An; this is my first BGC 2040 fic. But it's my third fic altogether, so I
know that if you want, I can be flamed. Go ahead. Criticism is part of a
writer's life right?
As my fav character from the series is Linna, so this story will probably focus on her, though of course, being a third person narrative it's gonna include equal amounts of all our friends. Linna/Daley thing happening later.
And another thing, im a firm believer that Linna is straight, 1, because she was horrified when she asked Nene if Priss swung 'that way' and two because she goes out with at least two guys during the series, a fact that most Linna/Priss shippers tend to ignore.
Chapter one.
Can we Find Her?
Linna and Nene returned to Tokyo, which was still covered with the dead 'vines' from the Boomer plague. As they exited the express they looked around.
Nene looked like she was about to cry, and turned to her friend; "what if-"
"Hush. He'll be ok, let's go."
Sylia and Nigel had returned to Tokyo, and, unbeknownst to Nene, Linna had sms'd Sylia the night before telling her of their arrival. Sylia had told them to come to Nigel's garage, as Silky Doll was pretty much a pile of rubble.
They passed boomers. Nene looked like she wanted to hit them, Linna simply watched in amazement as they cleared up what was left of a car. The streets where pretty much deserted. Wind howled around them as they walked (the public transport was derailed, the roads crushed so no cars could be used for more than a block) and leaves blew around their feet. In short it was one dreary day.
It was eight blocks to Nigel's home from the station, and the two friends arrived without a hitch, though perhaps colder than they would have been had they taken a car had there been one. Nene had a cold, shivery feeling in her stomach as she looked up at the familiar building.
"Come on." Said Linna, giving the eighteen year old a shove. Nene reflected as she walked slowly through the dark garage on the last few days. They had been found three weeks ago on an island in Hawaii, and the embarrassment of being found on a beach with no clothes still made her cheeks go red. They had managed to get back to Tokyo after a weeks negotiation with the police and Linna's parents for the money. After listening to Linna yell at her father over the phone Nene was glad that she had no family.
She paused at the door, wondering what she would see. Linna apparently had had enough of her indecision and shoved the door open and stepped through,
"hellloooo? Anyone home?"
Sylia appeared from nowhere, sticking her pale face around a corner. She was wearing her usual white/grey/blue suit and looked rather well. Linna inwardly cringed when she recalled her dusty blue jeans and green turtleneck. Sylia smiled brightly when she saw them.
"Linna! Nene! I was wondering what time you'd get here!"
"Huh?" asked Nene as she received a hug. She glared at Linna, "you've been talking to her!"
Linna smiled back at her innocently, and then hugged Sylia in her turn.
"Mackey's through there Nene," said Sylia smiling, gesturing towards the back room where they had said goodbye before the final battle. Nene looked at her apprehensively, but the pale woman just smiled.
"He isn't aloud out of bed yet." She added as Nene turned the door knob, Nene, now quite sick with nerves only just managed a nod. The two elder women watched her enter and shut the door behind her.
"How are you?" asked Linna as Sylia opened a bottle of wine.
"Fine. A little tired. But I'm fine, so is Mackey."
"And Nigel?" asked Linna, taking the offered glass and settling herself on the couch. Sylia paused.
"Nigel is- well, Nigel is Nigel."
"Same old same old?"
"Yes."
"Nothing bad there."
Sylia sent her a sharp glance. Linna was smiling mischievously. Sylia could tell that Linna at least had not missed the growing relationship between the two.
"No," she agreed, "nothing bad there."
"Have you had word from Priss?" asked Linna suddenly. Sylia blinked, thrown by the change of subject. She shook her head, "no."
"Oh dear." Linna seemed angry and Sylia watched her for a second, and then said, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I can't help but feel I could have done more." Said Linna, clenching her fist in frustration, "I mean, for a while I was happy just to have survived, but then I wondered how Priss was and I thought that perhaps I should have tried to stick around up there for longer, even though Nene said it was impossible."
"You did what you could." Said Sylia consolingly.
"What about Leon? How is he taking it?" asked Linna.
