"Orphans Beloved: "Who Mourns For…"
Summary: Like my Immortal Beloved bits in my Buffyverse stories, these are fragments and short bits, some longer…Just to fiddle with ideas, possibly forming longer tales later.
Disclaimer: No copy write infringement intended…
Dyad Institute…
Office of Aldous Leekie…
"Great Scott…" he stares at altered experimental set-up… "I've created life itself…"
Paul Dierden enters, calm look…
God, how does he manage to keep that cool, knowing he's fish bait the moment we don't need him to lure Sarah…Leekie eyes him.
"You sent for me?" cool tone.
"Paul…" Aldous Leekie, urgent tone… "Something has happened…Something pretty serious. And for Sarah's sake…I want you to get out of…"
Rachel, entering in fury, slamming door…
"I might have known…!"
"Rachel…" Aldous tried his patented soothing tone…
"Trying to rescue your favorite ersatz daughter's boyfriend, are we?!" she fumed.
"Rachel…I know you're upset, dear."
"First she puts hands on me! Then…It's time we remember whose parents left Dyad in her care!" she eyed Paul furiously… "Eye for an eye, Aldous!"
"Rachel, Sarah had good reason…You'd no right…"
"He was just doing his job…He'd specific instructions not to…" Rachel, suddenly sobbing… "Oh…Daniel…" weeping…
Paul, a bit nonplused…
Rachel weeping? For that little…?
"Sweetheart…" Aldous rising…
"Aldous…I loved him so…Oh, and here I was having to hurt him, playing up to …This…" she eyed Paul coldly. "…Just to get Sarah off-balance and keep him feeding her false information."
Hey…Paul frowned…
"Well, he was trying to help your sister…We should respect that…" Aldous noted. "We did put the screws to Sarah a bit too tightly over Kira."
"Oh, this pretty-boy son of a bitch is just out for himself…" Rachel fumed, glare at Paul. "You saw how he treated Beth, a typical monitor, in it for himself. Not…Like…Me...Daniel…Ohhhh…" weeping again as Aldous embraced her.
I'd go…Now…His look to Paul suggested…Glancing to door…Paul nodding and backing away quietly.
"I want him dead, Aldous! Body parts displayed for Sarah to find…Time I expressed my inner Helena! Hey!" she twisted to see Paul backing out. "Who told you to leave!"
"Now, Rachel…" Aldous sighed. "The truth is I didn't want to hurt you but I had some intel on Rosen that really wasn't looking good."
"What…?" she blinked at him, tears streaking her careful makeup…
Neither Paul nor Aldous daring to refer to her now askew wig covering the sad truth about Rachel Duncan…
"He was playing a double game, sweetheart. I'm 90% positive…Connections with our competitors."
"Danny? My Danny?! No! Oh, no…!" she shook her head frantically.
Oh, dear…Aldous sighed.
Well, I always did hate when this happened with our monitors…I've been dreading facing poor Allison about Don…Though at least in his case…
And when poor Sarah finds out about my boy Cal…
Turnabout, fair play, Leekie…Only natural the other big boys would slip their own monitor in at some point. He patted Rachel gently…
"It's not true, Aldous…" Rachel, insistent, pulling back. "Oh…Tell me it's not true…" Weeping again, burying head in his chest…
Geesh…Paul sighs. And now I'm told Sarah's off with this mister "all-natural, organic boy" Cal…
Don't any of these freaks find the Dierden more than a one or three night stand?
Isn't anyone ever going to love me…?
