A/N: thanks for all the reviews! I really appreciate all of them and I got a bit more then usual the past few days. You have no idea how happy that makes me! Right now I really like the idea of Bryn/Preston and unless so super obsessed Cary fan somehow manages to change my mind, I'm going with that. I hope the people who don't necessarily like the pairing will still read it. Enjoy the chapter! ! !
"Well it all started for me a few mouths after my parents died. I had just moved into my aunt and uncles house. One night I heard them talking about my parents. They were discussing what to do with the last of their belonging. They mentioned something about a charity, and, I don't know, I just snapped. I couldn't take it any more. They were going to give the last I had of my family away! I got so upset, I wasn't thinking straight. I ran out the door and into the forest behind the house. I ran until my feet were numb and I had no breathe left in my lungs. I looked around while I caught my breath and realized something: I was hopelessly lost.
"Not knowing what to do and still very much upset I just kept going forward. I walked without even bothering to watch where I was going. At one point I tripped and fell into a deep hole. When I got back up I noticed that it wasn't a hole. It was a tunnel." Bryn told him dreamily, her voice getting soft as she got lost in her memories.
"A tunnel." Joe breathed, catching onto what she was insinuating. "An alien's tunnel."
Bryn nodded grimly.
"I heard a noise coming from a little ways down, and, being a curious kid, a went to find out what it was. I walked quietly towards it and entered into a large room where a huge figure seemed to be sleeping. I took another step and a stick snapped under my foot. The figure heard it and slowly got up." Bryn winced, wringing her hands nervously. She obviously didn't enjoy telling this part of her story.
"I looked at it as it opened its eyes. They were covered by a filmy like substance even under its eyelids, but as it cleared I saw that they looked almost like a cats, golden and with two slits for pupils. It snorted when it saw me and approached with alarming speed, picking me up and holding me to its face. I didn't even have time to gasp. As soon as I made contact with its skin, I felt it enter my mind.
"'Why do you disturb me?' it asked inside my head." As Bryn retold him the evens, she made her voice low and wispy to mimic the voice she had heard in her head.
"At first I though I was going crazy. I mean, even I knew hearing voices in your head wasn't a good thing and I was only a child! 'I didn't mean to bother you,' I replied to him nervously. I realized it was a he by the depth of his voice.
"'You should not of come here, daughter of Eve, for the consequences with be great. I fear you have enough to deal with at the moment,'he told me as he gently sat me back on the ground, making sure to keep contact. 'What do you mean by that?' I asked. 'Do you realize what I am? I am of another race. Not from your planet. My kind was not made to interact with humans. When you startled me I acted on instinct. A human's brain is fragile and frail. You only use a small portion of it. By my entering your mind I have, in a way, broken the wall that kept you from your true potential. You will not be like other's,' he told me gravely. I didn't understand what he meant." Joe stared at Bryn in horror. He saw where she was going and he didn't like it.
"He held his head up high for a moment and seemed to be listening hard. 'You must leave now, for your kin is looking for you,' he broke the contact he had with me and backed away. I turned to look at the tunnel I had come through and then back at him uncertainly. 'Will I be able to talk with you again?' he nodded his head, understanding what I was asking. I left and roamed around the forest until my uncle found me. I had a horrible headache that night and the next day. After it went away my eyes started changing color. They used to be gray." She finished, reaching up and touching her cheek under her eye wistfully.
"No, no, that-it can't be true. That's not what happened to me! You're just confused." Joe fought fiercely, and edge of desperation making his voice crack.
Bryn looked at him sadly, her shoulders hunched despairingly.
"It is true Joe. That's what's happening to you now. It's because of the alien. You're now using one hundred percent of you brain, not just ten." She explained to him slowly.
"What? But… I mean… it can't," He stuttered hopelessly. He seemed lost and afraid. "Then how come Alice isn't going through this too? She was touched by the alien!"
"Yes but she wasn't conscious through most of it and from little I know about what happed to her, the alien didn't really communicate with her, she just saw into her mind. It's not the same thing." Bryn told him.
"You called it a her, how did you know it was a her?"
"I went back to talk with the alien before he left for his home planet. He told me enough that I can tell the difference between a girl and a guy. Even the damage they leave behind is different."
"But none of the military workers or even Mr. Woodward in his films ever mentioned anything about another alien." Joe winced at how scared his voice sounded.
"Your alien, the one that picked you up, was one of the unlucky ones. Lots of the same race has to come to this planet before. She just got caught." Bryn explained.
Bryn stood up and grabbed him by his arm, dragging him with her. She started walking off towards the woods.
"Come on, there's something you have to try." She said, now sounding kind of excited.
"What is it?" Joe asked his voice sounding unsure.
"From what I know, although its not much, every person who goes through these changes gets one extra ability that no one else has at the moment. I'm a telepath. I can read a person's thoughts, but only a single person's thoughts at a time. I was also given a special stone by the alien I met, whose name is Geiniko, when I was younger. It enhances my ability and if there is another like me near by and I enter their mind, I get their ability for a few minutes while they get mine. You probably felt it but didn't know what it meant a few days ago." She said as she tugged him closer to the trees.
"Yeah I did feel it. I was able read my dads mind and then I heard a bunch of other people that I couldn't recognize. It was an odd sensation." Joe replied shakily.
"Yes well I was able to use your ability too. You're telekinetic." Bryn's face lit up at the mention of Joe's ability. "We're going to test it out now so I can hopefully teach you to control it."
"Wait! You only mentioned being able to use one hundred percent of my mind and being telekinetic. Is there anything else?" He questioned curiously, some of his fear melting away when she said she could teach him to control it.
"Yes, I noticed I act on instinct a lot and I seem more animalistic, most likely you've already experienced some of these things, but it's no big deal. It's kind of like a side effect." She replied nonchalantly.
"Ok…"
"Here. Try to levitate that stick with your mind." Bryn decided, pointing to a large branch that had fallen on the ground.
"That's not a stick! It's too big to be a stick! And how am I supposed to levitate it? I have no idea how to use my ability. I'm not even sure if you're right about me having an ability." Joe fretted biting his lip. Bryn rolled her eyes.
"You just have to concentrate. Like I said we act on instinct. If you focus you'll probably do it as a reflex." She said putting her hands on her hips and looking at him expectantly.
"Fine." Joe huffed, his horror and nervousness completely gone. The way Bryn was able to act so normally about it all made him feel comforted.
He looked at the branch Bryn had pointed to before and concentrated all his thoughts on that one thing. He felt ridicules just staring at it, but he knew that was what Bryn expected him to do. After a few minutes of nothing happening he felt his frustration build.
"I can't do! It's just not working!" he burst out angrily.
"Yes you can. Try again." Bryn replied calmly.
"No I can't! I probably don't even have an extra ability! Maybe it's just something you have. I just can't get that thing to…" he trailed off as he turned around. The branch was floating about a foot off the ground and Bryn was smiling smugly.
"I told you you could do it."
A/N: I'm so sorry if you think this chapter is too strange, but I needed to write it so almost everything could be explained. It didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, but that's because my power went off, so I typed this over the last few days instead of just one day and it's a bit choppy. I hope you still like it. Remember: Review, Review, Review! ! ! ! ! ! !
