Meant or meant not to

Chapter 1

They weren't meant to be.

"Subject 781226 and 781227 are no longer cooperating. I will have them terminated."

They were unique. Twins. Male and Female, the first ever. And the first to survive.

"You can't do this!" Tom Foss yelled. After all they were just kids. Kids that never had a childhood and were brought into this world in a way one would have never imagined before. They were lab-rats. Though their creator and father Adam Baylin cared about them, he was denied to further lead this project. And now….

"All this time I was scared of them when in fact they were scared of us…."

And here they were now. At the Trager's house experiencing for the first time what a human touch was like. What a human urge was like. "I want to name them after my favourite uncle and after my favourite grandma. I loved them a lot. Kyle and Makemba."

That were their names now. There was a lot to explore and as alike they were, just as different they were too.

Kyle the soft, charming boy who couldn't step on a fly. And Makemba, Kem, the hostile girl that didn't trust anyone until she was sure. And when she did, it was hard to lose her trust. As much as Kyle wanted to explore his past, Kem couldn't care less. "We have a family that loves us, why dig around in what we might never find out or just get ourselves hurt over." She kept saying.

Kyle was overprotective of her, adding a lot to her "Don't ask, don't tell" behaviour.

He would abandon the Trager's without second thought if it meant for her to be save. Something Foss had always warned him about. But after all, they were twins. With a possibly stronger connection than anyone would have thought. They could both sense each other from miles away, and even read each others thoughts if they wanted to, but they acknowledged each others privacy.

Neither of the two liked practice a lot, but they came to like Foss and also came to understand that he, just like Adam, wanted company. So they obeyed.

It was a Thursday evening. Unusually warm compared to the last colder days. Kyle and Kem entered the warehouse. It was dark, so noone had switched the lights on yet.

"Foss, are you there?" Kyle yelled, his voice echoing from the stone cold walls.

"Yes I am."

"Why aren't the lights on?" Kem inquired and immediately whispered to herself "I wouldn't even know where a switch might be…"

"Train your eyes." Foss said sternly from somewhere in the left hand corner.

"Uh…"

"Shut out all your other skills and try to focus on your vision." Foss said again.

Suddenly Kem shrieked and Foss heard something being flung through the room.

It was a snake. She was scared shitless of them. And that was what usually triggered the most strength within her. Kyle even went as far as to provoke her just to have her bust a car. Which he regretted terribly afterwards.

"What the hell?" Foss yelled, switching the lights on to look at them both. Kyle looked scared, whilst Kem looked confused. "What was that?" he inquired further. "Who just threw that snake across the room!"

Kem swallowed which led Foss to believe it was her.

"Did you just do that?"

"I guess so…."

"I have been working my ass off trying to teach you to move a tennis ball and you just throw a snake around as if it was nothing!"

Now Kem got upset. Kyle wanted to step inbetween as to save his sister from trouble but it was already too late. Kem had a temper, that was for sure. "So what! Hell yeah it flew around, let's hope it is dead. End of story." She pouted crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"No I…" Foss laughed slightly "I'm just impressed. You are much stronger than I thought."

Kem still glared at him. Hostile as always. She was more developed than Kyle, yet too lazy to actually try and use her powers or show them off. She'd only show her true nature when someone was in danger. Especially when it came to family or friends. Kyle always tried to stay friendly. It was almost like Ying and Yang with those too. Something Adam was so very proud of. But seeing Kyle was a lot like Adam, was Kem just like their mother? Warmhearted yet suspicious? Would she have looked like her in her younger days? Kyle couldn't stop wondering.

Training was over. Though Kyle still felt the tension. Foss curious about what else Kem might do, and Kyle worried about she could have done. It was plain and simply awkward. But finally they were home with their family.

"Dinner will be ready soon!" Nicole yelled from the kitchen as the both passed through the hall.

"Great." Both said smiling.

Kyle sensed Kem was tensing up. Something was wrong.

"Kem what is it?" he said grabbing her arm gently once they were securely in their room.

"Just not feeling well, don't worry." She replied and sat down on her bed which was located right left from the door. The tub had finally left and they had beds now. It was funny how they never minded sharing a tub (or bed) together when one would suspect a teenager would want more privacy.

"Why aren't you feeling well?"

"Just don't. I am ok. Don't worry."

"But I do." Kyle pressed further. Kem sighed, leaning against the cool wall.

"Kyle it's just…the time of a month… you know?"

Kyle looked at her quizzical. "Month? What are you talking about?".

Kem merely raised and eyebrow at her brother. Talking about an erection was one thing but this… let's not give him a heartattack.

"I got my period."

"Your what?"

Hell brother… you know an entire encyclopaedia by heart but not that? You got to be kidding me. How to handle this. Mention too much and he might rush me to a hospital in the blink of an eye. Dammit.

"I. uh, just Menstruation, you know."

Another quizzical look.

So Kem explained it to him, which only left her to believe that her brother was more worried about her than ever. "It's completely normal. Trust me I was freaked out when I first heard about it too, but after all you are not the one going through it, the one…you know."

Kyle still looked as if someone had told him his sister had cancer or god knows what. She felt hopeless, embarrassed and more uncomfortable than she had when she threw that snake across the room without intending to. She just had to fill in her brother some more into the world of growing up. Now had she also mentioned sex and masturbation and everything she and Nicole had talked about the day she got here, Kyle would have gone paler than he already was and most likely freaked out. One day he had to know though. And Kem feared that that would be the day he wouldn't let any guy touch her.

"If you need pads or tampons, feel free to help yourself in the bathroom, they are in the drawer right next to the sink." That was the sentence that started it. Kem had been confused and Nicole had talked to her. Hell, it would have been worse for sure had 'it' appeared without her knowing why. Now Kyle gave her an idea as to how she might have looked the day she was filled in into what it was like to be a woman.

Lucky Kyle, an erection is all that's bothering you every now and then… and you don't even know what it's for.