Tori's POV

I heard the faint pitter patter of footsteps quickly approaching my bedroom. It was early, the bright morning sun shining directly in my eyes forcing me to stir awake. I wasn't fond of mornings, something about the mornings brought memories of my past back, something about the mornings forced the monsters from the dark to resurface.

"Tori" I heard her whisper quietly into my ear carefully adjusting her chin which was resting comfortably on my shoulder "It's your turn to get the door"

"I got it yesterday" I whined refusing to open my eyes not wanting to accept that it was in fact time for our daily wakeup call "It's your turn" I argued linking my fingers with hers

"Can you please?" She begged planting a soft kiss on my neck "I'll owe you big time" She giggled seductively no doubtabley raising her eyebrow as she often did when she spoke of less than appropriate things

"You owe me" I grinned swinging my legs out of bed slowly stumbling towards the door mentally preparing myself for the attack that was about to happen "Morning!" I greeted happily dropping onto my knees allowing the toddler to throw herself into my arms

"Momma" She gurgled tugging lovingly on my hair

"Ouch, Erica that hurts baby" I laughed unwrapping my hair from her fingers "Let's go wake up mom okay?" I suggested carrying her towards the bed where the blonde cowered underneath the blankets doing her best to hide herself from Erica and I "Say good morning mom" I smiled crawling next to her placing Erica onto her lap

"Morming" She mumbled as she clapped her hands together watching the blonde uncover her head giving the youngster a small smile

"Hi baby girl"

"Mommy!" Another voice screamed quickly darting into the bedroom throwing himself onto the already crowded bed "Erica spit all over Krypton" He complained waving the teddy bear in my face sprinkling my face with the toddlers drool

"I see that, and I feel that to" I laughed wiping my face clear of the spit "It's not a problem Grant I'll wash Krypton today and he'll be as good as knew before you have to go to sleep tonight"

"Promise?" He said sticking out his pinky finger

"Promise" I repeated linking our pinkies together "Now let's have some breakfast shall we?" I suggested feeling as Grant climbed onto my back demanding that I give him a piggy back ride "Miranda will you be joining us?" I asked seeing that see was still in bed, Erica now desperately trying to force her out of bed

"Urgggg" She groaned taking Erica in her arms as she rolled out of bed "I guess so, what do you think Erica do you want breakfast?"

"Yum" She giggled once again clapping her hands together

I'm not the best cook, anyone knew that in fact the only thing I knew how to cook was cereal and even that I seemed to always screw up. That's one of the many things I loved about Miranda, she seemed to know how to cook anything and everything something she no doubtabley learned from her father who proved to be an excellent cook. "What do you guys want?" Miranda asked placing her Kiss The Cook apron over her head

"Pancakes" Grant said copying Miranda's previous actions placing his own Cook In Training apron on "Pancakes and bacon"

"Sounds like a plan" Miranda agreed quickly already having taken the pancake mix and frozen bacon out of the fridge "Tori" She said pulling me from my daydreaming "Tor" She repeated tossing a handful of flour in my direction

"You didn't!" I said shaking my head in attempts to rid my hair of the flour "Your gonna pay for that" I warned racing up behind the blonde haired beauty quickly cracking two eggs over her head "Come on Erica get Mom!" I laughed picking Erica up allowing her to squash another egg onto Miranda's head

"Grant" Miranda said sliding the bag of flour to the five year old "Get her!"

Within seconds all four of us were covered head to toe in flour and dripping with yok the small bits of shells stuck in our hair. We weren't normally like this, but Miranda knew, she knew how hard today was going to be for me, she knew how much today was going to hurt me, so she tried. She tried to make it the best day she could, she tried to make me forget, she tried her best to make me happy. Little did she know no amount of family bonding would make me forget about the torturous day that was about to unfold.

"Are you leaving?" Miranda asked wrapping her arms around my waist leaning her chin on my shoulder her wet hair dripping water onto my new set of clean clothes

"Yea" I responded quickly shutting my eyes inhaling the sweet scent of Miranda's strawberry shampoo "I'll see you later?"

"Of course" She grinned spinning me in her arms pulling me into a tight hug fidgeting nervously with the towel that was tied around her body "Call me if you need me okay?"

"Will do" I said pressing my lips firmly against her running my fingers along the top of her towel swiftly removing it from her body as I scrambled from the bedroom "Love ya" I shouted as she disappeared into her closet in search of a fresh pair of clothes

It was going to be hard. It always was, standing there looking down on her, wishing and praying that she was next to me, begging her to come back, cursing her for leaving me. It was going to be hard.

"Hi Noah" I greeted doing my best to keep my tears in my eyes as he embraced me in his arms. It had been almost a year since I had seen him, and trust me that was long enough. Things had been tense between the two of us ever since the Emma situation, it wasn't my fault, I mean I guess it sort of was my fault but hey the past is the past.

"Hey Toyota" He teased tickling me violently in the side. Even years later he insisted on calling me by my childhood nickname and tickle me until I cried

"Uncle" I said breathless finally having enough of his antics "Are you ready?" I asked after regaining my breath straitening my dress returning it to its previous appearance before Noah had messed it up

"As ready as I can be" It was a short walk to our final destination, although it felt like an eternity the silence practically killing me. It looked different from last year, the grass had died the flowers were gone, it was almost as if no one had been here in a year, well that was true, for me at least. I could barely spend a few hours here let alone more than one day, it was too much. It took to much energy being here, it caused too much pain to stand there with tears falling down my face, it was too much to be alive while see was dead. "Hey Jessie" Noah said wiping the tears from his eyes as he dropped onto his knees leaning the flowers onto his sister's grave

"Happy Birthday babe" I said faking a smile my heart threatening to stop beating right then and there as I read the inscription which over the years became stuck in my mind 'Jessica Khan beloved sister, daughter and mother.' It was still hard to believe that she was gone, it was still hard to think of not seeing her smug grin every day, it was hard to imagine never hearing her infectious laugh whenever anything remotely funny was said, it was hard to believe that she wasn't in my life anymore.

I jumped from my sleep my body flying off of Miranda's bed slamming violently onto the ground knocking my head painfully into the side table a fresh cut appearing near my eye. "Damn it" I whined holding my head in pain

"Are you okay?" Miranda yawned my noisy fall waking her up from her peaceful sleep

"I'm fine" I lied wiping the blood off of my forehead with the palm of my hand "But we have a problem"

"If it's about you and Noah I already said I forgive you, I thought we moved past that"

"It's not about Noah, it's about Jess we NEED to get Jamie back!"

Question (answer in reviews): How did you like the flash forward? Can Tori and Miranda really help get Jamie back?