Character development and happy times for my little group of Killjoys! I'm debating starting another story, totally not MCR related at all. But would you guys be okay (and maybe even review) if I wrote a Peter Pan story? It would only be a few chapters long.

Okay. Leave me a review or PM me with your opinions, please.

ALL MY LOVE, MOTORBABIES.

-Truthful Blasphemy

Hurry yawned and took another sip of her drink. She wasn't really sure what was in it, but she was enjoying the long-forgotten sweet and sugary taste of fruit punch. "So what do you think we should do about the Dracs?" Truth asked. Hurry looked over to her friend, who was lounging back against the wall next to her, sipping her own lemonade.

"I don't know, they're everywhere," Hurry sighed. They drank in silence for a few moments before Truth stood up and stretched. Everyone was lethargic in the intense heat of the day. Dr. Death Defying had asked everyone to stay inside and stay cool in the heat wave that was ripping through the California desert.

"I want to gather a few more of them and see if my therapy works," Truth stated. "I mean, what if Lee was just an anomaly?"

"What's an anomaly?" Hurry asked, raising her eyebrow comically.

"One in a million," Truth clarified. Hurricane Bunny nodded and shook her hair from her damp forehead. Their clothes were sticking to them uncomfortably in the heat and everyone was miserably sitting somewhere in the hideout not touching anything but the cool wood of the walls that were quickly heating up. "It's so hot."

"Yeah, that's usually how heat waves work," Hurry remarked sarcastically. Truth rolled her eyes at her friend and motioned for her to get up.

"Why would I want to move?" Hurry asked, almost incredulous.

"Do you remember the old water processing plant out by Highway 57?" Truth asked. Hurry's eyes lit up and she nodded. The Zone T3 Killjoys had often spent their heat waves hidden away in an oasis, a broken down and abandoned water plant. The water underground was mostly there, ignored or considered contaminated by BLI's standards. The bleaching pool, which had been empty for many years, was perfect to fill with cool water and swim in for hours till it was cool enough to go home and sleep. Sometimes they would spend the night at the old plant to save gas and time returning to the hideout.

"Guys!" Truth called, bursting into the hallway, "I have an idea!"

Two hours later they were all jumping into a pool of relatively cool water and sighing happily when they came back up for air. "Truth, you are a miracle," Kobra Kid smiled.

"Well I have to be good for something," Truth laughed, splashing Lee. Lee splashed back, but hit Hurry, who splashed Ghoul, who hit Party with water...until everyone was splashing everyone else.

"I haven't had this much fun in who knows how long!" Lee cried, dunking his girlfriend underwater and nearly crying with laughter at the look she gave him when she came back up. Suddenly he stopped moving and stared off into the distance, his mind occupied by a memory surfacing.

He stood with a group of friends, laughing and splashing each other in a water park. The laughter and shrieks of small children and their parents and teenagers going down slides echoed in the distance. The constant rush of water pounded in his ears and he wrapped his arms around the waist of a familiar blond girl. The purple streaks weren't in her hair and she looked healthier, less stressed as she smiled and giggled, nuzzling into the skin near his shoulder. He kissed the top of her head and smiled when she threw water in his face. "I love you, Princess," he said. She looked up at him, her face going from happy to worried.

"Lee!" she said, suddenly concerned.

"What is it, baby?" he asked.

"Lee!" Truthful said again, smacking his arm. He snapped back to reality and looked down at her worried face, bringing his shaking hand to her cheek.

"Oh god, I knew you," he said. "Before the fires, I knew you."

"What do you mean you knew me? Before the Helium Wars I thought I was alone," Truth replied, backing up slightly. The water around her waist made a quiet whooshing noise and stirred. Everyone else had swum to the other end of the pool. Ghoul was throwing Hurry off of his shoulders into the water and laughing when she swam back demanding he do it again. Party, Kobra, and Jet were leaning against the edge of the pool enjoying the feeling of cool water against warm skin. Show Pony was doing what resembled water gymnastics and being harassed by the others.

Truth and Lee stared at each other. "You mean..."

"You were so familiar...but I didn't think..." Truth stuttered.

"I can't believe how much you've changed," Lee said, quickly wrapping his arms around her.

"I thought you had died! When I heard that the college had been bombed..." Truth cried into his shoulder, clinging to him violently.

"Never let go, huh?" he joked. Truth kissed him rather suddenly and violently.

"Never."

They stayed there that night, making a fire in the small in-building pit dug there by the Zone T3 Killjoys a year or so prior.

"And so every year, the ghost of Donny returns to haunt the woman who so cruelly murdered him as a child..." Jet trailed off, shaking his vast fro for emphasis. The girls cringed into the boys and everyone shuddered at the ghost story. It felt like summer back home, before the wars, before the Killjoys. It felt like something was right in the world that hadn't been for such a long time.

And when they curled up in an assortment of blankets together and snored on top of each other till the break of day, when they went swimming again...they knew that so long as they were a family they would be alright.