Sequel to Alien's Angel.
Disclaimer: I do not own Signs. Oria belongs to Colleen. Lisa and Lore are both our creations. Anyone else not from the original movie belongs to me.
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Rebecca closed the bathroom door behind her, still breathing hard from her run around the neighborhood, looking for one of the kittens that had managed to sneak out. Luckily, she found him and brought him back, but now she was all sticky and sweaty. Reluctantly, she decided to shower.
She turned on the water and began to strip down. As she stepped into the shower, however, she gave a piercing shriek of pain and surprise. Stumbling back out of the shower, she lay in a naked heap on the floor, her chest, shoulders, neck, and arms an angry red color. Sucking in a deep breath, she slowly looked down at herself and saw her raw skin, peeling a bit, as if her whole upper body had been burned.
Water had never hurt this much… until today.
Now treating the water as if it were poisonous, she quickly turned it off and wrapped herself in a fluffy white towel, carefully dapping away the moisture. The shower would have to wait.
A sharp knock on the door drew her attention away from drying herself. "Are you alright?" Mrs. Burke called.
"Fine," Rebecca mumbled, although not thoroughly convinced.
She sighed and let the towel drop in a bundle at her feet, and then looked at herself in the mirror.
She gave an unearthly screech again.
"M-my… skin! Oh, my God, this is so not good!" she cried, touching her chest, where the skin was beginning to peel and shrivel away. Did the water do this? She wondered.
She shrank away from her reflection in the mirror and recoiled into a corner. She heard yelling outside the room and the door was forced open just as she recovered herself with the towel.
Mrs. Burke dropped to her knees in front of her daughter and grabbed her shoulders, shaking her lightly. "What's the matter? What happened?"
Rebecca groaned softly and put a hand against her stomach, which had suddenly began to make sickening noises. "Get Aasim… please…"
Mrs. Burke nodded and got up, walking hastily past her husband, who was standing in the doorway.
Rebecca opened her mouth to say something as she left, but nothing came out, except a scratchy squeak. Her eyes widened and she scrambled to her feet, shoving her dad back and slamming the door shut, locking it. Her breath caught in her throat and a grating pain surged through her body. Bones inside her began to snap and shift, nerves burning and joints breaking, muscles moving painfully, and skin changing.
Pain… so much pain, she heard herself think faintly, before collapsing on the floor, her limbs convulsing wildly as her breathing became irregular.
Outside, her parents banged on the door, yelling at her to open up while asking what was wrong. As Aasim watched their feeble attempts, the wheels in his head were turning rapidly. Suddenly, he tapped Mrs. Burke's shoulder. She looked back at him and he motioned for them to leave.
"What's going on?" she asked, but Aasim just shook his head and gestured towards the hallway.
"Let me handle this," was all he said as wife and husband hesitantly left. Drawing in a long breath, Aasim swiftly kicked open the door, and then stared down at the figure on the floor.
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She slowly opened her eyes, squinting at the light overhead. A muffled sound escaped from her throat as she realized something was off, although she couldn't figure out what. She felt different from what she normally did, but she couldn't find a way to explain it. She awkwardly pushed herself up into a sitting position, hands sinking into the softness of her mattress. She suddenly shivered, trying to focus her eyes as she turned her head to look around.
She immediately recognized Aasim. He looked 'right' to her, but the other two seemed a bit odd. She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out… Well, nothing except a quiet clicking noise and a small hiss.
The two odd ones began to talk to each other in a language she didn't understand. They sounded worried, maybe a little frantic. Confused, she looked to the 'right' one and asked, "Who are these creatures? What's going on?" All eyes fell on her and she lifted her hand to touch her throat. She stopped when she caught sight of that hand… it was different, unlike how she remembered it. Clawed. She had clawed hands.
"Do you know who you are?" the 'right' one asked.
She paused before answering, wracking her mind for an answer. Who was she? "No, I do not know," she admitted slowly.
The odd ones looked even more confused and the 'right' one spoke in a different language to them, probably explaining something. This made her even more confused.
Slowly climbing to her feet, she felt taller than she remembered. Looking around the room she was in, she poked and prodded random items until coming to a large shiny oval-shaped object. She examined it carefully, and then jumped back – she could see her reflection! She observed herself, as if seeing her reflection for the first time.
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"What happened to her?" Mrs. Burke asked, motioning at her daughter that didn't look like her daughter anymore.
Aasim shrugged halfheartedly, puzzled by the situation. "I'm not sure, I didn't know this was even possible."
"So her blood could've altered her appearance, too?" Mr. Burke mused.
"Like I said, I'm not sure," Aasim repeated.
Mrs. Burke sighed. "Great, just great… It's bad enough that she actually has alien blood, but now she even looks like one of them!"
"I'm sorry," Aasim said, "But I don't think there's anything that I – we can really do, except wait and see what happens…"
(To Be Continued…)
Author's Note: A bit of a plot twist, there, huh? Luckily, I was able to get this chapter done after my teacher came by with my work. So, keep tuned in, 'till next time! And don't forget to review.