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Depends on how you mean, I think.

I can't go back physically. They are watching. I would be caught.

Even if I could go back, it wouldn't be the same.

I know how that goes.

You know it's probably for the best. Things are never the way we left them. Either they change or we do. It would be a pale shadow of a brighter memory to go back now.

I wouldn't fit in back where I'm from anymore, not even with my family. I've got my brother and friends here.

That's good. Family helps. I miss mine.

Where is your family?

That's a hard question.

I got my family killed but now they live in Washington State. Except my adopted parents. They are still in Roswell.

How...can you get your family killed and now they live in Washington?

My parents are in Texas.

Well, for starters. I'm not a real person. I'm a contingency plan. In case of mass slaughter of royals, just add water.

See real people can fall in love. They can get married. Have children. Be happy.

Contingency plans have a mission. Any attempts at a life will be negated. *sighs* At least until the mission is complete.

My family died over 60 years ago. I was incubated in a pod along with 4 others, among them my brother, with the purpose of returning to my home and saving them from the enslavement of my ex-boyfriend.

See... Dead. Washington.

Sorry 3 others. 4 including me.

Wow. That's....got to be hard.

I'm sorry.

Somehow I think I'll live but thank you. <3

Not a problem. <3

So where are you now?

I know the feeling.

Home is gone as soon as you leave it.

Truer words were never spoken.

I guess the trick is to take what you can with you and remember to not look back.

Yeah.

I haven't quite got the hang of that yet. I want it to be there, all the people I know alive, all that hope still there, but... it isn't and I'm not the same as I was, either.

Trust me. I know all about that.

I wish I had some eloquent piece of advice that would instantly reassure you that it does get easier. Instead I can only guarantee your eyesight will get worse so looking back won't be as clear as it used to be and your memory will go so you don't have to think about it.

Heh, now that sounds like a good plan.

How long you been away from it?

My entire existence. lol

I'm a clone. Well, hybrid clone. I've never been home. But I've seen the brochures. It looks nice. There's a lake.

Hmmm. I've only been away a short time, now. I am not from around here, y'see.

I do see.

I'm not exactly from this neck of the woods either. What are you doing here?

I was sent to recruit the daughter of the royal line from an enemy planet,. to marry her and see if we could make peace, but renegades destroyed the planets, and she and I never found our place together. We drifted apart.

Now I am just... fitting in, sometimes.

Wow. Bummer.

Yeah. In my last life, I sort of fell for the wrong guy. Like way wrong. Slaughtered my family. Enslaved my planet. Went to war with the other worlds in allegiance with the crown.

I really should have just married the guy my parents set me up with. Well, you know teenagers.

You have to be you. Sometimes we make mistakes. But not being true to who we are is a bigger mistake.

I think so, anyway.