Four
A Kyle XY FanFiction
By: AMysteriousAuthor
Underlined italics represent present-day narration.
A/N: Finally, I can speak to you openly. I won't tell you who I am, just yet, but know that I'm attempting to share Kyle's story with the world, because it needs to be shared. I apologize for any disappointment the truth brings, but I swear that what I give you is nothing but.
I am in no official way associated with Kyle XY.
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Episode Four: Return to the Past
1982. It was only our second week of freshman year at college when we met her in Pockets, the local billiards bar, showing off like she loved to do. Sarah was amazing at it, and she used that to collect spending money… or at least she did, before they stopped betting against her there. Then she had to go elsewhere.
Brian walked in, followed closely by Adam, who groaned at their surroundings. A lot of seniors were being loud, and rowdy, over by the pool tables and Adam detested loud noises. Brian just smiled and led the way to the bar, and ordered two sodas.
"This doesn't seem like a good place to study." Adam said lowly, narrowing his eyes.
"As if you need to study. Have you ever played pool?" Brian asked, gesturing to the tables with the crowd.
"It never interested me." Adam said with simple displeasure.
"Lighten up, Adam; you can't stay in the science building all the time." Brian said, shaking his head.
"Only because you drag me out." Adam smiled.
"That's because, as nice of a guy you are, you have a very socially inept disposition." Brian said as Adam looked at him skeptically.
"And that means you… are what? Nice?" Adam said with a laugh.
"Man, you just got it handed to you by a girl!" one of the seniors with a letterman's jacket said joyfully.
The two friends looked over and saw her, about 5'9 wearing a red leather jacket with rolled up sleeves, and black shirt underneath. She had an arrogant smile on her face, her white teeth contrasting her curly, shoulder-length black hair. Adam's eyes grew wide, and he looked down at his blue button up shirt and black slacks.
"Rare to see such a good looking… Adam?" Brian asked as he turned to his friend and saw that he was upset.
"How can I talk to her in this?" he asked in horror.
"You always dress like that." Brian said, narrowing his eyes in confusion.
"You think she'll mind?" he asked, worried.
"Adam… I'll go with no, but…" Brian began but Adam just stood and walked over briskly.
Brian watched, wide-eyed, as Adam approached the seniors and looked straight at the girl.
"I would like to take you out on a date." He said simply.
All the older students burst out laughing. The girl's eyebrow raised high as her mouth fell slightly agape.
"Listen, kid, a woman like this isn't interested in small fries like…" one of the larger ones began, but Adam interrupted.
"So what do you think?" he asked kindly.
She allowed herself a challenging smile and said curiously, "Alright. I'll go on a date with you; if you can sink three balls in the same time it takes me to clear a whole table."
Adam looked down at the pool table, and concentrated. Brian walked over, and split the crowd so he could walk to Adam.
"Actually, he's never played billiards so…" he began but Adam cut him off.
"I accept the conditions." He smiled at the girl.
"Great!" she said and smiled widely, and began to rack the balls.
Adam walked to the nearest table and set up his game with help from Brian.
"What do you hope to accomplish? That's Sarah Emerson, the only freshman on the Billiard Club's board." Brian hissed.
"I know who she is; she's also a member of the honor society for chemistry." Adam said with a smile.
"So… you agreed to these conditions because…?" Brian asked, as they removed the triangle.
"I want to take her out on a date." Adam said blatantly and looked to Sarah.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Of course." Adam said, smiling.
"Start it off." She smiled.
Adam nodded and looked to his table. He counted down from three aloud and then broke the formation of balls. He ran to the side and set up a shot, took it and missed. Sarah still hadn't touched hers; rather she looked at him with interest. Finally, after four tries, Adam sank a ball and jumped as he heard a shattering crack as Sarah began her game. He heard at least three sink just from the break and saw Sarah calmly walk around to the side and shoot, another sink. He tried to concentrate, but as soon as he prepared to go for a shot, he would hear a crack and a sink. Finally he managed a second ball and chanced a look at her table. She had four balls left, and saw him looking. She winked and took a shot, now she had three balls left.
Adam was sweating with nervousness and took a wild shot, almost sinking the eight ball by accident. He ignored Brian's worried face and leapt over to the other side of the table. He lined up a shot, fired, and barely missed.
"Eight ball, corner pocket." He heard Sarah say, as she prepared for a shot.
Adam fired his final attempt and the cue ball slammed into the striped ball, launching it into the pocket as Sarah's cue ball contacted the eight ball. Adam turned, victorious, as her eight ball sank into the pocket she had called.
