I stood waiting for Ro to come out. I had been waiting for her to wake up for five years. The doctors told me she might never wake up because she had a weak heart and it may just stop beating. I wasn't ever going to believe that. She was strong. She could run around on the streets.
I heard a quiet knock on the door. It was a man I didn't really want to see right now. Agent James Bennett visited me every so often. "Zeta I heard the news."
"Please go away Bennett she isn't going to want to see you." I wasn't patient for him or anyone else that had to do with that mission. If they believed me in the first place I would have never met up with Ro and none of this would have happened.
"Zeta, I know you're not really happy with any of the agents from the NSA but listen me out." I turned around to his direction. I bet I was glaring at him. "We are glad that you help us out that one year and we are sorry we forced you to kill, but we were trying to make the killing stop."
"Killing can only lead to more Killing. Doesn't anyone see that?"
"You do, I now see that is the case. We are stopping all infiltration units from destroying anymore people that shouldn't be any reason to create anything."
"Okay thanks for telling me now leave me in peace."
"We are sorry Zeta." He saluted me as he left. I was so angry with all of them for the many risks that he put us in. I don't think that I could ever forgive them. It was just something I don't think I was capable of. I saw Ro being pushed in a wheelchair back to the room. She was in a pair of short overalls and her black and silver tank top she always wore before the accident.
I smiled over to her as she hid her face away from me. She was shy I think. I went over to her and pushed her the rest of the way. She giggled slightly. I think she liked the idea of me pushing her around in a wheelchair.
"Hey Zee, can you get me a mirror?"
"Here let me do this instead." I changed into a hologram of her. She jerked her head up in surprise. I watched her awed stricken face as she looked at the mirror image of herself. "Do I really look that pretty?"
"Yeah you do."
"Wow I would guess that was a super model." Her hair was half way down to her back. It had changed from blonde to a dirty blonde it looked streaked a little. She looked outside through the window. "Hey can we go outside?"
"Yeah if you let me carry you to there. I don't think you can walk on your own yet."
"Did I do good today?"
"Excellent. You weren't supposed to be able to walk like that for another week. You'll walk on your own in no time."
"Good cause I don't like being stuck in that room all day." Ro was back. She never liked closed spaces and she always liked to be free, out in the open, outside. She held her hands up to me. I picked her up being careful of her legs. They where still weak. She held onto me tightly. I took her outside under a cherry tree that was blossoming.
She sat down playing with a cherry blossom that landed in her lap. "Spring?" I nodded as we sat down looking across Dr. Selig's property. I hoped it was okay for her to go outside. She played with the flowers as I watched over her. She leaned over to me. I didn't mind though. I missed her more than anything did while she was asleep.
"You liked to smell the roses didn't you?"
"Isn't that just an expression?"
"No you really liked smelling the roses. On a train heading to a city but we were running from some guy. He wasn't very graceful. We got to the baggage car and he shot something but then was knocked out somehow. The car was unstable. I could barely walk. But when we made it across you put down the goofball I think and went to unhook the car. The dog was whining and I couldn't let it just die. It jumped out of my arms to safety but I was still in the other car that you just hooked off the train. You tried reaching me with your hand but couldn't reach. I made it across by using your arms as monkey bars. Then someone bad came. He tried to take you away but you jumped to safety."
"You're remembering."
"I thought I would find you here."
"I knew you would come here looking."
"You know what that means right? We're starting to think alike." I nodded to her as I changed into my Zee form.
"No, not good freaky."
"But I thought… Ro you were right we should spend more time enjoying the better things in life."
"With you yeah right, never a dull moment."
"Ro you remembered?" She nodded. This was weird yesterday she had no idea who or what I was and now she was accepting me for who I was more than she did five years ago.
Months have passed away…
Ro was getting better and better as the days passed. She became an older vision of her former self. She had somewhat matured over the years she was asleep. She was very pretty but also very head strong. I asked her how she could walk when it seemed to cause her so much pain.
"Mind over matter."
"How do you do that?"
"I think of something besides the pain. Like I don't know my memories of us in our adventures, my life in general, sometimes you."
"Could I do that?"
"Well do you feel pain?"
"No."
"Then I don't think you can it usually helps you keep strong if you are in pain."
"Oh I understand." She was more independent now but she still liked getting a ride on my back. I allowed her since she was pretty light. She started to run laps though in the morning even though it was exhausting and it hurt a lot. She wanted to be able to go on her own. Be able to do everything she used to be able to do.