"About what you'd expect. I hear he's giving everyone at the ADP a hard time, especially his partner."
"Poor thing." Said Linna sadly. She took a gulp of wine and winced. Sylia chuckled, apparently Linna still couldn't hold her alcohol well.
The door opened and Nene entered, looking happier than she had been in days, but with wet cheeks.
She sat down on the couch next to Linna and poured herself a glass of the red.
"Well?" asked Linna, lounging back and watching her friend curiously.
Nene went red. "I think he's my boyfriend." She said happily.
"well." Said Sylia.
"It's about." Added Linna and they finished together, "TIME!!" and laughed.
Nene smiled.
***
Linna had returned to her old flat, she did, after all, still own it. Nene was staying with Sylia, Nigel and Mackey (of course!).
It was ten o'clock pm and Linna had just got in. she lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling for a second. Away from her friends depression set in. Priss had been her best friend. She frowned and corrected herself, Priss was her best friend, and would continue be. After Linna found her. Linna's face took on that stubborn look that she had first greeted Priss with. She stood. She wasn't going to just sit around. She headed to the wardrobe, pulled out a short black skirt and off the shoulder red top. Pulled on some stilettos and hooked some dangly gold earrings in her lobes and grabbed her purse. The registry office would be swamped with calls for missing persons. There might be a chance for her to get somewhere if she leant on the counter and let the desk clerk see a little more than she was accustomed to showing.
She waited in a queue, even at this time of night; the 24 hour branch was swamped. Linna waited for half an hour in the queue and then was pleased to see the desk clerk was a fat balding man. She leant on the counter and did her thing, really just wishing for an easy escape route. But it worked, the clerk logged onto the registry that she wanted immediately and told her that a piece of debris as yet to be identified had landed in the African Desert the day of the incident. He handed her the sheet of paper and then made a rather disgusting remark which Linna privately thought warranted an arrest, but she just smiled (which she was convinced came out as a grimace) paid the fare and left.
She read the print out as she walked, ignoring the freezing wind on her bare shoulders. There was a blurry satellite picture of whatever the debris was. It looked like to Linna a vaguely human figure. What she couldn't figure out was the two huge triangles extended from the figure. They looked like wings. She read the coordinates. Priss had landed pretty much in the exact middle of the Sahara.
Linna sighed and tucked the papers into her small bag. She shivered suddenly in the wind, only just noticing it. She hugged herself as she walked, thinking. She had to get in touch with the Arabians somehow. Her first thought was Nene and her hacking abilities, but then she revolted against it. Besides, she had a couple f friends who might be able to help, and Nene was having a good time with Mackey, and was pretty much convinced that Priss was dead. She had said so much to Linna before their arrival in Tokyo that day.
A car pulled up to the curb of the path she was walking on. The lights illuminated the road in front of her. Linna turned, at first fearing that it was someone who had taken her for prostitute, but then saw the flashing red and blue lights on the roof of the ADP car.
"You should be at home in bed girly." Said a well modulated and familiar voice from the darkness of the car. Linna stared at the car for a second and then stepped forwards, and bent her knees so she could look into the car without being blinded by the flashing lights.
"So should you two." She said to Daley Wong and Leon McNichols, "have they put you on extra shifts or something?"
"Holy-" began Leon when he recognized her, but Daley cut him off,
"Language Leon."
Leon shut up, but he still looked like he wanted to murder her. Linna could understand. Sometimes she felt that way herself.
"What are you doing here?" asked Daley suspiciously.
"I'm not a prostitute, if that's what's worrying you. I've been doing some investigating."
"And that outfit helped?" asked Daley in astonishment.
Linna gave him a look, "when the person you're trying to get information from is twice your age, flabby, bald and hasn't had any since his wedding night a little skin doesn't go astray."
Daley laughed. Leon glared at his friend as if he had been betrayed. Daley shut up and Leon asked Linna in a curt voice, "What were you investigating?"
Linna watched him evenly for a second. His eyes were rimmed with dark lines and he looked like he hadn't shaved in days.
"I've found where Priss crash landed." She said triumphantly. Waving the sheet of paper.
