Choice One: The Beginning Chapter 1, an a-team fanfic

AN: Okay, so I am writing two A-Team fics at the moment, so they are both my first attempt at A-Team fan fiction, so please help with anything, especially staying in character. My other one is 'Lies', it may not be published yet. Also, based in the 2010 movie.

Just so there is no confusion, Alex only sees her Dad once every 2 – 4 months, for two weeks.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything you see and recognize.

The last thing she wanted to do was watch Glee's Rocky Horror with her step dad again. She wants to watch Rocky Horror, the original, but her eyes glaze over as a flash back is played in her head.

Two Weeks Prior

She had just returned from her friends and her step father, Sam, was watching Glee's Rocky Horror.

"You know that the original is way better." She says as she throws her bag on the hook. "And it has all the songs, minus 'Once In A While'."

"Did you just bag out Glee?" Sam stands up, a flame appears in his blue eyes, blonde hair falling around his head.

"No!" The girl shakes her head, her pale form shaking. She may be well built, but her step father was stronger and bigger. Her green eyes widen in fear. "I was just saying I prefer the original Rocky Horror." Suddenly, a loud slap is heard around the house. The girl's long, black hair is mixed with her white side fringe as she is knocked to the ground. Her pale, thin lips are now covered in blood as her small nose hits the ground, causing it to bleed.

"What have I said about this house now?" He yells as he starts to hit her over and over again, each blow harder and more painful then the last.

"That you run it!" She screams in pain.

"Babe?" Her mother calls out. "What is wrong?" Suddenly, Sam's attitude changes and he seems all sweet and caring.

"Nothing, your clumsy daughter just fell down the stairs again."

This event was mild compared to what else she had to suffer from her step dad.

"I'm home!" She calls out. She pulls out her phone and checks her messages.

Two Unseen Messages

Five Missed Calls

Three Voice Mail Messages

Seven Unseen E-Mails

Sixteen Unseen IM Messages

Sighing, the girl looks through her emails.

Al,

It's Face. You haven't answered your Dad in ages and he is worried sick and guess who he is taking the blame all out on? Yep, all of us.

Anyway can you please message him some time soon?

Face

LEXI,

Hey, just wondering if you can message your Dad soon!

ZOOM!

Murdock.

Sighing, Alexis deletes her emails, not bothering to reply, and moves on to her IM messages.

Howling_Mad: Call us soon

Howling_Mad: Hello?

Howling_Mad: Alexis?

Rolling her eyes, Alexis deletes the conversation with Murdock and moves on to her missed calls.

Missed Calls:

Dad

Amelia

Face

Dad

'Why is he panicking? I saw him last month; it isn't like I have died in that time.' She thinks. 'Mind you, I did arrive un-invited with injuries. But I didn't tell him who did it.' She winces at the memory and deletes her Missed Calls History and moves to her texts.

Lex,

Can you stay tomorrow?

May

Lexi,

Mom bought us tickets for Sound of Music, you wanna go? It is in a fortnight.

Nicole.

Laughing, she deletes May's text and answers Nicole's.

'Staying at Dad's, sorry. Ask May, she wanted to go but she can't afford to buy a ticket. Heart Alex.'

Finally, she dials 101 and listens to her messages.

"Hey sweetheart, just reminding you to ask your mom about next weekend." She presses five and deletes her father's message. Leaning against the wall, she listens to the next one.

"Alexis, you haven't answered my question. Do you want to go see the SOM with Mom and me or not?" She presses five and Amelia's message goes into the trash.

"Lex, your dad is worried. Give us a call soon." She giggles and deletes Face's message. Face, worried about her? She would never dream of such thing!

They fight constantly like bother and sister. B.A is the protective brother and the one who taught her about mechanics and Murdock is the one she talks to when she needs a laugh.

Alexis skips into the kitchen where her mother is drinking a coffee. Her black hair falls loosely down her back and her blue eyes have bags.

"Mom?" Alexis asks as her weak looking mother reads the paper.

"Alex?" She murmurs.

"Dad wants to know if he can have me this weekend." Her mother smiles.

