TFP: A Girl Anew, Chapter 8: Part 3
A hero to bring her home
"A-a-a-a-a-amanda." She stepped back and caught herself before she fell, her mother turned around and yelled. "John, Ian."
"What!" they heard two men calling from downstairs.
"Don't what me, get your butts up here." The woman turned back to Amanda. "How?"
"I had help." Amanda looked to Damion and smiled. Her mother looked him down with a mothers look in her eye.
"Mom what did you want?" They all heard a exasperated boys voice behind Mrs. balkrie. Amanda peeked her head around her mother and she moved so the boy could have a clear view of Amanda. "Amanda?" he stared at her for a while. "AMANDA!" Ian ran up to her and squeezed her hard, Ian was smaller than Amanda and his head only reached up to her waist. "I missed you so much sister, I though that whoever had taken you had killed you. I couldn't bear it without you." he snuggled his head into her and let a waterfall of tears stream down.
"I missed you to." She spoke softly. Her father was standing behind her mother with a large smile on his face. Everyone of them were letting tears stream down their faces.
"Come in everyone and get a seat." Her father gestured towards the vintage living room. Her friends took the couch and two chairs that were placed in a cove, while her and Damion took a double person couch that was set back to the window. Her mother father and brother all took the second couch that was places in the corner of the living room.
Her father spoke first, eyeing Damion. "Amanda how about you tell us who this young man is."
"This is Damion, he rescued me from the men who had taken me."
"So Damion what it your occupation." Her father responded this time curious.
"I am a surgeon."
"Which type. Heart, lung?
"I am a General Surgeon, I work with every aspect."
"That is very nice. Now were you one of the men who kidnapped my daughter and is this rescue just an act?" Amanda's eyes started to fill with tears as she gripped Damion's hand.
"John!" Her mother barked realizing that this upset her daughter. "I am sure this whole thing has been very traumatizing for Amanda and does not need someone to accuse her rescuer."
"I am sorry Martha, I was just looking out for our daughter."
"I understand father, but Damion here is so sweet and kind and..."
"Oh darling we understand,your father just worries a little to much." Her mother said kindly. Her friends just watched the family reunion and Vanessa spoke as she stood, nodding her hand to the other girls telling them to stand up as well.
"Well we best go, this is your time now. We'll see you later Amanda, we need to catch u on a lot." They all left quietly.
"Ian why don't you go and get your homework done, John why don't you talk to Damion and get to know him a little bit more before any accusations arise. Amanda I'll show you around the house so you can get accustomed." Her mother got up and walked out with Amanda following.
After the tour all Amanda could do was say 'wow'. The house was huge with seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, three large living rooms one on each floor. The house was also accommodated with a roof balcony that had a greenhouse and a pool. Her mother brought her to a closed door.
"And this will be your room." She opened the door and Amanda stared in awe. The room was huge, it had her old desk against the wall with a few extra extemadies that she assumed her parents added. There was a cubby corner decorated with a mini foam mattress and a few colorful blankets, it also had pictures of her and her friends up in their tree house, and a lamp with a pink shade connected to the wall. She looked around to find a few more furniture pieces until her eyes landed on her bed. It was her original bed she had when she got kidnapped. The bedspread was still royal blue and green striped it had the same design pillows to match it.
"You kept my sheets?"
"I never wanted to let go, so we decided that when we bought this house we would decorate the room how you would have. We added a few more things for a just in case. Your room is also equipped with a king size bathroom and a walk in closet."
"You never lost hope?"
"Never.. Amanda I am your mother, I would never lose hope even if I saw you dead... We can change your room decor to your if you want to, I don't want you to have anything that brings back bad memories."
"No, no I love it." Amanda placed her left hand onto the bedspread and let out a couple tears as the memories of her kidnapping from a year ago flooded back. Her mother looked at her and noticed something on her left hands finger.
"Honey, what is this?" her mother asked pointing to her ring.
"This." She said holding it up. "It's a ring mother."