The effect on the two men in the car was electric. Daley, who had been glancing in the rear view mirror whipped round and stared at her. Leon, who had been glaring at her and leaning on the wheel suddenly let his arm slip, making him bang forwards onto the horn. A hoot sounded through the street. A cat yowled and jumped from is garbage bin dinner in fright.
Linna couldn't help but smile at them. Daley looked hopeful, not because he actually knew Priss but because Leon had been moping for the last three weeks and making everyone's life miserable. If his girlfriend was found, perhaps Leon would become his old self.
Leon looked like he was hardly daring to hope. He almost unwound enough to ask where but then remembered that this girl was one of the ones who had got his girl in the situation in the first place.
Linna and Daley watched his face close with anger again and exchanged a look.
This made Leon angrier. "Listen here you two busy-"
A shot range through the street, neatly shattering the rear window. Daley, Linna and Leon ducked,
"Shit, it's the punk from earlier!" yelped Daley.
Another shot rang through the night, exploding the mirror near Linna's face she yelped and jumped backwards. Leon pushed the car into gear and burned rubber as it took of after the shooter. Then the night was silent. Linna stood for a second, staring at the broken mirror that had shattered next to her. She didn't know it but she had a small cut on the side of her face that was bleeding freely.
She shrugged, hugged herself and went home.
The next day she called by the garage to collect Nene. Then they headed to the ADP headquarters, a tall building that still bore the signs of the recent boomer plague. They asked at the desk for McNichols. No one knew him. Nene became frustrated and began to yell at the desk clerk showing all that she wasn't as mature as she pretended. Linna dragged her out of the way, apologized (ignoring Nene's mutinous look) and asked for Daley Wong. That got a response, and they found themselves traveling up to the fourth floor. Nene greeted some of her old friends while Linna searched for his office.
They heard Leon and Daley before they saw them. As the two girls rounded the corner in the corridor they saw Leon yelling at Daley, who was quietly standing in front of a new recruit who had apparently aggrieved Leon in some way. Leon was saying something rude about Daley's mother when a man wearing an important looking jacket appeared and yelled at them both. Leon shut up, Daley sighed and the newbie scurried away.
Linna glanced at Nene. She could see her friend was shocked at the change in them man that she regarded as her elder brother. Linna nudged her and smiled encouragingly. Nene took a breath and walked up behind Leon.
"Good morning Leon poo!"
Daley glanced around his partner in surprise and Leon spun round. There was a girl with short blond hair behind him smiling and holding up two fingers in the v sign.
"Nene? Why must you keep calling me by that infantile nickname?" Leon meant it this time, instead of playing with her.
"Because I like you silly." Nene meant it too.
Leon was shocked.
Daley decided to play along, "how can you refuse such an eloquent answer?"
"Daley..." Leon rounded on him.
"Oh for goodness sake boys, act your age. Do you want to know why we're here or not?"
All three turned to find that Linna had been standing on the sidelines. She had her arms folded on her chest and was wearing her usual turtle neck top (singlet style, but) and her favorite jeans.
"Leon, I realize were probably the last people on earth that you want to see right now but were the only people that can help you find Priss. Maybe if we find her you'll stop taking your anger out on those people around you who are only trying to stay your friends." She glanced at Daley as she said this.
Leon looked at his friend too. He saw for the first time the tiredness in his partner's eyes, and the lines that had appeared in his features.
"Is there somewhere quiet we can talk?" Linna added, quickly covering up the awkward moment.
A few minutes later Linna was showing them the photos she had bought.
"I know its Priss." She told them, passing the photo around.
"What are the two triangles?" asked Leon.
"Don't know. I'm assuming she changed her suits shape like we did."
"Changed your suits shape?" asked Daley weakly. He put his head in is hands. "This is so unreal."
"Surreal, I think is a better term," said Linna smiling sympathetically. Daley glanced at her and grinned.
"She landed in the desert?" asked Nene, reading over Leon's shoulder.
"Yep."
"Well, what are we gonna do?" asked Nene impatiently.
