So, the winner of the name competition is decided. And his name will be "drumroll"

Zachariah Smith

Zachariah was suggested by one person, and Smith was suggested by all three of them who applied. So shoutout for Zachariah goes to Wolfreinmoon. And shoutout for Smith goes to Wolfreinmoon, TamJaspie and Cookie05, everyone are winners. YAY I didn't have to leave bad news anywhere to anyone- me likey! You are all the winners, you are all the best

"Sophia?" Faiz stood up and came over to me. "Sophia…. What are you doing here?" The question hit me harder than the train… what was I doing here? What was he doing here? Magdolna and Alvaro I could have understood but Faiz himself was supposed to be dead!

"I came here… I live at a care- home." I wasn't exactly sure what I was saying. "What are you doing here? You… you… Yool! You died! You must have died!" Not until now the thought hit me that we had never really received the news that he was dead. We had just taken it for granted since he was in Yool the day the bomb went off and then we had never heard from the beginning.

"I… I set something up so people would believe I had died." Faiz said, his voice sounded low, almost callous. But in his eyes I could see the pain and the guilt shining. "Then I set up so I could flew and come here to come to my children." I looked to his side to Magdolna and Alvaro. And without really knowing what I was doing I felt my head go from side to side.

"It's not possible!" I whispered and somewhat whimpered. "It's not possible. How could you? Had they found out what you were doing to help?" He nodded. "And you just disappeared? Without a word to anybody. And you… YOU LET US BELIEVE YOU WERE DEAD!" I didn't exactly know I was shouting. But with my raised voice the whole restaurant turned to stare.

"Sophia I…" Faiz stuttered. "I know there's no excuse for doing it like that but I had to. It was the only way they wouldn't come after me. And I had no time to talk to anyone… Luce knew but he couldn't tell anyone because then it would have gotten out and then the Emerino would have found out and I couldn't risk that!"

"The Em- what?" Mike had found his way over to us. "Sophia do you know this man?"

"The government's police in Gota. And yes, I knew him back in Gota." I turned back to Faiz. "Couldn't you have found a way to bring Luce so he'd be safe too. "They found out about him just a few months after you disappeared and now they're all dead." My voice was on its way to breaking on the last word.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Mike stepped in and interrupted, by now the whole restaurant were listening to our conversation. "Sophia… I think it would be better if we go somewhere where you could get a bit of privacy. Mr…"

"Please just call me Faiz. Everyone does."

"Faiz… would you mind going back to where Sophia lives now, it might not be too private but at least it will be better than here." Faiz hesitated. "Then you could get enough privacy to at least just start from the beginning and talk out." Faiz agreed to it and Mike more or less pulled us back to Tee, Harry and Shawn.

"Tee, we need to go now. You can stay here but after you've eaten go right back to the dumping ground okay. Here's money for the bus." He reached Tee a bit of money. "Come right back. Sophia, Faiz and… you two. Come with me."

I, Faiz, Magdolna and Alvaro walked after Mike through the main street. None of us said a word, not even on the ride back to the dumping ground and neither when we walked through the dumping ground and heard the others mumbling and whispering when I showed the way through the dumping ground for the three of them and then closed the door to my room behind us.

I knew that Mike was working on keeping the rest of the residents of elm tree house away from the corridor outside my rooms while me and the three of the Fletcher's had a talk. But even though there was so much, both to ask and to say- during the first few minutes inside my room it was all silent and none of us knew what to say or what to do.

"I guess I'll start from the beginning!" Faiz said at last. "And then I want you to tell me what happened. And the easiest way to do this I believe is if you first hear me out and then I will let you tell everything important that happened after I left and we'll leave the questions for later okay?" I nodded. What else was there to do at this point?

"So… I left because I found out that the Emerino were finding out about what I was doing. I couldn't let them find me and kill me so… well at this point I'm not exactly sure how I did it now afterwards. But I managed to get so I would get here, and then when I got here I searched up Magdi and Alvaro and because of them being here I got a residence permit" Faiz sighed.

"I know you think I should have brought your brother." He continued. "I thought so too but he refused. The Emerino didn't know about him yet, the risk was too big of getting caught. He didn't want to leave you, Sophie and your father behind. He came up with every single line of protesting he could and at last I couldn't wait anymore." I could see Faiz was feeling the inside of his teeth with his tongue in that way he always used to when he was distressed.

"I went to Yool, some friends helped me to set off a bomb in a street so empty it wouldn't kill anyone- but it could still seem like I had been there. Because if the government were to find out I wasn't there or anything like it seemed, then it would at least have given me time to escape into safety. And I guess that is the whole story."

