Hello to all of my fellow readers, I am particularly in a good mood from this chapter alone, here we are going to see our protagonists having fun with a little extra on the way, added with a little bit of a montage moment (this was very new to me), and we get to see my favorite Demi finally placed in the chapter, I could tell you what she is, but where's the fun in that, also I made a second story in case you guys need a break from this one called, "Omniten" if you like a little Si-fi, I hope that could peek your interest
Chapter 7: the enigma
Smith was driving Ivanna to the airport to return Ivanna home to Russia, during the drive Ivanna couldn't help but think about Jonathan, she couldn't help but think about how interestingly strange he was, and she liked it, she wanted to know more about him and didn't know how, when Smith stopped the car at a light, Ivanna swallowed her pride and said to her "Miss, umm, Smith is it?", Smith not it to confirm that she got it right.
"Is it, too late to sign up for the program?" Ivanna asked,
"I'm sorry, but it is." Smith told her, Ivanna beast ears folded from disappointment, "but, there is another program I can put you in." Smith said to Ivanna and caused one of Ivanna beast ears to perk up from hope, "But, before I tell you what the program is, I have something I need to ask you?" Smith said to her, when the light turned green she immediately looked for a parking spot to continue the conversation, she then turned off her car and then took off her sunglasses to get a better look at Ivanna,
"OK I have to ask, are you asking because of that boy?" Smith asked Ivanna,
Ivanna cheeks blushed for a moment, "Da (yes)" she bluntly answered in Russian.
"You should know, he is a criminal," Smith told Ivanna
"Why?" Ivanna asked,
"I'll let Jonathan tell you, but, he's in a program where he is to help demis from any human issues," Smith explains while keeping Jonathans issues to herself,
"Is that why he saved me?" Ivanna asked Smith and she couldn't help but chuckle at the thought,
"No, that boy would've helped you even if he wasn't in this program, believe it or not, he actually likes demis, while having a strong distaste for humans?" Smith explained and just made Ivannas interest in Jonathan grow more,
"But why?" Ivanna asks Smith
And that's when Smith decides to tell Ivanna what has plans for her, "I have a few theories myself, but he won't tell me because I am human." Smith explains to Ivanna,
"And you think if I were to talk to him he would open up to me?" Ivanna said thinking that is what Smith was leading.
"Yes, however, this program is to help demis that have a problem adjusting to the human side of society due to personal issues, so if you were to say, that you didn't feel fit to travel, I can put you in his program until you feel fit to return home," Smith explains and throw a hint at Ivanna,
"Then I could stay as long as I like? Ivanna asked thinking that's what Smith was leading,
"That's right~," Smith said happily
"But why go through all this trouble with him?" Ivanna asked Smith,
That's when Smith placed her sunglasses back on her and start the car and started driving on the freeway back to the Akisame home,
"Honestly, I'd rather put him in jail after what he's done to me and my team, but I can't help but feel bad for the boy, but he still on thin ice With me Until probation I gave him is up," Smith explain to Ivanna and Ivanna couldn't help but wonder what Jonathan did to her and her team,
"Now, before I take you to Jonathan, let's make a few errands for you," Smith said we Ivanna,
"Why?" Ivanna asked
"I figured you want to give yourself a little bit of a "rinse", before meeting him again." Smith delicately told Ivanna that she needed to shower, she was embarrassed that Smith told her that she stinks, but without showing she was more excited and wanting to see Jonathan again.
[The next day, morning]
Jonathan return from his morning jog and walks into the kitchen and saw Keiichi, Smith, and Ivanna sitting at the dining room table waiting for Jonathan, he walks in with a glass full of water suspicious of Smith and Keiichi,
"Oh good you're here," Keiichi said to Jonathan,
"Yeah?" Jonathan said suspiciously about Keiichi while wondering why Smith is here,
"We're having a meeting," Keiichi Said to Jonathan,
"So?" Jonathan told him like why he should care,
"It won't start, because the meeting is about you, so you need to sit with us." Keiichi elaborate more,
"Pass." Jonathan declined and then try turning away to leave, but he bumped into Smith's boobs with his forehead and seeing Smith holding a stun gun to force him to sit,
Jonathan sat next to Ivanna and across from Keiichi and Smith, "OK, now that everybody's here we can start the meeting." Smith said to the three, she cleared her throat before she began, "All right, as you know Jonathan, Ivanna will be living here from now on, however, she has nothing here but the very clothes on her back, so your first assignment right now will be to take this girl shopping." She tells Jonathan like he was one of her agents,
"No duh, I was going to do that after I finished changing." Jonathan talk to her like it was a stupid thing to tell him and getting Smith annoyed on his arrogance,
"All right then since I said what I needed to say, I'll be on my way." Smith said to Jonathan wanting to finish this meeting and go but Keiichi stopped her before she could leave the table, "Smith, come on." Keiichi talks to Smith like she needed to act more like an adult, Smith sat back down and said: "before I go, I would like to ask, do you have any questions for me, Jonathan?"
