As the world continued to shift he had a sense of familiarity wash over him, he knew what this feeling was but it was different than normal. As Anna locked eyes with him he started taking deep breaths and started to focus. Not long after the world started becoming solid again making him close his eyes for a moment as a headache had started to form.

"You okay?" Emily managed to ask first making him open his eyes to see all their concerned expressions.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine now thanks," Brandon replied giving them a smile. He looked over at Anna and placed a hand on her cheek as she looked to be on the verge of tears. "It's fine, I'm fine but I think we should avoid that topic for now."

"Y-you think?" Anna asked hitting him in the shoulder. "But are you really sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, just a headache is all but I do swear I am just fine," Brandon replied making sure to give a huge smile.

"Attention, attention! Calling Brandon Jenkins to the front desk!" Someone said over the P.A system making him sigh.

"Guess I gotta go, for now, you guys go ahead and eat something. Hopefully, this'll be fast," Brandon said standing up, though he was a bit shaky but managed to hide it pretty well, at least he thought until he looked up at his friends, in particular Emily.

"Yeah, well just be easy on yourself," Was all Emily said even though he knew she had seen him shaking, which of course also didn't get past Anna as well.

"I'm coming with you, besides I have a feeling about what this is about," Anna said gently taking his hand and looking him in the eye, and he nodded his head to tell her he was good to go. So they made their way to the front desk as asked.

"Ah, there you are, and Anna came with you! Forgot to call her, but I had hoped she'd be with you," A woman with dark purple hair that had a normal shade of purple and pink streaks in it said. Brandon raised an eyebrow as she definitely looked like Twilight including the fact that she had a checklist in her hand that looked completely overly full.

"Yup, but who are you exactly if you don't mind me asking?" Anna asked.

"Right, well to start I'm Courtney, the secretary to the Cheif of Staff here. Considering the circumstances, it's not much of a surprise even with your rank, either of your ranks, that we haven't met yet since you've been distracted. But with the circumstances now with Dickson and everything, but anyway I am not the one to talk to about that if you would follow me to her office," Courtney said as she turned towards the elevators.

"Um, so who is the Cheif of Staff anyway?" Brandon asked as they got onto the elevator, while Courtney inserted a keycard before pressing a button for one of the top floors.

"Soltia, Soltia Faust. You've already met her sister Selene," Courtney answered while she looked at her clipboard.

"Huh, that must be interesting to work around," Anna said making the secretary gives a big sigh.

"You have no idea, but it is better now since they made up. But I rather not talk about it," Courtney said and before Anna could ask Brandon shook his head to quiet her.

"So, what kind of friends do you hang around with?" Brandon asked which did seem to brighten the secretary a bit. Courtney then went on to tell them about her friends, which as Brandon figured all sounded like how they were in Equestria.

"Oh, looks like this is our floor! Now follow me and I'll take you right to her office," Courtney said leading the way as the doors opened. She lead them down a few turns down hallways that look to be linked with different offices before they came to one that had Soltias name outside.

"Did Dickson have an office up here?" Brandon asked.

"Unfortunately, yes he did. But not any more thanks to you two, now go on inside she's waiting for you," Courtney said as she started to walk away. "I got to get a few more things done."

"She was a bit odd, but I did like her. Looked very organized," Anna said as she walked up to the door.

"You have no idea," Brandon muttered as Anna knocked.

"Come in!" A loud feminine voice called out making Anna open the door. Sure enough, the woman had long rainbow-like hair that seemed to fly in the wind, although this time around it was because of the fan blowing on her. "Ah, please have a seat you two, we have a bit to discuss!"

Brandon and Anna quickly took seats across from Soltia as she looked back down at some paperwork on her desk with a little smile. As this was going on Brandon started to look around the room a bit seeing how the office was decorated. Pictures of her and Selene hung around the room, along with some of the other staff members most of which mainly of six others who all looked familiar.

"So, you know why I wanted to talk to you both?" Soltia asked as she signed the paper she had been looking at.

"About Dickson?" Anna replied making Soltia nod.