She was running right now. Her face showed a great pain. Why did she torture herself like that? I or any of the doctors didn't ask her to do anything. I went down to see if I could catch up to her. I was very agile in any condition but still she was always a good runner. She had a lot of energy that didn't seem to go away.
I made it right next to her. "Ro why are you doing this?"
"It's not for any of you." Wow she sounded bitter. What happened to her she was usually nice. She stopped suddenly walking over a little ways before stopping.
"Ro?"
"Just go away Zee."
"What's wrong do you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine just no I can't tell you."
"Why not Ro?"
"Because you wouldn't understand."
"You're not even giving me a chance."
"Zee I know you. I know every single detail about you and everything you do. I know you wouldn't understand."
"Is someone hurting you because if they are I'll protect you."
"Zee you're the one who's hurting me." She ran away almost staggering. What did I do now? I'm always causing her pain in one way or another. I went after her but she was gone out of my sight. All of her clothes, and stuff were gone she wasn't even on Dr. Selig's property.
"Dr. Selig you haven't seen Ro have you?"
"No why?"
"I think she ran away."
"Oh I'm sorry Zeta but we can't force her to stay. You can go after he if you want but she's an adult and she can't be forced to do anything."
"Okay I'll go after her." I ran out to the direction of where she was heading. I took the phone with me in case she went back to the house. I went through the forest. She would be hiding there probably. I ran through the forest using my scanners to find her. She was about fifty yards ahead of me. She was still staggering before she sat down next to a tree.
I walked slowly so not to alert her that I was coming. I heard a falcon calling out. She sat down there motionlessly except for her hard breathing. I slowly went to her side. She was crying softly. "Ro?"
"Why do you keep on following me Zee?"
"Because I don't want to see you get hurt. But if you really want to go I will."
"NO! Don't leave me Zee."
"Then why do you keep on pushing me away?"
"Because I.. I love you Zee." Well that was a shocker for me. She had said it often in her sleep. But never when she was awake. "But I know you can't love me back."
"I will try Ro. Just for you I will try." Ro seemed scared of something. She soon passed out as I saw her eyes widen then soon roll in the back of her head. I picked her up supporting her head with a little bit of my arm. I had to get her back quickly. She was starting to cough hard. I ran back to Dr. Selig.
"Dr. Selig something's wrong with her."
"Here put her on the table." He checked over her. "Zeta what happened to her?"
"Why what's wrong?"
"She's in shock. What did she say to you?"
"She was telling me she loved me and then I told her I would try to love her back. Then her eye's widen before she passed out."
"Hmm. Unusual but this lady is everything but normal in my books."
"Why what is wrong with her?"
"Well it looks like she's been dead for almost seven years."
"But how can that be?"
"I haven't got the slightest clue."
"How did she die?"
"She has three bullet wounds through her lungs and two in her heart and one in her head."
"But she's never been shot. I was with her the whole time." Soon Ro got up and walked towards Zeta.
"That's right I've never been shot but I can make a pretty good performance can't I? I've got every curve that Ro has and you fell for the whole act. She wouldn't fall in love with you fool. Ro getting hit by the building blowing up. That never happened. We made it look like it but we grabbed Ro kidnapped her and dressed up Ro's identical sister Kelsey. We placed memories in her brain to make her think she was Ro."
"Then how was she in coma?'
"Oh that's one thing I forgot to tell you. The government doesn't have only one secret project. Dr. Mark Brown has created a time machine that can send you to the future or the past. Now we are using it for our financial gain. In the further there are knock out drugs that can put you out for years at a time."
"How did you do it?"
"Easy in the future I was created. I'm so human like that I have to breathe, have a heart and eat. We waited till the exact time the Ro's twin sister woke up from a coma that was timed perfectly. Traveled back on May 15, 2045 at exactly 3:44 she woke up but you think it's 6:45 we replaced Ro's twin with myself and that is how I remembered all the memories. I've been such a great actor. I think I could become a Grammy nominee."
"No!" The synthoid shot Dr. Selig in the chest five times with a ray gun. She placed a device that shut me down. I thought about where Ro was. Now it made more sense why Bennett showed up three months ago. He was making sure the plan was going to order. Why wasn't I more suspicious about that incident? I had failed Ro again. I would make this right again. I could act too. Too bad they don't know how good I am.
