JD: Editing it, fixing, etc. Nothing is being changed just minor editing.
3/13/15
Finding Faimly
Beautiful Tree
ii: McCarthner and Fire
"Vacation?" She asked, as she paced the small bedroom of the log cabin with her friend in front of her. Well she is sort of a friend. "Magaline, how on earth are we supposed to be on Vacation in middle of the school year?" She asked, then flopped down beside the dark hair girl who has been watching her.
Magaline shrug her shoulders, her brown eyes then flash to the door, as it peeked open slightly. "You two okay in here?" Joseph asked, sticking his head in the door.
Magaline nodded her head. "Yeah, Gramps, everything is okay."
He nods his head in approval, and walked out. "Behave you two." He said, over his shoulder.
Magaline then turn to her friend again. "Your dad's one of the richest guys in the world, the Stark family is the only ones who beat him for it right now, so shut up and enjoy the special treatment." She said, laughing as her friend hits her on the arm.
"Shut up, not my fault that this all happen." She groans, as she flops back down and looks to the ceiling. "If you could leave here, would you?"
Magaline gave her a confused look. "We can leave the cabin whenever we want." She stated, trying to figure out what the girl means.
Myra rolls over to her side looking to her friend. "I mean this town. You just up and leave and never look back. Would you?" She asked, as she sat up and her friend seems to be paler.
Magaline hates it when Myra gets like this, but she understands it. Her step-mother is a bitch, even if once upon a time ago she wasn't. Her dad is always busy with work, even while they are on 'vacation' the man hasn't been able to get off his phone for very long. Work is just about his whole life.
"My-my, it's not that bad of a life. You can buy anything you want. You have personally run many organizations for homeless and abusive kids. You helped so many people daily. You are one of the sweetest girls I know." She said, trying to comfort the girl who just seems to not get through. "Myra, please listen to me."
Myra nods her head her blond wild curls going up and down with it. "I get it, I do just...-" her voice faded, slightly.
"Myra, please, you are one of my only friends. We know you are keeping a secret from your dad and we understand. I might not know what it is fully, but I know Gramps see you as a granddaughter as much as me. I'm actually am his granddaughter who he helped raised." She said, waving her arms around dramatically.
Myra laughs and leans to her friend, resting her head on Magaline's shoulder. "So, Mags, what's today plans?" She asked, as she starts to bounce some out of boredom. Magaline laugh more, as her black hair shake with her body. Her brown eyes are closed tightly, as she did. "What's so funny?" Myra whine, slightly hugging Maga's arm. "I'm bored, let's do something."
Magaline nod her head getting up and pulls Myra up with her. "Come on." She said, as she pulls the other girl out of the room, down the hall. They stopped in the kitchen and smiled as they saw Joseph and his daughter in the kitchen. "Mom, Gramps, we are going to ride the four-wheelers for a bit." Magaline said, happily, as she smiled to them.
"Okay, baby, be careful, both of you." Magaline's mother said, strictly, as she saw the two teenagers out the door.
Magaline link her arms with Myra's as they went around the cabin to the shed and push out the two four-wheelers. Once they were out of the shed they got on and start to race each other to the trail. Laughing and enjoying their race, they didn't notice the sign that said 'Do Not Enter' or the sign that is mostly cover by a bush saying 'Do Not Pass.'
Once at the end of the road, they stopped and looked back. "Where are we?" Magaline asked, looking to the girl whose property they are on.
"No idea." Myra answered, getting up. "Creed property so let's explore." She said, as they start to walk from their four-wheelers to where the small strange buildings are.
"You know these looks like something you would see on the Science channel. You know where they keep the fail projects of stuff. The scientist storage units type thing." Magaline stated, getting to close to one of the round metal building. "Hey, these things are unnaturally cool." She freaked, touching the metal. "It's hot out so they should be hot." She turns to her friend.
Myra stopped looking at the smallest building and slowly starts to walk to it. "Magaline?" She said, slowly as fear seeped in to her voice.
Magaline stopped trying to open one of the doors and turn to Myra, as the blond start to walk away. "What's wrong?" She asked, as she kept an eye on the building door that Myra is watching. It started to open.
Myra started to run and grab a hold of Magaline's hand, as she did. "Bad feeling let's go." She said, panicked, as she started to run.
"MUTANT! MUTANT!" A loud alarm went off as they ran. "MUTANT!" It kept screaming, as the girls got back to the four-wheelers and climb on.
"What the fudge, man!" Magaline screamed, as something start to shoot at them. They got to the end of the road, when they went back on to the trail and couldn't hear the alarms anymore. "That was weird." She said, still freaking out by it.
Myra nods her head and look back to the direction of the weird building. "Wonder what went off." She said, though she has a sinking feeling she knows what it was.