"Sure, stay there for as long as you like." Alex squeals and runs up stairs. Her room is a cream colour with a dark purple for a feature wall, which her bed leaned against. Two large fans with a Japanese Kanji character painted on them, courage and strength. Under it, a smaller fan with a blood red dragon blowing out flames with Japanese characters written underneath it, 'A child of a dragon is a strong one.' Her computer is in the far left, near the window. Next to it, a large, deep brown, wooden book case filled with fictitious books. A top of the book case was a large box filled with fans, each with a different message. Comedy and Tragedy masks are painted on the wall above her book case. A keyboard, guitar and clarinet are all in the far right and then her closet. A stereo system is on a shelf above her bed and her remote is on her bed side table, which has a small cupboard filled with history books. Her drawers are filled with CD's. On a shelf above her masks are a flat screen TV, DVD player and DVD's are in her closet. She loves her room.

She spins and lands on her double bed, her black and purple sheets with the Japanese Kanji characters for Love and Caring scatter her bed sheets. Pulling out her iPod Touch, she starts to play 'Jesus Frankenstein' by Rob Zombie (AN: Apparently he is a good horror movie creator, but he is an even awesomer Heavy Metal singer.) and she pulls out her phone, emailing Face.

'Facey!

=p. Yeah, telling him I am fine and I will see him tomorrow, same place and time. Also tell him my credit ran out and I was at a friend's place.

Heart,

Lexi'

After sending that, she dances around the room, packing all the things she needs. Her box of fans (to show Murdock), iPod, phone, clothes, laptop and two books. Her purple bag is overflowing and heavy, but she doesn't care. Her father, who she sees every 2 – 3 months (if she is lucky) for two weeks or more (again, if she is lucky), allows her on missions, which would freak her mother out. 'You know how to horse ride? I know how to shoot someone with out killing them and I have helped with military missions, beat that!' the sixteen year old often thought while others bragged over what they could do.

"ALL HAIL!

JESUS FRANKENSTIEN!

ALL HAIL!

JESUS FRANKENSTEIN!" Zombie sings. Humming along, she checks the time…six thirty. Dinner is at seven for the parents, then she cooks her own, so around eight forty five is dinner and then she makes lunch for school and gets ready for the next day. She skips down the stairs and pulls out her English homework and starts to write.

She woke up early, excited, anxious and ready to go to work. Checking her phone, the time is seven in the morning, with one email. Pulling out her emails, it is her boss.

Al,

Can you come in today at around eight? Mary has a doctor's appointment and can't come in. Sorry about that.

June.

Grinning, Alexis gets up and dresses in her usual different green camouflage trousers that hangs loosely at her hips, tight black t-shirt and a white shirt with holes with two words in large, black text: 'Psych Ward'. Her shoes are black and white striped converse with black laces. She pulls her hair up into a ponytail with a blood crimson ribbon.

Grabbing her heavy bag and her wallet (black leather with fancy, gothic writing in silver metal saying: Alexis) before running down the stairs and out the door. Slamming the door shut, Alexis runs down to the bus stop, almost missing her 180 Bus to town. Boarding, she pays the bus driver, sitting down towards the front.

After ten minutes of Rob Zombie, she exits the bus and emails her boss to say she was coming in and leaving at the normal time. Smiling, she skips with her bag over her shoulder. This was a time when she was thankful she was stronger then most teenaged girls. Whistling, she enters the small café she works at, La Bells. Her boss is sweeping up, humming Grenade by Bruno Mars.

"But you won't do the same!" Alexis sings in time. "That is a good song." She walks into the back room, goes to her locker, punches in the numbers 35-18-25 and puts her bag inside. Grabbing an apron, she takes off her white shirt and tied up her black apron that covered most of her legs.

"I have a black skirt in the back room with some flats!" June yells out. "Wear that! And thanks for getting her early!" Laughing, Alexis grabs a knee length skirt and size ten flats. As if she had anything better to do. Quickly changing and hanging up her other clothes, placing her shoes by the coat hook, she starts to sing while cleaning.

"Listen up, turn it up and rock it out
party on, I wanna hear you scream and shout
this is real, as real as it gets
I came to your town to get some fucking respect
taking it back to hardcore level
you better be ready, put your pedal to the metal
taking it back to hardcore level
you better be ready, put your pedal to the metal.

