Author's Note: Howdy my peeps! Tell me the truth did you miss me? well here is the dealio…I thought it was unfair to ask you to choose between the stories when you didn't know what you'd be getting into…relatively. So I'm giving you samples. Chapter 1 of all three stories comin' your way, straight from my little room. the reason it's three and not four is because me and the M/A are having a fight. it gave me a black eye, the damn story. I have a couple days of doing absolutely nothing because the 'rents can't come get me till the 11th and well that's a while from now. So you the story that you like best gets done first…they will all be written! You're just deciding in what order. Ok. Try and review all of them just let me know which you want to see first. I know it's short but it seemed right.
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Remember the Days
Chapter 1: The gathering storm
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In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there has always been times like these -Paul Harvey
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She stood there with a smile curving the tips of her lips ever so slightly, with a halo of blue and gold hair and eyes the color of blue fire, and all he could do was stare. "You know me?"
She nodded her head as the man with dark black hair and forest green eyes took a step to stand next to her. He grinned at Adam and waved as he knelt down next to the German shepherd, "I'm Zane, that's Jondy, and this..." he made a kiss-y face at the dog, "is Sasha."
"Zane and Jondy?" something fluttered in the back of his mind like a scent he couldn't quite place. He thought for a second that he remembered something, children huddled together under a night sky crouching in the snow. "I don't know you."
"We covered that," Jondy said with a smile, flashing perfect white teeth and a hint of fang. "Technically you do know us, you just don't remember."
Adam scratched the back of his neck dubiously, "how do I know you aren't messing with me?"
"We can tell you things about yourself that no one else ever could," she took a small step until she was only a mere inch apart from him. He breathed the scent of her in, and something sparked in the back of his mind. That smell meant comfort for some reason.
He narrowed his eyes as he looked down at her, "like what?" And as he looked down into those eyes he was afraid of the words that would come out of her mouth, maybe she did know what he was and it wasn't pleasant.
"You have a barcode on the back of your neck, for starters," she cocked her head to the side and batted her eyelashes up at him as he breathed a sigh of relief.
"And we do too," Zane added, running a hand through his hair.
Adam froze as he looked between the two of them, blue eyes shifting slowly, "show me." Jondy turned around without hesitation and pulled her hair away to reveal a long slim neck with black lines marring the perfect flesh. He had the sudden flash of a small girl with wide blue eyes smiling up at him, head shaven and clothed in a hospital gown. Adam reached out to touch them but pulled his hand back right before he did, "how wild were your teenage years?"
She turned back to look at him grinning, "oh I was a wild teenager, I even got a tattoo just - like - yours." She lifted her shirtsleeve to show the design just as he did the same thing.
He swallowed against the lump in his throat as he looked over at her with her grin still firmly in place, "so you were a wild teenager, and got some tattoos." He cleared his throat as he tried to push away the memories of this same woman with a look in her eyes that was animalistic and savage as she snarled at some unnamed man. "It doesn't mean anything."
"I only got one tattoo, sweets, I didn't get the barcode. It's just kind of there."
"Right, you just woke up one day with a barcode tattooed on the back of your neck."
"No," she shook her head and looked over at Zane. "I was kind of born with it."
"I wasn't a wild teenager," Zane said with a glare at Jondy as he turned around to show his own barcode.
"Liar," Jondy coughed.
"I was not," his tone was close to a whine as he pouted down at her.
"You held up a candy store!" She waved a finger in his face as Adam looked on in confusion.
"I was misguided…by you if my memory serves correctly."
"Well then, you were stupid too!"
"Enough!" Adam called, glaring at both of them.
They turned to look at him with wide eyes and two identical smirks, "it's like he never left," Jondy said clapping her hands happily.
"You two are the strangest people I have ever met in my life."
"How would you know?" Zane asked, his brow furrowing slowly.
"Yeah, you can't remember anything, maybe we're the most normal people you've ever met."
"I doubt that."
"Top fifty maybe?" She grinned at him and shook her head. "Nah, we're way weirder than that…ok so do you at least believe that we know you?"
"I…don't know what to believe at the moment."
"That's ok…" she grinned again and looked up at Zane sweetly, "we'll jog your memory."
"Adam!" A yell came from inside the house as a woman with graying hair came into view.
"Yes, ma'am?" Adam called back without a second thought.
"Who's your friends?" She asked with a smile, nodding at the two.
"Jondy and Zane, they say they know me." He watched as her smile faltered for a heartbeat and then came back full force.
"Well then, bring them inside. I'd love to meet them."
"Yes, ma'am." And the woman once again disappeared from view.
"He's a cute little farm boy now," he heard Jondy whisper to Zane and turned around with a furrowed brow.
"What else would I be?"
"We'll talk about that later," Zane said elbowing Jondy in the ribs. "I have a feeling maybe we should take this slow."
"Yeah, the slow and boring way," Jondy said bouncing from foot to foot. "I have an idea," she went on as she followed Adam into the house, "let's act like we normally would and we can annoy the ever living hell out of him 'til he remembers us!"
"Won't that be fun?" Zane grinned cheekily as he swung an arm around her neck.
"Uh huh," she nodded her head vigorously.
"If I do know you, which I'm not convinced of yet, do I like you?" Adam stopped to look at them both, one eyebrow rising slowly.
Jondy slipped her arm around his and laughed, "darlin', you love us."
Next up is: Chapter 2: Sing me a memory