Nine Drabbles

Summary: Nine is like everyone else. She has quirks. Like her nickname for her guardian and even herself are strange, how she acts 7 instead of 11, or perhaps that she's scared of the other 8 & Kenny dieing, leaving her as the last Lorien—ANYWHERE.

Rating: Rated T For… For… Tuesday…? :D""

Disclaimer: I OWN NADA. Just Nueve~
Rated: T For Tripping, See Ya' Next Fall! XD
/hit with cans of peaches/
Everybody's A Critic… TT3TT

What The Radio Says: F*cking Perfect and/or Raise Your Glass By P!nk (Because You Can SO See Nueve Singing This 'Cause They Fit Her So Well XD)
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19. Wish
One time, in Oakwood Elementary, Nueve found a girl with a common dream; to travel around the world, and who –like all those dreamers that Nueve had met in the past- wanted and wished they could switch places with her.
How badly Nueve wishes they COULD switch places with her…But no matter how hard Nueve wishes on a star, she knows her wish will never be granted.

20. Loyalty
When they first found Chocolate, a chocolate colored mutt, Nueve just imagined doing all the FUN things with the dog. Throwing around a Frisbee, dancing to the radio together, and watching the lab steal more of Kenny's food…
But she found out something after the a few days of owning Chocolate. The dog needed walks, and it would whimper and bark for one at 3 AM. So, Nueve pretended to be asleep as she listened for Kenny to sigh, get the leash, and offer to walk the mutt…
The dog ignored him and kept whimpering in Nueve's ear.
And that's how she ended up here. In Maryland. In the dead of winter. In a blizzard. At 3 AM. Walking the dog.
She looked down at the brown dog, who was panting heavily and happily, it's mouth in a smile and it's tongue hanging out.
Nueve glared at the ignorant mutt, "You take the term 'loyalty', WAAAAAY too far."

21. Sugar-Rush (Requested by SnowflakeEV)
Nueve crept into the sleeping Cepan's room… quiet as a mouse (unless you count her inability to keep her giggles in)… tip-toeing softly against the blue carpet as Chocolate watched with a tolerant 'You're-a-dead-man-walking' look for the doorway.
She looked at Kenny, who had been hanging around with their alcoholic neighbor earlier that night and was in-between having a horrible hangover and being dead asleep. She giggled again once seeing he wasn't awake and snuck over to the other side of the bed. She stood on her tip-toes as she balanced herself on the bedside before jumping up a step and continued jumping on the bed.
She laughed
Kenny did not. (Which was obvious as he threw pillows and empty water bottles at her get her to SHUT UP)
He was going to KILL their neighbor for allowing her to eat their old Halloween candy.

22. Protection Failure
It had started very simple. Ever since Nueve could remember, nothing could hurt her. Whatever you threw, shot, hit, kicked, or anything would just be thrown back at you.
Because THAT was the protection of the Lorien Numbers, only to be harmed if you were next in line to be killed.
But it was also simpler than being shot with a bullet; no snowballs, squirt-guns, or anything annoying could be shot at her either. So, when SEVEN water balloons hit her by some random kids when she went to pick up groceries for Kenny in South America, both knew something was wrong... The only way this could happen -without Number Eight dead- was for the other Numbers to be brought together… Just in case, the next day, they packed up and moved to Canada.

23. Dark Foreshadows
Kenny sighed, rubbing his temples. He missed the days on his home-planet; everything was so much SIMPLER there… And if he couldn't have that, he at least wished he could see the other Cepans and Numbers again in that year-long trip to Earth. Kenny had only just became a Cepan, so the other Cepans began comforting him, giving him advice, while Nueve just played with the other Numbers, too young to realize her home was being destroyed just as they spoke…
Nueve was about 18 months old at the time, so he'd be surprised if she could remember Lorien or that trip to Earth. Often the one to talk to him about his worries of being a Cepan, alone, since that was the plan —for all the Numbers and their Cepans to split up— was Brendon* who was the guardian to "Number Four". He'd tell him everything Kenny needed to know and what he needed to hear… Sometimes, he hoped that Brendon would forget the rules and travel with him, Nueve, and Number Four, but if he did then the other Numbers would be at risk. But still, often in the beginning Kenny would look back to Brendon's teaching and apply them to Nueve. Sometimes, Kenny believed it was all because of Brendon that he and Nueve were still alive and going in the right direction.
Gawd, he hoped Brendon was okay.

24. Comic-Book Fakes
Nueve had been to a Comic-Con before, and she really liked it—Until she realized, about 5 minutes later, that her "Wolverine from the X-Men" autograph didn't have something important.
Yeah, Wolverine isn't spelled with two L's.

25. Childhood Tragedy
Number Four could distantly remember a baby in the trip to Lorien, he wasn't sure if the baby was a girl or boy, but he could remember playing with him/her. She/He was fun and cute from what he could remember… But still. He could do nothing but hope that this little baby wasn't Numbers 1-3, because…
Well, then that little baby was dead.

26. Bedtime Stories

Nueve couldn't remember anything really from Lorien or that trip to Earth… Kenny could though, and he'd describe it to her in extreme detail; making her sniffle with small tears stuck in her eyes when he spoke of the destruction of Lorien, making her smile and giggle when he talked about the trouble she'd get into with the other Numbers… She supposed they were like her bedtime stories, like Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood.

27. Speeding Limit
It never made any sense to Nueve why police officers would include bike-officers. So badly, the 11 year-old had wanted to roll down the backseat window when one of those officers stopped Kenny and her, panting as he asked if Kenny knew how fast they were going. Nueve bit her lip, holding in her comment, because the sooner they left the officer, the less likely he would remember them… But still.
Even SHE knew the answer to "D-Do you know… Do you know how f-f-fast you were sp-speeding…?"
'Yeah; a whole LOT faster that that 'official' officer bicycle of yours.'

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*Brendon is Henri's Lorein name, said so in the end of Book 1, IAmNumberFour.

Also, #23 & 25 & 26 were my failed attempts at writing SnowflakeEV's other request; to write about Nueve and the other Numbers (which I do admit would be fun to write about, but I don't know HOW ^^").

*I TAKE REQUESTS FOR THIS ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE NUEVE DEAL WITH BUT ONLY IF YOU'VE REVIEWED~! :D*