Naive Hearts

We need him.

The future was different to that of the 21st Century. Earth didn't exist anymore, the sun had burnt through it and the planet had been dying. The rich had watched it burn from a ship but so had Rose and The Doctor. Those who had lived on earth beforehand had been moved to different planets and space ports across the Milky Way, a group of teenagers had stuck together through it all and knew more about what had happened on Earth in the 21st Century than most others.

There was Elijah, Meria and Darius. Meria was the only girl among the group although she seemed to be more capable to lead than the boys were - they were too impulsive. Meria, Elijah and Darius often stayed together in Darius' apartment on their spaceport more importantly because he could gain access to information they couldn't. Darius and Elijah had called Meria there only a week ago, they suspected something was going on but wouldn't explain to her why.

Meria has found it frustrating but had gone to see the pair of them, as soon as she had stepped through Darius seemed manic while Elijah seemed to be doing his best to ignore him - Darius was taller than both Meria and Elijah but he had hair that went down to his shoulders in wavy locks, his eyes were dark brown which was the complete opposite to Elijah. Elijah had silver hair that was quite short but still spiky in the middle of it, no matter how hard they tried to get the spike to go away it seemed to appear again out of nowhere Elijah was small in size but his eyes were a light blue.

Meria had black hair that curled in on itself and was quite long, her eyes were a light green and she was about in the middle for her height - she called the three of them steps since they were all different heights. Meria had to blink at how quickly Darius seemed to be speaking with his hands, Elijah hadn't caught any of it and just motioned for Meria to sit down "What the hell Darius?", Meria questioned, plonking herself down on the two seater that Elijah had decided to put himself on shoving his feet up on the coffee table

"3...2...1...", Elijah counted down looking to the non-existent watch on his wrist before Darius made an 'ooh' sound, turning on the spot towards Elijah and Meria "Okay, so.... we need to bring someone back", Darius commented and Elijah seemed to raise an eyebrow at him "Two steps back", he stated wanting Darius to answer why "Okay so our parents are involved in something, something that's going to spread across the Milky Way in the worst way", Darius stated.

Elijah seemed on board after that but Meria was just confused "Who do you want to bring back?", Meria asked, Elijah had the ability to bring the dead back but that didn't mean he should do it. Darius seemed to look a little manic again just before Elijah had stood up and walked towards the papers Darius had scattered all over the floor, he picked it up and his eyes widened quickly "You're joking", Elijah commented "No", Darius replied "Why would you already- Darius", Elijah stated, Meria was confused again but soon got to her feet snatching the piece of paper from Elijah's hand not that he minded because he was too busy staring at Darius completely bewildered

"Okay who have we got here", Meria muttered to herself, feeling her hand smooth down on the crumpled paper and it was soon she realised "Oliver Harkness? The one who stopped that war?", Meria questioned. "Wait... this is an autopsy report... Darius", Meria turned on the spot staring at him probably more intensely than Elijah was although Elijah did have a soft spot for whatever Darius did given they were dating. "What? We need him", Darius replied "You took his body", Elijah commented "From stasis", he added.

"I skipped a few steps", Darius commented and again Elijah was staring at him. Meria had needed to rub her temples with her fingertips before she even had a chance to ask him where he was it seemed they had guests - Darius had noticed them first and had jumped into Elijah's arms which would've been cute had Darius not looked so terrified and Elijah didn't see the point in holding him up especially when Darius' feet were still touching the floor "You stole my son in law?", the male questioned, Meria had to turn to see what he looked like and had noticed quite quickly that his skin was slightly dark and his hair was short and black, the woman who was with him had olive skin and curly brown hair although she looked about as angry as he did

"Darius, please tell me you knew who his family-in-law was", Elijah stated sounding frustrated "Babe, yes. Well not entirely, just the name Terror- oh", Darius commented "Again we ask, where is he?", the female asked although sounding about as angry as the other did. Darius had jumped out of Elijah's arms and seemed to run towards a room, Meria had caught the look that the couple had shared and she knew it well.

It was one of really? He's running? Meria wasn't sure how the female was moving so fast or how she had a hold of Darius so quickly, Elijah had moved into the room quickly while Meria had stood right in the male's way. Elijah, not entirely thinking things through although Darius hadn't exactly let him, placed his palms against Oliver's chest. Elijah pushed his ability as hard as he could until he felt the chest rise underneath his hands, then there was a yell "No!", Oliver exclaimed, he looked like he might punch Elijah but he seemed to just shove him aside before he rushed out of the small room he'd found himself in

"Oliver", Asher and Alaric had said at the same time, Asher had let go of Darius quickly and Alaric had ignored Meria altogether. Meria couldn't understand it, why they were looking at him like they could have some kind of hope again "Did you see her?", Asher asked as soon as she was close to Oliver, he seemed frustrated he was back at all "Yes, I should be back there", Oliver answered, turning his gaze even though he was too weak too even move properly towards them - well the three of them

"What DID you do?", Oliver questioned, Meria knew they shouldn't intervene on the dead but Darius and Elijah almost always did this. "We need your help", Meria answered trying to take over so Darius and Elijah didn't make things worse "No, I was with my wife. You understand? We were together, waiting for them", Oliver replied, motioning his hand quite weakly towards Asher and Alaric. Alaric had moved to steady Oliver from behind while Asher was listening for his heartbeat which still was quite weak

"Please, you're a hero", Darius commented and Oliver shook his head, closing his eyes almost out of exhaustion. Meria didn't understand it, he was one, wasn't he? "No, I wasn't. I was a kid", Oliver answered. "Send me back", he answered "We can't", Elijah commented, Meria realised quite soon that the anger from Oliver had turned to sadness quite soon and then he touched the necklace around his neck as if he needed comfort from it.

Asher and Alaric's expressions were mixed, sadness and relief were upon their faces but that anger still lingered too "You must sit", Asher stated, Meria had seen Darius and Elijah going to move to do so and she grabbed onto both of their arms "Not you", she stated sounding frustrated with the pair of them. Meria hadn't realised how badly Oliver couldn't move until he had fallen back into Alaric's arms, Alaric had lifted him up before he moved him onto the couch.

It took Alaric back to all of those years ago when Tina had given Oliver her bed to sleep on when Asher had disappeared. "You shouldn't have done this", Asher commented "Why?", Darius blurted out "If you need to ask them you're just as lost as I thought", Alaric seemed to answer for her,  Meria had a feeling convincing any of them was going to be hard.