko?" He choked out, bringing a crumpled hand up for her to take. She took his hand but it was cold. He began to cough. Kimiko saw blood trickle from the corner of his mouth. He sputtered blood onto her cheeks. "Daddy?" She whimpered as his body emerged from the shadows and collapsed into her arms. She held him in her arms as he died. A laugh brewed from the shadows. Her father faded in her arms. The laugh boiled in her head. "Get out of my head!" She began to claw at her head.

"You can't escape me Kimi." The laughter subdued as the voice spoke.

"Please stop." She begged.

"I'll never stop until I have you." The laughter erupted in her head making her scream; she could never escape.

She woke up screaming from her nightmare. A cold sweat caked her forehead and her arms are pinned. Her eyes were too blurred to make out her captor. She struggled against the hands. She started to whimper.

"Is she okay?" A southern twang.

"Do I need to call an ambulance?" European.

"Kimi? Girl, speak to me?" Rai.

She groaned at the sound of his voice.

"Kimiko say something that will mean something, please." He pleaded.

"Ooh lala." She breathed out.

"That's my girl." He smiled triumphantly, picking her up like his bride. "She just needs rest." He carried her off to her room.

"Well that went badly." Jack just blinked as they walked down the hall.

Taylor saw Clay open his door, taking this as her cue. "I'm just going to go." She slipped off to his room.

"I better go and check on Ashy and baby Jack!" Jack was about to leave.

"Please stay for a bit, Jack. Or get Omi for me?" He sat with her whilst she talked about everything.

"You better go and see Ashley." She said.

He smiled. "Yeah, okay. If you want to talk, you know where I am." He ran off down the hall to find her.

He lay her down gently. She was restless in his arms. She clearly hadn't been sleeping as much as she made out.

"Stay with me a while." She murmured through her breathes.

He lay next to her as she snuggled into him. "Someday." She murmured.

He stroked her hair and kissed her forehead. "I love you Kimi, I just can't say it to you while you're conscious." She had said how she felt. But he just couldn't.

He began to doze off when she woke with a sharp scream, just like before.

"Kimi was it the same dream?"

"Dad? Where's my dad? Keep my dad safe. Daddy?" She was muttering and twitching in her dazed state.

"Kimiko, talk to me." Rai shook her into her natural state.

"Rai, what are you doing here?" She looked at him calmly.

"You asked me to stay. Do you want me to leave then?" He began to get up and walk away. She grabbed his wrist.

"Don't go. Please. I don't want to be alone." She began to twitch a bit.

"What did you dream about?"

"Nothing." She dismissed abruptly.

"Kimi-cub, you're the worst liar I know. What did you dream about?"

"Drop it. I don't want to talk about it."

"I'll tell you what I dreamt about if you tell me."

"Go on then, tell all."

"It was about this girl. I dream about her every night and she always has bear ears. I suppose she's the girl I'm in love with; the girl of my dreams. She just appears to make everything better." He smiled.

"Oh, even when we were doing whatever we were doing?" Kimi twitched.

"Yeah all the time." His smile turned into a grin.

"Oh. I just dream about how my dad died. I'm going to get coffee." She looked at her clock; 3.45am. She sighed dragging herself out of bed and her room.

"Unbelievable." He sighed, shaking his head.

Taylor was getting bored. She needed to up the ante if she wanted to be courted anytime soon. She looked at the sleeping Clay next to her. It was 3.30am and she was not going to be getting back to sleep after Kimiko's attack in her sleep. She wondered if Clay would mind if she kissed him. She decided to see what would happen. She kissed him lightly, keeping her hair out of the way. She had never kissed anyone on the lips before. She was nervous and had no idea what to do. She felt him begin to kiss back. He rolled her over on the kiss; his hand was on the curve of her back. The kiss deepened but he pulled away.

"Did I do something wrong?" She asked.

"No, I didn't want it to go too far. A man and a woman should court before doing things like that." He smiled.

"Oh, sorry; I didn't realise you didn't want to kiss me." Her heart sunk in her chest.

"It was one of the best things to wake up to." His smile broadened.

"Sorry for waking you up, Clay; I wondered what it was like to kiss a boy." She felt so embarrassed. 'I wondered what it felt like to kiss you.' She nearly said it aloud.

"Well I'll be darned, you never kissed anyone?"

She shook her head.

"Neither have I." He grinned. "Now get some sleep or southern Barbie will be angry in the morning."

She kissed his cheek then felt the darkness creep over and suck her out of consciousness.

A/N: I'm also so sorry this is so short. I didn't mean for it to be so short but it just is. Writers block, probably.

R&R!

-Anna x