Delphigirl689: I had this idea on what Piper was thinking in the "Second Chances" episode and just had to write it down. I hope it's good. Enjoy!

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I Thought I Had Lost Him

Piper's POV:

The team and I had finally managed to get the crowd somewhat calm and they were completely calm once they saw the burning abandoned cruiser fall away from the terra.

Everyone on Atmosia, including us Storm Hawks, cheered wildly for what Aerrow and Carver did.

A little later a skimmer was seen coming in for a landing.

There was only one.

I figured that it was Carver's skimmer and that Aerrow and Radarr weren't too far behind.

But when the skimmer had landed, I saw that Radarr was with Carver.

I knew then that something had gone wrong.

"Radarr, where's Aerrow?" I asked the little blue sky monkey.

His ears drooped as he whined and looked sadly at the ground.

My heart began to ache as I looked up at the trail of smoke the cruiser left behind as it fell.

That reporter Guy said something that I didn't pay attention to.

Tears formed in my eyes as I prayed that by some miracle Aerrow would survive.

Then there was a blast coming from the Wastelands, a sure sign that the cruiser had crashed.

I caught my breath but I felt like my heart stopped beating.

My hand groped in the direction blast came from and I finally broke out into tears.

Junko let me cry on his shoulder and the reporter said something I wasn't listening too.

I screamed in my head, He can't be gone! He just can't be gone!

If he's gone then I'll die too! I can't live the rest of my life without him!

Don't let him be gone! Please don't let him be gone!

It was the words that reporter said that brought me out of my sorrow.

He said, "Wait a minute! What's that I hear?"

Sure enough, the roar of an engine was in the air.

My eyes lit up with hope as I wiped away the tears.

Then a skimmer came from the smoke trail and flew over the terra.

It was Aerrow's skimmer!

The part of me that died a little when I thought he was gone felt alive once again.

The crowd cheered again in both relief and excitement.

And I joined in with them.

Aerrow landed his skimmer on the terra and I couldn't help it.

I rushed over to him as fast as I could, hugged him, and, to my surprise, he hugged me back.

We pulled out of our embrace and looked at each other.

The rest of the team cheered in their own special way.

Finn did his thumbs up thing.

Junko raised his hands in the air.

Stork showed his version of a smile.

And Radarr leapt onto Aerrow's shoulder.

As for Carver, he just did his trademark smile.

Chances were that this would definitely be on the news tonight, but that didn't matter; at least not to me.

Aerrow was safe; that is what mattered.

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Delphigirl689: Well what's there to say? If you like it, review it. If you don't…still review. But no flames! I say that those who send out flames be burned back a hundred times more!! (laughs manically) Seriously though, review.