Aelita stood at her door, for a second there she thought she had been building a connection with the other girl. However she had quickly turned rude and treated Aelita like she was a little child again.
Sometimes it was all Aelita could do to take Lisa's demeaning attitude.
Stepping away from her door she let the doors slide close and she went back to sit on her bed. Aelita sat there hugging her pillow and thought about everything. She wanted to see her mother more than anything.
The last memory she had of her mother was the day the Black Coats came to take her away. She thought of that memory fragment and remembered the snow and the happy thoughts that she had had with both her parents.
Standing up Aelita ran through her door and didn't look back.
Aelita Lisa
Lisa sat on her bed but looked back at the envelope that she had thrown on her desk. Walking over Lisa picked it up and looked at it. The envelope was plain and didn't have a return address, her name was even only half there as it said Lisa K.
Opening the envelope Lisa cautiously took the letter out the envelope and spun it around before unfolding the letter and reading the header. Lisa dropped the letter to the ground and stared in disbelief at who the letter was from.
Aelita Lisa
Aelita ran to Sarah's office and knocked at the door. Sarah called her in. As she walked in she noticed that there was only one other person in the room with Sarah.
Sarah introduced the other individual to Lisa, "Lisa I would like you to meet Devon Miles. Devon I am sure you remember Aelita."
"It is a pleasure to meet you again, Devon. I wish I could say that I remember you however my memories of the past are splotchy at best at times." Aelita smiled.
"Don't let her sell herself short Devon. She may have amnesia because of some issues with her Father's method of hiding but she is quite sharp." Sarah laughed, "Mike took Bonnie and Michael downstairs, why don't you join them. Once Devon and I are finished discussing things and everyone has had chances to rest up a bit we will be giving them the complete tour."
Aelita nodded before leaving the office with a polite nod. As she left she closed the door and slid down the fire pole to the main floor of the cave.
Aelita Lisa
Lisa picked up the letter and whispered "Dad…"
Aelita Lisa
Aelita looked at the cars and saw that KI2T had his hood popped up and Bonnie was leaned over inspecting the car that she had babied.
"Mom." Aelita struggled to get the simple sounds through her lip and looked as the older woman turned around to face her.
Aelita Lisa
Dearest Leanne,
I have waited so long to write you. I know you have thought that I have thought you were dead. However I know Charles informed you that I had come to him. I had done business with Charles in the past before I met your mother and so when things started getting troublesome for you I went to him.
When he told me what he felt he had to do he told me that we could have no further contact and that you would have to think I thought you dead. I was in reality told that you were alive but that I would have to treat you as dead. It hurt me to publically bury an empty casket.
After Charles' death I received a letter from his estate that had been left in my name. Encrypted in that letter I found information on how to contact you however I was advised to wait until after your eighteenth birthday. Also any letters I send you must be forwarded through a network of proxy addresses.
There are so many things I want to ask you but I fear that for now this is more than enough.
P. Smith
Aelita Lisa
Bonnie stood up and turned around to face Aelita. A mixed look passed over the older woman's face as she registered the younger girl standing in front of her, "'Ita?"
"Yes Mom." Aelita said hesitantly as her knees shook realizing that the moment she had feared was with her that very second.
"But how, I mean you don't look a day over sixteen." Bonnie asked with a hint of humor, "I think I could pass it off as my perception of time being messed up if Sarah wasn't so visibly older."
"It is a long story. Would you like to go sit down and I can explain it a bit?" Aelita asked.
"I would like that." Bonnie nodded before looking at Zoe, "Thank you Zoe for allowing me to poke around, maybe we can put our heads together later? I would love to look around more however I think I owe my daughter some time."
Zoe nodded and Mike nodded as well as Bonnie went up the stairs with Aelita.
Mike turned to Michael with a slight laugh, "Well I guess we get some more father-son bonding time."
Aelita Lisa
Lisa seated herself at her desk.