His eyes open like he was waiting for that question for a while, "Yeah, where's the rest of my stuff?" Jonathan said looking at Smith, "Everything should be in your room." Smith said claiming that Jonathan was being paranoid, until, "Unless you're talking about your collection of knives, they've been confiscated, due to obvious reasons." Smith said to Jonathan and ticked him off a bid,
"I want them back," Jonathan demanded to Smith,
"You have the rest of your stuff, which should be good enough." Smith shut down Jonathan's demand,
"Those stupid military novelty items aren't mine, their just decorations that my mom placed because she thought that if I were to see military related stuff I would want to be a soldier more." Jonathan bitterly explained,
"Is that why you didn't unpack your stuff?" Keiichi asked, "Shut it, foster!" Jonathan told Keiichi,
"Be as it may, You're not getting any of your knives back, because after we finish packing up your stuff, We did a last-minute check-in your and one of my agents almost lost a finger from one of your blades hidden and we found them almost everywhere, we actually brought in a metal detector to find them all, and it looks like you had an arsenal of knives, but interestingly we didn't find any guns" Smith said to Jonathan,
"That's because guns are for cowards!" Jonathan said to Smith,
"Why's that?" Smith argues
"Easy, they're loud and limited, whereas a blade, the limitation is in the imagination," he justifies his argument,
"Either way, you're not getting them back, and that's final!" Smith told Jonathan and demanded the issue closed,
He shouts "fine!" While abruptly getting up off his chair and spooked Smith and Keiichi, Smith flinched to her taser from Jonathan's outburst.
Jonathan began to walk out of the dining room, " Johnny, where are you going?" Ivanna asked him, Jonathan calmly said: "I'll be right back, I'm going to go change my clothes, then I'm gonna ask Liz if she wants to come with us to the mall." Jonathan calmly told Ivanna, then looks at Smith for a moment and left, Smith took a deep breath feeling relief that he left.
When he finished changing into his social clothes, A black tank top with a blue thin hoodie jacket and a pair of blue jeans, he noticed that his door had three deadbolt locks in the door, one on the top corner, one above the doorknob, and the last at bottom corner of the door with no key to insert them on the other end of the them, He then walked out of his room and went two doors down to Elizabeth's, he knocks on her door and only saw the door opening enough for Elizabeth's eyes to peak out, "Oh, Johnny, go… Good morning," Elizabeth greeted Jonathan with a stutter, "Morning, Liz, hey me and Ivanna are going to the mall to pick some stuff up for her, you wanna come?" Jonathan greeted then asked Elizabeth if she wanted to join them, she immediately swung the door open and joyfully said "Oui" with Jonathan noticed that she was wearing his old torn up hoodie the first day he showed up, when she realized what she did she immediately slam the door embarrassed that he saw she kept it and leaving Jonathan wondering if he even threw it out.
Jonathan walks down the stairs and sees Keiichi with Smith at the front door putting her shoes on, Jonathan and Smith both stare daggers at each other, "You could try saying goodbye to each other?" Keiichi suggested the two,
"Asshole," Jonathan said to Smith,
"Virgin," Smith said to Jonathan then left,
Jonathan saw both Ivanna and Keiichi looking at him, "What." Jonathan said to them then just walked in the living room before they could say anything.
When Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Ivanna left the house and were walking to the shopping district, Ivanna wrapped her arms around Jonathan's right forearm and Elizabeth wrapping her arms around Jonathans left arm with her entire face looking red,
Jonathan could feel the side of Elizabeth's large breast softly pressing against his arm while trying to make sure his other hand wouldn't touch Ivannas small breast, "Um, girls, you don't have to cling so close to me?" Jonathan nervously said to the girls, "But I don't want to get kidnapped again." Ivanna said her excuse, "And I…I feel more comfortable doing this." Elizabeth nervously said her excuse, Jonathan knew that they were both lying but didn't say anything on the count thinking how far they would go to just to keep clinging to his arms and just let them, during the walk, Elizabeth and Ivanna would occasionally look at each other like they were sending silent messages towards one another, both of them saying: "Mine!"
[Shopping mall]
When the girls made it to the entrance of the mall they finally let go of Jonathan's arms, Jonathan felt relieved after feeling like he just got out of a minefield when they let go, they all walked in and Elizabeth and Ivanna were captivated by the water fountain dancing out of the center and trickling down in a pool surrounding it with smaller water shooting into the center the fountain at the edge of the fountain in the malls entrance way, they felt like they were in a dream by looking at all the stores to select, From clothes, shoes, lingerie, tech, arcades, even little motor vehicles such as golf carts, motocross bikes, ATVs etc., "wow this place is so big!" Ivanna calmly said while cracking a smile, Jonathan silently agreed with her while noticing that there were a lot of wet floor signs around with some black spots.
Both of the girls grabbed each of Jonathan's arms suddenly from excitement, Ivanna wanted to go to a tech shop and Elizabeth wanted to go to the arcade, "Johnny, lets go to the, arcade, tech shop" both Ivanna and Elizabeth suggested different stores in unison, when they heard each other suggestions they tugged Jonathan closer to them,
"That's strange, Ivanna, I thought that "backpack" was tech?" Elizabeth coldly said to Ivanna,
"It's my toolkit and I use it to invent, besides, why do you wanna go to the arcade, hoping that you could play one of those couples games with Johnny?" Ivanna retorted stoically to Elizabeth,
"Arcade; tech shop, Arcade; tech shop!" They began arguing with each other back-and-forth where to go first while each tugging Jonathan's arm seeing who would win, Jonathan was beginning to lose Feeling in his arms as well as worried about having his shoulder is dislocated from there tugging, Ivanna saw on how much they were beginning to hurt him and immediately let go of Jonathan when Elizabeth tugged him and causing them both to fall.
Jonathan ended up on top of Elizabeth with both of his legs in between her right thigh with his hands firmly placed on the ground stopping himself from head-butting Elizabeth but the tip of their noses touching, Elizabeth noticed that his face was so close to her that their nose touched and that their lips were close to touching, "(poof) Ahh! (Bonk)" Elizabeth's fleece around her neck poofed while she let out a small yelp then panicked and out of reflex kneed Jonathan in his balls with her right thigh.