The crowd stopped talking as Sarah stared at his table, eyes widening as she realized she had lost.
"Did she just lose?" someone asked, and Sarah flipped around viciously.
"Who said that?" she hissed.
"Calm down, it was just a game." Brian offered, but Sarah then directed her fury to him.
"I didn't lose, you understand that?" she said, viciously approaching him.
"Well, yes, you kind of did." He said with a smirk.
"I let you have a head start." She said, seething, to Adam
"… You let arrogance get in the way of your skill. You would have been done before I sank my second one if you had started when I did." Adam said simply.
Sarah looked down, and then spun as the crowd began to laugh at her.
"Don't laugh at me, I beat all of you!" she said loudly, but they dispersed in chuckles.
"So, how about Friday at 7:00?" Adam asked.
She looked at him incredulously.
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"She still went out with him after he had beaten her?" Jessi asked, her eyebrow raised.
"Yes. It went disastrously, Adam later told me, as all they spoke about was billiards. Or rather, she spoke about billiards and Adam listened intently." Brian said with a smile.
"That's how Adam met Sarah. How did he meet Grace Kingsley?" Kyle asked.
Brian narrowed his eyes and sat up slowly, placing his arms on his desk.
"How do you know about Grace?" he asked softly.
"Cassidy is her son, and he told me that I am as well." Kyle said.
Brian paused, looking to the desk reflectively. Kyle shifted impatiently and Brian looked up, with a sigh.
"I'll tell you about her, but you have to realize that Grace only started really hanging around Adam our second year. Before that, she had watched him from a distance." Brian said, nodding.
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Adam walked out of his physics class, and the teacher's aide followed him.
"Hello William, what is it?" Adam asked kindly, but also hinting at impatience.
Mr. Kern was short, and gaining weight slowly. His hair had already begun to recede and his vision grew worse by the day. He was wearing a white shirt and black pants, which was coincidentally precisely what Adam was wearing.
"Adam, I've noticed you haven't been wearing your ring." Kern said, licking his lips nervously.
"I don't feel comfortable wearing it, not until Brian receives his." Adam said sternly.
Brian walked over to them as students began to exit their respective classes.
"William, any news on my ring?" he asked kindly.
"We're working on it, Brian, I'll go check now." Kern said, stiffly, and walked away.
"He's not going to check on it." Brian said disappointedly.
"It is difficult to change the sizes, Brian, and you know there can only be so many official members at once." Adam said, reassuringly.
They turned the corner and Adam was leapt on by a female with dark hair.
"Sarah!" Adam exclaimed, almost falling down.
"I did it, Adam, the national Biochemistry Exam results came down today, first place University of Washington Sophomore, Sarah Emerson." She said, her smile as wide as it could be.
"That's great, Sarah, that means you beat the other three members of Latnok who entered. Now they have to let you join." Adam said with a smile as well.
"I don't really care about that anymore Adam, after all didn't I just prove that I don't need them?" she asked, her mood falling a little.
"Adam Baylin?" a female voice asked from behind them.
The three turned and saw a young woman slightly taller than Sarah with black hair and a very piercing, but still friendly, gaze. She wore large, square, glasses and had on bright red lipstick.
"Hello." Adam said, feigning kindness.
"I'm Grace Kingsley, I'm another member of Latnok." She smiled, offering her left hand which bore her ring.
Adam shook it, and caught her eyes widen slightly as she saw he wasn't wearing his.
"Were you a part of the Biochemistry Test, Ms. Latnok?" Sarah asked, seething.
"No… such a boring subject I thought." Grace said, smirking.
Sarah narrowed her eyes, and looked to Adam but he was still looking at Grace.
"Then what subjects interest you?" Adam asked, more interested now.
"Mostly machinery, actually, but I dabble in other things. I want to become an engineer, so mathematics is a must." She smiled.
"Ah, so that's what you want." Brian said flatly, Grace turned to him.
"What, to ask Adam for help? Actually no, I wanted to ask you…" she turned back to him. "…if you wanted to join Latnok's student meeting this afternoon. William told us about your notes, and we wanted to see if we could help with anything."
Sarah started to say something, but Adam interrupted.
"Yes, I'll be there and thank you." He said with a smile.
"Great, we'll see you then." Grace smiled at him and walked away.
He turned to Brian and Sarah, who both had strange looks on their faces.
"What?" he asked curiously.
"Nothing. I have to get to class." Sarah said venomously and walked past him.
