Lucky Thirteen : Juliet's Story
By Callisto's Dream
Summary: Another X5 escaped along with the original twelve. But how is it that no one knew?
Rating: PG-13 for language. This could change though.
Disclaimer: Sorry everyone, I did not raise the Titanic, give the Terminator life or belong in the Eglee family. Oh well! Mister Cameron and Mister Eglee own all Characters from the show Dark Angle, but Juliet is mine.
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Have you ever just sat there wondering if you had done something just slightly different during the course of your life that maybe things would have had a different out come? Well, I have. Mostly the entire thought process just gave me a killer headache. Yet again I am sitting at my computer just staring at the screen and all of the information being passed over it while listening to one of my favorite music groups, The Corrs. Most of the time I only play their c.d. if I am feeling rather low and down. Bingo boys and girls, I'm feeling just down right shitty.
Today was just horrid. Not only did a package that I am desperately waiting for not show like it was supposed to but also my physical therapy has been going down the drain. Everyday Kris, my physical therapist, sits down with me and we work on strengthening my legs and arms and everything with the hopes that one day I will be able to walk again one day. Yes, another shock, I am a paraplegic. Paralyzed from the waist down. Two words for you: not fun.
But back to this particularly bad day. The package that was supposed to be delivered today wasn't. That is really bad because that package is a person. If they don't show up in one hour at the latest I will have to destroy a folder that they have been wanting for a long time. And who is this mystery person? He is an old friend, but he doesn't know that we already know each other. He is my older brother. The first in command in our unit back at the lab as I call it now. He along with a few other of my brothers and sisters have been searching for all of us that escaped. It was said that only twelve of the X5 chimeras escaped, it was actually thirteen. Lucky thirteen.
Oh, I think I hear my doorbell, it just might be Zach. Well big bro; time to say hello again.
Third person point of view
Slowly the woman that was no older than twenty-one rolled from the computer room at the back of her apartment to the front door. With an annoyed flick she threw her long, blonde hair behind her shoulders. The ringing of the doorbell sounded again and she sighed.
"Hold your horses! Who is it?" she asked agitatedly.
"You said that you had a file that I could use," the voice from behind the door seemed agitated and slightly annoyed matching the woman's tone.
The woman nodded, "Finally!" She opened the door and wheeled back a few paces to allow the man behind the door to walk through, "You took your merry time to get here! You were about twenty minutes from not having a file to look at."
The tall man looked around and then down at the woman. His blue eyes seemed to hold some concern but also a bit of arrogance. His brown hair fell into his eyes slightly as he looked down at her.
Rolling her eyes at his gaze she motioned him into her sitting room. "Sit," was the single word she gave him as she rolled into her computer room again and grabbed a manila folder from her desk. Coming back to the sitting room to find the man still standing she rolled over to the table and threw the folder down. It spun slightly and came to a stop just in front of the man.
The man then sat across from the woman and opened the folder. He looked over at the woman again and raised an eyebrow. "Have I ever met you before?"
That got a soft laugh from the blonde, "Yes, a life time ago in a snow encrusted wonderland."
He looked up sharply at the last comment and looked the woman up and down again. She mocked hurt and frowned, "You don't remember me do you? How sad, I was the one who taught you about Shakespeare."
The man's face suddenly became a mask of surprise. "Juliet?" was the whispered query that came from his lips.
Juliet smiled, "You do remember Zach!"
Zach looked across at Juliet, his face changing back to a mask of disbelief. "How do I know that you are really who you say you are? I was the one who said the name of Juliet. Prove to me who you are!"
"Good! You haven't lost your commanding role even if we are no longer in the Manticore habitat. Well, I could tell you about how that the night after you all found the book of names that I found a book with all of Shakespeare's complete works. I hadn't picked a name and when I found the story of Romeo and Juliet I chose Juliet. From then on every night I read William's plays. Or maybe I can tell you about how you all tended to ignore me and leave me when you all were planning things. Yeah, I remember the night you all left. You didn't even think about bringing me, I was just the same age as everyone and not really considered to be protected. After you all jumped I followed and luckily got past the guards as they were preoccupied by you all. When I got past the boarder of Wyoming I set myself up as an orphan and was actually adopted. I had given up on you all because I knew that you wouldn't remember me. I kept my hair long and dove into my schoolwork and learned how computers worked and how to do so many things that I need today in my work of sitting behind a computer. That tell you who I am?" Juliet then rolled away from the table and back into her computer room.
Zach got up and followed her into the computer room, his face showing his dark thoughts. "How did you become a paraplegic?"
"Oh, that was a freak accident when I turned eighteen. My friend and I went to the Seattle Space Needle on my birthday and on the way back down I tripped down some stairs and ended up like this." She looked up from her computer, "Wonderful ain't it?"
He frowned, "How come you are still paralyzed? With our engineering you ought to have regained the use of your lower half."
Juliet sighed, "I was a defect that they never really noticed. I don't have the same problems you all have. I don't have seizures and I do have to sleep every once in awhile. But, I get by."
Zach nodded and suddenly was brought back to a statement she said before. "Seattle? You were in Seattle?" Zach had a look of pure unrest on his face. Almost like he was thinking; What? Seattle again? Why is it always Seattle?
Juliet turned and looked at him, an eyebrow raised. "Yeah, it is a nice city if you look past all the grime and stuff. Why? You not like it there?"
He kneeled down and looked her in the eyes, "Would you mind if we went on a trip there sis?"
She smiled and shrugged, "Why not? Let me grab my laptop and a disk and we can go in five minuets."
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Author's Notes: Hey yals! This is the beginning of Lucky Thirteen all better and edited.
Hope you like it a lot! And as always, Be kind, Review.
~Callisto's Dream