"Don't play dumb with me." Her mother said in a sarcastic voice.
"Truth. Damion asked me to marry him today, I said yes."
"...Congratulations."
"Please don't be mad, I love him and I trust him."
"Oh honey, I would never be mad, just shocked."
"Don't worry about it mother, I want him to get to know you before anything happens"
"Oh I trust you honey, and I also know that if you trust him I can to, he seems like a very nice man."
"He is more than nice, we love each other very deeply, he risked his own life to help me get out."
"He seems very brave and gentlemen like." Amanda and her mother walked to the living room that the men accompanied. As they entered Amanda and her mother started to chuckle, Damion was sitting in the same place with a locked body composure and a scared kittens face, while John was sitting in chair asking question after question.
"John sweetie, I think Damion has had enough question to last him the rest of his life. Go check and see if Ian is doing well on his work please."
"Good idea." john go up and walked towards Ian's room.
"Now Damion my daughter tells me you don't have anywhere to stay."
"Yes ma'am I am homeless at this point in time."
"Well, then just know that I can get a room ready for you anytime you need."
"Thank you ma'am."
"You can call me Martha, that is my name after all. Would you all like to help me make dinner, you never know I might need a surgeons hand."
"Mother!" Amanda turned to her.
"Kidding." Her mother walked off to the kitchen. Amanda sat next to Damion and rested her head onto his shoulder. They sat there quietly for a few minutes until Ian came running down the stairs.
"I'm done. Yes!" His father followed after him.
"Ian what has your mother told you about yelling in the house."
"Sorry dad." Ian walked towards Amanda and Damion, John followed but was immidialty called to the kitchen. Ian pulled up his favorite cushioned chair and sat across from Amanda.
"I've missed you a lot."
"Me to niblet." Damion mouthed the word niblet inn confusion.
"I thought you were dead for a while, when the policeman came and told us I didn't want to believe it but after a while it just sunk in." He said with a regretful tone.
"Didn't you ever get my message?"
"What message?"
"The one from Raff?"
"Well I remember him calling me sometimes, a few times he said he had something important to tell me but he never could because someone or something needed him so he never told me."
"Oh. well he found out I was ok and was going to tell you but I guess that never happened."
"How did he know?"
"I will tell you that later. ok." She gave him a sincere look shook his hair with her hand and stood up.
"Ok."
"I think mom might need some help preparing dinner. Damion would you like to join me?"
"Uh...sure." They got up and walked to the kitchen. It was very spacious with two large windows allowing sunlight to cover the area. The kitchen included a double oven two sinks and two stoves one of each located in the counter and the island. The island was very large and allowed enough room for about five people to work at it.
"So what's is for dinner?" Amanda asked slowly, even though they were her family, she had been gone a year and felt a little strange asking such a kids question.
"Just your luck, homemade macaroni and cheese."
"My favorite. sweet."
"Sounds appetizing." Damion said kindly, he still received a look from her father.
"Amanda dear why don't you tell your brother and dad the good news." her mother spoke with excitement.
"What good news?" Her father asked.
"Well...um...dad...Ian...I, uh." She was afraid of what her father would say about it, she cleared her throat and spoke. "Dad, Ian today while Damion was bringing me back home, we stopped off for a bite to eat for breakfast."
"You slept together!" Her father blurted out the words before thinking.
"John!" Her mother gave him a glare.
"No, not really, we slept in the car huddled together, it got kind of cold so we needed to stay warm."
"Understandable." her father barley was heard under a mumble.
"Anyway's as we ate breakfast, Damion asked me a question."
"What kind of question?"
"For crying out loud John, let her finish the dang sentence."
"As I was saying, he asked me to marry him and I said..."
"No?"
"Yes."
"So you said no?"
"No I said yes!"
"I personally would have liked him to come to me first before asking you, I am your father after all after all he could be dangerous."
"You don't know him like I do, and not everything in my life had to go through you."
"I am your father and I am looking out for you!" His voice started to get a little louder.