"Je suis tellement désolé, Johnny, c'était le réflexe que je jure!"
"(I am so sorry, Johnny, it was reflex I swear!)" Elizabeth apologized with tears in her eyes feeling guilty for Jonathan out of her reflects as he was laying on his side in the fetal position trying to breathe with his hands gently gripping his private area after getting railed.
After Jonathan finished recovering, they let him decide where to go, he picked a clothing store, but they didn't last long though as Ivanna just picked six pairs of tank tops which small shorts in different colors, Jonathan wanted to ask why, but already knew the answer when she asked: "where should we go next", he began looking around for another store as fast as he could before the girls would start fighting and play a game of tug-of-war with him again, "Oh look, a music store." Jonathan Sad and pointed at a music store that was called "Spin labels!", both Ivanna and Elizabeth wanted to go somewhere else but didn't say anything and account how much trouble they gave him earlier.
They entered the store and were surprised to see quite in extension of music as well as selections, from rock, pop, punk, metal, country, even foreign music, but they were even more surprised at finding a computer where they can download the music if they just wanted one song instead of the whole album, Jonathan was about to ask if there is a section they would want to go, but they were already gone and were over to the section that said "pop", Jonathan headed over to the foreign seeing if they sold any American music, while walking to the foreign section he noticed that the tile floors were completely black as he made his way to the section, he found a tall dark brown scylla wearing wireless headphones around her neck with long tentacle as her hair reaching all the way down to her breasts that unable to be concealed by the raincoat she's wearing, he grab the CD case not knowing what The band was and noticed that she was wearing a shiny dark blue raincoat with her breasts sticking out and exposing her Black frilly swimsuit top, he then works his way down looking at her And sod that instead of having feet they were tentacles sticking out of the bottom of the raincoat.
She noticed that he was looking at her for a while, "You know, some people would've found a creepy for being stared too long." She spoke up to Jonathan and caused him to drop the CD, "Oh geez I'm sorry I didn't mean to stare." He stumbled trying to pick up the CD and begin apologizing in English to her, while she noticed that he was speaking a different language she decided to go up to him curious on where he's from,
He looks up and sees her moving towards him with multiple tentacles for legs with the frilly skirt matching her top, "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to stare so much." He finally apologized to her In Japanese,
"That language, was that English? "She asked Jonathan,
"Umm, Yeah, sorry about that." Jonathan kept apologizing to her then he stood up and found her to be a little taller than him,
She found it funny on how much he apologized then saw that the CD Jonathan has in his hand was written in Japanese that said: "Michael Jackson", "(gasp) you like the king of pop?" She asked him from excitement, he finally looked at the CD he had and couldn't lie that some of his music is good, but never came around to listening to all of them, "Well, I like metal and punk mostly, but I do like pretty young thing." Jonathan tells honestly said he like (P.Y.T.) while scratching the back of his head, she blushed thinking he was flirting with her from his comment, "hehe, your funny, I am Lily, like the flower?" She liked him enough to want to introduce herself to him while looking at how cute he is for a small human, "Hey I'm—; Johnny; haha that guy." Jonathan was going to introduce himself to Lily, but Elizabeth did it for him when she called out his name, "Johnny look, ANM48 came out with a—." Elizabeth tried telling Jonathan That one of her favorite Pop artists just came out with a new album with Ivanna, but they were both dead frozen seeing a Scylla girl getting friendly with Johnny, "Hey guys, Lily, these are my friends, Elizabeth, and Ivanna, Girls, this is Lily." Jonathan found it a little funny as well as relief seeing Elizabeth and Ivanna getting along a little, he introduced Lily to the girls thinking that they would hit it off quick with each other, But both Ivanna and Elizabeth felt threatened when they saw a sexy Scylla with boobs bigger than Elizabeth's and a large ass to go with, they almost thought they were looking at an hourglass tall enough to look over Jonathan, "Hello." Lily Greeted herself to Elizabeth and Ivanna with a formal Japanese bow, "Privet (hello); Bonjour (hello)." Both Ivanna and Elizabeth introduce themselves in their native tongue, "Johnny can we go to the tech shop now, I really need some supplies?" Ivanna asked, "Sure, let's head to the checkout." Jonathan agreed and put away the Michael Jackson CD and pulled out another band called alternative all-stars.
"If you're looking for some good tech, stay away from the store at the front entrance, their stuff is really faulty," Lily advise the group,
"Your host takes you there a lot?" Jonathan ask Lily,
"Not really, his son does." Lily answers,
"And, where is he now?" Jonathan asked out of concern,
"Well, his son left me here, and his father is Head of security, so he's watching me through the cameras." Lily explained and points at one of the cameras in the store, "What?!" Jonathan didn't like her answer and was beginning to get worked up from it, Ivanna and Elizabeth saw Jonathan was beginning to lose his temper and knew what would happen if he were to see lilies host,
"Then why don't you come with us?" Ivanna quickly suggested to Lily
"Is that OK?" Lily asked hoping it wouldn't cause them trouble,
"Oh yes, J-Johnny, Is a special case, you should be safe," Elizabeth said to Lily,
Lily looked at Jonathan while Jonathan was giving death stares to one of the security cameras, He saw her looking at him and gave a soft smile to her then extended his hand hoping she would come with them, "OK." She agreed to go with them while not touching Jonathan's hand and causing Jonathan's temper to drop, after the checkout, the three were about ready to walk to another store but saw Lily standing nervously on crossing into the mall, "Is something wrong, Lily?" Jonathan asked, but Jonathan could tell by how her hair was scrunching up on walking on the malls floor, he looks up and told her "don't worry, I got your back.", she couldn't help but feel warm from his kindness and the tip of her hair tentacles to turn pink as she moved out of the store with them.
