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The Supernatural characters belong to Kripke Enterprises and the CW, not me. Stargate Atlantis belongs to MGM and its creators, Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, again, not me. No money is being made from this story. It is for entertainment only.
Star Born
Chapter 21
De in the City
From Chapter 20
People in the street are staring at me. Why are they doing that?"
The Pastor sighed. "De, you must know that you are very good looking, almost pretty and somewhat exotic. More than that, you are young and innocent. These are traits that attract people to you. Please, be very careful walking back to your family. Another thing, you should be in school right now. What are you, fourteen, fifteen years old? School doesn't let out for another few hours. You should not be in the street. Sorry."
De had no idea how to respond. He mulled over the idea that strangers might find him attractive. The Pastor seemed to be hinting that such people might do him harm. The rule about being in school was something he didn't know about or really understand. He was not supposed to be in the streets at certain times? This trip was beginning to become more complicated than he had hoped.
"Thank you very much, Pastor Goodall. I will remember your words and your kindness." De said and turned to leave.
"Definitely not from around here, are you De?" the Pastor repeated. "Take care, be careful and stay safe."
Chapter 21
De slipped out of the church and sat down on the stone steps outside. He looked out to the street and watched the passing traffic. At this point he had no clear idea of where he should go. He had met this new Earthman, the Pastor, and wanted to meet more but was a little concerned by the Pastor's warnings. He stretched out his legs and leaned back on his elbows, basking in the warm sun.
The smells were amazing. They weren't particularly good smells and a lot came from the road and the Earth vehicles but they were smells he had never smelled before. There were all kinds of things he had never smelled, seen, heard and maybe tasted before.
As he sat there with his eyes closed he heard music. It was kind of loud thumping music like the men made when they drank too much of Eli's cider but it was music. He opened his eyes to see a boy going by on the sidewalk with a loud noisy box carried high on his shoulder, nestled next to his ear. De wondered how the boy could get that close and still know where he was walking but perhaps it was a Earth thing. De stood up, walked down the church steps and began to follow the noisy boy on the sidewalk.
De followed for a long time and the boy never looked around. On Athos the boy would have been lost or lunch for something by now. De could walk up and get within touching distance and nothing would happen. Different rules evidently applied here. The dangers were not coming from the sky and no one was running attack drills so De just kept following.
In a little while the boy stopped in front of a large building and leaned against a fence over the road. He dropped the noisy box on the ground and turned the music down. He was waiting for something. De stopped and leaned against the same fence and just watched.
In a few minutes there was the loud ringing of a bell and the building over the street started to empty out kids. They came from the front and around the sides and flowed like water out on to the walks. Some went to vehicles; some gathered in groups and walked away. There were more kids than De had ever seen before all gathered together in one place.
He realized what he was looking at. This was a school. He knew what a school was. He went to school on Atlantis but not with this many kids. His classes didn't end with a herd like rush to get away. His school had different rules and taught different things. Sometimes people left classes one at a time or stayed to finish an experiment. These human schools taught large groups, he could tell. They all chattered and laughed as they went away. In just a few minutes the building seemed empty.
He had been so fascinated by watching all the people moving like units in a herd that he forgot to watch his immediate surroundings. The boy with the noisy box was suddenly up in his face.
"Who are you, man?" the boy yelled at De. "I saw you at the church and now you're here. Are you following me? What's your story?" De backed into the wall in shock. The boy he called "Noisy" in his head now had friends. There were four other guys of about De's age surrounding him and keeping him pined to the wall.
"I'm sorry," De answered. "I'm just here visiting and I was walking around looking at stuff. I didn't mean to frighten you."
"You don't scare me," Noisy boy yelled. "Do I look like I'm scared of you?"
De thought to himself that it was exactly what the boy looked like. He looked scared and angry and ashamed. The other boys just looked undecided. Everyone was looking for a leader and this was a dangerous position for De to be in. Whoever took the lead in this group would determine how the others would act. It was possible they would simply follow a leader mindlessly.
De knew that if he showed weakness this group would be on him like predators on injured prey so he took the first step and punched Noisy boy right in the mouth. The boy went down with a surprised look on his face and landed flat on his ass.
"If you weren't afraid of me before," De snapped "maybe you should be afraid of me now."
The other boys stepped in to rush him and De reached down and pulled his pants leg up, revealing his boot. He slipped his hand down his leg and retrieved his knife. Waving it at the group he forced them back.
"Leave me alone," he warned them. "I won't hurt you if you don't try to hurt me. "
After a little hesitation the loose group of boys split up and faded into the crowds around them
De put his hand out to the boy on the ground. "Don't try anything," he muttered. "Just walk away and take that noisy thing with you." De waved at the boy's toy.
