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CJ sat alone in the observatory, the day had not turned into what she would have hoped for. It had been weeks since she told them of what she was and now Ian hated her and though Gabe and Suki still liked her they kept a far distance making sure not to tell her any key figures they were going to play in the escape but telling her enough not to exclude her.
The outsider feeling was back, but she grew up with that feeling. Knowing she was different even at Tower Prep, a school full of teens with abilities not like normal humans. Instead of having just the 5 senses, they all had another 6th sense which was their ability. Though she, could bet, was the only one that couldn't remember her past. Every now and then something would come back, but the memories were always blurry and the voices slurred as if she had been drunk when the scene before her had taken place. She hated her own skin and the feeling of wanting to rip out of it and be free only fueled her need to escape. She had felt no one could understand her, never completely understand the ache that throbbed her heart at night or brought tears to her eyes in the dark. And with Gabe and Suki so determined to escape, their minds on routes and mathematical equations, no one had taken the time to read her.
And then she had met Ian Archer.
A boy with the wit of a fox, and the strength of a bear. A boy with speed of a cheetah and the heart of a lion. A boy that made her appreciate the meaning of life, a boy who made her see she wasn't so different, or at least accepted that she was. A boy that was determined on the escape…but took the time to read her, to truly see what she may have been hiding. A boy who made her heart flutter and turn the little butterflies in her stomach to wasps. A boy, who she knew without a doubt in her mind, she was in love with.
He was someone she would have jumped in front of a speeding bullet for, without a second thought. Without a moments hesitation, because without him what was she? She was nothing. Just a girl, who didn't know her own mother, hated her own father, lied to her best friends, and betrayed the love of her life. She was Candace Ward, not CJ and certainly not Ceej. Not without him at least.
She found herself letting out a sigh, dawn would come soon and she would be forced to walk through those dark, damp tunnels alone. She bit her lip hard and swiveled her chair toward their board of clues. CJ let out a laugh, with she quickly muffled to prevent anyone from hearing, thinking of Gabe always made her laugh. The things he said were so random sometimes, they would turn your day right side up. CJ couldn't help thinking about what he said and the events that happened afterward.
"Look guys it seems I have located another clue." Gabe said as he stuck a menu from the cafeteria on the board next to a picture of a Gnome CJ had drawn. Ian raised an eyebrow.
"This has nothing to do with the escape." He said with a smirk.
"Oh but it does, it's a clue I picked up on my way here. You see were going to need to keep from starving to actually escape," Gabe took a breath as his stomach made a sound of agreement. "So I think I'll need to bulk up. I've got to keep this a ten." He waved his hand up and down his own body.
Gabe let out a hiss when Suki thumped him in the head, a mocking look of pain and hurt on his face. "Gabe sometimes I don't even know what to do with you."
"C'mon Ceej don't you agree?" Gabe said his face turning from the once silly friend CJ knew to a concentrated one. "I figure you've been working all day you might as well take a rest. Besides, you know we haven't even eaten all day," His voice was calm and soothing. CJ shook her head with a smile already knowing what he was up to. "I think…, not working is it?"
"I've known you too long. I can see it coming a mile away."
"Oh, looks like you just got put in your place Gabe." Ian said with a smile towards CJ, who of course returned it.
"Don't worry Gabe we'll do your whole, food thing. I think we all do deserve a break." Suki said gesturing to Ceej and Ian for agreements.
"No, complaints here." Ian said with a pat on his stomach, getting up to lock their board. "Here's your clue, Scooby Do." Suki let out a giggle from her spot at the telescope.
"Hey, if anything I'm Shaggy." Gabe said with a point of his finger and a stern face.
"How is that even better? Aren't they like the same?" Ian said laughing as Gabe let out a snort.
"No, one is a dog and one is a human. You may be able to see something before its about to happen but your eyes need to be checked, my friend, if you didn't see that." Gabe said looking at him challengingly, waiting for Ian to through a retort back at him. Through Ian couldn't really say anything back, since he was hunched over laughing so hard.
CJ had heard about Scooby Doo from them before, those 4 kids and 1 dog that solve mystery's kind of like them. Though all they were missing was the dog, though CJ suspected Gabe would do just fine playing as too. CJ found herself laughing as hard as Ian, her stomach even began clenching painfully, next to her tears were coming out of Suki's eyes.
"And don't be so quick to judge Fred." Gabe said, trying to hold back his laughter and was failing.
"Oh so now just because you degraded yourself, I'm going down with you?" Ian said with a half smile his eyebrows raised.
Gabe smiled a real smile as everyone began to calm down. "No," He said softly taking a look from Ian to Suki and CJ then back. "Because were a team." And with that they were all turned to silence, as Gabe raised his fist. Ian smiled and put his fist in, then Suki and CJ wasted no time in putting her fist in to. Because this is what she wanted, where she belonged, with this team.
CJ had also learned then that she was Daphne and Suki was Velma. They had all had another laugh about that later that day, calling each other by their casted names from Gabe. CJ let out another laugh as she traced her finger along the menu they still had up on their board, which soon turned into chocked sobs.
"I'm nothing without them." CJ whispered as if saying it out loud would make it sound less true, but it didn't. "I'm nothing without them." Her body cracked with sobs, and she slide her body down the board making it roll back, as she sat on the floor. Her knees curled up to her chin, her head on top of her knees as if she could somehow block out the world. The sobs went on for awhile, just as she thought they were going to stop a whole new set of sobs broke less and she curled up into a ball again. She thought the sobs would never stop until, she found herself all out of tears, a noise in the corner made her lift her head and leap to her feet, for in the back of the room was a figure and no one had come with her into the observatory.
No one at all.
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