Lily guided them as they went further into the mall, they reached a tech shop of Lily's choosing, Ivanna was impressed by how much tech is found in the one small store, Lily and Elizabeth were talking about ANM48, and Ivanna had Jonathan hold a basket tray and filled it up with some smartphones, GPS's, Circuit boards, even a laptop and a tablet with some soldering tools and checked out, "OK, Johnny, hold this." Ivanna asked Jonathan, she then turned around and her whole backpack opened on its own with a little tray sitting out, "now put them all in there, clothes too." Ivanna instructed Jonathan and he did as she asked, he put in a handful of smartphones first and the backpack just closed then re-opened with the cell phones gone, "Oh, that's so cool." Jonathan commented on how Ivanna's backpack just made the smartphones disappeared and continued watching each item disappear after another.
After Jonathan was finished having fun with Ivannas backpack, Lily continues to be their guide and lead them into an arcade filled with Games of all kinds, "This arcade section has everything, from prize grabbers to virtual wheel of fortune, they even have an old-fashioned Pac-Man game all the way to dance, dance revolution." Lily spoke to them as if she was a tour guide, "Wow, this place is amazing, Johnny, let's get some tokens and play." Elizabeth gleefully said to Jonathan, he saw the machine currency exchange didn't give tokens, but a card as a replacement, he didn't worry though as it excepted debit card for currency exchange since nobody has any yen, He gave Elizabeth, Ivanna, even Lily a card worth $20 in each card for the arcade games, "You're giving me one, but why?" Lily asked Jonathan, "simple, we can't have all the fun here." Jonathan smiled and answered her question like it was an obvious one, The pink tips on her tentacle hair we're getting lighter from Jonathan being considerate, Ivanna and Elizabeth took turns playing a game with Jonathan while Lily mostly step back and watched, While Jonathan kept losing to Ivanna in a lot of fighting and racing games, Elizabeth would do you prize games and lose, Jonathan saw that she was feeling down from not getting any prizes and decide to help her,
"Hey, Liz, which one are you trying to get?" Jonathan asked Elizabeth, she pointed at a small plush sheep with dead eyes and a circular looking mouthpiece with jagged teeth and a trail of blood coming out of one of the teeth, he saw that the prize grabber is an old-fashioned joystick and a button to launch the claw, " Jonathan slipped his card in the machine and thought it be fun spinning the joystick around and making the claw spin for 15 seconds, he let go of the joystick with 5 seconds remaining then let the claw dropped and successfully grabbed the plush sheep causing all three of the girls amazed on obtaining it, "just called me, Ullr, God of games." He jested to himself by calling himself one of the Nordic gods and giving the doll to Elizabeth, "T-thank you, Ullr." Elizabeth gave her thanks to Jonathan while jesting with him that he is the god of games, "I want one too." Ivanna silently stepped in under Jonathan and Elizabeth when they were getting cozy and claiming that she wanted Jonathan to win her a prize, Jonathan picked a different price grabber and found one that gave electronics for a prize instead of stuffed animals, while Elizabeth and Ivanna were watching Jonathan play the prize grabber, Lily was beginning to feel a pain in her chest as she watches them, as much as she enjoys hanging out with the three, she felt envious from the girls and wanting a host like Jonathan and caused the tips of her hair tentacles to darken, "udivitel'no (amazing), Johnny, you got two prizes!" Ivanna praises Jonathan's luck on grabbing an Apple Watch with a pair of light pink wireless headphones stuck on it, after giving Ivanna her prize, Jonathan went up to Lily and snapped her back into reality by presenting the headphones in front of her, "Here, you keep it." Jonathan said offering the headphones to Lily as a gift, "I'm sorry, Johnny, but I can't accept this, electronics don't work for me well on the count of the mucus that I produce." Lily declined and explained why she couldn't accept his gift, "Is that why you were scared of leaving the store?" Jonathan asked her, but her silence while looking sad answered his question, Jonathan went over to Ivanna and whispered something in her beast ear, she agreed and Jonathan went back over to Lily and said: "OK then, since these headphones would short from getting wet and probably would've fallen off you, I asked if she can make them waterproof as well as slip resistant.",
"Bu—." Lily was about to ask on why he was doing this for her, but Jonathan already knew she was going to ask that and just placed up his hand to stop her, "We're friends, that's the only reason I need to help you." Jonathan softly said to her and caused Ivanna and Elizabeth face turning red and their heart beating faster from his words, but Lily eyes were beginning to water from her envy of Ivanna and Elizabeth host, "(Sniff) you're so sweet (sob) (sniff) why couldn't my host's family be sweet as you (crying)!" Lily broke down crying from Jonathan's kindness and wished that her host family was more like him, Jonathan tries to keep his composure as best as he could while feeling his blood boiling on knowing that her host family was the reason she's crying.
