Deleted Scenes for Children of our Souls (3)
Chap 6 - to much canon for AU 'Takeo's breakdown'
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He gaze had already moved away at the rustle of cloth, the boys had stirred for the first time in days. "It was a lie?" Takeo's voice was desolate, M turned to warn him the kids were waking, "Than what reason do I have to live?" That was too much.
"A reason to live, you need a reason to live when no one is controlling your life? Dr. Aris will be so pleased." M snapped at the sniper.
"What did you just say?" Takeo was glaring at him now
"That's harsh. You have no idea how much Takeo sacrificed for his sister..."
"So what? You want a hug?" M smirked, if the sniper actually said yes he knew a kid who would give him dozens.
"M-21 what is wrong with you?" Now Tao was restraining Takeo, a reverse from earlier.
"At least you were better off than us," M would prefer to pound his point home with some more insults but he didn't know how aware the kids were, "as experimental subjects we are grateful to live one more day." he vaguely realised he had removed his hands balled them into fists. "You're telling me you don't have a reason to live? You know how that sounds to me? We would do anything to live longer."
M-21 felt his anger surge as memories of helplessness crashed into him and suddenly he was shouting at the sniper without regard for his surroundings. "You say you have no reason to live because Aris played a trick on you? You can just live without a sister!" He forcefully wrestled his control back and continued at a more suitable volume, "Never say that crap in front of me again, at least you have a colleague who has been with you all this time."
Cuteness two – 'Gejutel you should have listened'
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"I'm Victor Lee," Brother introduced himself.
"Cadis Lee,"
"Gejutel K. Langder," Gramps introduced himself. He had been asked to look after the boys today because Takeo and Tao needed to do an 'induction'. Adult business even when they were less than 60 years old them self. Cadis had been standing very close to Gramps for over ten minutes, he was looking for hugs but Gramps thought they should introduce themselves personally.
"Will you play games with us?" Victor wanted to know as Cadis finally realised no hugs would be forthcoming.
"No, I need to check on the school Frankenstein is running. Do you have to bring anything when going outside?" Gramps Ge was radiating caution and irritation.
"Jackets, badges, warm clothes and food." The boys recited, their voices interweaving.
"You need to take all that?" Gramps Ge seemed astonished.
"Most stays in our back packs." Victor informed him.
"Are we going now?" Cadis asked; they had never left home during school time before. There could be different rules during this time. Oh the uniform, Papa was the only one who didn't need to wear a uniform outside during school time.
"Yes, I wish to leave now so get everything you need to bring with you." Gramps Ge encouraged them. Excited over the idea of being outside with only one other person Victor grabbed Cadis' hand and dragged him to their room.
Cadis carefully changed his clothes into the uniform dad wore as Victor pulled their jackets down from the pegs. Cadis accepted the sunny yellow jacket then realised the uniform already came with a white one. After a moment's thought he put it neatly on his bed and moved the coin bag into his current jacket.
Victor hadn't chosen to change out of his blue shirt and overalls but that was to be expected, his little brother had difficultly shifting. It went well with his long dark blue jacket to, every suitable.
Returning to Gramps Ge; Cadis was surprised to note he didn't have their badges or back packs ready for them to put on. Normally the badges at least were insisted upon, lots of differences were appearing for this school time outing.
Cadis still missed his flower shaped badge, he was meant to show it to shiny people when he got lost. Victors badge in the shape of a cloud was also nice even if he never used it. Gramps Ge raised an eyebrow at the change in their appearance but made no comment as he opened the front door and left the house with the boys.
Cuteness 2- the boys are too dishonest for here,
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Cadis clasped Victors hand and rushed in a different direction. Looking ahead Victor noticed two 'officer' persons and prepared to sound afraid. As they closed the distance to the 'officer' persons Victor rubbed his eyes hard enough they started to water.
"Scarry man, 'ha' man 's scary!" Cadis wailed to the officer having grabbed onto ones pant leg with both hands. Victor looked at his brother genuinely spooked now. That wasn't like Cadis at all. Never mind that he was pronouncing less sounds correctly than he could; grabbing the officers leg was impolite. Had the sticky man really scared his brother? They both could easily get away.
"What man little guy?" the other officer asked, Cadis pointed to the sticky man. Looking at the sticky man Victor noted he was closer than before and burst into tears. If nothing else Cadis' new behaviour had shocked him enough that the sticky man seemed scary.
"This is patrol two, we have a suspicious man in city park. I repeat, this is patrol two, we have spotted a suspicious man in city park." Cadis was resting his head against the leg he had grabbed. "The man with a black sweeter, dark shades and a white cap. He is near the play equipment patrol three. He spooked some kids enough that they came to us." Victor realised his brothers aura was calm, when did Cadis not get embarrassed from his inelegant speech? "I'll ask but you need to keep an eye on the suspect." The officer Cadis was holding continued.
"Now kids, your parents are where?" the other officer questioned.
"We lost them this morning." Victor told the officer, his eyes still wet. Cadis pointed to his heart at the same time than looked extra upset, they mustn't talk of the bond to strangers.
"Why is the man scary?" the officer Cadis just released added.
Victor just stared at them, the sticky man hadn't seemed scary until Cadis acted strange, and they had been told to call people with sticky auras 'scary' by papa. "He was holding a big knife," was Cadis' response. His brother didn't lie, when had he seen that?
"Now kids we need you to come with us to the station." The talkative officer informed them. Victor didn't know it but a member of patrol three recognised the 'scary man' as a 'wanted man.'
So these are deleted or vastly edited scenes as you can see. Too much soild writing was getting deleted as I got better/different ideas for the fic and it's happening on other stories too. So instead of making a habit of extra snippets that are just a different version of what I wrote again I've decided to make a posted file for all of them. To be published after the polished/finished version is posted, for those who want to read them.
