Caines POV
I was happy to see Jupiter when she entered my hospital room in the Legion HQ. "Hi." She smiles quickly making her way over to kiss me. Just the feeling of her skin on mine made it crawl. "How are you feeling?" She asks sitting on my bedside as she fiddles with the sleeve of the black T shirt I was wearing.
"Sore, but other than that fine."
That's good. You had me a little freaked out." She sighs. I don't like the sight of her being scared, especially for me.
"I didn't mean to scare you." I hold her hand tightly in my own as she rests her head on my shoulder and begins to hum. I run my free hand through her pony tail and we lay in silence. But Jupiter's heart was anything but quiet, she was shaking and her heart was racing. "What's going on?" She slowly sits up again and stares at me for a very long time, biting her lip and thinking very hard of what she wanted to say. "You can tell me."
She hesitates, shutting her eyes tightly. "Promise you won't freak out?" I give her a smile and nod my head. She's so cute when she cares so much, it's just adorable. "Ok here goes…..I uh….well…..I met your family today." My smile instantly turns to a frown when I hear these words. For a moment it seemed that my eye and mouth would never stop twitching. "Caine?"
"You met my family?" I blurt out; jumping out of my bed I lock the door to my room and pull down the blinds so that we can't be interrupted. My breathing was rapid and my head was spinning.
"Uh…do you need to sit down?"
"You met my family." This time I was clearly hyperventilating.
"Probably shouldn't have told you that."
"You met my family?" I race back over to my bed and jump on top sitting next to Jupiter and turn her to face me, eyes on eyes, and my face very serious. "Alright, tell me about everyone you've met and what you've learned about them."
"Wow, ok….um ok. Rollin is your oldest brother. He's one of the head commanders of the Legion HQ here on Heava, his wife is Amanda she's the composure for the Heava choir and orchestra they have one son Jefferson who is now four. Amanda is currently pregnant with your brothers unborn son and your nephew his name is going to be Philip Wise. Emily is your oldest sisters; she's the lead medical officer for the Legion HQ here. Her fiancé is David, he proposed to her last month; they want the wedding on the cliff sides where they met hiking two years ago. Em loves the outdoors and she told me that David practices law. Twayn is your third oldest brothers he has an IQ of 160 and is married to Irene They are the leading engineers that are in charge of testing and inventing new Legion gear. Twany is a little creepy and has major social issues, Irene seems to be the only one he's comfortable with talking to. Silver is your youngest sister, she's smart for her age and mature for it too. She works in the Information Department; she has incredible origination skills, not to mention a top notch photographic memory. She's sweet and innocent, but worried that she'll never fall in love because of it. Waya is your second sister and is she…"
"Always that chatty and loud? Yeah all the time."
"Good to know. When I talk to her I feel like I have to sleep for a solid day."
"Trust me sometimes it feels like it needs to be longer."
"She's one of the Legions top field agent. Other agents call her the maverick….yeah I'm still wondering if that's a good thing."
"So are we. Go on."
"Waya is dating Neal the controller for the shooting range downstairs. She's energetic and wild, but she always gets the job done. Makoce is the secnd oldest, he's always in competition with everyone and feels that he should be in charge instead of Rollin, he Rollin and Waya are all Skyjackers. Is he always mean to you?
"Pretty much, he likes to pick on me."
"I noticed. He's big, scary and mean…..whoo….ok I think that's everyone."
Jupiters POV
It's not like I was expecting an award from Caine, but a good job would have been nice at least. Instead he only gives me a small smile. He swings his legs over the side of the bed, his eyes focused on the white tiled floor. I move one of my hands up and down his back. "Were you ever going to introduce me to them?" His eyes slowly move to mine, he opens his mouth for a split second, but closes it again which is followed by his eyes returning to the floor again. I noticed at that moment something very strange. Caine has green eyes, but all of his siblings have blue.
"I don't know." He sighs deeply, shrugging his shoulder when he speaks. "My family….is weird." I only give him a raised eyebrow followed by my "are you kidding me?" face. "I guess that's another thing we have in common. Both of our families are complicated. But yours didn't sell you to the legion and you didn't get to grow up with them."
"That bad huh?" I ask sympathetic wrapping my arms around his left one. I watch as Caine reaches into his pocket and pulls out a folded piece of paper, he hands it to me his hands were shaking. "What's this?" I ask as I begin to unfold the piece of paper and stare down at it with amazement. On the colored photo I saw six little babies, three were wearing blue caps, and the three others wore pink. They were all wrapped in a clean white blanket, they were all fast asleep. All six of their ears were pointed. "Oh my god they are so cute." They were absolutely precious. "Wait…where are you?" I ask realizing that I was only seeing six not seven. Caine points to the very middle of the group, he was so small that I almost missed him, but there in the center of the group was Caine, I could believe it. His siblings were about the size of newly born healthy babies, but he looked about the size of my fist, he looked so fragile and tiny that it was actually kinda scary.
"That was taken about a month after my siblings and I were taken out of our artificial wombs. My brothers and sisters were all healthy, but there was something wrong with me. I was sick, I wasn't eating and my throat would hurt from all the coughing that I was doing. That's when my splicer discovered that I was a runt." My eyes were filled with empathy for him as I take my hand in mine I continue to stare at the picture a few more times. Once again I noticed something interesting.
"Who's this?" I ask him. I was pointing to a set of hands that looked like they belonged to a woman. she was holding the seven little Wise babies in her arms as they slept in their blanker safe and warm. Only her hands were visible in the picture.
