City Lights & Isolation

Note: New story because I think my other one (of three chapter) absolutely sucked. I dunno if you think it did or whether this new one sucks, but I like this one better. So if you don't then tough. You don't have to read it.

Seattle.

"Lexxa!"

You see it at night and it shines.

"Lexxa!"

People are drawn to it. People... And other things.

"God damnit, girl. What's with you lately?"

I look up at the girl who's standing before me from where I sit on the edge of the space needle. Her dark, chocolate skin shines from the moon's reflected light, giving her deep, dark eyes the same affect. Her beautiful, well-cared for hair bounces around her pretty face as she takes a seat next to me. She's not half-bad for an ordinary.

"Sorry, OC. I was... Thinking."

She nods her head, taking the same leg-hugging seating position as I. "Well, are you gonna tell me what's going on in that pretty little head of yours or am I gonna have to smack it out of you?"

I let out an airy laugh before looking out into the city of Seattle. "Like Max, I come here and look down on all those ordinary people and find that infact they're not as ordinary as they'd like to think. Infact, they have the same screwy problems as Transgenics... Okay, maybe not a secret goverment anentcy or White and his familiars on their asses, but problems, y'know?"

"Mmhm, I hear ya'." she nods, listening.

"Anyway, now that Manticore's gone, it's all good, but..." I cut myself off, not wanting to go there. To get all emotional. I'm not to good with letting my feelings get the better of me. Like Alec, I try to ignore them. Better yet, I do ignore them successfully... Most of the time anyway.

"C'mon, Lexxa, you know you can chat anything to me." She uses her voice to carress me softly. Aside from Max, she's the only one that's usually there to listen and help with me and my strange little Transgenic life. It makes her pretty special to Max and I, considering that she's only an ordinary and doesn't have to be there for us.

"I..." I sigh to myself, deciding to let out my thoughts. "Back at Manticore, I had a reason, y'know? They made us for their purposes and now Manticore's gone I feel like I don't belong." I say and give up at what I'm trying to get at. "It's not a big deal, considering I'm not the only that's feeling like this. There's a big number of us out in the world not knowing what to do with themselves."

The Alec's voice sounds from behind us, "Then maybe you could help me out." he says, sitting beside Original Cindy.

OC chuckles shoving Alec's shoulder playfully before getting up. "See you pretty people later." she says.

I look back at her without getting up as Alec shifts into OC's place beside me. "You're not seriously leaving me with the womaniser, are you?" I ask sarcastically.

"Oh c'mon, I promise to behave." he grins from beside me.

OC laughs, shaking her head and walking away as I roll my eyes.

"What'd you want, Alec?" I ask, not really in the mood for someone like him. Someone being someone who never takes anything seriously unless it's his life on the line.

"Would it be hard for you to believe if I just wanted to make sure you were okay?" he asked with all seriousness for once.

I was caught off guard with this sudden... Affection. Especially from him. I turned my head towards him, still hugging my legs to my chest, realising his legs were in the same position as mine. "I might find that hard to believe, yes." I admitted, cocking my eyebrow at him.

He chuckled inwardly before looking out into the city lights. "I understand what you were talking about just now, about feeling like you don't have a purpose."

"It's rude to earwig." I joked with a small grin.

He returned a grin to me before continuing. "Anyway, we all feel like that. Even the ordinaries. However, we all learn to hide those sort of emotions and just get on with our lives. Look down there," he instructed, motioning to the city. I did so and he continued. "It looks so peaceful down there, doesn't it?" It did, but I knew what he was getting at and he completed with--"When really it's deafening."

There was a short silence between us. I don't know what he was thinking about, but I didn't question. I was too wrapped up in my own thoughs about realising that he was right. Sounds funny, doesn't it? Alec being right. But he was.

My time on that was up and I decided to talk once again. Putting on a mocking voice and a grin, I said--"You learn that from the Manticore hand book?"

He glanced at me with a small smile--"From you." he said, turning his gaze back to the city.