{A/N: Wow. When the muse strikes, watch out. Okay. I wrote humor... now it's time for angst once more. This is probably a one-shot (although I might make two different views, depending on the reviews I receive...). Again, watch out and grab the tissues...Song lyrics in bold.

Summary: Kiva was happy when she was in the future... wasn't she?

Disclaimer: I do not own Megas XLR. I just happen to have a very screwed up muse. And I don't own Hello, Evanescence does. However...::blinks::

Jamie: You killed off Kristel!?

Me: Wha? What the heck are you doing here?

Jamie: Uh... just emphasizing the fact that you don't own me...?

Me: Whatever. Enjoy the fic.}

Hello

Playground school bell rings again

Rainclouds come to play again

Has no one told you she's not breathing

Hello

I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to

Hello

I grew up here, but it just doesn't feel like home anymore. Even here, sitting outside the classroom, watching the children play on the sim playground... I just feel so numb. So hollow. Alone. They're not here.

If I smile and don't believe

Soon I know I'll wake from this dream

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken

Hello

I'm the lie living for you so you can hide

Don't cry

Everyone thinks I'm still the same girl who left here. I just happened to end up in the past to rescue M.E.G.A.S. But they never met anyone. It's almost like that was a sweet dream that I had... that I woke from because I wasn't careful enough. If it weren't for the very real presence of M.E.G.A.S. in it's new get-up, I'd agree with them.

They still want to know what took me so long. Why the self-confident and tough Kiva suddenly doesn't seem so tough. Why that seems like a faded illusion.

I don't know anymore. This feels like a dream. Maybe I'm still on earth. Maybe I'm still settled with my head on Jamie's hip, resting on the couch as I did whenever I were upset. Or maybe I fell asleep on Coop's shoulder again...

Those two. God... they became my best friends so quickly. Even if they were cocky and sometimes dense, they really cared about each other. And about me...

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping

Hello

I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday

But no. I'm not sleeping. I'm wide awake in this nightmare that goes against everything I ever wanted to have in my life. Coop and Jamie aren't here. And I just have to accept that fact, even if it did leave me as a broken shell of a woman.

They won't have to worry about me anymore.

After all... who's going to believe me when my only friends exist only in my mind? A mind that's so twisted after all that happened... that it's the only thing that keeps me living as Kiva...

{Kiva: Girl, you really need to stop listening to Evanescence.

Me: ::sniffle:: I know... Sorry, Kiva...

Jamie: Yeah... but you still killed Kris.

Me: Shut up.

Coop: For lack of anything better to say...

Temmi: Review please. ::sniffs, then falls wailing onto Coop's shoulder::

Coop: Uh... Temmi? Er... yeah. Just do what she said.

Flames will be used as critiquing material, then shall roast my old chem notebook!}