"It's no one." Caine replies taking the photo away from me and placing it back into his pocket. I take my time to sit closer to him, but at the same time give him room to breathe.
"I don't get it. You were born a half albino runt, how does that make you different from your brothers and sisters?"
"They had certain advantages over me." He explains. "While they were growing stronger I was only getting weaker. As they grew I stayed the same, still getting sicker. You may have also noticed our eye and skin color is different. Their eyes are blue while mine are green; their skin is also the same shade as our splicer while mine is much paler." I had noticed all of this. Caines siblings skin did have a olive tone to it, Caine has green eyes a much lighter skin. I take this time to turn his face to mine, I could tell that he is hurting, but I had to ask him one more thing, something I knew might just hurt him more.
"Why did your Splicer give you up?" Caine looks up at me only shaking his head, instead of an answer all I receive is a kiss. It was pretty clear that he didn't want to talk about it, so for now I let it go. As he moves his body back onto the bed, I lay on top of him my hands resting on his chest. "Guess they didn't bet on the runt getting the Queen of Earth." I whisper into his ear sexually. He chuckles then kisses me again. Both of us look up when we hear a knock on the door.
Caine rolls his eyes. "They really do know how to ruin nice moments." I laugh, place one last kiss o his lips and go to unlock the door while he gets back under the covers.
"Wait, how do you know it's them?" I ask with a confused look. Caine only smiles and points to his nose, "Oh." I unlock then open the door, Caine was right it was his siblings; he always did have a great nose.
"Hello." All six of them say in unison, I can't contain a smile.
"Is he up?" Emily asks looking a little nervous; she held a bouquet of white roses in her hands. I only give them a nod.
"May we speak to him?" Rollin asks in his usual polite tone. I turn my head over to Caine, he nods his head. I step aside and let the Wise family in. I giggle when all three of the girls run over to their brother, each of them placing a kiss on his cheek.
"Are you ok? How are you feeling? It's not serious is it? Do you feel light headed? Dehydrated?-"
"Waya." Caine snaps, placing a finger on his sisters lips. "Talking too much and I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes Silver, I'm sure." Caine laughs. The girls all give a sigh of relief than hug him tightly. "Ow." He winces still sounding like he is in pain.
"HA, I knew you were lying." Silver scolds with her hands on her hips. "Shame on you."
"Ok girls that's enough. Give him some room to breathe." The Wise girls slowly back away and smile down at Caine then look up at me.
"Can you give us a minute?" I nod my head. Realizing that this whole situation was becoming awkward on its own. I was actually relieved, but at the same time I was curious to hear what was going on, but instead I respect Caines privacy and wait outside.
Caines POV
"Are you sure you're alright?" Emily asks again as she strokes her fingers through my hair. I try not to sound annoyed as I said yes once again. "We weren't sure when you would wake up."
"I wasn't sure that I would ever be here in this situation right now." I reply adjusting my position on the bed.
"Not happy to see us?" Rollin asks shuffling his feet.
"No." I quickly say. "I'm just overwhelmed. I mean this isn't how I wanted her to meet all of you."
"We all think she' wonderful." Waya smiles brightly. "Defiantly perfect for you."
"Or not." Makoce rolled his eyes. But I do what I always do and glare at him.
"Excuse me?"
"Ah ah, no fighting. Makoce go bitch to the maker or go wait outside." Emily orders. Now I remember why I've missed her so much. It's because she's so good at shutting Makoce up or anyone else when hey get out of line, she and Rollin have that in common.
"It is really nice to see you." Rollin smiled as he rested his hand on my shoulder. I take that moment to return the smile.
"Thanks….I really have missed all of you."
"We're just glad that Em and Roll got to you when they did." Twayn said looking relieved. "Who knows what would have happened."
"Guess it's a good thing that I called you and asked if you could keep an eye on things."
"Guess so." Emily nodded. "All though we still have no idea how she found out that her majesty was on Heava."
"Don't worry, we'll figure it out." Rollin reassures us. "We won't be advertising that her Majesty is staying with the Legion. I've already taken the liberty of having an escort with her at all times. At least until you're ready to return to your responsibilities." I didn't like the idea of someone else keeping eyes on Jupiter, but until I fully healed I would have to suck it up.
"So we've already asked her about you. So now it's your turn." Waya giggles as she leans into close to me, batting her blue eyes all innocent like.
"Oh please tell me that you didn't integrate her." I asked worriedly covering my face with my hands, trying hard not to imagine the completely insane questions that they must have asked her.
"Interrogate is such a big word. I prefer to say that we politely and in our right to know about how our little brother is in his love life." Silver said pushing her blue glasses up on her nose again.
"Yeah we interrogated her." Makoce shrugged his shoulders.
"Mak!" They all shout as their faces turn to show dirty looks. The fact that Makoce is the most hard of all my siblings is not surprising even to this day. He still always feels the need to pick on me because 'm the youngest, but I do my best to ignore his negative comments.
"She'll be so glad to hear that you're ok." My smile fades when Rollin says this. I know who he is referring to. I only shake my head.
"No….please don't tell her that I'm here….not yet."
"You're going to have to talk to her sooner or later bro." Twayn said he sounded pushy, but I continue to protest.
"No, not yet. I just can't talk to her yet…..not yet."
They all look at me with disappointment written on their faces. "Alright Caine." Rollin sighed. "Alright
(Please comment and fav. Also who do think the woman in the photo is and who do you think the woman that Caine doesn't want to speak to is and why? I would love to hear your predictions.)