The woman stared at Becky for a long moment. She surveyed Becky, making sure her words were true.

Suddenly, Becky caught the tears welling up in her eyes.

"Oh my…gosh…y-you are…you are, aren't you…I…I mean, I just…"

The woman was silent again. Becky smiled as she felt the tears forming in her own eyes. The amount of words to say in this moment was so great that neither of them could choose the right ones.

"Come with me." She said, taking Becky's hand and leading her all the way back to her house.

The woman led Becky through town, their destination a mystery to Becky. Instead of worrying, Becky took in the sights. She looked around at all the tall buildings, and all the different people. Sure, they didn't look too terribly different from humans, but she knew that beyond the surface, they were.

After being led around town, the two arrived at what Becky guessed was the woman's house.

"Rael, get out here!" She yelled into an empty house. Suddenly, a man emerged from the other room. Becky was struck by the extreme likeness between him and the man in the mural on the ceiling of her spaceship hideout. She knew these were the people she was looking for.

"What is it? I thought you left for work already…" He began. His voice drifted off as he noticed Becky standing there.

"Iza, who is this?" He asked. Iza, short of breath, was silent for a moment.

"Rael, it's her." She said. Rael looked at her wide eyes, and the smile that was fighting to stay on her face as she caught her breath. He looked into Becky's eyes and saw in them the playful, innocent eyes of a toddler he knew once long ago.

He slowly moved closer to Becky. Once he was close to her, he placed his hand on her cheek.

"Where in the world have you been all these years?" He asked quietly.

"Well, see, that's kind of a long story…" Becky began, eyes wide with happiness, and a smile on her face. "You may want to sit down and listen awhile."

Her parents did as told and sat down on the couch in the living room.

And so Becky began to regale them about her escape to earth.

"It all started when I wandered onto Captain Huggyface's spaceship…" She began.

"…and so that's where I stayed for fifteen years. It's so wonderful, I love it there. I'm a superhero, I fight crime every day, and I have a family that loves me, and a boyfriend…" Becky said. She sat on the chair across from the couch, suddenly feeling very homesick. Becky looked down to the floor sadly, her smile fading quickly.

"What's wrong, Alysia- oh, sorry, I mean Becky." Iza asked.

"Oh, nothing, I'm just homesick is all…" Becky answered.

"But honey, you are home." She said. Becky was silent for a long moment. How to delicately break someone's heart?

"Uh, I don't exactly know how to say this…" Becky began. "I'm not here to stay. I'm here to find you guys, get to know you, and my home planet, but that's all. I have another home that needs me way more than I'm needed here. This place…is the utopia every human dreams of. This place is perfect from what I've seen. But Earth…Earth is far from perfect. I have villains to stop, and a family that loves me and that I love right back, a-and this may sound crazy considering I'm too young to be figuring this stuff, but the guy I've got back home…there's just no way I could be so far away from him." Becky explained. She watched her parents' expression turn from joy to heartbreak.

"W-why would you leave…right after you came back?" Iza asked.

"What? I-I just told you, there's too many things there I care so much about." Becky responded.

"But we care about you. Ever since you left Lexicon, no one has been the same. We think about you every day, stay awake at night thinking about how miserable we are without you every night, and never feel any better. Sure, we've got everything here. Look at the two of us, we led Lexicon through revolution and came out of it ruling the planet. We're literally the highest power here, and what've we got to show for it? Misery. You may have left by accident, but you left us with misery." Iza explained.

"Oh, oh, and you think my life has been just perfect since I left, don't you?" Becky said angrily.

"It sounds an awful lot like it!" Rael shouted.

"Well, newsflash! It hasn't been!" Becky yelled. The three were silent for a moment before Becky continued.

"My whole life I've had to live with the mystery of this place! I had to live, for fifteen years, with no knowledge about where I came from, no knowledge of who you guys were, and nothing to remember you or Lexicon by. But you wanna know the worst part of it all?" Becky paused.