(AN: My Beta said to put a time skip in here, so here we are! If you want to hear all of it, YouTube To Be Loved Papa Roach)

I want domination
I want your submission
I see you're not resisting
To this temptation
I've got one confession
I love deprivation
I've got a jet black heart
It's all fucked up and it's falling apart" She sings while playing the air guitar with skill, experience and passion. She jumps on one of the dirty tables and pumps her fist. June just smiles and watches.

I've got another confession
I fell to temptation
And there is no question
There was some connection
I've got to follow my heart
No matter how far
I've gotta roll the dice
Never look back and never think twice." Alex jumps off the table and grabs her heart and jumps up and down in a perfect line, her posture perfect, and as she jumps she shakes her head. At 'I just wanna be, wanna be loved' she stops jumping and twirls quickly before stamping her foot to the ground so both feet are shoulders length apart. Then she repeats it. At 'I've got another confession' she skips to June and twirls around with her. 'I fell to temptation' She lowers her self while holding June's hand so her head touches the ground. She does this at 'I fell' then at 'to temptation' she quickly stands up and wraps a leg around June, who just raises her eyebrow and smirks. She removes herself from 'And there is no question' and she twirls before stamping her foot down and wrapping her arms around her waist at 'there was some connection'. At 'I've got to follow my heart' she grabs her head with both hands and falls back into an arch to her head touches the back of her shoes. 'No matter how far', she does a back flip and sidesteps five meters before flipping her way past June and near the kitchen at 'I've gotta roll the dice, never look back and never then twice.'

"Whoa I'll never give in
Whoa I'll never give up
Whoa I'll never give in
I just wanna be, wanna be loved
Whoa I'll never give in
Whoa I'll never give up
Whoa I'll never give in
I just wanna be, wanna be loved" She starts to play air guitar and at 'I just wanna be, wanna be loved' she falls to the ground before jumping up and she starts to play the air guitar again.

"Take your past and burn it up and let it go
Carry on; I'm stronger than you'll ever know
That's the deal; you get no respect
You're gonna get yours
You better watch your fucking neck

Take your past and burn it up and let it go
Carry on; I'm stronger than you'll ever know
That's the deal; you get no respect
You're gonna get yours
You better watch your fucking neck" She pretends to hold a mic and she jumps in time with the beat. She pumps her fist at 'Take your past and burn it up and let it go' while jumping. At 'You better watch' she grabs a broom and starts to sing loudly into the handle.

"Whoa I'll never give in
Whoa I'll never give up
Whoa I'll never give in
I just wanna be, wanna be loved
Whoa I'll never give in
Whoa I'll never give up
Whoa I'll never give in
I just wanna be, wanna be loved" She stops and starts to sweep as if nothing just happened.

"I hate it when you do that." June mumbles.

"Well, at least it wasn't Rob Zombie." Some says behind her.

"Do you want me to start singing Werewolf Women of the SS?" She laughs. "Well, Matt?" She jumps up and down.

"Get stuffed." He snorts.

"Yeah, well you should grow some balls and tell June's brother you love him." She retorts and June laughs loudly. "ALL HAIL!" She screams while doing a guitar solo on the broom. Matt just rolls his eyes.

"What ever."

"Go suck some balls." She flicks him the finger before opening the door and taking the sign out. "Now, children, behave, we have guests." She smiles sweetly and then does a mad grin. Matt walks into the kitchen and starts the ovens and what not while Alexis and June talk about music.

"Dad is coming to pick me up; I don't know how long I am going to be away for this time. But…" She sighs.

"Al?"

"You know those meds the hospital gave me?"

"Mmhmm."

"He doesn't know about them, or what they do. They haven't really shown me what will happen, but if the worst happens, promise to stick by me no matter what?" She smiles and pulls her into a hug.

"Haven't I always?"

"LESBIAN SEX!" Matt calls out from the kitchen.

"SHHH! Nobody knows yet!" Alexis yells back at him.

Just then, her cousins walk in. "DAMN! NOW WE ARE OUT OF THE CLOSET!" Everyone hears chuckling from the kitchen. "Yeah?" Alexis asks.

"Nothing." They all say, looking at their shoes. Alex smiles. Her cousins where the only two that really cared. They were only ten and eight, but they where her favourite friends outside school and work.

"You want to know if I am returning, right?" They nod sheepishly.