After Lily finish crying, the four of them made their way to a food court and sat down at a table instead of a booth to rest a moment, Jonathan saw on how Lily was wallowing in her self pity and thought His program could possibly help her, "You know, Lily, I'm not really a host for these girls." Jonathan informed her, "really, then what are you?" Shock to her believe Lily wonder how Elizabeth and Ivanna are able to walk around without a host she asked Jonathan what he was then, "Well, it's a bit hard to explain, but to sum it up, I'm a troublemaker that got placed in this program because I destroyed my moms car." Jonathan explained his situation without going into full detail,
"That's how you got placed in this program?" Ivanna asked, Jonathan not at his head to confirm, "How come?" Ivanna curiously asked, "Easy, because my mom is a nutcase." Jonathan simply answered,
"Then do you mind telling me where you're from?" Ivanna curiously asked another question about Jonathan this time,
"United States." Jonathan vaguely answered again,
"Can you tell me why you hate humans so much?" Ivanna tried again by asking him a different question about himself,
"Sorry, Eve, But that question was already answered when you guys were placed in my care, and I'm sorry I think it's best that I don't answer any more questions, the less you know about me the better?" Jonathan answered while Lily didn't know what was more strange, Ivanna asking Jonathan such personal questions or that how they Jonathan kept answering, Elizabeth softly placed her hand on Jonathan's Trying to comfort him, "How come you won't share, Johnny?" Elizabeth asked Johnny out of worrying why he wasn't opening up, "Because as much as I want to, this contract that I am under says I can't, and if I do, I go back to jail." Jonathan had to inform the girls on what his job mainly is and what would happen if he were to get too close to them, Ivanna remembered Smith telling her that Jonathan did something to her team and placed him on probation for it, but didn't know what it was exactly, "Is that why you gave Smith and her team such a hard time?" Ivanna asked vaguely, Jonathan couldn't help but smirk, "Oh yeah, I remember that the tall woman and the other woman with the miss-matched eyes tried chasing you down after you helped me." Elizabeth tried to recap part of the event, Jonathan also remembers that day well too, "Yeah, I really needed to get back onto U.S. soil, But now that's impossible thanks to this contract and the "probation" that I am on." Jonathan said while feeling like a caged animal,
"But why are you trying to get back to the U.S. so hard?" Ivanna pursued asking him to know more about him,
"To make sure, "she's safe"." Beginning to feel vexed on Ivannas question, he tried to give her a vague answer involving a girl,
"Well, you may not give us the full answer, but I still want to know more about you, Johnny, because I like you." Ivanna accepted his vague answer and told him that she will not stop wanting to learn about him because how she feels about him,
"Me too." Elizabeth said suddenly and caused everyone's attention to go to her, "W— well, I know you're trying to not get too attached to us, B— because you can get pulled out of this program anytime if you mess up, that's why you won't tell us what you did, what you like, even where you're from, but, I like being around you, Johnny, and I really do want to know more about you." Elizabeth spoke honestly without trying to stutter and ended with a smile towards Jonathan,
Jonathan now couldn't help but feel guilty on how much they both feel about him, "Chicago…" Jonathan said to them, "Huh?" Said Ivanna, "I'm from Chicago, Illinois, Southside to be specific." Jonathan finally caved and told the girls he's from one of the known corrupted cities in the United States and part of the most dangerous section of it.
"But enough about me, Lily, my job for this contract allows me to help you even though you're not under my care." Jonathan immediately changes the subject back to helping Lily, she was about to tell him what the trouble she was having with the host family, "Hey, calamarLily!" But trouble found them when a teenage boy looking around Jonathan's age unpleasantly walked up to the table that they were sitting in and called out to Lily with an unpleasant nickname sounded like she's food, "I thought my father and I told you to stay in the music shop!" The boy angrily said to her, "I'm sorry, but this boy and his—; no excuses!" Lily try to apologize and explain why she didn't stay in the music store like she was told to but the boy wasn't going to let her explain causing Jonathan's blood boiling again, "You always have an excuse, if you're not making a mess in our house with your gross slime, you leave ink spots all over the mall and staining the floors." The boy began ranting about her and begin making Lily feel depressed while Jonathan was trying so hard to stay in the chair to not hurt the boy, "Now get back to the mu—; she's staying here." The boy was going to command Lily to go back to the music shop but Jonathan spoke up and told him she's not going,
"And who are you?" The boy asked Jonathan with an attitude,
"Right, where are my manners, the name's Rook." Jonathan introduced his last name to the boy and got out of his chair to extend his hand out to shake with a smile that worried Elizabeth,
The boy grabbed Jonathan's hand to greet, "My name is—; don't care, maggot." Jonathan stopped him from talking and clenched his hand hard enough that the boy wasn't able to slip out, The boy tries getting his hand out of Jonathan's but his hand gripped tighter and tighter and began hurting the boy's hand from it, "Ow, stop, you're hurting—." The boy struggled from trying to get his hand out of Jonathans and telling him to stop,
but Jonathan wasn't listening, "And you were hurting Lily, No excuses, right?" Jonathan decided to give the boy a cruel ironic recap of what he said to Lily earlier, "You humans are all the same, if you're not trying to adapt with them, you make up an excuse on why they should feel horrible about themselves, she's not gross, and you, you're disgusting." Jonathan began intimidating the boy by reenacting The boys' rant to Lily earlier and beginning to sound evil,
"Let him go, Rook." Jonathan overheard someone telling him to let the boy go and found that it was Saeko, "Were you following me again!?" Jonathan asked Saeko annoyed from her spying on him, "Not important, what is right now, is that I know that boy, and if you go any further, He could put you away." Saeko didn't answer his question and made sure she told him what he needed to hear right now, "Now you care?" Surprised to Saeko's warning, he asked why she's trying to stop him,
"I don't, but they do." She bluntly told him that she didn't care whether he went to jail or not and then pointed at Elizabeth and Ivanna thinking that would stop him, Jonathan saw Elizabeth and Ivanna worried on what he was going to do then saw Lily for a moment, he then began to loosen his grip enough for the boy to slip his hand out and made everyone feel relief, Saeko talk to the boy in private for a moment then came back with the boy looking more scared of Saeko now, she then escorted all four of them back to the music store where they met Lily while Jonathan remained silent through the whole escort with a sour angry look on his face.