"Why was it saying Mutant? Your dad had me tested before I was allowed anywhere near you. I don't have the gene and surely you don't. That would be really messed up if you, the daughter of Friends of Humanity, have the gene."
Myra just nod her head keeping quiet, as the girl went on about it and how messed up it would be if Myra was surely a mutant, or even if somehow she is one. Myra started to tune her out, as they went back to the cabin. Pulling up to the shed and putting away the four-wheelers, as no other than Graydon Creed came out. "Did you two go near the closed off road?" He asked, as he came out of the cabin through the back door.
The girls looked to each other and then back at him. "Nope." Magaline said, at once. Myra shook her head.
"No, we just stayed on the trails." She answered, after Magaline did.
He nodded his head and started to walk away. The girls then looked to each other, as he went back inside. "Closed road? As in we weren't supposed to be on it?" Magaline asked, her friend.
"I didn't see any signs and no one told me about it." She said, back.
Magaline then sat down. "Maybe that was parts of fail Friends of Humanity experiments, that's why it went off and claim one, or both, of us were mutant." She suggested.
"Yeah, but we can't let anyone know about this." Myra said, strictly as they start to go inside.
Magaline gave her the 'are you serious' look. "No duh." She said, shaking her head at her friend. "If your dad only knew, he would never let me see you again." She whispered, harshly, at Myra.
Myra looked down at her crossed arms. 'If only you knew how true that to be...'
After they wash up and got ready for dinner, Joseph notice how fidgety that Myra and Magaline is acting. He motion them to follow him. They did and he looked between them, after checking to see if anyone else was around. "You two are hiding something now spill." He said, sternly.
Magaline bit her lip and looks like she wasn't going to say anything, but when his eyes land on Myra she wasn't going to hide anything from him. "We found these weird buildings, then one started an alarm screaming mutant, it started to shoot at us so we came straight back." She said, all in one breathe.
"Why didn't you two tell me before?" He asked, paler as he looked between them. "You two weren't hit, or we would have known by the blood. What were you two doing off Mr. Graydon's property?" He asked, ready to chew them out.
"We weren't." Magaline said, and look to him dead in the eyes. They share the same eye, that's something that Myra caught, when she first met Magaline. "We were on Creed Property when we found it." She answered, fully. "Myra said we shouldn't tell anyone." She then added.
"Joseph isn't anyone; he's your grandpa and my friend." Myra admitted, as she looked to the dark hair girl.
Magaline nod her head, as they both looked back to the old man before them. "This is bad you two." He said, sternly, but it sounds like fear is in his voice too. He is trying to hide it as he watched Myra closely. "He'll know about this. He will want to go after you two for this." He said, still scared.
"We weren't doing anything wrong. There was not signs and we were just being well, us. It's not like we didn't race and play up and down the trails and back roads out here before." Magaline said, confused.
Myra gets it. "It wasn't broken experiments. It sounded like the Sentinel project."
Magaline stopped and looked confused. "The what project?"
"Sentinel, they were finally approved but he was making them long before that." Joseph said, as he looked at the girls.
Magaline is still confused. "Sentinels are giant robots that search for mutants and take them out of society for the humans' benefits and safety." Myra explained as she lean against the wall, and falls to the ground putting her face in to her hands. "I am going to be doom no matter what." She said, carefully trying not to cry.
Magaline looks more confused, as she looks to her grandpa for answers. "My-my is a mutant." He said.
Magaline eyes went wide, as she looks to the girl who's scared and worried. "Myra, I am so sorry. You should have told me before and I wouldn't have said what I did."
Her grandpa stiffened up and glares at the girl. "She didn't say anything bad, just the irony of, what if I was a mutant because I am Friends of Humanity leader's daughter." Myra said, not looking up.
Joseph sat down slowly beside her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "All will be okay, Myra. We will protect you." Magaline said, as she took Myra's hands from her face. "Nothing will happen to you. I mean you are my best friend." She said, as she looked at her friend who gives a small smile.
"My-my, we will figure something out." Joseph said, agreeing with his granddaughter.
"Dinner time!" Magaline's mom called out. They all got up and went to the kitchen to see it was just Angeline McCarthner. "Mr. Grayson said he has worked to take care of so he had to leave." She told them.
Joseph sat down beside her. "Girls, did either of you see cameras?" Joseph asked, not touching the food. The girls look to each other with Angie looking at them confused.
"No." Myra said. "I felt like something was watching us though." She said, as she poked at her plate that Angie place in front of her.
"What's going on?" Angie demand, putting her fists on her hips looking at her father, daughter, and family friend.
"They stumble upon something for Friends of Humanity and worried they are going to get in trouble." Joseph told her, without lying but not telling her everything.