"Please say you are this time." The youngest, Meg, begs.

"Yeah, I'll return. Now shoo, I am working."

As soon as the clock hits three, Alexis runs out the back and changes back into her gear. Running out the door, she yells a goodbye June. Running towards the park, Alex sees Murdock there, humming a tune.

"Hello my foreign friend." She yells out in fluent German.

Grinning, he walks over and gives her a quick hug. "You're getting better."

"Well, I am pretty good for someone who only learns once a month." She glares, still speaking fluently, even down to the accent. Looking around, no one is about. She drops her bag at her feet and asks "Where are the others?"

"BA refused to get on the plane, so he is out. Hannibal and Face are making sure he doesn't come over to pound my face." Alexis snorts.

"You caught him this time, didn't you?" Alexis questions.

"Um….sure." He mumbles. Laughing, Alex shakes her head.

"He is going to murder you." She squeals as someone lifts her up into the air.

"Only when you're not around Al." BA picks her up and throws her over his shoulder.

"Not funny. When you least expect it, you will be pushed out of a plane with a parachute. Put me down." She warns.

"Let her down BA." Face says.

"Yeah. You're bike ain't gonna make it to morning if you don't." She pounds at his back. Face and Hannibal smirk. "Up yours! And you should be helping, not standing their smirking!" She glares.

"BA, put her down." Her dad says while trying to hide his amusement. He smiles, putting her down as she crosses her arms and glares. He does the same to her and she smirks.

"Still can't do it correctly BA." She picks up her bag. "So, how are we getting back to base?"

"I ain't flying. I'll die before I step on a plane again, man." BA turns to Hannibal. Smirking, Alex discreetly pulls out sedative from her bag, Hannibal nods quietly. Placing it behind her back, in-front of her bag so it was hidden, Alex walks down with the boys to the van, arguing all the way with Face about how retard Lieutenant Sosa is.

"She knew you were a player, you wanted to get serious, and she freaked." Alex stops and turns towards him. "She may have loved you, but it was for purely sexual attraction Face! It has been three years! THREE YEARS! And we are still talking about it. Next time you are alone, ask her if what I said is true. If it is, and it is, then you owe me seventy dollars." She holds out her hand as everyone piles into the van. He shakes, looking at her with anger in his eyes. She gets in her seat behind BA, getting the sedative out and Murdock tries to change the CD to Police's Roxanne.

Alex taps Murdock on the shoulder. "Put in this one." Murdock quickly changes it and Bullet For My Valentine's 'Your Betrayal' is played through out the car. Everyone groans in unison, but Alex pinches each of them. "I am the guest, I choose the music." She settles back, grinning evilly at Face.

They arrive outside the airport, when BA turns off the van.

"Hell no, I am not going any further." Alex looks at her father and he nods. She sits forward, places her hand on his neck and gently pricks the needle into his neck, forcing the medicine inside. "What are you doing foo-" BA falls on the horn, making it blare out loudly. Alex and Murdock get out, moving him to the front seat and Face takes the wheel as the other two get in the back.

"Yeah, we need to get stronger med's for his aviatophobia." Alex sighs. "Fear of flying sweetie." She tells Face as he looks at her in confusion. "It is amazing what you can learn from a very smart minor, especially if you are a stupid senior." Face growls as he drives into the plane. "Okay, we have a car in a plane…one question…why?"

"Because if we left it here, BA would throw a fit." Alex laughs as she helps Face get BA up to the pit, where they strap him in firmly. Slowly, he starts to wake up, groaning a little as his blurred vision becomes clear and his hearing returns. "Doesn't take him very long anymore." Alex comments.

"That was a weak one." Murdock explains as he starts to flick various switches. "Won't give him a headache, unlike the last one."

"Take this." Alex gives him a pill.

"This better knock me out." He says, looking down at it, realizing where he is.

"I use it during my monthly, your safe." She pats his shoulder as Face, Murdock and BA just stare at her, Hannibal smirking, looking out the window.

"Captain, I think we should go now." Hannibal says as BA takes a pill, falling asleep almost instantly.

"Did we really need to know what those pills were used for?" Face asks Alex as she straps in and Murdock gets ready to take off.