When they made it to the music store, Jonathan pulled Lily to the checkout booth to talk to her in private, " look, Lily, I'm sorry you had to see that, I have a bit of a short temper when a human mistreats a demi." Jonathan apologizes for his anger overtaking him while telling him why he got so angry so quick, "It's OK, I won't lie, I did like it." Lily accepted his apology and admitted that she liked being defended by him despite his anger,
He then took out the CD he bought and stole a pen from the checkout desk and scribbled something in the CD case then gave it to Lily, "here, if you have any problems or feel like having a chat, call this number." Jonathan offered his number to her hoping she would want to stay in touch with him,
"Thank you, Umm, before you guys go, can I ask you something, Jonathan?" She accepted his phone number and wanted to ask Jonathan something before they had to leave,
"It's OK by me, and it's, Johnny." He didn't mind her asking a question but felt needed to tell her that he prefers to be called his Shorten name,
"Sorry, Johnny, but do you really think I'm not gross?" Lily apologized for calling him by his legal name and then asked a question causing her hair tentacles to scrunch up around her neck while the tips darkened back into her skin color, but before he answered her question he surprised her by reaching up to her neck and combed out her hair tentacles and drenching his hands with her mucus,
"No, there's nothing gross about you, and there never will be in my eyes." He softly said to her while still gently gripping the tip of her hair tentacles,
Hearing such kind words from him made her heart flutter and caused the tip of her tentacle hair brightened to the lightest pink that could ever be found in the known color wheel, she wanted to take her tentacles from her hair and her legs and wrap around him and never wanted to let go of him.
[The Akisame's home]
A whole week has passed since that day, while Jonathan and Saeko would fight like cats & dogs, Ivanna upgraded the house by placing pyramid speakers that were able to fit in the corner of the walls connected to the ceiling in the house with cameras built in them to watch them fight, but mostly to watch Jonathan, Elizabeth would try talking with Jonathan or Keiichi to get more comfortable around men, but runs from getting too nervous, Jonathan noticed that she would try to tell him something during her attempts, but back out at the last minute, He knew that if he were to pursue her she would get too nervous and close up
Jonathan kept in touch with Lily making sure that she was OK from her host family, she always said that she was OK, but Jonathan didn't feel that she was telling him the truth sometimes, when Smith came back to check up on Jonathan, he explained Lilies situation and Smith told him that she can talk to them but that would be the only thing she could do until they had actual evidence to pull Lily out of that home, Jonathan was beginning to get angry until Ivanna showed up with a 100 mL cylinder filled with a clear liquid in it, "Johnny, drink this much." Ivanna asked Jonathan to drink 20 mL of it and he did, Smith watched him drink it and handed it back to Ivanna like it was no problem, "What was it? Jonathan asked Ivanna
"It's supposed to be a fast-acting sleeping medicine I made," Ivanna answered,
"I don't feel anything, OK I'm gonna go watch TV (thud)," Jonathan claimed that nothing was affecting him and was about to leave the room to watch some television and immediately fell to the floor sleeping from the medicine instantly taking effect,
Smith lightly kicked him to see if he was really knocked out, "Wow, Ivanna, that stuff really works well." Smith complemented on Ivannas roofie, Ivanna didn't show it but she was proud of her drug, Smith was on her way out the door to talk to Lilies host, "Oh yes, Ivanna I forgot, did you learn anything from Jonathan this past week?" but she forgot to ask Ivanna something important about Jonathan,
"Yes actually, he told me he's from Chicago," Ivanna inform Smith,
"That's strange?" Smith said to her,
"What?" Ivanna asked,
"Well, I got him out of a Florida juvenile facility, he was miles away from Illinois?" Smith informs Ivanna and causing Ivanna to wonder if Jonathan was lying to her,
The second week passed by quick as Ivanna continue to upgrade things, this time she upgraded the families phones by giving them unlimited data, full access contacts, GPS's that are not able to be spotted by a phone company, and even gave Jonathan one of the phones to help him from Smiths constant watching over him along with having him test out her new hoverboard prototype, they tested it in the Akisame's backyard that was long and wide enough to be 30 ft and nothing but forest around it, due to the forest around the home, the girls and Jonathan thought that the Akisame family had a small house on a hill with no neighbors but quickly discovered that the home they live in was an old large shrine that was refurbished when they bought it with an acre of land,
On the first attempt, it didn't go well on the first test when Jonathan started it and was launch 5 feet in the air and landed top side first and fractured his wrist while the Akisame family and Elizabeth watched them,
"AH HAHAHA Wow, I knew thugs could jump high, but I thought it was only because they were being chased?" Saeko teased Jonathan while laughing at his failure on the board, "Fuck off bitch!" Jonathan retorted while managing to stick his middle finger up at her,
On the second attempt, the board went instantly 30 miles and took him in the forest and hitting tree branches, flew through some of Silicas web, and terrified a family of squirrels in the process, he tried to get a handle on the board and work his way back into the backyard, but Jonathan ended up hitting a tree limb at the last minute with his four head with everyone to see and leaving Jonathan semi-conscious with a powerful headache, Keiichi and his daughter grabbed his legs and pulled him out of the forest, "(Snap Snap) hey, (pat pat) boi, you still with us?" Keiichi snapped his fingers and tapped Jonathan's cheeks seeing if he would respond to him but he only groaned with a squirrel crawling out of the hood of his jacket and ran away into the forest
Jonathan had to wear a brace on his forearm while his wrist was healing, he would check his phone regularly seeing if Lily had contacted him, but didn't even know if she even had a cell phone or was privileged to have one,
