Silver Heart
By TwilightAnimeLover21
It's been about 3 months since Phoenix has moved to the Katsilomete's farm. Her neighbors and friends, the Lennox's, have defiantly made her feel at home. Sarah would visit when she can, when Will was at Boot camp for every three weeks. The girls would chat and they would go to town to pick up groceries and other things to bring home. This time Phoenix received a call from early in the morning. At 6:30 in fact. Now Phoenix is not that much of a morning person, but she tolerated the fact that this could be an emergency for Sarah.
"Hello?" She said as she wiped away the sleep in her eyes.
She didn't have a good night's rest. She kept seeing blue pulsing symbols in a different language. She couldn't pick out what the language was. She kept hearing strange voices all at the same time, yet separate in many ways. The she was yelled back into reality.
"NYX! You have to come up to the house! We are going shopping!" Sarah said happily. Did she mention that Sarah is actually a morning person?
Phoenix rolled her eyes and got up and stretched.
"Okay, okay, what's the big rush?" She said as she stumbled into the bathroom and turned on the light.
"It burns! I'd rather have candles." She thought to herself as she cringed at the bright light.
"Get up here soon and I will tell you okay? See ya soon!" Sarah said as she hung up on her.
Phoenix looked at her cell phone weirdly and shook her head. What ever Sarah had in mind for today, she was a bit curious about it. She took off her baby doll pajamas and took a shower. She decided to take a shorter one today and just took care of some necessities.
As she got out and dried herself, she noticed that her veins were glowing. She was a bit shocked at this.
"This hasn't happened before." She murmured as she observed herself.
She was confused as she looked at herself in the mirror. She could see that she was glowing. As she reached up to touch herself in the mirror, the glowing stopped. She jumped back a little in fright.
"Is it one of the side effects? No, this isn't them…Benny didn't have these kind of side effects, those were worse." She thought as she observed herself again.
Then felt a sharp pain in her chest. She placed her hand over her still-beating heart.
"Benny, I wish you were here. You would probably help me out." She whispered softly.
Since Sector Seven placed her dear friend as an experiment all those years ago, she hated the fact that they used him. Every day they would put him into that tank of foul water. He would return ragged and coughing like hell, but somehow, his personality changed. He was more…cocky then strong in his morals. He hung more with the soldiers of the base than her, a fellow orphan. Every time she saw him he was always talking about that this could be a better future for the human race, that we would be supreme beings. She hated that ideology. She would argue with him that the experiments would kill him as it has done so for the people before him. He gave her a look that showed that her friendship meant nothing to him. He wasn't around her anymore. He would be either be at the shooting range or be in the training room where the scientists would observe how many pound he could lift up or how far can he run without taking a break.
It wasn't too long until he started to change again. He would see Phoenix and run up to her as if nothing came between them. When she would tell him that they weren't friends anymore he looked at her strangely and laughed. Saying that she was joking with him. She wasn't. Then his mind started to go. He would be forgetting things like where he would put his clothing, where was his room, then came the mind of a child. He would go up to her asking where his mother was. This was what frightened her more than ever. She cared for her friend as his mind deteriorated greatly. Then came the chaos.
He would speak in gibberish, crying and trying to tell people, but they wouldn't listen. He was becoming a madman. She was in the room with the scientists when he grabbed a gun and started to shoot off. She was one of the casualties. She was shot in the shoulder and she could remember the burning pain that blossomed in her arm and as soon as some soldiers tied him down and strapped him up, he was whisked away to solitary.
The surgery to take out the bullet was excruciating for her. She closed her eyes and memories flashed by her mind. Her screaming echoing through the halls and no one there to even help her take care of her friend. She hated the scientists. She hated seeing them in their lab coats and thinking that the experiments were for the greater good of mankind. She thought that it was of the devil.
Then the final stage of Benny's life was her taking care of him. He aged in front of her. His skin wrinkled and sagging and he was loosing his teeth. His hair was falling off and he would stare into space babbling incoherently. Her once dear friend that she knew on the streets wasn't there anymore. He was nothing but the shell of a man. She remembered the day she went in to take care of him. She remembered screaming as doctors were trying to place needles in his flesh to see if they can reverse the effects. She was held back as the skin was tearing off reveling the blackened muscle tissues that looked like they were burned off. She could see the doctors trying to stop him from clawing out his throat, but that didn't work. His heart gave out and blood was everywhere.