I nodded, and then started telling what had happened to us. From when the Emerino had found out about Luce and he ran away just staying long enough to tell me, Sophie and dad that he was running. To when the Emerino came to ours…

"Dad must have been out riding or something." I said. "We heard a gunshot but it sounded so far away so we didn't really care for it. You heard those all the time anyway. And I've got this faint memory of when someone was carrying me out of the house- I think it was Quentin, then I saw Milo lying on the ground with bridle still on- they must have shot him too."

I continued with telling them how the Emerino officers had come into the house and shot first Sophie and then me. "I tried to catch her from running to dad but… she just ran and then they shot. And I didn't have the time. Then they wanted me to tell them where Luce was but I didn't know, and the last thing I can remember is another shot running out and it just hurt so much… not the shot… but when I woke up and was told that they weren't with me and I was here."

"So…" Alvaro began. "There is no more Sophie and Sophia." I shook my head with tears rolling down my cheeks and Faiz scolded him for saying that. "Just Sophia!" I nodded and lowered my head not to let them see my tears. It just hurt so much… I just felt… half! Like half of me had been ripped away from me when Sophie wasn't here anymore.

Faiz laid his arm around my shoulders and gently forced me to turn around and pointed towards the text on the wall. "You wrote that right?" I nodded. "And you drew what is on the walls?" I nodded again. "So… do you think that even though what I did you can still feel that the love you had for me before is enough to still not hate me. After all I am your uncle- so we'll always be related by blood even if you don't want to have no contact with me."

"I'm sorry I…" I dried the tears as good as I could. "I was just so surprised with seeing you there and there were so many feelings with finally meeting someone from home and hearing anything from Gota… Gosh… I know it's weird with everything that is going on but I kind of miss it. Not the war and constantly being unsafe of course- but I miss being where and around what I knew."

"No… that's not weird Of course it's not weird. It's everything you've ever known!" Faiz squeezed my shoulder. "And that is understandable. I'm sorry I had to let you all believe that I had been killed but… there was no other way to do it." I sunk down onto my bed and sat down.

"The last thing I heard from Luce was those things from before in Gota and the map. I know it would be hard for him to send anything along the way but I just… well I guess he's dead since long!" I sighed and fingered on my shoelaces. I hurt to say it… it hurt to even think about it. But I guess I would just have to realize it… Luce would never get here anyway!

"Don't say that Sophia." Faiz stroke my arm. "You know what they say… if you just hold on… hope is the last thing that dies and after- all. Luce have got a way with getting away." I nodded- he sure did, although to survive his way through China and Russia it would take more than just that and a bit of luck.

"What did he send more than that map then? Something that you got any use for." I felt my stomach clench in conscience when I thought back to the awful day that Shawn had almost killed himself in my snare. "What's wrong?" I shook my head and instead stood up and pulled out the dresser. I searched around and found the tape and the video tape.

"Do you have anything to listen to this with?" Faiz asked. "And watch that or does elm tree house only have newer versions of that?" I shrugged, and showed him, Magdolna and Alvaro to come after me and then walked down where I found Mike in the office and asked him about it.

The music player worked almost straight away, although the VCR was another story and Mike sat on the floor and fixed with it while I sat turned to the player and wondered if I really could do this and listen to Luce's voice for the first time in so long.

"I'm not so sure I'm ready." I almost whispered and with tears burning in my eyes I looked up and met Faiz's eyes. Then Magdi's and at last Alvaro's eyes. I gripped tightly in the fabric of my shirt just to have something to hold onto. "I- I don't know if I'm ready."

None of the others said anything, Faiz sat down by me and wrapped his fingers around mine, Magdi took my other hand in hers and then Alvaro took her other hand. And with the wordless acts I felt stronger, only by knowing that they were all there and feeling them all there and for a few seconds I let go of Magdi's hand and put the music player on.

"Hello…" Luce's low voice sounded through the living room from the player. "My name is Luce Atkins and I will be singing you raise me up by Josh Groban." The tape went silent for a moment before the sound of a piano was heard and then Luce's deep voice sounded and made shivers go through my whole body.

It wasn't just that Luce had an incredible voice- although he really had. But also the shivers came from the fact that this was the first time in so long I had heard my brother's voice. And even though it couldn't sound exactly like in reality on a tape it was close enough.

I closed my eyes and for a moment I heard nothing else than the music playing loud from the speakers. This caused that when the music ended and I looked around, I was surprised to see that the rest of the residents and adults from elm tree house stood or sat around the living room.

For a moment I wanted to turn around and tell them all to leave. The tape had finished playing and the thing that was left was the video tape to play. But I didn't. I wasn't sure I wanted them all to see what was on the tape but… there wasn't anything left to use to make them all leave so I just walked over and sat down in the sofa in the end closest to the TV.

