Lovlies! I have something new for you! I hope you'll like it as much as I'm hoping you will! read on and I'll see you at the bottom as always!
Charlie woke with a start, the first thing she noticed was lying on a soft surface, she didn't know why but it felt strange to her. Brushing off the weird feeling she stretched out while sinking into the mattress.
Rolling over she looked at the clock on her nightstand and sighed, nine-forty-five she had to get her ass out of bed, she already missed her first class, no point missing another. Dragging herself out of bed and making herself into a presentable human being took less time they she thought it would, it was ten fifteen and she was good to go, she'd grab food on her way and hope this class would be easy this morning.
She thumped into the kitchen grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge. "Morning Charlie." She spun to locate the voice.
"What?" Danny asked pulling a spoon full of fruit loops to his mouth. "You look like you've seen a ghost."
Charlie stood stairing at her brother bottle in hand, she knew there was something off about this, something that wasn't supposed to be. "Hi Danny." She moved around the counter so she was standing next to him, reaching out a hand she gently poked him. Yup, real.
Danny swatted at her hand and gave her a weird look. "What is your damage? Your being weird."
Charlie shook her head and turned away. "Nothing, I just have this weird feeling, like something is missing." She uncapped her bottle and chugged a few gulps down in an attempt to feel better. "I gotta go, I'm going to be late for my next class."
Danny waved at her as she left. "Don't forget Dad is doing BBQ for dinner, he wants you home for six!" He shouted after her.
Charlie nodded absently to herself as she closed the door, hopping down the few steps she went to her car and unlocked it, settling herself into the driver seat she turned the engine on and pulled away with a frown on her face. "What the hell is going on?" She muttered to herself. "I've gotta get it together."
Danny was standing in the window watching his sister leave when Ben entered the room. "Did everything go as planned?" He asked moving next to his son.
"I'm not sure. I believe she knows something isn't as it should be." Danny replied looking up at his father. "We need watch her closer, we can't have this falling apart before it had begun."
"I agree, hopefully the others have transitioned better." Ben said folding his hands behind his back. "Sebastian was also proving to be a difficult subject from what I understand."
Danny stepped away from the window into the living room, he took a seat on the couch. "I will gather reports on Rachel, Miles and Aaron as soon as possible. I feel Aaron might also be a problem, we've already used this on him he may not be as receptive as before. Priscilla as we know has a weak mind, she has not been a problem thus far." Danny explained.
Ben watched the people walking the streets outside. "We need this to work, controlling a few has been no problem, but we've never tested this on such a large scale, if this fails there is no hope for them."
Bass woke with a start, he hit his head as he sat up abruptly. "Son-of-a-bitch." Bass said rubbing his head roughly.
"That's what you get for falling asleep in the kids room." Came a laughing voice.
Wincing Bass tumbled out of the bunk bed and looked around frowning, looking up he saw Shelley standing in the doorway a little girl on her hip. "What happened?" He asked standing up brushing himself off.
"Abby begged for a story last night and you feel asleep half way through." She explained moving the child to the other side smiling. "I figured it was better to let you sleep there then try and drag you into our room."
Bass looked closer at the room, he was standing in what was clearly a child's room, a red bunk bed sat up against one wall blankets hung from the rungs on the top bunk making was he supposed was a fort. Toys littered the floor and hand painted animals and letters adorned the cheerful yellow walls.
Shelley gave him a weird look. "You ok?"
Rubbing a hand over his face he looked at his wife. "Sorry guess I'm tired, what time is it?" He asked leaning in to give her a kiss.
"It's nine forty-five why?" She asked lifting a hand to his face.
"I've got somewhere to be that's all, I promised Miles I would help him move, I've gotta go." He moved passed her out the door and down the hall. What was going on? why did he feel so weird?
He grabbed his coat and left the apartment. "Get it together Monroe." He said to himself as he made his way to his truck. Pulling out of the drive he didn't notice Shelley standing in the childs room watching him leave.
"We need to watch him." The girl in Shelley's arms said. "He knows."
"He doesn't know. It will be fine." She said looking down at her.
