Note: Edited by Zia Westerman 17/4/2017

A/N: That pic above, with Jeremy (Ed Speleers), brings back so many memories... I had a crush on him when I was 15 xD

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Planet: Earth

Location: Camp Jameson

James ran a hand through his hair. He sucked in a large amount of air watching Jewels disappear into the trees. He wanted to follow her, he wanted to kiss her pain away and tell her how much he was truly sorry.

If he could travel back in time he would never have listened to Lucy. She convinced him that Jewels would never wake up, she convinced James he did not love her.

A whimper left James's lips as his fist connected with the concrete wall as he walked through the camp.

"Fuck!" James finally allowed his emotions free. "I messed up," he mumbled to himself. His hand once again found the concrete wall before him, again he lifted his fist and aimed for the wall.

But a hand grabbed his wrist preventing him from hitting the wall before him. "Leave me!" he yelled.

"James, stop." James was startled to find the voice belonging to Jeremy. "You need to—"

"No, you need to stop taking Jewels away from me!" He turned on his heels, now facing Jeremy. "You always do this! First, it was Lucy and now it's Jewels. Why, Jeremy? Why?"

Even though James was yelling and his face was red with rage, Jeremy's own features showed concern, a frown taking over his face when he looked at his broken cousin before him. "James, I'm sorry you think I take them. I never thought like that before, they always come to me after you—" he paused, thinking twice about what he was about to say. "I mean, when they leave you, for some reason they come to me."

Jeremy took hold of James's hand, his eyes narrowing at James's bleeding knuckles. "I don't know why they do it, James, I don't know. But I'm so sorry, you know I would never do anything to hurt you."

"Well, you did." James had the urge to cry, he had never cried in front of Jeremy. It was always when he was alone yet he couldn't stop the tears as they spilt over the rims and rolled down his red cheeks. "I love her, Jeremy, I love her so much."

"If you love her why did you give up on her?" His gaze locked with James's, his blue eyes burning into hazel ones. "Why did you say she wouldn't wake up? And then you went back with Lucy—" an idea sparked in Jeremy's mind, his eyes widening as his thumb stroked James's injured hand. "It was Lucy, wasn't it? She got the idea in your head."

James briefly closed his eyes. "Yeah, she convinced me Jewels would never wake up."

"And you believed her." This time it was Jeremy who got mad, he didn't understand the power Lucy holds over James. "Why did you believe her, James? You know she lies!"

"I—" James's head fell in defeat, his heart breaking into a million pieces. "What can I do to make her love me again?"

"Nothing." Upon that single word leaving Jeremy's lips, James's head shot up. "You can't just make someone love you," Jeremy's hand landed on his black-haired cousin's shoulder. "That's not how love works."

"And you would know, wouldn't you?" James bit back, his voice laced with anger. "You're making Jewels fall in love with you."

Jeremy stepped backwards, his hand falling from James's shoulder. "You're not listening to me! That's your problem, James, you never listen. This is why you can't stay with one girl."

Tears wouldn't stop falling, each time James removed them with the back of his hand more fell.

"I'm sorry," Jeremy spoke after seeing how damaged and broken his cousin was. "I'm sorry you think I steal your girlfriends. I love you like my brother and I'd die for—"

The moon which once shone in the night sky disappeared behind something invisible.

"What the—"

Brett suddenly appeared in the darkness, running towards them. "We're under attack!" As he yelled those three words out, something fell from the sky.

It was round and shone blue, it made a buzzing noise like bees.

James knew in his heart what is was. "Jeremy, we have to get everyone out of the camp n—"

Before he could finish his sentence the glowing round object landed somewhere in the camp. Not even a second later an explosion rocked the area and sent smoke into the night sky.

Jeremy ran over to a panel on the nearby wall, dialled a code into a keypad and then a siren went off. "Brett, get Mick, Tom, Lucy and Nathan."

"We have to go!" James looked directly into Jeremy's eyes. "They know the plan, Jer, we have to go now!"

Another glowing object fell from the sky and hit close to them, the explosion caused all three men to lose their balance.

Once they regained their senses and managed to stand up, they saw Tom running towards them.

"Run! Get out of here, lads!" his voice floated through the air that was now filled with horror and fear. "They're coming!"

James grabbed Jeremy's hand and ran behind a building with Brett following them.

"Let's go to the north gate," Brett suggested as another explosion rocked the camp.

Shifting his head Jeremy looked around the corner of the building to see where Tom was. But he wishes he hadn't.

"Human, you have something our commander wants." His eyes widened upon seeing a creature he had not seen before. It wasn't a Borum, or at least it didn't look like one. "You will tell me where the power source is."

James noticed Jeremy's body was frozen. "Jeremy?"

"Tell me!"

This captured James's and Brett's attention, both men looked at Jeremy before moving around him.

"Tom! Hey!—" James placed his hand over Brett's mouth, silencing him.

All three mens' eyes once again widened when the creature, holding Tom by his neck, extended out its right arm. What they saw next almost made them vomit. The creature had forced its entire arm through Tom's chest. Scarlet red blood splattered on the ground beneath him. The creature then threw Tom's body on the ground like it was nothing.

The creature stood taller than the humans, it wore some type of black armour covering its body and its mouth had rows of teeth.

Bringing its claw to his mouth, the creature sucked off Tom's blood before spitting on the ground, "Disgusting humans."

Another one of the creatures appeared next to the first one. "We have tracked the energy source to this very location, she is here."

"Then find her! High Commander Morgan will be arriving soon."

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Location: Just outside Camp Jameson

Whatever my father had used on me wore off quicker than he expected. I managed to get out of his grasp, surprising him.

"Daughter—"

"I cannot believe you!" I yelled leaning my weight on a tree for support. "I cannot believe you would do this!"

"You did not think I would come back for you? I risked my own life to get here," he spoke with his arms crossed. "You are more important than some humans."

"They are my friends, my family—"

"No! I am your family!" my father roared stepping towards me.

I shook my head, "They will die and it is my fault."

"Yes, they will die, this planet will be destroyed and, my dearest daughter, there is nothing you can do to save them."

This made my blood boil, I could feel the energy beginning to surface. "You are so wrong, Father."

"Jewels, stop!"

By now almost every vein in my body was beginning to glow with the energy rushing through them. I turned my head back towards the camp, a red-yellow glow was flickering above it.

"I will not let the Zutorians destroy yet another planet." I turned back to my father, whose eyes were wide. "I will not hide, I will not run away like before, Father. I will stop them."

His lips parted and eyes briefly closed. A sigh left his mouth as his eyes reopened and looked into my own, I felt his hand touch my chin. "Okay, but we do this together. I will not lose you again, my daughter."

I flung my arms around his torso, he immediately wrapped his arms around me in a tight embrace.

"I will be by your side, always," he whispered into my hair as a breeze blew around us, bringing with it the smell of death. "But how? How can we stop them?"

I released my father and took both his hands into mine.

"We fight."