Sorry that one took a LONG time, just didn't feel like writing. Anyways, hope you don't think it's too lame, or too long... Please, please, please R&R! ^^
She lead the man to the head desk, then whispered to the lady at the desk, "he keeps going on about this place about some place called Earth. I've never heard of it before, and I'm pretty sure he's insane… but…" The lady looked alarmed, then called for security. A couple of men came, and took the man away.
"Thank you for your time, please do continue to help the community," the woman said with a kind smile. She began turning away, but Cara quickly said,
"Actually, I was on my way down here anyways. I came here to, er…" she paused for a moment, trying to quickly think of something to say. The woman at the desk raised her eyebrows as she waited patiently for Cara to continue. "Ask a few questions with someone who works here."
"I'll send someone down right now, just wait a few minutes, and take a seat--"
"Well, I ah-," Cara interrupted the woman. "I wanted to kinda have a private word with someone," Cara smiled sweetly, the lady seemed quite irritated by Cara's presence now, but she called someone else anyways.
"Ms. Estelle be waiting for you in office 537," the woman shook her head in frustration, then turned away from Cara.
"Thank you," she muttered quietly, then headed towards the elevator. She wished this sounded as easy as Maddie had said.
"Just turn the person in, then ask to speak to someone of high importance. Ask about Earth, and if they ask how you know about it just say you heard a couple people talking about it on the street. If they tell you it's nothing, and ask you to leave, then ask about a job," Maddie said in a bored tone. She turned a skull around in her hands, of course it wasn't a real skull, but Cara wasn't quite sure what it was made of.
Cara let out a sigh as she slowly went up to the fifth floor. She was squished in a corner, as she was forced to share the elevator with a couple of football player sized men. She was more scared than ever now, what if they got into her mind and had even bigger men beat her up, or something?
"Realize, kid," the taller of the men chuckled. He noticed that Cara was cowering in the corner, obviously because of them. The other man laughed too, she glared at them. She hated being laughed at, but she bit her tongue to keep herself from saying something that would anger them. "We're not here to hurt people like you, we're here to keep them safe."
"Oh..." She glanced around, what was she supposed to say? "Um... thanks?" Again this made the men laugh, and all three of them left the elevator. Cara walked down the halls with them, soon she was feeling safer and safer with the two. She learned their names were Luc, and Jack. They lead her to the room where Ms. Estelle was, then left. She could still hear their booming laughter as she entered the office. The woman sitting at the desk almost made her pee her pants.
"Hello, I'm Daniela Estelle." Her face remained emotionless as she held out a pale, perfectly manicured hand. Cara cautiously reached out, and shook it gently as if Daniela's hand was as fragile as a china doll. "You're here to ask me a few questions?"
Cara stared for a moment, sitting down in one of the chairs in front of the desk. It looked quite expensive, actually, everything in this room looked really expensive. Like so expensive, you don't want to touch it because if you do you might break it, then your broke. The room was designed like a room in the Queen of England's castle in the 1800's.
"Do you like it?" Daniela questioned, but as soon as Cara was opening her mouth she cut her off. "Quite a pricey room. But in the end it was worth it, was it not? Such a beautiful office, I dare say." She almost completely ignored Cara, examining the room with great pleasure. Cara glared up at Daniela, only to be scared of her even more.
It was like the Division made her specificly for this job. Her light brown eyebrows were plucked to a thin line, high up on her head. She had piercing green eyes that were as cold as clay. For that reason Cara avoiding looking into them at all. Ms. Estelle's cheekbones were very much visible, sharp and pointed out. Like she was pulling her skin back, but maybe it was because she was try to be model thin and hardly ate a thing. She wore a black jacket, it's v-neck veered off to the right. At the bottom were huge ruffles, the back was longer than the front. She wore a simple black pencil skirt, and black tights. Her brown hair was pulled back very tightly into a bun, it was almost as if she were trying to rip it out.
"You like the dress? Actually it's a separate, but close enough, right?" Daniela had noticed that Cara was glancing at her clothing. "It's a Jovani design. I think it's quite lovely, do you not? Very expensive, but I have the money."
"Yes," muttered Cara reluctantly. She clenched her fists, and bit her lower lip to keep herself from strangling the woman, or saying anything she would very much regret. To stop Daniela from continuing the bragging rant, she quickly decided to ask her questions. "I've... I was wonder whether you could give me some information about a place called Earth. I heard a couple of people whispering about it, but I dismissed it. Then again I heard it when the man I just turned in was shouting about it."