On the third week, Ivanna handed Jonathan a skateboard for him to practice on balancing, and Jonathan would leave the house with Elizabeth, Saeko, and Silica to the park and practice, During those times, Smith pulled police records, public school records, some military academy records that had "expelled" stamped on them, even his birth certificate, everything that she could find related to him with Ivanna at the dining room table trying to piece together about Jonathan along with Keiichi,
"Is there even anything he accidentally shared with you?" Smith asked Ivanna out of desperation trying to see if he spilled something personal during small talk with Ivanna
"No, he's been very good at keeping things to himself since the mall, I may have got lucky enough to figure out that he's from Chicago with Elizabeth's help, but that's it." Ivanna in only able to tell the information that she knew was the time he spent in the mall with her, Elizabeth, and Lily,
"(Sigh) great, it's like hitting a wall with him every time, I tried finding the so-called nanny that took care of him until he was 12, but she practically never existed when the law was placed?" Smith said feeling frustration on trying to figure out why Jonathan was a giant enigma, she tried finding the nanny when Jonathan mentioned her with Tio once, but Smith felt like she was trying to find a ghost on that, she then tried looking at all of his police records, She was only able to find minor complaints from neighbors and petty crime and vandalism that roughly gave him community service such as graffiti, pickpocketing, destruction of public property, illegal usage of fireworks on private property, even caught from partaking in back ally street fighting, The only record that showed of him committing a major crime was the grand theft auto of his mother's vehicle and was placed in a juvenile correctional facility outside Illinois for it,
Ivanna Felt relief when she found out that Jonathan wasn't lying when he said he was from Chicago and found him more and more interesting as she looked at some of Jonathan's military academy records and all of them have "expelled" stamped on the cover of the files, she saw that he only lasted for a month at the academies summer course before getting expelled for destruction of school properties, theft, or on able to comply with authority figure, from causing disturbance in the mess halls, to blowing up a armory shack, Jonathan seem to of found creative ways on how to get himself expelled and place on a blacklist in every known military school, "(Vot) Wow, he really meant it when he said he doesn't want to be a soldier." Ivanna commented, "Yeah, and it wasn't easy for me to get these files, there was even one that I couldn't get at all and if I did I would get flagged for it." Smith added while she took a break from reading Jonathan's files with a cuppa coffee in her hand, "Really?" Ivanna said sounding surprised, Smith then placed down her coffee and locked your fingers together, "yeah, I found out that it was a Norwegian military academy, but it was placed in a fake address, they never even heard of him." Smith told Ivanna while getting more and more frustrated on how one boy Could cost so much destruction and chaos and still manage to hide in the shadows,
Keiichi stayed silent as he looked through some of Jonathan's school record, and it would just show his grades are average C's, doesn't rise or drop, constant tardiness, and being a prime suspect of multiple school fights, all of them were related to humans harassing demis, "Keiichi, you ok?" Smith called to her friend, "Hm, oh yes, just deep in thought." Keiichi said to Smith while seeing Jonathan like a puzzle, "you think you got something?" Smith asked Keiichi, "yea—(slam)!?" Keiichi was about to tell them what had piece together so far, But then they heard a door slam in the front entrance thinking that they've returned from the park and caused Smith, Ivanna, and Keiichi to take all the files they had of Jonathan and stuffed them in Smiths briefcase.
Keiichi went to the entrance and saw Silica, Saeko, and Elizabeth, But Jonathan was missing, "Hey honey, where's Jonathan?" Keiichi greeted his wife while wondering where their foster son is, "He'll be here shortly (Sirens)" Silica said to her husband sounding irritated while pinching the bridge of her brows with police sirens in the distance and getting louder until it's suddenly stopped, (knock knock knock) they heard a knock on the door and saw two police officers with Jonathan smiling and having his hands cuffed behind his back, "Oh god, what did he do?" Smith asked the police hoping that Jonathan didn't just throw his chance away, "haha, funny story—; shut up!" Jonathan tried to explain sounded like it would be funny, but Smith immediately told him not to speak so that the police can explain, "this boy took a gallon of green paint, and catapulted it off of a skateboard towards this young lady right here and went into our vehicle instead of her!" One of the police explains to Smith that Jonathan found a can of paint and launched it over Saeko and into the police officers vehicle, Jonathan was tryin' to force himself not to laugh, "We'll take him off your hands, thank you, officer." Keiichi politely said to the police, One of the officers shoved Jonathan to Smith, "next time, we will press charges." One of the officers warned Keiichi then both started walking away showing the paint stain on their back of there shirt and pants,
"Hey, aren't you guys going to uncuff me?" Jonathan asked,
"NO!" Both of the officers said in unison as they walk back to their vehicle,
Smith grabbed Jonathan by the hood of his jacket and forced him to follow her all the way to the living room and to sit on the couch with his hands still cuffed, "JONATHAN, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?" Smith shouted at Jonathan,
"They needed to go green?" Jonathan jested to Smith, Smith never felt the need to strike a child until she met Jonathan,
"I can't believe you, you were doing so well, and tomorrow is your last day on probation, you better give me a damn good explanation why you did this?!" Already vexed by Jonathan being brought home by a police escort, She lectures him while feeling that she should arrest him and send him to jail right now, but gave him a chance to explain himself before she did,