The three adults looked at each other.
An; there you go, first chapter. Tell me what you think people! Neon.
As my fav character from the series is Linna, so this story will probably focus on her, though of course, being a third person narrative it's gonna include equal amounts of all our friends. Linna/Daley thing happening later.
And another thing, im a firm believer that Linna is straight, 1, because she was horrified when she asked Nene if Priss swung 'that way' and two because she goes out with at least two guys during the series, a fact that most Linna/Priss shippers tend to ignore.
Chapter one.
Can we Find Her?
Linna and Nene returned to Tokyo, which was still covered with the dead 'vines' from the Boomer plague. As they exited the express they looked around.
Nene looked like she was about to cry, and turned to her friend; "what if-"
"Hush. He'll be ok, let's go."
Sylia and Nigel had returned to Tokyo, and, unbeknownst to Nene, Linna had sms'd Sylia the night before telling her of their arrival. Sylia had told them to come to Nigel's garage, as Silky Doll was pretty much a pile of rubble.
They passed boomers. Nene looked like she wanted to hit them, Linna simply watched in amazement as they cleared up what was left of a car. The streets where pretty much deserted. Wind howled around them as they walked (the public transport was derailed, the roads crushed so no cars could be used for more than a block) and leaves blew around their feet. In short it was one dreary day.
It was eight blocks to Nigel's home from the station, and the two friends arrived without a hitch, though perhaps colder than they would have been had they taken a car had there been one. Nene had a cold, shivery feeling in her stomach as she looked up at the familiar building.
"Come on." Said Linna, giving the eighteen year old a shove. Nene reflected as she walked slowly through the dark garage on the last few days. They had been found three weeks ago on an island in Hawaii, and the embarrassment of being found on a beach with no clothes still made her cheeks go red. They had managed to get back to Tokyo after a weeks negotiation with the police and Linna's parents for the money. After listening to Linna yell at her father over the phone Nene was glad that she had no family.
She paused at the door, wondering what she would see. Linna apparently had had enough of her indecision and shoved the door open and stepped through,
"hellloooo? Anyone home?"
Sylia appeared from nowhere, sticking her pale face around a corner. She was wearing her usual white/grey/blue suit and looked rather well. Linna inwardly cringed when she recalled her dusty blue jeans and green turtleneck. Sylia smiled brightly when she saw them.
"Linna! Nene! I was wondering what time you'd get here!"
"Huh?" asked Nene as she received a hug. She glared at Linna, "you've been talking to her!"
Linna smiled back at her innocently, and then hugged Sylia in her turn.
"Mackey's through there Nene," said Sylia smiling, gesturing towards the back room where they had said goodbye before the final battle. Nene looked at her apprehensively, but the pale woman just smiled.
"He isn't aloud out of bed yet." She added as Nene turned the door knob, Nene, now quite sick with nerves only just managed a nod. The two elder women watched her enter and shut the door behind her.
"How are you?" asked Linna as Sylia opened a bottle of wine.
"Fine. A little tired. But I'm fine, so is Mackey."
"And Nigel?" asked Linna, taking the offered glass and settling herself on the couch. Sylia paused.
"Nigel is- well, Nigel is Nigel."
"Same old same old?"
"Yes."
"Nothing bad there."
Sylia sent her a sharp glance. Linna was smiling mischievously. Sylia could tell that Linna at least had not missed the growing relationship between the two.
"No," she agreed, "nothing bad there."
"Have you had word from Priss?" asked Linna suddenly. Sylia blinked, thrown by the change of subject. She shook her head, "no."
"Oh dear." Linna seemed angry and Sylia watched her for a second, and then said, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I can't help but feel I could have done more." Said Linna, clenching her fist in frustration, "I mean, for a while I was happy just to have survived, but then I wondered how Priss was and I thought that perhaps I should have tried to stick around up there for longer, even though Nene said it was impossible."
"You did what you could." Said Sylia consolingly.
"What about Leon? How is he taking it?" asked Linna.
"About what you'd expect. I hear he's giving everyone at the ADP a hard time, especially his partner."