"All the same, he needs to be watched."
Miles rolled over in his tiny bed and came in contact with a warm body. "Morning." He mumbled as he pulled the body closer.
"Morning." Came the warm voice. "Moving day, you ready?"
Miles looked up into Nora's smiling face and propped himself up on one elbow. "I dunno... seems like a big commitment moving in with someone." He smirked.
Nora smacked his arm playfully. "Should have thought about that a month ago." Miles responded by pulling her closer and snuggling his face into her shoulder. "Come on it's almost ten Bass is supposed to be here any minute."
"I don't care." Miles whined. "He can wait."
Nora laughed and pushed him off of her. "Get up, I'm going to go shower, you better be ready when I get out." She said slipping out of bed and heading to the bathroom.
Miles watched her naked form walk from the room and he flopped into the bed as she left, a smile on his face and a content sigh leaving his lips. "How did I get so lucky?"
Nora's head popped back into the room. "You got lucky cause I put up with you, now get up." She disappeared again as Miles laughed and rolled out of bed.
"Today is gonna be a good day." He said stretching and getting dressed.
Rachel woke to the sounds of someone walking around her room, cracking her eyes open she saw her mother flinging the curtains open.
"Rachel, you need to get up." Charlotte Porter said standing next to her daughters bed hands on her hips. "The day has started without you and you're going to be late if you don't get up."
"Late? Late for what?" Rachel asked sitting up rubbing her eyes.
"You have that presentation for the government thing today, that's why you're here remember?"
Rachel lept out of bed. "Crap, I totally forgot!" She scrambled around the room gathering her clothes together. "Dad said I could borrow his car right?" She asked pulling a shirt over her head.
Charlotte laughed and stopped her daughters whirlwind movements. "Honey stop, your shirts on backwards." Charlotte tugged the shirt back over her daughters head. "You already set out an outfit, it's over there on the chair, relax you have two hours before the presentation, go take a shower and I've got your breakfast downstairs."
Rachel huffed and sat on the bed. "Why did you say I was going to be late then?" She asked looking at her mothers laughing face.
"Because you fall for it every time and it's funny." Charlotte sat next to her daughter. "You don't come home often so I have to bug you when I can." She was rewarded with an eye roll and a sigh.
"I'll try to bring the kids next time." Rachel said smiling at her mother.
"That would be nice. Now scoot, go get ready." She pushed her daughter off the bed and watched her shuffle into the bathroom.
So far her subject was coming along nicely, she would report as soon as she'd heard from the others.
Aaron's eyes snapped open the moment the sun hit his face, sitting up he looked around the room and his gut settled with dread, he knew this place he knew this feeling and he knew he was screwed.
"Priscilla?" He called tentatively.
"Sorry , has taken the children out for the day, she asked that I make sure you were ready for your meetings today." Came a distinctly familiar and british voice through the door.
"Uh, yah, okay. I'll be out in a minute just need to get dressed." Aaron said shaking.
This wasn't good, he wasn't prepared to hunt down Miles and Rachel again, he barely made it out the first time he didn't think he could do it again. He couldn't have everyone look at him like he was crazy when he told them it wasn't real.
He hastily dressed himself and made his way to the kitchen, the smell of pancakes meeting him at the corner. He tried to remind himself that this wasn't real, he also had to remind himself to play along with this or he could be in a lot of trouble.
"Priscilla make these?" He asked the blonde woman sitting at the counter.
"Yes." Maggie said not looking up from her computer. "She said they were blueberry."
Aaron's heart nearly stopped when he saw Maggie, he didn't want blow it though so he played it cool when he saw her sitting in his kitchen.
"Thanks." Aaron said stiffly.
" we have a meeting in just over an hour, would you like to go over the outline before hand?" she asked finally looking at him and smiling.
"Uh, yah. That would be nice." Aaron sat on the stool next to her and listened to her outline the meeting for the day and tried not to stare at her.
This was going to be tricky.
So? So? So? what do you think? I have this one scene playing over and over in my head and I've gottta figure out how to get there so this story will be as much an adventure for you as it is for me! (and our players in the story obviously)
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