Deja Vu part 1
I am trying a few different things in this chapter and next (next one is Deja Vu part 2). In particular I am narrating the events out of chronological order, to stress out the importance of the 2 days in Kyle's life.
Please review and let me know how I did!
I am not associated with Kyle XY in any way. All characters and events are fictional.
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Sometime in the past or in the future in the Trager household....
I woke up in the middle of the night. There was a sound of somebody trashing around. As I listened for heartbeats, I realized it was Jessi – her heartbeat was fast and irregular. I went up to her room to see what happened.
Kyle sat down by her side and gently touched her arm.
"Jessi?"
Suddenly Jessi stretched her arm out and grabbed him by the neck.
"Jessi!"
Jessi woke up and pulled her hand back.
"God!"
"Its okay"
"What happened?"
"I heard you trashing around" "It was just a bad dream"
"It was horrible... I was at Latnok... and ... I don't really remember" her voice was breaking
"Well it's over now. Are you okay?" Kyle said and put his hand over hers.
"Thank you for checking on me" Jessi said with a look of hope in her eyes. They looked each other in the eyes for a few moments. Jessi ran her hand over his. Kyle put his other hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry, I will not let them hurt you again." Kyle gently pushed her back until she was laying in bed.
Jessi still looked shocked by her nightmare, and her pulse was excessive.
"We will figure this out" He started petting her left hand with his other hand. Her skin was soft to the touch.
"Thanks for being so good to me. Others would have abandoned me by now" She said with a slight smile.
"Jessi don't say that!" He leaned in and hugged her "I told you, I will never abandon you." As they were close, the smell of her hair was overpowering his other senses. He held her tightly with one hand and ran the other through her hair.
"What happened to you is not you fault." "None of it." "You are wonderful." Jessi's heartbeat became more regular, although it was still high. Kyle's heart accelerated and was beating in unison with hers. Jessi was starting to project feelings of happiness through their link. They both stayed in the hug for a while. Neither wanted to move.
Finally Kyle pulled back and cupped Jessi's cheek with his hand. She looked at him with gratitude in her eyes. There was something magnetic about her eyes, it was always so hard to look away. Most people attempt to hide their emotions, putting forth a mask to disguise what they truly feel. But not her, you could always peek into her soul through those eyes.
"Is something wrong?" Jessi asked as Kyle kept looking at her mesmerized
"I am just admiring your eyes" Kyle said with a smile
Jessi smiled back at him. Her smile was so beautiful, so pure, Kyle could not stay back anymore. He kissed her gently on the lips. Soon, they both lost themselves in that kiss. Jessi's hands were running across his back apprehensively at first but he projected a spike of happiness through their link after every one of her touches. She pulled Kyle's shirt over his back, and threw it into the corner of the room. Her hands were now caressing Kyle's torso as he was passionately kissing her lips, her face, her neck.
Kyle carefully started pulling Jessi's top off while looking at her for signs. Jessi smiled in agreement. For a second she was laying there in her pajama bottoms and her bra as Kyle was admiring her strong, yet feminine body and gently tracing her curves with his fingers.
"Hello Kyle." "Jessi" Adam Baylin said as he appeared out of nowhere
Astounded Kyle looked away from Jessi and looked towards Adam
"Adam?! What are you doing here? How did you get here?"
Kyle was upset to be interrupted
"I am not really here – I am a manifestation of your subconscious. So is she."
Kyle looked at Jessi. She smiled and ran her fingers through Kyle's hair.
"But my last dream about Jessi was real. How do you know this one is not?" Kyle looked at Adam again
"Last one was, sure. But you remember this moment don't you? This is not what happened. You checked in on her, she wanted you to stay, but you did not."
"I was afraid"
"Afraid? She doesn't look scary, does she?"
Jessi was frozen in his memory, looking at Kyle with a combination of hope and desire.
" I was not afraid of what she might do. I feared that I would lose control, that I would not be able to control my emotions."
"Complete control is not always a good thing Kyle. If you are planning your emotions ahead of time, are your emotions even real?" Kyle did not answer
"The irony of life is that you were afraid to do something you would regret, and now you regret not doing it."
"Is that what you are here to tell me?"
"No, I think you know why I am here." Adam looked at Kyle intensely
"I want to understand what happened between Jessi and I in the last 36 hours"
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Taylor's office, 36 hours before the dream
"Ah Nathan come on in." Bryan was sitting in his office reading the 'Wall Street Journal'. "How is our little project progressing?"
"I am really close, I will consult with Jessi later on today, but I think I got it." Nathan waited for a second to formulate his question
"Boss, I am worried. Once we hack into the exchange, you will be able to force other accounts to sell you stocks at below the market price, and buy from you at above the market price." He looked at Taylor
"But the authorities would be onto us very quickly"
"You are right." Taylor looked at him with a smile. "Which is why this is not the plan"
Nathan was clearly confused
"Look at the newspaper, what do you see?" Taylor handed him his copy
"Yesterday's stock performance?"
