This world of ash and shadow was one she could get accustomed to if it meant she could keep Shawn with her. Truth was that she didn't really know him as well as she did that summer and her desperate bit to keep him good was failed. Looking at him now as a bad boy clad in a leather jacket like the black knights armor. All the years apart and he had held her heart along with him. Now that it was back and in his silence she could feel every twinge and jerk of pain. All she wanted was to spend a soft moment catching up on seriously overdue business.

"Please we can.." And her mind was over whelmed by the sound of the circus in the background. The pale yellow glow hit her eyes and she covered her ears for a moment because it was so loud. Being in utter silence was something that she wasn't so accustomed to. When she uncovered her ears she looked at Shawn with pleading eyes begging him to stop. To run away and use her plan to help them vanish into the night quickly and quietly. All she got in return was an order for her to leave the circus and the coldness of his voice.

She was between him and the circus and her options were running out. For a moment she highly considered erasing his memory again. Levitating the stubborn man out to the roadside to wake up confused and head home. Seems she would have the chance as he pushed past her and his hand moving her forcefully to the side. Its not like her light and small framed self could stop him and she was to afraid of her power to use force. Watching him go into the circus grounds she moved in another direction.

Back towards her tent she ran as quickly as her vintage heels would carry her. Inside the door she pulled a drawer out from under the bed and picked up and ivory box. It held pictures and little mementos from her summer with him. Including dried and preserved flowers he had picked her the first day she met him. Most importantly at the bottom there was some worn red fabric that seemed to be frozen in time. Pulling it from the she tucked it into the folds of her skirt and with good timing.

Hearing someone appear behind her she grabbed her mirror and swung it. The silver framed item shattered and cut the face of blink. One of her fathers most loyal minions and one that wasn't brainwashed by andi. This one was there before her and would probably die for Gavin. Aurora tried to run but a big hand wrapped roughly around her arm and in the blink of and eye she was there with Gavin and Shawn. Hearing her father speak caused her heart to sink a bit and she pulled her arm away when she was released. This was the last thing she was wanting to happen and all those years of suffering was for nothing.

The matters got worse when blink vanished again and came back with shawns mother. At this point and time she stood there watching both the man she had considered a father and the man she had always loved in a stand off. "Daddy please just let her go,.. This isn't the way things have to go." Andi spoke softly trying to reason with her father but her mind was working another angle. With Gavin being distracted by Shawn the tremendous hand of 'crusher wrapped around Gavin's throat. His eyes were blank in expression since he was basically just a puppet doing andis bidding. "Let the woman go daddy." The being spoke as it held its firm grip on Gavin.

"Shawn walk away from this please. This isn't the way, Dont let your mother see you become a monster." Andi spoke into shawns mind as she started to use more of her power. This was dangerous for her because loosing concentration would free the darkness inside but she didn't know what else to do. Her powers could've ended this before it had a chance to begin but she was to afraid to use them.

This was a night that she certainly never expected to come to pass after she sent Shawn away. For years she had relived the memories of that summer spent just having fun as kids. It was the only time she had something resembling a normal childhood. Nights spent riding the rides and she remembered Shawn spending all his money to win prizes for her. The games were rigged but he had been determined to win her that plush pink bear that she adored. All the prizes and everything she had to remember that summer was in a ivory box on her bedside stand.

Things had changed but she had never forgotten what she had given up. Her gaze was moving over Shawn and it had fallen to radio silence between the two of them. She could hear his thoughts moving rapidly and it was almost more deafening than the silence between them. There were so many things that she herself wanted to know about his life. Had it been decently fulfilling and did he find some family of his own? Sure she could have all the answers but his was the one mind she never tried to meddle in. When he finally turned back to her she had fished something out of the pocket of the floral fabric.

As he started to approach she could sense the memory on his mind and a tear went down her cheek. She could see the memory playing in her head clear as day and she knew he saw it. now she wasn't in this new world with a stranger but instead with someone she had cared so much about. Enough to sacrifice her happiness to keep him safe and her eyes closed to remember the scene of the lightning bugs. Such a mystifying sight on that summer night and the perfect setting for their first kiss. when she did open her eyes it was feeling warn rough hands on her soft ivory skinned cheek.

Her breathing hitched a bit as she inched closer and took one of his hand sin her own. In his hand was an old worn down strip of photos from a booth. It was the same night they shared their kiss and the last night she had spent with him. Her heart skipped as her gaze met his again and he spoke that he actually saw her. "I've missed you Shawn for so many years." The tears rolling down her cheek lifted into the air and turned into firefly's twinkling in the dark sky. Leaning up on the tip toes of her healed feet she let her lips press to his again. This time her hands slid under the jacket he wore sliding up his chest onto his shoulders.