"Who were these people?" Daniela looked suspiciously at Cara, but when she just shrugged at her, Daniela decided that was the best she was going to get out of her. "It's not a real place, many people try to convince others of it's existence, but it's not at all real." Cara began playing with the diamond ring on her middle finger. It was mother's, she had given it to Cara before she was killed by the Division. "Well, if that is all you had to ask, then you best be off. After all, I am quite busy. I've already had to delay very many of my plans." Daniela began turning away from Cara, but she quickly blurted,
"But that's not all!" Daniela raised her eyebrows even higher, standing up from her chair and walking to the front of the desk. "I... I wanted to know if I could possible get a job here. I want to be useful well I stay here, so..."
"A job?" Ms. Estelle headed to the bookshelf, and pretended to examine the dusty books held on it's even dustier shelves. Then she began to pace slowly, her black high-heels softly thudding on the carpet. She muttered quietly to herself, "well, we have been in need of Pusher sense that wretched Bender decided to burn Jessica a to a crisp." She sat back down in her chair, smiled sweetly at Cara. "Yes, you'll be perfect! Go head to office," she paused as she glanced at her computer screen, then quickly typed a few words. "424. Davial will help with everything you need, okay? Oh, and I'll send the same guards to help you find the room."
"Thanks, see ya." Cara could only manage those few words, quickly leaving the room before she ripped out all the hair on Daniela's head. She headed back to the elevator, surprised not to see that Luc and Jack there. She couldn't help but smile when she saw both the huge men waiting for her as the elevator doors opened up. She was tempted to enter their minds, and see if they were really for the Division, but then she could be revealed.
"I've never seen anyone as happy in this place as you are now," Jack said with a wide grin. Their laughter soon rang through the halls, and by the time they reached the office Jack had ended up giving Cara a piggy-back ride. She laughed loudly, but the other two had stopped abruptly. She furrowed her eyebrows, looking around to see what was the cause of this. When she saw the man standing in the doorway she released her arms from around Jack's neck, and took a few steps away from him, like a father catching his daughter kissing her boyfriend.
"Er... see you around..." Cara said, and Davial was already heading back in the room. This is quite awkward, she thought. She took a deep breath before taking a step inside the office, it looked like a modern office. She let out a sigh of relief, good thing everyone wasn't like Daniela Estelle. Davial turned towards her, she quickly took in his features. He had brown, almost a purplish color hair. Really pale white skin, and amazing auburn eyes. And he was really cute. She glanced away, she didn't want to seem like see was staring. "Umm.... about what you saw earlier," she blushed as she thought about it. Cara was quite embarrassed that he was the one who saw it. "We were just goofing around... and, well, it was nice to laugh once in awhile." Davial only nodded once, obviously he wasn't listening very much. She couldn't resist, she entered his mind, and he did nothing to stop her. She gasped when she realized he wasn't for the Division either. One thought caught her attention, he was planning on killing Daniela. Suddenly pain shot through her arms as Davial grabbed her, it felt like she was being stabbed with thousands of knifes, over, and over again. Cara screamed in pain, falling to her knees. But suddenly the pain was gone, though Davial still had a hold on her.
"I'm sorry, Cara, but I can't let you turn me in. I've got other plans, and I can't let you get in my way," he without emotion.
"I'm not going to turn you in! I'm here the stop the Division, just like you! Now let go of me!" She managed to wriggled out of his grip, then got up. She winced as she thought of the pain that went through her body. "But you can't go and kill Daniela! They'll suspect someone's planning something, and they'll tighten up on security! Then they'll find me, and Maddie!"
"Oh," he mouthed. "I'm sorry about before... It was just a precaution. I'm not Pusher like you, so I wouldn't know."
"It's fine, don't go all crazy and apologize a million times, alright?" She explained Maddie's plan, a voice inside her kept telling her not to tell Davial, but her heart said he was fine. Once she had finished he smirked and said,
"That might actually work! I'll help as much as possible, I've been wanting to strangle Daniela for years. Same with the rest of the crazy Division leaders." He sighed as he looked at the time, Daniela was probably wondering what was taking so long. "I might as well get on with what you were originally here for. First, you'll be taking Jessica's job as the Re-placer of Memories. Her office is 281. Second, you'll need to wear black, dressy clothing. Daniela had something picked out for you, but I suspect you'll hate it. You start tomorrow, get here by eight. Oh, and you'll be needing this." He handed Cara a sheet of paper which read:
Re-placer of Memories:
1. Erase all their memories of Earth.
2. Leave no trace of Earth at all, if you do they will be able to remember almost everything.
3. Replace their memories with the ones of living on a small farm just a little ways from the city, with the perfect family. Now they've decided to live in the cities, that is why they are here.
4. Use the pictures below to help you replace the memories.
Below the list there were two pictures. One of a family clustered together, the parents holding hands, and the daughter in between them. The mother had thick, slightly frizzed, light blond hair. You could see the gray streaks in it already. She had wrinkles around her eyes when she smiled, and lines around her pale pinks lips. The father had light brown hair that was receding, and a large beer belly. The daughter had wavy blond hair just like her mother, and sparkling blue eyes.
