Well ya I made you guys wait a while again... sorry... :S

Anyway, I'll try not making you guys wait that long again because I'd like to finish this story soon and I know I could do it so... I'll be working on that!

Oh also question! What would you put as a category for this story? Because I mean fantasy is for the fairy snitzel right? And I mean this ain't fairies... but it's not really teen either... I mean sure it's teeny, sort of, but there's the whole super power crap there... so anyway, where would you class it? lol

Anyway! Enjoy this, not the longest but it a step closer to the end...

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I was woken up by the steady rhythm of footsteps and the light sound of water flowing.

When I opened my eyes all I could see was grey stalactites and rocky top, lighten by an orange light.

And when I turned my head slightly I saw Matt's face. He was holding me in his arms, carrying me through... caves? This could only be it...

"Where are we?" I whispered, as low as I could.

Dimathrias kept looking forward and not down towards me "On our way to Stonehenge"

I kept myself from snorting "Sorry to rain on your parade but I think Stonehenge is in... you know, a valley"

"The one humans see yes. The real one, the center for the Hinges is underground" he simply answered.

This was awkward, me in his arms like this. If it had been the old Matt I would have accepted it but this was someone else completely...

"Put me down please"

"No. We're gaining time by not letting you walk. We know the trail. You'd end up tripping and hurting yourself"

"I don't like being carried around, I can take care of myself" I complained, trying to make my voice convincing, trying to show a strong face.

"Jass, for one thing I know exactly what you are thinking. And I know you're tired. I don't know if you've realized by now but we're kind of in a hurry. The second Basil wakes up he'll find himself an Immortal that can teleport him; he'll be waiting at Stonehenge asking for an audience. And we have to go see the Hinges to tell them what we know and figure out what we do. Before he arrives. So no I'm not going to put you down and have you stop and trip every two seconds."

I glared at him.

What a prick! He was reading into my mind and now pretty much telling me I couldn't walk straight or take care of myself!

And right now in his arms I could actually feel him LAUGHING!

"You PRICK!" I thought as loud as I could.

When I looked at Dimathrias' face I could clearly see he was holding a laugh. This was beyond confusing, really.

"Let's stop for a minute. Garret needs to look around to see if there's still an exit way in the south channel" Baron's voice rang in front of us. "And I need to go gaseous for a second to see if there isn't any Spirit around that will stop you two because you are in your material form"

I hadn't seen the two other men in front but they were the ones caring the torches that were illuminating the dark caverns with a dancing orange glow, making scary shadows against the rock.

"Alright" Dimathrias agreed and set me down on the ground and I happily made a face at him.

"I'll be right back" Garret announced, setting his torch between two rocks, keeping it up and still flaming and then did the bursting thing again and flew away as a true Spirit.

And it was still as scary and unnerving as the first time I had seen him do this.

I looked away from where Garret had been standing and around myself instead.

We were in some kind of huge round spot in the caverns, and I now knew why I had heard water flowing when I had woken up; there was a small river coursing through it, with dark water.

"We should reach the Hinges in three hours..." Baron said, looking my way.

I nodded even though I was still worried about that perspective. What would happen then? Would they do something to me because I wasn't fully a Spirit? Would they want to do test on me or something because I was half Immortal and half Spirit? I mean, it was the kind of things that would happen in a science fiction movie... And I guess it was kind of a plausible way to think. And anyway what was I supposed to do after this? Where would I go? Even if we did kill Basil and no humans would get hurt by him again, I didn't have anywhere to go. My parents were dead... It would be painful to go back to my house and anyway no one was waiting for me there... I had no one...

"I'm going to go check if there isn't anyone around... and make sure you two won't get killed by trying to enter too..." Baron said and then did the bursting thing, right before giving me a small smile, and disappeared into one of the many holes in the rock.

Now that was definitely weird...

Everything, this whole situation was weird and scary and I hated this, I hated all of this, I hated being dragged into something that I clearly had no control over...

"Want to sob in my arms like you always do?" Dimathrias asked in a smug little voice.

I narrowed my eyes at him "Bite me!"

