Right oh, guys this is the final chapter of this series. I just want to thank everyone for reviewing and complimenting me on this amazing story and I'm sad to end it but don't worry there might definitely be a sequel and you'll see why. I also am very very sorry for the long wait, I had exams and had major writers block and enrolling into college for September etc.

But for the last time…

Enjoy Chapter 15.

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"Get out!"

"Aerrow?"

"I said get out Finn, I'll deal with you in a minute!" I yelled at the blonde Storm Hawk. Was he even worthy of being called a Storm Hawk anymore?

"Whatever." Finn exited the medical bay maybe to his room or wherever he pleased. I was annoyed. Furious. Confused but worst. Betrayed. Again.

I still don't know what was going through Finn's mind when all that happened, I turned around and Piper was falling, falling out of my reach, out of my world but I'd got to her in time. Just.

Flashback.

"Piiipppeerrr!" I yelled as I watched her fall, it was all slow motion and there she was slipping from my fingers again. Could I stand it anymore? It had to be karma and it wasn't good. I yelled her name as if it was the last breath I was exerting and it brought me to tears.

Quickly and forcefully I turned my skimmer around darted in Finn's direction, a race against time to save her. Nearing Finn I then pressed down on my skimmer gearing it and speeding up the motor to close the gap between Piper and I. Cursing to myself I knew I wasn't going to reach her in time and without thinking jumped off the skimmer, diving to catch her.

I seriously hoped Radarr caught on to what I was doing or we both would be goners. Reaching with all my might I grabbed Piper around the waist and pulled her close, I wasn't going to lose her again.

Within no time I heard the sound of a skimmer descending to my side and I grabbed on to pull myself up with one arm, it was challenging but anything to keep Piper safe.

I geared up my skimmer again thanking Radarr and headed for the Condor. "Fall back Storm Hawks, it looks like they've retreated." And sure enough the Talons and Cyclonians were heading back, probably because most of their most powerful sources have fallen.

Immediately on arrival back on the Condor I yelled for Stork to help. I hope nothing life risking happened to her or I might never forgive Finn. Ever

End Flashback.

"Aerrow, you should get some rest, you've been here for 5 hours straight, take a break." Stork replied shaking me from my reverie.

"I can't, I'm not moving until she wakes up." I replied stubbornly closing my fists protectively around her hand.

"Aerrow, just go, I'll be around, I promise to update you on anything about Piper when she wakes up." The Merb reasoned gently patting my shoulder. I looked up from Piper's face which I'd been staring at for the past hours and looked uncertainly up at the Pilot.

"Promise?" I asked shallowly.

"Promise Aerrow and Junko's room is near by, we'll all keep an eye or two out for her." He replied again taking a glance towards the sleeping navigator.

"Thanks" And with that I slowly got up, ran my hands through my hair and took one last lingering look towards my sleeping beauty and left the room.

I slowly walked down the hallway and it seemed to take an eternity before I stopped hesitantly in front of Finn's room where blaring music could be heard from the other side of the door. I grunted and swiftly kicked the door in an attempt to let out some of the steam building up in me every time I heard his name or anything to do with him. Sighing quietly I stumbled to my room and shut the door collapsing behind it in a failed attempted to keep my wits together and stay strong for what was going to come, be it good or bad.

For the first time in days, maybe weeks since I last let out my feelings it all came flooding back and hit me like a tsunami and my chest hurt. It felt as though someone was squeezing my heart and wouldn't let go. Soon enough before I knew it my body was quivering with sobs and my hands found its way to my face.

She was back wasn't she? Then why am I so upset and crying? Things will go back the way they were before, they just have to. I sat there for minutes talking to myself until one thought leaked into my mind. "Why did he do it?" I scrambled from the floor and exploded from my room and towards Finn's.

I didn't ask or wait for an invitation but just barged in and towered over his figure that was laid on the bed.

"What do you want now? A failed attempt at kicking in my door not enough for you?" Finn asked full of sarcasm not turning his eyes away from the comic in his hands.

"Why did you do it?" I simply asked. "I'm not starting anything, I just need to know your reason.""Yet." He stated swinging his legs over the side of the bed. "You're not starting anything yet." I stayed quiet and asked again, "Why?""Why didn't you? Everyone was apprehensive of letting her come back or even contact her again, but you always took us back to square one, even after her rejection message to us." He smiled smarmily.

"She didn't reject us…""No she rejected you didn't she, but you couldn't handle it and thought of everyway possible for us to get her back even if it meant endangering the team. You just don't care about anyone but yourself and Piper" Finn spat the name out like venom and that was the last straw.

"What about you Finn, eh. We, the rest of the team handled it in a civilized manor but you had a complete ego makeover and suddenly you think you're better than all of us!" I retorted as calmly as I could but the anger was boiling up in me like a heated kettle.

"That's the beauty of it Aerrow. Everyone's better in their own way but I'm better than you and I made a decision out there today. You don't give Cyclonians special treatment, Cyclonians are Cyclonians, they're all the same!" Looking at his wry smile I took a step back. But there was something else behind his eyes, regret? Hurt? Getting angry wasn't going to solve anything. Maybe it was time for a new approach.

"Finn, why?" I asked again, he glanced at me but then looked to the wall with a scoff.

"I already answered you." He replied quietly.

"Come on Finn, why? Don't you remember the good times, getting Piper riled at every little thing?" I took a seat on a random chair in the room facing him. "She would really get mad." I looked at him again but this time he seemed tense and as if he was trying to hold back something.