"But it is true; during my monthly I use them. I also use them when I can't sleep. So, during my monthly I can't sleep and I normally can't sleep anyway, so I use them weekly, monthly, annually," Murdock snorts "and orally." That time, Hannibal turns around to look at her. "I mean the pills Dad." She says coolly. "Where are your heads?" She looks at Face, whose jaw is touching the ground. Smirking, Alex picks up his jaw.

"Sweetie, I know you think that looks sexy, but it really doesn't." She teases, looking out the window as they take off. She grabs her bag and pulls out her book, making sure she grabbed the right one.

"'Unlocked?'" Face reads the cover.

"Great book. Inspiring, touching, caring."

"Another abuse story?" Face asks. Alex looks at him. "How has your mother and step-father taken care of you over the last month?"

"Face." Hannibal growls, warning him as Alex hisses like a vampire.

"I suggest you shut up now Face." She hisses evilly. "You never know what I might announce to the entire camp when we get there." She turns and crosses her legs, placing her book close to her chest. "It is about Autism." She finally sighs. Face, along with Hannibal and Murdock, stiffens.

One Year Prior

Alex pounds on her friend's door.

"Maybe their not home?" Face suggests with a shrug.

"No, the text said they were home…" Alex's body starts to shake while pounding on the door harder.

"Ever thought on using the bell?" Face smirks.

"Broken." Alex steps back and kicks the door down before running quickly to the stairs in the Victorian house. Climbing up the stairs, two at a time, before opening the double doors too her two best friend's room who just happen to be twins. Paper is scattered around the room, like rectangular snowflakes. Two music folders are opened to 'Fur Elise', a silver flute in mint condition and a black clarinet, also in mint condition, sit on one of the two double beds. The purple sheets with a red and black yin and yang in the center has been torn and ruined along with the bed frame. Knives are stuck all in the wall and door frames. The second bed has plain, silk, black sheets. The walls have red paint saying 'Morsdiligimusones'. All in all, the room looks like a cyclone had just gone through.

"Death to the ones we love." Alex says sadly. Turning to the right she sees another message written in a deep purple (almost black) paint. 'Vita non capi manu hominis.'

"And this one?" Hannibal asks, walking next to Alex.

"Life shouldn't be taken by the hand of man." Alex winces. "Our old saying for when I was depressed. Vita non capi manu hominis. Vita non capi manu hominis." She repeats. "Eheu! Mea vitamea estpotestate!"(Oh no! My life is mine to control!) She gasps, remembering her text.

She runs into the walk in robe and Sam (the eldest) is hanging from the wall from one of her belts. Her head is resting on her chest and her body limp. Two tears hang from her chin and her hair, blonde, dirty, damp, hangs like strings down her back.

"Al." Murdock's hand rests on her shoulder. She just shrugs it off and walks slowly past her newly dead best friend and two the bathroom door, which is semi-open. She pushes the door open and in the bath Sam's twin, Joan, lies in the bath which is a muddy red. Her wrists are sliced open and blood continues to pour out of them. Two tears fall slowly down Alex's face as she sudders.

"I told them." She shakes, voice weak. "I told them!" She screeches. "I told them and they didn't listen." She runs her hands over the bench, sending the razors, toothpaste and cosmetics all to the ground. The razors cut deep into her skin. She sits back, runs her back across the wall and crawls into a ball and cries freely as the four men look around, confused at the sight of Alex's anger, frustration and sadness, not to mention her sudden outburst. "THEY WERE BEING BULLIED OVER THEIR DAMNED AUTISM!" She cries. Nothing stopped the small rivers on her cheeks as she just sat there, numb, quiet, shaking and unable to feel anything but pain and loss. Even when the boys tried to comfort her, she couldn't hear them, feel them, thank them. Alex was well and truly broken.

Now

"Yeah." Alex sighs. "It is apparently a good book." She puts it away and Face instantly starts teasing her lightly, which she returns. The old memory is forgotten as the two fight like siblings until they get to camp. Unknown to Alex, this would be the last time she would ever see home. And that she would have to start making choices no other would ever have to make. Which would eventually break her.

AN: I am soooo sorry it is soo OOC, but I need help…anyone? Also, should I continue? I have two (hopefully) betas, so thank you Bree-Bee and Ichigo's-Lover-1996 for being my wonderful betas!