They didn't even make a grave for him. She gripped her glass in anger. Only for it to shatter as it fell to the floor. She looked down and saw her hand bleed.
"Damn." She said as she clutched her bleeding hand and went to the sink and washed out the glass.
Then the most curious thing happened, the cuts on her hand glowed and it healed up as if it never happened. Her eyes widened at the fact and she wondered if it was another side affect. She shook it off, she had always been a fast healer, but this was just too much. She dried her hands and went back into her room and put on her casual clothes. She looked back to her vanity and saw her plain silver necklace. She never sold it, it was the only 'good' thing she had from that horrible place. She put it on her and she felt like the glowing affect problem lifted of her mind.
But still, "Why do I have a feeling something is going to happen?" She thought as she left her room.
After she did her chores before she left, she decided to let the dogs run around with the cows and horses in the fenced off pasture. She made sure that she grabbed the dog bowls and left it outside for the dogs if they get hungry. She then went to her bronco sent out a blue pulse after she touched it in greeting and drove on her way to the Lennox's farm.
After she drove up the driveway to the Lennox's, Sarah was already on her porch with her purse ready and she ran up to the car and she jumped in without hesitation. She had a bright smile on her face and she was giggling like a little schoolgirl. Phoenix couldn't help but giggle along.
"Wow, what is the news? You seem pretty darn happy." She asked Sarah as she dove onto the road and headed to town. Sarah smiled again.
"I'll tell you after shopping. It's time for some new clothes." She said as she leaned back into her seat content like a cat in the sun.
Phoenix shook her head as she kept driving and smiling as Sarah spoke of getting yet another letter from Will.
Phoenix and Sarah was at the food court and she was just sipping her sprite while Sarah had a strawberry milkshake. Mostly Phoenix would go for some sort of light liquor, but today she didn't feel like it. Sarah had brought some clothing that she thought were…questionable, but she didn't comment on it. Sarah had been smiling the day away and Phoenix was wondering if she took one too many happy pills today.
Sarah smiled at Phoenix and she looked like she glowed.
"So… you wanna heard the news?" She giggled like a little girl.
Phoenix chuckled. "Yeah, you have been pretty happy lately. Is Will coming back soon?" She asked as she took another drink of her sprite.
Sarah nodded furiously. "Yes. He'll be coming home in a week AND there's a little surprise that I have for him." She said smiling.
Phoenix nodded urging her to continue.
Sarah took a deep breath and said, "I'm pregnant."
Phoenix froze. "What?" She said in surprise.
"I'm pregnant! I went to the doctor yesterday and I'm four weeks along! I was wondering why I felt sick for the past couple of weeks, but I never thought that I would be pregnant!" She said as she took another swig of her milkshake.
Phoenix smiled. "Wow, congrats! How are you going to break this to Will?" She said scooting closer to her friend.
Sarah's smile dropped a little. "I'm not sure… I keep thinking that I should break it to him gently, but I'm not sure how he will take it." She said as she bit her lip.
Then she frowned. "What if…he doesn't want the baby?" She said sadly.
Phoenix shook her head. "Sarah, Will would WANT to have a kid. I'm sure he'll be just as excited as you are." Phoenix paused.
"Think it'll be a girl or a boy? I personally think you should have a boy." She smiled.
Sarah tried to look serious but failed and smiled along with her. "I want a boy too. But if it's a baby girl, I will spoil her rotten." She said as she finished her milkshake.
Phoenix rolled her eyes. "Oh joy, I can't wait for the day you spoil your kid rotten." She said sarcastically.
Sarah giggled at her friend. "Well, I can't wait…maybe is should do something clever to let him know that he'll be a father." She said with a mischievous grin. Phoenix rolled her eyes.
Knowing Sarah, she would try and shock Will when she had the chance. "Okay…but I'm in on the reveling okay?" She said as she finished her sprite, grinning along with her friend.
Phoenix was at the Lennox Farm with Sarah. She was making dinner for Will. He would be coming home soon and she can't wait to tell him about the surprise. Phoenix was lying on the couch, nursing a headache.
"I swear, first my body glows, now I'm getting a headache, I wonder what else is coming at me?" She thought as she pressed the sides of her temples to relive the pressure.
"Nyx, don't you want some Tylenol for your headache? You said that you haven't been felling good lately. Have you though about going to the doctor?" Sarah said as she placed a pork roast in a crockpot.
Phoenix nodded, saying, "Yeah, give me about 4 six-hundred milligram pills, it should stave off the head ache for a while. I'll probably go to the doctor tomorrow."