"Remember a few months ago when you and Junko almost threw Piper overboard and she deliberately spoke to Junko and ignored you more?" I knew that wasn't the correct story but maybe it could make him join in.

"Junko threw her in the air and I doused her with a bucket of ice cold water." Finn corrected smiled softly at the memory. It was quiet for a few minutes, I let him stay with his thoughts until he was ready to speak.

"I…I didn't mean it." He said suddenly twiddling with his hands. He suddenly held his head and shoved his face into his open palms.

"Finn?" I questioned about to run to his aid.

"No, it's my fault, you're right! All I've every done to Piper was hurt her? She treated me like a brother and this is how I reward her, killing her!" He exclaimed.

"Finn you didn't kill her, she's going to be okay." I tried to convince him.

He got up and walked over to the corner of his bed, trying to hide in the little space. "See even you don't believe that. Aerrow, what have I done?""I remember a deep hatred for her when she showed up with the Cyclonians and all I wanted to do was kill her. My head was so straight and I had set myself up to do it!"

"Why did you want to kill her?" I asked, finally hearing the confession from Finn was than I thought it would be, it was terrifying knowing that a team-mate of ours was just waiting for the opportunity.

"I loved her." He whispered. My world crumbled. I had heard enough and was about to walk out of the room. "I loved her like my own sister and the bond was there, the fighting, the pranks and all our squabbles. I liked seeing her reaction."

I took my seat again and nodded in understanding. He was betrayed and took it worse than we all did.

"When Piper left I couldn't believe it. At first, meaning a month after she left I still had some hope that she would come back and sometimes found myself sitting around the Condor waiting for her to show up, but it never happened." Finn gave a little laugh but then it turned to a frown.

"I just wanted her back so bad that eventually I gave up and was so angry with her that it came to the point of never wanting her to come back, and I would hurt her just the way she hurt me. Aerrow, my life as a kid was not very happy and being a part of this team turned it around."

I just sat there taking in all Finn was explaining and I sat in silence as her cried silently to himself. I wouldn't have know he was crying because it was so soft, I only took note of it because his body shook. I took in the sight and I ached for normalcy. Everyone grieved differently and this was Finn's, after keeping it in for so long he snapped, he didn't mean for it to happen, he loved Piper just like the rest of us.

I got up and patted his shoulder as best as I could. "I'm sorry how I treated you Finn, it's just, I thought you didn't care and it angered me." I stated shortly. "She's going to pull through and soon enough things will go back to normal."Finn nodded and I thought it was time to leave him alone to comfort himself. I quietly got up and exited the room to mine. Lying on my bed I let out a huge sigh, now that was sorted it was all up to her to just wake up. 'Hurry up Piper, we need you. I need you'

3 Days later

"Aerrow! Aerrow!" I sat up and rubbed my eyes, someone was yelling my name. Opening my eyes I looked for the person that called me. My room was dark so I guessed it to be about 3 in the morning.

"What is it?" I asked drowsily finally recognising the voice as Stork.

"It's Piper, you need to come now, she's awake." He as I heard those magic words I leapt out of my bed and towards her room where we had moved her to a couple of days back.

"Aerrow, before you go there's something you should know…." I was already out of the door before I could properly reply to Stork. Soon enough I was in her room and the light shone beautifully on her tanned skin. She looked so alive. Before I knew it I scooped her into my arms taking in everything about her and it was ecstasy.

"Piper." A whisper came from behind me, when Finn arrived I had no clue but it didn't matter, Piper was awake.

"Get off." A little voice demanded and my arms were shrugged from around her.

"Piper?" I asked, her eyes were the soft and gentle ones I knew, however there was confusion in them.

"I'm sorry Piper. I didn't mean what happened, it wasn't suppose to happen!" Finn exclaimed from beside me.

"Do I know you?" She asked suddenly that made the temperature in the room drop to the minuses.

"It's temporary amnesia." Stork stated approaching us.

"What do you mean. She doesn't know us ?" Finn asked looking between Stork and Piper.

"Yes." He confirmed.

"Do you know your name?" I asked looking at her once again.

"It's Piper." She said.

"She knows her name and past, I asked her before you came in. The rest is foggy and not there." Stork said looking sympathetically at me.

"Do you know who we are?" Junko spoke up from the back.

"Apparently you all are the Storm Hawks from Atmosia." Piper stated, she didn't seem to be putting up a front or fight against us which was good but where did this leave us?

"Piper?" Stork called. "You have temporary/partial brain amnesia. You are originally part of the Storm Hawks, our navigator and second in command. I am Stork, this is Finn and Aerrow and that's Junko." "Hi." Junko was the only one to greet her.

"Hi." She replied while nodding at what Stork said.

"Can she be cured." I asked suddenly.

"It's not a disease Aerrow." He corrected. "However it's temporary, so with time it'll come back, maybe a few days, weeks, months or even years, but the longer it takes it might not return."I sighed, the room again in silence and Finn nowhere to be seen. 'He's probably in his room again.' "Well the only thing we have to do is help her to remember one day at a time, that is if she wants to stay?" I had to bring up to most hurtful thought.

"Would you like to stay?" I asked Piper.

"Yeah, that would be nice considering I don't know where I am." She smiled. It was torture but it was a new and trying beginning that everyone would have to become accustomed to. We got her back once and we'll do it again.

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Well guys there it was, the last chapter of Moment in Time but there will be a sequel! If I know how to but it in words it will be up today or the week-end but at the latest next week. Sorry if the ending was a disappointment, I liked it but I hope you did too. Again thanks for all the loyal followers and I hope to see/read you back at the new sequel! :D

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