On the twin planet, it was also the morning after Kyle had had his inter-planetary psychic chat with Lili. However, all these many, many miles away from where Lili, Jared and Ian were having their passionate encounter; there was another equally passionate encounter happening beneath the gray sky of dawn here as well.

After over two weeks of having Will chip away at his willpower and his entire identity as he knew it in his previous life, Kyle’s hormones and Will’s willingness and pure physical attractiveness, had finally broken down Kyle’s walls. At least enough so to get the teen to the point of finally giving into Will’s theory of ‘at least try it so you’ll really know once and for all.’

After a particularly eventful late night and early morning of experimentation, there in the tent as the gray sun rose outside, Kyle finally removed himself from the other man’s body. The two then lay back upon the sweat-dampened bedding, both spent and attempting to catch their breath.

“So....” Will began with a breathless smile as he wiped away the evidence of his own pleasure from his bare thigh before turning his face toward where Kyle lay back next to him trying to regain any composure at all.

“Please don’t say anything right now, just...please, don’t” Kyle begged breathlessly as he reached up to push a damp curl from his blue-gray eyes.

“Only one thing...” Will smiled as he moved to his side, gently placing a hand against the still heated and slightly damp skin of Kyle’s chest.

“If you must” Kyle relented, still not looking down at those deep eyes.

“Do you at least feel better now?” Will had to ask as he gently kissed Kyle’s still hardened nipple with a smile.

“Please shut up” Kyle returned, though with his own smile, and what almost sounded like a content chuckle. He then forced his still somewhat trembling limbs to push him up to a sitting position, causing Will to roll to his side once more. There, Will girlishly pulled the bedding up to his bare, smooth, and equally sweat-dampened chest as he continued to grin over at his newest partner while trying not to look too victorious right then.

Kyle bit his lip through another smile as their eyes met once more before he just had to force himself to his feet, reaching for his nearby boxers, and then made his way from the tent, clutching them in his hand.

Outside, he squinted a bit in the morning light before moving to slide back into his underwear. Kyle then moved to try to busy his now reeling mind with that morning’s breakfast preparation. Only, once he did take a step away from the tent, he couldn’t help looking around, almost as though he were now the one hearing something that no one else could.

Taking a moment to hone in on what it was that he seemed to be hearing, he realized with a start that it was actually someone else’s thoughts. Someone other than the companion he had just left inside, that was. Equally afraid and excited, Kyle immediately moved to the bag he had stashed a gun in, just in case, though the entire time, his eyes scanned the surrounding landscape.

“I surrender” he heard a young man’s voice come from the nearby forest. He then stepped out of the trees, hands raised, when he saw that Kyle had immediately turned to point the gun in his direction.

More than a few thoughts ripped through his already racing brain as Kyle laid his eyes on his fellow teen who slowly moved a few steps closer. The other boy managed to try to keep the trace of a smile on his face, though he kept his hands in the air in front of him as Kyle narrowed his eyes on his approach, the recognition finally hitting the slightly younger of them right then.

The boy had actually only turned eighteen himself less than a year before Kyle’s own eighteenth birthday the previous month. His hair had also grown past his shoulders in his time there, though his was a light brown, nearly blonde really, needle straight, and offset by eyes so blue they were literally startling. His name was Tyler, and he was actually the E-child born right there on the same ship as them, five months after Jared’s birth and nine months prior to Kyle’s, nearly two decades ago now.

“Tyler...?” Kyle called the boy’s name back to memory easily then. Kyle finally lowering the gun to his side and looking on in shock as Tyler made his way towards him, his smile growing slightly less tentative in regards to Kyle’s recognition.

Tyler had always been small for his age, thin and standing at only 5′7” despite being several months older than Kyle, who stood at a height of 5′10” himself. Upon reaching a spot only a few feet from where Kyle still stood in shock outside the tent, Tyler allowed another small smile, “I would hug you, but....” he stated apologetically as he pointedly glanced down at where Kyle had only just donned the boxers moments earlier.

Kyle let out a small laugh before speaking, “Uh, yeah, sorry” he then moved to the bag, exchanging the gun for another pair of jeans he had brought along, and sliding into them with another awkward yet amazed smile back at where Tyler waited with a slight biting of his lip.

“Believe me, no need to apologize for anything. I’m just so glad to see someone, anyone. I mean...it’s been like...a year?” Tyler asked, all those unspoken questions obvious on both their faces.

“Little more than.” Kyle swallowed more disbelief as he looked back to Tyler, now somewhat less uncomfortable in his at least half-dressed state.

“What happened?” they asked in near unison, both then laughing together, a sound that was obviously more than foreign to both after this long.

Before either of them could figure out how to even start their story, they heard Will exiting the tent behind them. Kyle immediately tensed at his arrival, his back still to the flap of the tent, silently praying that Will had at least re-acquired some of his clothing at that point too.

