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Note- I just realized that using capital letters for emphasis is grammatically wrong so I'll be using italics instead. (If an entire sentence is in italics, it's a thought.)
Chapter 8
_Mystery POV_
As a Terraen, she was expected to dislike like Earthlings and feel that they were beneath them in every way possible. She knew that this was how most (if not all) Terraens felt about Earthlings yet she couldn't find it in her heart to see nor treat Earthlings like that. If she did, it would be like telling her cousin that he was below her merely because his mother had been human. But he wasn't below her nor anyone else. Dick was one of the smartest people she had ever met and that had been seven years ago. There was no telling what amount of knowledge he had gathered over that span of time.
With a sigh falling from her lips, she rubbed her jacket-covered arms. She hadn't expected that Earth's third season would be so cold here! Surely other people were as cold as she felt at the moment! With her eyes quickly scanning the people that surrounded her, she noticed that people seemed to enjoy the chilling weather. She felt herself frown when a thought clicked in her brain.
Earthlings have a higher body temperature than Terraens so what is cool to them is cold to us.
She wanted to smack herself for not remembering that fact sooner but what's done is done. Anyway, she had a cousin find.
If I remember correctly, before Aunt Lilah died, she mentioned that her twin sister had married someone who works in Haly's Circus by the name Grayson. She had been so happy . . . She had gushed over the surprise trip back home to surprise her newly wedded sister . . . But she never did get to.
She could feel her grief for an aunt she barely got a chance to know but she knew her grief was nothing compared to what Dick must have felt when he found out the truth. Well, more like had the truth slapped across his face when Uncle Sebastian, Dick's father, had snapped and told Dick how his mother's death was his fault. She remembered how shell shocked Dick had been that following night and how he whispered "I'm sorry, so sorry" over and over like a chant. Of course she hadn't been surprised since her uncle had made sure that all of Terra knew what Dick had done. But that didn't mean she hadn't cried as she held Dick her arms to attempt to comfort him.
She would never forget that night, the night that Dick had cried for the first time in her time of knowing him. She would never forget how Dick had refused to touch her afterward, scared that he would repeat the act that had killed his mother. She would never forget how Dick had started to retreat back into his shell that would make him appear as emotionless. No, she would never forget any of that nor would she ever forgive her uncle for causing Dick such unnecessary pain.
That was something that Dick could have lived his entire life without knowing! That piece of information was something that I could have kept him from forever if necessary! But no, Uncle Sebastian had to make sure that Dick would be in so much emotional pain that he wouldn't come out of his shell. He wanted Dick to be a quiet, cooperative technical producer of firewalls, computers and so on. He didn't want Dick to try to escape . . . No, he didn't want Dick to be happy.
She bit her tongue to stop herself from saying unnecessary words that would mean nothing to anyone beside her uncle. She shouldn't be dwelling on the past but it was hard not to when she would be digging it up when she would talk to her cousin. Now that was a conversation she wasn't looking forward to but it had to be done. If she didn't . . . If she didn't . . .
Swatting her sad thought away, she pulled out a map of Happy Harbor where Haly's Circus was currently hosting their delightful show. Hopefully, Dick would be there and she would be able to tell him what was going on . . .
. . . And how the deadly virus was connected to Dick.
A/N- I wasn't planning on making the mystery POV so long but I had to start making a personality for her. If I didn't, you wouldn't understand her later on. Please review! This was published on 9-20-12 with the length of 803 words.