"Kind of, that has just been officially taken care of as of me signing this paper. But that brings us to another point," Soltia said as she put the signed paper in a file.

"Gonna assume that was the official termination papers?" Brandon spoke up and asked making Soltia laugh.

"No, I already had that taken care of long before you two came here," Soltia answered with a big smile that could light up an entire city.

"That's good, and as for this other reason I'm going to say it's about what doctor is going to take me on as a patient next, am I right?" Brandon asked since it was on his mind.

"Very good, I mean it is the next step after all. Now I bet you're both wondering why it's me telling you this instead of your new doctor?" Soltia replied making Brandon nod. Though he did have an idea as to the why.

"So, if you wanted to just tell him about his new doctor then why am I here?" Anna asked to pipe in.

"Well, given the circumstances you are pretty much the closes to the family he has, not to mention we need official statements from the both of you. It's also for moral support, now before you two ask any more questions let me just cut to the chase. Brandon, your next doctor will be none other than myself!" Solitia said which didn't come as much of a surprise to either of them.

"Okay, but here's a question for you now, why? I mean wouldn't it take away from your duties from your current position?" Anna asked making Soltia bite her lower lip a bit.

"Well, that's the thing. Both I and my sister are planning on retiring this year and as a result, in the past few months I've been training up my replacement. She's been handling more and more of my normal workload thus freeing up some time. I've always wanted to get back onto the floor and take care of patients, and this is my last chance," Soltia explained.

"I see, so I'm gonna get taken care of by two sisters huh?" Brandon said making Anna elbow him hard in his side while Soltia gave a loud warm laugh. Which she had to take a few minutes to calm herself.

"In some ways, yes, but I do hope that's fine with you two?" Soltia asked wiping away a tear that formed from laughing.

"I have no issues with it," Anna replied as she turned her attention back to Soltia.

"I'm fine with it," Brandon answered giving Soltia a smile as he rubbed his side.

"Good, good. Now do either of you have any more questions?" Soltia asked.

"Actually, there was a patient in the cafeteria that seemed to flip out for some reason..." Anna started but Soltia beat her to the punch.

"That was Lt. Stephan Louis," At this Anna's eyes widened in amazement.

"You mean Shadow from the special ops team who supposedly are the ones who managed to infiltrate and kill the leader of Cuba?" Anna asked, and sure enough, even Brandon at least knew the name.

"The one and the same, he had wanted to retire but as I'm sure both of you understand that isn't exactly an option. He was instead assigned here as head of security, unfortunately, he had a bit of an accident that lead to him being a patient here," Soltia explained as she got up revealing that she was well above six feet tall.

"Doesn't exactly explain why he got angry enough to flip an entire table," Brandon said making Soltia give a sigh.

"Well, I can't go into too much detail but let's say that what made him a patient involved saving another patient. Unfortunately, that other patient isn't doing so well," Soltia said as her smile grew smaller at the thought. Though she quickly picked up some files from her desk and quickly went to the door.

"Oh..." That was all Anna could say, while Brandon shook his head.

"So, if you don't mind me changing the subject, how much longer will I still be a patient here?" Brandon asked as Soltia quickly popped her head out and gave the files to someone outside.

"Ah, well after looking at your file it's probably going to be another week at minimum, two at most. It's all mostly precautionary along with paperwork," Soltia replied as she came back to her desk. As she walked past Brandon couldn't help but appreciate her figure, though he wasn't attracted to her exactly he could definitely see why people would be.

"The paperwork that bad huh?" Anna asked as she jabbed another elbow into Brandon, who managed to be more prepared this time around.

"Given your rank in the military, you have some idea of what it's like. Even for you Brandon, at least you will since the new they passed a few months ago," Soltia mentioned making Brandon raise an eyebrow.

"What would a new law have to do with me?" Brandon asked making Soltia raise her own eyebrow as both of them turned there attention to Anna.

"I haven't told him about it yet, didn't seem important," Anna simply said and her tone made it clear she wasn't going to say anything else.

"So, about that new law..." Brandon stated making Soltia nod in understanding.

