Two of a kind.
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What if Kyle saved Jessi from ZZYZX? This is AU story starting from S2Ep1. It is intended as a light romance oriented story – a bit out of my element, although there will be some action and drama as well. Let me know if it is worth continuing.
I am not associated with Kyle XY in any way.
Kyle got closer to the door and listened intently. His senses were heightened; he felt that whatever was on the other side was significant somehow. He wasn´t hearing, seeing, or using any of his senses to sense anything in particular. Instead, the entity seemed to bypass his senses and was attempting to interact with his subconscious directly. Never in his life has he experienced anything like it. Or perhaps the memory of this experience was buried deep in his subconscious. Suddenly a very real, very obvious sound approached him.
Foss swung his gun at Kyle trying to knock him out. Kyle heard him in time, moved to the side, and with a quick motion put Foss in a chokehold.
¨What are you doing here?" he asked
"What are You doing here?" Foss replied back quietly, not to alert the guards
This wouldn't get them anywhere.
"You shouldn't be here Kyle. You should go home."
"What is on the other side of that door?"
"You don't want to know!"
"I am not leaving until I see it!"
Foss looked Kyle over. Clearly Kyle has trained well, and Foss could no longer overpower him once the element of surprise was lost. The explosives were going to go off in under 30 minutes, and Kyle was stubborn enough to stand there and argue for as long.
"Alright I will show you."
The two walked into the room. Kyle took Foss's gun and walked slightly behind him just in case. What was inside the room was even more surprising than the original feeling. There was a large human size pod. Inside a brunette girl 16 years old or so was floating unconscious in a sort of a pink liquid. The girl appeared to react slightly when Kyle walked into the room, her eyelids moving somewhat indicating an increased brain activity.
"Who is she?" Kyle asked recovering from the shock
"781228"
"She is a human being, not a number!" Kyle responded coldly coming up to the pod
"Well she doesn't have a name, unless you include XX"
"She is like me…" Kyle said quietly "I thought I was one of a kind…"
One of the last words Adam told me is that he always felt alone, that he made me in his image. Having scattered Adam's ashes, I believed to be one of a kind. Yet judging by the pod design, and her body composition, she has never been outside the pod.
"We need to get her out!" Kyle concluded finally
"That's what I am here for" Foss lied to Kyle. XX was at best a secondary objective. Foss was never a scientist, but he has heard that XX was flawed, broken somehow, that she was no match for Kyle. Kyle's safety was far more important
"Alright" Kyle said simply and started draining the liquid from the tank
"Kyle…" Foss started "…from what I understand she is not like you. There was some flaw in her design… " "…she is aggressive and dangerous, she has cooperated with ZZYZX…" "…there is no telling what she could do…"
"So what do you suggest? That she spends her whole life in this pod? Nobody deserves this fate!" Kyle responded passionately "Especially not for a crime they have not yet committed."
"Just be careful" Foss gave up. They only had 25 minutes left
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Kyle put his jacket on the girl and carried her outside. He was getting a little nervous. Kyle has never shared Josh's obsession with pornography, and things with Amanda were unpromising at best. So XX was the first girl he saw naked… So far as he could tell her proportions were flawless, and her…
I need to control myself! What's wrong with me? The girl needs my help and all I can think of was how I wiped the pink goo of her with that small towel… The texture of her skin was so… Oh common. Ok don't panic, it's February, its cold outside and she needed to be dried. No harm done.
Kyle laid the girl down and examined her vitals.
"She seems to be unconscious, but otherwise unharmed." He concluded
Foss was walking nervously around. 10 minutes left. If Kyle finds out about the bombs he could run in and do something stupid. Thankfully he seemed preoccupied about the girl. Hopefully she will keep his attention long enough.
The girl's eyes fluttered opened. She looked at the two men fearfully. The younger extended both his arms with open palms, smiled and was moving very slowly not to scare her.
"Hi, I am Kyle." He said softly pointing to himself "don't be afraid." The girl was still cautious, although not as scared "you must be thirsty." Kyle said taking a sip out of his water bottle and handing it to her. The girl took a sip of water seemingly trying to understand the meaning of that action. Once reassured it wasn't dangerous, she finished half a bottle.