De attached himself to a different group of kids. They didn't have noisy boxes like the other boy. They all had cords and earplugs and were just as oblivious as the boy had been but for a different reason. De just shook his head. If these people were all so safe that they didn't even have to keep watch De thought he could relax too. After about a hundred yards he realized it simply wasn't in his nature to be so careless. He could not relax his watchfulness like that.
He followed a group of kids for a while but was getting bored and decided it was time to find something else to do. He was beginning to think that it might have been more fun to stick to the General's tour.
The group he was following split up and some of them entered a business with a façade of huge windows. Peering in he saw the kids lined up along a counter. Lining the windows were tables with spindly chairs made with curly legs. He read the sign above his head and it seemed to be a place called Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors. He had no idea what the place sold but he was looking for a distraction so he opened the door and went to stand in line with the other kids.
The person to his right ordered a Hot Fudge Sundae and so did he. When the dish was handed over to him he still had no idea what he was looking at but he in turn handed the clerk some of his paper money and headed for the tables. All the tables had people sitting at them so he picked one with a couple of pretty girls.
"Would you mind if I sat here?" he asked in his sweetest voice, flickering the eyelashes that won him points on Atlantis. He smiled when it worked very nicely and one of the girls slid sideways and pushed a chair at him. Maybe Earth and Athos weren't so different after all.
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An hour later De was standing in the living room of Alice's parent's house taking a good look at a normal Erath house. He had never been in one before and he assumed it was normal. Alice and May, the girls he had met at the ice cream store had insisted he come along with them. They were fascinated by the boy from out of town and were even more pleased when he told them he wasn't even from America. He was from a country called Athos and May thought it was somewhere in Europe. They girls were both thrilled to have found this exotic young man, so different from the boys in their school.
Alice claimed him over May's objections but Alice knew where the key was to her father's liquor cabinet and was introducing De to Schnapps before May could come up with a different plan. De was sitting on the couch sipping the drink that was sweet and burned all at the same time. He wasn't even aware when the fumes mounted into his brain. He was watching carefully as Alice tipped more of the clear liquid over the ice cubes in his glass.
Alice held on to his free arm and dragged him back into the cushions. "There now," she whispered. "Isn't that more comfortable?" She had her own glass but had experimented with Schnapps before and was carefully sipping at the sweet fluid. Her eyes were pinned to De's face. Allice was a senior in school and thought that she might be a little older than De. He was, however, very pretty and she felt all grown up watching the boy melt.
May finally flounced off as she saw her opportunity slipping away into Alice's practiced hands. 'I'm calling Ronnie." She snapped at Alice. "I'm not a voyeur. I want a man of my own."
Alice waved her glass casually at May, still holding on to De's arm with her other hand. "Fine," she said to her best friend. "If you're going to call him tell him to bring beer. I can't let everybody into Dad's cabinet. He'll notice for sure."
In a little while De swam up from the depths of the couch and Alice's lips to find that other people had appeared in the house. From under Alice he saw three other boys and two new girls. "Who are they?" he asked her.
"Hush honey," Alice murmured at him. "They're just some friends of mine. The one with May is her boyfriend Ronnie and Hank and Paul are his best friends."
Dean snorted, tasting the sweet Schnapps still on his lips. "My brother is my best friend." he said.
Alice pinned De back down on the couch, sitting on his hips, a knee buried in the cushions on either side. She ran his hands possessively up under this T-shirt and found something unexpected. "What have you got on under there?" she said and pulled at his shirt, tugging it up and over his head. His tightly laced suede vest intrigued her. She pulled the laces loose allowing the vest to flop wide.
She ran her hands over his chest tickling the skin and pinching his nipples. In response he reached up and pulled her down to kiss. Around them other couples were finding their own comfortable spots. The newcomers had brought beer, lots of beer and as the evening went on the noise level rose. Someone found the stereo and from that point on it was a party.
Alice helped De to stand and lead him away upstairs. Going into her bedroom De felt his cell phone buzzing in his pocket and held up a hand. "Hold on for a minute," he said. "I have to answer this."
He pulled his other hand away from her and used it to hold himself up in the doorway. Swaying, he answered the phone
"Hi, San," he burbled. "Yeah, everything's fine. I found another party. People here really like to have parties. Have you noticed?"
De listened for a moment. "Tell them all I'm fine. Yes, maybe I'm a little drunk. Alice gave me Schnapps. It tasted like berries and sweet fire. I liked it a lot. I'll call later and let you know where to pick me up." He giggled into the phone as Alice unzipped his jeans and started to slide them down. "I got to go, San. My new friend wants me to do something. No, no, tell O'Neill I'm not in any trouble. People are being nice to me; especially the girls. You want to say hello to Alice?"