Phoenix didn't understand. She has been sick before, what other human being hasn't. She caught the Flu, chicken pox, measles (She caught some illnesses that haven't been cured until the vaccines came out for them) and even colds, of course she had to double, sometimes triple, the dosage to kill the pain and illness, but at least she felt more human. If she didn't catch an illness, she would already feel more like a freak of nature than she already is.
Sarah gave her the pills and sat adjacent to Phoenix from the couch. She was practically glowing with pride. Phoenix was jealous a little. She had her share of boyfriends back in the 60's, but she did get married to one man. She loved him to death. He was a hard worker, and he did construction and weapons work, she wanted to start a family…but alas, she wasn't able to get pregnant. She thought back to the test and experiments that happened to her in Sector Seven. It must've affected her reproductive organs and made her infertile. She longed for a child, but after 4 years of marriage to the guy, he divorced her. She wanted to adopt a child, but he didn't want anyone except his own flesh and blood to be his child. She hasn't trusted men in a relationship since.
She envied Will and Sarah's marriage. They were a happy couple and they fight like a happy couple too. Phoenix couldn't count how many times she found them play fight about a small thing like, making sunny-side up eggs instead of scrambled, the toilet seat was left up (Will does that to spite Sarah, but she always find a way to get back at him for that), and many other things. She had that once… but that was a pipe dream now. Her ears picked up a sound outside and stood up and went over to the window. She smiled widely.
"Hey, seems like Hubby's home." She said as she saw Will pop out of the heavyset truck and was grabbing his stuff from the back.
She looked back to Sarah and she had a scared face on, she was nervously biting her lip and was wringing her hands.
"Do you think he'll be excited?" She asked nervously. Phoenix smiled.
"He'll be way excited. Now, I'm going to sit back and watch the show." She said as she fell back onto the couch.
When Will came through the door, Sarah hugged him fiercely and said, "Welcome home Daddy."
The look on Will's face was priceless and Phoenix couldn't help but laugh as Will's face slowly split into a wide grin and swung Sarah around in his arms. That night was filled with celebration, laughter and cake.
TAL21: WOW! I'm pretty surprised that i have a lot of followers on this story. Really, after getting flamed, i thought about deleting the story, but then i thought, well what about the people that are interested? Will they be upset or will they understand? But with some more positive reviews, i figured, WHY THE HELL NOT? Not every fandom is perfect. Yes there are some crappy stories out there, but at least some people TRIED to do the stories that THEY wanted to do. I'm still learning to write, i'm not perfect. But i give it my best shot anyways! :D SOOOO...here's some shout outs to people who reviewed the story!
Nyghtflower-Pack:Yes, i was thinking about having Nyx meet up with Sam at first, but then i was like, well what about the Lennoxes? They have a part in the Transformers. Let's work with them! :)
Tori-Da-Mutt:Yes, i am one of the awesome people that give shout-outs. I figured i might as well give people some insight of what i can do. XD I'm glad you enjoy the story so far! And don't worry! Sam will be coming in soon! :D
Slyfox324:As stated above, NOT EVERY FANDOM OR FANFICTION IS PERFECT. But like i said, this is my first time writing something other than Anime, i WANTED to give this a shot. You don't have to read this if you don't like it. IF you don't like it, TOUGH. Others that like it, want to know what is coming up. So, as a writer that strives to do better, i want to show people that i can write. Other than that, I don't care if you keep flaming me, I will keep writing, even if my writing sucks, at least i tried.
Anyways, i'm glad you guys are still reading the story, i appreciate your reviews and opinions and I will keep working on the story, but please, tell me that if it starts to get really bad (As Slyfox324 pointed out), let me know so i can try to re-write it to make it better. Also, i have life outside of fan fiction, i have collage and my classes take up most of my time. So i appreciate your patience and i hope that you are willing to wait a month before the next chapter. If you liked this story, give my other stories a shot as well, i'm also planning on making an AVENGERS fanfic, but that probaly won't come into effect until i'm done with Silver Heart.If you are curious about that, go to my profile and look for S.H.I.E.L.D's Hellhound. Also, I added another chapter to Wind and Sand and The Dead Tell No Tales. Again, if you are interesting, take a crack at it! PLEASE Review! FEEDBACK IS A GAL'S BEST FRIEND AND IT KEEPS ME GOING! REMEMBER! KEEP READING AND IMAGINING! :D See ya next time!