"You think water is good, you are going to love this!" Kyle said excitedly as he pulled out a bag of sour-patch-kits out of his pocket. "Food" he said eating one to show her it was safe and handing her the bag. The girl took it without hesitation and tried it.
Who could possible resist their sour-sweet goodness?! Once the girl tasted it I could almost feel the taste explosion in my mouth. She smiled brightly – seemingly mimicking my actions. Within a minute she finished the package and stared at me for a second expecting more treats.
"That's all I got on me." Kyle said apologetically. The girl realizing what he said came closer and pocked his cheek with her finger. Seemingly fascinated she started touching his face and her own realizing the distinctions between the two.
She reminded me so much of myself in those first few days after I got out of the pod. Our reactions, our urges, our desire to relate to other people: it was all there. After examining my face she pulled on my hair lightly and grinned. Then she pulled on hers and pulled her hand back covered in pink goo. Seemingly worried she looked at me questioningly.
"Your hair is wet, mine is dry." Kyle explained pronouncing every word
"Dly" she tried to copy his words as she ran her hands through his hair
It took me a few days to realize the social norms governing human behavior. Her hands going through my hair felt… a little strange yet enjoyable but certainly inappropriate. But how can I explain that point to her without scaring her? After all I kissed Nicole the first day I met her. I wonder if she tries to kiss me… Stop it!
In the meantime the girl ventured away from Kyle for a second to examine the car they came in with. Suddenly a loud explosion shook ZZYZX complex. Fire rushed outside the subterranean entrance. Stunned Kyle looked at Foss in awe. The girl jerked towards Kyle in fear and embraced him with both hands squeezing very tightly. Anybody else would have trouble breathing, yet Kyle was comfortable. She was strong, as strong as him perhaps, and had no understanding of her strength. She hid her face in Kyle´s shirt the way a child closes his eyes with his hands when he is scared.
"What the hell was that?" Kyle asked Foss angrily.
"Fifteen pounds of C4" he responded calmly "Let's go."
"Lets go?!" "You just killed all those people!!" "We have to help them!" Kyle yelled back
"No" Foss responded "There is no one left alive." "I know my explosives"
"You…"
I didn't finish. How could Foss kill all those people! I was angry, angrier then I have ever been. Suddenly I was hit by a wave of strong emotions: rejection, desperation, loneliness. It was even stronger then my anger. But why? Why would I feel that way? Then a thought struck me. I looked down…
The girl became convinced that he was yelling at her. She was looking up at him trying to understand what she did wrong. She had such pain, such desperation in her eyes, it could melt a stone. And Kyle's heart was far from a stone.
"No sweetie, not you, I am not yelling at you" Kyle's expression softened immediately. He hugged her back, and smiled warmly trying to dissuade her worries. "I think… I just felt your emotions… I have no idea how…" forgetting his previous reservations he ran his hands over her back "…don't be scared…"
The girl reassured looked at him with gratitude.
"We should get out of here" Foss started again
"Tom, somebody could still be alive…"
"So what, you are just going to leave her here?" Foss suddenly found a trump card "A clueless, pretty, half naked girl at night in the middle of the woods?" "Who knows what can happen?"
In the car the girl grasped Kyle's hand tightly and put it on her lap. Satisfied she was looking outside the back window trying to understand the world.
The lesson in modesty would have to wait. I realized she needed me the way I needed the Tragers, and her affection had nothing sexual behind it. I would just have to control my hormones.
"You need a name." Kyle said finally looking at her "We can't just call you XX."
"Kyle?" the girl turned to him
"No, I am Kyle. It's a boy's name…" "Tom, any ideas?"
"Um I don't know…" he was surprised Kyle finally said a word to him "Rebecca?"
"Rebecca…" Kyle turned to the girl "do you like it?"
"Lebecca…" the girl repeated "Lebecca" she pouted. She couldn't pronounce 'r'
"You'll get it, it's a hard letter to learn." Kyle couldn't help but smile
"Hald!" the girl complained with a playful grimace on her face
She looked adorable… But Rebecca didn't seem to fit
"How about Jessi?" He said thinking it over
"Jessi!" The girl responded excitedly
"Jessi…" Kyle repeated again. It sounded good.
Review! Let me know how my characters sound.
p.s. Jessi will learn her ´r´s, don´t worry.