Disclaimer- Animorphs ain't mine
Author's Note: I'm usually a humor writer. I write nothing but humor but since I suck at writing humor fics I decided to write this one. It'll be happy, though, later, not depressing the whole way. This is set in New Yor just cause I wanted it to be.
BREEEET! BREEEET!
Jake reach out his hand and slapped the 'snooze' button. The mind-drilling alarm silenced. 'What's the point of getting up?' he asked himself silently. 'If I sit here for the rest of my life will anybody care? Cassie would care…if we were still together.' This did not make Jake feel any better.
The war was over and the Yeerks were defeated. They would never, destroy Earth or any other unsuspecting planet. He should be happy but he wasn't. He had lost all of the people he had loved. His brother…Rachel. And Cassie. He hadn't lost his parents but they lived far away where they had their "Fun in the Sun" in their old age
Cassie lived right here in town just eight blocks away but he never, ever went to see her. He was afraid that that Ronnie Chambers guy would be there. He was sure they were still dating. He had saw them a week ago downtown.
It broke his heart to think that Cassie was seeing another man. He couldn't help but remember "the good old days". He remembered the time on the Iskoort world where he and Cassie shared their first kiss…
He savored this moment until the murderous jack hammering alarm started to sound again.
"Damn alarm," he muttered under his breath.
He shut it off and crawled out of bed. He sat in his pajamas at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee. It always made him feel better. He gazed out the window to the light snow falling in the dim early morning sky. He loved the snow, for no reason he could explain it always made him feel peaceful, unlike the rain that hammered on the ground and made you feel miserable. Sometimes when he was extra depressed he liked the rain. But no matter what mood he was in he always liked the snow.
He had an apartment, he was a millionaire and he could've had a mansion just as big as Marco's but he liked the apartment. All the tenants were nice, they left him alone because they knew that war had scarred him. They had all came to visit him at least once. Even the old lady down the hall that kept to herself and her cats. Jake didn't think she was mean just lonely. It was big but not huge and fancy like a condo. Condos made you antsy and uncomfortable. But his place was warm and welcoming. It had plain walls and plain floors. Their were no fancy butlers that walked around like they had an umbrella in their pants Their were a few paintings here and their and a few pictures. Of him and his family. Their was a picture of him and the gang. Cassie, Marco, Tobias in human morph, Ax in human morph, and Rachel. This was taken way back when they were kids. But he still kept it. There was a picture of him and Cassie dancing and having a good time at a school dance. He had no idea somebody took that picture, though. He had a boxful of Rachel's things and as he was going through it he found this. It was a good picture so he kept it. In the box with Rachel's stuff in it there was a small patch of grizzly bear fur taped to a thick index card. They had found this on the Blade Ship after they rammed it. They had carried it back down to Earth and searched it. The patch of fur always made Jake's lip tremble.
He considered staying in the whole day and then decided against it. He got dressed in regular jeans and a regular shirt. If you looked at him you wouldn't even think 'Hey that guy saved the world! Let's go get his autograph!'
Except everyone knew his face so they would go and ask for an autograph. He was the most famous person on Earth. Anyway, he dressed, but not with out putting his morphing outfit on first…
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He walked swiftly down town trying to avoid being goggled at. He found a dark alley way. He made footprints in the light white dust that covered the ground. Everybody knew he could morph but he didn't want to do it in public. Everybody would crowd around him and stare.
He stuffed his shoes, outer clothes, and coat into the corner of the alley. He focused on the peregrine falcon and felt the changes begin.
Soon, when he was fully morphed he spread his wings and headed to the "Coffee Cup" downtown for an early breakfast.
A/N: Chapter 2 on the way! Until then…R/R