"It's a simple amendment to the basic reserve operations. Basically if you served as a certain rank for a certain amount of time, or even just serving in general, you are officially recognized as the rank you are," Soltia explained which it didn't take long for Brandon to completely understand. He knew what it meant, it was a way to keep someone in the military for longer.

"Would I..." Brandon didn't get a chance before Anna spoke up.

"No, we wouldn't because of where we were assigned in our "retirement", similar to Shadow in his retirement," Anna quickly explained which did bring some relief, though that would mean he was only one rank lower than Anna.

"So, I guess that means that I would be officially your second in command then," Brandon said with a little smile taking Anna's hand making her relax a bit.

"Sure does, but back on topic, we do appreciate that you will be the one treating him from here on out. We'll make sure to turn in our statements when we can, but if you don't mind we have some friends waiting on us," Anna said standing up making Brandon do the same.

"Understandable, would you like my assistant lead you back?" Soltia asked.

"No, we'll be fine, thanks for the offer though," Brandon answered almost immediately as they made their way out of the door.

As they retraced their steps, Brandon kept thinking about all of what had been going on and how he knew what was going on but didn't know why or how. No, he knew the how, but a few questions still remain. Like is Anna aware of everything or is she under some outside influence? Or how would they be able to free themselves?

He wasn't going to bring it up at the moment, but he knew eventually he would have to talk to her about or else risking staying in this world. Though if he could figure out how to manipulate everything without alerting Anna but he would not even know where to begin. Shaking his head, he couldn't focus on it, his gut was telling him that what was happening isn't just for himself.

"She was pretty," Anna said as they got into the elevator. "I mean with how you were staring at her, especially... Hmph!"

Brandon cut her off with a kiss which took her a moment to resipitate, but she let herself melt into it as it soon turned passionate. After a minute he broke the kiss and looked her in her beautiful eyes, the same ones he always found comforting. He could see how much she had changed, but there still was that scared girl, the one the pretends not to be but he knew it was an act. They've both seen each others worse side's, always knowing each other could see that side when it completely hidden to everyone else.

"I will always love you, no matter how much we've changed," Brandon said putting as much emotion into it as he could.

"I-I know," Anna sighed moving closer to him and he moved to embrace her just as did many times before. "B-but can we stay here for a bit longer?"

"That's the plan, we both have be comfortable with it," Brandon said running a hand through her hair as what she had just said confirmed what she knew, though he did miss this. But it felt different, they both felt it but neither of them wanted to say it at that moment.

"There you two are!" Emily said excietly as the both of them walked back into the cafeteria.

"Went ahead and ordered for the both of you," Greg said as he pointed to two burgers and fries.

"Tried to think about what you wanted, knew you both liked burgers and everything, hope it's fine for you to eat?" Cecila asked making Brandon smile and nod as they took their seats.

They started eating while telling their friends why they were called up to the Cheif of Staff's office, and of course they omitted what happened in the elevator. After eating and making some small talk they went back to his room where Greg managed to bring his game system in so they started playing for awhile. Brandon was very glad he had gotten Emily as his teammate since she more than able to make up for him.

"You might be better than before you went into that coma," Greg teased making Emily give him a hard kick.

"It's fine, he's just teasing but how about Anna take over for me for a little bit?" Brandon asked holding the controller out for her.

"Nah, I'm good, how bout you Cecilia?" Anna asked.

"Kind of already on a team, but hey why don't we play a three-way free for all?" Cecilia suggested.

"Sounds good to me," Emily agreed making Greg sigh in defeat as he set it up.

After a few hours they had stopped playing, and were all about to leave for the day and congratulating him on his promotion into being fully in the army now. Once they left both him and Anna laid in the bed and just enjoying each other's company, and not long after he could tell Anna had fallen asleep alwaying him to think to himself. He knew they could stay in this world forever if they wanted, but he knew neither of them wanted that. But with everything put together, he knew the only thing that was real in this fantasy world was Anna.

Author's Note

Alright, hope you all enjoyed it and remember to smile, smile, smile!