She smiled and said, “Coming right up.”

He was left sitting in the booth, trying not to think of what happened the last time he was in there. His head began to hurt, and he closed his eyes and began rubbing his temples. Suddenly he got the strange feeling he was being watched. He hadn’t had the feeling in a long time, and he wanted desperately for it to go away. He looked up, and seen no one in front of him, then turned around, glanced quickly at the person two booths away.

He was taken aback by who he thought he saw. He thought a moment, but passed it off as resemblance. But the feeling of being watched hadn’t went away.

“Is this seat taken?” asked a voice he hadn’t heard in what seemed like years, but still made his heart race. He was afraid to look up, afraid the image that it created would disappear. “I’ll take that as a yes,” she said, and sat down in front of him. He had almost forgotten how much he missed that face.

“Grace,” he exhaled in a breathy sigh.

“Mr. White didn’t want to lie to you, but I made him. I wanted to surprise you.” she said, smiling.

“Well, you did.” he said. “I was beginning to think you were dead.”

“No, superman, I’m alive.” she said, joking.

“What happened. No one would tell me anything.” he was upset now, trying to keep his cool.

“I had some issues I needed to take care of. I made a huge mistake that cost the life of one of three people who treated me like I was human. I wanted to die for it.”

“Yeah, but where did you go, what did you do?”

“Well, when Nicole absorbed the combined powers of Trinity, her body couldn’t withstand it. Amelia, Lucy, and I were blown in different directions, I was blown the farthest away, I guess because I was the one Nicole was touching. I had a huge bruise on my shoulder from it.” she paused, touching the shoulder the was talking about, holding back tears.

She continued. “I was crawling on my hands and knees back to the site, when I heard Mr. White talking. I realized that she only absorbed because she thought I was giving up my powers. I did the first thing that came to my mind. I ran. I ran as far as my legs would take me, and when I could run no more, I walked, when I couldn’t walk I crawled. I basically survived the same way I did the last time I ran. I had a lot of time to think. The first person I seen was Mr. White, after I cleared my head. That was, a week ago. When I finally came to him, I was really sick, and helped me recuperate.”