This always had been a come back of mine that I used many many times with him, well Matt at least, so I obviously hadn't been prepared for him to close the few steps that separated us, take my arms and literally bite me.

"Sorry I kind of always wanted to do that!" he told me laughing and I just stared at him in shock.

And then I was angry

"You? You mean Matt! Or you mean Dimathrias who was watching in the background waiting to ruin everything!?" I asked, my voice hitting a higher tone, not hiding my glaring at all.

"No I mean ME!" Dimathrias glared back.

I took a step and pushed his shoulder, furious, saying each word separately "You are not Matt!"

Dimathrias made a hissing sound "I AM Matt! Dammit Jass," he brushed his hand through his hair, his honey hair, shadows of the torch flickering on his face making it scary "when will you ever understand? I'm Matt! I'm Matt and I'm Dimathrias!"

I suddenly felt like crying. I hope it was the exhausting and mental confusing I had been feeling for the last few days and not the beginning of a bi-polar tendency "I never said both of them weren't in you, I'm just saying you're not my Matt!"

And it was true... he wasn't like my Matt anymore, my laughing, smiling, caring and joking Matt.

He sighed heavily "It's not like a split personality thing Jass... it's... it's like I wiped out your memories and then I let you have new ones. But then I gave you the old memories back. You're the same person both times. You're still the same person, you just remember things from your past you didn't."

"Than why have you changed so much?" I asked, almost desperately.

I wanted my old Matt so bad. I needed him. The one I had kissed and was obviously in love with!

"Because that's the way I was with my other personality!"

"But why can't you just be my Matt!" this time the tears came. I didn't want to cry but I couldn't help it.

Everything was just... too much lately...

But he, Dimathrias, Matt, whoever, just looked at me, taking a few settling breaths and then he turned his back to me and walked to the little river, bending to go drink from it.

"You won't ever be the same anymore will you?" I whispered to him, choking my sobs.

He was still bending, washing his hands in the river now, but stopped his movement for a second, breathed deeply and then turned his eyes and looked at me.

"No I won't..." he simply answered and turned back to the river.

His answer broke me into a hysterical rant "How can you? How can you just speak like me this way, how can you just act this way? It's so easy isn't it, just turn your back on me Matt, go ahead. Abandon me the way I never did!"

I had walked up to him, and pushed on his back, trying to make him fall in the river or something, glaring and furious.

I hated him for taking himself away from me.

But he didn't fall. He got back up on his feet instantly and turned around and it was his time to be mad now, his voice low and threatening "Listen and listen good Jasmine. The rational part in me, the one who was train to control all feelings, to stay cold and composed has to be the one making decisions right now because if I, me, the person I became by inhabiting a human body was leading, if I acted the way I usually would, I would freak the HELL out Jass! What do you think? That because there's a part of me that is used to that crazy shit that I'm OKAY with all of this? That I'm not completely freaking out like there's this monster inside me, like there's this part of me I never knew was there but was still always there... Do you think it's EASY for me right now?"

My eyes were filled with tears and I raised my hand towards him "Matt... I'm so-" I started to say but he pushed my hand away.

"I'm going for a walk. You seem to be so sure you can take care of yourself... you won't mind waiting for everyone here alone then?" he said, and stormed away, breaking into a sprint.

And I broke into sobs.

Baron was the first to come back and found me curled up between two rocks on the ground still crying.

"Hey, what's wrong? Where's Dima?" he asked in a small voice, but a worried one, crouching in front of me.

He was in his material form and it was much easier for me to look at him and not remember the two other Spirits that had been caged with him back in Atlantis and that had been shrieking and banging their heads on the glass...

I tried to answer him, to say something but the works stuck in my throat and all that got out was a sob.

That was the way to show I could take care of myself...

"You two fought?" Baron asked, sitting beside me on the ground.

I simply nodded.