Dear Dad
It seems weird to write that. I never thought of the family I was sent to live with as my parents so I never really thought of them as Mom and Dad. Sure I wrote those words but unlike right now I never meant them.
Reading your letter certainly answers so many questions about how that nod meant so much to me at the Diner the other day. You seem to have been informed about things from my life while much has been withheld from me for security reasons.
I have so many questions to ask you but I think I will just start with this because I have no idea where to start or even what is safe to be able to tell you. There are days when I just want to get on a horse again and ride for days without stopping but then I think of this chance;I have to make a difference. I think this is similar to that. Write me back and tell me your thoughts on this.
Leanne S.
Lisa signed her letter with her former first name to explain that she acknowledged her Dad.
Aelita Lisa
Bonnie sat on a couch in the common room and looked around at the walls and the artwork that decorated the room. Most of it was spray paint from when Mike and Zoe had been allowed to decorate after they reclaimed the base from the FBI.
"I wish I remembered you more, but other than knowing that you are my mother I only have glimpses of you including the day you were taken." Aelita explained sadly.
"You have amnesia?" Bonnie asked softly of her daughter not quite understanding how a lack of memory accounted for the lost years her daughter failed to display.
"If you want to call it amnesia, that might be easier to understand however Jeremy and I have combed over everything and we can't find a reason to understand why many of my memories were not recovered other than the fact that the storage program used in the super computer failed to account for memories being stored for over ten years." Aelita said pacing in front of Bonnie.
"Storage program? Super Computer?" Bonnie asked in a shocked tone.
Aelita stopped pacing and sat down briefly before springing back up. "It is hard to explain, I have only told the full story to Sarah and of course Jeremy was the one who found me so he knows. Billy, Zoe and Mike only know that Dad was up to some weird stuff. Lisa doesn't even know that I am supposed to be Sarah's age, although I am certain she is confused about some things."
"I understand that it must be hard to explain to someone who knows you very well. If you aren't comfortable explaining it to me then we can wait and we can get to know each other again." Bonnie replied noting her daughter's unease.
"No I need to explain it to you. You deserve to know, this is as much unfair to you as it was to me. I mean we could have lived a normal life but instead some illegal section of the government got involved with our lives and now everything is screwed up." Aelita said looking at Bonnie, "I need to explain this to you because until I came here I didn't even know my birth date."
"I know none of this was fair. The last memory I have of you is you crying and screaming as your father drove away as I told him to get you away from the people that were dragging me away." Bonnie shook her head. "It was that image that has been etched in my mind since the day Devon and Michael rescued me and told me you and your father were in hiding."
"Well unfortunately the Black Coats didn't go after you or the Graimans. They followed Dad and me, I know that we moved around France under many different names for quite some time, I know after a while we settled into the hermitage, I know that despite some faulty memories you were never ever at the hermitage." Aelita replied listing off some of her memories that were of her days prior to the super computer.
"Why did they come after you? Michael was certain that they would come after us. I mean Devon and Michael had me and I had been their first major target." Bonnie asked confused.
Aelita shook her head and paced even harder, "I don't know, all I know is that I came home from school one day to have dad pull me out the back door as men in Black Coats came running in the front door. He then took me to the abandoned factory near where he taught. He then took me down an old elevator shaft to a series of secret fall out chambers where he had built a computer. He somehow put me inside the computer by scanning me. From there I don't remember anything until Jeremy started the computer back up a few years ago while looking for parts to build toy robots with."
"So you lived in a computer for over ten years. I would like to put my hands around that father of yours' neck and ring it." Bonnie fumed shaking her head, "Lisa mentioned that you had said he passed away?"
"It wasn't just an empty void. Dad created this virtual reality called Lyoko that he had intended for the two of us to live in. However he had created this virus to protect Lyoko and it began attacking us and in turn the world. Dad sacrificed himself in order to protect me and Jeremy and his friends who came into Lyoko to battle XANA." Aelita explained however before she could say anything else she felt two arms wrap around her and pull her to the couch. The two of them remained like that for quite some time.