"What's wrong with her?" Adam muttered, looking to Brian.
"Adam, I thought you said you weren't going to any of the meetings until I was there?" he asked, his eyebrow raised.
"You heard William, your ring is almost ready… you can join the next one, and I'll already have a grasp on how everything works." Adam said, smiling.
"Sure… sure, Adam. See you after school." Brian said, shaking his head.
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"What happened at the meeting?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know, it took another three months for me to finally be included in one." Brian said.
"Why did Grace bother Sarah so much?" Kyle asked, earning a heated look from Jessi which he ignored.
"Because, by that time, Sarah had proven to herself that Latnok was inferior to her. That day was also their one year anniversary which Adam forgot." Brian said, Jessi growled.
"He forgot their one year anniversary?" she asked.
"He did. He apologized to her later, they made up." Brian allowed a little disappointment into his voice.
"That happened in 1983?" Kyle asked.
"Yes, it was August… we had just got back to school." Brian said, placing his hand on his head.
"Tell me when and why Adam started Zzyzx." Kyle demanded, but kindly.
"That's easy… we had a lengthy discussion about it actually." Brian said with ease.
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Brian stared at the plans on the table, while Adam bit his thumbnail. Brian closed his eyes, and rubbed his head slightly.
"You want… to go around Latnok?" Brian asked.
"They want me to be their… savior… or something like that." Adam said, shaking his head.
"Maybe you're supposed to be." Brian offered, but Adam just scoffed.
"Whether I am or not, I don't want to be. I want to help the world scientifically, not religiously." Adam said.
"Some would say there's little difference, Adam." Brian said, looking at his friend seriously.
"Kern and I have it all worked out, and Grace has already found the egg. The pod is ready, and Latnok still doesn't know about it." Adam said, containing his excitement.
"Adam… you can't believe this will end well. Latnok wants to help you, why do you want to ignore them?" Brian asked, slightly whiny.
"Latnok will find a new figurehead, they always have. This experiment has the potential to change the scientific world. I can make another person who is just like me." Adam said, tapping the side of his head.
"You still haven't told Sarah any of this, have you?" Brian asked him.
"She wouldn't understand, she doesn't like Latnok… or Grace." Adam said dismissively.
"I wonder why… two and half years you have been together, and you've still never told her you love her." Brian said.
"She knows I do, there's no time for this discussion right now. Will you help me start the company?" Adam asked.
"Of course, Adam, but I think you should consider the ramifications of…" Brian began but Adam just slid over some paperwork.
"Consider yourself President of Zzyzx." He smiled.
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"That wasn't lengthy." Kyle said.
"It was a lot longer in my head." Brian admitted.
"When was that, anyway, 84?" Jessi asked.
"Actually, that took place in February of 1985." Brian said, Kyle's eyes widened.
"That was the year…" he began.
"The year Adam won the science grant, and got his picture in the local news? Yes, but that happened in March. Funny, most of that grant went to purchasing the location for Zzyzx." Brian trailed off.
"We still have another five years before mine and Jessi's conception." Kyle pointed out.
"Yes, five years of hard labor and disappointment. Once we had secured the location, setting it up for the experiments was much harder than we had anticipated. Finally, in 1988, the facility of Zzyzx was ready for the experiments to begin. We-" Brian was cut off by Jessi.
"Tell me about me. If you're my father, and Sarah was with Adam, what happened?" Jessi asked.
"Adam dropped out of school, and for four years we kept our location a secret from everyone but Kern, who was working with Latnok at the time although we didn't know it. We also thought that Grace had severed her ties, but that was also inaccurate. One day, Kern sent me to his office back on campus and I was stopped by Grace, who told me that it was her eggs they were using and that Latnok wanted me on their side. Adam had grown distant from the cause, and I hadn't. So I agreed, we all decided to keep it a secret. Anyway, while I was exiting the campus, Sarah saw me." Brian said.
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"Brian?" Sarah exclaimed from across the yard.
He stopped, cussed at himself, and turned to see her eyes widened, running over to him.
"Sarah." He acknowledged.
"What… what are you…?" she asked, still in shock at what she was seeing.
"Sarah, you really don't want to ask." He said honestly, and turned away.
Sarah grabbed him and forcefully turned him around.
"You and Adam disappear, and leave me here for four years while I'm ridiculed and accused of…" she trailed off, and Brian sighed.
"Sarah… we read about you being expelled. We also read about you cracking, but you seem alright to me." He said, tilting his head.
"One of my good days… but it might turn into a bad one. What are you doing, what is Adam doing?" she asked, viciously.