He nodded his head at the girls and they drop the subject to eat. Both of the girls seem not as hungry as they felt. A few bites and they asked to be excused. Once upstairs again Myra flop back down on her bed as Magaline sat beside her. Same as they were a few hours before. "So, today been interesting." She said, looking down to Myra.
Myra just nodded her head. "I wasn't expecting you to find out this way." She said, covering her face again with a groan. "No one but Joseph was supposed to know." She said, as Magaline pry her hands away from her face. "I am so sorry, I shouldn't have been so eager to explore that place." She said, as she looked to her friend who just shrugged.
The darker hair of the two smiled slightly. "You are only human, just have a special gene." She said, with a smile as the other seems to find some comfort in that. "We didn't see any cameras so no worries about him knowing it were us." She whispered to her, and Myra nod her head agreeing.
Magaline yawn falling back and the two started to laugh as they talked. Eventually their conversation went back to one from earlier about running away. "That's why you are always talking about running away?" Magaline asked. Myra nodded her head and then looked to the ceiling. "If you do, I'll run away with you." Magaline said, as she hugged Myra tightly.
Myra gave her a confused look. "No, you have a family that loves you and I couldn't do that to you." She said, trying to figure out how to get Magaline to change her mind.
"No, friends like us are rare, we are meant to be together." She said, stubbornly, as she hugs tightly and Myra gave up wrapping her own arms around Magaline.
They start to talk again and laughing till they heard Angie screamed. The two looks to each other and ran downstairs to where the living room is. The mansion that the past five years Myra lived in was in flames on the news. "Mr. Creed and his daughter were at a cabin waiting for Mrs. Creed to join them. She said that she had something to do so she would meet them up there." Graydon's assistant said, as she shifted her glasses slightly.
Myra knew this was a lie, as does the McCarthner Family. "Elizabeth Creed was pronounce dead only moments ago. Her body is badly deformed from the fire but everyone is convinced it is her." The anchor lady announces.
Myra sat down beside her friend, as Magaline wrap her arms around her tightly, as Myra sobbed when the picture of her step-mother came on to the screen. "It's my fault." She cried, as all three of the McCarthner comfort her.
It was Joseph, as always, who got her to respond though. "It wasn't your fault, Myra."
"She attacks me then out of nowhere there's this huge accident that our MANSION EXPLODES! It's my fault she is dead!" She screams at the man, and tears stained her face.
"Myra, you have had a really long really bad day. Why don't you go upstairs and sleep? You need it." Angie said, leading the girl to the stairs. When the girl start to go upstairs. "Mags, go watch her, I'm worried she's going to do something stupid."
Magaline followed Myra, as Angie turned to Joseph. "I can't tell you, Angie." He said, as he looked at the screen.
"They said it was a gas leak in the kitchen. The only person at the mansion was Bethy. You have known her as long as I, when have she ever cook anything? She eats nothing but those nasty protein bars and salads. Always have." She went on. "Now, Father, tell me what is going on." She made sure he understood the anger behind her calm voice.
"Beth hit Myra; Graydon pulled Beth away and told Myra to pack. He brought her out here and a day later there's an explosion." He said, what Angie already knew. "I know it was murder, you know that, as does the girls, but we can't let anyone else know that." He said, as he stood.
"Father, you're not telling me everything!" She hissed at him, furious.
"I can't tell you." He said, as he stopped walking. The look she gave him he looked up the stairs. "Not without Myra here."
"You are acting like she's a mutant or something." The look he made, she stopped. "She's a mutant?" She whispered. Normally none of the McCarthner Family wouldn't care, but when it comes to Graydon Creed they do to protect whoever the mutant is.
Angie looked to the stairs and felt for the girl. "She feels alone that's why you are so attach to her. You feel like you should protect her, like you couldn't with Jacob? Daddy, that wasn't your fault." She said, as she went to the man who just walked away. "Dad?" She stopped walking and closed her eyes, as she remembered Jacob. He was her brother; he was also a mutant that died because he was.
She walked to her own room in the big cabin and sat down on the bed. Sad that Myra will have to go through the same thing that her own brother did when they were little. Even sadder because Myra will be forced to by her own father not just townsfolk that are scared of what she can do or is. That night Angie cried not only for her dead brother, but for the girl who she has grown attach to her.
Upstairs Myra curls up under the covers as Magaline lies on her stomach beside her. "You aren't tired." She stated, boredly.
"The mansion I lived in for past five years was burned down and my step-mother was murdered." She said, with little to no emotion in her voice.
"Again, you aren't tired." She still said, in bored voice. "We need something to distract you." She said, as she kept looking at the wall.
Myra groans and pulls the covers over her head. "I am not tired, but I need sleep, so unless you have some awesome sleeping pills shut up and let me try to." She snapped at Magaline, who wasn't really fazed by it.
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