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what you want?” she says pseudo-sweetly.
    “No,” he says shortly. “Not to you.”
    Her CK takes her by the arm now. “Take us back, Liv,” he
says quietly. “We don’t belong here.”
    “Fine,” she huffs. “But don’t think you have seen the last
of me. My world has become boring, I quite fancy taking a crack at yours.”
    “Step foot here again and I will take you down myself,” I
tell her and her eyes glint.
    “I look forward to seeing you try,” she says and thankfully
she blinks out of existence, taking a very sad-looking CK with her.
    I flop down onto the sofa and everyone comes to sit with me,
next to me, at my feet. “Don’t ever leave again,” Cole says, clinging on to me.
“I thought I had lost you.”
    “Same here,” I mutter.
    “So where exactly did you go?” Devon asks. “In the first
instance.”
    “We already told you,” I say.
    “No, you must have explained it to the other us.”
    “Oh.” I am beyond weary now. “Xane, I need you,” I say
instead. “I need your energy.”
    “Of course,” he says, smug to be asked, and takes my hand in
his. I just sit there, as I don’t even have the energy to pull on his energy.
    “Liv?” he says.
    “Hm, what?” I ask.
    “Get her some blood,” CK snaps. “She doesn’t even have the
energy to feed that way. It’s ridiculous.”
    “I’ll get it,” Jess says. “My first duty as your assistant.”
    “Thank you,” CK says shortly, avoiding her gaze. I find the
energy in me somewhere to chuckle at him.
    “I don’t think she is yours anymore, my love.”
    “Yours?” Sebastian says in horror. “She was yours?”
    “Seems so,” he says, thoroughly embarrassed. “You may let go
of her hand now,” he says to Xane who just shrugs but doesn’t let go.
    “As soon as she has enough energy, she can feed from me.”
    “I guess time travel uses up all your reserves,” Cole says.
“Tell us where you went.”
    CK fills them in as best he that he can, while I drink the
blood that Jess hands me rather ironically. Once fed, I feel a little better
and try to add what I can to the story. “Somehow, when CK and I were arguing
and I wished to be back in the past, the Power took me literally. I am still
struggling to understand how it is possible, but it just worked the same way as
Astralling. I thought it and it happened. Took me a few goes to get it right
but then, the same can be said for anything I suppose. Practice makes perfect
and all that. But past and future aside the fact that a whole other world
exists parallel to here, is even more disconcerting.”
    “You can say that again,” Lincoln mutters and everyone
agrees.
    “But how come everyone ended up switching places?” Devon
asks a damn good question.
    “It didn’t happen every time. When we went back to the past
we saw ourselves there,” CK says.
    “I can only imagine that we aren’t supposed to be occupying
each other’s spaces. Although why Past us remained in their time is a mystery.”
I add.
    “Perhaps because when you thought about going to the past it
was for a specific purpose to change it,” Xane says. “When you tried to get
back you were literally bouncing around with no sense of where you were going
and as you were the one doing the time travelling, you ended up pushing the
other’s out of their own existences. Once you all realized that the other’s
existed, and in fact that time travel was an actuality, it made it possible for
you to be in the same spaces.”
    We all stare at him. Where did he pull that from? He shrugs
and says, “It’s just a theory.”
    Well, can’t say as I have a better one and by the looks of
everyone else, neither do they.
    He holds his hand out to me and I take it and we disappear
into the bedroom for a bigger feeding session. I pull on his energy, taking
enough to make myself feel stronger again.
    “I love that you take it from me. So I can make you
stronger.” He dips his head and kisses me and says, “I can