“Hi” Will grinned widely down at their new arrival as he stepped from the tent where he had at least donned those animal skin pants of his, much to Kyle’s relief, as short-lived as it was when he saw Tyler looking between the two men with many more unspoken questions on his lips then.

“Hi...” Tyler responded warily as he cast an even more questioning glance back at Kyle then, before looking back at Will’s eager smile “um, I don’t remember you...” he stated with the same wariness as he looked up at where Will was over eight inches taller than him, and as gaunt and beautiful as any supermodel Tyler had remembered seeing pictures of from earth. Though of course, Will’s bare chest did call into question that knee-jerk appraisal of his appearance.

“Very glad to have found you” Will smiled as he leaned in to place a soft, innocent kiss of greeting on Tyler’s cheek before smiling back over his shoulder at both of them as he moved to begin gathering their breakfast together.

“He’s not from the ship” Kyle attempted some sort of explanation toward Tyler’s look of further surprise.

“Yeah, I got that” Tyler stated as he cast one more look of puzzlement toward Will before making his eyes come back to meet Kyle’s once more. “So you found other people? Not from the ship people?” He asked Kyle with more than a bit of happiness at that prospect.

“Um, just the one” Kyle stated apologetically, glad that was the first question he voiced about Will, though he was sure there would be many, many more to come.

“What? Explain” Tyler replied as the two moved to take a seat on a nearby boulder.

“Is that really the first question we wanna cover?” Kyle couldn’t help smiling as they took their seats, Kyle’s eyes moving back over to Will as the eldest of them moved about readying breakfast, as content as ever, despite the strangeness, and the importance of this entire morning.

“Well, I don’t even know where to begin, honestly. Do you?” Tyler allowed another small laugh.

“Ok I’m sure I have a lot more questions for you, so I’ll start” Kyle took a breath as he tried to find the beginning of the tale, “so, we woke up three days later than we were supposed to, and LU kept telling me the ship wasn’t there anymore. So we spent a year surviving down there, on that other planet, then finally found a way to get here. And now, here we are, and here you are. Your turn” Kyle finished, obviously over-simplifying the tale.

Tyler let out another brief laugh at the summary before continuing, “I think you may have left out a few pertinent details” he scolded, though playfully, “like, the others, are they alive too?... And... other planet?” he allowed Kyle to fill in the rest of that question himself.

“Yeah, this is actually the twin planet to the one we were originally sent to. That’s why it took so damn long to find you” Kyle offered, then remembered the rest of Tyler’s question, “and yes, we’re all alive, though there have been a few...close calls” he decided on, dropping his eyes slightly at the memory of how he and Lili both had each had their own brushes with death only a couple months earlier.

Tyler shook his head in awe as well as relief, “that’s amazing that you’ve kept everyone alive this long” his voice then dropped, “it’s not easy.” he stated sadly.

Kyle had to narrow his eyes at that, but it gave him the opportunity to ask the other question screaming through his brain ever since he saw Tyler, “so, there were others who survived then?” he asked, his eyes full of hopefulness as he awaited that answer.

“Not a lot” Tyler answered in a stammer, as if biting back tears as he cast his eyes downwards, “After we...” he swallowed a bit at the memory before continuing to share it, “after Serena took over, and we...realized it...” another breath, as he seemed to jump forward a bit in the story then, “when she died, the ship started falling from the sky and then all this gas was released throughout the entire ship. It was like her last F U to all of us if we somehow managed to stop her. By the time we realized what was happening, we could only save those of us on the flight deck and the younger kids; since they were in the last part of the ship the gas would reach. It gave us enough time to keep them alive long enough to get them out.”

Kyle shook his head trying to take in all of that, especially when placed next to his own knowledge of how the ship met its fate, as provided by Jared’s vision all those months ago. He attempted to find a place to start his questions then, “wait, you were on the flight deck?”

“Only after we realized what was happening. Originally we were with all the younger kids while it all started to go down. When we saw the monitors and ...what Serena was doing, India and I went to the flight deck to try and help, any way we could, since we were the oldest of all the other kids” he swallowed again, lost in some terrible memories right then.

“So you and...India?” Kyle asked, calling the face of the second eldest female of the E-children to his memory. He then did some quick math to tell himself she had been fifteen then, would be almost seventeen now, “you were the two who stopped Serena?”

Tyler than looked up at him, speaking slowly “I only said we went to try to help. I never said we stopped her” he stated with another stammer as he watched Kyle closely for any response.

Then Kyle looked back at him, into him. After seeing what he pulled from the other man’s head, Kyle’s breath caught a bit before finding that response, “but you did stop her” Kyle swallowed, “you tried to keep everyone alive, and India... she’s the one who killed Serena?”