Baron started to speak, almost rambling incoherently "I'm sorry... he's your Matt right? The one you really like... You don't have to answer that... I'm sorry. For ruining everything for you. It's my fault. I'm so sorry... I should have accepted I wasn't... I'm sorry"

He was right, it was his fault. If he hadn't over reacted he wouldn't have made me call for help and Basil wouldn't have known about me. But I wasn't thinking about this, only freaking about the Matt thing because Matt had always been there for me. Baron, in my dreams, had always been an unsettling character. Of course I had enjoyed his company but I never had really expected anything from him while I expected so much from Matt. He was almost like my knight in shinning armour, saving me from the bad and the evil. And now he wasn't doing that and I was freaking out.

I rubbed my hand under my eyes and then noise trying to stop the crying, trying to say the words I wanted to say "What's happening with him? Will he really always be this way?"

Baron sighed and looked up "Dimathrias... well you see he was always the best fighter because he was trained that way, train to do what had to be done without looking back. No compassion just rationality. Your father got his humanity working, made him feel. But he was still this cold person most of the time. But you know, by putting yourself into a fix form, you are getting closer to your human side. And closer to human feelings. And irrationality. He's in a human body. He's been in a human body for years. It's hard for him. He can't help being on the defence and fighting mode. He can't help shutting down those feelings because he's been having them for too long."

"But he won't ever become the same again" I managed to whispered the sobs fighting to come back

Baron sighed again, brushing his fingers throw his hair. It was so weird. I was use to see him perfectly neat in my dreams, with perfect classy clothes, not a hair set at the wrong place... but right now he couldn't be more... human?

"I don't know... I'd like to say yes but putting himself into a human body like that... and then emerging back... it's never been done before... and he's been feeling too much. Right now he needs to find balance..."

"But will... will..." I couldn't ask, couldn't speak.

Will we ever be okay again?

"Don't worry when this is all over I'm sure you and Matt will work things out. You have to give him time. It's new for him too." Baron said.

He had probably heard my thoughts or figured out what I wanted. And what I wanted was my Matt back, someone to be with when this would end, someone to care for me...

"But that's just the thing, what do we do when this is all over." I asked.

Because yes even if we worked things out... could we go back to my house? Could I live there now? I didn't even know how much damaged it had taken... Could I just go back to school and live a normal life?

"I'm sure Dima, well Matt will figure out something. We were all really farsighted when it comes to things like things. I know Dima probably has a bank account big enough to make him live in every big countries. You two will be fine," Baron assured me.

I swallow the tears and asked in a small voice "But what if he doesn't want me around?"

Baron smiled, a sad smile at me, "Again, don't worry. You like him, he likes you, everything will find a way to work out."

I frowned at that answer "Why are you saying this?"

Why was he saying this? Why was he acting this way actually? I was used to cocky Baron, the one who let you know he knew more than you and was better than you. The Baron who was confident and didn't really care about anything. Why was he acting... acting like Matt right now?

"Look... I made a mistake... a big one; I'm trying to redeem myself. I know he's the one you like and I know you'll never..." he shook his head "It doesn't matter. I screw up your life; the least I can do is try to help you fix the broken pieces. I've known Dima for centuries. And he's not the same anymore; I can not only see it but feel it. You just have to give him time Jasmine. He loves you just as much as you love him."

I stared at Baron in disbelief, repeating the words he had just said.

He loves you just as much as you love him...

Should I believe him? Should I believe that things would work out in the end with Matt? That I could see him as Matt again? Maybe that was the problem though. I wasn't seeing him as Matt and that obviously hurt him. I was hurting him the way he was hurting me...

I didn't get to answer or continue our conversation though because Garret suddenly reappeared I front of us.

"South entrance is functional. But if we do use it we need to be in material form because we need to put our blood on the portal as the key" he explained, picking up the torch from where he had left it.

Baron got on his feet and I did too, trying to hide the most probably red puffy eyes "Will Jasmine's blood work if she tries to open it?"

Garret shrugged "We'll see if we have to escape that way"

"Ready to go?" Matt voice suddenly rang on the other side of the cavern.

He was looking between me and Baron, frowning.

What was he thinking now?

Could we really work things out?

Only way to know was to take care of that Basil problem.

"Yes. Let's get this over with" I said and started to walk.