And so a picture, one of those pictures I must have seen at least a million times showed up on the screen. A picture of a little girl sitting in a chair with a water bottle with a pacifier tip and drank from it. "Ia" read her shirt- that would mean the girl was me. Which wasn't hard to guess anyway since Sophie never sat that still.

"Oh my God Sophia." Carmen exclaimed. "You were so cute!" But I couldn't answer, I couldn't even take in what she had said or what the others were mumbling about. I only had vision and hearing for what was happening on the screen as I pulled out the pacifier from my mouth and did a sound moaning happily.

The screen went black and by the next it showed me and Sophie outside our house and by the horse's paddock. We were just patting and scratching Milo's black fur and dad stood right by and first lifted Sophie up on Milo's back and then me behind her and then held onto Milo's web lead and led us around the paddock.

"Come on Aaron" The next clip showed me, Sophie and Luce. Luce standing slightly behind me and Sophie and then Aaron trying to stand up supported against a chair's leg. "Come on then. You can do it." He slowly let go of the chair and tried to find his balance. "Come on Aaron. You can do it. You can do it."

Just before the clip ended Aaron took one step, it was insecure and he barely had any balance. But so he took another step, and then another before he fell and Luce caught him and lifted him high up over his own head we all everyone shouting happily and Luce spinning around with our little brother.

And then the screen went black. I had watched this before and maybe I should have gotten forward and turned it off, but I didn't move. And just as I did the screen blinked and another picture came up of Luce. Obviously he held the camera himself. And he was also older here than what I had ever seen him in reality- so he must have shot this somewhere in between when he left and when he sent the parcel. How he had managed and how he had dared I guess would stay a question.

"Hey… hey Sophia." He said and sighed and I could hear on his voice that even if he wasn't exactly close to crying it was hard for him to continue. "I… I'm sending you these things so… it might be a reminding that… that everything in Gota wasn't bad… it wasn't all war, bombs and fighting… I… I just wanted to send you this as well."

"Who is that?" Someone asked, but I couldn't register whose voice it was and I heard someone answer that it was my brother Luce. It must have been Faiz, but I just couldn't register and take in who it was that spoke outside the TV screen.

"I… As you might have guessed from that map I sent I am getting on the run… and I will try and get to you. I can't say yet if I'm going to succeed or not and I'm running out of time to do this so I am just going to say what is most important…. And I guess the only things that are important so first, I know you and I know that you will find some way that you can put the blame on yourself for all of this…"

"Why would you do that?" Carmen asked and someone paused the movie. "I mean… if they died because of the war… it's not your fault there's a war!" I turned my head and looked to Carmen. She might or might not have been able to see it but I was really, really grateful and touched of her words. And right now they were what I needed to hear the most.

"…And…" Someone put the tape on again. "…And I want to tell you that whatever you believe is your fault. It's not your fault, and there was nothing you could have done to stop it…. I'm running out of time… I love you Sophia… I love you so much. Bye" The screen blinked and went black again…. And so that was it.

I didn't know what else to do so I just stayed there on the floor in front of the TV. The others still sat around and I felt their glances burning in my neck. But I couldn't get myself to move or react at all to what was happening.

I heard Faiz talking to Mike, Alvaro was talking to Jody and Magdi with Carmen. But I just couldn't take in what they were saying more than that they were talking about me and my family and what happened in Gota. And how sad everything was and why did adults have to fight like that at all if so many people were hurt and killed?

I didn't know the answers to their questions, they were the same questions I had asked myself and my family and friends so many times. And I heard Faiz trying to explain that he didn't know why and how this war started in the first place. And that the only one he knew had known was Luce. And so I hung my head and silently allowed myself to cry with the tears dripping down on my legs or onto the floor.

Stan POV

"I'll take it!" I heard a knock on the door and stood up to get it. I was the one in here that knew Sophia the least and maybe all of the others were needed in here right now even if Sophia sat alone in front of the TV as that Faiz guy had told us to leave her be for a moment. "Yes?" I opened the door to someone who stood there with a bunch of red roses held up in front of his or her face.

"Hello." The boy- who I didn't recognize lowered the flowers so I could see his face and a silly grin. "How is my wonderful boyfriend today?" I froze… boyfriend I…. okay there was one simple explanation to this!

"JOE." I shouted so it would be heard into the living room. "IS THERE SOMETHING YOU FORGOT ABOUT TELLING ME?"

Oh my… Zach's so cute… we'll see more of him in the future. And so will we also see what happens to Luce and everything. I've got to go now see you next time