"You are my stepfather, not my biological father, and no your not looking out for me your hovering me. All I wanted was a congratulations, I am so glad you're home and safe. But no it had to be, I never trust anybody around my daughter because she might do something stupid." She was starting to yell.
"Hey, I never said that I just don't want anything to happen to you, and I want to make sure you find the right man, not just some guy who saved you."
"If I knew I was coming home to this I would have stayed back at the ship." She stormed off towards her bedroom, with Damion following close behind. Her father stood there wit a jaw dropped.
"She yelled at me. Amanda and never yell at each other."
"John, she just got back from being kidnapped,she probably has some pent up anger in there, fighting is just an adjustment, she most likely didn't mean any of what she said."
"Oh I know Martha I just don't want to lose my little girl. And I don't trust that Damion."
"You don't know him and you will never lose your little girl."
"I know, I just didn't expect this at all."
"And you think I did? I want you to go talk to her, she needs her father to know and understand how she feels."
"That I will do." He walked off towards her room.
Amanda slammed her door and fell onto her bed letting the tears cascade her face. She looked up when heard her door open and close to see Damion walking towards her.
"He doesn't love me." She said over a sob.
"Don't say that Amanda your father loves you very much, he just doesn't know me that much yet."
"He accused you of kidnapping me, and then that you weren't the right man and yet you still side with him, I thought decepticons weren't like that."
"I am a ex decepticon, I care and love you, so with that I must fill the deed of understanding your parents."
"You're weird." She said showing a smile.
"That's what I want to see, now keep that smile." She frowned again and slumped back.
"My father does not approve of you."
He chuckled a little. "Like I said Amanda your father does not know me and I know from experience when you take time to get to know a person who you don't like you can end up having them as your fiancee."
"Nice story, but I don't think you'd want my dad as your fiancee, heck that is just a wrong image."
"You know what I mean." She stuck her tongue out at him. "You little.." He started to tickler her and she let out a chorus of squeaks and laughs.
"St...stop." She started to laugh harder. "That tickles."
"Isn't that the point.?"
"What can I do to make you stop?" She said letting out another laugh.
"A good kiss might do the job." He said acting like he was pondering his words and pulling his hands away.
"Sounds good to me." She leaned in and caught him in an entrancing kiss. The kiss lingered for a minute before they pulled away to catch a breath.
"Your a good kisser." Damion said sweetly.
"Duh, I know that, I'm a girl."
"Now who's narcissistic." She let out a laugh.
"being a girl and being narcissistic are two opposite stories to tell."
"Suuuure, keep telling yourself that."
"Jerk." She used her foot to kick him off of her bed and succeeded, he fell and landed with a loud thump onto the ground.
"Ow!" He rubbed his chassis where he landed on it. Amanda laid to where she could she Damion and put her elbows onto her bed and her face into her hands and spoke sarcastically in a child's voice
"Aaawww, poor whittle knockout fell on his rump, whatever shall he do?"
Amanda's father walked up the stairs and down the hall that led to Amanda's room, before arriving he could hear her and Damion talking among each other, he heard a loud thump and laughter. He walked up to the door and listened in.
"Aaawww, poor whittle knockout fell on his rump whatever shall he do."
"Come on that really hurt ThornRush."
"Amanda."
"Whatever, it might take me a while to get used to these dang names."
"Now, now we can't have a human on earth with a cybertronian name."
"Then I choose to be cybertronian and have my name back."
"Rude. And Damion fits you so get used it." Her father just stood there fumbled.
~What the heck are they talking about.~ He decided it was best to leave that for later, he waited a few seconds before knocking.
Amanda and knockout had been laughing and talking until they heard a knock at her door. She got up and walked over to open it, revealing her dad.
"Hi."
"Can we talk?"
"Uh." She looked over to Damion who proceeded to get up and leave her room. "Come in."
"Amanda I am sorry for being like that, I understand that you have frustration built up in you most likely, and I shouldn't be acting like a complete jerk towards you, the least I can do it get to know Damion before I judge him."
