Title: Look Upon Me
Rated: PG
Summary: In the face of the loss of Gwen, Kevin gets a new start but he's using his old rules. Trying to live a human life proves too much to handle.
AN: There is a story line, but these chapters are drabbles strung together to form the story, you get to fill in the blanks.
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She was crying during the movie. It was no big she had hide it as a sad moment that she just couldn't hold back from. It was over. It was going to be over. She hadn't told him, couldn't bare it. She was going to be decommissioned. She was clutching her dress, her fifteenth birthday was tomorrow, she was suppose to go to a dinner with her mother and father and Kevin was invited too. Would she remember who he was? When were they going to decommission her? She knew it was tomorrow, they had kept her on longer due to the fight against Fuse. But his power was waning, his attacks lessening, they were too scared of her. Her work with Father and the other adults to fight against Fuse scared them the most. She had already heard whispers behind her back of pressing to decommission her. The kids were scared of her monthly fits of rage and sickness when her period came about. They didn't understand it was beyond her control. Her body, her life, and her very existence was rebelling against what she wanted. Not that she would miss that life. If being an adult meant she could keep Kevin by her side and understand him better she would, but what would decommissioning involve?
"Sarah?" Kevin question in that voice that she hated. It was his concerned voice. The voice he always gave her when she left him to fly with monkeys, how that was possible she didn't question. Or when she had to do a mission for Numbah Two. It was like he didn't trust her to keep herself safe. He couldn't even trust Ben to keep her safe, she had been on a few missions with the Alien Master himself at the space port.
"Yeah?" She choked back watching the credits roll. Would she remember what the Earth looked like from the Moon Base? How much would she forget? Though perhaps she wanted to forget, the Moon Base was still deserted, the children there were only alive because the Plumbers had come to their rescue. It had been one of the first alliances formed at the start of the war against Fuse.
"It wasn't that sad was it?" He whispered running a rough hand against her cheek. Feeling her tears wiped away she offered him a smile. Shaking her head she forced herself to stand up. Her ankle still hurt from her fall down a hill, but she did her best to hide it from Kevin. He was always so worried for her. Ever since he lost Gwen and his fixation on her... he treated her like glass. It was endearing the older she got but she was still a Kid Next Door and they could take care of themselves.
His hand instantly gravitated to the small of her back as they left the screen room. He was so warm and kind to her. She knew he wasn't getting everything he wanted in the relationship. She was only just beginning to learn about what boys and girls did behind closed doors at school. Why he was still with her at his age she wasn't sure. Either way she knew that was why her parents always gave him dirty looks as they left in his car.
The dull noise of the people in line for the next round of movies plummeted her mood even more. None of these people knew. Well perhaps some of the adults certainly but not the children. Unless they were KND. Unless they had the technology to see behind Fuse's cloaking. They had no clue about the war raging on about them. The lives lost every day to Fuse and the grounds overcome with fuse matter and monsters. Shaking her head she inched closer towards Kevin as they slipped out the front door heading to his familiar car.
"Whats on your mind Seven?" He muttered darkly. It was their code to speak of Fuse matters in public. If she replied it meant fuse was on her mind, if she didn't he knew to be concerned for her public life.
"I worry that my troubles will never end." She whispered softly leaning into his warmth fighting the urge to cry some more. She's really have to explain herself then, it was to late to blame any more tears on the movie. Tomorrow filled her with such dread she was tempted to ask him to pull over to a back road and do whatever adults did. Did such an unforgettable experiences survive decommissioning? Shaking her head she thought if her love of Kevin was not strong enough to survive decommissioning maybe she didn't deserve it.
"Don't worry. I'll keep you safe." He said in a steely voice no doubt his mind turning to the death of Gwen.
"I know you will." She smiled her hands numbly latching on to the unforgiving metal of his car. She was so scared. She wanted to tell him to drive and never stop. She didn't want to go home. Going home meant she willingly accepted her decommissioning tomorrow. Shaking her head again she popped the door open and slipped inside. The drive back to her house was filled with idle chit chat about the movie. It had been a drama that had not ended well for the Hero. She tried to not related to her life, she could not cry in front of Kevin. She didn't want to worry him needlessly. Before she knew it she was sitting in his car parked in the driveway of her house.
Kevin was leaning over the clutch his arms around her shoulder in a tight hug. "I love you." He whispered hotly into her ear sending a shiver down her spin. He often promised of the things he would do to her when she was sixteen. Only ever in the heat of whatever took him and was just now beginning to show itself in her own growing body. She felt his dry lips press onto her cheek for a moment as though he was considering if it was alright to kiss her. She pulled away turning her head to invite him. She was old enough for kissing. Maybe even a little... petting as the girls in her math class had said. No doubt her Agent friends would protest that she even willing went on a date with a boy. She watched his tongue dart out to wet his lips, which just seemed to excite her more. He was pushing her into the door his body overcoming her as he kissed her.
His tongue was in her mouth. He didn't do it often, in fact she was almost positive less then ten time could she recall him getting so 'wild' with her. However, that was the least of her worries as his arms slipped from her shoulders. Moments later his hot hands were traveling up her skirt to clutch at her thighs. Breaking away from the kiss he groaned, "You should get inside before I can't help myself. I'll see you tomorrow." He said in a harsh strained voice. She nodded quickly popping the door open her legs still burning from his touch, her body dizzy with excitement. She could scarcely recall climbing up the stairs ignoring her parents curious questions from the living room. Slamming her door behind her inviting her parents NOT to talk to her, she dropped her purse on the floor.
She frowned when she felt she wasn't alone. Looking at her desk she saw a glowing green form. Dread filled her as the figure stood up it's long flaming tendrils of orange hair menacing in the night light filling her room with a soft glow. "Why would Fuse send you after just a plain operative?" She snapped wondering not for the first time if fusion creatures could understand English.
The figure shook it's head stepping forward. Taking a step back her butt hit the door and she cringed. She wanted to scream, but her parents had no clue of the world she lived in and Kevin was no doubt already gone. Her nearest weapons were hidden under junk beneath her bed. It was the safest place for it not to be found, though no good to her now.
"What do you want?" She insisted once more as the fusion figure stepped even closer it's eyes glowing a fierce yellow hue.
"Knowledge," The creature croaked once before it laid it's hands on her face. She felt sick to her stomach as the fusion matter began to spread from the creature into her nose and mouth. She wanted to cry out KND rules be damned, but she couldn't breath. Her hearing was drowned out as matter filled her ears and she went blind.
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Kevin frowned as he parked his car in front of his girlfriend's house. There was yellow police tape over the door, but no one was around. It was four in the afternoon. He should have known when she didn't call. Frowning he jogged up the steps slipping carefully through the police tape as not to show any signs that he was there.
Inside he wasn't surprised to find Numbah Two looking about the living room. "What happened here?"
"Operative Seven Fifty Two is missing. She was due for decommissioning today. Fusion was here... her parents are dead." He ended tartly. Kevin frowned, seems Numbah Two would be due for decommissioning soon himself if they didn't keep him for the battle. He was growing up, no longer afraid or uneducated about death. "We should have put a watch on her... it's becoming a pattern. The last three Operatives to be decommissioned have disappeared and their families murdered."
"Murdered? Why is Fuse having the families killed now?" He frowned.
"If I had to guess... no one will go looking for them you know? Parents worry about their kids. I know mine do... no parents- no one to worry. The question you should be asking though," The shorter boy frowned, "is why does he want our ready to decommission operatives and are they still alive?"