"Exactly. So if you had that information 2 days ago, what would you do?"
"I would buy the stocks that are about to go up the most of course... But how is that relevant? We cannot see the future." Nathan was looking at him intently
"Hacking into the server directly would allow us to see any market orders 30-50 milliseconds before they are received by the exchange. Effectively we will see that far into the future compared to anyone else."
"That does not seem like much."
"It is enough, trust me." Taylor handed him an envelope "Consider this an advance"
Nathan opened the envelope. Inside was an account statement. It was a large number.
"It is your new account in the Cayman Islands. You are identified only by your account number and password – which you are welcome to change of course. Completely untraceable."
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Trager household, 35 hours before the dream
Faith involves believing something without empirical proof and often against reason. After my fight with Jessi I had a dream that she knocked on my window, like she has done so many times before, and I told her exactly how I felt. I have come to believe that it wasn´t a dream, but a premonition, a portend of things to come. Predicting the future is impossible in relativistic physics – at the subatomic level the world is governed by random variables. Besides, I would have to predict Jessi – an impossible task. Yet for some reason I believed my dream would come true.
Kyle chuckled at the idea of anyone being able to predict Jessi. He proceeded to pour himself some cereal.
"We have got to hang out later! I need to learn those sweet moves!" Josh was in his room talking to somebody on the phone
"Oh common Kyle would never teach me that stuff" Josh responded "You were amazing, like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill amazing!"
"What am I not supposed to teach Josh?" Kyle thought as he listened to the conversation from downstairs while eating his breakfast. He did not mean to evesdrop, but Josh was so exited, he was borderline yelling.
"Oh is it Jessi, let me talk to her" Lori walked into Josh's room "Hey hun, are you feeling any better"
I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I have not talked to Jessi in 5 days 12 hours 32 minutes and 15 seconds. I wondered if she was ok, if she needed me to be here for her, to hold her in my arms... I missed the melody of her voice, the excitement she projected through our link while discovering life. Yet it seemed she was fine without me. Maybe Nicole was right. Maybe Jessi needed to be apart from me to be happy. But there was something she missed. I was not happy apart from Jessi.
"I should not do this" he thought and tried to tune out.
Kyle focused on his cereal.
"Oh yeah that would look so good on you, he will totally love it" He heard Lori say about 5 minutes later "K, cya hun" She said as she walked into the kitchen
"Morning Kyle" Lori said as she saw him. Kyle just nodded absentmindedly
Jessi did not ask about me, she did not even want to talk to me. Does she hate me that much after what I have done? Have I hurt her so much, that she was moving on with somebody else? But with whom? Nathan?! Of all people...
There was a tear in his eye. Quickly he shifted the polarity of his body to dehydrate his eyes.
"Last thing I need is for the family to see me like this" He thought
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Somewhere in Seattle 33 hours before the dream
Grace was having a video conference with a few of her allies.
"Taylor's resources are growing exponentially. How?" Grace asked into her monitor
"Its XX. She is cooperating with him. In the last 2 weeks she discovered several cures to important diseases. He sold the research to medical corporations for millions."
"Well we knew that!" Grace was getting impatient "That money went to Latnok budget"
"Mrs. Kingsley if I may. Taylor has been selling that research at a price much below what it is really worth. I believe those corporations are paying him on the side."
"Bryan Taylor the humanitarian... I knew that was not his motivation. But if all he wants is money, why does he need Latnok?"
The room was quiet for a few moments
"Either way we cannot let Taylor turn Latnok into a corporation. We have larger goals!" One of the previously silent members said
"Jessi is our real problem, I do not see why we need her alive?" A voice with a British accent said bluntly
"Killing XX would be premature. She may be an inconvenience, but she is inferior to XY in every possible way. Her death would only push XY to work with Taylor." Grace paused
"Taylor is a sentimental fool, he would never kill XX himself just because they share snippets of DNA, even if he would not hesitate to kill any of us. XY knows it. If XY is pushed to cooperate with Taylor, we can kiss our agenda good bye. For obvious reasons we will not be able to kill XY as well."
Grace's logic seemed compelling enough for the group.
"So what are you going to do?" Same british guy asked
"Under no circumstances can we allow for both XY and XX to work together with Taylor. I will do the same thing I did 18 years ago. They may have IQ in the stratosphere, but they are still teenagers with hormones Michael."
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Taylor's house 29 hours before the dream
Nathan knocked on the door. He was still shocked by the amount of money Taylor gave him so non-chalantly. But he needed Jessi's help to complete the project. The hard part was not letting her know what the project was all about.
"Oh hello Nate!"
"Hey aaaa.... Jessi"
Jessi was standing at the door wearing only a bath towel. Nathan could not help but admire how good she looked with so little on. She had the body of a model, yet she had the brains of... well, lets not go there.
