The room was silent and the only sound could be heard was the water dripping from the pipe.

"It seemed that both of you released tension that you holding onto a long time" the man finally spoke.

"I-I miss him so much...when I looked back I realized how childish our fighting was...and then later regretting what we said...we were both stubborn...I wish more than anything to have him...back" she said as her voice broke.

She looked down her bracket the brought her head back up closed her eyes making years fall down her face.

"I miss Blue Eyes, Cornelia, Spear, Simon, Zack, Malcolm and Caroline too.," she said hoarsely as she opened her eyes to stare at the man she then closed her eyes tightly and brought her head to her legs to sob.

The man already knew what happened to Malcolm, Blue Eyes, and Cornelia but the others he little information about.

"Do you want to take a break Iris?..." the man asked her softly.

She brought herself to sit straight up while shaking her head in response.

"No...no I'm fine," she said as she wiped her face with hand then running her hand through her hair removing the hair that was sticking to her tear-stained face.

"So you and Caesar eventually did reunite with Coraline, your stepmother?" he asked.

She nodded.

"How did she die Iris?..." he asked carefully.

She took a deep breath and leaned forward to rest her chin on her hands and closed her eyes tightly.

"She was sick...she had cancer..." she said depressingly.

Ape Village, 3 years ago

Iris sat against that rock what seemed like forever, she began to notice the apes were lighting torches because the sun was almost finished setting, she could feel the air becoming colder and she brought her legs up to chest to shield her from it,she brought her head against the rock and let her mind began to trail off.

Flashback 10 years ago

Iris, her dad, and Caroline arrived at the shelter finally able to act on the promise to bring Caesar home due to her dad bribing the shelter owner.

Iris was filled with joy to able bring her brother home from this horrible place and she could tell so was her dad and Coraline were as well since her grandpa died 2 days ago which was affecting them all deeply, Iris noticed change in her father after they took Caesar away and even more now that her grandpa was gone, she been trying to help him cope even though she was trying to cope as well while Coraline was trying to help them both cope being strong for both of them. Iris really admired her dad's girlfriend, Caesar and Iris never knew their mothers so Caroline was the only mother they ever knew, she didn't know how she did it after everything that has happened.

She stood at the far end of where they kept the apes while her dad tried to convince Caesar to come out of the cage. It looked like it was working too when they saw Caesar walking closer to the door making her dad smile but then dropped when they all saw Caesar close the door on himself locking himself in.

"Caesar..." Will whispered sadly.

Iris looked at Caesar and her broken-hearted father as she felt her own heartbreak, she could feel tears that were threatening fall any second.

"I guess he rather be with his own kind," the shelter owner Landon said to her father.

Iris then felt a leathery hand stroke her arm catching her off guard a little she turned to look to see it was a female ape in the cage that she standing next to her, she looked at the name tag on top of the cage which read Cornelia. Iris guessed she could sense her distress and be trying to comfort her, she then began to notice that her dad and Caroline beginning to leave slowly.

Iris could no longer keep the mixture of emotions that have been plaguing her, marched over to her brother's cage and gripped it only to see Caesar's back facing her.

"So what! You're throwing us away now! Are you trying to get back at us because you think we left you here!" she raised her voice in frustration causing everyone to turn around to look at her, the apes started to hoot in distress.

"We tried...Caesar we tried...we never wanted to them to take you away...how could you do this after what's happened to grandpa..." she as her voice broke and tears falling down her cheeks.

Caesar flinched at the mention of their grandfather she could feel he wanted to know what she meant by it, she brought her head to rest against the cage door and closed her eyes.

"Grandpa's dead Ceasar...he died two days ago..." she said as she sobbed softly.

She opened her eyes again to see that Caesar still hadn't turned around but she sees him grip his hand tightly, the apes became quiet at the tension in the room.

"Dad's been falling apart...Caroline and I been trying to help him but I'm about to fall apart too...I always had to be responsible and help take care of Grandpa and you...to be strong...but in the end I'm just a kid Caesar there's only so much I can do...I'm sorry that we failed you...I'm truly" she said softly as she turned and walked away from the cage not bothering to look back, her dad looked at her with shock and sadness, never realising how much his daughter was holding in until now.

"Iris...sweetheart-

"Can we just go home...Please..." she cut him off depressingly.

Caroline looked at her with comforting but sad eyes as she ran a hand through the 13-year-old's hair and then put her hand on her shoulder and then led her out the door with her dad trailing behind them.

End of Flashback

She opens her eyes and noticed the moon and stars where becoming more visable, she just stared at them in a daze they had little effect on her right now, she didn't even react as she turned her head that was still leaned against the rock to look at the torch that was getting closer to her even when she saw it was Luca who looked at her sternly, probably because he had been looking her for hours but his expression quickly turned to concern when he saw her red eyes and the hollow expression on her face and before he could say anything to her she got up and walked right past him to the direction of his hut on auto pilot.

Hey guys sorry I took so long I started school again so life has been active along with hw so isn't that fun lol XD anyways I hoped you enjoyed the chapter.