"The worst part was having to live in a world where nobody knew that I'm really an alien from a whole different planet, that I have no idea who my real parents are; a world where everybody thought I was perfectly happy the way I was, but in fact I wasn't. I wasn't because I never knew who I was. I knew I was Becky Bottsford, and Wordgirl. But who was I, really? I had to live with the fact that there's a good chance I'd never know anything about my past. Every day, I had to look around at all the people around me that were happy, at peace with their lives. But me? No, I couldn't be happy, because I didn't know where my true happiness was." Becky paused again.

"So whatever you went through, however miserable you thought you were, imagine that, except ten times worse. Then you've got how miserable I've been for the past fifteen years." Becky finished.

Her parents sat there, looking at Becky in shock.

"Becky, we had no idea." Iza said.

"But you don't have to suffer anymore. Anything you want to know, we'll tell you every little detail. Just tell us where to start." Rael said.

"Well, if you were to start anywhere, I'd say from the beginning. As in, what this revolution you led was." Becky said. So Rael and Iza began to tell the tale of how they got where they were today.

~…~

Tobey sat outside in his backyard, laid out in the grass. He looked up at the stars that were starting to appear in the night sky, thinking of the girl that had just dived into that deep sea-like space. It had only been mere hours since Becky left, and Tobey already missed her. He already missed her bright, sparkling eyes, and her ever hopeful smile. He missed her so much, and it hadn't even been a day since she left.

Tobey's mother came outside and watched her son laying in the yard. She knew he had had a bad day, but why, she had no clue.

Claire walked over and sat down next to her teenaged son. Tobey sat up, propping himself up with his hands behind him, and glanced over to his mother.

"So, what's on your mind this time?" She asked quietly. Tobey let out a sigh of exasperation.

"Oh, it's just Becky. As usual…" Tobey explained. "Except this time she…well, she went on this journey off somewhere far away, all by herself. Well, except her pet monkey. But I'm just worried that the trip won't go well and she won't come back, and I just miss her."

Claire smiled and rubbed her hand across her son's back comfortingly.

"Honey, I know you like her a lot, and you miss her right now. Believe me, I went through the same thing when I was your age. And it sucks, it does, missing someone who's so far away. But the one thing you should always keep in mind is that if it's truly meant to be, she'll come back." Claire said. This made Tobey think of his relationship with Becky in a whole new light. He knew he cared about her, a lot, maybe even loved her, but he had never thought of them being meant to be. And furthermore, what experience of his mothers could possibly compare to his girlfriend being on another planet?

"Why, what did you go through at my age?" Tobey asked, curious about the tangent.

"Oh, when I was around your age, and I had just started dating your dad when he went to college in another state. It was hard, being that far away, but the point is, knowing that it was meant to be was enough to get me through the toughness of the many miles between us. And I know that no matter how far away Becky is right now, she cares enough to come back home."

Tobey let out another sigh.

"I hope you're right…"

~…~

"Wow. So truth is you guys are…pretty important here, huh?" Becky said, after having listened to the long story that began with a very poor system of government on Lexicon, and told the tale of how her parents began and led the revolution to overthrow the government, and ended in them ruling all of Lexicon.

"You're like…Lexicon's superheroes." Becky said.

"Well, as true as that is, you're just as important as us. When we had you, everyone on the planet rejoiced. Because you were born at the end of the revolution, you ushered in a new era of peace and friendship among all. But when you left…it's like you took that all away from us. Going beyond that, we had plans when you were born to educate you in the ways of ruling like us, in a peaceful way. You were going to inherit the throne after we retired. But now that we know you're not staying…we don't know what to do. You held so much importance here, and you just…left." Iza explained. "It hurt everybody, not just us."

Becky was silent. Her words were like one big dagger in herself. She had no idea how to respond to something like that.

"I…I don't know what to say…" Becky said quietly.

"Don't say anything, then. Just say you'll stay." Iza said.

Becky was silent.

"I…" Becky said. "I…"

"I…don't know."

I know, I know, so much to say! 'what do you mean, I don't know! Ahhh' well, you'll see next chapter…'what took you so long to update?!' well…I forgot *blushies* :3 but anyways, review!