"Nathan, what are you doing?" He told himself
"You really should cover up before you open the door." he started "there are some weird guys out there"
"Weird, you said I was weird" She looked at him curiously
"Ahem... never mind, why don't I get us some beers while you change"
"I am not 21"
"Neither am I, but that never stopped me before" He said as he finally walked away
"You do not need this right now Nathan!" He had to remind himself again. Getting involved with Bryan Taylor's daughter could be very dangerous.
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Trager's house 27 hours before the dream
"Oh hello Amanda" Steven opened the door
"Hello Mr Trager. My mom said Mrs Trager called and invited me for dinner."
"Come on in" he said "Nicole must have forgotten to tell me" he thought
As the family sat down for for dinner Steven decided to confront Josh.
"What is it I hear of you getting into a fight!" He asked his son
"Dad I had to protect Jessi from Charlie! She is like my sister."
"Protect her is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?" Lori laughed "You just stood there and watched her beat him up"
"Is she ok, I should have been there!" Kyle finally was out of his trance. Amanda was a little hurt at how concerned Kyle was with Jessi. She tried to disguise it best she could.
"Oh dude, she is fine. She has the best kung fu moves I have ever seen." Josh said excitedly "No offense Kyle"
"Why would I be offended?" Kyle thought
"Yeah she called this morning. She is totally fine, even a little perky." Lori said
I have gotten good at disguising my feelings, but this moment was a challenge even for me. I have been avoiding the thought that Jessi did not want to talk to me, while bonding with Josh and Lori. Maybe I was just being selfish. Why should Jessi wait for me to decide between her and Amanda? She is a beautiful girl who is selfless and kind. She can certainly find a boyfriend. I should want her to be happy! Why was the idea of her being 'perky' making me so sad?
Kyle let out a sigh. He never considered the possibility of Jessi rejecting him before. Collecting the rest of his will power he managed to put up a happy front. For the next half an hour the conversation got a lot lighter, as Amanda was discussing her latest concert.
"Kyle?" Amanda asked for the second time
"I am sorry what?" Kyle was still deep in thought and did not hear the question
"What did you think about my Beethoven solo?" Amanda repeated slightly hurt – why wasn't Kyle paying attention to her?
"Oh I liked it a lot" he said still distracted "Although the Do note 1 minute 15 seconds in is too strong"
Kyle stopped himself - "Since when do I criticize Amanda's music?" he thought
After dinner Lori caught up with Kyle while bringing back dishes.
"So Kyle I know why you are so upset." She looked at him with a smirk
"You do?" Kyle blushed slightly. He thought he disguised his emotions well
"Don't worry, Jessi does want to talk to you. She just wanted to do it face to face, and not over the phone."
Kyle's worries were gone, he let out a happy smile. Lori looked at him satisfied
"Aww you guys will make such a cute couple!"
I blushed again. Was my choice so obvious? But I needed to make it up to Amanda – I was really rude to her throughout dinner.
"Hey Amanda, would you like to hang out for a bit?" Kyle asked and invited her to his room
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Taylor's house 24 hours before the dream.
Nathan and Jessi have been working on their computer algorithm for a while. Obtaining the information to finish the project came at a cost. Nathan's ego was severely bruised – clearly Jessi was a lot smarter. And she did not have any reservations about rubbing it in his face. But at least she was not as condescending as Kyle. "I hate that guy" he thought suddenly.
"I need to go change" Jessi said suddenly "The rain will be over in 20 minutes. I am going to see Kyle" she said with a smile
"Oh you are a meteorologist now?" Nathan said sarcastically. "Oh I guess she is..." He thought to himself
15 minutes later she came out of her room. Jessi was wearing a white sleeveless summer dress that complemented her figure perfectly. A touch of make up brought out the contrast between her dark features and the dress itself. She looked amazing. Nathan's jaw dropped. His palms started sweating profusely, and his heart rate accelerated.
"Anything wrong?" Jessi thought Nathan was scared of something
"No... nothing at all... you look nice... I need another beer..."
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Half a mile from Trager's house 22 hours before the dream.
Jessi was walking towards Kyle's house with a happy smile on her face. Her heart started beating faster. Her exitement triggered a car alarm in a van parked nearby. "Calm down Jessi!" she told herself. As she got closer, Amanda's dog started barking at her. It was 11:43 at night.
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Hope you enjoyed it! Next chapter wraps up this one – should be done soon.
Some aspects of the plot are supposed to still be a mystery: how is Grace going to try to separate Kyle from Jessi, why does Bryan need Latnok, and what happens once Jessi reaches the Trager house.
But if my plot is confusing (it makes sense in my head lol), feel free to ask in the reviews and I ll post it in the notes.
If you are wondering which dream of Kyle's predicts the future, reread the first paragraph of Chapter 6, and the last paragraph of this chapter :).
