Chand, Delia, MIB The Animated Series, and me (Amanda, aw…you know!) all have ownership of at least one of the characters used in this story. Please don't plagiarize or sue me, not a good way to make friends. I'm tired of typing this warning so I'm gonna get to the story! ^_^
Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance
Chapter 18: No Escape!
It was dark outside, too dark, she could barely see where she was going. She tripped, the knee of her human suit ripped. Chassidy carefully wiped the green blood away and forced herself back up. 'What was happening? What had she done? Why were these men chasing her??'
The sound of a twig breaking under the weight of someone's shoe brought her back to reality, she HAD to get out of there! Chassidy stumbled ahead as fast as she could go. But it was no use…they were gaining on her! 'HELP!' she thought frantically in her scared little mind, 'SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!'
Tears rushed down the 8-year-old's face as she felt the strength being drained from her body. She couldn't sleep, not now, but it was so cold and she was SO tired. Unable to go any further she collapsed on the snow covered ground, her eyes filled up with tears and she silently said a prayer, as her eyelids closed…
Inside a large house not too far away, a young girl sat at her window and looked out into the woods as the snow fell harder. A small sky blue creature curled up at her feet as a similar jet black creature slept at the foot of her bed. Laurel sighed, she couldn't tell why she felt so restless, she just couldn't get to sleep.
Some movement outside her window, in the distance, caught her eye. "What's that?" she wondered aloud. Laurel watched silently as the tree branched shook about a mile or so out into the depth of the woods.
Without even thinking she stood up and slipped the silky long sleeved part of her pajamas over her spaghetti strapped top. The creature at her feet didn't even stir as Laurel opened the window and took hold of the drain pipe on the side of her house. She slid quietly down to the ground with nothing to protect her feet against the snow but a thin pair of bedroom slippers.
Laurel looked off in the direction that she had seen the movement only a few moments before. With a quick glance back her house, she turned and headed off into the darkness of the woods.
"Where is she?" a harsh voice demanded.
"I don't know Sir, maybe we should turn back. It's getting too cold out here." the other AREA 51 agent called back through the blinding snow.
"NO! She's out here! I know it!" the first agent shouted, he was sure that he had seen a young girl flee from the landing site after the spacecraft had taken off again, just as the AREA 51 vans arrived.
Laurel stumbled through the snow, her frozen feet sinking deep into the 6 inch layer of snow on the ground. 'Brrr…it's so cold. Maybe I should head back. No, I know I saw something!'
She was about to head off in a different direction when something caught her eye, a piece of green material was swaying in the snow. "Oh no! Are you okay?" No answer, Laurel rushed over and knelt down beside the figure half buried in the snow. She quickly brushed her off and wrapped her long sleeved pajama shirt around her.
The girl didn't seem much older that she was, so where were her parents?
"Over here!" a male's voice called. "I think I see her!"
Laurel was about to call out to the man, but the gruff tone of his voice stopped her. She picked the girl up and rushed off deeper into the woods. Her breath swirled in the air as she slumped down under a fallen tree that was lying over a frozen river. She only hoped that the tree, combined with the blinding snow would be enough to hide them from those men.
"I don't see her anymore!" the agent shouted.
"That's it we're never gonna find that kid, she's probably just another dead end anyway. Let's go back!" the other man cried.
The agent waited a moment, standing on the fallen tree, Laurel held her breath and squeezed the young girl close, "Fine. I'm freezing, let's get back to the van before we're caught in a blizzard!"
Laurel sighed once she was certain that the two men were gone, then she stood and made her way back to her house. She only hoped that the poor girl shivering in her arms would survive!
Inside the house, a few minutes later, Laurel's aunt noticed watery footsteps coming from the front door and leading all the way up to…LAUREL'S ROOM!!!
She rushed up the stairs and called to her husband, "Chris!", she opened the door and saw a strange sight. Her niece was lying against the side of her bed while another little girl with reddish-orange hair, in a green outfit was lying beneath the covers with Laurel's shirt wrapped around her.
"What? What's wrong?!" Chris exclaimed as he appeared at his wife's side. She pointed in at the little girl and their niece, later they would discover that she was a JeeDangian child and that her parents were frantically searching the galaxy for her…
Chassidy turned over in her sleep, this dream soon faded into a new, more recent memory.
She was searching for her brother, X was always disappearing but lately he'd been associating with a very unusual human that gave Chassidy the chills. She had never liked her brother's partner, but this newcomer was making her jumpy.
Agent F (Felicia Delude) was a raven haired human with piercing gray eyes (that Chassidy suspected were contacts). She had been assigned to work on a case by the MIB, apparently some super secret organization on Earth, and had been aided by her brother and his partner. It made Chassidy cringe to think of how easily (and helplessly) her brother had fallen for that snake in human's clothing.
Now Chassidy was at a warehouse where her brother had busted a smuggling operation a week earlier, it seemed empty…
"Well, well, well," a cold feminine voice chuckled, "little Chassidy's out and without her big brother to keep an eye on her."
Chassidy spun around and saw something more horrifying than an evil gang leader, Agent F! "Oh, F…it's you!"
"And what brings you out to this side of town, and so late at night?" F grinned.
"Just looking for my brother." Chassidy replied. She really hoped that F wasn't gonna go all psychotic killer on her! "Mom wants me to bring him home for dinner."
At this, F burst out laughing. The sound made Chassidy's blood run cold. "Oh he's such a Mama's Boy! What makes you think that that old fool's here?!"
'Old fool?' Chassidy went into defensive mode, "Hey! I thought you liked X?"
"Me??" F scoffed, "Like that pathetic loser?!"
"What?!" Chassidy was shocked and infuriated, "But you've been out on dates and everything for the past 5 weeks!"
"Dates?! Those weren't dates!" F laughed. "I was just stringing that sap along so that he wouldn't figure out what Ziphron and I were REALLY up to. And might I add, that your brother is FAR too easy to manipulate!"
Chassidy had been ready to spring up at F and strangle that deceptive shrew but another individual had been laying in wait in the shadows just behind her. Before poor Chassidy could make a move, she'd been struck in the back of her head.
The fogginess overcame her as the pain morphed into the sensation of waking up. She shook in her sleep and then felt someone else's hands on her shoulders. 'NO!' she thought, 'GET AWAY FROM ME! LET GO F!!!!' she paused as her eyelids slid open, the person in front of her couldn't be F. She looked so concerned and her touch was way too gentle…"Laurel?"
"Yes?" Elle smiled down at her, "You were having a nightmare, moaning in your sleep."
Chassidy didn't say anything, she was just so happy that she was on Earth with Laurel and not stuck in some warehouse with F and…Ziphron! She suddenly remembered why she came, to warn X about Ziphron!
"Laurel, we've gotta go get my brother. This CAN'T wait! I think his old partner's after him!"
Elle stared down into Chassidy's panicked eyes, 'X's old partner?'. "Okay, I'll go get him, alright? You wait right here and try to calm down, okay?"
Chassidy nodded and Elle turned and left to get X. Now she was REALLY worried. If Laurel was X's partner now…then she was in danger too!
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