Serena shook her head when Anna offered up that she or Gunner take her place, "That may have been the plan but you made it to the Elites..." She looked at her friend and placed her hand on top of her's, "I think you should go back to them... I think you need to challenge yourself more. All I ever hear from you now is how you are holding people back... Anna, there is a fire in you and I don't need to be in Sebastian's head to see that. You challenged and pushed yourself all through our last year and you and Gunner started to fall apart when you started to see yourself as less than you are," She smiled at released her friend's hands, "You are feeling better, I think, because you have a goal again with your compulsion... Sebastian and I will just bore you and you won't get any closer back to being that girl."

She bit her lip a little and glanced over at the two men again, "I don't think Gunner really wants you to be the old you again... I know that that is what he's said but... he's not even the old him... I think he just wants to know that you are okay. That you aren't thinking yourself as the worst thing that could happen to someone."

At the mention of Gunner being her first, Serena laughed, "I assumed. Not to mention," She cleared her throat a little, "Sebastian could always tell when you two had... um... it was in your auras..."

She reached out again and patted Anna's hands, "I think there will be a time when you will be okay again... I struggled... after my father and dying and the new burden of Sebastian's darkness.... but I think I've come out of it a far stronger person than before. I know you will too," she sat back as the food was brought to their table and she started to pick away at it, glad to actually have an appetite, "You two still love each other... I think you just need to decide if that love is worth fighting for... maybe that will be your next challenge."
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Gunner dropped his head, letting his chin lowered to his chest as he groaned a little, "You know Sebastian... It is [i]a lot[/i] harder to ignore the turmoil inside of me when you are poking your little spiritness in where it doesn't belong," Despite his words, there was a small smirk of Gunner's lips as he looked back up at his friend. He ran a hand over his mouth, "You are a real pain... I don't know how you managed to convince Serena to marry you."

His eye was brought back to the girls' table when Serena suddenly stood, the look on her face caused him to rise and toss some money on the table before grabbing Sebastian and walking over to the girls. Serena looked at them, "I feel sick.... and... it's not the baby..."