"Poor thing." Said Linna sadly. She took a gulp of wine and winced. Sylia chuckled, apparently Linna still couldn't hold her alcohol well.
The door opened and Nene entered, looking happier than she had been in days, but with wet cheeks.
She sat down on the couch next to Linna and poured herself a glass of the red.
"Well?" asked Linna, lounging back and watching her friend curiously.
Nene went red. "I think he's my boyfriend." She said happily.
"well." Said Sylia.
"It's about." Added Linna and they finished together, "TIME!!" and laughed.
Nene smiled.
***
Linna had returned to her old flat, she did, after all, still own it. Nene was staying with Sylia, Nigel and Mackey (of course!).
It was ten o'clock pm and Linna had just got in. she lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling for a second. Away from her friends depression set in. Priss had been her best friend. She frowned and corrected herself, Priss was her best friend, and would continue be. After Linna found her. Linna's face took on that stubborn look that she had first greeted Priss with. She stood. She wasn't going to just sit around. She headed to the wardrobe, pulled out a short black skirt and off the shoulder red top. Pulled on some stilettos and hooked some dangly gold earrings in her lobes and grabbed her purse. The registry office would be swamped with calls for missing persons. There might be a chance for her to get somewhere if she leant on the counter and let the desk clerk see a little more than she was accustomed to showing.
She waited in a queue, even at this time of night; the 24 hour branch was swamped. Linna waited for half an hour in the queue and then was pleased to see the desk clerk was a fat balding man. She leant on the counter and did her thing, really just wishing for an easy escape route. But it worked, the clerk logged onto the registry that she wanted immediately and told her that a piece of debris as yet to be identified had landed in the African Desert the day of the incident. He handed her the sheet of paper and then made a rather disgusting remark which Linna privately thought warranted an arrest, but she just smiled (which she was convinced came out as a grimace) paid the fare and left.
She read the print out as she walked, ignoring the freezing wind on her bare shoulders. There was a blurry satellite picture of whatever the debris was. It looked like to Linna a vaguely human figure. What she couldn't figure out was the two huge triangles extended from the figure. They looked like wings. She read the coordinates. Priss had landed pretty much in the exact middle of the Sahara.
Linna sighed and tucked the papers into her small bag. She shivered suddenly in the wind, only just noticing it. She hugged herself as she walked, thinking. She had to get in touch with the Arabians somehow. Her first thought was Nene and her hacking abilities, but then she revolted against it. Besides, she had a couple f friends who might be able to help, and Nene was having a good time with Mackey, and was pretty much convinced that Priss was dead. She had said so much to Linna before their arrival in Tokyo that day.
A car pulled up to the curb of the path she was walking on. The lights illuminated the road in front of her. Linna turned, at first fearing that it was someone who had taken her for prostitute, but then saw the flashing red and blue lights on the roof of the ADP car.
"You should be at home in bed girly." Said a well modulated and familiar voice from the darkness of the car. Linna stared at the car for a second and then stepped forwards, and bent her knees so she could look into the car without being blinded by the flashing lights.
"So should you two." She said to Daley Wong and Leon McNichols, "have they put you on extra shifts or something?"
"Holy-" began Leon when he recognized her, but Daley cut him off,
"Language Leon."
Leon shut up, but he still looked like he wanted to murder her. Linna could understand. Sometimes she felt that way herself.
"What are you doing here?" asked Daley suspiciously.
"I'm not a prostitute, if that's what's worrying you. I've been doing some investigating."
"And that outfit helped?" asked Daley in astonishment.
Linna gave him a look, "when the person you're trying to get information from is twice your age, flabby, bald and hasn't had any since his wedding night a little skin doesn't go astray."
Daley laughed. Leon glared at his friend as if he had been betrayed. Daley shut up and Leon asked Linna in a curt voice, "What were you investigating?"
Linna watched him evenly for a second. His eyes were rimmed with dark lines and he looked like he hadn't shaved in days.
"I've found where Priss crash landed." She said triumphantly. Waving the sheet of paper.