Seeing how Smith was already angry with him he felt he should give an explanation to him, "OK OK, geez someone forgot to have their coffee this morning." Jonathan said to Smith, she now felt the need to shoot him,
He started at the beginning in the park, "I was practicing on the skateboard as Ivanna asked, and the officers who escorted me home here told me to not skate on the sidewalk but I ignored them, then one of the officers was beginning to give weird looks at, Liz." Jonathan explains the smith, she stopped him for a moment by placing her hand up and looked at Elizabeth if what he said was true, Elizabeth nodded to confirm that it was, "continue." Smith orders Jonathan, " fine, and as I was getting better with my board, I noticed that Liz wasn't around, so I went to go look for her and I found one of them frisking her when she was asking them to stop while the other one was taking a wand and kept hitting a spot on a that made it go off—." Jonathan continued his story and was immediately stopped again by Smith, "Is what is he saying right now true, Elizabeth?" Smith asked Elizabeth knowing that Jonathan has a tendency to lie to her, a lot,
"Yes, they were hitting a piece of metal that was in my overall chest pocket, but they went in my overalls and started—." Elizabeth told Smith he wasn't lying and try to explain why they began "frisking" her, But couldn't finish explaining knowing that she was really being groped,
"Could you show me what was causing it to go off?" Smith Politely asked Elizabeth If she could show what set off the metal detecting wand, Elizabeth agreed and pulled out the pocket watch that Jonathan gave her when they first met with the assassin's creed symbol on the cover,
"Hey haha, my watch; shut up Jonathan!" Jonathan said happily from recognizing the symbol And Smith immediately told Jonathan to stop talking, "Why didn't you call me or Silica or even Saeko?!" Smith assumed how the rest of the story would've gone then asked Jonathan why he didn't contact her or Silica and her daughter,
"That's both a simple and stupid question, by the time I finish calling you they probably would've gone further with her, and if they were willing to do that to Liz, what do you think they would've done if they saw a minor human with her demi mother?" Jonathan asked Smith waiting to give out the answer to her, but Smith placed her hand out as a sign for him to "continue", they would've to see both Elizabeth and Silica as Demis without their host and would've escorted them to the police station where they could've done worse things to them in private and get away with it due to probable causes as their excuse, and if I would to assault them, I guarantee that I would be on the news for assaulting an officer." Jonathan explained to Smith as he knew exactly how it would all play out if he would've done one or the other and felt that what he did was the only option,
"So you use my daughter as a pawn to make yourself a scapegoat for the girls?" Keiichi Said to Jonathan assuming that was his plan, "exactly, see, foster gets it." Jonathan said to Smith,
"How did you make sure it was able to get in the vehicle?" Keiichi asked Jonathan,
"Well if you know simple geometry and timing, it's child's play." Jonathan answered and made Keiichi understand that the boy was smarter then he lets on, seeing that his stories sounded believable even for Keiichi to buy it, she fell obligated to let him go and sent an investigation squad to the two officers that escorted him home,
"fine, you're free to go, at this time, but you're on thin ice, Jonathan, if I here you set so much as a tow out of line; yeah yeah, you'll throw me in jail quicker than I could pronounce the name of the prison." Smith told him that he's in the clear and was going to warn him but Jonathan interrupted her and mocked her thinking that she was giving an empty threat, she was about to grab her keys to unlock Jonathan the grabs her stung gun instead,
"Smith, what are you doing?" Jonathan asked Smith as she was checking are stun gun,
"I still feel like you need to be punished." Smith said to Jonathan while having a smile on her face that made Jonathan feel worried,
"You wouldn't?" Jonathan asked her thinking she was bluffing,
"You're right, I wouldn't." Smiths claimed Jonathan to be right while she continues to smile, "but she would." She told Jonathan and handed her stun gun to Saeko and caused her to also smile,
"Oh you, BIIIIII— AHHHHH!" Jonathan tried to insult Smith but was interrupted when Saeko pulled the trigger and gave Jonathan 50,000 volts of electricity,
Keiichi tapped on Elizabeth's shoulder hoping that she would come with him while Jonathan was being electrocuted Again and again with Saeko repeatedly pulling the trigger, "Elizabeth, did you remember the first day you and Jonathan went out on a field trip together?" Keiichi asked Elizabeth and instantly blushes on remembering that day, she nodded her head confirming that she remembered, "Did he mention anything back at his home that could help us for him?" Keiichi asked and the only thing that Elizabeth could remember was him caring her like a princess then getting arrested in a love motel, until, "Well he did say he had a friend back home?" Elizabeth recapped, "Really?" Keiichi said finding it hard to believe that Jonathan had friends,
"Hehe, W—well he did say that his friend is a k—kakuen." Elizabeth said to him founding it funny that Keiichi found it hard to believe that Jonathan had a friend until he mentioned his friends' species when he heard that his friend was a kakuen, Keiichi had an idea that could help Smith handle on Jonathan a lot smoother,
"Thank you, Elizabeth, this should help out greatly." Keiichi thank Elizabeth and took her back into the living room then grabbed Smith to talk while his daughter continues to electrocute Jonathan.
To be continued…
A/N: All right everybody, you guys got a nice taste of my Scylla getting all cozy with Johnny, but with Smith being stubborn on protocols how is Johnny going to be able to have her move in with his foster family, will his last day on probation be the chance To get her to move, and what does Keiichi have in store with our dear juvenile delinquent, when we come back… you know what, I can't say anything, that's way too much spoilers right there as it is, But until then, write a story, write a review, read a story, either way, just enjoy your imagination like we do