De pushed the phone at Alice and tried to hold his jeans up. She tucked the phone between her ear and shoulder and wrestled with De over the jeans.
"Hello, San, are you De's Brother? This is Allice. He's fine. We'll call you later. We're going to be a little busy for a while." She ended the call with a giggle and tossed the phone on her desk. "Now let's see what you have under these pants." De's tight leather shorts made an appearance.
They fell on her bed and Alice managed to strip the jeans away. She took a look at what she had found; the golden skin, bright green eyes and a lithe body dressed in a tight vest and little leather shorts. The laced up boots stopped just at his knee. She had caught herself a real prize.
De sat up and started to return the favor, trying to get her out of her sweater and jeans. They were giggling and getting in each other's way. De took another hit off the bottle of Schnapps that Alice had brought up with them and then returned to the problem of getting Alice out of her clothes.
Someone down stairs had turned the stereo up high and the pounding music filled the house. De was having a really good time here on Earth. The loud music was the reason that they didn't hear the other pounding until someone flung open Alice's bedroom door.
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Ten minutes later De was learning a new concept. There was something called a noise complaint. Evidently Alice's neighbors had one and now these men in dark uniforms were all up in De's face. He understood that Alice's parents were on their way and the rest of the teenagers seemed to be acquainted with these men. Alice called them The Cops. When Ronnie's friend Paul had fallen off the front porch and tossed his empty beer bottle in the neighbor's driveway that was it for the neighbors. They called in the complaint and described what was going on next door.
De's head was swimming. The sudden elevation change from lying prone on Alice's bed to standing upright and being hustled downstairs again had made him pretty dizzy. The Cops didn't seem to like him. When they asked his name he told then he was Doathan they didn't like it. They kept asking for another name. He had run into this before, he thought and fished around in his drunken memory.
"O'Neill!" He shouted. "Doathan O'Neill, that's my name."
They still didn't seem to like him even when he came up with the second name they were asking for. The other teenagers said they didn't know him either and Allice said he had approached her in the ice cream store and she didn't even know his name was Doathan. The Cop people said he didn't have any I.D. and De just decided to drop out of the conversation. He didn't understand anything anymore.
Finally Alice remembered his phone and one of the Cops went up with her and retrieved it. Then they let everyone go except De. They put him in the back of their car with his hands secured behind his back and drove him to a building they called their station. During all this movement De was beginning to not feel so good. When they finally stopped and pulled him out of the seat he promptly threw up in the parking lot. Unfortunately he also managed to throw up on one of the Cop's shoes and then that man didn't like him even more than he didn't like him before.
They took him inside the building and locked him up in a cage by himself. He sat on the bed in the cage rubbing his wrists after they took the restraints off. He was looking at the cage next to him which had about six guys in it. They were all staring at him.
"Hey Officer Jeffers," one of the men called out. 'How come Sweet Cakes there gets a private room?' Bring him over here. We'll keep an eye on him for you." The loud man was not very pleasant to look at. He came over to the bars next to De's cage and reached in as far as him arm would go. De backed away from the man's flexing fingers.
"Alright, Keebler." The Cop said. "Leave the kid alone. I would think that from where you are you recognize jail bait when it's in front of you." The Cop smacked the man's arm with a baton and the man called Keebler back off grumbling. De didn't like this place. His knife was back at Alice's house; in her bed he thought. He had nothing but his hands to defend himself with.
During the ride to the station the Cop who had De's phone and done something to call San and De thought that he had heard General O'Neill's voice shouting at the cop but he wasn't sure how that worked. He just knew that he might be in trouble. No one was talking to him. He was just waiting here for someone to tell him what was going on.
There was a scratchy blanket on the cot and he wrapped it around his body and lay down. If he closed his eyes he got dizzy so he just laid there and stared through the bars at the men in the next cage.
It seemed like an entire night had passed before he heard San calling him. He sat up and yelled back. "In here San. I'm in here." His little brother came around the wall with Daniel Jackson's hand on his shoulder. There was a Cop behind them and he had a key.
Finally De was let out of the cage but he took the blanket with him. He had become chilled waiting for something to happen and he wasn't giving up his blanket for anything. The Cop held him by his arm and they followed San and Daniel back out to the main room.
It looked like the Air Force was invading the police station. There was the General and Major Carter and Teal'c and four soldiers. De recognized the same people that he had ditched that morning in the Garden of the Gods. The General glared at him.
"Kid, you are in so much trouble." The man growled at De. "Castiel is going to hear all about this little escapade." General O'Neill was signing papers on a clip board for one of the Cops. Finally De was being lead outside.
San leaned in to his brother. "Was it worth it, De?" he whispered. "Did you have a good time?"
De smiled down at San. "Yeah, I had a good time. If these Cops had only waited for another half hour it would have been a really good time."