"Thank you. I didn't mean to yell or get mad, I just it's hard for me to hear anything negative towards him. He saved me and with that I owe him my life."
"I owe him my life too and an apology, he brought you back and I greeted him with disgust I had no right to at all."
"You had a right your my father, but it was a choice and you chose the wrong one, I know you want to protect me, but you had to know some point in time you had tot let me go and be protected by someone else."
"Letting go is hard and I am just afraid of losing you, you're my baby girl."
"Dad, you will never lose me and I will never lose you."
"I love you sweetie and I am so..so... there are no words to describe how happy I am to have you back here with us." He pulled her into a hug and kissed her forehead.
"Me to dad."
"All I want to know is are you safe with him? and can you trust him?"
"I can dad, he would do anything to protect me and I the same, I trust him with my life."
"Then I suppose I can trust him to."
"Just know father that when the time comes we will tell you all that you need to know, right now though patients is what we need."
"Alright, now let's get downstairs and see if dinner is ready."
"You are speaking my language." Amanda and her father walked down to the kitchen and found Damion helping out her mother in preparing the table which he was doing a terrible job at.
"I am guessing fixing up tables is not your genre of experte's." Amanda chuckled watching as Damion was holding five plates upside down and standing there trying to figure out how to put them. "Let me help." Amanda walked over and picked up the plates right side only to set them down in a fashionly order onto the table.
"So that's how you set a table. I don't eat at a table much so I when I do I never set them up."
"That is why you men can never live without us womem, I mean without us you would be completely lost." Damion snorted and sat down in a open chair next to Ian.
"So Damion where are your parents?"
"Ian! you know better." His mother said sternly.
"No it's all right Martha. Well, Ian my parents are dead my father I never knew a my mother died when I was a teen."
"Oh I am so sorry Damion, it must have been hard for you."
"For a while, yes, but I indulged myself into work and set it behind me." Everyone just stood in place for a while starring into space, thankfully Martha broke the awkward silence between them all.
"So is everyone ready for dinner?"
"Yes, I'm Starved." Ian jumped into a seat and licked his lips.
"Manners Ian."
"Sorry mom. Where would you like to sit Damion?"
"Anywhere Amanda sits." Ian acted like he was gagging to say gross. Amanda sat on the other side where there were two seats positioned together, Damion sat next to her and smiled, ready for dinner. Soon afterwards Her mother dished out the homemade macaroni and cheese, adding extra sauce to Amanda's dish.
"This looks delicious mom, is it the same recipe?"
"Never changed it." Her mother sat down at the end of the table and set her napkin on her lap. "A full family dinner together again, you don't know how good this feels to my heart."
"Plus one." Ian piped in. Everyone ate their food for a few minutes in silence, as Damion went to take another bite, Amanda's father popped a surprise question.
"So Damion I never got to ask you what hospital you work at." Damion froze and stopped chewing his food, he tried to swallow but couldn't find the strength. Amanda looked over and saved him.
"Believe it or not Damion has his own set up. He's more of a on call surgeon." Damion shook his head in agreeance.
"Do you get good pay?"
"It depends on what the day brings, I don't get a hospital surgeons pay though."
"Well as long as it is enough to keep up a good household for a family. Where was your set up?" Damion paused for a minute thinking of a good place he knew enough about.
"Small town in Wisconsin."
"Wow your a way's away from your home." He nodded his head again and took another bite, hoping her father was done with questions the last thing he needed was something he couldn't answer without revealing himself as a ex-con or alien. Amanda could see Damion fidgeting and decided to change the subject.
"So dad How is the business going?"
"Quiet well, although it would of gone better if I had found you sooner."
"Either way, I am safe now."
"ya not like she was taken by some aliens who made it seem like she was taken off this planet." Ian gave a sarcastic voice and this time it was Damions turn to spit out the water he had swigged.
"Damion are you ok." Amanda looked with worry.
