Hey guys. It's your favorite author Shade here again. No but seriously if I am you're fav author then you have a problem. There are much better writers out there than me.
Aaaaaaaanyway I got a new chapter here for you. This one is a bit of a filler chapter. It's just here to fill in time or space while I think of another good event. I don't know what it will be about or how it will go but we will find out.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bioshock or it's sequels. However most of the characters are my creation.
I open my eye's and I can already feel it's too early to be up. I look over and see the clock. It's only eight. Fuck this. I lay my head back down and I suddenly become aware of something warm lying against me. I look to my other side and see Spiders face. Oh yeah. That's right.
I go back to sleep. The next time I wake up it's eleven. I notice I feel a lot more cold and check to find Spider is no longer in bed. I slowly sit up and lean against the wall. I rub the sleep out of my eye's and look around. Wow. It's been almost a year since we have been here for more than four days. Now I have been here for a week and a half. It's weird to be back in this place. I stand up and walk over to my dresser. It's old and falling apart but better than nothing. I open it up and pull out a pair of pants. I slip them on and head out to the living room.
I walk in and see Lighting and Blaze are also up and going. Lighting is in the kitchen cooking something and blaze is alternating between helping her and setting random things on fire. He has a wet rag in his hand and a fire extinguisher clipped to his belt.
"Sup guys." I say. Blaze grunt and Lightning flashes me a smile. "Where is everybody?"
"Scrap is taking apart something he found. Brainiac went for a walk and Spider when to go buy me some things for the kitchen. Leather back and Sprout are in there room." She says all this without looking up.
"K." I say. I lay my head back. I close my eye's and start to think about what to do today. After a few minutes I suddenly feel something land on me. My eye's pop open and I see Spider less than three inches from my face. I give her a lopsided grin.
"If you were just gonna keep sleeping then you should have stayed in bed." She tells me. My grin grow wider.
"I only closed my eye's for a minute." I tell her. She gives me a incredulous look.
"I asked Lightning. You came out at eleven. It's twelve thirty." She tells me. My face goes a little red and my grin becomes a little sheepish.
"Oops. I did not realize I fell asleep." I tell her. She looks at me like i'm an idiot. I guess I kinda am.
"You're such a child." She gets up and turns to walk away. I grab her hand and pull her back into my lap. She falls into my lap and I wrap one arm around her shoulders and one arm lays across her legs trapping her.
"Don't go. I'm awake now." I tell her as I nuzzle her neck. I kiss her neck a few times and she practically purrs. I nip and she gasps. She glares at me and I smile. I am about to pull her into a kiss when blaze interrupts.
"Get a room kids." He shouts and Spider almost jumps to the ceiling. He leaves the room while he roars with laughter and I glare daggers at him. Spider is still in my lap but she is very stiff and very very red.
"Well he's an asshole. Let's go help Lightning in the kitchen." We get up and walk into the kitchen. We offer our help and lightning gives both of us jobs to do and we get to work. In less than an hour lunch is finally finished. I go around and round up everyone. It goes fine till I get to Sprouts room. I look in to find her reading to a sleeping Leatherback.
"You do know her is asleep right." I say from the door. She looks up at me with an annoyed expression.
"I know. He won't stay awake." She says pouting. I walk over and kneel down next to her.
"You can read to me after lunch if you want." She eye's light up and she nods her head vigorously. "Alright. Now let's go eat." i stand up with her and she takes my hand as we walk into the dining room. There are two remaining plates on the table and I grab them. I place one in front of Sprout once she is sat down and then I take my place next to Spider. She smiles and I smile back at her. I hold out my hand and she takes it. Scrap takes my other on and soon everyone has their hands joined. Brainiac speaks up.
"We thank you oh great unknown for all you have given us. We thank you for our continued survival and for the supplies we have. We give you our humble thanks and offer you our prayer. Ahmen."
Everyone starts eating. The prayer is a joke. At least that's how it started. But after the first two weeks of doing it we started to take it more seriously. Eventually it became a real thing that we do every diner and lunch. Breakfast is a more casual affair.
As everyone starts to dig in I notice that Sprout is not eating but watching everyone. She will look at someone for awhile with a really concentrated face and then move to someone else after awhile. I finally decide to find out why.
"Sprout, what are you doing?" I ask her. She looks up at me with a sheepish grin.
"I was just thing that we make a strange…..family." She says with a big shy smile.
"Family. What do you mean?" I ask her with a chuckle. She points at me.
"We'll you're the dad cause you take care of and protect everyone. Lightning is the mom cause she cares for us as well. Spider is my older sister and plays with me while Scrap is my uncle. Blaze is my big brother and Brainiac is grandpa. Mr. Bubbles is my guardian." She says all this and I just sit there stunned. What the hell. When did this get established.
"Nope. If you're my little girl then Spider can't be your sister cause I am dating her." I tell her. I feel Spider stiffen next to me at that and I smile at it.
"You're right. Damn." She says. I glare at her and she looks down.
"Watch you're language. I won't have you speaking like that young lady." I tell her sternly. Damnit Blaze. You always make thing worse. Oh well. Can't be helped. We eat the rest of our meal in peace. When everyone's done eating Lightning picks up the dishes and heads into the kitchen dragging Blaze with her. Scrap head off to his new workshop with Brainiac. Leather Back and Sprout head to there room. I head over to the couch and Spider follows me. I fall into the couch and she sits down next to me. SHe lean against me and takes my hand and starts to trace random symbols on the back of it. We sit like that for a bit.
"You know Sprouts generation X." I suddenly speak up. She looks up at me confused.
"Generation X is the unprecedented generation. When you do something that changes the world the comes a point when a generation comes and you don't know just what the change will do to them." I tell her. A look of understanding comes on her face. I nod and continue. "She will be a part of that generation. We don't know how ADAM will affect them."