Rolling the jacket off them as she kissed him with the longing that she had felt over the years. The thud of her heart was heavy in her chest and her fingers gripped his shirt. When he pushed closer she back up until she leaned against the tree and broke the kiss. Breathing heavily andi looked up at him as her eyes caught the twinkle of the moon. All her emotions were starting to bubble um and cause her to grow more nervous by the moment. The was the literal man of her dreams and she wasn't exactly experienced when it came to these things. "You've grown so much in the years. All your baby fat is gone." She spoke into his mind and her fingers gently ran over her thin a chiseled cheek.

Her ability was sometimes the most distracting thing in the world and when her emotions got ahead of her it was harder to control. She could hear the thoughts of the circus crew and even Gavin searching the grounds looking for the new captive. They were getting closer but the man was stalling which made her anxious. She was prepared to use her power to flick him right out of the grounds. To him none of her crazy rants made sense but to her she knew she had to make him leave. She remembered him and his mom coming years ago and it had been hard to get his freedom.

Her father had been so angry when he found out but at least her got to keep the mother as a prize. She heard him speak under his breath and then finally ask her to come with him. Andis gaze met his and she stood there in a dead halt not sure what she wanted to do.All her attempts to leave the circus had been a disaster and she didn't trust humans but after what she had seen in her visions. Part of her wanted to just take a chance to go with him and face the consequences. Gavin would never let them have peace so they would have to run forever to try and stay away.

Before she even had a chance to answer he had pushed her back into the door. For a moment it felt as if her heart was going to bust out of her chest as their lips met again. This wasn't a spark it would a full raging fire setting off a building of fireworks. Never before did she understand how women could go weak in the knees over a silly kiss until now. Her fingers cover in satin elbow length purple gloves gripped his jacket. It was as he was the one thing grounding her to this planet. Andi didn't pay much attention to the trailer shaking and the world changing around them.

When she pulled away they were no longer in her home at the circus. Instead they stood in a grey and white field. She looked around and could see the white twinkle of lights in the dark city backdrop. Her mouth opened to speak but nothing came out and now that she listened she realized nothing was able to be heard. She watched the tears that had been on her cheeks lift and float away in a twinkling awe. It flew away to a bright and pale moon that she stopped to stare at. "What is this place?" she asked him not with a physical voice but instead it would sound in his mind.

The sunken place may have silenced her body but the power mutation in her mind were combating it. Slowly she started to walk down a path that appeared before her and it led her to a running stream. The water bustled and the droplets that splashed moved to float over her like a twinkling night sky. The moons ray kissing the drops to make them glimmer in her amazed eyes. Standing under a old weeping willow Tree she watched the water run and litter fish jump through the current. "Its so beautiful here. Did you make create this?" Andi's voice softly asked Shawn and her body turned to face him.

This place just seemed like such a perfect get away but she wasnt sure if this was enough to hide them from gavin. Surely they couldn't stay here forever but for now she just wanted to know more. There was a pull that was dragging her towards this man even if she was being stubborn about it.

She was afraid of what she had seen for so many reasons. The fact was her past had left her with many deep scars and those scars was were something dark liked to fester. Like maggots writhing around in a week old carcass on the roadways. She was humming a tune as she combed her hair with a silver brush that she had been gifted to her many years ago by Gavin. "Because two can keep a secret if one of them is dead." She finished the tune in a song as she slowly when through her dark hair. In her mind she was replaying the visions of what she seen. It was so much to sort out but it cause her to fear it even more. Andi did not want a family nor did she want to get to know some man.

They last few times she had tried to reach out to another soul for friendship. Any sort of connection they had some tragic accident befall them. Blacked out memories that she knew led to what happened to those poor men. Andi was in her own mind and didn't hear the naming on the door. The yelling outside was just a mumble in her subconscious. It wasn't til he entered that she came back out of her mind and turned. Items in her trailer had been levitating and they all slammed back down into their spots. He was asking if she was alright and her eyes avoided his gaze. Turning back to her vanity she set the brush down and looked into the mirror. Her heart was racing she took a deep breath but the trailer started to shake. "You have to get out..." 

She warned but it was to late and black swam over and changed her eyes. Nothing left in them but a black abyss and the body of the woman turned. "Awe..too late..poor little Andi always so weak, running from her fears." The voice from the woman had a slight deepness to it as she looked at Shawn. "Well well well seems to me that it's kinda of cruel to chase you away. Really to take away the chance of such happiness and that little girl was cuter than can be."  The black eyed woman spoke as she moved towards Shawn. "Have a seat take a load off." With a flick of her wrist she sent Shawn backwards into a chair. Climbing into his lap the small frame of the woman would straddle him. 

"You know you two love birds looked really happy into those memories. A little girl and house with a white picket fence? To bad Andi will never let you have the chance...." it spoke before falling back off his lap and hitting the floor. The body twitched a bit and Andi regained control of her consciousness. Looking up at  Shawn who had to be fifty shades of confused by now she just made it to her feet and backed away. "I...i...um...you should leave this place.. The circus and everything here is not what it seems. Please go.."