The other picture was of a yellow cottage, it had at the most two bedrooms, and most likely a kitchen, and a bathroom, that had to be it. The paint was chipped, and it had several windows all over the sides, especially the front. Behind it was a maybe a two acre farm, the corn was at least knee high.
"Oh, and you'll also need this, too." Davial handed a stack of pictures to Cara, and she quickly scanned through it. They were pretty much the same as the first family, just of different races, and maybe no child, or another added. "And here are the keys to Jessica's old car. I hope you like expensive sport cars."
"Are you kidding!" Cara snatched the keys quickly, she screamed happily. "I don't even have a car! Of course I'll take a freakin' sports car!" She bolted out the door, running right into Luc. She toppled over, landing right on her butt. She groaned in pain, for a few seconds she heard Davial laughing, but then it was drowned out by Luc, and Jack's booming laughter. "Shut up," Car muttered quietly as she stood up.
"We'll take you to your car," Jack said after he was finished laughing. Cara still felt a jolt of excitement when he said your car. She tried those words on her tongue, but she couldn't quite put my and car together. She was so happy she did a cartwheel, she wondered what kind of sports car it was.
"Are you going to start dancing, and flipping?" Luc teased as Cara twirled through the halls. He had to repeat himself twice before she actually noticed he was talking.
"Only if there was music," she began chattering continuously about cars until she went farther and farther of topic. Somehow she managed to end up on Mexican food. She hardly even seemed to notice they were entering the parking ramp, not until both men stopped abruptly. "Hey, why did we st--?" She gasped, looking at the bright yellow Lamborghini in front of her. "Is this? No way! Oh my goodness, this IS my new car!" Cara screamed with joy, and when she finally settled down she asked, "could I possible get it painted lime green?"
"Of course, you don't even have to use this car. But it might be awhile before you get a new one," Jack calmly.
"So, we'll just take you in my truck," Luc added. He lead them to a new, four-door, blue ford. He hopped into the front seat, well Jack quickly got in the passenger seat. Cara frowned, reluctantly sliding in the backseat. She crossed her arms across her chest, and began mumbling. But she was forced to cover her ears when the terribly loud rap music went off as soon as Luc turned on the truck.
"Oh my God, could you possibly have it any louder!" She shouted over the noise of the music. "I can't believe you actually listen to this crap! Well... actually I can, never mind!" Luc just laughed, then quickly left the parking ramp, and sped off down the street. "Aren't you supposed to be keeping me safe? Yet you're speeding through the streets like it's no problem!"
"Have you seen any speed limit signs?" He just went even faster, which kept Cara silent. She rested her head against the window, looking out into the dark world. There were no trees, or anything growing at all. She wondering where they were getting all their food, but her thought was cut off when the music and the truck stopped. She nearly fell when Jack opened up the door, but he caught her.
"Pay more attention, Miss. There are people out here to get you. Some people know about Earth, and they'd do anything to get their hands around your neck." Jack and Luc stood on either side of her, and lead her to her apartment. Maddie was there to open the door, a half-smile lit up her face when she saw Cara.
"So you made it back alive I see. And who are these? Your bodyguards?" She glanced at the men, her eyes lingering on Luc. She opened the door wider so everyone could get in, "come on in, dinner should be ready soon."
"What the heck are you wearing?" Cara pointed towards the pair of chicken legs in Maddie's ears. "Just forget I even asked, okay? I really don't want to if they're real or not." She headed into their small kitchen, she could tell by the smell that it was the lasagna she had pre-made for Maddie. She quickly took it out of the oven, Maddie would have most likely forgotten about it and burnt the whole place down. The four of them sat down at the small table, and ate. Maddie openly flirted continuously with Luc, which made both Jack, and Cara gag and roll their eyes repeatedly. Cara excused herself abruptly, walking to her room.
"Where you going?" Maddie asked, but Cara had already left the kitchen. She sat down on the chair in front of the mirror, then pulled her knees up to her chest, and wrapped her arms around her legs. She sighed as she looked at her reflection,
"What happens next?" She tilted her head to the side, then closed her eyes well she thought. People are going to die, and it won't only be the bad people either. I could possibly be killed, or even Maddie. We could loose everything, and get everyone killed. I can't make even one slip up...
"Are you feeling alright?" Cara jumped up, glancing over at Jack who was standing in the doorway. She just nodded once, looking back in the mirror. "I couldn't sit there and watch those two make goo-goo eyes at each other." She smirked half-halfheartedly, not even glancing at Jack. After a few long, silent moments she muttered,
"I think you should go. It's late, and we need are rest, especially you, and Luc." She heard Luc saying goodbye to Maddie, then the door closing. She closed her own door, then changed into sweats and laid in bed. Tears silently began rolling down her face as she realized everyone was going to die.