The effect on the two men in the car was electric. Daley, who had been glancing in the rear view mirror whipped round and stared at her. Leon, who had been glaring at her and leaning on the wheel suddenly let his arm slip, making him bang forwards onto the horn. A hoot sounded through the street. A cat yowled and jumped from is garbage bin dinner in fright.
Linna couldn't help but smile at them. Daley looked hopeful, not because he actually knew Priss but because Leon had been moping for the last three weeks and making everyone's life miserable. If his girlfriend was found, perhaps Leon would become his old self.
Leon looked like he was hardly daring to hope. He almost unwound enough to ask where but then remembered that this girl was one of the ones who had got his girl in the situation in the first place.
Linna and Daley watched his face close with anger again and exchanged a look.
This made Leon angrier. "Listen here you two busy-"
A shot range through the street, neatly shattering the rear window. Daley, Linna and Leon ducked,
"Shit, it's the punk from earlier!" yelped Daley.
Another shot rang through the night, exploding the mirror near Linna's face she yelped and jumped backwards. Leon pushed the car into gear and burned rubber as it took of after the shooter. Then the night was silent. Linna stood for a second, staring at the broken mirror that had shattered next to her. She didn't know it but she had a small cut on the side of her face that was bleeding freely.
She shrugged, hugged herself and went home.
The next day she called by the garage to collect Nene. Then they headed to the ADP headquarters, a tall building that still bore the signs of the recent boomer plague. They asked at the desk for McNichols. No one knew him. Nene became frustrated and began to yell at the desk clerk showing all that she wasn't as mature as she pretended. Linna dragged her out of the way, apologized (ignoring Nene's mutinous look) and asked for Daley Wong. That got a response, and they found themselves traveling up to the fourth floor. Nene greeted some of her old friends while Linna searched for his office.
They heard Leon and Daley before they saw them. As the two girls rounded the corner in the corridor they saw Leon yelling at Daley, who was quietly standing in front of a new recruit who had apparently aggrieved Leon in some way. Leon was saying something rude about Daley's mother when a man wearing an important looking jacket appeared and yelled at them both. Leon shut up, Daley sighed and the newbie scurried away.
Linna glanced at Nene. She could see her friend was shocked at the change in them man that she regarded as her elder brother. Linna nudged her and smiled encouragingly. Nene took a breath and walked up behind Leon.
"Good morning Leon poo!"
Daley glanced around his partner in surprise and Leon spun round. There was a girl with short blond hair behind him smiling and holding up two fingers in the v sign.
"Nene? Why must you keep calling me by that infantile nickname?" Leon meant it this time, instead of playing with her.
"Because I like you silly." Nene meant it too.
Leon was shocked.
Daley decided to play along, "how can you refuse such an eloquent answer?"
"Daley..." Leon rounded on him.
"Oh for goodness sake boys, act your age. Do you want to know why we're here or not?"
All three turned to find that Linna had been standing on the sidelines. She had her arms folded on her chest and was wearing her usual turtle neck top (singlet style, but) and her favorite jeans.
"Leon, I realize were probably the last people on earth that you want to see right now but were the only people that can help you find Priss. Maybe if we find her you'll stop taking your anger out on those people around you who are only trying to stay your friends." She glanced at Daley as she said this.
Leon looked at his friend too. He saw for the first time the tiredness in his partner's eyes, and the lines that had appeared in his features.
"Is there somewhere quiet we can talk?" Linna added, quickly covering up the awkward moment.
A few minutes later Linna was showing them the photos she had bought.
"I know its Priss." She told them, passing the photo around.
"What are the two triangles?" asked Leon.
"Don't know. I'm assuming she changed her suits shape like we did."
"Changed your suits shape?" asked Daley weakly. He put his head in is hands. "This is so unreal."
"Surreal, I think is a better term," said Linna smiling sympathetically. Daley glanced at her and grinned.
"She landed in the desert?" asked Nene, reading over Leon's shoulder.
"Yep."
"Well, what are we gonna do?" asked Nene impatiently.
The three adults looked at each other.
An; there you go, first chapter. Tell me what you think people! Neon.