Phineas' pov
I walked over to Liz, expecting a 'what do you think you're doing' or 'get lost you maniac'. Instead, she beckoned me closer. She held out a book. I took it, flipping through the pages. It was a bunch of information on the background of the High Command. I laughed.
"Karo dropped out of school? Dropped out?" I asked. Liz smiled wanly.
"Yeah, kicked out would have been my first guess too." She said, reading my thought process. I fought back a stunningly large need to melt her brain by whatever way possible and raised an eyebrow instead.
"What did you want me to see?" I asked. She sighed.
"Page 35." She said. I flipped to page 35. It was a picture of my Dad - Carter. I looked up quickly, then back down, swallowing hard. My eyes widened.
"He got remarried?" I asked in shock. "Who would be stupid enough – " I stopped, my mom was NOT stupid. Liz smirked.
"I'll tell you who." She said. "My Mom." I stared at her.
"Your – your Mom?" I whispered.
"Yeah." She said. "My mom married your Dad. Technically, that makes us – "
"Step siblings." I breathed in disbelief.
Liz's pov
The look on Phineas' face would have been funny if I hadn't been so close to the cause. All this time I had spent wondering if my Mom was still out there, if she still loved me, why she left – and now I knew. She had been seduced by Phin's – Phineas' creep of a Dad! I felt my blood begin to boil. Not now Lizzie. I thought. It's not his fault his Dad is such a CENSORED FOR INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT I looked at Phineas – my step-brother.
"Also, look under 'children'." I said. Phineas' eyes widened.
"We have a – " He began.
"Half-sister." I said. "And because you were born on June 13 and I was born on June 14 – at 1am – that almost makes us twins so do not, I repeat, DO. NOT. – "
"Finish your sentences?" Phineas grinned mischeiveously. SNAP! My line between me and self-control broke.
Arches, 30 miles outside of Danville, 3rd person pov
The woman rocked the chair she was sitting in back and forth, back and forth. She looked out the window in the direction of the Quad-State Area. She sighed and looked at the picture of the smiling girl in her locket. She didn't even hear the tiny footsteps come into the room behind her.
"Mom?" The voice said. The woman turned around.
"Yes sweety?" She asked. The little girl's face screwed up.
"Mom, don't call me that." She said. "I'm not ice cream." The woman smiled softly, still amazed by the little one's large vocabulary. The girl held up a doll. "I found this in my closet." She said.
"Yes, that's Anna Lee." The woman said. The girl nodded.
"But her head wasn't at a 90 degree angle yesterday." She said. "Was Dad in my room?"
"I don't know hon, why don't you ask him later, when he comes home?" The woman asked. The little girl shivered.
"I don't know. I think there's something Dad's not telling us about his job." She said. "There's something not right going on around here." The woman smiled and got up, leading the 6-year-old to bed.
"Don't worry about it." She told the small child, but the girl still shivered when she got into bed.
"I dream about them." She said.
"About who sweetheart?" The woman asked.
"Them. The others." The girl answered. "The boy lives the closest. He has a triangle head and builds roller-coasters." The woman smiled as her daughter fell asleep. "And the girl." The child yawned. "The girl also builds stuff like that. They're enemies. The girl – she lives in the Quad-State Area." The woman froze. "Her name is – " The woman leaned closer. "Is Liz."
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