How Long Is Forever?
Disclaimer: I don't own the Kids Next Door or any of the characters you may recognize I only own the current plot.
Summery: Abigail Lincoln is about to learn that being a Teen Operative isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Authors Notes: This takes place from after Abby's decommission right through to Kuki's and beyond. Please read What Happened To Forever first for some things to make sense.
Prologue
Being thirteen was proving to be very disappointing.
Before her thirteenth birthday Abigail Lincoln had been dreading it. She had wanted to keep all her memories but at that present time she didn't know why she had accepted the offer of keeping them. Perhaps she should of said no and been decommissioned. That way she could re-start and not watch her friends move on without her.
She had to pretend that she didn't know them. Even though she didn't want to, she wanted to run up to them and tell them the truth. That she remembered everything about them right down to the fact that Numbuh One loved rainbow monkeys as much or even more than Numbuh Three. Or the fact that Numbuh Two could recite most of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with ease, or the fact that Numbuh Three had been the one to switch all of Numbuh One's clothes with Numbuh Four's one year when they had been sleeping and NOT Numbuh Two like the other two thought.
She remembered all that and more yet she couldn't tell any of them. She had spotted Numbuh Two keeping an eye on her house to make sure that Cree didn't convince her to join the teens yet she couldn't go up to him and tell him to go away. It would reveal everything.
"Abby? You alright?" She looked up surprised to see Cree looking at her somewhat concerned. She put on a smile, the one that she had practiced and perfected over the last few days.
"Yeah Abby's fine. Just going down to the store to get some magazines. Do ya want anything?" Cree narrowed her eyes but shook her head and turned around to head out of Abby's room.
"Gee I thought you'd at least stop with the whole third person thing after being decommissioned," She heard Cree murmur to herself while leaving. If she followed her instincts she wouldn't say anything. But she didn't always follow her instincts.
"What was that?" She asked sharply. Cree looked around, surprised. They had admittedly in the last few days had a good relationship. However Abby honestly didn't know if it was going to last.
"Nothing" Cree said innocently and Abby forced that smile back on her face. She knew was going to have to do fake it for a while at least. She followed Cree out of her room and then walked out of the house, knowing that Numbuh Two would be following her. She was surprised however to spot Numbuh Three standing in front of the candy store- wincing?
"Hey, kid anything wrong?" Numbuh Three looked at Abby stunned but didn't respond, "Yo kid? Abby asked ya a question," She spotted at Numbuh Three smiling at something she had said but she hadn't had time to say anything in return.
"No, everything's fine" It was a blatant lie and Abby knew it as well as she knew Numbuh Three. However she also knew if she gave anything away, Maurice (even though he did to her) would kill her.
"Alright then," She walked off not noticing that she was walking right past the candy store. She heard a gasp and then realized. Still not turning around she sighed herself. Maybe she should have gone in, just that one time. Just to reassure herself as much as Numbuh Three.
She closed her eyes for a few moments, composing herself. The need much greater than the fact, that Numbuh Three would see her. She didn't care. Then she walked into the magazine store and got the mags that she wanted.
"Hey Abby, everything alright?" The storeowner asked and she absentmindedly nodded- it was almost at that current point that she was on automatic pilot. She should have walked right past Numbuh Three and not talked to her. But she didn't.
Because she missed the team so much. She hoped that they would make it on to the Teens Next Door but she doubted it a lot. It would be so rare and so cliché but then again…
She shouldn't get her hopes up. She wasn't aloud to, besides there was also the high chance that she wouldn't know if they where in the Teens Next Door due to the reasoning that past Maurice she didn't know who else WAS in the Teens Next Door.
So that ruled that theory out. It had been a long shot in the first place though. But still… No she would have to wait and see.
Just like everything else.
A day later she was feeling happier again. She didn't know why she just was. So when the phone rang at six thirty the next morning she assumed it would be for her mother as her father would be at work already and Cree was 'staying over at Stacey's house'. So she turned over to have some more sleep. She glad that she had been born in the summer holidays.
"ABBY IT'S FOR YOU" It was for her? What in the world? Who would be ringing her at six thirty? Who did she know that got up that early? There was only one person she DID know but he wouldn't ring her. It wasn't aloud. She picked up the phone outside her door.
"Hello?" She mumbled into the phone, still not sure as to who it was going to be.
"Goodbye, Abby" She smiled softly as she heard the dial tone.
"Goodbye, Numbuh One."
Transmission Interrupted