"You know I can't tell you that, Sarah." Brian said sadly.
"Right, because I'm incapable of keeping the great Latnok's secrets, right?" she snarled.
"He's working apart from Latnok now… he didn't like their plan." Brian said, half-truthfully.
Sarah unconsciously rubbed her left hand, where she wore a Latnok ring with a red stone. Brian looked at it fondly, and then to her.
"Adam made that for you… you still wear it?" Brian asked softly.
"Only today…" she sighed, looking at it.
"This would have been six years together… wouldn't it?" he asked her, remembering the date.
"It still is, since he never had the decency to end it." She hissed, her eyes narrowing.
"He ended it in his mind, he and Grace are expecting a child." Brian said, not untruthfully.
Sarah recoiled and blinked, shaking her head twice. She looked down at her hands, which began to tremble.
"They're… expecting a child?" Sarah said, confused.
"Yes… they've been working on it very diligently." Brian said, and slightly smirked as Sarah turned and gagged.
"He left, and went with Grace Kingsley to 'work' diligently on spreading his seed?" Sarah exclaimed angrily.
"Yes… yes he did." Brian said, sensing opportunity.
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"That night, Sarah and I got drunk. Me, because I was sick of being Adam's second and Sarah, because she was just depressed. One thing led to another, and six weeks later she contacted me and told me she was pregnant, with you Jessi." Brian said, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"So you just got her drunk and…" Jessi began angrily.
"Something like that, and I acknowledge it wasn't the best option… but I don't regret a second of what I did. If I hadn't, you wouldn't be here." He said sincerely.
"Oh please…" Jessi rolled her eyes.
"If Jessi was conceived naturally, how did she end up in the pod?" Kyle asked.
"Actually, she was placed in the pod the same day you were successfully created, after five attempts to extract the fetus after fourteen months, we did it in batches." Brian said, smiling.
"Tell us." Kyle demanded.
"Alright, but it's not a pleasant story." Brian said, shaking his head.
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"Are you sure about this?" Sarah asked, frightened.
Her stomach was already slightly round as she got out of his car, and walked towards an entrance of Zzyzx. At the door there were several people dressed in doctor's coats, including a familiar face.
"Dennis?" Sarah exclaimed.
"Hey, sis!" Dennis Emerson smiled, hugging her.
He was taller than she was, and had short curly hair. He had their genetically perfect smile, and an incredible mind of his own.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, relieved that she wasn't alone.
"I'm Zzyzx's Chief Medical Officer." He said, smiling as Brian walked up.
"So you monitor…"
"I monitor the health of the fetus as they develop, yes." He smiled.
Sarah exhaled deeply, and said, "Alright… I'm as ready as I ever will be. Let's get this over with."
They took her through the back of the facility and to a room with a comfortable looking chair, and a strange tank that was open and filled with pink fluid. She changed into a special gown and sat on the chair, as Dennis set up an I.V. Sarah fell into a deep sleep as he injected some clear liquid into her system.
"Remember what we spoke about, Dennis." Brian said, his hand over his mouth.
"If we're successful, Sarah dies. I know." Dennis said grimly, and put his mask across his face.
"That's a dark way to put it." Brian shrugged and exited the room.
Dennis opened his sister up with a scalpel, and separated her womb surgically. His staff began to rush, as his mad orders became louder over the beeping of the machines. The room was bloody, and loud, as they extracted a barely four-month old fetus from its mother, and set it into a pod of untested fluid. Dennis ignored the status of the child and saved his sister, making sure she was fully intact and out of danger before turning his attention to the pod. The child had died, possibly before they had even extracted it, but Dennis grabbed it and inserted a small wire through its fleshy head, sending electricity through it and bringing it back to life. He set it back in the tank and closed the system as the heartbeat monitor beeped for the first time.
Brian entered as soon as the room was no longer sterile and grabbed Sarah with the help of Dennis, and they put her outside in a car. The process had only taken approximately two hours.
"Remember, take her to the airport and get her out of Seattle. She knows that Latnok would never want her to leave the facility, I told her about what happened to Adam and Grace." Brian said, and Dennis nodded.
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"So I have an uncle?" Jessi asked.
"Dennis was still with Zzyzx when Foss blew it up as far as I know." Brian said, shaking his head.
"What happened to Adam and Grace, what you warned Sarah about?" Kyle asked.