"Maybe they will be immune to it." SHe say's almost hopeful. I look down and see the far off look in her eye's. She can see a normal life.
"I would like to contribute to that generation." I tell her. "I want to help them. Guide them and teach them. Lead then in a way to rebuild this underwater world of ours."
"What about helping their generation expand?" She asks me. I look at her.
"Well of course. We will need to make Rapture bigger to accommodate all the people." I tell her. I can see it. Rebuilding Rapture. She sighs.
"I mean would you want to have a baby of that generation?" She asks. I am stunned at her question. I look at her.
"No. I don't want a child and I never will." I tell her trying to stay calm. I feel her move and look over at her. She has tears coming down her face.
"You asshole. What if I want a kid someday?" She ask me. My gaze hardens on her.
"Then it won't be with me. I. Will. Never. Have. A. Kid." I tell her very calm but firmly. She punches me in the arm and runs off. She runs into our room and slams the door. I stand up and sigh. I just can't win this. I can't seem to do anything right. Scrap comes back in confused and I can see Sprout curious face looking from a crack in her door. Scrap walks up to me.
"The hell did you do this time?" He asks me sternly.
"I did nothing. Just told her I did not want a kid and would never want a kid." I tell him irritated. Not his fucking business.
"What the hell man. Why did you not just tell her maybe someday?" He asks me confused and annoyed.
"Why the hell would I lie to her. I will never have a kid." I tell him getting more annoyed. I can feel my blood starting to freeze.
"I know it seems like it now but one day you wi-" He is cut off by my fist hitting him in the jaw. I glare at him as he hold his face.
"Don't you ever pretend to know about me and what I want. You don't know what I been through." I tell him. I turn and walk out the front door. I keep walking until I find an empty building to rest in. I walk in and find a small room. I walk in and sit against one of the walls. I look up and freeze. I can see Spider sitting across from me. She has a stab wound and I can see a younger version of myself with her. I see me patching her wound up. Holding her as she cries. Staying with her as she sleeps.
I feel tears start to fall down my face. This is the same building from a year ago. I stay there for awhile. At some point I fall asleep.
I look around confused for a second. I don't know where I am. I am in a room with bright blue walls. There are pink and yellow flowers on the wall. I look behind me and see a man sitting in a chair. I stand up and look around again. I see my little sister in the center of the room playing with my mom. I walk up to her. Suddenly things come back to me.
" I am sorry son but we could not find the action figure you wanted." My dad tells me. He looks down and he looks genuinely sad. I look up at him as angry as can be.
"I hate you. You never get me what i want and I hate you for it." I shout at him. He looks like I just punched him. I storm of and he walks into his room.
That was three hours ago. I feel really bad about it. I walk over to mom and she looks up with a smile. She frowns when she see's my face.
"What's wrong sweetie?" She asks me sweetly.
"I said something mean to daddy. I am still upset about the toy but I don't want him to be upset." I tell her. Her face lights up. She sets My little sister off her lap and next to her blocks. She continues to play. She pulls me into her lap.
"When you are upset with someone but you still want to make them feel better about something that you did you need to apologize. Then when they ask you about what made you upset you tell them you don't wanna talk about it yet." She tells me. She flashes me a smile and I feel a lot better. "You can talk about it when you're not so upset but you should go tell your dad you're sorry."
She stands me up and shoos me toward him. I walk up to my dad. I get next to him and I tug on his arm. He looks over and gives me a big smile. I look up at him determinedly.
"Daddy, I am sorry I yelled at you earlier. I did not mean any of it. I still love you." I tell him. He chuckles and hugs me.
"Would you like to talk about getting it another time?" He asks me. I shake my head.
"I am still upset and I don't wanna say something mean again. Can we talk about it later Dad?" I ask him. He smiles and nods his head.
I awake with a start. I am covered in sweat and I can feel my clothes sticking to me. I can already feel the dream fading. Who were they? Why do they seem so familiar? I stand up and walk around for a minute to clear my head. My dream is almost completely forgotten now. But I do remember one thing. I head back to the shop.
I slip inside quietly and Shut the door noiselessly. I walk into the kitchen and grab an apple. I sit down and eat it thinking about a way to apologize. When I am done eating I stand up and head to my room. I open the door quietly and slip in. It's dark but I know everything in the room. I walk over to my side of the bed. I take all my clothes off and put on a fresh pair of boxers.
I turn back to the bed and freeze. She is lying in bed asleep. I could not think of a really good way to apologize. I will just do it first thing in the morning. I silently slip in to bed. I lay there next to her. After what seems like a long time I feel her shift and her arms are around me and she is leaning against me.
"Alan, are you ok?" She asks me concerned. I wonder why she is concerned. I am fine.
"I'm fine. How are you love." I feel her stiffen at that and I do my best not to giggle. It's so cute.
"I'm alright. Do you….so you wanna talk about it?" She asks. Now she really sound worried. I don't want her to sound so worried. What is it we were talking about. God what was it. A picture of Sprout pops up in his head. Kids. Oh yeah. I look over at her with my eyes mostly closed and start to speak.
"Love I don't want to have kids because I….I…." I can feel tears start to fall down my face. I see a man's face appear in my head and I don't recognize him but I feel pain in my chest. "I-
There. Done. Not what I expected. I did not mean for this chapter to be serious. My original idea was for Spider and Frost to be trying to find time to just be together and keep getting interrupted and then this happened. I was suppose to be light hearted. I failed. Oh well.
I want to point out that Frost tells her something we just don't know yet. Well actually you don't know yet. I know and it gonna be good. Frost has his reasons for not wanting kids and they're pretty good. I hope you guys liked it. This makes ten chapters. YAY. Anyway thanks for reading.
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