Chapter 2: Timeskip

AN: So, I figured I wouldn't bore you guys with childhood, as it get's old fast. So here we're just going to skim all the boring parts and do a little time skip to present day, Enjoy!

So, I'm just going to skip over childhood, because there is no way in hell I'm talking about it. Suffice to say despite having to adapt to almost no modern day technology, life was… interesting to say the least. I would get into far more fights than I did in my old life, mainly due to Alex, but also because some kids couldn't keep their mouths shut. Apparently somebody managed to find out mom was arrested, and boy was that oh so fun to deal with. This is what would happen: Kid inserts foot into mouth, Alex would punch him, I would help out, and everyone lost.

Despite this happening far more times than I can count, it never really affected us. Oh and then there was Dana. Man, I thought they were exaggerating when it was mentioned that Alex was Dana's only parental figure, but they were not. Thanks to Mom always being drunk, it was up to yours truly to give Dana The Talk, threaten any boyfriend she had etc. Well it was a combination of me and Alex but you get the point. As the years went by, I could see that Alex was getting more and more distant, and there was not changing it.

I managed to convince my extremely stubborn siblings to give self defense courses a shot. It was perfect for Alex to channel his rage growing up, and gave Dana an excuse to try and pummel to me actually making an effort this time, I at least got a college degree while Alex went off to Columbia University. From there, it was simple living. I 'conveniently got an apartment in New York, and got a job as a bike courier. Hell, for a while I thought I could live normally, but then I got a call from Dana one day. Shit.


It was a pretty peaceful day, and boy was it boring. I had already finished up my rounds at work so I had the day off. That's when my phone rang. I looked at the number and cursed a bit. Dana. If she was calling that means it was almost time. I quickly answered. "Mercer speaking." I said in my most professional voice. Which just meant I deepened it and took any emotion I had out of it.

Dana snorted on the other line. "Yeah yeah Mr. Professional. Keep this up and you'll start to sound like Alex" She said. Ouch, I could feel that.

I put a hand to my chest, gasping dramatically. "Oh why must you wound me so sister?" Yeah, this was how almost all of our interactions were. "Seriously though sis, what's up?" I asked.

She hesitated. Shit, she never hesitated. Not good at all. She finally spoke. "Have you heard from Alex recently? He hasn't been picking up his phone." I rolled my eyes, scoffing. Alex. He was good as a kid, but sometime when we ended up going our separate ways he developed a case of Assholey-itis. The bastard ended up just ignoring me and Dana after a fight we had, for a while he didn't even care about us, and he just recently started talking to Dana again. Me? He hadn't talked to me in about six years, and I never felt like talking to him either.

I was perfectly fine ignoring him, but Dana wasn't. "Dana, you know we haven't talked since that fight. Why? Has something happened?" I asked. I knew, but for appearances sake I played ignorant.

"No- I mean… yes. Look he had me looking up this company he worked for, Gentek, but when I sent him some information he just… vanished. Look, can you just go check on him? Please?" She said. Shit, I could hear the worry in her voice.

"Ok, ok I'll check up on him. Don't worry, I'll call you back." I said. I was going to regret this. I disconnected the call and made my way to Alex's apartment. While I didn't have a key, I did know a few things. One of those happened to be lockpicking.

Anyway, I went his apartment, and god was it a mess. Everything was thrown around, pictures shattered, even a few dents in the wall. Let's see, there was a photo of me, Alex and Dana on the floor which I pocketed, and a few hundred dollar bills which I also pocketed, and there was Alex's laptop on the desk in front of me. After I quickly downloaded the files onto a USB, because who knows what was on there, I saw a map on the floor next to me with the words 'PENN STATION' circled in red. Ah shit this was going to suck.

AN: You guys already know what's about to go down. With our dear protagonist, will he change anything? Who know? Until next time, read, review and enjoy!