"In the best interest of the experiment, Grace suggested they stay in the facility at all times. She was ordered that way by Latnok, although Adam never knew that. He never even knew that the owner of Zzyzx was actually Victor Ballantine, the C.E.O. of Madacorp and a member of the Latnok board." Brain said, leaning back.
"So there never was really any difference between Zzyzx, and Latnok in the end?" Kyle asked.
"No, not really. I was president of Zzyzx, and a member of Latnok, Kern was Head of Student Affairs for Latnok and Senior Vice-President of Zzyzx. Grace was Head of Mechanics and Software for Zzyzx, and on the Latnok board eventually. Anyone aside from Adam with a leadership position in Zzyzx, was actually Latnok." Brian explained.
"So… Grace is really my mother." Kyle said, sitting down.
"Technically speaking, yes. But there's more to being a parent than genetics, as I've so clearly demonstrated." Brian said, spreading his arms.
Kyle and Jessi sat in silence for a brief moment, before Jessi looked up confusedly.
"If Adam and Sarah met in fall 1982,how did they carve their initials and the Latnok symbol into the table at the diner that same year?" Jessi asked.
"That was meant as a 'since 82' not literally 1982. Adam carved that in summer of 83, during their last visit to that diner." Brian shook his head.
Jessi lowered her head in quiet contemplation, and Brian stood up.
"Now that you've had past laid out for you, it's time for you to fix the present. You will both go back to your home, and you will apologize for allowing your personal emotions to hurt them. Then, you will live your lives… cautiously. There is still a danger out there, Kyle, and you need to be very careful." He said, walking to the door.
The two stood, and walked outside together, but Kyle stopped and turned back to Brian.
"Thank you, for answering our questions." Kyle said.
"I'm not all bad, just mostly." He smiled.
Kyle nodded and walked out, Taylor closing the door behind them.
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The door opened, and Jessi walked in. The Tragers stood and rushed to the doorway, eyes wide. Jessi stood to the side as Kyle walked in, eyes already watery.
"I… I'm so…" he choked slightly, a tear running from his left eye.
His family just smiled, all slightly tearing up as well, and converged on him in a large hug. Jessi tried to escape, but Lori roped her into the hug as well.
Family. I thought I had understood what it meant to be a family, but the truth is that I had no idea until that moment. The moment where, despite all of the things I had done and put them through, they all stood in forgiveness. I cried, freely, for one of the few times in my life, and so did they.
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"Hello Taylor." Cassidy said from the doorway, Brian Taylor jumped.
"Oh, it's you… you little brat. I remember you." Brian smirked, standing up.
"So… you got my job." He said, walking towards his bed.
"Yes, your mother assigned it to me personally… does that sting a bit?" he asked.
"Where can I find Dennis Emerson, Taylor?" Cassidy asked.
Brian smirked and strode over to him, one hand in the pocket of his pajama pants.
"He's dead, burned to a crisp when Zzyzx became an oven." Brian said with a shrug.
"You know, I might believe that if I hadn't personally seen Sarah Emerson not even a month ago." Cassidy said with a smirk.
"Did you, now?" Brian asked.
"Yes, but don't worry, this time she won't come back from the dead… I made sure of that." Cassidy smiled.
Brian launched an unexpected kick to Cassidy's stomach, knocking him to the ground. He leapt on him, and sunk his elbow into Cassidy's throat.
"You have no idea what you did to Jessi when you killed Sarah." Brian snarled, Cassidy slammed his head with a retractable, steel baton.
Brian fell to the ground, his head split open and blood freely dripping to the ground. Cassidy stood over him, rubbing his throat.
"Brian, didn't you know? I don't give a damn what happens to Jessi." He smiled, and kicked Brian in the side, causing him to crunch up.
"You can't re-integrate them, it will kill them both!" Brian coughed.
Cassidy grabbed Brian's hand and forced a Latnok ring on his finger, then pulled his bloodied head up to his mouth.
"I'm counting on it." Cassidy hissed, and slammed Brian's face into the wooden floor.
He stood, and pulled out the device he had used before on Kyle at the Trager house. He turned the voltage up to its maximum potential.
"Brian, you know I developed this myself? I never had smarts, but I'm really good at inventions. I made this specifically for those damned rings, which I was never deemed worthy enough to wear." Cassidy said, with a smile on his face.
He zapped Brian, who roared in pain as sparks of electricity jumped around in his mouth.
"It won't leave a mark on the outside, but it burns the inside… so tell me, where is Dennis Emerson?" Cassidy asked savagely, shocking him again.
Brian screamed in pain as his blood began to boil.
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Kyle XY, Season Four. Every Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. EST.