"Fine...fine." he answered in a muffled voice since he had choked on a bit to. "I just think salt accidentally got into my drink." Her mom stared at him blank faced until giving a smile.
"Oh Ian your imagination sometimes takes the best of you." Amanda nodded in agreement. After eating and talking for about an hour Martha decided to start cleaning the dishes applying Ian's help to which he protested and lost with a glare from his dad. John showed Damion his room and Amanda retired to hers to get ready for bed and get a good nights sleep which she hadn't had in the longest time. She walked into her room and and left for the bathroom ready to take a nice hot bath. When she entered her bathroom she turned the water to hot and let the tub fill as she poured in some bubbles. After letting the tub fill enough she turned the water off and slipped out of her clothes, she was sick of green and black and probably wouldn't mind if she never had to see those colors again. She slipped into the tub and let the water surround her.
~I have forgotten how nice and relaxing a bath is, one year of showers is good for me.~
She looked around her and found some soap, scrubbers, shampoo and conditioner, plus a remote to which she picked up and examined.
"Now what does this do?" She pondered her thoughts out loud, she pressed a button that said 'dim'. Suddenly the lights in the bathroom went down from their bright show to a more eye comforting dimness.
"Much better." She pressed another button that said 'screen' and a picture that had been set behind her came out of the wall and above her to show a TV behind it, it stopped and was put to where she could lean back and watch something in the tub.
"I could so get used to this." She pressed the button again and the hidden TV disappeared behind the picture again. After pressing a few more buttons for curiosity's sake she set the remote down and dipped under the water to wet her now entangled black hair. She stayed under for a few seconds letting the warmth of the water dance on her face. She came back up and saw her mother, letting out a small scream.
"Mom!"
"Sorry sweetie, I just wanted to bring you some towels, enjoying the bath?"
"Yes, it feels so great to take a nice relaxing bath in peace."
"Did you take baths there?"
"No, showers, but I never could get peace, since the guys could never keep their eyes in there heads."
"I am so sorry honey."
"Don't worry about it I always washed with my bra and undies, no way would there be any other way."
"Good for you, nothing happened to you did it?"
"Nothing mom, trust me I may of been kidnapped but they would go through hell if they touched me in the wrong way at all."
"that's my girl. Did you get much leeway."
"Much, I was mainly taken because they needed a new recruit for a experiment."
"What experiment?"
"Nothing harmful, just a few things." Her mother looked at her worried.
"Do you know where their experiments were going on, if we could catch them before anything else happens then..."
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." her mother sat at the edge of the tub and smirked.
"Try me."
"What if I told you it was a ship in the sky."
"A what!" Her mother shot up and her worried look became a scared look. "What did they do to you, anything feel funny?" Her mother lifted up her arm and her hair as if she was checking for something. "Stand up."
"Stand Up!? I'm naked in the bath. Why so worried?"
"Honey the men you ran across they didn't happen to be called the Decepticons?"
"How-how did you know, what aren't you telling me?"
"I-I sweetie. I, after you got kidnapped and I explained what the car and jet looked like I was visited by a government official by the name, ' Special Agent William Fowler'. He told me about the Transformers and the different sides. After that I was a part time investigator for the government. Can you please tell me what they did to you."
"Can we talk later about it? I am really tired and need my rest, would tomorrow be good?"
"Sure, but I want to know everything, even who Damion really is."
"Why would you think of Damion like that?"
"No mere human would risk their life to save another human against the Decepticons, it would be to risky, and he seems oddly familiar." Amanda's stomach churned, she didn't want to know what her mother would say to her dating an ex-con. Amanda's mother left the bathroom, leaving her to finish up and get ready for bed. After drying every aspect of herself and getting in her PJ's Amanda crawled into her long forgotten bed she laid there with a scared mind and sick stomach. Tomorrow would be a day never to forget.
So Sorry if the story seems a bit cheesy and sorry it is late. I have had a bit of writers block and so I didn't know what to write for a few days but then decided to just write what sounded good at the moment. Hope you like it. Please review.